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Recognition of Supplier and Customer Relationships in Business Combination: A quantitative study of American acquisitions
(2016-09-15)While insights from business relationship literature indicate that relationships with suppliers and customers are key value drivers in many companies, there is little insight as to how their value is reflected in firms’ ... -
Recognizing Intangible Assets -A Study About Employee Satisfaction and Stock Returns
(2013-07-02)Valuating intangible assets is an art and making sure that they are correctly valued is crucial for the valuation process for any investor. This is of increasing importance, because companies today have a large part of ... -
The recruitment process to corporate boards - A qualitative study investigating female underrepresentation
(2023-06-29)This research put emphasis on the election committee and its role in the recruitment process for corporate boards. Particularly, it investigates the cause of female underrepresentation in the boardroom of corporations ... -
Recycling Barge in Gothenburg – a sustainability analysis
(2020-06-17)Previous innovations and services that have been developed in the area of sustainable urban mobility have sometimes had consequences that lead to unsustainability. This creates the need for investigating the potential ... -
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Equity Portfolios
(2017-07-26)This paper investigates the e ect of reducing the carbon footprint of Swedish equity portfolios. In order to decrease CO2e emission of investments, the constituents of the portfolios are re-weighted with regards to their ... -
Reference prices in an E-commerce context - An experiment with changing consumer prices
(2013-07-10)A cognitive process is activated when consumers encounter a price in a purchase situation. The price is evaluated relative to a reference price, which represents a mixture of factors such as previously encountered price ... -
Reforming the world of excess A field study of the state compensation unit in the Swedish Migration Agency
(2017-12-07)This study sets out to demonstrate how the migration crisis has been translated within the Swedish Migration Agency and how this translation creates frames that generate overflows. The case study was conducted in the state ... -
Regional organisations in emerging markets - The case of Volvo CE in the Middle East and North Africa
(2001)The move towards globalisation among MNCs has shifted the power structure from one of geographical hierarchy to one of a more global business. This move is however counterbalanced by the need for MNCs to be flexible enough ... -
The Relationship Between Beta and Arbitrage Spread in M&A Deals
(2023-06-29)Risk arbitrage is an event-driven investment strategy where the risk arbitrageur aims to capture the arbitrage spread between the target’s stock price and the bid price by the acquiring firm in a merger and acquisition ... -
The Relationship Between Idiosyncratic Volatility and Portfolio Return within Swedish Stock Markets.
(2022-06-29)Main results suggest there is a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and portfolio return within the Swedish stock markets. This relationship is detected despite ... -
Relationship marketing in central Europe - A case study of Volvo Truck Czech
(2001)Increased competition around the world has forced companies to search for new ways to compete. Relationships are among the most valuable assets a company can have and can create competitive advantages for a company. ... -
The Relevance of Coaching for Front Line Receptionists in the Hotel Industry -A study of Scandic Rubinen
(2007-07-19)In hotel organisations, managers use the yearly employee appraisals to give feedback and discuss the goals for future years with their employees. But, is this actually enough? Personnel development should occur on a ... -
Religion & Individualism-Collectivism in Nigeria- A study on the role of religion in explaining a person’s degree of individualism-collectivism for Protestants and Muslims in Nigeria
(2022-10-11)The dimension of individualism-collectivism in values has been shown to affect both innovation and growth. Cross-country differences generally indicate that Protestant countries are highly individualistic, Roman Catholic ... -
Remote Control - Redefining Leadership in the Age of Hybrid Work
(2023-07-20)The pandemic, rather than strategy, has led to organizations’ most apparent digital transformation in the last years due to unprecedented changes in the business environment and society (De Smet et al., 2021; McKinsey, ... -
Remote work and organizational culture for innovation: How organizational culture for innovation has been managed when working remotely
(2022-08-04)When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, organizations had to change the way they worked as employees had to work remotely. This abrupt transition to working remotely has brought many complications, one of which relates ... -
Remuneration Policies for Banks without Variable Remunerations: Interpretation of regulations in savings banks
(2014-10-07)Background: After the latest financial crisis, a debate regarding risk management and remunerations within the financial sector has arisen. New regulations concerning remuneration have been launched in order to reduce ... -
Reorganisation in the Name of What? A case study of the organisational changes 2010-2014 at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg
(2014-12-15)The purpose of this study has been to analyse the effects of organisational changes within academia, using the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg as a case study. Through interviews with ... -
Reorientation of the US Radio Market - An empirical analysis of ownership and concentration changes after the 1996 radio market deregulation
(2009-08-21)In this paper I theoretically and empirically study the effects of radio ownership structure on revenue and station distribution across radio markets after the 1996 deregulation of the radio market in the US. I find that ... -
Repatriate embeddedness: The experience of Swedish repatriates A qualitative study on the interconnectedness between the repatriate experience and organizational commitment.
(2021-06-28)Poorly managed repatriation processes on the part of MNCs are still frequently reported. Inadequate organizational support and lack of understanding result in high turnover rates among repatriates and deficient returns ... -
Research on Return Logistics in Online Shopping Environment - A case study of Taobao
(2020-06-22)With the rapid development of information industry, the global information process is constantly changing people's way of life, the world has stepped into a new era of network economy. The online shopping, as a new form ...