About SNABS
Our network
The Swedish Network for Advanced Business Studies (SNABS) is a network that seeks to strengthen the capacity and quality of high-level doctoral education in Business Administration, Industrial Management, and similar subjects. The current network members are: Chalmers University of Technology, Halmstad University, Högskolan Väst, Jönköping International Business School, Karlstad University, Linköping University, Linnaeus University, Lund University, Mälardalen University, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm University, Södertörn University, Umeå University, University of Gothenburg, University of Gävle, University of Skövde, and Örebro University.
Our purpose
SNABS purpose is to strengthen the capacity and quality of high-level doctoral education in Business Administration, Industrial Management, and similar subjects. Initially, the purpose of SNABS is 1) to help PhD-candidates in Business Administration and Industrial Management with finding suitable PhD-courses, and 2) to facilitate the development of collaboration between the member universities. The initiative will also increase mobility for PhD-candidates within the member universities and encourage more research cooperation. SNABS also offers a number of SNABS-courses that are financed by Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius foundation, Tore Browalds foundation.
If you are a PhD-candidate at one of the member universities you (normally) do not have to pay for participating in courses registered at this web-site. Please observe that the participating higher education institutions themselves provide the information about the courses presented on this website. SNABS accepts no responsibility or liability for the information and materials that are presented on this website. Always check issues concerning PhD-course participation (e.g., course quality, suitability with your project, how you can transfer course credits, etc.) with your supervisor/director of studies before enrolling in a PhD-course.
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Current Courses
Theory in Business Administration
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 01 April 2025 - 30 June 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Qualitative methods
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 01 April 2025 - 30 June 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Quantitative methods
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 24 February 2025 - 12 March 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Reflexive and Creative Methodology
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 12 May 2025 - 16 May 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Qualitative data analysis and theorization
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 21 February 2025 - 25 April 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Investigating selfhood under neoliberalism
Business Administration
Stockholm University - Stockholm Business School
Location: Hybrid: Both on Campus (3) and Online sessions
Date: 19 February 2025 - 10 June 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Critical Management Studies
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 05 May 2025 - 09 May 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Pluralistic Perspectives on Sustainability
Business Administration
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences
Location: Hybrid: Södertörn University and Zoom
Date: 20 February 2025 - 04 June 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Problem Formulation
Business Administration
Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School
Location: Stockholm University, Campus Albano and Zoom (Hybrid)
Date: 4 March 2025 - 27 May 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Fundamentals of Qualitative Research
Business Administration
Stockholm School of Economics
Location: Stockholm
Date: 22 November 2024 - 18 December 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Accounting Classics
Business Administration
Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School
Location: Stockholm University, Campus Albano + Stockholm School of Economics + Uppsala University + Linköping University
Date: 8 October 2024 - 17 December 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Theory and Research in Service Management
Business Administration
Karlstad University
Location: Roma Tre, first session, Karlstad University, three sessions, hybrid (in person or Zoom)
Date: 14 September 2024 - 30 November 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Quantitative Research Methods in Business Studies
Business Administration
Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School
Location: Stockholm University, Campus Albano
Date: 11 November 2024 - 2 December 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Contemporary Perspectives in Swedish Business Administration Research
Business Administration
Stockholm University
Location: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Karlstad
Date: 7 March 2024 - 22 October 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
Advanced Qualitative Methods: Gioia
Business Administration/Industrial Management
Chalmers
Location: Chalmers, Linköping and Umeå Universities
Date: 19 April 2024 - 7 June 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Ethnographic Methods
Work Integrated Learning
University West
Location: University West, Trollhättan
Date: 11 November 2024 - 17 January 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Health Innovation Summer School
Industrial Management
Halmstad University
Location: Halmstad University
Date: 19 August 2024 - 23 August 2024
ECTS Credits: 4
Cost for network member schools: No
Qualitative Data Analysis and Theorization
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 2 September 2024 - 29 November 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Institutional Theory – Past, Present, Future
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 2 September 2024 - 30 November 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Academic Writing and Publishing in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
Business Administration/Industrial Management
Halmstad University
Location: Halmstad University
Date: 4 September 2024 - 20 December 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Organizational Behavior II
Business Administration
Stockholm School of Economics
Location: Stockholm School of Economics
Date: 5 September 2024 - 5 December 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Gender Theory
Business Administration
Jönköping University
Location: Jönköping University
Date: 12 September 2024 - 27 February 2025
ECTS Credits: 10
Cost for network member schools: No
Business Ethics for Research Students
Business Administration/Industrial Management
Linköping University
Location: Linköping University
Date: 17 October 2024 - 12 December 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Organizations and Institutions
Business Administration and other Social Sciences
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences
Location: Södertörn University, Huddinge
Date: 1 November 2024 - 17 December 2025
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
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Previous Courses
2024
Problem Formulation
Business Administration
Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School
Location: Stockholm University, Campus Albano
Date: 24 January 2024 - 15 May 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Digital Monies for a Sustainable Future
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 1 April 2024 - 31 May 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Organizational Behaviour 1
Business Administration
Stockholm School of Economics
Location: Stockholm School of Economics
Date: 11 April 2024 - 4 June 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
Economic Sociology: Financialization, Inequality, and Global Markets
Social Science
Stockholm School of Economics
Location: Stockholm School of Economics
Date: 12 April 2024 - 5 June 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (FsQCA)
Business Administration and Industrial Management
Karlstad University
Location: Karlstad, Sweden
Date: 26 January 2024 - 23 February 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Social Sustainability and Work: Inequality, Precarisation and Practices for Social Justice
Business Administration
School of Business, Economics and Law at the Univesity of Gothenburg
Location: Gothenburg and Helsinki, one workshop on each location. Additional workshops digital.
