Browsing Master theses by Title
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Feedback approaches and knowledge intensity in new ventures
(2017-07-06)New ventures face difficulties as they often lack the market information required to make well-founded decisions. While all new ventures suffer the increased likelihood of failure, feedback could be a technique to minimize ... -
Female Entrepreneurship in China. A comparative study of challenges between female and male entrepreneurs in China
(2015-07-07)1 Abstract This thesis compares challenges faced by female and male entrepreneurs in China. The purpose is to investigate what potential challenges female entrepreneurs face that male entrepreneurs do not face in order ... -
Fetal Malnutrition and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Ethiopia
(2017-07-28)This thesis investigates the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the cognitive development. It accounts for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the expo- sure to the two months of Easter fasting (Lent) ... -
FIDUCIARY DUTY AND ESG CONSIDERATIONS – ARE THEY COMPATIBLE? A case study on institutional investors and their commitment to the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
(2020-07-01)As a response to the issues regarding climate change, several organizations and initiatives are founded to tackle them, such as the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AOA), backed by the United Nations. The explicit goal of ... -
Financial Advice to Consumers. An explorative study regarding the documentation requirements’ impact on the financial advice
(2015-07-13)ABSTRACT During recent years the supply of financial investments has increased. Today saving products and financial services are more complex and difficult to understand for ordinary consumers. This has resulted in a ... -
Financial Characteristics of Firms With High ESG Scores
(2020-07-07)This study investigates the impact of Corporate Financial Performance (CFP) on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) measures. A large part of earlier literature concerns the effect of ESG on CFP. In later years, some ... -
Financial Inclusion in the Age of FinTech: A multiple case study of FinTech companies’ role for financial inclusion in India
(2018-08-02)Today, there exists a global problem of financial exclusion, meaning that over two billion people and 200 million micro, small and medium-sized businesses have limited access, or no access at all, to basic formal financial ... -
The financial performance differences between ESG and Non-ESG Firms in the Nordic Region – A quantitative analysis
(2023-08-10)This thesis presents a rigorous empirical analysis on the relationship between financial performance and ESG scores in Nordic firms from 2017 to 2022. The analysis utilizes fixed effects regression methods with cluster-robust ... -
Financial Rations as Bankruptcy Indicators: The case of Financially Distressed Firms in Sweden
(2009-08-21)Financial distress and corporate bankruptcy has been a common occurrence back into the century and of late has witnessed a multiplier effect in the global market; firms are running short of cash flows to meet up not only ... -
Financial Reporting for Contingent Convertibles in Banks: Liability or Equity?
(2017-08-09)Economic development in the capital markets has led to the creation of financial instruments that have the characteristics of both equity and liability, so-called hybrid financial instruments. IASB is trying to create a ... -
Financial risk management -Case studies with SKF and Elof Hansson
(2001)The increased volatility of international markets generates increased financial risk to the companies. Exchange rate change is one of the financial risks where the increased volatility is reflected to the greatest extent. ... -
Financial Statement Fraud
(2003)Financial reporting frauds and earnings manipulation have attracted high profile attention recently. There have been several cases by businesses of what appears to be financial statement fraud, which have been undetected ... -
Financing small-scale manufacturing firms in Ghana
(2000)The potentials of small-scale manufacturing enterprises in the economic development in Ghana have been recognized. Nonetheless, there are numerous challenges confronting the growth and development of this sector. Among ... -
Finding product-market fit, How do software start-ups approach product-market fit?
(2017-07-06)Title: Finding product-market fit. Background and problem: Software start-ups have a significant positive impact on the global economy, but most of the ventures fail within two years of being founded. The predominant cause ... -
Finding that right balance. A case of two globally merging MNCs’ subsidiaries and their local integration process.
(2017-07-27)Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are popular expansion strategies for multinational corporations (MNCs), and, in recent years, cross-border mergers have become more frequent. The post-merger integration process determines ... -
Finding the right influencer – An exploratory study within the beauty industry
(2019-07-04)Influencing consumers and their decision-makings has long been a marketing practice for companies and a well-researched topic in marketing literature. With the emergence of social media, the scale and practice of influencing ... -
Finnish Olympic Athletes’ Perceptions of Sponsorship and Value Creation – a cross-sectional study on Finnish Olympic athletes’ perceptions of sponsorship and how they create value for their sponsors
(2020-07-22)Sponsorship of athletes is rarely researched from the point of view of the athlete. This thesis, thus, investigates Finnish Olympic athletes’ perceptions of sponsorship and how athletes create value for their sponsors. ... -
FINTECH COMPANIES: INNOVATION, ALGORITHMS AND CUSTOMER CENTRIC PERSPECTIVE - A cross-sectional study on algorithmic trading in the Fintech industry
(2021-07-08)In the last years the financial sector has been subject to many changes, in particular since 2008 financial crisis many customers started to appreciate new digital financial companies, instead of traditional ones, that ... -
Flexible Retailing
(2015-07-13)Abstract This paper examines how flexibility is achieved and is based on a case study on a department at a retail store in Sweden by investigating their process of planning staffing needs. The studied firm schedules in ... -
Follow Me! The Ultimate Quest for Consumer and Brand Interaction in Social Media
(2015-07-08)Abstract In the marketing world, in which social media is becoming a natural part of any company’s or brand’s marketing strategy, it is crucial to stay current on how to reach target groups. Interactions between brand and ...