Trinity Business School (Research Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Inward Investment in Northern Ireland and Policy Transfer North and South: 1945 - 1973
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)Inward Investment in Northern Ireland and Policy Transfer North and South: 1945 -1973 Alison Hearne Using a historical narrative approach (Fletcher and Godley, 2000; Godley 1999), this thesis consists of three interlinked ... -
The impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Evolutionary Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)ic development in most economies, particularly in modern advanced ones. This thesis focuses on how the interplay between FDI and indigenous enterprises in the host location impacts regional economic development. This study ... -
To give and to gain: An investigation into skills-based volunteering as an avenue for learning and development
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)Skills-based volunteering has entered the corporate vernacular. Sitting at the intersection of corporate philanthropy and human resources, skills-based volunteering is a strategically driven activity that offers employees ... -
How the characteristics of research, development and innovation partnerships mediate their development
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)Whereas much has been written on the inter-organisational relations phenomenon from different bodies of literature such as strategy, innovation and management, it is typically done through variance studies built on major ... -
Green Demarketing Taking Off: A new environmental CSR approach for airlines
(Trinity College Dublin, 2019)The current growth in climate crisis awareness is forcing industries to shift and adapt their business models to a more sustainable one that satisfies customers’ needs. The airline industry, being one of the industries ... -
The Role of Financial Markets in Incentivising Corporate Social and Environmental Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)The central topic of this thesis is the role played by financial markets in incentivising firms to alter their impact on society through non-market strategies relating to environmental and social performance. The thesis ... -
What Fuels the Electric Vehicle Market? An Investigation of Macroeconomic and Sustainable Drivers of the Electric Vehicle Market
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2021)This doctoral thesis provides an investigation of three important determinants of the electric vehicle market and their respective influences on the market. Employing a data driven approach to counteract the shortcomings ... -
An Exploratory Study of the Characteristics and Success Factors of Multi-Sided Platforms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2021)Multi-Sided Platforms such as Uber and AirBnb create value by enabling interactions between two or more customer groups. But designing and building a successful platform isn't easy. Early-stage Multi-sided platforms face ... -
Gold and Silver Price Volatility Macro and Micro Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2021)Is there any volatility spillover from key macroeconomic variables towards the price returns in gold and silver markets? What is the stylized fact between return and volatility of the auctions in gold and silver markets? This ... -
People Analytics: Exploring the Debates, Drivers, and Performance Impact
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2021)People analytics has recently become an emerging trend within the field of HRM. Despite the significant growth of people analytics, many questions around people analytics and its performance impact remain unanswered. Drawing ... -
Effects of mobile phone attachment and forced exposure on attitudes towards the ad and the perceived intrusiveness of online advertisements
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2021)Numerous studies on advertising intrusiveness can be found in the literature and have demonstrated that there is a link between disruptive and forced exposure advertising and intrusiveness as well as negative emotional and ... -
The Influence of National Culture on Accounting and Finance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2021)This thesis, empirically analyses the role of cultural aspects in accounting and finance disciplines from diverse perspectives. It is made up of three distinct research papers. The first paper (chapter 4) primarily ... -
Multinationality and Performance Patterns in Advanced and Emerging Markets
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2021)This longitudinal research focuses on measuring multinationality of the firm, country, and industry, and estimating the relationship between said level of multinationality, and the firms' performance. My unique dataset ... -
A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING EDUCATOR WORKAHOLIC BEHAVIOUR
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)There is a necessity for multi-level multidisciplinary research within the field of workaholism research. Disagreement on how to define workaholism and how to measure it prevails. The ambiguity surrounding conceptualisation ... -
Urban resilience based systems managment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)As a result of climate change cities face challenges of growing complexity and uncertainties including increasing magnitude and volume of droughts, storms and flooding among other extreme weather events. Traditional risk ... -
An examination of large-scale land acquisitions and their possible effects on growth volatility
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)Abstract Introduction Large-scale land acquisitions in developing countries became notorious in the early 2000s. Research carried out in those early years explored their effects from multiple angles (e.g. ecology, water, ... -
An investigation into family business evolution
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)Family Businesses are the backbone of Irish SME's. It is important for scholars to understand why some firms can transfer across generations and others do not. Is it by choice or by design? This study develops two ... -
Brexit Damage Limitation: Tariff-jumping FDI and the Irish Agri-Food Sector
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)The momentous Brexit has been attracting worldwide attention since the United Kingdom announced its intention to leave the European Union after the national referendum on 23 June 2016. Despite the tortuous negotiations ... -
Total Product Affordance Management During Improvement Projects
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)The concept of affordance is linked to external and internal subsystem design aspects. The external subsystem design aspect focuses on product utility and product-user interaction at the interface with a product's external ... -
The Influence of Digital Information and Communications Technology on Industry Evolution
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)There is a requirement for research engaging with the structural evolution of whole industries. This research focuses on exploring how digital information and communications technology (ICT) has influenced industry evolution ...
