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M&A on Scandinavian market : evidence of factors for shareholder value creation from acquirer's perspective
(Master thesis, 2017)The purpose of this study is comprehensive analysis of drivers of M&A performance by bidders executing acquisitions in Nordic region. Considering mixed results on acquiring companies’ value creation for shareholders in ... -
Maarud Prosjektgull
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Fører 80 års erfaring med prosjektarbeid automatisk til en høy grad av prosjektmodenhet? Vi har gjennom vår prosjektoppgave forsket på prosjektmodenheten i Maarud. Dette har vi gjort ved hjelp av vår hovedmodell «Project ... -
Machine Learning: Superior to Traditional Statistical Models in Forecasting Macroeconomic Time-Series?
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates machine learning's potential to forecast the Norwegian GDP, unemployment rate, and in ation on monthly or quarterly, and annual terms. We compare machine learning techniques such as penalised ... -
Macroeconomic Drivers for M&A Activity: Evidence from Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)This paper investigates whether certain quantitative macroeconomic factors are drivers for takeover activity in Norway, and if so, what effects these variables have on the number of takeovers. Three macroeconomic variables ... -
Macroeconomic Forecasting with Large Stochastic Volatility in Mean VARs
(CAMP Working Paper Series;04/2021, Working paper, 2021-06-15)Vector autoregressions with stochastic volatility in both the conditional mean and variance are commonly used to estimate the macroeconomic effects of uncertainty shocks. Despite their popularity, intensive computational ... -
Macroeconomic risk and stock market anomalies in Norway
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Macroeconomic variables and their association to stock market returns in sub-Saharan Africa
(Master thesis, 2017)The thesis examines the relationship between stock market returns and macroeconomic variables in seventeen countries that are included in the IMF’s definition of Sub-Saharan Africa. The study is conducted using a ... -
Macroeconomics in the time of the Corona
(CAMP Working Paper Series;04/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)For a developed market economies, the corona crisis is a new type of crisis, but this crisis has parallels to economies at other times, and to crises at other places. We discuss some mechanisms from the traditional macro ... -
“Make it or break it during a pandemic”. The role of Transformational Leadership, employee Growth Mindset, Change Readiness and Stress during rapid changes such as a pandemic (COVID-19).
(Master thesis, 2020)This study seeks to explore the relationship between transformational leadership and employee’s readiness towards change, and the moderating effect of employee growth mindset. Furthermore, this study aims to look at the ... -
Making Knowledge Management Research more Scientific, Relevant, and Engaged: A Comparative Study of Academic ECKM Papers.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose is to analyse and compare all the academic papers in the proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) in 2017 (Barcelona), 2018 (Padua), 2019 (Lisbon), and the digital conference in ... -
Making Knowledge Management Research more Scientific, Relevant, and Engaged: A Comparative Study of Academic ECKM Papers.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose is to analyse and compare all the academic papers in the proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) in 2017 (Barcelona), 2018 (Padua), 2019 (Lisbon), and the digital conference in ... -
Making managers: a fresh look
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several ... -
Making sense of algorithmic profiling: User perceptions on Facebook
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Algorithmic profiling has become increasingly prevalent in many social fields and practices, including finance, marketing, law, cultural consumption and production, and social engagement. Although researchers have begun ... -
Management challenges in law enforcement: the case of police misconduct and crime
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study police crime, which is defined as crime committed by police employees on duty. Methods: Based on an empirical study of all police court crime cases in Norway for the last ... -
Management compensation and market timing under portfolio constraints
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This paper shows that portfolio constraints have important implications for manage- ment compensation and performance evaluation. In particular, in the presence of portfolio constraints, allowing for benchmarking can be ... -
Management position as determinant of leadership roles in police districts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The job of a manager consists of several parallel roles. A manager may perceive one role as more important than other roles. The goal of this paper is to present results from a survey of police managers in Norway on ... -
Managerial action and behaviors that are supportive for knowledge sharing by employees
(Master thesis, 2017)With a changing global environment, there is an increased need for organizations to be able to efficiently and effectively share and use knowledge resources that exists within the firm, to achieve and sustain a competitive ... -
Managerial attention to exploitation versus exploration: toward a dynamic perspective on ambidexterity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Managerial attention to exploitation and exploration has a strong influence on organizational performance. However, there is hardly any knowledge about whether senior managers need to adjust their distribution of attention ... -
Managerial Capabilities Development of Local Chinese Firms Through Forming IJVs with Foreign MNC Partners
(Master thesis, 2019)The objective of this study is to advance an empirical framework pertaining to interorganizational learning mechanisms through international joint ventures (IJVs) in emerging markets, particularly in China. This study ... -
Managerial Overconfidence and the Buyback Anomaly
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)While positive, long-run abnormal returns following share repurchase announcements are substantially lower when CEOs are overconfident. This effect is particularly strong for (i) difficult to value firms, such as small, ...