Staff

I'm a lecturer in accounting. My research focuses on audit teams and audit quality, as well as education for sustainability.

Doctoral student in Business Administration with focus on community entrepreneurship in the rural Arctic

I'm associate professor (Swedish: docent) in Statistics, department head at Department of Statistics / assistant head of USBE. I´m affiliated to Umeå center for functional brain imaging (UFBI).

Bekzat Musrepova is a PhD candidate in business administration (management) with a research interest in digital transformation.

Director of Studies, Business Administration.
Member of the Faculty of Social Science education committee.
International engagement in Tuning Educational Structures in Europe, Tuning EU-China, CaloHex

Elin Nilsson is lecturer, associate professor (docent) and excellent teacher in business administration with a focus on marketing and consumer behaviour.

I am a PhD student at the Statistics department at USBE, where my research interests are Casual Inference and Robotics and their intersection.

Associate Professor (Docent) in Business Administration with specialization in marketing. Section coordinator – marketing. Program coordinator – Master’s program in marketing.

My research interests are in empirical micro-economics and econometrics, labour and public economics and public finance.

I am an econometrician interested many things ...

Associate professor, natural resource economics. Visiting professor in forest policy, SLU. Deputy Director, CERE, Center for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.

Assistant professor. Main research field: public procurement, environmental policy evaluation, design and implementation, consumer preferences and producer behaviour. 

Researching Digital/AI Transformation, Innov. Ecosystems, Global Strategy

Co-ordinator of the AI seminars at the Centre for Transdisciplinary AI and the Professional Programme in Service Management

External website: www.jennyhaggstrom.com

Associate professor (docent) in business administration, active in the section for entrepreneurship.

Prof. in business admin. spec. marketing and A. Head of Dept. Research/teaching in sustainability, consumption, circular economy, communication, travel, electrification and passenger transport.

Director of CERUM. My research include regional growth and migration, local public expenditures-, investments and taxes, local labor markets, consumer behavior, and public procurement.

PhD

My research focuses on human sensorimotor control during sports-relevant situations, mainly among persons with a history of anterior cruciate ligament injury.

My research interest is in predictive modeling and machine learning.

Magdalena Markowska's research is focused on entrepreneurship and investigates identity, gender, the interplay between structure and agency as well as the role of context in entrepreneurial endeavors.

Malin Harryson Näsholm is an Associate Professor in Management and Organization and Director of Studies in Business Administration.

I am an associate professor (senior lecturer) and docent in Statistics. My research mainly involves methods for studying age-related cognitive change.

I am a professor in statistics with a special interest in statistical applications in medicine, including register studies, epidemiology and clinical trials.

Research interest include educational measurement and psychometrics in general, especially test equating, parametric and nonparametric item response theory, and international large-scale assessments.

Markus Hällgren (markus.hallgren@umu.se) is a professor of management and organization at Umeå School of Business and Economics. More information; www.markushallgren.com & www.tripleed.com

Professor of Economics

Dean, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics

PhD, Associate Professor (Docent) of Management and Organization, and Distinguished teacher. Director of doctoral studies in Business Administration, USBE.

Assistant professor in entrepreneurship

Associate Professor (Docent) of Management interested in paradox theory and entrepreneurship. Currently serving as the coordinator of the Management section at USBE.

PhD student in business administration, specializing in management. Studying leadership and identity processes in the context of organizing extraordinary events in the Swedish police.

Norbert Steigenberger is a professor in entrepreneurship at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics.

Dr. Evansluong's research interests center on immigrant entrepreneurship, integration, sustainable entrepreneurship and CSR.

Doctoral student in business administration (marketing) since January 2021. Research interests in sustainability, branding, norms, spillover effects and traffic.

Works at the student service office for Business Administration with administrative tasks aimed at students and staff.

PhD student at the department of economics since december of 2020. My research interests include market competition, auction theory and sustainable public procurement.

PhD, Associate professor.

Main research field: Coopetition for sustainability, paradox theory, circular economy.

Sophie is a senior lecturer in management. She studies inclusion, legitimacy, and sensemaking in organizations, particularly within challenging and uncertain contexts.

Works at the Student Service Office for Business Administration with administrative tasks aimed at students and staff.

My research concerns developing statistical methods for analyses with missing data applied to cognitive ageing and dementia research as well as causal inference.

Tobias Svanström is a Professor in Business Administration (Accounting) at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics. 

Professor in Business Administration, Areas of interest: Innovation, Digitalization, IoT, Business models, Entrepreneurship, Project management, and Career development.

Ulrika Leijerholt is an associate professor in marketing. Her research focus is on various aspects of public sector branding.

External webpage: www.ulrikaleijerholt.com

Virginie is an Senior Lecturer in Management. Interested in collective action in risky and emergency contexts, her current projects deal with sensemaking, embodiment and temporality.

Associate Professor (Docent) specializing in inter-firm collaboration for innovation and internationalization and quantitative modeling of both survey and register-based data.

Ph.D. student in business administration (entrepreneurship) since March 2022, and with a research project related to complex innovations in AI ecosystems.

My research consists in developing machine learning methods to discover and study causal relationships when using large amount of data. Stat4Reg Lab: www.stat4reg.se 

Zsuzsanna Vincze is an Associate Professor (docent) in Entrepreneurship and the coordinator of the Entrepreneurship section at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics.