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Exploring The Relationship Between Immigrant Enclave Theory And Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurial Opportunity Formation, Osa Godwin Osaghae Dr, Thomas M. Cooney
Exploring The Relationship Between Immigrant Enclave Theory And Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurial Opportunity Formation, Osa Godwin Osaghae Dr, Thomas M. Cooney
Articles
Immigrant Enclave Theory (IET) investigates the concentration and localisation of immigrants in a specific geographic area. Some IET studies have highlighted the resilience of these communities and described such enclaves as sources of mutual support, collective political power and beneficial social relationships. Other studies have examined the influence of IET on immigrant entrepreneurial activity within these geographic areas, although some of these studies have highlighted IET as a contributor to low profit margin businesses due to over-representation of immigrant enterprises within the same sector and geographic locality. This article considers the potential for Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship (TDE) as an alternative …
A Proposed Framework For Measuring The Effectiveness Of Social Media: A Study Of Irish Tourism, Colm Barcoe
A Proposed Framework For Measuring The Effectiveness Of Social Media: A Study Of Irish Tourism, Colm Barcoe
Practitioner Journals
Over the past five years, visitations of American holidaymakers to Ireland have grown exponentially owing to the online strategies of Tourism Ireland, a Destination Marketer (DMO) with a meagre budget which is extended by their understanding of best practices to maximise their monetary allowance. This suggested framework incorporates a range of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as financial, marketing and operational that offer a scale of measurement from which the Irish DMO can monitor the success of each promotional campaign when targeting the US and Canada. These are presented not as final solutions but rather as suggestions based on empirical …
Taxation, Debt And Relative Prices In The Long Run: The Irish Experience., Vahagn Galstyan, Adnan Velic
Taxation, Debt And Relative Prices In The Long Run: The Irish Experience., Vahagn Galstyan, Adnan Velic
Articles
This paper investigates the effects of public debt and distortionary labour taxation on the long-run behaviour of Irish relative non-traded goods prices. We highlight that higher public debt, acting through higher taxes, has an equivocal impact on the relative supply of non-traded goods and, correspondingly, relative prices. Our empirical analysis for Ireland suggests that taxes and public debt play significant roles in the long run, comoving negatively with the relative price of non-tradables. Accordingly, shifts in public debt and taxation bear implications for the country’s international price competitiveness.
Consumer Understanding Of Nutritional Supplements: An Irish Context, Julie Anne Walsh, Angela Wright
Consumer Understanding Of Nutritional Supplements: An Irish Context, Julie Anne Walsh, Angela Wright
Dept. of Organisation & Professional Development Publications
Nutritional Supplements have been available in Ireland for over thirty years. Originally available in health food stores only, supplements now have several distribution channels including pharmacy, practitioner, and online. Recommendations for consumption can come from many sources including general physicians, alternative practitioners, dieticians and nutritionists. The demand for Nutritional Supplements has increased over the years, and the industry has expanded exponentially. Nutritional Supplements provide an important opportunity to optimize illness prevention. As scientists and health professionals start to understand the value of Nutritional Supplements in terms of the prevention and treatment of disease, consumers follow suit. Market growth of Nutritional …
Cigarette Packaging In Ireland: The Plain Future, Maurice Murphy, Wesley Connolly Tong
Cigarette Packaging In Ireland: The Plain Future, Maurice Murphy, Wesley Connolly Tong
Dept. of Management & Enterprise Conference Material
No abstract provided.
‘I Just Want A Job’: The Untold Stories Of Entrepreneurship, Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Paul Donnelly
‘I Just Want A Job’: The Untold Stories Of Entrepreneurship, Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Paul Donnelly
Books/Book Chapters
In this chapter, we explore the untold stories of Spanish and Irish necessity entrepreneurs to better understand the process of becoming an entrepreneur. Working with narratives, media articles, and policy documents, we illustrate how necessity entrepreneurs do not recognize themselves in the institutionalized entrepreneur narrative as empowered, creative and independent individuals. It is necessity, not opportunity that is pushing, not pulling, them to become entrepreneurial. The process is experienced as more fragmented than official narratives outline. In exposing these untold stories, the chapter expands our understanding of entrepreneurship, presenting a more nuanced view of both entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process.
