Research in Business Studies at Södertörn University includes the dynamics of entrepreneurship, sustainable development, art, culture and economics, the financial market and its organisations, and institutional change. Several of the subject’s research projects are conducted with a great deal of cooperation with researchers in other disciplines and many projects have an international perspective.

The subject admits its own doctoral students as part of research area for doctoral studies called Politics, Economy and the Organisation of Society. It also participates in research partnerships at research centres such as ENTER forum, Reinvent, the Academy of Public Administration, CBEES and Stockholm MediaLab, as well as the Institute of Contemporary History and the School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies.