We have four focus areas:
- Business development. Business development topics touch a range of subject areas. Our members are committed to empirical research in entrepreneurship, business economics, accounting and auditing, and marketing management.
- Governance. We are also interested in research questions related to corporate governance, network governance and institutional governance. Our members explore the co-ordination of the company with respect to the external business environment from a normative perspective.
- Sustainability The group is interesetd in research topics related to the issue of sustainability . Our members are working both with the cource development about the topic of Sustainability, and explore differnet research aspects in different research fields where Sustainability is in focus.
- Internationalization. Globalization of the world economy brought to attention the issue of the process of internationalization. Our members explore the impact of internationalization on the business processes in organizations and companies.
Our research group has an active network of research collaborators in Nordic countries, Ukraine, Poland, Denmark, UK, Germany and China. We also collaborate with business practitioners in Norway, especially in Østfold. Our members adopt research-based teaching approaches with active student involvement.