Exploring Antecedents Of Consumer Resistance Towards Microgeneration Technologies In Ireland, Marius Claudy, Aidan O'Driscoll, Rosanna Garcia, Michael Mullen
Exploring Antecedents Of Consumer Resistance Towards Microgeneration Technologies In Ireland, Marius Claudy, Aidan O'Driscoll, Rosanna Garcia, Michael Mullen
Conference papers
The diffusion of microgeneration technologies like micro wind turbines provides great potential to reduce CO2 emissions, ease fossil fuel dependency and stabilize energy costs. The uptake of microgeneration technologies among home owners, however, remains low and they are often referred to as resistant innovations. Consumer resistance to innovations is a generally under-researched area and empirical evidence is scarce. The research presented in this study is based on a large scale study around micro wind turbines, which was conducted with home owners in the Republic of Ireland in 2009. The contribution of this study is twofold. Building on recent advances in …
Consumer Awareness In The Adoption Of Microgeneration Technologies: An Empirical Investigation In The Republic Of Ireland, Marius Claudy, Claus Michelsen, Aidan O'Driscoll, Michael Mullen
Consumer Awareness In The Adoption Of Microgeneration Technologies: An Empirical Investigation In The Republic Of Ireland, Marius Claudy, Claus Michelsen, Aidan O'Driscoll, Michael Mullen
Articles
Despite major policy and marketing efforts, the uptake of microgeneration technologies in most European countries remains low. Whereas most academic studies and policy reports aim to identify the underlying reasons why people buy these new technologies, they often fail to assess the general level of consumer awareness. The process of adopting an innovation, however, shows that awareness is a prerequisite which needs to be understood before adoption can be addressed. This paper takes a closer look at awareness of microgeneration and presents the results from a nationally representative study conducted in the Republic of Ireland. Findings from logistic regressions clearly …
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2009, Aidan O'Driscoll
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2009, Aidan O'Driscoll
Issues
No abstract provided.
Internal Branding And Brand Commitment: A Quantitative Investigation Into Corporate Brand Building In A Retail Store Network, Edmund O'Callaghan
Internal Branding And Brand Commitment: A Quantitative Investigation Into Corporate Brand Building In A Retail Store Network, Edmund O'Callaghan
Conference proceedings
The aim of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationship between the perceived effectiveness of internal branding activities on brand commitment among owner managers within a retail store network of previously independent retailers. Brand commitment was hypothesized as essential for coherent and consistent corporate brand building within this context. Two new scales were developed and tested to measure internal branding and brand commitment. Perceived clarity of vision, core values and brand communications were highly correlated with strong brand commitment, while lack of perceived business supports and adequate reward systems were potential inhibitors. Interalia, findings validate the significance of internal …
Young Irish Adults In Civil Society: Volunteering, Reflexive Identity Work And Social Capital, Geoffrey Robert Weller
Young Irish Adults In Civil Society: Volunteering, Reflexive Identity Work And Social Capital, Geoffrey Robert Weller
Doctoral
This thesis seeks to explain how young Irish adults are capable of achieving identities as episodic volunteers. Participation in civil society in Ireland is changing, with new forms of volunteering emerging (Donoghue et al 2006). Issues of identity and identity construction appear to be symptomatic of these changes (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2002). This research focuses upon young Irish adults identity work as they discursively construct their episodic volunteering (Macduff 2005). The research uses a discourse analysis lens (Wetherell 1998; Wetherell and Edley 1998, 1999; Edley and Wetherell 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999; Edley 2001). It is based upon 17 intensive interviews …
Factors Affecting Retailer Adoption Of The Internet In Ireland, Roisin Vize, Joseph Coughlan, Aileen Kennedy
Factors Affecting Retailer Adoption Of The Internet In Ireland, Roisin Vize, Joseph Coughlan, Aileen Kennedy
Conference papers
To date, most of the commentary on the impact of the Internet on retailing in Ireland has been anecdotal and there is a paucity of academic empirical research examining the factors affecting Internet adoption by retailers in Ireland. The primary aims of this research are to identify the key factors perceived as being influential in determining the resultant level of adoption among traditional retailers in Ireland and to examine the extent and level of its’ adoption in the Irish retail sector. This paper represents the results from an exploratory investigation employing multiple case studies as the first of a two-stage …
Ionad Cois Locha: 20 Years On, Gerry Mortimer
Ionad Cois Locha: 20 Years On, Gerry Mortimer
Case studies
Early in 2007, Seamus Gallagher watched from his modest attic office at Ionad Cois Locha as the last main steel beam was lifted into place right outside his window. The new venue was at last taking shape. Already it was a month or more behind schedule because the violent storms of late 2006 had meant that the steel frame could not be erected until now, and it would be at least May before the building would be completed. It had been planned to be ready by April before the main tourist season.
