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Uppsala University 5<strong>KoF11</strong>amounts of time and effort to the securing of often fickle external research funding. These areissues that in large part require closer attention and engagement among administrators andofficials at the university level.To secure continuity and critical mass in research, we endeavour to attract skilled researchersand to uphold a set of broad international working relations (including international Post Docrecruitment). Actions for improvement include active recruitment of excellent scholars andcontinuous competence development of existing faculty.A1 iii.Our discipline is closely related to other social science disciplines such as sociology, politicalscience and information science. The Department’s placement within Uppsala University istherefore highly suitable. There are several examples of interdisciplinary projects, such as anewly started collaboration with the department of social medicine on the relation betweenmanagement control systems and stress. Cooperation with economic and natural sciencedepartments at Uppsala University and other universities involves researchers from differentdisciplines. Connecting market and marketing in cooperation with department of Economicshas led to a number of scientific studies in international marketing. A number of marketingresearchers cooperate with STS (Science & Technology Study) centre.We list below a selection of interdisciplinary research schools and research programmes.One major joint venture is the national research Management and IT school that is run incooperation with the department of information, founded in 2000. Further to successive newadditions, membership of the school is currently composed of the Department, seven otherDepartments of Business Studies, and seven Departments of Informatics – from Umeå in thenorth of Sweden to Lund in the south. The school offers students a course program and threeresearch conferences per year. Enrolment today is composed of 60 doctoral students from thevarious partner institutions. So far, the research school has produced 32 PhDs and 11Licentiates (see further www.forskarskolan-mit.nu).Long-term international collaboration prevails with the Nordic Research School inInternational Business (Nord-IB), which consists of major centres of international businessresearch in the Nordic countries and the UK. This network was created in 1999 and thedepartment is responsible for project coordination and administration (http://nordib.fek.uu.se/).To date, about 140 doctoral students from the Nordic, Baltic and otherEuropean countries have successfully completed the program.In 2010, a research and teaching network on multicultural teams was established: LeveragingCulture in Teams – Research and Teaching in Multinational Settings. The Network includesmembers from 13 Universities in Europe and Australia hosted at Uppsala University. Themain purpose is to initiate new research partnerships and exchange pedagogical ideas.Furthermore, the department is also running an annual interdisciplinary public sector seminartogether with the IPF (Institutet för personal & företagsutveckling), UU Innovation and theDivision for Contract Education at Uppsala University at Uppsala University.There are several interdisciplinary research programs. Between Private and Public –Democratic Governance in Healthcare Networks (MOD) (2004-2008) was an2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0
Uppsala University 6<strong>KoF11</strong>interdisciplinary research programme that included researchers in business studies, politicalscience, history, informatics and ethnology (www.fek.uu.se/forskning/projekt/mod). Crossdisciplinarywork is carried out in the intersection of entrepreneurship and artistic and culturalactivities. An international group of researchers contributed to a recently published volumeentitled Art Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar, 2011), and a new research program on theselection of new initiatives on the art and cultural arenas draws together a cross-disciplinarygroup of researchers, covering the fields of entrepreneurship, cultural studies, and genderresearch.Another large interdisciplinary programme under planning has the title Transnational Assetsand Strategies in Swedish Higher Education and Research. The programme includes scholarswithin business studies, education, sociology of education, history, the history of education,economic history, geography, art history, languages and linguistics at Uppsala University.A2 i.The international research exchange of the department is extensive; we regularly receiveshort and long-term visits by foreign researchers for the purpose of collaboration. Since2007 we have published joint papers in collaboration with 36 foreign scholars (see B3).International BusinessOur international business research benefits from a long tradition where the process ofinternationalization and the markets-as-networks perspectives are continuously important.However, we actively develop new ideas where these traditions guide us into new studies.Hence, we continue to conduct research and publish in the area of the internationalizationprocess. Although our new themes in this area are at an emerging stage, such as thecontinuing internationalization of the MNC (see A1 i), we regard them as very promising.Moreover, our work on embeddedness of the MNC, subsidiary innovation and knowledgetransfer has been particularly successful. In connection to this, the role of headquarters is aquickly emerging theme where we already publish regularly. One feature of internationalbusiness research is the close connection between sub-topics, which improves the likelihoodof collaboration between members of the group. We therefore have no doubt that new themesand recently launched projects will benefit from integration between group members (as wellas international collaboration). We wish to stress that development is associated with ourtraditions where we enjoy a well known perspective on internationalization. However, thecontinuous publication rate in international journals has also been dependent on our ability tocreate new research projects and the collection of somewhat “sensitive” data through closecontact with business corporations. Our department was ranked sixth in the world in terms ofpublication rate in international business journals (see International Business Review, 2006)and, more recently, third in Europe (Treviño et al in IBR, 2010). We can currently observe apositive trend where new research agendas are created and our publication rate is increasing.We therefore believe that our research standard in international business and internationalmarketing is equal to world-leading institutions. Internationally, we benchmark against othersuccessful groups such as Tilburg University, the University of Leeds, the CopenhagenBusiness School and the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki.2011-02-28 Dept of Business Studies v 1.0
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