Browsing Master theses by Title
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Opportunity Identification from a Prior Knowledge Perspective. The influences of prior knowledge in practice
(2014-12-15)This thesis looks at opportunity identification from a prior knowledge perspective. Prior research suggests that prior knowledge influences an individual’s ability to identify opportunities. The main purpose of this multiple ... -
Opposing Attitudes Towards Environmental Taxes: A Price Dilemma? A Case of the Swedish Attitudes on Gasoline Emission Taxes
(2023-06-29)This thesis investigates how people’s attitudes toward environmental taxes are shaped and whether changes in end-consumer prices of gasoline have a direct effect on carbon tax perception. A theoretical model is constructed ... -
Optimal capital structure
(2000)Substantial parts of the literature concerning capital structure have dealt with issues regarding the leverage ratios. These leverage ratios have been analyzed in all kinds of ways, where most studies have explained observed ... -
Optimal Capital Structure of Start-Ups. A field study in the venture capital market
(2015-07-13)Abstract Convertible financing is on the rise as a common method to finance an early stage company. Lots of previous research has been done for later stages of corporate financing and the authors of this thesis want to ... -
Optimal financial resources for Central Counterparties: Introducing default dependence of clearing members: a mixed binomial approach
(2019-07-02)Central counterparties (CCPs) are ˝nancial intermediaries consisting of clearing members trading ˝nancial derivatives between each other. In a ˝nancial network, CCPs become the buyer to every seller and the seller to every ... -
Optimization of the Supply Chain Network design by using scenario planning to build resilience.
(2023-07-03)Different geopolitical tensions, economic upheavals and operational instability make the logistics network challenging to manage against disruptions. These events can make the network see an escalation in cost and resources ... -
The Optimized Configuration of Volvo Car Parts
(2007-07-19)Reducing logistics cost could help an organization to gain competitive advantages over its competitors among homogenous products, since production costs are with little difference. The severe competition in the automobile ... -
Optimizing access to raw material for value-adding processes of fish side streams
(2023-10-10)Under the double influence of the rapid growth of the population and the shortage of resources, people begin to pay attention to the utilization of existing raw materials. Seafood is one of the indispensable foods for ... -
Option trading and firm innovation
(2019-07-02)We investigate whether active derivatives markets stimulates or inhibits firm innovation within R&D- intense industries. This is done by estimating the relationship between the volume on the option written on the firm’s ... -
Organising for EVENT MARKETING in Order to Change Brand Image and Increase Sales
(2001)“A product is something that is made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by a customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is ... -
Organizational implications of AI adoption - A multiple-case study on System integrators
(2019-07-09)Digitalization is impacting and transforming businesses. Consequently, companies must take the opportunities coming from the diverse technologies available on the market and be ready to seize and manage them. One technology ... -
Organizing With Kairos An ethnographic study of Kairos moments within a start-up company during the events prior to a new product launch
(2017-07-04)Time is a complex matter, and how people experience time could differ significantly. The focus of organizational researchers has shifted from organizations as stable entities, to processes of organizing changing over ... -
Out with the Old and in with the New - Consumer Clothing Practices and how they contribute to a Circular Fashion Market
(2019-07-03)A transition to a circular fashion market requires substantial changes in the way consumers purchase, use and dispose of clothes. Nevertheless, the concept has not yet been researched from a consumer perspective. The aim ... -
Outsourcing of Typebound Packagings at VCC
(2003)The car industry is today characterised by low increase in demand and problems with over-capacity, and globalisation drives the companies to take various measures in order to remain competitive. Cost cutting, ... -
Overcoming liabilities in a psychic distant market. The case of Swedish SMEs in Singapore.
(2017-07-27)More and more SMEs are taking the step to become global- However, their internationalisation processes are said to be more challenging than MNE. Not only do they suffer from liability of foreignness but also from liability ... -
Overeducation and its impact on wages in Vietnam
(2018-07-03)The study uses the most recent Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2014 and 2016 to describe the incidence of overeducation and estimate the wage effect of educational mismatch. Overeducation is more prevalent in ... -
Overreaction in Bitcoin before and during COVID-19
(2021-06-30)In recent years, Bitcoin has attracted a lot of interest from the media, academics and investors, but there is still skepticism and a lack of knowledge about how this cryptocurrency performed in the years leading up to and ... -
Overruling uncertainty - A study of venture of capital decision making
(2001)This thesis was initiated due to the fact that venture capitalists' often are the gatekeeper in the funding process of ventures and their impact on fuelling economic growth is likely to increase as the entrepreneurial ... -
Overseas Listing of Chinese Companies
(2003)With the rapid development of China’s economy, since the policy of reforming and opening-up was executed 20 years ago, China has become more involved in the global economy system. More and more Chinese companies started ... -
Ownership and Agency Cost
(2002)This thesis examines the existence of agency costs in firms due to the incomplete alignment of the agent's and owner's interest. Inspired by empirical evidence of Ang, Cole and Wuh Lin (2000) and the theoretical models of ...