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E-auction as a complement to IOCM - A case study from the automotive industry
(2020-07-01)The role of PSM has gained considerable attention in recent years as one of the key functions to impact company performance (Zsidisin, Ellram & Ogden, 2003; Kähkönen & Lintukangas, 2012). And considering that purchasing ... -
E-business Str@tegy in the Acute Care segment in Europe
(2001)The European health care industry in general has been rather backwards with e-business implementation compared to other industries. Only a handful of start-up companies have recently initiated trading medical products ... -
E-Commerce Strategy on Marketing Channels
(2002)E-business offers many possibilities to re-organise business processes. However, to use the full potential of e-business, traditional business activities should not be simply converted onto electronic platforms. One should ... -
Early evidence on iXBRL regulation and its impact on information asymmetry in the US capital market
(2021-06-24)The topic of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) has long been under debate regarding its effect and usefulness as a disclosure format. With the recent regulatory shift to the newest evolution of XBRL, inline ... -
Early Experience of Mandatory Non-Financial Information Reporting in Sweden: A case study of how listed SMEs in the industrial sector have implemented the new law
(2018-07-02)Motivation/Purpose: Increasing societal pressure on companies for higher transparency and accountability has led to a significant growth in issuance of non-financial reporting. As a result, the Swedish parliament has decided ... -
Earned Value Project Management. A model for project performance valuation in Ericsson AB.
(2006)Recently, companies increase the usage of projects in their businesses, thus corporations are facing the issue of project valuation. Multiple techniques are dealing with this problem, however, it is questioned which one ... -
Earnings announcements and Intraday Volatility -a study of Nasdaq OMX Stockholm
(2014-07-23)In this study, we investigate how the trading and its corresponding volatility appear after the release of financial reports. The focus is whether financial reports released on trading time appears to have a higher volatility ... -
Earnings announcements and the Stockholm Stock Exchange: Irrational investors and market inefficiency
(2016-09-21)Earlier research has demonstrated the existence of the anomaly post earnings announcement drift (PEAD) on several efficient markets; i.e. the phenomenon where an unexpectedly good (bad) earnings report causes a firms share ... -
Earnings Conference Calls and Stock Returns: The interplay between tone and information specificity
(2019-08-09)After the adoption of RegFD, quarterly earnings conference calls (ECCs) have become an important channel for voluntary corporate disclosure. However, the extent to which the information content affects capital markets is ... -
Earnings Management & the role of CEO Personality - Applying an algorithm to analyse whether conscientiousness affects real and accruals-based earnings management
(2020-07-01)Despite extensive efforts to grasp and mitigate the problem of earnings management, research indicates that it remains a prevalent problem. We set out to investigate whether CEO personality, more specifically the trait of ... -
Earnings Management and Female Representation on the Board of Directors
(2016-09-15)In order for financial reporting to serve its purpose, the information conveyed needs to be correct. This paper addresses gender diversity on boards of directors, a factor argued to have a beneficial impact on corporate ... -
Earnings Quality in Family Firms: A quantitative study in Sweden
(2016-09-15)This study investigates the relation between family firms and earnings quality. There are two competing theories on the effect that family firms have on earnings quality, the entrenchment effect with decreased earnings ... -
Earnings quality of private target firms in merger and acquisition setting: evidence from Swedish context
(2024-08-14)Earnings quality of target firms under Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) has attracted academic research increasingly, mostly around the topic of how the earnings quality of target firms affect the transaction process and ... -
Eco-Innovation through the Scary Seafood Platform: Catalyzing the Innovation Ecosystem
(2024-07-09)Improvements in health care, nutrition availability, and increased life standards have led to significant growth in the global population during the last few decades. For the same reason, the exploration of new sources of ... -
Eco-Tourism and the Learning-Scape: Consumers’ Learning Experience at an Eco-Lodge in Australia
(2015-07-08)Abstract: Eco-tourism aims to have less negative impact on communities and the environment, while simultaneously promoting conservational behaviour and attitudes. Thus, eco-tourism is an excellent tool to educate tourists ... -
The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers
(2022-06-23)This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether ... -
Economic sanctions effect on multinational corporations strategies
(2018-09-06)The use of economic sanctions has grown in recent years and led to increased uncertainty and turbulence in the global economy. The Ukraine conflict in February 2014 led to the implementation of sanctions and counter-sanctions ... -
Ecotourism in Uganda A Case Study of the Mgahinga National Park
(2004)This is a case study of Mgahinga gorilla national park in Western Uganda. It is an attempt to investigate the importance and relevance of ecotourism and assess the awareness and understanding of ecotourism among the local ... -
The effect of cross-border mergers & acquisitions as a driver of better corporate sustainability practices - A study on the post-acquisition context of selected target firms from Sri Lanka and Sweden
(2023-07-19)Companies typically strive to expand their realms. To do so, they rely on a series of organic and non-organic growth options, the latter including Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As). M&As continue to grow in number and frequency ... -
The effect of ESG-linked compensation on firms' ESG performance
(2023-07-03)This study examines the effect of having an ESG-linked compensation plan on ESG performance. In addition to that, board characteristics effect on linking ESG metrics to CEO compensation plans have been examined. Based ...