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  • Top researchers to Jönköping for European media conference

    Top researchers to Jönköping for European media conference

    On 4-6 June 2020, the European Media Management Conference, emma2020, will be hosted by MMTC research centre at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Jönköping University. The conference will showcase the best current research on media management in Europe and aims to encourage the dialogue between media management research and general management.

  • 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.

  • A new Sustainability Network at JU

    The background of the JU sustainability network is a report written by a group of researchers, representing all four schools at JU. During the meeting in May, there were discussions on different ideas to advance JU´s work with sustainability.

  • New project: Innovation Runway

    ​Science Park and Jönköping University now starts Innovation Runway, a project aimed at developing innovations in existing companies in the region.

  • ​Prosthetic and orthotic service in developing countries

    ​Prosthetic and orthotic service in developing countries

    How well do prosthetic and orthotic services work in countries characterized by poverty and civil war? Lina Magnusson, who last Friday became the first female Swedish prosthetist/orthotist with a PhD, wrote her dissertation on this topic.

  • ​High family stress can impact a child’s immune system

    ​High family stress can impact a child’s immune system

    High family stress can lead to the child’s immune system being affected,as a research group at the School of Health Sciences at Jönköping University and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Linköping University in Sweden shows in a study being published in the renowned American periodical Journal of Immunology.

  • ​New book by Leon Barkho

    ​New book by Leon Barkho

    From Theory to Practice: How to Apply and Assess Impartiality in News and Current Affairs Leon Barkho, PhD, has come out with a new book, that has been published by both Intellect (UK) and Chicago Universitiy Press US): From Theory to Practice: How to Apply and Assess Impartiality in News and Current Affairs.