Ecoserve (Ireland), Thomas Cooney
Ecoserve (Ireland), Thomas Cooney
Case studies
Roisin Nash had just finished reading a new report that had recently been launched by the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Noel Dempsey at the headquarters of the Marine Institute at Oranmore in County Galway. The report, entitled ‘Sea Change – A Marine Knowledge, Research and Innovation Strategy for Ireland 2007- 2013’, presented a national agenda (comprising of science, research, innovation, and management) aimed at a complete transformation of the Irish maritime economy. Roisin felt that the report provided a clear and realistic picture of future opportunities and challenges within the Irish marine industry, and that it would …
Guardian Angel (Ireland), Thomas Cooney
Guardian Angel (Ireland), Thomas Cooney
Case studies
It was the summer of 2006 and three friends of many years had come up with a business idea that they believed could be a money-spinner for all of them. Maria Harrison, Krystle Malone and Marie Lyons had all been students at the Technological University Dublin and had recently completed their degree in Marketing. As part of their programme, they had taken a course on Entrepreneurship by way of interest rather than any deep-rooted desire to start their own business. But now, they are about to meet a venture capital company to ask for €300,000 to get the business started. …
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 19, Nos. 1 & 2, 2007, Unknown
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 19, Nos. 1 & 2, 2007, Unknown
Issues
The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, development and research in the ares of marketing.
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 & 2, 2006, The Marketing Institute
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 & 2, 2006, The Marketing Institute
Issues
The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practise in marketing. This is a special issue on " the island view of relationship marketing and networks".
Green Engineering Services Limited, Gerry Mortimer
Green Engineering Services Limited, Gerry Mortimer
Case studies
“Sometimes in my darker moments I think that, if I had ducks they’d drown, and this is one of those moments. You will have heard the announcement that Fruit of the Loom are closing down the remainder of their operations in the northwest”, Manus Green said, discussing his latest predicament with his friend and occasional advisor Paul Staunton. Manus with his wife Claire, was owner of Green Engineering Services Ltd., a small precision engineering company based on an industrial estate in West Donegal.
Food Retailing In Ireland: At A Crossroads Of Change, Edel Foley
Food Retailing In Ireland: At A Crossroads Of Change, Edel Foley
Case studies
As a consultant in comparative retailing systems, Ulrike Johnson is responsible for advising international retailers about brands, markets, and key drivers of change. Her current assignment involves advising a European food retailer about current trends and prospects in the food retailing business in the Republic of Ireland, with a view to assessing the possibility of entering the market.
Buy4now: Ireland's Online Shopping Centre, Joseph Coughlan, Aileen Kennedy
Buy4now: Ireland's Online Shopping Centre, Joseph Coughlan, Aileen Kennedy
Case studies
In February 2004 the CEO of Buy4Now, Ali Murdoch, finds himself in the enviable position of having several growth avenues and opportunities for company expansion to pursue. Domestically, he has issues such as customer acquisition and retention, new processes such as Central Checkout technology, growth in the adoption of broadband technology, the addition of new partners to the portal and the management and growth of advertising revenue demand attention. Recruiting additional staff is also on the agenda for 2004 across several functional areas.
