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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 ... -
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 ... -
Behind the Green Claims: A Critical Discourse Theory Approach - A study of the critical discourses derived from fashion brands green social media marketing
(2020-06-23)In today’s society, social media is an inflated part of marketing within the fashion industry and has become a part of green marketing for many brands, enabling consumers to communicate directly with them. Here, discourses ... -
Being vulnerable; it’s attractive to a point. An exploration of the major determinants of climate change adaptation finance allocation.
(2017-07-28)I study the major determinants of climate change adaptation finance allocation. Both the intensive margin decision and the extensive margin decision are considered. All adaptation finance allocations made by OECD Development ... -
The benefits of optimized portfolios- An empirical comparison between optimized portfolios and benchmarks
(2022-06-29)Uncertainty about the future is an everlasting part of investing. This study aims at testing the historical performance out-of-sample for optimized portfolios and if the performance was superior to benchmarks. 11 different ... -
Better Safe than Sorry? - A case study on how Health and Safety Work unfolds in a Construction Company
(2019-07-03)All employers in Sweden are required to conform to governmental work environment laws. The employer usually comply to these laws when translating them to workable practices, thus engaging in Health and Safety (H&S) work. ... -
Beyond Formal Roles: A Balanced Leadership Approach to Leadership in Virtual Teams
(2023-06-29)are becoming more complex such that they are beginning to branch out beyond the traditional top-down structures. Regardless of the structure of an organization, leadership seems to be a constant force that drives it to ... -
Beyond the Dyadic Relationship: A case study on a role of open book accounting in an industrial network
(2016-09-15)Introduction: Studies on inter-organizational relationships have increased rapidly, but most studies have focused on the dyadic relationship. Back in the 1970s the industrial network approach was developed and researchers ... -
Beyond the office walls: Exploring trust and knowledge sharing in the hybrid work setting -A qualitative study on employees' perception of the challenges and opportunities when adopting the hybrid work setting
(2023-07-19)The covid-19 pandemic has led to many changes for organizations and has accelerated the shift from a traditional work model to a hybrid one. The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of how trust and knowledge ... -
BIG DATA WITHIN INNOVATION PROCESSES: A Quantitative Study of Fortune 200 Global Companies
(2018-08-02)Background: The importance of innovation simply continues to stagger. Albeit, many firms continue to struggle in the launch of new technologies that meet the objectives of successful innovation. As a result, the life ... -
Big Data-driven Innovation: The role of big data in new product development
(2015-07-09)Abstract The outcome of the Big Data hype is a widespread delusion that applying Big Data will instinctively enhance and improve current business activities. Organizations have identified the benefits and disruptive ... -
Bilateral Innovation Partnerships as a policy tool to foster innovation on a public and private level - A case study of the Swedish-German Innovation Partnership
(2020-07-22)In recent years, the topics of societal challenges and innovation have become increasingly present, often in connection with digitalisation and ongoing globalisation. Sustainable solutions are needed – and governments as ... -
BLOCKCHAIN INNOVATION IN SUPPLY CHAIN TRACING - A qualitative multiple-case study on the use of blockchain in supply chain management
(2022-08-05)Throughout the history of trade between people and organizations, trust has always been a fundamental requirement. The need for trust increases as supply chain become more global and complex, since trust is handled by an ... -
Blockchain Smart Contracts, the new rebar in the construction industry?
(2019-07-02)Problem discussion and purpose - The blockchain technology, and its subset technology - smart contracts, has the potential to redefine the structure of future networks. Due to its underlying technology and its characteristics, ... -
Blockchain, the New Driver in the Automotive Global Supply Chains? - A multiple case study of the blockchain implementation barriers in the automotive industry
(2020-06-25)Large multinational companies (MNCs) with complex global supply chains face increasing challenges with unsustainable supply chains, both regarding strategy and stakeholder pressure. A potentially revolutionizing new ... -
Blockchain-based Supply Chains - Why are Sustainability Benefits not Realized?
(2022-08-18)The world is constantly evolving, becoming more digital and new technologies are being developed. One such technology is blockchain, which has gained popularity through the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. However, there is much ... -
BLOCKCHAIN: How the implementation of blockchain is affected by, and affects, business models
(2018-07-31)The world is becoming more and more digitalized, and technologies are emerging and being developed continuously. Some of these technologies are considered to have disruptive potential, whereby it is of importance that ...