Browsing Master theses by Title
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Back to the Water? Commercial Feasibility of UrbanWaterway Transportation in Gothenburg
(2017-06-29)Urban freight transport is vital in sustaining urban economies and life, since it carries the required goods and the generated waste in cities. Meanwhile, it also has several negative external impacts, which are considerably ... -
Backtesting the Magic Formula in the Brazilian Stock Market
(2016-10-06)This thesis performs a backtest of the Magic Formula for the Brazilian stock market in the period between 2006 and 2015. The Magic Formula methodology is a stock picking strategy that combines Return on Capital and ... -
Balancing Open and Closed Innovation - Strategic Considerations in the Development of New Technologies
(2025-08-06)In an increasingly globalized and competitive landscape, organizations face growing pressure to innovate rapidly while maintaining control over intellectual property and strategic assets. This thesis explores how companies ... -
Balancing relationship between academia and business community in terms of soft skills supply and demand in the labour market
(2021-06-29)The interplay between the different logics and possibility of their balancing is of great interest and these issues have been extensively studied. Such actors as academia and the business community follow different ... -
Balancing Standardization and Flexibility The role of an IT-system in three organizations
(2017-07-05)The use of customized technologies has increased moving from using standardized modules towards capturing local variations affecting the role of IT-systems in contemporary society. This trend identified in both research ... -
Balancing Structure and Flexibility in the Project Process - A Case Study of Project Management at Where Is My Pony
(2021-07-07)The practice of project management has been used by organizations for many years and different philosophies have emerged. Among the philosophies is both traditional and modern project management as well as project ... -
Balancing Tradition and Transformation: Leadership Challenges in a Changing Organization
(2025-06-24)This study examines the impact of organizational transformation at Ikano Bostad, a Swedish property development and property management company, with a focus on their adherence to predetermined values and leadership ... -
Bank capital and liquidity creation. An empirical study of the Scandinavian Banks
(2018-07-04)Little is known about the impact of capital regulation on the liquidity creation capabilities of Scandinavian banks. This thesis attempts to examine the relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation based on ... -
Banking in Transition: The Effect of FinTech on Incumbent Banks in Sweden
(2025-07-06)This thesis examines the impact of Financial Technology (FinTech) on the market power and financial performance of incumbent banks in the Swedish banking sector. This study utilizes a panel dataset covering six major ... -
Banking Market Structure and Bank-Lending Channel of Monetary Policy in Zambia
(2024-07-03)This paper investigates the impact of banking market competition on the effects of monetary policy tightening on bank lending to households in Zambia. The two-step system GMM is applied using annual balanced panel data ... -
Banking merger 2000
(2000)This paper deals with the issue of mergers and acquisitions in banking. It views the issue of M&A in the light of the current wave of strategic restructuring ushered by the integration of the European market, and presents ... -
Barriers and Enablers for a Startup Introducing a Circular Business Model in the Swedish Food-Waste Segment
(2022-08-05)Sustainability is becoming increasingly important both to consumers and to organizations. However, unsustainable practices within food production persist, and through that, large amounts of food are wasted. Controversially, ... -
Barriers to career progression for women in the automotive industry -A qualitative study of how gendered substructures affect women’s opportunities for career advancement in an automotive MNC.
(2017-07-27)Purpose: The purpose of the study is to identify possible barriers to career progression as perceived by female employees of senior positions in an automotive MNC by using the concept of gendered substructures as a theoretical ... -
Barriers to Employee Involvement in Incremental Innovation at the Swedish Public Healthcare Organizations
(2021-07-09)Background and purpose: As public organizations are politically governed, the organizations have traditionally been managed from a top-down perspective. Since knowledge intensive organizations have realized employees are ... -
Basel III and the Latest Requirements on Liquidity Risk Reporting
(2011-07-21)The recent financial crisis and the lack of transparency in the banking industry have been the main arguments for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to strengthen liquidity risk regulations. This case study based ... -
Basel IIIs Impact on Companies’ Cost of Debt: A Comparison between Rated and Unrated Firms- Evidence from the Nordics’
(2023-06-29)The Basel recommendations are regulatory recommendations controlling financial stability by, for example, capital requirements. These capital requirements continue to increase, affecting not only banks but also individual ... -
BÄYond Reality: Marketing in the Age of Deepfakes - A quantitative study on emotional engagement, perceived authenticity, and trust in deepfake advertising
(2025-08-21)This paper investigates consumer responses to AI-generated content in advertising, with a particular focus on deepfake technology. While such content is increasingly used in digital marketing, limited empirical research ... -
Bear Periods Amplify Correlation: A GARCH BEKK Approach
(2010-06-24)The aim of this paper is to see how correlation changes across time across different indices. We have used a sufficiently large benchmark period of 20 years to have a better understanding as to how correlations1have changed. ... -
Becoming Agile - The Application of Agile Project Methods in the Management Consulting Industry
(2019-07-09)Background & Purpose: With continuous changes occurring in the business environment new project methods have emerged to accommodate the new needs. This has resulted in that the traditional ways to manage projects have ... -
Behavioral biases in capital budgeting: An experimental study of the effects on escalation of commitment given different capital budgeting methods
(2014-07-23)This study examines if decision makers using less sophisticated capital budgeting methods, such as Net present value and Payback, display a higher level of escalation of commitment to a failing project, compared to decision ...