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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 ... -
The Effect of Gender on Stock Price Reaction to the Appointment of Directors: The Case of the FTSE 100
(2011)We examine the effect of the appointment of directors on the share price of FTSE companies. We find that the share price reaction to the appointment of Directors suggests that gender is not an issue in the appointment of ... -
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) ... -
Effectiveness in Governance networks - The role of shared identity as a unifying concept
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)This study aims to evaluate the relevance of shared identity as a concept linking collaborative behaviours to effectiveness in governance networks. It seeks to refine and enhance our understanding of the essential ingredients ... -
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 ... -
Elucidating a Theory of Practice for Consumer Research
(2013)By addressing current conceptualizations of practice within consumer research, we suggest an alternative theory of practice that embraces subjective, context specific accounts of consumption. This alternative theory allows ... -
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 ... -
Employee Engagement: An overview of the literature on the proposed antithesis to burnout.
(Psychological Society of Ireland, 2006)Two trends have emerged in burnout research that have resulted in a broadening of the topic. First, the concept of burnout has been expanded to embrace all professions, whereas it was previously considered to exist only ... -
Entrepreneurial Finance and HRM Practices in Small Firms
(2022)As new ventures grow, they face significant challenges to their internal operations and organisational structure. These challenges are particularly evident in small, entrepreneurial firms, who have limited resources, ... -
Entrepreneurship education as first-person transformation: Interiority as an operationalizing mechanism
(2024)The case for repositioning entrepreneurship education (EE) as first-person transformation in classrooms envisioned as spaces for practical reasoning, has lately received significant scholarly attention. This case aligns ... -
Environmental considerations within manufacturing strategy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2008)This thesis examines innovative entrepreneurial firms and their engagement in environmental management in the context of sustainable development. The interrelationships of environmental management with innovation and other ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Essays on environmental shocks and economic development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2013)This thesis investigates the effects of environmental shocks, in the form of natural disasters and rainfall volatility, on economic development. I pursue both theoretical and empirical investigations of these issues. In ... -
Euro Crisis: From the Sovereigns to the Banks and Back to the Sovereigns
(Emerald, 2011)The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 crystallized the underlying imbalances that are currently acting to tear apart the Euro area monetary and fiscal systems by focusing markets and public attention on the core cause ... -
An evaluation of the Knowledge Development Box in the promotion and growth of research and development to aid in the sustainment of an innovation led ecosystem
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2018)The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recognises the fundamental importance of research and development (R&D) and the scale of opportunity that investment in innovation can bring. With this in ... -
Evolutionary Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: a Research Pathway
(2021)The recent widespread interest of policy in entrepreneurial ecosystems has been complemented by a burgeoning academic research output. This research to date may be broadly categorized as focusing on place, actors, governance, ... -
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 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 ...
