Industrial Economics and Organization
Digitalisation, globalisation and sustainability have attracted a lot of attention in society as well as in academia. We have reached a point where there is a need for questioning and refining the way we deal with such issues by applying interdisciplinary lenses and unpacking critical concerns.
Research at Industrial Economics and Organization therefore focuses mainly in three research tracks, all critical for future business, management and society:
- Re-framing digitalisation
- Re-framing globalization
- Re-framing sustainability
The research we conduct contributes to develop the way people and resources are coordinated, governed, steered and controlled in organisations, markets and the public sphere, in order to create and capture value.
Re-framing digitalisation
The research track Re-framing digitalisation explores the implications of technological base when it comes to how we manage organisations, how we create value, how we govern.
Re-framing globalization
The research track mainly focuses on the business world, exploring the challenges that organisations have to face in their contemporary international operations.
Re-framing sustainability
The research track foregrounds critical issues to be dealt with in order to work towards sustainability by applying theoretical lenses from different disciplines.
Research groups:
NOMP-group – New Organisation and Management Practices
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Ongoing research projects
The aim of the project is to understand which automating technologies, such as AI and algorithmic technologies, are used in the financial sector, and how they affect the work environment of white-collar workers.
Project manager at MDU: Inti Lammi
Main financing: AFA Försäkring
The project aims to develop knowledge about sustainability for and through practitioners with higher education degree during the transition between studies and working life in a time of change.
Project manager at MDU: Lucia Crevani
Main financing: Mälardalens universitet
I en tid som präglas av storskaliga krig, accelererande teknisk utveckling, hägrande klimatkatastrofer och globala pandemier tycks framtiden alltmer oviss. Mot bakgrund av dessa omvälvningar omprövar viktiga organisationer inom världspolitiken alltmer sitt förhållningssätt till framtiden.
Project manager at MDU: Laura Pantzerhielm
Main financing: Vetenskapsrådet
The purpose of the project is to, through qualitative studies, explore the readiness for the introduction of, and the state of knowledge around, AI in HR work in Swedish companies today. The project addresses two practical areas: how HR professionals feel that their own work is affected by the introduction of AI in operations and how HR professionals approach the assessment of how the work of others will be affected by AI.
Project manager at MDU: Eva Lindell
Main financing: AFA försäkring
The primary purpose of the project is to develop an innovation theory detached from economic growth, through the study of resilient, sustainable and small-scale food production and consumption in Sweden.
Project manager at MDU: Helena Fornstedt
Main financing: Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius stiftelse
The objectives of the SCOSSA project is to develop new knowledge on how sector coupling in energy transition is actually done through the development of new sociotechnical practices.
Project manager at MDU: Silvia Bruzzone
Main financing: Energymyndigheten
The aim of the TechConnect project is to deepen the understanding of the impact of advanced digital technologies on human skills.
Project manager at MDU: Anette Hallin
Main financing: EU/Horizon