Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) represent the first sale of the firms’ shares to the public. By setting lower offer prices, companies going public create opportunities for investors to earn abnormal returns, making IPOs an attractive investment strategy. This is a well-known and widely discussed in academic literature the IPO underpricing phenomenon. There are different motives for the IPO underpr

The relationship between the stock market and the condition of a country’s economy is a relevant topic in the recent economic and financial studies. Therefore, the purpose of our thesis is to investigate in finding long-term and short-term relationships between the stock market and macroeconomic variables in the three Baltic countries and compare the results with three more economically developed

Vad: Kandidatuppsats VT 2016. Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg, institutionen för Service Management. Titel: Ett inkluderande ledarskap? Framställning av ledarskap i ledarskaps- och diversity management litteratur. Syfte och frågeställning: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur ledarskap framställs i dagens ledarskaps -och diversity managementlitteratur. Vi frågade oss därför vilka

This bachelor thesis examines how the Danish birthing and pregnancy culture is a dialectic one. It argues that nature and culture, in a classical understanding, gives rise to an ambivalence where a new type of discourse surrounding pregnant women occurs. This discourse focuses on a natural, vaginal birth, but this type of natural birth takes place at a hospital, which is everything but natural. Th

Syftet med studien var att undersöka om poliser som exponerats för hot och våld i yrket hade en högre grad av Posttraumatic Growth, PTG. Studien fokuserade på att mäta PTG i relation till hot och våld på följande parametrar; psykologisk hantering, reaktioner i form av hur rädda de kände sig i dag och psykisk påverkan. Respondenterna var 42 poliser från Skåneregionen. Åldrarna varierade från 26 tilThe purpose of this study was to investigate whether police officers who have been exposed to threats and violence in their profession have a higher degree of Posttraumatic Growth, PTG. PTG was measured in relation to threats and violence on the following parameters; psychological management, reactions which included current feelings of threat/anxiety and psychological influence. The respondents i

Cashew is a trending cash crop among many West African smallholders. The aim of my research was to investigate how the livelihoods of cashew farmers in central Benin are impacted by cashew production. I have selected a case study research strategy, using a mixed methods approach. Findings and analysis were based on four focus group discussions with cashew farmers from central Benin, and a quantita

Knuffas du mot ett mer hållbart transportmedel? Dagligen blir vi påverkade på olika sätt som ligger till grund för våra handlingar. Men vet vi verkligen alltid om när vi blir påverkade? Ibland blir du troligtvis påverkad till ett vissa val trots att du är helt ovetande om det. Detta kan med andra ord kallas för nudging, som är ett koncept för att leda människor och ge en ”knuff” i rätt riktning The purpose of this study was to find out how nudging can be used in mobility management for sustainability adaptment of people's travel patterns, and examine if there is measures in mobility management that can be interpreted as nudging. This thesis performed a practical qualitative test in which a mobility management measure in the form of a “ride an electric bike to work” campaign was intro

This master thesis contributes to the literature concerning the theoretical and empirical understanding of dividend’s change on company’s future earnings. The paper analyses if dividends have explanatory power over future earnings. Also, the analysis expects to provide more evidence of the relationship in Nordic region. This thesis is based on a quantitative study where we use a sample of 586 comp

The presented thesis focuses on dynamics of capital structure decisions of financially constrained and unconstrained firms listed on Stockholm Stock Exchange. It examines the effect of the global financial crisis on the corporate financing decision. The first chapter introduces the topic, discusses its importance and outlines the contribution to the empirical research. The second chapter the relev

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to study the concept of learning environments in relation to research libraries and their physical environments. Formerly related to classrooms or lecture halls, a learning environment can now include a wide range of locations. A successful learning environment should support collaborative and social activities, as well as quiet and individual work. This broa

Nya behandlingar har implementerats i Sverige för att minska antalet personer med självskadebeteende. En av dessa behandlingar är Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT). Syftet med denna studie var att utforska sex patienters upplevelser av att genomgå ERGT och vilka förändringar i såväl mående som psykiatriska symptom (mätt med Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory, Depression Anxiety Stress Scale och New treatments for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) have been implemented in Sweden to decrease the number of people with self-injurious behavior. One of these treatments is Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT). This study aimed to explore six patients’ experiences of undergoing ERGT and the changes in well-being as well as in psychiatric symptoms (measured with Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory, D

I takt med att EU skapat sig en större roll för samhandeln mellan de anslutande medlemsländerna har den EU-rättsliga ordningen inverkat på vissa av de nationella rättsystemen. Ett relativt nytt system har frivilligt införts i den svenska rätten vilket behandlar bekämpningsmedel för konkurrensöverskridande samarbeten som karteller. Denna kartellbekämpande ordning, kallad eftergiftssystemet, har intAs the EU has become an important role for the reciprocal trade between the acceding Member States, the legal order of EU has had an effect on some of the national legal systems. A relatively new system has been voluntarily introduced into the Swedish law, with the purpose to combat competitive cross-collaborations like cartels. This cartel enforcement order, known as the Leniency system, has not

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur sociala entreprenörer i Sverige konstruerar sin organisationsidentitet samt hur de positionerar sig gentemot närliggande aktörer. Vidare vill vi undersöka hur deras identitet skiljer sig från, eller liknar, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Vår studie avser därmed bidra med ny kunskap om hur organisationer som arbetar med samhällsfrågor kan använda sin The purpose of this study is to examine how social entrepreneurs in Sweden construct an organizational identity and how they position themselves against similar organizations. Further on, we aim to examine how their identity differs from, or is similar to, the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Our study thereby intends to provide new knowledge of how organizations working with social

The aim of this study was to examine how mental illness among parents is constructed in children’s literature. The empirical material consisted of seven children’s books published between the years of 2008 and 2015. The method used for this study was Fairclough’s Critical discourse analysis. The empirical findings were analyzed from Hirdmans (1988) theory on gender system to make visible the norms

In today’s fast moving business environment, organisational change is considered a key requisite to remain competitive, however, organisational change can be a double-edged sword as it can create difficulties for individuals in their identity work carried out in the organisation. Moreover, how individuals conduct their identity work in an organisation can amongst other factors be affected by disco

Genom att använda statistiska tester så testas lönsamheten och prognosförmågan av en teknisk analys strategi baserad på candlestick mönster. Analys av Candlestick mönster är en kortsiktig strategi baserad på öppnings-, hög-, låg- och stängningskurser för en finansiell tillgång. Resultaten visar att strategin inte är lönsam på kort sikt och att den inte har någon prognosförmåga när den appliceras pUsing statistical tests, the profitability and predictive power of a technical analysis strategy based on candlestick patterns is tested. Candlestick technical analysis is a short term strategy based on the open, high, low and closing prices of a financial asset. The results show that the strategy is not profitable in the short term and has no predictive power when applied to 29 OMXS30 stocks over

Syftet med denna studie är att se närmare på de teoretiska mekanismerna bakom vapenexport och avgöra hur dessa styrs utifrån länders militära utgifter. Som en sekundär aspekt undersöks konflikters inverkan på vapenexport. En modifierad version av en klassik gravitationsmodell utgör grunden för den empiriska analysen och skattningarna för variablernas inverkan på vapenexport utförs med Pooled OLS.