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Back to the Water? Commercial Feasibility of UrbanWaterway Transportation in Gothenburg

Horvath, Oliver; Wu, Tommy (2017-06-29)

Urban freight transport is vital in sustaining urban economies and life, since it carries the required goods and the generated waste in cities. Meanwhile, it also has several negative external impacts, which are considerably ...

Backtesting the Magic Formula in the Brazilian Stock Market

Gunnar Juliao de Paula, Alexander (2016-10-06)

This thesis performs a backtest of the Magic Formula for the Brazilian stock market in the period between 2006 and 2015. The Magic Formula methodology is a stock picking strategy that combines Return on Capital and ...

Balancing relationship between academia and business community in terms of soft skills supply and demand in the labour market

Reznikova, Anastasiia (2021-06-29)

The interplay between the different logics and possibility of their balancing is of great interest and these issues have been extensively studied. Such actors as academia and the business community follow different ...

Balancing Standardization and Flexibility The role of an IT-system in three organizations

Jonsson, Kristin; Gren Winther, Towe (2017-07-05)

The use of customized technologies has increased moving from using standardized modules towards capturing local variations affecting the role of IT-systems in contemporary society. This trend identified in both research ...

Balancing Structure and Flexibility in the Project Process - A Case Study of Project Management at Where Is My Pony

Byström, Julia; Ficks, Malin (2021-07-07)

The practice of project management has been used by organizations for many years and different philosophies have emerged. Among the philosophies is both traditional and modern project management as well as project ...

Bank capital and liquidity creation. An empirical study of the Scandinavian Banks

Shah, Awais; Lahiani, Said (2018-07-04)

Little is known about the impact of capital regulation on the liquidity creation capabilities of Scandinavian banks. This thesis attempts to examine the relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation based on ...

Banking merger 2000

G. Marinina, Rossi; Chen, Li (2000)

This paper deals with the issue of mergers and acquisitions in banking. It views the issue of M&A in the light of the current wave of strategic restructuring ushered by the integration of the European market, and presents ...

Barriers and Enablers for a Startup Introducing a Circular Business Model in the Swedish Food-Waste Segment

Gregorn Hall, Edvin; Olsson, Daniel

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important both to consumers and to organizations. However, unsustainable practices within food production persist, and through that, large amounts of food are wasted. Controversially, ...

Barriers to career progression for women in the automotive industry -A qualitative study of how gendered substructures affect women’s opportunities for career advancement in an automotive MNC.

Kjellsson, Johanna (2017-07-27)

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to identify possible barriers to career progression as perceived by female employees of senior positions in an automotive MNC by using the concept of gendered substructures as a theoretical ...

Barriers to Employee Involvement in Incremental Innovation at the Swedish Public Healthcare Organizations

Knutsson, Erik; Lurie, Isak (2021-07-09)

Background and purpose: As public organizations are politically governed, the organizations have traditionally been managed from a top-down perspective. Since knowledge intensive organizations have realized employees are ...

Basel III and the Latest Requirements on Liquidity Risk Reporting

Månsson, Maria; Rådström, Johanna (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 ...

Bear Periods Amplify Correlation: A GARCH BEKK Approach

Rafiq Maniya, Suleman; Magnusson, Fredrik (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

Norstedt, Amanda; Karlsson, Hilda (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

Gnutek, Dennis (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

Ericsson, Josefine; Rudeke, Jacqueline (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.

Saunders, Nicholas (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 ...