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(University of Limerick, 2016)Various conceptual and empirical studies demonstrate that social capital is a powerful factor in fostering innovation. However, most research focuses solely on the benefits of social capital without considering potential ...
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(University of Limerick, 2016)This thesis begins by introducing the concept of experience and delineating its place within the discourses of marketing. To reach a more holistic appreciation of high-speed motorcycling, I situate this study within the ...
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(University of Limerick, 2016)This study investigates the internal and external pressures which explain the adoption or non-adoption of the Irish human resource development standard among organisations. National governments use a variety of strategies ...
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(University of Limercik, 2016)A typical natural gas derivatives book within an energy trading business, bank, or even large utility will generally be exposed to two broad categories of market risk. The first being outright price volatility, where ...
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(Emerald, 2015)Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine the ways in which leaders influence follower’s work-life management. Specifically, we propose that personal (positive affect), social (managerial support for work-family ...
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(Economic and Social Studies, 2016)We examine drivers of firm performance using a holistic multivariate model which relates services firm growth to firm-characteristic, firm strategy and macroeconomic variables. Using data for 905 services firms in Ireland ...
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(University of Limerick, 2011)Organisations have always faced the challenge of making decisions in the context of large, dynamic, complex environments. The information technology revolution has increased by several orders of magnitude the information ...
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(University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis consists of four individual essays which are framed by an introductory and a concluding chapter. While independent from each other, the essays all focus on the topic of foreign investment in developing and ...
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(University of Limerick, 2015)The objective of this thesis is to explore the under-researched area of corporate governance in small firms with an explicit focus on the potential value of a nonexecutive director (NED) on the small firm board and ...
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(University of Limerick, 2015)Diversity training is a significant topic in human resource development literature and one that merits theoretical and practical attention. Over the past 20 years, a considerable body of research has been accumulated. ...
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(University of Limerick, 2015)China’s economic achievement over the past three decades has been remarkable. It has managed to maintain a sustained period of unprecedented growth since its reform and “opening-up” policies of 1978. As China is now as ...
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(Frontiers, 2015)Well-being and mental health of psychologists and their clients can be strongly linked to the psychologists’ experience of work. We know from general theories of occupational health psychology that certain work factors ...
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(Wiley Publications, 2015)Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have long been considered a gold standard for intervention design and the most rigorous method for understanding causal mechanisms. However, their implementation in work and organisational ...
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Enhancing social relationships through positive psychology activities: a randomised controlled trial (Taylor & Francis: Routledge, 2015)Despite the robust relationship between well-being and social relationships, the latter has received little examination within positive psychology activities (PPAs). This study aimed to test whether kindness- and gratitude-based ...
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(University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis presents a series of arguments, tools and techniques to help facilitate the efficient transfer of occupational risk from the community of producers and users of engineered nano materials (ENMs) to insurers, ...
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(University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis provides an in-depth comparative analysis of the factors influencing local autonomy over human resource management (HRM) and industrial relations (IR) in foreign-owned multinational companies (MNCs) located in ...
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(University of Limerick, 2015)This cross-sectional inter-cohort study explores the dominant motivational factors and career orientations among conventional (CE) and self-initiated (SE) expatriates. Quantitative data was obtained from a sample of 344 ...
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(Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, 2015)This paper employs a unique, largely hand-gathered dataset to investigate the determinants of both foreign currency (FX) and interest rate (IR) derivatives usage for a sample of European non-financial firms. By measuring ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2015)Evaluation systems including global university rankings have been recently introduced as mechanisms for assessing overall academic quality, appraising research reputation and as a basis for funding and policy decisions. ...
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(University of Limerick, 2013)The Sustainability Literacy Test is a means of measuring basic knowledge of sustainability. This test is used by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to measure overall, international and regional knowledge of topics related ...