MBA Project Reports, BBA Projects, Management Thesis, Dissertation
Introduction : We are confronted daily with signals of the global climate change, focusing on future prevention strategies. Fossil energy is said to spur global warming to a large extent, where carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions are expected to peak in 2025 (Commission of the European communities, 2006). Europe is consequently faced to a …
This thesis is about the process of employment adjustment. It studies adjustment costs and their impact on employment and labor demand. It starts by describing key characteristics of India’s labor market; documents legal, economic, and social framework; investigates the impact and finds magnitudes of worker adjustment costs. Then, it estimates econometrically parameters of labor adjustment …
Background: The importance of the non-profit sector and the commercialization in it is increasing. The organizations have to deal with more competition in the fundraising market on the one hand, and they are on the other hand confronted with people who are blocking the recognition of conventional marketing expressions. Guerrilla marketing is seen as a …
This research is motivated by the long-standing problems faced by one large wholesaler in Hong Kong, which plays the role as a sourcing agent for over a thousand of worldwide clients on hundreds of products. Around forty percent of the commodities are sold via contracts, and the remaining sixty percent are on an ex-stock basis, …
As an increasing number of people are logging on to the internet to do their shopping, it is imperative for a site to be accessible and usable. Nielsen’s heuristic method is one esteemed method that many web site developers use in their design work. One study suggests that online shopping needs most improvement with the …
The backdrop of this dissertation is one ubiquitous element of everyday life: the stock market. Traditionally, accounting and stock markets are logically coordinate entities and this thesis analyzes how accounting supports private investors in their role as shareholders – as investors in shares and owners of companies. This analysis is carried out in four independent …
This paper is the result of a minor field study conducted in Istanbul, Turkey, during the period of November and December 2007. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the current business environment for apparel manufacturing in Istanbul. Research was carried out through an industry analysis in terms of competition and potential future development …
The marketing industry is moving towards customer centric marketing where it is important to establish and maintain relationships with customers. This need is even more crucial for a network marketing company which relies solely on relationships. The purpose of this thesis is to identify how a network marketing company establishes and maintains relationships with independent …
Traditional theories, models, and methods often address a general view of the environment including sociocultural, technological, political, and economic factors. However, there is a lack in infrastructural attention in these concepts which this thesis intends to contribute with by analyzing how regional specific infrastructural variables can be aggregated to one comparative measure and what that …
This thesis contributes to the discussion on the importance of accounting information for stock market efficiency. As any analysis of market efficiency depends on the use of adequate risk proxies, the thesis first investigates the ability of commonly used risk factors to explain the cross-sectional variation of Swedish stock returns. The findings suggest that capturing …