NEWS

Stipend for PhD studies

Via external grants from E.ON Sverige AB, the Stiftelsen för främjande av ekonomisk forskning vid Lunds Universitet is able to announce a stipend for PhD studies within the Sustainable Society Programme (SuS) at the Lund Institute of Economic Research, Lund University.

SuS’s Stipend in Business Administration, focussing: Business Models for Energy-efficient Architecture.

The research project will based on strategy theory, and aims at describing and explaining the processes leading up to sustainable business models for so called energy-efficient architectures. The applicant must meet the criteria for admission to the PhD programme outlined by the Department of Business Administration at Lund University.

Further details on admission criteria and how to apply.

Postdokstipendium inom Sustainable Society (SuS)

Stiftelsen för främjande av ekonomisk forskning vid Lunds Universitet har genom ett extemt bidrag från E.ON Sverige AB fått möjligheten att utlysa ett postdokstipendium inom ramen för forskningsprogrammet Sustainable Society (SuS) vid Institutet för Ekonomisk forskning, Lunds universitet.

SuS stipendium med inriktningen: Utveckling av Sustainable Society: Affärs- och samhällsmodeller.

Forskningsprojektet kommer ämnesmässigt höra hemma inom strategiteori, och syftar till att beskriva och förklara processema bakom och konsekvenserna av hållbara verksamhets- och samhällsmodeller. Sökande ska ha doktorsexamen inom ekonomi eller, i förhållande till forskningsområdet, annat relevant ämne.

Ytterligare information om positionen

New Programme on the Formation of the Sustainable Society (SuS)

Together with industry and agencies, the Institute of Economic Research is initiating a research programme on the formation of the so-called Sustainable Society, including features such as city-planning, energy generation and transmission, infrastructure, transportation, architecture, cleantech, “smart homes” and more designed to reduce CO2 footprint and energy consumption in a sustainable way. Our primary focus is on the societal and market aspects of this formation process.

Doktorandstipendium - Stipend for PhD studies

Via external grants from Svenska Standardiseringsrådet, the Stiftelsen för främjande av ekonomiskforskning vid Lunds Universitet is able to announce a stipend for PhD studies within The Standardisation Research Centre (SRC) at the Lund Institute of Economic Research, Lund University:

SRC’s Stipend in Business Administration, focussing: Standardisation and Strategy for Corporations and Society

The research project will be based on strategy theory and aims at describing and explaining the processes leading up to standards, and the consequences for corporate and national strategy and competitiveness. The applicant must meet the criteria for admission to the PhD programme outlined by the Department of Business Administration at Lund University.

Further details on admission criteria and how to apply.

Spring scholarships 2013

Främjandestiftelsens stipendier för våren 2013 är nu publicerade. Normalt utgår ansökningstiden den 1 april.

Blankett och instruktioner för ansökan.

New Crafoord Lectures: Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Following a 17 year hiatus, the Crafoord Lecture series is being relaunched in 2012 as the New Crafoord Lectures. The inaugural volume in the new series addresses the challenges of integrating strategy and entrepreneurship, competitive advantage, focus and innovation. It includes recent work by leading scholars such as Jay Barney, Nicolai Foss, Peter Klein and John Mathews.

To order a copy please contact Violeta Kaleskovska

Six new Visiting Fellows

Thanks to the continuous support of Dr Jan Söderberg, we have now been able to recruit six new Visiting Fellows for a three-year collaboration project with six of our own post-docs. They join a programme, which has already welcomed twelve past fellows since 2008. This year’s fellows are an exceptionally strong group, with their home affiliations at prestigious US and European institutions.

Dr Ewout Frankema (Economic History, Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Dr Saonee Sarker (Informatics, Washington State University, US), Dr Susan Chun Zhu (Economics, Michigan State University, US), Dr Siri Ann Terjesen (Entrepreneurship, Indiana University), Dr Timothy Kuhn (Organisation and Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, US), and Dr Christoph Grimpe (Research Policy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) are the new ones and will start in the autumn of 2012.

More information about the Visiting Fellow Programme

New book by Sonja Opper

Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China by Victor Nee and Sonja Opper. This book, published by Harvard University Press in May 2012, describes how private enterprise rose to become the engine of China’s economic miracle. Over 630 million Chinese escaped poverty since the 1980s. Studying 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi region, the authors argue that the engine of China’s economic miracle—private enterprise—did not originate at the top but bubbled up from below, overcoming initial obstacles set up by the government.

More information about this book