Browsing Trinity Business School (Research Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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Neo-corporatism, new realism and social partnership in Ireland 1970-1999
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Fast-growth firms and entrepreneurial teams : an investigation of the structures and strategies employed by firms in the U.S. and Irish software industry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2001)A body of research exists which suggests that firms founded by entrepreneurial teams are more likely to be fast-growing than firms founded by individuals. The objective of this work was to investigate the structures and ... -
The influence of inter-company linkages on company performance : the case of the Irish software industry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2001)This study was undertaken to examine the following research question: How and why do inter-company linkages influence company performance? Many studies (e.g. Teece, 1997; Gemser, 1996; Hagedoom, 1990) have contributed ... -
Rediscovering quality through grounded theory
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A tripartite investigation of the Gold Market : pricing influences, intraday patterns and daily seasonality
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CIO perspectives of their role in information systems strategy : an application of grounded theory in a health care context
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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 ...