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Excess Cash holdings and Acquisitions: A study on Nordic firms
(2020-07-08)
By adapting a well-recognized model for estimating normal cash holdings, this study examines if Nordic public firms with excess cash have a higher likelihood of performing acquisitions. Given that firms have access to ...
Mitigating Uncertainty by Including the Customer in the Fuzzy Front-End of Innovation - A comparative multiple-case study of Polestar and On to identify successful customer collaboration
(2021-07-06)
The fuzzy front-end (FFE) is the first phase of new product development which is associated
with high levels of uncertainty. Mitigating uncertainty is a key factor to enable successful
innovation. With the inclusion of ...
THE SHIFT TOWARD ELECTRIFICATION IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY - A Scenario Analysis Investigating What Sourcing Mode for Lithium-Ion Battery Cells Original Equipment Manufacturers Can Take to Meet Future Demand in The United States
(2020-07-22)
The automotive industry is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and has
consequently commenced its transition toward producing more sustainable vehicles. Electric vehicles
are contributing to sustainable ...
Understanding customer experience and repurchase intention in live streaming shopping: An empirical study in China
(2021-07-02)
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify the influential factors of customer experience
within live streaming shopping, and their impact on customer satisfaction and repurchase
intention. Moreover, the relationships ...
Open Minded Innovation: A Case Study on Crowdsourcing for Social Innovation
(2020-07-22)
This master’s thesis explores how crowdsourcing and, in particular, crowdsourcing contests
can be utilized for the advancement of social innovation. Crowdsourcing contests are growing
in popularity as a means for generating ...
Discussion of the gift-giving behavior in rural and urban area respectively: Empirical evidence in China
(2020-07-10)
Sending gifts in specific festivals and events is a universal phenomenon. One major concern is the motivations behind the sizable and significant gift expenses. The purpose of this research is to compare the gift-giving ...
Automation of Stores - A case study about using unmanned vehicles at IKEA
(2021-07-08)
Background and Problem Discussion: Industry 4.0 changes business climates and
the value creation for companies, rendering some processes obsolete when new requirements
are being placed on operational efficiency and ...
What happens in expatriation, stays in expatriation - A study of how absorptive capacity enables organizational learning from repatriate knowledge
(2020-06-29)
In today’s globalized and knowledge driven business landscape, many MNCs make heavy
investments in sending international assignees to transfer intra-firm knowledge between
organizational units. Though, high turnover rates ...
Inter-organizational collaboration projects between public organizations: a site of coexisting simultaneously performed boundary work
(2020-06-22)
This study investigates how public organizations engage in inter-organizational collaboration projects, what is done in practice within such collaborations and how this affects boundaries and boundary work performed between ...
Momentum and Trend in Sweden: Enhancing profits and limiting downside risk by using indicators from different time horizons
(2020-07-07)
Although being one of the most robust anomalies ever discovered, the momentum factor occasionally suffer big losses during market recessions periods. We apply and compare different factor models, and find that when sorting ...