Essays about: "long value at risk"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 120 essays containing the words long value at risk.

  1. 1. Bringing human rights due diligence into law: Addressing modern slavery or business as usual? : A postcolonial assessment of the UK Modern Slavery Act’s compliance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Isabelle Kämpe; [2023]
    Keywords : UK Modern Slavery Act; MSA; UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; UNGP; modern slavery; human rights due diligence; HRDD; supply chain; transparency; postcolonialism; neo-colonialism; dependency theory;

    Abstract : Operating through complex supply chains and multiple jurisdictions, today’s business enterprises can outsource manufacturing to different parts of the world where they can take advantage of low labour- and production costs. In the global quest for businesses to maximise their profits, deteriorating working conditions for offshore labour workers are increasing the risks of human rights abuses. READ MORE

  2. 2. To What Extent Top Managers' Compensation Impacts the Risk Aversion Phenomenon?

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Maxime EONNET; Mathieu RUBY; [2023]
    Keywords : Executive Compensation; Risk Aversion; Agency Theory; Risk-taking Factors; Long-term; Short-term; Objectives; Accounting;

    Abstract : Executive compensation and its issues are a very sensitive subject, to be taken with apinch of salt, but it is above all a fascinating subject, which deserves a more globalunderstanding from people. Our study thus aims to determine to what extent executivecompensation and its structure, which may seem complex at first glance, play a role inthe risk aversion of executives. READ MORE

  3. 3. Part of the Problem or Solution? : The Drivers and Barriers from CSR to CSR 2.0 in Companies Operating in Sweden

    University essay from Jönköping University

    Author : Hanna Bexell; Sina Barmoro; [2023]
    Keywords : CSR; CSR 2.0; Future CSR; Drivers and Barriers;

    Abstract : At present, humanity faces one of its most pressing and daunting challenges: climate change. For this reason, sustainable development is a topic more urgent now than ever. CSR 2.0 is a model introduced to tackle the limitations of traditional CSR practices that have been shown to be ineffective over time. READ MORE

  4. 4. Påverkan av ett gemensamt fysiskt träningsprogram på hundägarens hälsorelaterade livskvalité och kroppskomposition hos både hundägare och hund

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

    Author : Nike Erlandsson; Julia Vingberger; [2023]
    Keywords : BCS; BMI; fysisk aktivitet; kroppsammansättning; hälsa; livskvalité; motivation; träningsprogram; övervikt;

    Abstract : Övervikt och fetma är ett ökande problem hos människor och hundar och ofta kan en korrelation ses mellan hundägarens och hundens hull. Gemensamma träningsprogram för hundägare och hund har visats kunna stimulera till fysisk aktivitet och därmed ett hälsosammare liv med minskad risk för en rad olika sjukdomar, en positiv effekt på lyckokänsla och välbefinnande samt minskad depression och ångest hos människan. READ MORE

  5. 5. “It was a free and healthy job” : timber floating on the river Ångermanälven in the 20th century

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Olivia Forssén; [2023]
    Keywords : timber floating; forest history; women in timber floating; interviews; historical records;

    Abstract : The exploitation of northern Sweden's forests began in about the 1830s and continued expanding northwards over the following decades. A key factor that enabling the exploitation of these forests was the natural infrastructure, such as the network of rivers, creeks and flooding during the summer, which made it possible to float timber from the forests to the sawmills on the coast. READ MORE