Date: 7 November 2023 - 29 May 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Crafting and Publishing Impactful Papers in Respected Journals
Business Administration
Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School
Location: Stockholm University, Campus Albano and Zoom (Hybrid)
Date: 20 November 2023 - 23 May 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Reflexive and Creative Methodology
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 20 May 2024 - 24 May 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Critical Management Studies
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 13 May 2024 - 17 May 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Re-Framing Digitalization
Business Administration
Mälardalen University
Location: Mälardalen University-Västerås and online
Date: 22 January 2024 - 8 April 2024
ECTS Credits: 5
Cost for network member schools: No
Collaboration and Co-production for a Sustainable Working Life
Industrial Management
University of Gävle
Location: Gävle
Date: 18 January 2024 - 10 May 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Introduction to Qualitative Methods
Industrial Management and Business Administration
Chalmers University of Technology
Location: Gothenburg
Date: 16 January 2024 - 16 April 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
2023
Corporate Elites and Leaders in Neoliberal Organizations and Societies
Business Administration
Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School
Location: Stockholm University, Campus Albano
Date: 22 November 2023 - 6 January 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Corporate Social Responsibility
Business Administration
Lund University, Dept. of Business Administration
Location: Lund, School of Economics and Management
Date: 7 November 2023 - 29 February 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
Auditing, Auditors and Accountability
Business Administration
Linköping University
Location: Linköping University, Umeå University and Stockholm (PWC)
Date: 2 October 2023 - 3 March 2024
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Introduction to Innovation Sciences
Business Administration/Industrial Management
Halmstad University
Location: Halmstad University
Date: 20 September 2023 - 1 December 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Consumer Culture Theory: Foundations, Frontiers and Application
Business Administration
Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School
Location: Digital and intensive week Oct 2 - Oct 5 at Stockholm University (Campus Albano)
Date: 7 September 2023 - 25 October 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Responsible Organizing and Managing Hybrid Work - The Way Forward
Industrial management
MDU, UU, NTNU and DTU
Location: Online
Date: 31 May 2023 - 2 June 2023
ECTS Credits: 3+2
Cost for network member schools: No
Organization Outside Organizations
Business Administration
Uppsala University, the Department of Business Studies
Location: Uppsala University
Date: 21 April 2023 - 13 June 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Course information *Application deadline 21 March, 2023
SNABS-course:
Economic Sociology: Financialization, Inequality, and Global Markets
Social Science
Linköping University
Location: Campus Norrköping and online
Date: 14 April 2023 - 9 June 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Re-framing Sustainability
Industrial management
Mälardalen University
Location: On campus and online
Date: 28 March 2023 - 1 June 2023
ECTS Credits: 5
Cost for network member schools: No
The Anthropocene Materiality and Society
Social science
Gothenburg University
Location: Åland island and virtual
Date: 28 March 2023 - 1 June 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
Contemporary Quantitative Methods in Business Administration
Business Administration
Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University in collaboration with Linköping University
Location: Jönköping International Business School (some sessions on-line)
Date: 6 February 2023 - 18 May 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Business Ethics
Business Administration and Industrial Management
Linköping University
Location: Linköping University
Date: 23 January 2023 - 16 June 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Course syllabus (Swedish/English) Course webpage
Entrepreneuring, Rurality and the Role of Space
Business Administration
Linnaeus University, Department of Organisation and Entrepreneurship
Location: Kalmar
Date: 1 October 2022 - 31 May 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Introduction to Qualitative Methods
Business Administration and Industrial Management
Chalmers University of Technology
Location: Gothenburg
Date: 17 January 2023 - 30 April 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
Crafting Scientific Research: Strategies, Processes, and Ethics
Business Administration
Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University
Location: Jönköping International Business School and Halmstad University
Date: 17 January 2023 - 13 April 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
Contemporary Research in Human Resourse Management from a Nordic perspective
Business Administration
University of Gothenburg
Location: The course is entirely taught on distance, except for two final days at the University of Gothenburg.
Date: 16 January 2023 - 23 March 2023
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
Innovation Management Research
Business Administration
Karlstad University, Karlstad Business School
Location: Karlstad University
Date: 7 February 2023 - end of March
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Course webpage *Apply to the course by 15 January, 2023.
