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The institutional complexity of achieving business/IT alignment A qualitative study performed at a Swedish telecom company
(2018-07-03)The aim of this paper is to identify the complexity of why it is hard to achieve business/IT alignment. This is investigated from the social dimension at a Swedish telecom company. The study has a qualitative approach and ... -
The Integration of Altruistic Motives and Crowding-Out into Policy Making for Regenerative Common Pool Resource Use Dilemmas
(2012-07-25)As behavioral economics has become an important input to economic theory in the recent past, when considering public good provision and common pool resource management, it is a logical consequence to include it into policy ... -
The interconnection between executive shareholding and firm performance
(2017-09-15)There has been a long standing debate regarding how firms can alleviate the agency problem and align the interests of the agent with those of the principal. In this study, we theorize that if firms can incentivize executives ... -
The Internationalisation of Japanese Professional Business Services - Recent Developments and Future Prospects in Asia
(2014-12-12)Although Japan is one of the world's largest economies its service sector is less developed than that of other industrialised countries and the sector also lags behind in terms of internationalisation. Research has ... -
The internationalisation process of e-commerce companies
(2000)This thesis was initiated because of the new and fast growing environment that attracts more and more companies to do business electronically the Internet. The question that was raised was how e-commerce companies are ... -
The Interplay between Disseminative and Absorptive Capacity in Offshoring - A case study on a Swedish financial firm and its offshoring in the Baltics.
(2019-08-08)Prior research has investigated into the implications of offshoring and how the configuration complexity arising from offshoring effects the organizational set up. Moreover, research in offshoring has to a large extent ... -
The Interplay Between Internal Experience and External Support During Startups’ Early Internationalization
(2019-08-08)Background and Problem: Although startups often want to expand abroad, they may underestimate the costs and efforts needed to internationalize early with just their internal experience. Hence, startups tend to apply for ... -
The IPO Process as a Hybrid Temporary Organization - Coordinating common ground between the firm, investment bank and legal adviser through cross-boundary mechanisms
(2020-06-24)The initial public offering (IPO) of a firm is a complex process including an intricate network of actors that assure the publishing of firms and stock emittance. This paper explores the IPO process as a temporary organization ... -
The lack of Unity in Diversity recruitment - A qualitative study on the adoption of diversity recruitment practices
(2020-06-22)The importance of having a diverse workforce has increased in contemporary organizations, which has led to a vast number of organisations adopting diversity recruitment practices. In this article, attention is dedicated ... -
The Learning Process of a Dragon MNE. How does DingLi learn and utilize acquired knowledge?
(2015-07-10)II Abstract The increased trend of Dragon MNEs investing in Western countries with the main motive of getting access to knowledge have been acknowledged during the last decade. However, a limited amount of research ... -
The Link between Corporate Governance and Firm Performance in the Nordic Countries
(2013-07-02)This study aims to explain the link between corporate governance and firm performance in the Nordic countries. We construct a model for 190 Nordic firms with Tobin’s Q as the dependent variable, Corporate Governance Index ... -
The link between ownership structure and firm performance Evidence from Sweden’s listed companies
(2005)This thesis explores the link between ownership structure and firm performance among Sweden’s listed companies. The data collected for this research is for the period 1999-2003 and the sample consists of 87 companies. ... -
The long-term effects of CAPEX, R&D and acquisition expenditure on stock returns
(2018-07-04)We regress R&D expenditures, CAPEX and the cash-flow of acquisition on a quarterly basis on the stock market excess return of stocks included in the Russel 3000 index. Acquisitions are statistically significant in a model ... -
The Low Risk Anomaly Evidence from Sweden
(2015-07-13)This paper finds that the low risk anomaly is present on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm during January 2005 until December 2014. The result has been produced with a survivorship bias-free sample, consisting of 25 108 firm-month ... -
The Machines are Coming Non-parametric methods and bankruptcy prediction - An artificial neural network approach
(2016-09-09)Prediction of corporates bankruptcies is a topic that has gained more importance in the last two decades. Improvement in data accessibility makes the topic of bankruptcy prediction models a widely studied area. This study ... -
The mainstream effect - A critical study on leadership development
(2019-07-03)This paper critically examines the effect that mainstream leadership ideas have on the leadership development initiatives in a highly technical, engineering dominated, Swedish public sector organisation. Through 28 interviews ... -
The Management of Risks and Crises within MNCs - A case study of Volvo Group and its Business Areas
(2021-06-28)Recent global crises have shed light on the importance of having good risk and supply chain risk management processes in place. Prior research has mainly focused on risk identification and risk management strategies. Few ... -
The Maritime Labour Market - A Study of the Swedish Maritime Labour Market and the Competitive Situation for Swedish Maritime Officers
(2013-07-10)The transition towards a global maritime labour market has led to a reduction in the number of ships flying the Swedish flag, and with it a decreasing number of employment opportunities on the national maritime labour ... -
The market reaction to goodwill impairment announcements - Do investors value information content, tone and opportunistic managerial behavior?
(2019-08-08)What make goodwill impairment announcements especially noteworthy for investors is that fairvalue measurements require managers to make unverifiable estimations due to the absence of quoted market prices, meaning that ... -
THE MARKET'S REACTION TO THE BASEL IV ANNOUNCEMENT
(2020-07-07)Stricter capital requirement for banks is one of the key measures to make the banking system more resilient and eventually counteract financial crises. Established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) ...