Graduate School: Recent submissions
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How is Trust Created in the Platform Economy?- A Triadic Perspective of the Interrelationship between Work Platforms, Workers and Clients in Sweden
(2021-06-27)The lack of trust is seen as one of the most significant barriers to the functioning of the platform economy in Sweden. Consequently, how trust is created is vital to understand in order for the market to thrive. The ... -
Observing the utilization of middle management during an ongoing acquisition.
(2021-06-27)This article focuses on the ambiguity of an ongoing acquisition and examines the utilization of middle management functionalities during the process. Utilizing a case study where the empirical findings regarding middle ... -
PSD2 - The Revolution that Never Happened
(2021-06-24)The introduction of PSD2 was expected to revolutionise the financial industry and disrupt established banks’ business models. However, the changes have not been as dramatic as expected. Mainly this concerns the predicted ... -
ESG integration - How do investors incorporate ESG into investment decisions in practice? A qualitative research thesis regarding the integration of ESG information in investment management
(2021-06-24)This thesis aims to contribute with a greater understanding regarding how institutional investors attempt to integrate ESG information into their investment decisions in practice, through the use of various integration ... -
The Effects of qualitative Attributes of Sustainability Reports on Investors Trading Behavior
(2021-06-24)The importance of adopting sustainable measures in running businesses under different sectors is becoming more important. Many companies care more about sustainability these days, while they were considering only their ... -
Residual value risk in car leasing - A case study on residual value measurements
(2021-06-24)Background & Purpose: The lessor's risk of guaranteeing a residual value for a car has grown as leasing has emerged as a popular financing alternative. As there is no active market for such values, it is a matter of ... -
Do the right thing- A paradox theory approach to corporate sustainability strategies
(2021-06-24)Through a never-before-seen momentum, the concept of corporate sustainability has become a considerable part of the corporate world. In the past couple of years, more and more multinational corporations have tried to ... -
Doing sustainability work in SMEs- Setting new standards, maintaining others’ - or navigating a middle way?
(2021-06-24)Sustainability work is nowadays high on the agenda for businesses to deal with, and practices for how to enact sustainability have been established and institutionalized over time. However, larger companies have set the ... -
Liminal Space Duality- Socialisation into the consultant working context
(2021-06-24)This study investigates the working condition of the management consultant and how a newcomer is socialised into it by drawing insights from liminality, sensemaking and sensegiving research. 25 interviews were held with ... -
Executive Compensation and Earnings Management - A study of Swedish companies during the Global Financial Crisis
(2021-06-24)This study examines the impact of executive short-term cash compensation on earnings management and how the relationship is influenced by an economic crisis, the global financial crisis. For a sample of Swedish listed firms ... -
Determinants of Materiality of Non-Financial Disclosure and Implication on Information Asymmetry A study of environmental disclosure of environmentally sensitive industries
(2021-06-24)This study explores the influence of non-binding guidelines published by EU Directive to the materiality of companies' non-financial reports. In order to identify the materiality level of NFR, the authors manually assess ... -
What Enabled the Rapid Swedish M&A Recovery During the Covid-19 Crisis? A Qualitative Research Study Regarding the M&A Recovery in Sweden during 2020 Compared to Previous Crises
(2021-06-24)The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recovery after the Covid-19 crisis’ outbreak in 2020 is considered remarkably rapid compared to earlier crises as the recovery occurred in months instead of years. There are several ... -
ESG Scores in IPOs: The impact of Board Composition and Ownership Concentration
(2021-06-24)The prevalence of the sustainability agenda and the need for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues to be addressed by firms are increasingly characterizing today’s business environment. Creating shareholder ... -
Management Control During Forced Remote Working Conditions - A Case Study of a Global Leader in Container Shipping and a Big Four Accounting Firm
(2021-06-24)Purpose: This study investigates how forced remote working may have affected the design and use of management controls within organizations. Methodology: Interviews were conducted with respondents from two well-established ... -
CAN INSIDERS BENEFIT FROM A PANDEMIC CRISIS? A quantitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on insider trading profitability in a Swedish setting
(2021-06-24)The COVID-19 crisis includes unprecedented stock market impacts, exceptional uncertainty and explicit concerns from authorities that insiders possess information other than the public during the dynamic circumstances brought ... -
A quantitative study of how capital structure is affected by intangible assets - The Case of Sweden
(2021-06-24)This thesis examines the effect that intangible assets have on capital structure on the Swedish market, and in doing so contributes to the existing body of research on capital structure and its determinants. The sample ... -
Early evidence on iXBRL regulation and its impact on information asymmetry in the US capital market
(2021-06-24)The topic of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) has long been under debate regarding its effect and usefulness as a disclosure format. With the recent regulatory shift to the newest evolution of XBRL, inline ... -
Who’s managing earnings? A personality study of earnings management - Using algorithms to analyze how CEO personality traits engage in earnings management
(2021-06-24)Extensive research explains the underlying reasons to why firms engage in value-destroying and risky earnings management. There is subjectivity involved in these decisions, and to explain why managers engage in earning ... -
M&A during a pandemic – Alterations of processes A case study on a Swedish strategic serial acquirer in the tech industry
(2021-06-24)Through a single case study, we expand on pre-existing M&A research by examining how M&A processes have been affected by the increased information asymmetry as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and what implications it ... -
Is Investing in Sustainability Financially Rewarding? A Quantitative Study of Public Real Estate Firms in the EU
(2021-06-24)Background: Since 2015, when the United Nations agreed on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainability Development, actions and requirements have been obligated for industries and companies all around the world. The sector with the ...