Browsing Master of Science by Title
Now showing items 1361-1380 of 1684
-
Tailoring the Consumer Connection: The Role of Personalized Packaging and Gender in Influencing FMCG Purchase Intentions Across Product Categories
(Master thesis, 2023)Inspired by the increased use of personalized packaging as a marketing tool within the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market, this thesis examines the impact of personalized packaging communication on consumer purchase ... -
Taking advantage of mutual synergies: A multiple case-study of CVCs and High-Growth Start-ups
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis explores how Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) firms and high-growth start-ups cooperate to attain mutual synergies. Specifically, how start-ups become scale-ups, and corporations obtain competitive advantages ... -
Talking the talk : an empirical investigation into the economic effects of strategy disclosure
(Master thesis, 2017)What is the economic value of strategy? Although the extant literature in strategic management has explored many different theories of the firm, the research field has centered on an underlying consensus that strategy ... -
Target Firms of SPACs – Are They Set up to Fail? An empirical study of firms’ features and their unconventional choice of merging with a SPAC
(Master thesis, 2022)We study the determinants of why target firms choose to merge with SPACs, despite severe underperformance for the common stocks. The SPAC asset class has experienced extraordinary growth in the latest years, suggesting ... -
Task characteristics as a mediator of the LMX-OCB relationship
(Master thesis, 2013-02-06)The current study investigated the extent to which certain characteristics with job tasks mediate the relationship between leader-member-exchange (LMX) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Data were collected ... -
Tax Avoidance Predictions: CETR and Social Network Synergy
(Master thesis, 2024)This study aims to address the challenge of detecting tax avoidance by developing a robust predictive model that integrates social network characteristics with financial metrics. Utilizing the Cash Effective Tax Rate (CETR) ... -
Tax holidays og lavskattlandvurderingen
(Master thesis, 2019)Lavskattland ble først introdusert i norsk skatterett i forbindelse med skattlegging av norsk-kontrollerte utenlandske selskaper hjemmehørende i lavskattland. Reglene som omhandler beskatning av deltakere i slike selskaper ... -
Teacher quality and high school completion : Evidence from Norwegian register data
(Master thesis, 2017)Students assigned to high value-added teachers benefit in the long term. They are more likely to attend college, get higher income, and less likely to have children as teenagers (Chetty, Friedman, & Rockoff, 2011). ... -
Technology Diffusion in Multi-Layered Markets: Networks of Interactions in Telecommunications
(Master thesis, 2020)Telecommunications operators function in complex, multi-layered environments of actors, who interdependently co-create value. This study examines telecommunications operators’ efforts to diffuse 5G-technology through ... -
Temporary Employment Legislation and Capital Structure
(Master thesis, 2016)In this paper, we examine the effect of changes in temporary employment legislation on leverage for Norwegian firms in the period 1997-2013. Adopting a difference-indifferences research design, in which we use labor ... -
Testing for predictive power of price/rent ratio for determining house prices in OECD countries
(Master thesis, 2018)We study the predictability of price and rent changes by rent-to-price ratio for 20 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2017. To investigate the relationship we used Vector Error-Correction Model (VECM) and ... -
Testing the Efficiency of the Housing Market in Oslo and Stavanger
(Master thesis, 2016)Our research tests the efficiency hypothesis on data from the housing market in Oslo and Stavanger, covering the period 2002-2014. We utilize the Case-Shiller time structure test on a repeated sales house price index and ... -
The Announcement Effect of Shareholder Activism: Evidence from the Government Pension Fund Global
(Master thesis, 2019)In this thesis, we study the effects of shareholder activism announcement on company stock returns. We focus on an announcement in the Government Pension Fund Global, on the 23rd of November 2004. We perform an event ... -
The application of blockchain technology for supply chain visibility - A case study of the fish farming industry
(Master thesis, 2019)The fish farming industry is one of the fastest growing industries in Norway, and is stated to be the “new oil” and one of the most important industries for the future. Blockchain is one of the biggest buzzwords in the ... -
The application of EBITDA for performance measurement, and factors influencing it
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis is based on firm observations from Oslo Børs in the period from 2011 to 2015, and studies the use of EBITDA in the firms’ annual reports and if there are any factors influencing this use. We apply the modified ... -
The Arousing Effect in Decision Making: A Distinction Between Valence and Arousal in the Measurement of Emotional Awareness and Cognitive Processing
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis examines the effects of emotional awareness on cognitive processing in a subsequent decision making case. We assert that emotional awareness has valuable implications for mental health and well being, but ... -
The beneficial ownership report : stock returns and shareholder activism
(Master thesis, 2014-09-05)In this thesis we study the association between large investors that file SC 13D forms and stock returns. We analyse shareholder activism by studying Schedule 13D filings and differentiate between active and passive investors ... -
The beta anomaly and the conditional capm in the Norwegian stock market
(Master thesis, 2017)In this Master thesis, we investigate the relation between systematic risk and returns in the Norwegian Stock Market between 1986-2014. In an efficient market, market participants realize above average returns only by ... -
The big five factors and faking behaviors in employment interviews
(Master thesis, 2017)Research shows how it is not unusual for job applicants to fake during employment interviews. Faking can deteriorate the quality of the interview result, and lead to wrong hiring decisions. According to the model of ... -
The Black-Litterman Model : An Application on the Norwegian Stock Market
(Master thesis, 2016)In this thesis we apply the Black-Litterman model on the Norwegian stock market using historical price data in the period of 2004 to 2015. A wide collection of analyst recommendations was used to determine views to feed ...