Nowadays, information technology outsourcing (ITO) represents an established business practice in which a considerable number of companies are involved. Since the success of ITO is highly dependent on the exposure to ITO risks, studying the very risks is of great Continue reading
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Does the Broad Fear of the Financial Crisis 2007 – 2009 Lead to Undervaluation of Companies which have not Experienced Influences from the Financial Crisis? (Management Project)
The starting point of this study have been utterances of well known investors during the financial crisis which recommend to buy shares especially in the time of financial downturn because one could buy good performing companies at a low price. Continue reading
Management Factors Influencing Open Innovation Integration and Appropriation of Returns (Management Project)
With innovation becoming the source of growth for major businesses, there has been a strong debate among the academic and the industrial fraternity relating to managing different channels of Continue reading
Assessing the Total cost of ownership of ERP systems: Case study analysis on the factors behind customer costs in recent minor implementations (Management Project)
This study presents a model for calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of relatively small ERP implementations, including two years of running the system. The main factors affecting the cost items in the model are also analyzed, based in Continue reading
Flexible working as an effective tool of organizational productivity increasing: perspectives of property and staff in Alcatel-Lucent Pte. Ltd. (Civil/Management Project)
Continuous information technology development changed traditional ways of management and business operations. Nowadays there is a high demand for new innovative business solutions and the ways of managing people that enables to fully elicit their potential. Physical boundaries are Continue reading
Mutual Funds in Germany and Sweden: Performance and Fees Analysis (Management Project)
Previous studies in mutual funds were focused mainly on the US market. The general belief is that mutual funds in average cannot outperform the market. We decided to test this theory in the less studied markets of equity funds in Sweden and Germany. Another controversial point is Continue reading
Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: A Case Study on the Swedish Region of Gävleborg (Management Project)
Aim: The research project discusses foreign direct investment as well as the attractiveness of the region of Gävleborg within this context. The researchers attempt to investigate why foreign direct investment is not yet common within the aforementioned region. Moreover, the aims of the study is Continue reading
The Leverage Buyout process in Private equity: theoretical exploration and comparison (Management Project)
The Private equity industry is receiving a lot of attention in the daily news. The Private equity firms are acquiring other companies through a Leverage buyout transaction (LBO). The ownership period is short with an average ownership of five to seven years. The business strategy of the PE firms is only focusing on Continue reading
Gender difference in financial decision making: A quantitative study of risk aversion and overconfidence between the genders (Management Project)
The purpose of this study is to determine if gender can really affect financial decisions. We investigate the relationship between risk aversion, gender and overconfidence. We have conducted this study with a positivistic view and used a deductive approach starting to conduct a literature review of theories and build the Continue reading
Sustainability Reporting and the Global Reporting Initiative: Antecedents and Motives Affecting the Practice in Five Swedish Companies (Management Project)
Sustainability reporting has emerged as an outcome of corporate social responsibility, giving companies an opportunity to show transparency towards their stakeholders. The Global Reporting Initiative, a largely voluntary sustainability reporting standard, has become increasingly Continue reading
To audit or not to audit: How is auditing being used in banks credit rating processes? (Management Project)
Credit rating systems are complex processes and involve mainly two parties; a company and a bank. The complexity of a relationship between a company and a bank lies in the fact that a company usually has access to more information about the company than the bank. Hence, an auditor acts as Continue reading
CleanTech – a sector too risky for Swedish venture capital (Management Project)
CleanTech is the sector where technologies intended to reduce the harmful effect that our current lifestyle has on the environment are found. In Sweden the companies developing these technologies has not yet managed to get their deserved part of Continue reading
Appraising Investment Property at Fair Value: Practice in Listed Swedish Property Companies (Management Project)
On January 1, 2005 a new accounting standard became the valid standard for all listed companies within the EU and among them the property companies. This means that the real estate business now appraise their property holdings at fair value, using the Continue reading
Target Costing i Large Cap (Management Project)
Background and problem formulation: Since the 1980s, the product of the company has become increasingly important, because of increased competition and rapid technological development. To succeed in the Product development, “Target Costing” can be used as an important Continue reading
Market efficiency for two classes of stocks in China: state owned and private companies (Management Project)
The fast-growing economy in China attracts the world’s interests, which includes the Chinese stock markets. The market efficiency of Chinese stock markets is widely discussed by researchers in different approaches. The involvement of government in stock markets is a unique case in Continue reading
The relationship between Credit Ratings and Beta: A quantitative study on the Nordic market (Management Project)
This study aims to investigate the relationship between systematic risk and credit ratings. The systematic risk, frequently measured by beta, is an important consideration for both investors and corporations. Therefore it is interesting to examine if indications about the systematic risk could be gained by looking at credit ratings, especially on the Continue reading
Viable options of financing a new venture on entrepreneur’s point of view (Management Project)
It is fact that one of the main reasons why a country is considered developed or developing lies on its industry development level. A nation without a well-developed industry does not create jobs enough, thus wealth to keep its population on high standards. It is critical to a Continue reading
Analysis and Actions for Robust Electronics Production at Haldex Brake Products Ltd (Management Project)
This report contains information about a project carried out at Haldex Brake Products that is situated in Redditch England. The Redditch site is part of the “Commercial Vehicle Systems” division within the Haldex group. Haldex Brake Products is designing and producing Continue reading
A Value Relevant Fundamental Investment Strategy (Management Project)
The aim of this study is to investigate the possibility to improve the investment model defined in Piotroski and the subsequent research carried out on this model. Our model builds further upon the Continue reading
Financial risk communication: Why Swedish banks have different financial risk communication strategies (Management Project)
In order to explain how to fulfill the purpose of investigating what makes similar companies adapt different risk report communication strategies in the Nordic banking industry, the research design, method and practical execution will be Continue reading