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CEO wealth and company risk : an empirical investigation of relationships between CEO wealth and leverage ratios
(Master thesis, 2013)Capital structure theorists have argued for different determinants of leverage ratios throughout the age of modern corporate finance literature, with thorough empirical evidence of key determinants having surfaced in ... -
CEO Wealth and the Provision of Incentives : an empirical investigation of the determinants of CEO incentives at companies listed on the Oslo stock exchange 1998-2008
(Master thesis, 2010)Agency theory predicts that optimal levels of executive incentives are influenced by a trade-off between achieving CEO-shareholder goal alignment, and paying the CEO a risk premium. Executives with higher wealth levels and ... -
Challenges and approaches of integrating sustainability into the brand positioning : a qualitative research
(Master thesis, 2020)Since sustainability is an important marketing tool nowadays, companies are increasingly paying attention to integrate sustainability into their marketing communication. Across the industries and types of companies, there ... -
Challenges in the Mexican petroleum sector : the Mexican struggle for foreign direct investments
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Change in the game : business model innovation in the video game industry across time
(Master thesis, 2017)Technological innovation has changed business models across multiple industries – retail (Amazon), taxi (Uber), hotel (Airbnb). Through exploratory research, using secondary data, this thesis describes changes that have ... -
Change of Roles and Structures in Ecosystems : An Exploratory Case Study
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates the research question: “Why and how do roles and structures in an ecosystem change as it matures?” The methodological approach chosen to answer this research question is an explorative single case ... -
Changes in cost of living in India – pro-poor or pro-rich?
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Changes in the value relevance of accounting information over time after the transition to IFRS : evidence from Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)We have used a sample of 212 firms, 1640 firm-year observations, listed on Oslo Stock Exchange over the time period 2005-2017 to analyze whether the value relevance of accounting information has increased over time after ... -
Charities and foundations in Norway : a legal and financial framework with focus on the Olav Thon Foundationa
(Master thesis, 2017)This paper seeks to examine the history and usage of charities and foundations in Norway. The number of large foundations has been on the rise, along with the interest in the charitable sector. In its purity a philanthropic ... -
Chatbots for customer service: A quantitative research
(Master thesis, 2021)In this thesis we have investigated the advantages and disadvantages of chatbots for customer service. Chatbots gained popularity because of their potential to partly automate customer service centres. Their success ... -
Childbirth, household labor division and gender equality : evidence from ten European countries
(Master thesis, 2019)As couples transition into parenthood, they can face adjustments in terms of the labor division of standard household tasks. In this thesis, we analyze a selection of ten European countries utilizing a Regression ... -
Children in the beauty contest game : behaviour and determinants of game performance
(Master thesis, 2019)This study investigates the behaviour of children aged 8-11 in a beauty contest game with ten repetitions. We observe that choices convergence towards the unique Nash equilibrium over time. Using data on children’s ... -
China : the next chapter in the Norwegian salmon adventure? : an exploratory study of Norwegian salmon exports to China
(Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of this thesis is to explore and understand Norwegian salmon exporters’ perception of the profitability and the approach to succeed in the Chinese market. We chose to explore this topic due to the special ... -
China catching up in EV-related technologies : evidence from patent quality analysis
(Master thesis, 2019)Developing countries technologically catching up with leading countries within sectoral systems exhibit a set of common patterns, besides a series of case-specific behaviours. The attention that China has increasingly ... -
China’s branding disadvantage : an investigation into China’s need to establish global brands, challenges faced when developing these brands, and alternative strategies available
(Master thesis, 2006)The Chinese firms are producing a major part of the world’s manufactured goods and China is currently the third largest exporting nation in the world. At the same time Chinese firms are only responsible for a minute ... -
China’s pilot carbon trading schemes : assessment and lessons from EU
(Master thesis, 2013)This paper assesses the seven Chinese pilot carbon schemes that will be implemented in late 2013, and relates the most critical and relevant lessons from the European Union’s Emission Trading ... -
Chinese and Norwegian SOEs’ Quest for Oil in Angola : the influence of origins
(Master thesis, 2012)The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility is currently being both researched extensively as well as receiving increasing attention in the global business environment. Due to the exceptional economic growth in China, ... -
Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa : exploitation or value creation?
(Master thesis, 2011)Since the turn of the century Chinese foreign direct investments to developing countries have been growing rapidly and several question regarding these investments have asked. This paper takes a closer look at the available ... -
Circular economy in Norway : a qualitative study of how collaboration across firms, industries and sectors act as an enabler of a circular economy in Norway
(Master thesis, 2016-09-02)Volatile resource prices, supply disruptions, economic losses and environmental strain has lead researchers and businesses to seek for an alternative to the linear production model. Circular economy has risen as a ... -
Clean spark spread : Correlation, integration and long-run relationships between electricity, natural gas and CO2 allowances prices. An empirical study on the markets in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
(Master thesis, 2012)In this master thesis we study and explore the relationship between the clean spark spread commodities; electricity, natural gas and CO2 allowances prices in Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. The time period for the ...