Essays about: "business quantitative"
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1. Risky Business: Quantitative Risk Assessments as Enabling Devices in Cybersecurity
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) is a growing practice in the cybersecurity field. This paper examines QRA the use in various industries and the problems with its use. The focus of the qualitative research is to understand why cybersecurity organizations might want to use QRA even if it produces untrue and potentially problematic results. READ MORE
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2. The Challenges of Social Enterprises in Balancing Economic, Social, and Environmental Tradeoffs: Comparative Case Study of Hybrid Organizing- Swedish Context.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Purpose -This master thesis is to investigate the challenges of sustainability and to understand how massive effort of collaborative hybrid organizing, involving multiple stakeholders from private, public, and civil societies balance or aligns the activities that generate economic, social, and environmental impacts. And to analyze the effects of competition between the investors interested in the joint collaborative initiatives. READ MORE
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3. Exploring the relationship between absorptive capacity and ambidexterity-Swedish context
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This study explores the relationship between ambidexterity and absorptive capacity by conducting a quantitative research study on a sample of 31 companies that operate in different industries in Sweden. The data was collected from the companies’ annual reports and analyzed by using statistical methods through SPSS software. READ MORE
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4. Leveling the Playing Field: Can Private Investors Benefit From Mimicking Insider Trades? A quantitative study of insider trading
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Historically, investors have been searching for strategies to maximize performance in the stock market. It has been shown that corporate insiders can earn abnormal returns by trading in their own companies as they possess superior information and, to a certain degree, market timing ability. READ MORE
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5. GOVERNANCE BEYOND BORDERS The Extraterritorial Reach of OECD National Contact Points for Responsible Business Conduct
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : As increasingly powerful actors in a globalised world, multinational corporations are often able to evade responsibility for human rights violations and other misconduct occurring in their own operations or supply chains. Since courts face limitations when attempting to exert jurisdiction outside of their state territories, state-based non-judicial mechanisms such as the OECD National Contact Points (NCPs) have been established to fill this gap by mediating between corporations and victims of corporate human rights abuses with the aim of providing remedy to the latter. READ MORE