Essays about: "Wealth Creation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 essays containing the words Wealth Creation.
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1. Incorporating Environmental Psychology in Architectural Design Processes : creation of a Translation Tool based on Affordances
University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and SocietyAbstract : Considering the enormous investment society makes in developing and shaping the built environment, and the huge impacts that buildings have on people’s health and well-being, there is an urgent need to better understand how to design buildings for human welfare. In the realm of architectural practice, designers are increasingly met with demands to present evidence of how their designs perform from a user perspective. READ MORE
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2. More Fish, more Mahasoa? A Quantitative Analysis of Food Security & Poverty Reduction in Rural Small-scale Aquaculture in Madagascar
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : The role of food-producing sectors such as agriculture and aquaculture in the development process is debated and while some consider industrial production to be the answer, others suggest that small-scale production can also make contributions to poverty reduction and food security. This thesis aims to shed light on these relationships by performing quantitative analyses of the small-scale freshwater aquaculture sector in six regions of Madagascar. READ MORE
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3. Playing by the Rules: Exploring the Challenges to Copyright Protection faced by Video Game Publishers
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The intellectual property regime within the European Union is one which has a rich and lengthy history, encompassing a wealth of forms of expression. The harmonisation of copyright can be dated to the creation of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1886. READ MORE
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4. ESG performance, a driver for shareholder value creation? Evidence from mergers and acquisitions
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : With an increasing demand for firms to become more sustainable, business managers are increasingly using merger and acquisition (M&A) investments as a tool to enhance both environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and corporate financial performance (CFP). This study aims to further understand the impact of ESG performance as a factor for creating shareholder value for the acquirers by 1) examining the impact of target firms' ESG performance on acquirer abnormal returns and 2) examining whether high ESG performing targets can help enhance the ESG performance of the acquirer. READ MORE
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5. To Spin Off or Not To Spin Off?
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : This study investigates the value creation of U.S. spin-offs undertaken between 2010 and 2017 from three perspectives. Firstly, shareholder wealth creation is analyzed through tests on unadjusted abnormal announcement-day returns and unadjusted abnormal long-term returns. READ MORE
