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Over-ordering and food waste: The use of food delivery apps during a pandemic
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Overgangen til en virtuell organisasjon : hvilke krav stilles til struktur, ledelse og de ansattes kapabiliteter ved innføring av virtuell kommunikasjon
(Master thesis, 2011)Hensikten med denne masteroppgaven er å finne ut hva som kreves av en organisasjon når man skal innføre virtuelle team. Oppgaven skal sette ledelse, struktur og de ansattes kapabiliteter i søkelyset og vurdere hvordan ... -
Overnight Return on the Norwegian Stock Exchange A study of 15 stocks with the highest turnover over the period of 2003 to2014 on Oslo Stock Exchange.
(Master thesis, 2015)In this thesis we decompose the close-to-close return into overnight and intraday returns for the 15 most traded stocks on Oslo Stock Exchange over the period of 2003 to 2014. By analyzing the stocks individually and in ... -
Ownership, Board Compensation and Company Performance in Sub-Saharan African Countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016) -
The Paradox of Skill in Norwegian Mutual Funds
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis examines Norwegian mutual funds’ performance, and specifically whether that performance is due to luck or skill under the null hypothesis of no true performance. We use an extensive dataset of 107 Norwegian ... -
Paradoxes and coping mechanisms in the servitisation journey
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PASSENGER SATISFACTION WITH HYBRID ELECTRIC BUS SERVICE IN NORWAY : A PLS Structural Equation Modelling Approach
(Master thesis, 2019)The use of hybrid electric buses (HEBs) in public transit is one of the global attention received topics in this 21st century because of its environment friendly nature. This study focusses on effect of bus service ... -
Patient flows through Valhalla : A survival analysis in the context of short-term care institutions
(Master thesis, 2019)Individuals experiencing functional decline may often require some form of assistance in order to reassume their activities of daily living. A common form of rehabilitation is a stay at a short-term institution, yet ... -
Påvirkninger på roro-markedet og effektiv bruk av sjøveien : En studie om effekten ulike hendelser har på roro-markedet, sjøveiens betydning og hvordan vi kan øke bruk av sjøveien
(Master thesis, 2017)During the last few years, Kristiansand Port has had a decline in its roro-traffic which is the definition of wheeled cargo carried by vessels designed for such. In this thesis, we explain what happenings might have caused ... -
Peak Oil : en vurdering av fremtidig global oljeproduksjon
(Master thesis, 2013)Masterutredningen har som formål å vurdere om global oljeproduksjon vil avta innen 2035. Problemstillingen er analysert med et nøytralt utgangspunkt i forhold til optimistiske og pessimistiske anslag. Drøftingen er delt ... -
Perceived flexibility: The impact of flexible work and work-home interaction on life satisfactionA quantitative study of the relationships between perceived flexibility, work-home interaction and life satisfaction
(Master thesis, 2020)The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of perceived flexibility and work-home interaction on life satisfaction. The lack of previous research, on the direct connections between the ... -
Perceptions of Crowdfunding Campaigns and Performance : An Empirical Analysis
(Master thesis, 2017)Crowdfunding gives entrepreneurs and others, opportunities to get financial contributions to their projects as well as acknowledgements and insight to consumers’ preferences. This thesis focuses on reward-based crowdfunding ... -
Performance and governance in microfinance institutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)We examine the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance in microfinance institutions (MFI) using a self-constructed global dataset on MFIs collected from third-party rating agencies. Using random ... -
Performance and international investments in microfinance institutions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013) -
Performance and international investments in microfinance institutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Using data from 319 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 68 developing countries, we study the degree to which international debt investments are related to the financial and social performances of MFIs. We find that ... -
Performance and trade-offs in microfinance organisations--does ownership matter?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)Policy advocates argue for the transformation of non-government Microfinance Organisations (MFOs) into shareholder owned firms (SHFs). This paper investigates whether the proposed superiority of shareholder owned MFOs is ... -
Performance evaluation of behavioral finance mutual funds : a comparison between behavioral finance mutual funds and conventional funds in the Norwegian fund market.
(Master thesis, 2011)Behavioral finance has been gathering more and more attention in the last decade, and both academia and practitioners have slowly starting to accept that psychology influence financial markets. Even though markets are ... -
Performance evaluation of norwegian equity funds 1998-2008
(Master thesis, 2008)The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the performance of Norwegian equity funds during the period from 1998 to 2008. We have identified the best and the worst performing funds during the period based on five performance ... -
A Performance Evaluation of Norwegian Mutual Funds: Luck versus Skill
(Master thesis, 2021)In this master’s thesis, we examine the performance of Norwegian mutual fund man-agers. Through a dataset of 107 Norwegian mutual funds’ monthly returns from 1987-2019, we estimate fund managers’ abnormal performance using ... -
Performance of Technical Trading Rules in the US and Swedish Stock Markets
(Master thesis, 2015)In this thesis I am testing the performance of two of the most popular market-timing strategies, the simple-moving average and time-series momentum, compared to the performance of the passive buy-and-hold strategy using ...