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U.S. stock prices and the dot.com-bubble: Can dividend policy rescue the efficient market hypothesis?
(2021)This paper thoroughly integrates speculative bubbles to corporate finance literature by focusing on dividend policy issues. More specifically, we examine the importance of dividend policy when testing for speculative bubbles ... -
Uncovering long term relationships between oil prices and the economy: A time-varying cointegration analysis
(2018)Establishing the relation between oil price movements and macroeconomic performance is of great importance for firms and policymakers, alike. Prior studies established this relation using the assumption that the long-run ... -
Understanding Public Service Systems: Is there a role for Complex Adaptive Systems Theory?
(2002)In this paper the problem of delivering public services is considered as a potential area for the application of complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory. While complexity and public administration theorists suggest that CAS ... -
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 ... -
Urban resilience based systems managment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)As a result of climate change cities face challenges of growing complexity and uncertainties including increasing magnitude and volume of droughts, storms and flooding among other extreme weather events. Traditional risk ... -
Using Conjoint Analysis to increase the Validity of Performance Measures and the Effectiveness of Performance Management in complex public services
(2010)This paper begins by considering the growing importance of Performance Measurement and Management Systems (PMMS) in the governance of complex public services and the theoretical and operational challenges this presents. ... -
Using humanness and design aesthetics to choose the best type of trust: a study of mobile banking in France
(2021)Purpose The research aims to addresses the limitations of previous literature regarding choosing the appropriate conceptualization of trust (i.e. interpersonal trust or system trust) and the role of design aesthetics ... -
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 ... -
What are the significant determinants of helpfulness of online review? An exploration across product-types
(2024)This paper proposes a novel empirical framework based on Source Credibility Theory and Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning to identify the effect of features (such as review text, review title and reviewer attributes) ... -
What Can We Do About the Civil Service?
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2001)An aspect of recent revelations from Tribunals and other enquiries is how badly the Civil Service has come out of them. The Department of Agriculture has been shown up by evidence at the Beef Tribunal, Health by Lindsay ... -
What Do Academics (Think) They Know About Gold?
(London Bullion Market Association, 2011)A short paper for the LBMA trade newspaper "The Alchemist" this gives a very brief and thus easily accessible survey of some recent academic findings on gold. -
What Fuels the Electric Vehicle Market? An Investigation of Macroeconomic and Sustainable Drivers of the Electric Vehicle Market
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2021)This doctoral thesis provides an investigation of three important determinants of the electric vehicle market and their respective influences on the market. Employing a data driven approach to counteract the shortcomings ... -
What is the optimal weight for gold in a portfolio?
(2021)We show that the statistical properties of gold are negatively correlated with equities and that including gold in a portfolio will provide diversification benefits. As there is no consensus on the proportion of gold that ... -
What is the Real Price of Gold and How Would We Know?
(2011)We survey, very briefly, some conceptual and empirical issues that bedevil the identification of a fundamental price for gold and consequently the identification of a real gold price. -
What policy initiatives are required to develop a knowledge-based economy in Ireland?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2018)Title of Thesis: What policy initiatives are required to develop a knowledge-based economy in Ireland? Author of Thesis: Brendan Cannon, B.Sc. (Mgmt), M.B.A. Summary of Thesis: The purpose of this study was to investigate ... -
What will I do? Toward an existential ethics for first person action research practice
(Rainer HamppVerlag, 2013-12)How first person practice engages with the process of valuing has not received much attention in action research. This article takes the question, `what will I do?? as the foundation for first person ethical inquiry. It ... -
When more is less: The role of cross-functional integration, knowledge complexity and product innovation in firm performance
(2019)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of a specific mechanism for cross-functional integration (CFI) in the relationship between product innovation and firm performance. It takes a contingency perspective, ... -
When Should the Master Answer?: Respondeat Superior and the Criminal Law
(2023)Respondeat superior is a legal doctrine conferring liability from one party onto another because the latter stands in some relationship of authority over the former. Though originally a doctrine of tort law, for the past ...
