The time of easily recoverable oil is coming towards an end, and oil companies start to look at other frontiers where the oil is more difficult to reach in order to secure future supply. One of those areas is the arctic which is considered to have a great amount of oil and gas and is at the present time relatively unexplored. Since the arctic climate is severe, it is consistent with extra costs to

The aim of this study is to investigate empirically the comparative stability of Islamic and Conventional banks for years 2005-08 to find out which one of them is more stable. We have taken accounting data from 8 countries for 66 banks out of which 26 Islamic and 40 Conventional ones. We performed our quantitative analysis by employing two dependent stability (risk) proxies, four bank level and th

The purpose of the paper is twofold. One is the micro contribution of the accomplishment of identities in situations of complex sales through a constructionist view of the world and the terminology of OI. This will be an attempt to contribute to the research into the formation of identities. To the B2B research field the intended contribution is to gain understanding of how the individuals involve

The research brings the following conclusions: knowledge sharing plays essential role in communicating the need for organizational change; employees need time to identify themselves with the change aspect to become more customer-oriented. Some of the reasons for current discrepancies in Wind lie within unstructured and inconsistent communication, rapidly changing business environment, triggers cre

Notions of cultural identity and its importance have changed significantly during recent decades, affecting everything from state politics and public debate to conflicts and war. This is very much true for the cultural identity of people perceived as indigenous, either by others or by themselves. My field site for exploration of these issues is Guatemala. The question I pose is: How do local peopl

This study compares how the Swedish krona, valued in four different currencies, changes during times of financial crisis with non-crisis periods. Then out-of-sample predictions are made based on the flexible-price model. The predictions are made for the one period time horizon using the most recent information available at that time. This is done by re-estimating the parameters for every new obser

Developing business models in the area of electromobility is one of the primary challenges in order to successfully electrify road transport. As any technology the electric vehicle (EV) or the charging infrastructure that fuels it will not have any value unless one finds ways to commercialise those technologies. This thesis investigates the early stages of business model development within electro

Thirty-five years after the massive earthquake that shook the city on July 28, 1976, Tangshan residents still live with the scars of the losses and injuries that were suffered. This case study is about possible recent changes to commemorations and public memory in Tangshan. Firstly, it will examine how the Tangshan earthquake is commemorated publicly through monuments, ruins and at schools. Second

Background:The African continent has shown significant social and economical improvements during the past decade. This has increased the incitements for investors to enter the continent. However great internal differences still exist and the attractiveness of different regions and sectors differs widely from an investor’s perspective. Markets Speaking is a Sweish-­‐Ghanian consultancy who has spec