Trinity Business School: Recent submissions
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The nature of workplace Industrial Relations conflict : expression and impact in a healthcare setting
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2015)The purpose of this research is to explore the nature of workplace Industrial Relations (IR) conflict. The inspiration for research was the dominant focus of previous inquiry on strike action. This has two key limitations. ... -
Extending the job demands-resources model of work engagement : the role of demands and resources from other domains
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2015)This study aims to extend the job demands-resources model (JD-R model) of work engagement by proposing that in addition to job demands and job resources, as proposed in the existing JD-R model, non-work factors (e.g., ... -
Ireland Country Report: Eufori Study. European Foundations for Research and Innovation
(European Commission, 2015)Through the application of the EUFORI analytical framework to R&I foundations in Ireland, we have established that the field of foundation philanthropy is small, and foundation funding for research and innovation comprises ... -
Driving Progress for Research and Innovation in Europe: The Potential of R&I Foundations
(European Commission DG-RTD, 2018)The objective of the Expert Group on “Foundations, Venture Philanthropy and Social Investments” is to unleash the potential of R&I foundations and other providers of capital and expertise, such as venture ... -
The determinants of IPO withdrawal - Evidence from Europe
(2019)Why do companies not follow through with an IPO after filing for one? This question is investigated by examining common stock IPOs for the largest countries in Europe.We cover 80% of the Western European ... -
Immaterialism, Objects and Social Theory
(2019)The philosopher Graham Harman argues that contemporary debates about the nature of reality as such, and about the nature of objects in particular, can be meaningfully applied to social theory and practice. With Immaterialism, ... -
On IPO Withdrawal
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2019)This doctoral thesis offers insights into the determinants, outcomes and predictions of IPO withdrawal in 21st-century Western Europe by focusing on three distinct investigations. These investigations are motivated by a ... -
How teams progress through the innovation process
The work of any innovation-project team working on an innovation project is a process within a process. The innovation-project team is a group of individuals whom may be working on one of several innovation projects at any ... -
The Financing of High-Tech SMEs: Investigating the Effects of Capital Structure on Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2019)The thesis examines the capital structure of small and medium-sized enterprises which are based in the high-technology sector. Little analysis so far has investigated the impact of financing on this important sector and ... -
Aspects of the European and North and Southeast Asian stock market integration gap
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2006)The principal objective of this thesis is to investigate important aspects of the proposition that the discrepancy between the levels of stock market integration in Europe and North and Southeast Asia might be diminished ... -
A study of values and strategy together in the organisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)This study answers a number of questions inadequately addressed by the literature. How has the history and development of the strategy concept reflected values and particularly, the contribution of the values of individuals? ... -
Implementing service-improvement change in Irish hospitals : exploring facilitating and hindering factors
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)The principal objectives of this thesis are (1) to identify who holds change-related roles, how are they enacted in and affected by role-related constraints and what works effectively; (2) To identify the contextual factors ... -
The nature of top management support : a grounded theory exploration of enterprise system implementation in the Irish Health Service
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2007)The promise of a fully integrated enterprise has been an organisational dream for many decades. Such a dream would unite individual departments and functional areas into a single system. As a result management would have ... -
Fairness, outcomes, expectations : exploring drivers of individual reactions to planned organisational change
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2006)The principal objective of this study is to investigate the link between employees' experience of and reactions to organisational change through the frame work of organisational justice . This study differentiates between ... -
Equity market development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. An empirical analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2007)The objectives of this thesis are (i) to clarify the mechanisms uniting equity markets and economic development and (ii) to analyze the equity market development process in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region. ... -
Mood and equity pricing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2007)This thesis investigates the theoretical and empirical relationship between mood and equity pricing. The theoretical relationship is explored by reference to the relevant psychological, decision-making, behavioural economics, ... -
Coping with circumstance : development, and application to niche software development firms, of an integrative process model of adaptation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2006)The research described in this thesis uses process theory to examine the phenomenon of adaptation in niche software development firms. This examination is undertaken by initially constructing a model of adaptation that ... -
An Exploration of How Social Media Data is Used in Companies, Evidence from the Telecom Industry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2019)ocial media (SM) has fundamentally changed how companies and consumers communicate and interact with each other. Comprehensive understanding of companies' use of SM requires an in-depth investigation of how companies use ... -
The effect of internal corporate governance on earnings quality and firm performance in GCC countries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2018)There has been an increase in the importance of corporate governance (CG) around the world, seeking to increase the protection and confidence among investors from fraudulent and unethical practices. Fama & Jensen (1983) ... -
Confronting long-term unemployment through social entrepreneurship : an action research study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2004)This thesis emerges from the action-learning M.Sc which was completed at Trinity College, Dublin six years ago (Nolan, 1997). Through that thesis, and the associated learning processes of the programme, a concept was ...
