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A survey and analysis of outsourcing in East China
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-05)The aim of this study is to investigate whether outsourcing activities in east china are associated with a theoretical framework derived from the literature. By the methodology of Statistics Package for the Social Science ... -
A Survey Experiment on Future Knowledge Workers : Consequences of Falsely Promising a People-Centric Workplace : Employee Preferences and Concerns About Employer Brand Integrity: A Study of Future Knowledge Workers
(Master thesis, 2021)Decades of empirical research has documented that job satisfaction and employee engagement are important factors at the workplace, which in turn are positively associated with organizational performance. In short, organizations ... -
Survival of the Fittest? An empirical analysis of spillover effects following M&A announcements in the Norwegian stock market
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis aims to add to the difficult issue of announcement returns in rivals of acquisition targets. As existing M&A literature has predominantly focused on the acquirer, the target, and the merged entity, much remains ... -
Survival, short-term and long-term performance of strategic alliances
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)Can we predict which alliances that will terminate, and which alliances that will be successful over time? This is the core research question raised in this paper. By reviewing transaction cost economics, the resource-based ... -
The survivor principle meets corporate diversification
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Sustainability and Online Food Delivery Services in Norway: Does sustainability play a role in influencing the behavioural intention for the Platform-to- Consumer Online Food Delivery Services in Norway for young generations?
(Master thesis, 2022)In recent years, the over OFDs industry is overwhelming and at the same time, it has caused quite a lot of environmental and societal challenges. Based on studies, Millennials and Generation Z are the most motivated to ... -
Sustainability disclosure and performance : an empirical study of U.S. petroleum corporations
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis investigates if some of the largest U.S. petroleum companies’ written disclosure regarding sustainability is correlated with their sustainability performance. We measure the companies’ written disclosure with ... -
Sustainability disclosure and stock returns : a study of firm 10-K sustainability disclosure and stuck returns in the period 1994-2017.
(Master thesis, 2019)I utilize a keyword matching technique for comparing sustainability disclosure levels among publicly listed U.S. firms. By computerized parsing of the 10-K form, filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, I ... -
Sustainability enforcement : a qualitative study into the drivers and barriers of sustainable value creation : a Norwegian salmon farming context
(Master thesis, 2021)As the salmon farming industry is expected to increase production fivefold by 2050, it is pertinent to explore how the firms in the industry manage their business operations. The purpose of this Master Thesis is to examine ... -
Sustainability in times of crisis : an empirical look into the relationship between financial and CSR performance during times of crises
(Master thesis, 2020)From Financial Crisis to Environmental Disasters to protests, corporations are facing numerous crisis that they must navigate through. As a result, corporations may find it hard to justify the need to invest into sustainable ... -
Sustainability Initiatives: Solution or Decoupling Tool? A Natural Resource-Based View on Sustainability and Financial Performance Effects of Membership in the UN Global Compact
(Master thesis, 2022)In absence of uniform global regulation for corporate sustainability conduct, initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) are being established to promote voluntary ESG efforts. Although the UNGC claims ... -
The Sustainability Liability Effect : How Consumers May Choose the Regular Product Instead of the Sustainable One
(Master thesis, 2021)This paper evaluates the potential problem of consumers believing that sustainable products with strength-related attributes are less effective compared to the competing non-sustainable products, also known as the ... -
Sustainability reporting within the shipping industry - An exploratory study of the ten largest container shipping companies
(Master thesis, 2015)The shipping industry is one of the driving forces of the global economy, and sustainability issues are of key importance to the future of our world. Therefore, this thesis will combine them and look at ... -
Sustainability-Linked Debt in Shipping : A study on the effects of SLD on shipowners’ cost of capital
(Master thesis, 2023)This study analyzes whether issuing sustainability-linked debt (SLD) reduces shipowners’ cost of capital. In light of the existing research on green bonds indicating increased investor appetite for sustainability, along ... -
The Sustainable Development Goals in Norway : What motivates large Norwegian companies to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals, and how are the goals prioritised?
(Master thesis, 2021)The increasing engagement of businesses with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) presents a shift in the role the private sector has in the global sustainable development agenda. The purpose of this thesis is to explore ... -
Sustainable food consumption in Latin America : how to meet the sustainable development goals
(Master thesis, 2020)This study first examines existing literature on agricultural consumption and production and how sustainability can be driven by consumer behavior. The thesis also explains the main differences between plant and animal-based ... -
Sustainable investment : factors influencing the adoption of a sustainable investment strategy : examining how different factors influence the adoption of sustainable investment strategies.
(Master thesis, 2021)With the growth of ESG investing across the finance industry, this paper seeks to explore how different factors influence the adoption of a sustainable investment strategy, with a predominant focus on large asset managers. ... -
Sustainable investment flows during crisis periods : Effects of Russian-Ukrainian war on SRI flows
(Master thesis, 2023)The thesis focuses on political and military crises, specifically the Russian-Ukrainian war, to research the war’s effect on monetary Net Flow in European mutual funds. We found that there are statistically significant ... -
Sustainable products and conceptual processing fluency: Investigating dynamics among implicit attitudes, explicit attitudes, and buying intent for sustainable products through priming paradigm
(Master thesis, 2021)In today’s information-dense environment, people struggle to filter through the abundance of content from social media, emails, newsletters, and advertisements, while companies battle for the slightest chance of getting ... -
Sustainable recursive social welfare functions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)What ethical criterion for intergenerational justice should be adopted, e.g., when faced with the task of managing the global environment? Koopmans’ axiomatization of discounted utilitarianism is based on seemingly compelling ...