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Earnings announcements and Intraday Volatility -a study of Nasdaq OMX Stockholm
(2014-07-23)
In this study, we investigate how the trading and its corresponding volatility appear after the release of financial reports. The focus is whether financial reports released on trading time appears to have a higher volatility ...
The Degree of Overconfidence - Examining finance and non-finance oriented business students
(2014-07-23)
We examine the degree of overconfidence among finance and non-finance oriented business students, taking into account all the three overconfidence types; overprecision, overestimation and overplacement. We first investigate ...
Can Venture Capitalists in Biotechnology Time the Market?
(2014-12-15)
This paper investigates the ability of venture capitalists to time market conditions when deciding between public and private financings as well as issuance of follow-on offerings, focusing on a segment of the U.S. ...
An Evaluation of Alternative Energies or fuels for Future Deep Sea Container Shipping
(2014-12-11)
Concerning the container shipping industry, two problems have been raised in recent years. One is the increasing bunker price and the other is more and more serious environmental problem. There have been some solutions for ...
The Modern Role of Trading Companies
(2014-12-12)
The evolving nature of trade in intermediate goods and services, developing into fragmented and internationally dispersed value chains has changed the need for high end-services, putting more pressure on service providers ...
Opportunity Identification from a Prior Knowledge Perspective. The influences of prior knowledge in practice
(2014-12-15)
This thesis looks at opportunity identification from a prior knowledge perspective. Prior research suggests that prior knowledge influences an individual’s ability to identify opportunities. The main purpose of this multiple ...
A Case Study: What Impacts the Fuzzy Front End?
(2014-12-15)
Research show that it is early in the innovation process that organizations have the largest possibility to have an impact on the idea, and this impact is the least expensive during the early phase of the innovation process. ...
The Impact of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme on Country-Level Competition in the International Rough Diamond Market
(2014-07-22)
The Kimberley Process, a policy to curb conflict diamonds from reaching international markets, has now been implemented for more than ten years. Amidst discussions to change or make additions to the existing conflict diamond ...
Towards Understanding Strategic innovation in Small & Entrepreneurial Clean Technology firms. Exploring capacity, arenas and outcomes
(2014-12-15)
Background and problem: The realities of our knowledge-based society have dramatically changed the prerequisites for business strategy and competition. Today, Strategic Innovation (SI), i.e. the ability to radically change ...
Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Strategy-How headquarters-subsidiary dynamics shape the integration across locally embedded subsidiaries
(2014-12-12)
Environmental sustainability has gained increased attention among corporations and stake-holders. Recently, proactive companies have started to integrate environmental sustainability into strategy by accumulating products ...