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Research at JSBE

JSBE has three focus areas in its research: sustainable business and economy, digital business and economy, and policy-relevant economics and competitiveness of economy. Research at JSBE is conducted in eight research groups.

In line with the university's strategy, JSBE is committed to strengthening research in its focus areas and seeks to strengthen its position in the Finnish higher education field by profiling itself more clearly in its focus areas.

Research at JSBE is conducted in research groups. You can find out more about the activities of the research groups on their websites. Every year, the JSBE Doctoral School awards 10 doctoral degrees.

Focus areas and research groups

Research at JSBE focuses on three focus areas, under which researchers work in eight cross-disciplinary research groups. In line with our strategy, these areas of strength are sustainable business and economy, digital business and economy, and policy-relevant economics and competitiveness of economy.

Sustainable business and economy

Digital business and economy

Policy-relevant economics and competitiveness of economy

We support the competitive digital and sustainable transformation of business and the economy.

Mika Haapanen, Vice Dean of Research

At the heart of research at JYU

JSBE is responsible for one of the Ģ��ֱ��’s research profiling areas. Emergent Work in the Digital Era (EWIDE) is a multidisciplinary study of future working life in the digital era. The profiling area is funded by the Academy of Finland.

Read more about EWIDE

Doctoral School of JSBE

At JSBE, it is possible to complete a doctoral degree in seven major disciplines: accounting, corporate communication, corporate environmental management, management and leadership, marketing, and strategy and entrepreneurship (i.e. business studies), and economics.

Explore our research groups

Accounting change

The Accounting Change (ACC) research group includes researchers with broad interests in the changing role of accounting in organizations and society. Our approach is often interdisciplinary and we pursue research across diverse areas of accounting.

Biodiversity Footprint Team

We develop the assessment of carbon and biodiversity footprintsin organizations.

Digital Marketing and Communication (DMC)

Digital Marketing and Communication (DMC) research group explores the impacts of digital data and technologies on marketing and corporate communication.

Empirical Microeconomics (EME)

Empirical microeconomics research group conducts research on labor economics, health economics, regional economics and economics of education.

JyIMaF

Jyväskylä International Macro and Finance (JyIMaF)

JyIMaF research group focuses on topics in international finance and macroeconomy

Organisational Ethics, Leadership and HRM (ETHOS)

The ETHOS research group focuses on ethically sensitive issues in and of organizations from the viewpoint of leadership and human resource management (HRM).

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Responsible Management, Leadership, Digitalization & Strategy (REDAS)

The group operates in the field of business and management research and comprises two thematic streams: [1] leadership, accounting and strategy as practice, [2] responsibility issues in management.

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

The Strategy and Entrepreneurship (S&E) research group addresses core questions in the fields of strategy and entrepreneurship research.

Sustainable Business

We study environmental, social and economic sustainability in business.

Explore our research projects

BIODIFUL Biodiversity Respectful Leadership

BIODIFUL is a research project –and also much more. BIODIFUL is an expanding movement of individuals who believe in the possibility of change, have hope for the future and lead to protect life.

BOOST for biodiversity offsets

In BOOST we facilitate the mainstreaming and enabling of just transition towards adoption of biodiversity offsets in Finland and globally.

Business Model Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

The proposed project aims to study the role of entrepreneurial ecosystems in the success of business model innovation in high growth new ventures particularly in the context of international growth

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Forests in systemic transition - balancing efficiency with fairness and resilience (ForTran)

This project will co-create business, technological, governance and societal innovations to leveraging the forest system to a state of high sustainability and resilience.

Future-oriented collaborative business models as a remedy for the sustainability transition (BuSuT)

BuSuT project explores how the sustainability transition could be facilitated by future-oriented collaborative business models.

International tensions, local nationalism, and global business: A historical perspective (NaBus)

International tensions, local nationalism, and global business: A historical perspective (NaBus)

Kasvu Open Survey

Follow-up survey for the 2020 Kasvu Open cohort

Knowledge Development for Circular Economy Transition (KODECET)

KODECET aims to create 4 Digi-SUSTEACH centers that build capacity at universities to teach Sustainable and Circular Economy (SACE) to new career faculty, students, and early-stage professionals.

Managing Social Sustainability of Sport

In this research project, we will explore the institutional logics that guide the management of social sustainability in high-level sport organisations.

OP Group Research Foundation's Research Group on Financial Institutions

The research group studies financial institutions.

Optimizing forest industry sustainability with value chain data (OPTIMI 1)

In OPTIMI 1 project, we focus on the emissions in a company’s supply chain, as they are on average 11 times higher than direct emissions and reflect more than 70% of total emissions.

Kvanttilippulaivassa ryhmänjohtajia ovat Joel Mero (vas.), Ilari Maasilta, Robert van Leeuwen, Teiko Heinosaari, Kezilebieke Shawulienu, Tero Heikkilä (lippulaivan vastuututkija Jyväskylän yliopistossa) ja Juha Muhonen.

The Finnish Quantum Flagship

The Finnish Quantum Flagship consolidate and expand the national ecosystem, promote cutting-edge research that boosts the emergence of new businesses, and secure our position as a leading quantum-enabled society.