How do family businesses endure over time and generations? What strategies do they adopt and what is the role of emotions? In a new PhD thesis from Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Naveed Akhter studies family businesses in Pakistan to find out what strategies are successful and what makes a business survive through good and bad times.
Is it possible to detect behavioural disorders at an early age and what efforts can then be made? On behalf of the National Board of Health and Welfare, the research group CHILD at Jönköping University has studied this in the project "Early detection - early intervention."
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.
The Expanding Markets Award marks the end of the master course Advanced International Marketing, Trade and Export Management, at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University. Three student teams were rewarded for having presented the best export and marketing strategy for a Swedish company. The award is sponsored by Business Sweden, ALMI, EKN, SEK, and Swedfund.
The Jönköping University inauguration and conferment ceremony will be held on 21 May. Professor Pramodita Sharma, a world renowned family business researcher, will then be appointed honorary doctor for her important contributions in the establishment of family business research as a management research field.
Immigrant women entrepreneurs are not a homogenous group, but their collective stories can tell us something about the intersection between ethnicity, gender and class, and bring together two separate tracks in entrepreneurship research. Huriye Aygören recently defended her PhD thesis at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University.
The Swedish researcher Karina Huus at Jönköping University and the South African researcher Shakila Dada from the South African partner University of Pretoria, both received an equal amount for the joint project Participation for children with disability.
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.
Anti-Muslim prejudice and hate crimes increase in Europe and the USA as a consequence of Islamist terrorist attacks, a new study in the journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations reveals. But high-profile hate crimes against Muslims have paradoxical effects.
The JIBS Assistant Professor Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas is the first International (Mexican) researcher from the first Swedish university ever to be rewarded with the CEEMAN Champion Award, in the category Responsible Management Education.
The aviation and airline industry is one of the largest, most advanced and complex in the world. The newly released book "The Global Commercial Aviation Industry" gives several completely new perspectives on the industry. It is edited by Sören Eriksson, professor of economic geography of Jönköping International Business School, and professor Harm-Jan Steenhuis of Hawai'i Pacific University.
The board of Jönköping University has decided to further the investment in Science Park Jönköping until 2020. Up to 30 million will be invested in new and growing companies with strong ties to the university and the Jönköping region, through Jönköping Business Development AB.
