In this part limitations and suggestions for further studies will be presented.
Since this study focuses only on the Swedish Large Caps during a rather short period of time, we could suggest that further study should be done regarding small and middle caps. Therefore the study could be more adequate and representative to all Swedish companies.
To measure the performance of the companies our study focused on accounting profitability measures-financial measures. We recommend extending the study using other performance measures-non financial measures. It could be interesting as it could be done using both financial and non financial performance measures as well.
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