Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 43
Virtual rights? property in online game objects and characters
(Taylor & Francis, 2008-07-18)
The new industry of Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) brings together two sets of fictions: the interactive stories of shared computer games and the legal devices of intellectual property. In these ...
Access to justice under the Århus Convention and Irish judicial review
(SAGE Publications, 2008)
The case of Sweetman v An Bord Pleanála, decided in the High Court of Ireland in April 2007, raises a number of interesting issues regarding the scope of Directive 2003/35/EC on public participation in respect of the ...
Possible Irish responses to climate change
(Kluwer Law International, 2008)
Climate change is becoming a very important political, social and economic issue. Recent weeks have seen the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, with predictions of ...
Researching Search - A Study into Search Engine Marketing Practices in Ireland
(INSTICC Press, 2008-07)
Researchers have identified the Web as the searchers first port of call for locating information. Search
Engine Marketing (SEM) strategies have been noted as a key area for firms to consider when developing,
maintaining ...
Is absorptive capacity significant for innovation at firm level?
(2008)
The current research literature proposes that absorptive capacity is a crucial dynamic capability in knowledge-based competition (Zahra and George, 2002). Cohen and Levinthal define absorptive capacity as: the ability of ...
Motivation- The Irish and non Irish Workers: Using the psychological contract to understand the reasons behind perceived different performance levels from the Irish and non Irish employees on the same manufacturing floor.
(2008)
The objective of this investigation was to ascertain if a different psychological contract was in existence among shop floor employees in a small to medium enterprise. This thesis sought to answer three research questions. ...
A study of XP & Scrum: A Project Management Perspective
(2008)
This research examines agile software development from a project manager's perspective. It specifically investigates four different areas namely: project planning and scheduling; team selection; communication; and documentation ...
Biodiversity Conservation in Managed Landscapes
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)
Conservation Research and Policy with Non-Trivial Transaction Costs and Incomplete Contracting
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)
Achieving conservation in the agricultural sector is difficult. The primary complicating factor is the large number of public-good environmental services that can potentially be provided by large numbers of individuals ...