Sökning: "tangibility"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet tangibility.

  1. 1. Essays on Voting Power, Corporate Governance and Capital Structure

    Författare :Yinghong Chen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; corporate governance; power indices; dual class of shares; pyramidal structure; owner control; firm performance; voting premium; Shapley-Shubik power index; Banzhaf power index; capital structure; firm leverage; profitability; tangibility; panel data;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is divided into 4 essays. Each focuses on different aspect of firm risk and corporate governance issues. It mainly deals with corporate governance issues in the context of strong owner control and its implications to market efficiency. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Essays in empirical finance

    Författare :Jieying Li; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : “Going Online? The Motive of Firms to Borrow from the Crowd” investigates firms’ motivation to seek crowdlending using a novel Swedish dataset. Firms that borrow from the crowd have higher growth rates and external financing demand, but lower tangibility and fewer available assets to pledge as collateral, compared with firms that borrow from banks. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Determinants of exploitation of innovative venture ideas : A study of nascent entrepreneurs in an advisory system

    Författare :Zarina Osmonalieva; Esbjörn Segelod; Tommy D. Andersson; Mälardalens högskola; []
    Nyckelord :nascent entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial self-efficacy; opportunity variation; exploitation; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

    Sammanfattning : This study contributes to nascent entrepreneurship research by investigating factors on the individual and opportunity levels of analysis that determine the exploitation of innovative venture ideas. As a result of the literature review three theoretical perspectives were chosen to organize the factors: human and social capital, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and domain definition strategy. LÄS MER

  5. 4. SOMWeb : Supporting a Distributed Clinical Community of Practice Using Semantic Web Technologies

    Författare :Marie Gustafsson; Högskolan i Skövde; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; clinical collaboration; distributed communities of practice; knowledge management; medical informatics; online communities; ontologies; Semantic Web; Information technology; Informationsteknik; Computer science; Datavetenskap; Teknik; Technology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns supporting the collaboration and knowledge sharing of distributed clinicians of oral medicine, a sub-discipline of dentistry. The Swedish Oral Medicine Network (SOMNet) holds monthly telephone conferences where a group of clinicians discuss interesting and difficult cases, which distinguishes it from one-to-one teleconsultations. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Here and now : Foundations and practice of human-experiential design

    Författare :Kei Hoshi; Eva Waterworth; John Waterworth; David Benyon; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Dichotomy; Embodiment; Blended Reality; Experiential Design; Human-Computer Interaction; Health Care; Special Needs; Tangible Presence; Here and Now; computer and systems sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis claims that an experiential approach to design really does promise the possibility of scientific design of everyday life. The purpose of this thesis is to show the promise. René Descartes conceptualized the classical formulation of a mind-body dichotomy. LÄS MER