This thesis examines the relationship between the underpricing of a firm in a public listing due to the ownership structure of the firm. The firms studied are listed on the Norwegian Stock Exchange. The data contains ...

In the last decade, the use of online social media has revolutionized how humans interact with each other. The most famous and used online social media service is Facebook.com, which was the first social media on the ...

A lack of experience on online consumer behavior, and limited empirical work that captures positive and negative factors influencing consumers’ technological adoption process, has led to a high failure rate of new innovations ...

Sports sponsorship literature has recently considered potential negative effects that reduces overall effectiveness. Current literature suggests that the negative attitudes towards a strong rival team may also be transferred ...

Changes in the perception of ownership are at the core of the sharing economy, which size is now estimated to be $15 billion dollars. Consumers have realized that buying access to products for limited time periods ...

Many different asset pricing models have been developed over the years, in order to understand how the risk of an investment should affect the expected return. None of the models developed seem to be completely exempt ...

The purpose of this research is to get insight into the Norwegian pension fund market. We will look further into the performance of pension funds by analyzing the drivers of the return of the funds. The data of study ...

Hva er den drivkraft som får enkelte ledere til å lykkes i å drive en virksomhet eller et prosjekt mot de virkelig store prestasjoner? De som starter fra ingenting og når helt til topps? Å lykkes stort avhenger helt ...