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Facilitating early stage internationalization through knowledge sharing. Venture capital firm's influence on new venture internationalization
(2016-10-14)When venture capital firms invest in new ventures the objective is to ensure high returns on the investment made by fuelling new ventures to grow and become considerable actors on the international market. The role of ... -
Facilitating faster knowledge transfer in the MNC: A case study of Volvo Car Corporation’s matched pairs system in Shanghai
(2012-07-11)Internal transfer of knowledge is critical for firms’ survival, particularly in highly competitive markets where successful firms are those that rapidly transfer knowledge internally. Although knowledge transfer has been ... -
Facilitating internationalization through business models - A multiple case study of Swedish Cleantech SMEs
(2022-07-05)Globalization has seen an increase in the last decades and has increased the need for sustainable development and sustainable technologies in light of energy shortages. Cleantech is the definition of innovations reducing ... -
Factor Investing and ESG Integration in Regime-switching Models- An Empirical Study on ESG Factor Integration Using Infinite Hidden Markov Models
(2022-06-29)ESG investing is an active area of interest, both for the investment and academic communities. However, research is inconclusive on the financial benefits of integrating ESG factors in portfolio construction. In this ... -
Factors Affecting Supply Chain Management Efficiency in Cross Border Outsourcing - A case study of H&M and it´s Outsourcing Operations in Bangladesh
(2010-11-04)Background: Outsourcing has been emerged as an important business and economic strategy for achieving competitive advantage to multinational companies these days. The comparative advantages of different countries and ... -
Factors Influencing Consumers’ Purchase Intention of Co-branded Products with Eco-labels
(2020-06-25)Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that influence consumers’ purchase intention of co-branded products with eco-labels in the clothing industry and to what extent these factors affect consumers’ ... -
Factors influencing effective safety stock dimensioning in inventory management - A case study within the automotive industry
(2023-07-03)Poor inventory management affects many companies today which has a negative impact on both company profits and the level of customer service provided. A critical aspect of inventory management involves maintaining a ... -
‘Fail Fast, Start Over’ The improvisational mindset substituting for formal strategies
(2016-09-20)In contemporary volatile organizations, formal strategies are argued no longer deemed sufficient in dealing with an ever-changing environment. In this article, it is being investigated how organizing unfolds in a turbulent ... -
Fake It Until You Make It - Implementing agility in three established organizations
(2019-07-03)Agile working methods have gained attention in the last couple of years to meet the changing demands of the market. Previous research has, however, found that the process of implementing agility in established organizations ... -
Family-owned SMEs: Role models of crisis management A case study of how the practice of crisis management has been performed by nine Swedish family-owned SMEs during the Covid-19 pandemic
(2022-06-23)Despite SMEs accounting for 99,9% of all registered firms in Sweden and that non-listed family-owned firms outperform their counterparts during crises, previous studies have neglected the field, resulting in an undiscovered ... -
Farmers not Farming? An empirical study of the elimination of the mandatory set-aside policy in the EU.
(2017-07-28)This thesis evaluates European farmers which were subject to mandatory set-aside entitlements for many years. Mandatory set-aside of land, required farmers to leave arable land out of production to be eligible for subsidies. ... -
Feasibility of Increasing Major Airlines’ Hub Connectivity through Electric Aircrafts
(2023-07-03)In a constantly developing European economy, people are also starting to grow their sustainability consciousness. As a result, European citizens are accordingly adapting their lifestyle to a more environmentally friendly ... -
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 ...