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A Touch of Words: Influencing Consumers’ Purchase Intentions Using Touch-Describing Adjectives in Digital Advertisements
(Master thesis, 2019)The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate whether touch-describing adjectives in a digital advertisement can trigger consumers purchase intention. We answer this question by conducting an online survey-based ... -
“Academics´ motivation and well-being: A qualitative study of the effects the pandemic and the following digital changes has had on academics´ motivation and well-being”
(Master thesis, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic changes in the workday of academics and universities have experienced a radical shift towards becoming more digital. Restrictions have led universities to force their employees to ... -
Access to Capital and its Effect on Capital Structures, Leverage Deficits, and Acquisition Probabilities
(Master thesis, 2019)By using a large sample of Norwegian public and private firms, we study the effect of access to public equity markets on the firm’s capital structure, leverage deficit, and acquisition probability. We find that publicly ... -
Accounting Conservatism: An empirical study on financial reporting and stock returns in Norwegian listed firms
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis studies conditional and unconditional accounting conservatism in Norwegian listed firms. We address two hypotheses; 1) a positive coefficient on change in cash investments captures conditional accounting ... -
ACHIEVING HIGH ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT DURING VIRTUAL ONBOARDING
(Master thesis, 2021)The world as we knew it changed dramatically during the year 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Organizations were forced to change their ways of working and many relocated their employees to home-office. Virtual ... -
Active Currency Management at the Swedish National Debt Office - A Case Study
(Master thesis, 2019)Swedish National Debt Office (SNDO) is responsible for managing Sweden’s central government debt. Since the mid-1970s, SNDO has issued bonds in foreign currency in addition to Swedish Krona (SEK) debt, thereby incurring ... -
Active Share and Performance of Norwegian Equity Funds
(Master thesis, 2019)We measure the degree of active management in Norwegian equity mutual funds and investigate how it relates to fund performance in the period 2007-2018. Our measures of active management are active share and tracking ... -
Active vs Passive Portfolio Management in Norway - a study Management in Norway - a study
(Master thesis, 2018)This paper investigates whether money managers in Norway outperform their respective benchmarks and create value for their investors. To get a better understanding of this, an aggregated portfolio of Norwegian mutual ... -
ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCE IN THE NORWEGIAN MARKET
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis examines the performance of active mutual funds in Norway and explores whether actively managed funds consistently outperform passive index funds net of fees. By analyzing a survivorship bias free dataset ... -
Adaptation to Sustainability in Norwegian Shipping Companies
(Master thesis, 2022)The most challenging issue that shipping companies are confronted with in the coming years is the need to become more sustainable. Accordingly, exploring critical factors in the implementation process is necessary. Whereas ... -
Adapting to Post-Pandemic Changes: Meeting Students' Educational Needs and Preparing Organizations
(Master thesis, 2024)Two years have passed since the world gradually began to reopen after the pandemic. During the pandemic, digital learning platforms became the norm, and a hybrid working model became prominent for several organizations. ... -
Adaptive Leadership in Hybrid Work Models - An investigation of how adaptive leadership relates to information sharing and team performance in hybrid work
(Master thesis, 2022)Previous research on adaptive leadership indicates that this leadership style is becoming more crucial for managers and administrators as the pace of change affecting organizations increases (e.g., Burke & Cooper, 2004; ... -
Adjusted price-dividend ratio and stock returns predictability
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The adoption of blockchain technology in corporations
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)In this thesis I have sought to shed a light on the adoption of blockchain technology in corporations. The results presented highlights the benefits and reflects on the challenges regarding adoption of blockchain technology. ... -
Adoption of social media technology: the effect of always logged-in, return on time and fear of missing out
(Master thesis, 2017)Adoption of new technologies have been of importance for researchers for a long time, and constructs are continuously being analyzed to better understand what makes consumers more likely to adopt. The use of social media ... -
AF gruppen - valuation and case study on economic moats
(Master thesis, 2017)Economic moats represent sustainable competitive advantages that allow companies to protect their value and lead to excess returns over a long-term horizon (Morningstar, 2016). This sentence lays the fundament for this ... -
Affective Empathy and Emotional Contagion - A look into theory and critique of measurement scales
(Master thesis, 2018)Positive, negative and neutral emotional expressions transfer information about feelings, and attitudes towards other people. In organizations with high interaction among humans, emotion research is becoming increasingly ... -
Affective event theory and work stress: A nationally representative survey study among Norwegian leaders
(Master thesis, 2024)This study explores the intricate dynamics between workplace stressors and their impact on Norwegian leaders' affectivity, job satisfaction, and job commitment through Affective Events Theory (AET). The research used ... -
Affiliate Marketing sin påvirkningskraft på kjøpsintensjonen til Generasjon Z på TikTok
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)En stadig mer populær tilnærming til produktsalg som har utviklet seg på det norske markedet er Affiliate markedsføring, også kjent som provisjonsbasert markedsføring. De siste årene har det oppstått et tydelig paradigmeskifte ... -
Agency Problems In Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
(Master thesis, 2022)Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are publicly held shell companies with no operations, formed with the sole purpose of acquiring a single private company. With a sample of 342 SPAC mergers between July 2016 ...