Trinity Business School (Research Theses and Dissertations)
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The Impact of Multinational Enterprises' Spillovers on Indigenous Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)While the symbiosis of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) and large-scale businesses is well-established, the landscape shifts dramatically in contexts where established businesses are scarce. The silver lining? The potential ... -
Do Emotions Matter? An Investigation of Human Emotions and Financial Decision Making in the Digital Era
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)This doctoral dissertation thoroughly examines the influence of social media sentiment on financial markets, focusing particularly on the GameStop short squeeze and the cryptocurrency market behavior. The dissertation includes ... -
An Alternative Perspective on Multinationality: Integrating Research in International Business and Finance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)The Multinational Company (MNC) is one of the most important concepts across many business research domains. Multinational companies (MNCs) vary significantly in terms of risk exposure, operational activities and financial ... -
Risk Connectedness: Evolution, Intervention, and Application
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)In recent years, global uncertainty has surged due to the multi-effects of COVID-19, geopolitical conflicts, energy price fluctuation, downward pressure on the economy, inflation, policy uncertainty, and natural disasters. ... -
Does Collaborative Governance Work? A longitudinal, case-based study of how local governments adapt to collaborative governance, and with what effect.
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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.
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...