NEW PAPER PUBLISHED: Today’s financialized economy is ill-suited to develop technologies to replace fossil fuels. This is what Max Jerneck finds in his newly published study of the early American...

Interviews reveal what challenges 34 Swedish managers faced when their situation suddenly changed.

For Swedish small- and medium sized retailers (SMEs), the domestic market does not always provide enough scope for continuous growth. Acts of international entrepreneurship can open up opportunities...

An increasing number of family firms choose to select a non-family CEO for the highest executive office when there is no suitable family member available. A recent example of this is the Swedish...

Alliances are at the core of firms’ innovation strategies. They allow firms to strengthen their innovation activities by providing access to technological knowledge developed by other firms. For this...

Magali Bancel, Marie Wik, and Xin Li have been awarded the SSE MBA Carl Silfvén Scholarship 2024. The scholarship is presented to the next generation leaders to promote the competitiveness of...

Welcome to Department of Economics Seminars - Spring 2026. The Department of Economics regularly arranges two types of academic seminars, Brown Bags seminars and Higher Seminars. Our academic seminars...

A funny thing happens when you meet Mikael Schiller. His candor and honesty take you by surprise. He is loyal and trustworthy, down-to-earth and dedicated: it feels as though you have just run into an...

Technical skills and business know-how are no longer enough. A new study by CEMS – a global alliance of leading business schools and companies – finds that future leaders will also need creativity,...