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Repairing incentives to invest in plant breeding
(Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, 2007)Several factors have been eroding the value of protection for the results of efforts to breed new plant varieties. A series of possible improvements is evaluated. -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Reconsidering Financial Flows in Supply Chain Management
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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 ... -
Exploring the connection between R&D and supply chain management in the branded ethical pharmaceutical sector
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)This investigation, in the field and in the literature, aimed to describe how SCM functions in terms of new product R&D in the ethical branded pharmaceutical industry. The literature review revealed little extant research ... -
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 ... -
Vision and Reality: Community Involvement in Irish Urban Regeneration
(2008)This paper examines the processes and outcomes of community involvement in six Irish urban regeneration case studies, three in Dublin and three in Belfast. The findings are part of a wider study using a Complex Adaptive ... -
'Interrogating Irish Policies' Revisited
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RUC to PSNI : a study of radical organisational change
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)This aim of this thesis is explore and explain the process of organisational change which saw the Royal Ulster Constabulary become the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The research approach adopted was process based, ... -
Why patents need reform, and some suggestions for it
(Edward Elgar, 2009)The patent system no longer fulfills its original purpose, but it could be repaired and this chapter shows some ways of doing this. -
Buyer-supplier collaboration : a sensemaking perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)This thesis provides an empirical investigation of how buyer and supplier teams make sense of collaboration. Specifically, this thesis explores how buyer and supplier parties interpret collaboration and how their interpretations ... -
How external management consultants add value in IS strategy in the public sector
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)Information systems (IS) can transform an organisation and there are now many business models which are fiindamentally defined by technology. Despite the success stories, IS initiatives have been prone to failures which ... -
Returns and information flow in futures markets and their relation to the behaviour of volatility and symmetry measures : an analysis utilizing VAR and GARCH modelling
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)This dissertation examines the behaviour of futures returns and change in volume (information flow) across a wide selection of market sectors encompassing multiple contracts within each sector. The contracts examined ... -
Firm level multinationality in international business and finance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)The Multinational Corporation (MNC) is one of the most important concepts in international business (IB) and international finance (IF). However, there is no commonly and widely agreed definition of what constitutes an MNC ...