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How Does a Firm’s Focus on ESG Factors Affect its Cost of Debt? Investigating Regional and Industry level ESG Materiality Factors and their Effect on Firm Cost of Debt.
(Master thesis, 2022)As ESG risk and ESG materiality concepts become increasingly important to firm and lender-level decision making, our paper aims to investigate the dynamic factors affecting industry and regional-level materiality. Our ... -
How does external technology sourcing affect internal R&D investments?
(Master thesis, 2011)This thesis examines the relationship between internal R&D and external R&D contracting, as well as internal R&D and R&D collaboration for a comprehensive panel of Norwegian firms. Special emphasis is put on multinational ... -
“How does the degree of sustainability improvements affect consumers’ perception of the company’s trustworthiness, and does it depend on the company’s reputation for sustainability?” : a moderated mediation of the degree of perceived sustainability improments, percieved innovativeness and perceived trustworthiness.
(Master thesis, 2020)In this research, we investigate how the degree of sustainability improvements implemented by companies, affect whether they are perceived as trustworthy by consumers, and if this effect depends on the company’s reputation ... -
How does the value of corporate cash holdings depend on corporate governance? : a cross-country analysis
(Master thesis, 2013)The objective of this thesis is to quantitatively test how corporate governance influences the value of corporate cash holdings. More specifically, we examine whether valuation of corporate cash holdings is consistent with ... -
How efficient is Vinmonopolet’s pricing policy? : a structural estimation of the Norwegian wine auctions
(Master thesis, 2019)This paper uses an empirical approach to investigate how Vinmonopolet’s current pricing policy affects their electronic wine auctions by looking at how the binding reserve price affects the auction outcomes and how the ... -
How financial constraints affect cash holdings : evidence from Norwegian firms
(Master thesis, 2015)This paper examines the cash holding and how it is determined by financial constraints of corporate Norway using a comprehensive dataset that covers both private and public firms from 1995 to 2012. I find that aggregate ... -
How green are we thinking : the influence of levels of processing on consumers evaluations of green products
(Master thesis, 2019)As a result of a growing wave of more environmental awareness and a rise in environmental concerns, companies have started to incorporate green marketing strategies to meet consumers demands and expectations for sustainable ... -
How has IT impacted the B2B sales process?
(Master thesis, 2017)B2B sales role plays a major role in driving the economy, and this industry has been experiencing major changes over the year with the advances in technology which allow for more cost savings and driving for more efficient ... -
How has the changing demand for downloadable music influenced the strategic business models of firms?
(Master thesis, 2009)The purpose of this thesis is to identify the new strategic business models that companies use in the changing competitive landscape of the music market. Companies that develop and distribute physical music formats, such ... -
How has the EU ship recycling regulation affected European shipbreaking?
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How has the Russia-Ukraine conflict “Pushed” or “Pulled” Renewable Energy Deployment in the EU? A qualitative study focusing on mapping the EUs renewable energy landscape in the light of the consequences from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
(Master thesis, 2023)In this thesis, we have conducted a qualitative study to investigate how consequences from - and the subsequent responses to - the Russia-Ukraine conflict have impacted key areas and factors that influence the renewable ... -
How Leadership Dynamics Differs in High- and Low- Performing Firms in a Sustainable Innovation Context : A Qualitative Case Study from the Health Tech Sector
(Master thesis, 2022)Leadership is essential to achieving sustainable innovation, yet research to date on innovation tends to focus on individual leaders, while innovation leadership appears to be a collective and dynamic process. While ... -
How public bodies deal with technological uncertainty over time : An exploratory analysis through dynamic capabilities lenses
(Master thesis, 2021)The public actors are not exempt by the technological uncertainty, which increasingly affects both the private and public sector. Public organizations, and private actors, handle such uncertainty by deploying dynamic ... -
How should Norwegians prepare for doing business with Japan?
(Master thesis, 2006)This thesis examines the differences between Norwegian and Japanese culture, and how these differences might impact business relations between companies from the two countries. We also look at the language barrier as a ... -
How suitable is the Fama-French ve-factor model for describing German and Norwegian stock returns?
(Master thesis, 2016)In this thesis we investigate the suitability of the Fama and French (2015a) ve-factor model for describing German and Norwegian average monthly stock returns in the period from 1991 to 2015. We do this by estimating ... -
How the "open innovation" concept might be used to improve profitability in the service industry
(Master thesis, 2012)Innovation drives economic growth and profitability. History reveals that innovation leading to technological advances occurs when knowledge is shared. Research shows that some innovative companies that produce goods have ... -
How the European Union’s renewable energy directives impact the global energy industry : evidence from global stock markets
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis investigates the impact of renewable energy regulations imposed by the European Union on the energy industry. By employing an event study methodology on three directives dating from 2007 to 2018; The Renewable ... -
How the Lab meets the Field in the midst of Young Entrepreneurs : A study of how experimental evidence on entrepreneurial traits materialise in real life
(Master thesis, 2014)Researchers finding answers to economic questions have in the last decades increasingly been using experimental methods to do so. The link between the laboratory evidence and how this is extrapolated to the outside world ... -
How to become a Food Waste-Fighter?: An exploratory study into food waste-reducing business practices in the food service industry.
(Master thesis, 2016)By the end of this century, global food production must increase by 70 per cent to feed the world’s growing population. Currently, we waste one-third of all food produced for human consumption. This is major problem, ... -
How to build and measure brand equity in a B2B context
(Master thesis, 2012)Little research has been conducted on Business to business (B2B) marketing compared to the significant amount of research conducted on Business to consumer (B2C) marketing. This master’s thesis is intended to aid B2B ...