Browsing Master of Science by Title
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Transferring trust between projects in inter-organisational relations – A case study in the Norwegian construction industry
(Master thesis, 2021)Abstract This thesis sets forth to provide a more nuanced and rich understanding of the trust transfer concept. Based on secondary data and semi-structured interviews with 28 participants from a repeat collaboration ... -
Transformational leadership, justice perceptions and follower outcomes.
(Master thesis, 2017)This study examined the association between transformational leadership and follower outcomes as followers’ performance and loyalty, mediated through interactional justice. A cross-sectional research design was conducted, ... -
Transforming Disablers into Enablers: Unleashing the Potential of Sustainability Engagement
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis explores the critical role of leadership in driving sustainable engagement within a conservative industry organization. Specifically, it identifies the organizations disablers and enablers, and investigates ... -
Transparency and Impression Management Strategies in Sustainability- and Annual Reports
(Master thesis, 2021)This study applies methods to detect impression management strategies from the studies of Hahn and Lülfs (2013), Sandberg and Holmlund (2014) and Talbot and Boiral (2015) in order to critically assess transparency, and ... -
Transparency in Global Energy Supply Chains
(Master thesis, 2022)Research on transparency in global supply chains has increased in recent years due to enhanced emphasis on sustainability, global dependencies, and supply chain disruptions illustrated through the Covid-19 pandemic and ... -
Transportation lot sizing in the cement industry
(Master thesis, 2012-04-26)In this thesis a mathematical formulation of a new transportation lot sizing model is presented. The model is developed in three separate steps, starting with the development of a single level capacitated multi-terminal ... -
Trash Tall!: Unraveling Emotional Responses and Behavioral Rationalizations in the wake of Contradicting Evidence
(Master thesis, 2023)This study serves as a contribution to the green marketing paradigm, specifically under research about promotion of sustainable behaviors such as recycling of household waste. For the past decades, recycling has ... -
Treasury Bond Auctions: Repurchase Agreements and Bidding Behavior
(Master thesis, 2022)We investigate bidding behavior and auction performance in Norwegian treasury bond auctions. We test theoretical predictions of bidding behavior introduced by Back and Zender (1993) and Kyle (1989). The models help ... -
Trend in Cash Holdings. A Study of Industrial Firms in U.S.
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis examines the trend in cash holdings among industrial firms in the United States, building upon the research of Bates et al. (2009) by analyzing a more recent sample period from 1980 to 2020. The study ... -
The Trend of Value Premium and the Predictive Role of Uncertainty Measures in Strategic Asset Allocation
(Master thesis, 2024)This thesis examines the presence of a Value Premium in the US market, and if it has gone down in the second half of the time period from 1963 to 2019. Furthermore, we study the potential predictive power of uncertainty ... -
TREND VS. MOMENTUM IN THE NORDICS IN THE COVID-19 ERA
(Master thesis, 2023)In this thesis, we test the Quantitative Momentum Strategy (QMS) and Trend- Following Simple Moving Average (SMA) Strategy in five different Nordic markets during the COVID-19 era. Four markets consist of the 100 largest ... -
- Trump Tweets’ impact on financial returns -
(Master thesis, 2020)In this study, we investigate whether U.S. President, Donald Trump’s Twitter sentiment and activity affect financial markets. By employing the event study methodology, we provide strong empirical evidence that our small-cap ... -
Trust and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Master thesis, 2023)Our paper explores the intricate relationship between trust and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We aim to answer the research question: “Is there a positive relationship between trust and ... -
Trust building in non-virtual and virtual teams
(Master thesis, 2022)The world is becoming more virtual, and the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how virtual teams are going to be a bigger part of the future, with several organizations considering incorporating a hybrid workspace layout. When ... -
Trusting Artificial Intelligence: How Perceived Situational Risik and Digital Mindset Can Influence lndiuiduals Decision to Rely
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, we aim to investigate how domains of perceived situational risk will influence an individual’s decision to rely on an artificially intelligent decision aid to perform a decision-making task. We also aim ... -
Tummelplatz : exploring playgrounds for creative collaborations : a qalitative study of generative dynamics within temporary work contexts
(Master thesis, 2014-02-17)This paper presents the idea that temporary, creative collaborations within knowledge-intense industries can be understood through the tummelplatz –metaphor. ‘Tummelplatz’ was first introduced by Sigmund Freud (1856 -1959) ... -
TV-income and football performance: A study of how broadcasting revenues affect domestic and international sporting success for Europe’s elite leagues
(Master thesis, 2018)Europe's elite football leagues are often defined by the collective term “the Big Five”, and consist of clubs originating from England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France. By dominating both the UEFA Club Coefficient Ranking ... -
Twitter and stock returns
(Master thesis, 2014-02-19)In this thesis, we investigate whether the sentiment of tweets mentioning stock tickers can be used to predict stock performance. In particular we test for leading and lagged relationships between the percentage of ... -
Twitter as driver of stock price
(Master thesis, 2012-04-26)The goal of this research is to examine the dynamic relationship of Twitter and stock price, by examining the effects for the ten most valuable brands according Interbrand (2010): Coca-Cola, IBM, Microsoft, Google, McDonald’s, ... -
Two-sided advertising in the EV market
(Master thesis, 2023)Two-sided advertising is a marketing approach where both pros and cons of a product are presented. In the context of advertising, consumers may feel skeptical or suspicious when they are exposed to only positive claims ...