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Elisabeth Styffe, CEO Alaté AB
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Why did you choose Karlstad University?
Karlstad University has a good reputation and graduates from the business and economics programme at the time were extremely satisfied with their studies. The university college had been there for some time but the university was new.
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Forskning
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2025-03-17 Master education for game producersAn often experienced problem in game development is how to get different competences to co-create engaging and consistent game experiences. A series of master courses for game producers is offered from autumn 2025 which can lead to a 1-year master exam in Information Systems. Our education highlights challenges and solutions in organising inter-human communication in creative projects, within and between studios.
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GRANTS AND INNOVATION OFFICEGIO offers targeted competence and career development for individual researchers, doctoral students and research environments. The starting point is to provide support adapted to the different phases of a research career, from early career researchers to senior researchers.Skills and career development for researchersUNIVERSITY LIBRARYThe library offers researchers competence enhancing opportunities through the Library Researcher Support seminar series.
ITQ – the network for girls studying IT at universities and practitioners in business, celebrated 10 years with cake, guest lectures, and not least mingle and networking. The guest was Siduri Poli, the digital inspirer of 2017, who told of her interest for technology as a tool for change.
Present were also current IT students, high school students from Fria Läroverken as well as professionals from CGI, Ibiz solutions, Municipality of Karlstad, Netgain, Sogeti and ÅF.
2021-02-26
That is the question Sara Davoudi has looked into in her doctoral thesis, “What happened with the leviathan of the Public Sector? The challenges of vertical coordination in regional public organizations and its effect on public value”.
Sara Davoudi, PhD in Business Administration, tell us about your research.
- My research is about vertical coordination, which is best described as the communication between public sector actors and the challenges associated with that.
2018-06-18
With the emergence of firms such as Spotify, Uber and Airbnb, the markets related to music, travel and accommodation have lately been under dramatic changes.
2017-06-13
In media and in communication from the government innovation is brought forward to save our Swedish businesses through increased revenues and lowered cost. In addition, it will help us to create more jobs and a brighter future. Innovation has in recent years become such a buzzword, it seems like everyone is an expert in innovation and that all firms are innovative. So, what does this then mean in practice - let us see both sides of the coin.
2021-12-10
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This is the blog Words from our senior management, authored by vice-chancellor Jerker Moodysson, pro-vice-chancellor Margareta Friman, pro-vice-chancellor Patrik Larsson and university director Anne-Christine Larsson Ljung.
WORDS FROM OUR SENIOR MANAGEMENT: WHERE ARE WE HEADED? 2025-06-16We are now approaching the end of yet another semester and entering the summer period.
Akademisk högtid
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At this year's Academic Celebration, 18 new Doctors were confered at Karlstad University.
Faculty of arts and social sciences
Åsa Bergman Brun
Defended her doctoral thesis in the subject Working Life Science on 31 March 2023
The doctoral thesis is entitled: ”The double-sided nature of lifestyle-oriented work within the Swedish equine sector: Characteristics and consequences for employee health and well-being”
Sara Blanck
Defended her doctoral thesis in the subject Ed
Session 1A: Business Schools are aiming at accreditations such as AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS: Why?
Panel (English)
Anette Hallin (Mälardalen University), Sofia Isberg (Umeå University), Björn Kjellander (Jönköping University), Jodie Conduit, (University of Adelaide), Bo Edvardsson (Karlstad University).
A panel discussion on what different accreditations (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS) can mean for the development of business schools in order to meet future challenges in business and society.
Bo Edvardsson, professor in Business Administration and founder of CTF, share some stories and reflects on CTF's 35 years of service research at Karlstad University.
It is almost inconceivable that it is 35 years since CTF started. Time goes really fast when you have a fun and a meaningful job.
2023-02-27
CRE8® is a model for innovation-challenge events, developed by the Grants and Innovation Office at Karlstad University. A public or private organization provides a real-world operational challenge to which teams of students try to find solutions. Since it was first introduced in 2017, the CRE8® model has become a very successful concept. With funding from Erasmus+, Karlstad University is now training facilitators to run CRE8® events around Europe.
Geomedia
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» Geomedia Speaker Series
LIZZIE RICHARDSON, GOETHE UNIVERSITY, FRANKFURT, ALESSANDRO GANDINI, UNIVERSITY OF MILAN AND ERIKA POLSON, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
February 22, 2024
14:00-16:00
Live on Zoom
Work is undergoing rapid changes, partly due to technological transformation.
Lazarus Fotoh, newly graduated doctor of business administration at Karlstad Business School, tell us what you have done in your research.
– Considering that the impact of technology on auditing is still unclear, my research explores and helps improve our understanding of how both advanced and less advanced technologies are changing audits and the way they are carried out.
CTF
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» Publikationer
Hassel, J-E. (2025) Business Administration, Venture Builders: Organizing Strategic Entrepreneurship Support, Karlstad University Studies, 2025:11.Abadzhiev, A. (2024) Business Administration, Managing business model innovation for sustainability transitions: Towards a theory-based typology, Karlstad University Studies, 2024:38.Falk, P.
Our research explores the social dynamics of political and economic inclusion and exclusion. Racism, as an ideology and everyday practice, constitutes an integral part of this focus, as do discourses on cultural values in contemporary processes of both conflict and convivial coexistence.
CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University initiated the 25 year anniversary accompanied by lovely songs from the University choir SötLikör.
2021-05-10
Lars Järnström, professor of coating technology, came to Karlstad University in 1999 and has been involved in building the current strong research environment for fibre-based processes and products. Now retirement is approaching but he will continue working at the university as senior professor.
Lars Järnström's research centres mainly on environment-friendly surface treatment of fibre-based packaging materials.
Socialt arbete
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The "forgotten" asylum seekers from Afghanistan
– A study on inclusion and exclusion processes affecting young Hazara refugees in Sweden.
This project is a collaboration between Martin Joormann (Associate Professor in Social Work at KAU) and Anna Lundberg (Professor in Sociology of Law at LU). The project aims to conduct a joint analysis of previously collected data, supplement it with additional data in the form of public documentation, and publish a scientific article.
Professor Bo Edvardsson summarizes and reflects on a new book chapter and provides guidance on how to become more successful when developing new services.
Businesses and other organizations need to renew themselves to survive in fast changing markets. This is today even more important than ever before.
HHK
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Lennart Käll is the chair of Sveriges Radio (Swedish Broadcasting), board member of SJ (Swedish Rail), Grönklittsgruppen, Länsförsäkringar, Grant Thornton and previously chief executive to multiple big companies, latest Svenska Spel. He has a degree in Business and Economics from Karlstad Business School (then part of Karlstad University College).
Education is obviously a valuable investment - it gives you possibilities.
To achieve better effects in healthcare, new technological innovations should be implemented alongside structural changes.
We often associate the word “innovation” with the roll-out of a new product, the success or failure of which is determined by market forces.
