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Substitutes for insider trading

Trading upon not released, insider, information is an illegal activity. Trading in shares that can be assumed to perform in a similar way based on the same information is legal, and potentially profitable. The goal of this thesis is to investigate if substitutes to listed shares exist on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, and whether they provide a similar return when affected by releases of insider information.

Goodwill: an eternal asset?

Background: A harmonisation of accounting directions has been occurred, which for the majority of nations has meant an adjustment to the directions of the United States. The Swedish directions of group accounting, RR 1:00, is certainly one such adaptation. Simultaneously, a new direction of group goodwill, FAS 142, is unveiled in the US. Purpose: The …

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Why do the majority of merger and acquisitions fail?

In the past ten years, there’s been a good surge in the number of mergers and acquisitions worldwide. This improvement of the number of transactions is included in the the majority of the previous studies but moreover, several studies show that the majority of the mergers and acquisitions fail in the objective of creating value …

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Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm

The current decade has experienced a powerful expansion of work on the firm, both from a capabilities perspective and from a contractual perspective. These two bodies of theories are sometimes regarded as fundamentally different, as their fields of applications differ (knowledge-accumulation vs contracts and incentives). However, we have to integrate propositions from capabilities perspectives with …

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Firm Growth from a Knowledge Structure Perspective

Even though there are many theories of growth of the firm, the literature has limitations in 2 interrelated aspects. Initially, empirical evidence doesn’t match well theoretical predictions. Second, the organization growth literature doesn’t deal with the structure of knowledge both in firms and sectors and also knowledge flows between them. According to existing theoretical and …

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Learning and Skills in the Knowledge Economy

Knowledge and learning are widely thought to be defining options that come with the current economy. They’re a focus of intense interest amongst policy makers in addition to academics. Essential recent attempts have already been made to try and elucidate the interactions between your different types of knowledge: particularly codified knowledge (mainly know-what and know-why) …

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Production, Planning and Prices

Organizations usually do not exist because of the cost of using the price mechanism, but since they enable actions to be completed concurrently in conformity with a particular design. This concurrent co-ordination, which production demands, is different from the evolutionary coordination, which is the unintentional consequence of market transactions. The 2 processes are alternatives only …

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First Impression Lasts: The First Meeting

When companies are conducting business you should meet up with the customer’s expectations. It is in the initial impression (the very first time the parties meet in a sales encounter) that the vendor fails to get this done, sometimes resulting in the potential customer dropping the entire considered a company deal with no further relationship …

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