General Records (Ireland), Thomas Cooney
General Records (Ireland), Thomas Cooney
Case studies
Standing outside a pub, Billy Barrett and Martin Murphy faithfully obeyed the no smoking ban that was now a feature of the Irish social scene. As they smoked their cigarettes, they discussed the singer/songwriter who played inside the premises that they stood against so nonchalantly. The gig was enjoying a great reception, with the crowd enthusiastically applauding the eclectic mix of blues, rock, and traditional music. ‘Well, Billy, how would fancy starting a record company?’ asked Martin, as if it was not really a challenge. ‘The singer playing inside wants to record a CD but she has no label. I …
Rte Publishing Ltd, Gerry Mortimer
Rte Publishing Ltd, Gerry Mortimer
Case studies
The publishing division came into being as RTE Publishing Ltd in May 2003. Muirne Laffan was appointed Executive Director of RTE Publishing. Having spent several years in New York with the advertising agency McCann Erickson, Muirne had joined RTE to head up its commercial activities division some 18 months previously. With the reorganisation, some of these activities had been moved. Thus, for example, TV programme sales became part of the TV division to ensure that issues involved in programme sales were incorporated into programme planning at an early stage.
In The Eye Of A Storm: Battling With The Discounters In A Local Market, Mary Wilcox, Edmund O'Callaghan
In The Eye Of A Storm: Battling With The Discounters In A Local Market, Mary Wilcox, Edmund O'Callaghan
Case studies
Chris Harmon, senior manager with the Moriarty Group of SuperValu symbol stores, sat at his desk contemplating the future. Despite the intensifying challenges of a dynamic grocery market he was well satisfied with the success of the Group’s three supermarkets. The three stores, owned by Luke Moriarty, operate under the aegis of the Musgrave Group of independent SuperValu retailers. These independent retailers had not only survived Tesco’s arrival in Ireland, but the group as a whole had grown market share.
The Determinants Of Charitable Donations In The Republic Of Ireland, James Carroll
The Determinants Of Charitable Donations In The Republic Of Ireland, James Carroll
Masters
This thesis explores the variable that affect the probability of donating and the variables that affect the size of donation by Irish households. The datasets employed are the Irish Household Budget Surveys, 1994/1995 and 1999/2000, which are analysed using a tobit model and a double-hurdle model with an inverse hyperbolic sine transformation. Between 1994 and 2000, Ireland witnessed a remarkable and well-documented economic boom. This thesis provides insight into how the determinants of charitable donations change in an economy such as the Republic of Ireland’s, which has undergone such rapid economic and cultural changes. To date there has been no …
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 & 2, 2004, Unknown
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 & 2, 2004, Unknown
Issues
The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 16, No.1, 2003, The Marketing Institute
Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 16, No.1, 2003, The Marketing Institute
Issues
The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practise in marketing. This is a special issue on " boundaries and interfaces in marketing ".
Irish Marketing Review,Vol. 16, No. 2, 2003, The Marketing Institute
Irish Marketing Review,Vol. 16, No. 2, 2003, The Marketing Institute
Issues
The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practise in marketing.
Stuart Crystal, Gerry Mortimer
Stuart Crystal, Gerry Mortimer
Case studies
In August 1995 the crystal manufacturing firm of Stuart and Sons was purchased by Waterford Wedgewood plc. The company, which had been family owned since its inception, had not been profitable for some years. After the takeover the initial focus was on operational issues. Those took longer to resolve than had been anticipated.
Focusing On Logistics To Improve Customer Service: The Case Of Transnational Optical, Mary Wilcox
Focusing On Logistics To Improve Customer Service: The Case Of Transnational Optical, Mary Wilcox
Case studies
Siobhan Ward, Supply Chain Director for Transnational Optical in Ireland, considered what the plant management team had to achieve. The team had decided that decisive action was needed to increase control of the supply chain with a view to improving customer service and removing ‘noise’ from the system.
Who Cares, Wins: The Students 10k Walk For The Chernobyl Children's Project, Joe Mcgrath
Who Cares, Wins: The Students 10k Walk For The Chernobyl Children's Project, Joe Mcgrath
Case studies
Julian de Spainn, President of the Union of Students in Ireland looked around The Hub, a student bar in the Dublin City University campus. He was exhausted. So were the twenty or so people around him. Most of those present were fellow officers in USI. Earlier that day, Julian had witnessed a unique event in Irish student history. It was an event of which he was justifiably proud.