Search for dissertations about: "Financial performance of companies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the words Financial performance of companies.
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1. Essays of Financial Performance and Capital Structure
Abstract : This thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four self-contained essays on financial performance and capital structure. Essay I assesses the strength of strategic inputs into profitability among firms within several sub-sectors within the industrial service sector in the U.S. and Sweden. READ MORE
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2. Communicating performance measures : Supporting continuous improvement in manufacturing companies
Abstract : Manufacturing enterprises are a key driver of economic growth (Eurostat, 2016). Implementing continuous improvement (CI) is commonly used to increase competitiveness (Hyland et al., 2007), but despite the well-known theory of CI, many manufacturing companies fail in implementing it (Bhasin, 2012; Nordin et al., 2012; Tiwari et al. READ MORE
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3. In (re)search of corporate governance models between markets and hierarchies : The governance of franchising
Abstract : The research project started with the purpose of understanding the importance of corporate governance in franchising. The dissertation includes four articles all of which describe the governance of franchising.The first article is a review study using a strategy of systematic search to produce a systematic review. READ MORE
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4. From market orientation to orientation towards international marjets (OIM) of born global firms : evaluating the impact of OIM on born global firms' performance
Abstract : Although there is a considerable amount of research on market orientation, research on this concept in the context of born global firms is still lacking a precise definition and full operationalization. This research aims to investigate how the market orientation (MO) concept could be understood for a specific type of firm: the born global firm. READ MORE
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5. The financial performance : a study of how financial numbers become meaningful
Abstract : This book is about the question of how financial numbers become meaningful. This is one of the most central questions for companies and organisations active on capital markets around the globe because the understanding of these numbers is the basis for capital-allocation decisions that can both make or break the real economy. READ MORE