Trinity Business School (Research Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions

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    • Does Collaborative Governance Work? A longitudinal, case-based study of how local governments adapt to collaborative governance, and with what effect. 

      McQuaid, Siobhan (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)
      This study asks how do local governments implement and adapt to the collaborative governance arrangements required for nature-based solutions (NBS) and does collaborative governance work? A longitudinal, comparative case ...

    • Management of Product Recall in the Automobile Industry 

      Jia, Weihan (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)
      A product recall occurs when products fail to meet certain safety standards or contain a defect that could cause serious harm to consumers. The objective of the thesis is to explore the sources of product recalls and the ...

    • An exploration of client-supplier relationship dynamics within Business Process Outsourcing 

      Lyons, Paul (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2017)
      Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the term used to describe the commissioning by client firms of specialist providers to fulfil certain services on their behalf. These services are generally integral to the client ...

    • Selling Online Display Advertising via Guaranteed Contracts and the Real-time Bidding Auctions 

      Ye, Junchi (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)
      Online display advertising has become a principal revenue stream for a multitude of online publishers and content providers. This form of advertising involves selling 'impressions' or views of display advertisements to ...

    • Exploring the Potential of Chatbots: Insights into Consumer Preferences for Chatbots and Chatbot Interaction Content 

      Johar, Chetna (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)
      The proliferation of chatbots has revolutionised customer service. By simulating human-human interaction and real-time information dissemination, chatbots enhance customer experiences while saving costs for businesses. ...

    • Emergence and evolution of entrepreneurship in the Galway Gaeltacht 

      Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)
      This thesis studies and analyses how entrepreneurship emerged and evolved in a peripheral rural community from a pre-industrial stage at the end of the 19th century to a stage in the early 21st century when a transition ...

    • AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNCONVENTIONAL MONETARY POLICY AND CRYPTOCURRENCY, AND THE ROLE OF TRUST. 

      Wylie, Niamh Christine (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)
      This thesis examines whether the unconventional monetary policy measures pursued by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the European Central Bank since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) are ...

    • On the Extent of Negative First-Day IPO Returns 

      Rossovski, Jacqueline (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      This doctoral thesis delves into the largely uncharted territory of overpriced Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the U.S. market from 2000 to 2020, focusing on three distinctive investigations. Grounded in a thorough ...

    • Government-Business Relations in the Services Sector of Independent Ireland, 1922-1958 

      Oliver, Emmet Anthony (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      Government-business relations were vital in shaping the initial decades of the Irish economy. While broad-based autarchy was the governing paradigm of the secondary, or manufacturing, part of the economy, less is known ...

    • Exploring the effects of the socio-political dynamics on HRM delivery 

      Kurdi Nakra, Hussein (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      Recently, the human resource management (HRM) literature has witnessed a burgeoning interest in examining front-line managers' (FLMs) implementation behaviors of adopted HRM. While this stream of research has made significant ...

    • An Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment in Indonesia from 1980 -2019 

      Sawitri, Kadek Ade (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been the focus of research in the field of International Business (IB). Despite the significant development of previous studies on FDI and its role in a country, particularly in emerging ...

    • The Framework of First-Line Manager's HR Role Identity and HR Implementation 

      Kou, Xuan (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      The field of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has accentuated the crucial role first-line managers (FLMs) play in promoting both employees and organizational performance through their effective implementation ...

    • The ebb and flow of Flow: A micro-level investigation of flow experiences as the mechanism underlying energy sustainability and employees' functioning 

      Alshaikh, Isaac (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      The present thesis focuses on identifying and examining the psychological mechanism underlying employees? energetic resources at work and while working from home, which has the potential to foster employees? energy ...

    • An Investigation into How Line Managers Shape and Influence HR Practice During the Implementation Process 

      Kavanagh, Shirley Mary (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      Human resource research has extended beyond the types of practices implemented to how practices are implemented by line managers who hold people management responsibilities (e.g. performance management) to their direct ...

    • Essays in Energy Finance 

      Ren, Boru (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      This dissertation is composed of three main chapters related to energy finance, where the first two chapters each contain one essay and the third chapter contains two essays. In the first chapter (published in the Economic ...

    • An Examination of Strategic Alignment Mechanisms in Public Service Organisations 

      Sinz, Soeren (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      Strategic alignment (i.e., the alignment between business and information and communications technology (ICT)) has remained a top management concern for decades – evident by the annual ICT issue survey published for ...

    • Internationalisation of Professional Service Firms: Evidence from Chinese Law Firms 

      Zhang, Xianwu (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
      The globalisation of professional service firms (PSFs) has garnered increasing attention in research and practice since accounting firms expanded internationally in the 1970s. PSFs from emerging markets (EPSFs) are a ...

    • Digital Money Never Sleeps? Modern qualitative-based indices in digital assets 

      Wang, Yizhi (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)
      What can we know about digital assets, as digital money also never sleeps? How can we measure the variations in these digital assets from a new perspective? What are the effects of digital assets on financial markets? The ...

    • The Hybrid Identities of Academic Entrepreneurs 

      Walsh, Natalie (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)
      Academic Entrepreneurs continuously face identity paradoxes. Drawing on theories from role identity and entrepreneurial orientation literature, this study investigate how academic entrepreneurs manage their hybrid role ...

    • Social Entrepreneurship in the Irish State-funded Third Sector 

      Byrne, Danielle Léa (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)
      The study seeks to determine the extent and nature of social entrepreneurship in a population of Irish third sector organisations (TSOs) in receipt of state funding, and to explain why some TSOs may be more socially ...