Browsing Master of Science by Title
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Online Customer Experience: What Factors Influence Loyal Customers in an Online Environment?
(Master thesis, 2018)This study aimed to analyze several aspects with customer experience, and its relationship to Norwegian customers’ e-loyalty. Customer experience is a substantial and comprehensive concept, where we decided to narrow the ... -
Online marketers overstepping their welcome - a study of online behavioral advertising and its influence on perceived invasiveness and brand attitude
(Master thesis, 2019)Online behavioral advertising (OBA), an advertising technique based on consumers’ online personal data, is highly praised by practitioners for its efficiency and solid ability to create value for both the consumer and ... -
Online peer-to-peer lending and its implications for small business credit financing in Norway
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis seeks to explore how the emergence of online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending will impact small businesses lending in Norway. Increasing attention has been drawn to small businesses and their apparent struggle to ... -
Opening the barn doors: Effects of Farm Animal Welfare Disclosure on Perceived Transparency
(Master thesis, 2022)One of the most topical issues of agriculture today is farm animal welfare (FAW). Agricultural corporations struggle to get through the minefield of transparent corporate communication and are regularly subjected to public ... -
Opening the black box of integration capability : a study of capability development processes among Norwegian serial acquirers
(Master thesis, 2017)This paper presents an analysis of how serial acquirers develop dynamic integration capabilities. In this thesis, we applied an inductive approach, analyzing a total of 10 transcribed interviews of Norwegian serial ... -
Operating performance following mergers and acquisitions
(Master thesis, 2023)We investigate the long-term operating performance of corporate mergers and acquisitions of 133 acquiring companies in Norway from year 2000 to 2020. We employ three different methods and four different measures of operating ... -
Optimal Allocation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: A case study of the Norwegian road network
(Master thesis, 2021)Allocating fast charging stations for electric vehicles will be an impor- tant component for ensuring the adoption of electric vehicles. This thesis proposes a framework for ensuring reachability, meaning that all parts ... -
Optimal Capital Structure of Norwegian Dry Bulk Shipping Companies. The effect of the life cycle and development in determining factors.
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis focus on the optimal capital structure of Norwegian dry bulk shipping companies and its determining factors. The research concerns whether the stage of the life cycle of dry bulk shipping companies affects ... -
Optimal Equity Share in the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global in Terms of the Downside Risk
(Master thesis, 2022)Being a sovereign wealth fund (SWF), the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (NGPFG) operates in a political environment and must adapt to several considerations. We address to what extent the combination of equity ... -
Optimal Location of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Norway using the Flow refueling Location Model
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis investigates optimal locations for charging stations across the road network of Norway. To solve this problem, we deploy a flow-refueling location model, which considers the optimal locations based on traffic ... -
Optimal offshore installation of floating wind turbines, using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming with AMPL
(Master thesis, 2022)The demand for renewable energy in Europe is increasing. The largest potential is offshore wind energy where future wind farms consist of floating wind turbines. The wind is stronger at sea and the floating wind turbines ... -
Optimalisering av M&A - Et juridisk strategisk perspektiv
(Master thesis, 2023)Det er forsket mye på fusjoner og oppkjøp (M&A), og det blir hyppig diskutert i forskningslitteraturen om det lønner seg å gjøre en M&A eller ikke. Studier viser at 70 % til 90 % av M&A ikke blir vellykket, men årsaken til ... -
OPTIMISING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES: AUTOFLEX - AN AUTOML APPROACH
(Master thesis, 2023)Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has emerged as a promising solution to tackle the challenges of algorithm selection, hyperparameter optimisation, feature engineering, scalability, and interpretability in ML tasks. This ... -
Optimising Personnel Rostering Through Mixed Integer Linear Programming
(Master thesis, 2023)Personnel planning is an important component of business management. Improved personnel planning can lead to more satisfied employees and decreased personnel costs. This thesis explores how mixed integer linear programming ... -
Optimization of icenet's call centre performance using queuing theory approach
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Optimizing Sports Scheduling: Mathematical and Constraint Programming to Minimize Traveled Distance with Benchmark From The Norwegian Professional Volleyball League
(Master thesis, 2018)In this thesis, we present models to schedule round-robin tournaments. Based on attributes of the 2017/2018 schedule for the Norwegian top volleyball league, the Mizuno League, the models aim to (1) distribute the number ... -
Order flow and the Polish zloty : an empirical investigation
(Master thesis, 2017)This paper analyses price variations in the euro-zloty and dollar-zloty ex- change rates. Drawing from market microstructure, we use order ow|signed buy and sell orders|to model price variations. Our work adds support ... -
Organic products: Consumers' subjective and objective knowledge
(Master thesis, 2018)The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate and examine how consumers’ objective knowledge about organic products in terms of nutrition, environment, and taste, differ based on their preference for and subjective ... -
"Out with the old, in with the new". How does the corporate rebranding of a nationally attached organization influence a consumer's brand perception?
(Master thesis, 2022)Brands are an essential communication tool organisations utilise to develop their relationship with consumers. Some brands attempt to create a strong connection via attachment to nationality using nationally attached ... -
Overcoming the barriers of shopping fresh foods online : An explorative study of the Norwegian online grocery market
(Master thesis, 2022)Online grocery shopping is a rather new phenomenon but has had considerable growth during the last few years. As a result of the pandemic, online grocery shopping had an uplifting trend due to the need for less physical ...