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  • Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) climbs on the Financial Times annual ranking of European Business Schools.

    Jönköping International Business School recognized again as a leading European business school

    Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) climbs on the Financial Times annual ranking of European Business Schools. The 2022 result is an improvement of seven places compared to last year, further confirming JIBS status as one of Europe’s leading business schools. Regarding international faculty, JIBS ranks first in Scandinavia.
    For the second year in a row, JIBS appears on the acknowledg

  • Jönköping International Business School consolidates and strengthens its position as one of the world's highest ranked business schools.

    Jönköping International Business School climbs world rankings

    Jönköping International Business School climbs world rankings Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) at Jönköping University has climbed to a new position in the Financial Times annual ranking of the world's best master's programs in business administration. In doing so, JIBS has consolidated and strengthened its position as one of the world's highest-ranked business schools.

  • More than 100,000 downloads of new industrial policy book

    More than 100,000 downloads of new industrial policy book

    The research anthology "Questioning the Entrepreneurial State", with Christian Sandström, Jönköping International Business School, as one of two editors, has been downloaded 109,000 times in three weeks. In the anthology, several leading economists warn against the state's industrial and innovation policy – which they claim lacks scientific support and costs billions of tax dollars.

  • Jönköping International Business School is listed on the Financial Times European Business School Ranking 2021

    Jönköping International Business School ranked among Europe's best business schools by the Financial Times

    On Monday, 6 December, the Financial Times (FT) published its European Business Schools Ranking 2021, featuring the top 95 Business Schools in Europe. For the first time, Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) at Jönköping University appears on the list.
    The European Business Schools Ranking is one of the most acknowledged and widely cited rankings of business schools. The ranking is ba

  • ​Three new honorary doctors at Jönköping University

    ​Three new honorary doctors at Jönköping University

    On the 7th of May, the decision was made by the President to award three new Honorary Doctorates at Jönköping University. The three honorary doctors are Professor Emerita Dale Clark Farran, Professor Emerita Gwen Sherwood and Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose. The awarding will take place at the Academic Ceremony on the 12th of October.

  • JIBS Family Enterprise team from left: Steven Lau, Kristina Baumgartner, Rita Stefanuto, and their coach Massimo Baù.

    Family Enterprise team win invaluable experience from global competition

    Last week, the JIBS master's student team formed by Kristina Baumgartner, Steven Lau and Rita Stefanuto, coached by Assistant Professor Massimo Baù, participated in the Family Enterprise Case Competition 2019 at the Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont, in Burlington, USA.

  • Tina Wallin

    ​Geographic location affects firm renewal

    In a time where technical development and other changes are happening at a fast pace, companies are having a hard time standing out in a tough global competition. What makes or breaks companies in the strive to compete within their markets? In a new PhD thesis in economics from Jönköping International Business School, Tina Wallin has analyzed how regional characteristics can affect firm renewal.

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    Knowledge and location – success factors for new firms

    In a new PhD thesis from Jönköping International Business School at Jönköping University, Mark Bagley has studied the ICT business in Stockholm to draw conclusions about the role of knowledge networks in the emergence and persistence of industrial clusters.

  • Leif Melin receives lifetime achievement award

    Leif Melin receives lifetime achievement award

    The Family Enterprise Research Conference starts today, and during the conference Leif Melin, Professor at Jönköping International Business School, will receive the FERC Lifetime Influence and Impact Award for his immense work in family business research.

  • ​Globalisation as a hybrid process

    Should the main goal for emerging economies really be to try and copy the way of the West? In a new doctoral thesis, Zehra Sayed challenges the view of “developed” and “developing” countries. As an example she has studied knowledge transfer and knowledge spillover in the media industry, specifically from Reuters to its subsidiaries in India.

  • JIBS is Sweden’s first double accredited business school

    JIBS is Sweden’s first double accredited business school

    Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) at Jönköping University, is the first and, so far, only institution in Sweden to be awarded the quality accreditation by AACSB. In March this year, JIBS received the EQUIS accreditation, which means that JIBS places itself among the top 0.1 % business schools in the world, and as the only double accredited by EQUIS and AACSB business school in Sweden.