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.
Valerie Margrain
Karlstad University
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Karlstad University
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Elisabet Mellroth
Karlstad University and Karlstads kommun
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Karlstad University
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Live case studies are a good way to learn and provide a feeling of being in a professional setting.
In the course Business Development from a Process and Partnership Perspective, students at Karlstad Business School have been given the opportunity to collaborate with several organisations. Students have been helping to map out business processes and develop improved work procedures using digitalisation.
Education is obviously a valuable investment - it gives you possibilities. A good education is the ticket to your future career, but it is the actual knowledge that is the key to your own ability to think and reflect.
The music industry spends a lot of resources on creating innovative concert experiences, and the relationship between the musicians and their fans. With the show Abba Voyage, a giant step is taken towards developing and transforming an already digital industry.
We wish all our students, colleagues, alumni, and partners a peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
At Karlstad Business School, we strive to create an environment where students, teachers, researchers, and professionals can develop socially important knowledge together.
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.
Project managers Ebba Hilden, Annica Löfdahl Hultman and Katarina Ribaeus
Project description
The Swedish preschool is in a long-standing change from content-based focus to subject didactic teaching and learning environments, from children’s development in groups to a greater focus on children’s individual learning and development. Not least, new forms of distribution, responsibility and management of the work with the children have been implemented.
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2026-05-01 Doctoral project in Non-technical Debt in Games DevelopmentTechnological improvements have made game development platforms more stable, reducing the number of projects that fail due to technical issues. However, an increasing trend has been noted of project failure due to interpersonal or collaboration-related problems.
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2026Blom, J.H., Wästlund, E., & Kristensson, P. (2026). The Day Preconstruction Method: A Novel Method to Strengthen Future Self-Continuity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000574Fombelle, P.W., Voorhees, C.M., Gustafsson, A., Witell, L. & Gustafsson, A. (2026). The effects of unconditional gifts on customer-firm relaionships. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
The Public Health Agency of Sweden has, in consultation with medical officers for infectious disease control and the County Administrative Board of Värmland, decided on stricter general guidelines. The aim is to further reduce unnecessary contact between people and thereby the spread of infection.
In this blog article, CERS director and CTF’s advisory board member Kristina Heinonen shares some reflections of what is “hot” in service research and how research centers like CTF and CERS are making a difference in today’s society.
The fast pace of political, economic, and social change is reshaping the global landscape. Are researchers and business professionals keeping up and exploring solutions to society’s most pressing issues?
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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 SENIOR MANAGEMENT: WHAT, EXACTLY, SHOULD A DEGREE PROJECT DEMONSTRATE? 2026-03-23I was recently invited to the subject meeting in Business Administration to speak about AI in teaching and assessment.
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This page presents some courses in English for exchange students at the Karlstad Business School.
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AGILE LEADERSHIP (Business administration) 7.5 ECTS CREDITS
Agile Leadership is a course aimed at those who want to improve their ability to lead in a complex and changing world.
Successful companies and organisations distinguish themselves by creating new innovations and a
Art History and Visual Studies is concerned with how people have expressed themselves by giving shape to these expressions through images and forms since they first developed the means to do so, through to today’s prolific flood of images and contemporary art.
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2025Andersson, K. P., & Camen, C. (2025). ISE – Improving value creation through service education, Quis19, Rome 3 – 6th of JuneAhmed, B., Baader, L. O., Bayram, F., Jagstedt, S. and Magnusson, P. (2025). Quality Assurance for LLM-RAG Systems: Empirical Insights from Tourism Application Testing. 31 March – 4 April, Naples, ItalyBlom, J. H. (2025).
Are you worrying about making money last until the next pay day during Christmas? Are you already regretting purchasing that electronic gadget you thought was so necessary during Black Friday?
Pursuing doctoral studies is often described as climbing Mount Parnassus, the divine mountain where the well‑educated were allowed to gather according to Greek mythology. Earning a doctorate is hard work and at times quite a solitary existence, often an uphill climb that stretches over several years. But what is it like to pursue a doctorate in music?
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Elin Skau, why did you choose Karlstad Business School?
- I chose it both because I come from Värmland but also because I heard very good things about the school and student life. The Business School has a super nice campus with good connections to the city centre.
What expectations did you have for the Human resource management and working life program - and were they met?
- I had the expectation of gaining a greater and broader understanding of working life and organizations.
After the recent hacker attacks in which the university's IT supplier Tietoevry, amongst others, was affected, it becomes clear how quickly organizations can become target of such actions. Meiko Jensen, lecturer in cybersecurity at computer science, helps us clarify the areas of hacking and cybersecurity.
Hi Meiko Jensen.
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The Aesthetics of Evil: Memory and Media in Nazi Perpetrator Fiction. (Alexander Kofod-Jensen)
PhD Project with internal funding (2016-2021)
My PhD project explores how memory and intermediality work in contemporary novels on World War II.
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UserInvolve: Development of sustainable practices for user involvement in the field of mental health
Research program for the development and implementation of user involvement.
UserInvolve (umu.se)
Funded by Forte from 2021 – 2027 Host institution: Umeå University Participating researcher: Katarina Grim
Epistemic (in)justice and barriers to knowledge integration: Development of a checklist and discussion framework for legitimizing user knowledge in the field of mental health
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Cheating is a breach of regulations that Karlstad University takes very seriously. Every year students are warned or suspended for attempts to deceive the examiner.
This information is addressed to students at Karlstad University to inform them about cheating, its definition, consequences, and how to avoid it.Cheating is a form of fraudulent deception and ultimately cheaters deceive themselves.
by John Sören Pettersson (2010, updated 2013, 2019)
The purpose of Ozlab is to provide ways of experimenting with graphical user interfaces to obtain acceptable design solutions. Our way of experimenting allows inexperienced designers – for instance, future users of a system – to be designers on a conceptual stage.
