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Exploring the relationship between ESG-scores and company performance: Insights from the Covid-19 pandemic
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis explores the relationship between Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and company performance within the S&P 500 and STOXX 600 indexes during the Covid-19 pandemic. We investigated ESG scores and ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Exploitative Leadership and Employee Turnover Intentions: The Role of Affective Commitment, Length of Service and Organizational Tenure
(Master thesis, 2024)This study's purpose was to examine exploitative leadership's negative effect on turnover intentions and whether this expected relationship was mediated by lower affective commitment and moderated by shorter length of ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Leader Support, Communication, and Change Recipients' Well-being during Organizational Change
(Master thesis, 2024)This study investigates the relationship between leader support, communication, and the well-being of change recipients during an organizational change process. Concretely, the thesis aims to answer the research question: ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Management, Corporate Governance, and Agency Theory: An Empirical Examination of Their Impact on Net Asset Value Premiums or Discounts in Publicly Listed Shipping Companies
(Master thesis, 2023)This paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance and the premiums or discounts between the market capitalization and the net asset value (NAV) of publicly listed maritime shipping companies. We employ ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between the Slope of the Yield Curve, Volatility, and the Profitability of Momentum Trading Strategies in US Stocks: An Empirical Analysis
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis explores the interplay between yield curve inversions, volatility and Momentum trading strategy performance in the US stock market. We test the theory that yield curve dynamics can predict fluctuations in ... -
Exploring the Role of the Momentum Factor in Asset Pricing Models: An Empirical Analysis of the Oslo Stoel! Exchange (OSE) from July 1989 to June 2020
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis tests if the Fama and French five-factor model including momentum can explaining stock returns on OSE. The inclusion of momentum factor enhances model performance, with an increased adjusted R2 from 0.65 to ... -
Exploring the Truck Driver Shortage Phenomenon with Evidence and Insights from the Norwegian Freight Transport Industry
(Master thesis, 2024)Trucking is one of the most critical links in modern supply chains, as most shipments rely on trucks to reach their final destination. Ironically, a shortage of professional truck drivers is reported to be one of the most ... -
Exploring the validity of behavioral cues perceived to indicate violence in the context of police-citizen interactions
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to explore whether behavioral cues, which are thought to be predictive of violence, correspond with violent behavior in police-citizen interactions. The method applied consisted of qualitatively ... -
Exploring Unconscious Gender Bias in the Job Analysis Process: An Investigation into the Factors Influencing and Mitigating Bias in the Evaluation of Job Roles and Requirements
(Master thesis, 2024)In today’s pursuit of workplace equality, our master’s thesis delves into a critical yet often overlooked aspect of recruitment: the job analysis process. Despite organizational efforts toward diversity, unconscious gender ... -
Extracting Sentiment of Selected Twitter Accounts and Considering Its Relationship with the S&P 500 Index
(Master thesis, 2021)Twitter is a source of streaming data. In this thesis, we examine whether and to what extent we can find a relationship between the sentiment of selected Twitter accounts and the S&P 500 index. This thesis uses data from ... -
Factors Impact on Profitability for Norwegian Private Firms
(Master thesis, 2018)This paper investigates what factors have an impact on the profitability of Norwegian private firms divided by size. Profitability is measured using Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE). The factors tested ... -
Factors influencing advertising effectiveness and purchase intention on Instagram
(Master thesis, 2017)Instagram has emerged as an important social media and advertising platform, but little or no research has been done to investigate how the users perceive various Instagram advertisement. The current research relies on ... -
Factors Influencing Metaverse Adoption: A Study on Gen Z and Millennials
(Master thesis, 2024)Purpose - Our master thesis aims to look at both the practical needs for developers and designers, as well as the academic needs of professors and researchers, in understanding the factors that influence metaverse adoption. ... -
Factors that influence Tech IPO underpricing and their applicability in pricing decision
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of this thesis was to identify the main factors impacting underpricing in the Tech industry and analyse their applicability in IPO pricing decisions. The main factors that were examined: Number of Underwriters, ... -
Failing to succeed : How can an accelerator facilitate learning from failure?
(Master thesis, 2018)This master thesis aims at exploring how accelerator programs can facilitate learning from failure. Failure, defined as deviance from desired results, has seen a shift in its surrounding literature. Instead of perceiving ... -
A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work? The Mediating Role of Justice Perceptions in Compensation and Exchange Relationships
(Master thesis, 2021)This study explores the dynamic between compensation and employee-organization relationships amongst hairdressing professionals. We investigate the relationships between the pay administration (fixed or variable) and the ... -
Falling Between The Silos: Fragmentation in Roles and Responsibilities Create Barriers to Climate Adaptation : A Case Study of Stormwater Management in the Municipality of Oslo
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of this master thesis is to contribute to the literature on institutional change for climate adaptation by investigating the identified gap in literature of how, why, and where changes need to happen for more ... -
False positive reduction endeavors with automated feature engineering
(Master thesis, 2021)Credit card fraud has been a problem for decades, and with the booming trend of online shopping fraud losses expected to rise for every year to come. Fraud detection systems often generate more false positives than true ... -
A Fama-French Replication and Extension including Momentum: Evidence from the US and the UK Stock Market
(Master thesis, 2022)This paper examines the effects of size, value, profitability, investments, and momentum on the cross-sectional and time-series relation between expected returns and risk in the US and the UK markets, from July 1990 to ... -
Family Firms & Diversification Through M&A: Evidence From Norway
(Master thesis, 2019)This study examines the behavior of family firms on whether they are more inclined to engage in diversifying M&As than non-family firms due to their high value of control. To analyse this theory, data has been manually ...