Essays about: "informal investors"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words informal investors.

  1. 1. Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Attractiveness

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Samuel Dahlman; Kimiya Esphabodi; [2023]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper is a cross-country study on how national culture affects institutional private equity and venture capital investments in Europe and is based on the previous works of Groh, Liechtenstein and Lieser (2010) and Hofstede, Hofstede and Minkov (2011). We argue that national culture affects capital allocation and that this parameter is often missing in the contemporary discourse on the drivers of investments. READ MORE

  3. 2. Drivers of Sustainability in the Swedish Financial Market: A Qualitative Study on the Swedish National Pension Funds

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Peggy Jägfeldt; Erik Olivecrona; [2021]
    Keywords : Active Ownership; Corporate Dialogues; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Institutional Owners; Socially Responsible Investing;

    Abstract : Over the past few decades, the world has seen the continuation and rise in the severity of issues facing the long-term wellbeing of people and the environment. To surmount these pressing challenges, society is aiming to change the standard profit-maximizing models of corporations to ones that include considerations for sustainability issues. READ MORE

  4. 3. British Financial Imperialism and the Colonial Special Economic Zone. An analysis of the influence of foreign investment on local economic policies in the Cape Colony.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Alexander Easton; [2020]
    Keywords : Financial Imperialism; Cape Colony; Kimberley; Diamond Mining; Special Economic Zone.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to address the limited spatial focus of existing critiques of British financial imperialism, by analysing the economic relationship between Britain and the Cape Colony,and integrating discreet sets of literature related to British imperialism and the economic history of the Cape Colony. Specifically, focus has centred on the diamond mining industry in Kimberley, which produced some of the highest returns on investment of any mining industry in Africa. READ MORE

  5. 4. Innovation Management : Evaluation Criteria for Idea Selection

    University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.)

    Author : Greta Wågström; Gustav Meisner; [2019]
    Keywords : Innovation; intrapreneurship; corporate entrepreneurship; idea selection; evaluation criteria; emerging opportunities;

    Abstract : Innovation outside the company’s core business is essential for any company in a fast-changing environment. Companies that want to engage in strategic innovation in order to embrace emerging opportunities need ways of managing the innovation process. READ MORE

  6. 5. Nanotechnology Start-ups - Intellectual Property for Generating Value

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle

    Author : Amanda Hellström; Sara Nilsson; [2018]
    Keywords : nanotechnology; start-up; intellectual property; management; innovation; strategic value; financial value; formal IP; informal IP;

    Abstract : Purpose – The purpose of this thesis was to increase the understanding of how formal and informal intellectual property may affect value generation of strategic and financial values within the nanotechnology start-up sector. Method – This study had an inductive approach through a qualitative multi-case study. READ MORE