2022
Institutions and Organisations
Organisation theory
Södertörn University
Location: Södertörn University
Date: 1 November 2022 - 20 December 2022
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
The Artful Making of Management and Organization
Business Administration
Åbo Akademi University
Location: Hanaholmen Cultural Center and Svenska Teatern (the Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Finland
Date: 6 June 2022 - 6 August 2022
ECTS Credits: 6
Cost for network member schools: No
Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Business Administration
Karlstad University, CTF - Service Research Center
Location: Karlstad University
Date: 6 May 2022 - 23 June 2022
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Academic Writing and Publishing in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
Business Administration and Industrial Management
Halmstad University
Location: Halmstad University
Date: 6 April 2022 - 8 June 2022
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Theorizing and Modelling in Empirical Management Accounting Research
Business Administration
Örebro University School of Business
Location: Örebro University
Date: 30 March 2022 - 16 June 2022
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Introduction to Qualitative Methods
Industrial Management
Chalmers University of Technology
Location: Gothenburg
Date: 18 January 2022 - 12 April 2022
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
FEKIS/SNABS-course:
Contemporary Perspectives in Swedish Business Studies Research
Business Administration
SBS, Stockholm University - FEKIS
Location: Business studies departments at Swedish universities
Date: 2 February 2022 - 31 May 2022
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Re-framing Digitalization
Business Administration and Industrial Management in co-operation
Mälardalen University
Location: Västerås, Sweden
Date: 1 February 2022 - 29 March 2022
ECTS Credits: 5
Cost for network member schools: No
Marketing
Business Administration and Industrial Management in co-operation
Linköpings Universitet
Location: Linköping
Date: 25 January 2022 - 19 May 2022
ECTS Credits: 10
Cost for network member schools: No
Course webpage (Swedish)
Qualitative Methods II
Business Administration
Linnaeus University, Department of Organisation and Entrepreneurship
Location: Distance/Zoom
Date: 20 January 2022 - 24 March 2022
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
2021
SNABS-course:
Strategic Management in a Global and Digital World
Business Administration
Mälardalen University
Location: Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden/or via zoom
Date: 11 November 2021 - 7 February 2022
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
Corporate Governance in Public and Private Organizations
Business Administration
Halmstad University and Jönköping International Business School (JIBS)
Location: Halmstad University and Jönköping International Business School (JIBS)
Date: 14 October 2021 - 17 December 2021
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Introduction to Innovation Sciences
Business Administration and Industrial Management
Halmstad University, School of Business, Innovation and Sustainability
Location: Halmstad University
Date: 15 September 2021 - 11 December 2021
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Theory of Science
Industrial Management
Chalmers University of Technology
Location: Chalmers University of Technology
Date: 17 September 2021 - 26 November 2021
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Strategising, Digitisation and Networks
Business Administration
Uppsala and Örebro Universities
Location: Zoom
Date: 28 April 2021 - 15 June 2021
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
SNABS-course:
The Research Process
Business Administration
Linköping University, Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)
Location: Norrköping / zoom
Date: 27 April 2021 -22 June 2021
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Digital Media Analytics
Industrial Management and Business Administration
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Location: Online
Date: 22 March 2021 - 8 June 2021
ECTS Credits: 4
Cost for network member schools: No
Digital Business and Industrial Dynamics
Business Administration and Industrial Management
Jönköping International Business School
Location: Zoom
Date: 26 February 2021 - 26 March 2021
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Classics in Accounting
Business Administration
Jönköping International Business School
Location: Jönköping and/or On-line
Date: 8 February 2021 - 31 March 2021
ECTS Credits: 3
Cost for network member schools: No
2020
Qualitative Research
Business Administration and Industrial Management
Halmstad University
Location: Online course
Date: 18 November 2020 - 23 December 2020
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Företagsekonomiska Klassiker/Classics of Business Administration
Business Administration
Linköping university
Location: campus/or zoom
Date: 12 November 2020 - 20 May 2021
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
OBS: begränsat antal platser, (5 st externa doktorander) / Limited number of places, (5 external doctoral students)
Computational Approaches to the Study of Organizations
Business Administration
Linköping University, Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)
Location: Norrköping
Date: 26 October 2020 - 29 November 2020
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Institutions and Organizations
Business Administration
Södertörn University
Location: Campus Flemingsberg, Stockholm
Date: 21 October 2020 - 14 January 2021
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Firm Ownership and Ownership Forms
Business Administration
Jönköping International Business School
Location: Zoom. JIBS
Date: 9 October 2020 - 6 November 2020
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
The Quantitative Research Process - From Idea to Contribution
Business Administration and Industrial Management
Halmstad University
Location: Online
Date: 24 September 2020 - 17 December 2020
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Digital Monies for a Sustainable Future
Business Administration
Lund University, Företagsekonomiska Institutionen
Location: Lund
Date: 1 September 2020 – 13 October 2020
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Introduction to Industrial
Economics and Organization
Industrial Management
Mälardalen University, Industrial Economics and Organization
Location: Online via Zoom
Date: 28 April 2020 - 5 June 2020
ECTS Credits: 7,5
Cost for network member schools: No
Doctoral Workshops
NBM Doctoral Workshops
9th of June 2021 | hosted online by Halmstad University, Sweden
21st of June 2023 | hosted hybrid by the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University | Maastricht, The Netherlands