Essays about: "board ownership"

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1. 16. The Effect of Board Diversity on Corporate Performance : the Case of Swedish State-Owned Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations

   University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för ekonomi

   Author : Fabian Moser; Valieta Shabanaj; [2019]
   Keywords : State-owned enterprises; hybrid organizations; corporate governance; board of directors; board diversity; corporate performance;

   Abstract : This study examines how board diversity and characteristics of directors affect the financial and non-financial performance of Swedish state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOEs are characterized by state ownership, goal complexity, governmental funding and control and are therefore typical examples of hybrid organizations that purse both commercial and political logics. READ MORE

3. 17. Board independence and firm performance: The moderating effect of ownership concentration and shareholder protection

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Krzysztof Lipinski; [2019]
   Keywords : Tobin’s Q; Board Independence; Shareholder Concentration; Investor Protection;

   Abstract : This research studies the moderating effect of ownership concentration and the strength of investor protection on the relationship between the level of board independence, as measured by the number of non-executive directors in relation to total number of directors and the firm performance. Using a sample of 9018 observations on all non-financial publicly listed firmsin 27 OECD countries between the year 2012 and 2015. READ MORE

4. 18. Leaving a startup you helped to create : A qualitative study of managerial exits

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Paul Edlund; Lina Kemper; [2019]
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   Abstract : In the last decades, the growth of startups i.e. newly created business ventures,have been increasing heavily, especially in the tech sector. However, the research stream regarding these ventures has lagged, notably in the area of exit strategies. READ MORE

5. 19. Artificial intelligence outsmarting the human perception of what is patentable? - An EU examination of the patentability of artificial intelligence

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Jennifer Rönnerhed; [2018]
   Keywords : EU law; artificial intelligence; intellectual property; patent; inventive step; technical character; board of appeal; European patent convention; inventor; problem and solution approach; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Artificial intelligence challenges IPRs and patent is the legal field in focus for this thesis. The thesis examines if artificial intelligence can be the inventor of its own invention. Thereafter central questions to granting a patent by focusing on the second patent requirement in art. 56 EPC - the inventive step. READ MORE

6. 20. What Matters in Swedish Corporate Governance?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Axel Edholm; Ludvig Karlsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Corporate governance; firm performance; Agency Theory; board size; gender diversity; director ownership and dividend policy.;

   Abstract : By using five measures of corporate governance, this paper sheds light on the relationship between corporate governance, firm performance and firm valuation in a sample of large Swedish firms between 2013-2016. The study is conducted on the grounds of the Agency Theory as proposed by Jensen and Meckling (1976) and influenced by corporate governance research by Bhagat and Bolton (2008). READ MORE