Trinity Business School (Research Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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How far can patent records be used for making international comparisons of technological achievement?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2007)This thesis explores the question of how far the data on patents may be used for an international comparison of innovation, measured by technological achievement. The literature supports the use of raw patent data as a ... -
Public services as complex adaptive systems : a framework for theory development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)This thesis is aimed at developing public administration theory to improve the governance of public services - i.e., understand more about the actions that actors in public service can take to achieve desired outcomes under ... -
Equity pricing, volatility and skewness : the dynamic behaviour and interactions of first and second moments in the Euro area and United States stock markets
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2006)This thesis contributes to the empirical asset pricing literature on both the cross- section and time series of stock returns. It also contributes to the recent but rapidly growing literature on total and idiosyncratic ... -
Imaging the voluntary actor : an exploration of the nature of the voluntary actor and of the relationship between the voluntary actor and voluntary action
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)The emerging academic field of voluntary action, nonprofit or third sector studies is a multi-disciplinary, social science field that addresses the phenomenon of voluntary action as an organised endeavour in society. In ... -
RUC to PSNI : a study of radical organisational change
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)This aim of this thesis is explore and explain the process of organisational change which saw the Royal Ulster Constabulary become the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The research approach adopted was process based, ... -
Collaboration in buyer-supplier relationships
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2006)Many authors (e.g. Handfleld and Nichols, 2002, Laseter, 1998, Hartley et al., 1997, Ross, 2003) argue that organisations working closely in collaboration with suppliers can reduce costs, improve quality and shorten ... -
Buyer-supplier collaboration : a sensemaking perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)This thesis provides an empirical investigation of how buyer and supplier teams make sense of collaboration. Specifically, this thesis explores how buyer and supplier parties interpret collaboration and how their interpretations ... -
Financing SMEs : an investigation of determinants of capital structures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)This study examines the financing of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by conducting an empirical investigation of determinants of capital structure. It commences with a review of both the financial growth life ... -
Subsequent FDI in China : an empirical analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)This dissertation has two major objectives. One is to find out what factors influence the intensity of foreign investors' subsequent investment in China. The other is to find out what factors influence MNEs location ... -
A study of the internationalisation of indigenous Irish software technology firms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)This research is a study of the factors influencing the internationalisation of indigenous Irish software technology firms. It is a three phased study - phase one: an initial exploratory study, phase two: an in-depth case ... -
The demise of voluntarism in the Irish system of industrial relations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2007)Ireland’s system of industrial relations has traditionally been described as voluntarist in nature. The literature indicates that industrial relations rules and rule-making processes can take a variety of forms in different ... -
Understanding stakeholders : towards a theory of responsiveness in organizations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2003)This study investigates the nature of responsiveness in organizations and its relation to dialogue as a reflective mode of conversation. Responsiveness as a theme emerged from the practical experience of the author in an ... -
Returns and information flow in futures markets and their relation to the behaviour of volatility and symmetry measures : an analysis utilizing VAR and GARCH modelling
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)This dissertation examines the behaviour of futures returns and change in volume (information flow) across a wide selection of market sectors encompassing multiple contracts within each sector. The contracts examined ... -
How external management consultants add value in IS strategy in the public sector
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)Information systems (IS) can transform an organisation and there are now many business models which are fiindamentally defined by technology. Despite the success stories, IS initiatives have been prone to failures which ... -
Environmental considerations within manufacturing strategy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)This thesis examines innovative entrepreneurial firms and their engagement in environmental management in the context of sustainable development. The interrelationships of environmental management with innovation and other ... -
Developing a framework for partnership between organisations that provide nursing and midwifery education
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2006)This study is about the development of a framework for partnership between organisations that provide nursing and midwifery education. Within this partnership context, there is an onus of accountability on professional ... -
Approaches to IS strategic planning in public sector organisations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2007)The strategic planning of information systems (IS) involves the development of functional-level IS strategies which contain activities and applications to assist an organisation in managing the IS area, executing its ... -
A typology for strategic supply-chain management : bridging the gap between operations and strategy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2007)Over the last decade, supply-chain management (SCM), a field that emerged from the operational areas of purchasing and logistics, has become a focal area in business studies. However, efforts to move SCM from an operational ... -
Firm level multinationality in international business and finance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)The Multinational Corporation (MNC) is one of the most important concepts in international business (IB) and international finance (IF). However, there is no commonly and widely agreed definition of what constitutes an MNC ... -
Essays on environmental shocks and economic development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2013)This thesis investigates the effects of environmental shocks, in the form of natural disasters and rainfall volatility, on economic development. I pursue both theoretical and empirical investigations of these issues. In ...
