Essays about: "small business finance"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 essays containing the words small business finance.
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1. CYBER SECURITY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaAbstract : The Internet has evolved over the years. Businesses and individuals have leveraged it to run theirdaily activities to make everything easier. Almost every business has a digital footprint that makesit more profitable. READ MORE
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2. Invested or business as usual? The finance sector and the new EU sustainability policies. : A content analysis of sustainability reporting within financial monetary institutions operating in Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationerAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to partly get an overview of how financial market participants operating in Sweden complied to third article in the new Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) in forced by the EU and partly to investigate how financial market participants handle and navigate through the forced transparency, in the search of finding increased understanding to why the allocation of capital is not going fast enough toward sustainable economic activities. To reach this aim a content analysis was conducted on Swedish financial monetary institutions’s sustainability reports and institutional theory was used as the theoretical framework. READ MORE
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3. Making Artisanal Gold Miners ‘Investable’ - A Novel Means of ‘Improving’ Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining? A neoliberal eco-governmentality analysis of ‘responsible’ artisanal and small-scale gold mining: the case of the Lake Victoria Gold Programme in Migori County, Kenya
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Objectives: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) - a labour-intensive and low-tech mode of minerals extraction and processing - has received increasing attention amidst global commodity booms and its concurrent expansion. Infamously associated with negative social and environmental impacts, responsible mining initiatives have emerged to promote, measure, and enforce sustainable mining practices for ASM. READ MORE
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4. Can investor sentiment predict the European size premium? An empirical investigation of regional size premium predictability
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Research on the determinants of the size premium, i.e. that small stocks on average outperform large stocks, has traditionally focused on financial and macroeconomic factors. However, recent academic studies shed light on the influence of behavioral factors on the size premium, specifically investor sentiment. READ MORE
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5. Run to the -sustainable- hills? An exploration of ESG fund flows in the US market in response to Flight-To-Safety periods
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Funds flowing into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Non-ESG, and Precious Metal funds (as a proxy to a safe haven asset) are analyzed for 440 such funds in the United States during Flight-To-Safety (FTS) episodes to determine if investors perceive safe-haven-like properties in ESG funds by shifting funds into this group. FTS episodes represent brief rotations of funds into safer assets to preserve capital during burst of market volatility. READ MORE
