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Data Protection and Employee Behaviour: The Role of Information Systems Security Culture
Connolly, Lena; Lang, Michael (2012)The proliferation of information in modern society, as enabled by technologies such as portable personal devices, social media, and 'cloud'-based services, presents a potentially serious threat to individual privacy and ... -
A Delphi study on collaborative learning in distance education: The faculty perspective
O'Neill, Susan; Scott, Murray; Conboy, Kieran (2011)This paper focuses on the factors that influence collaborative learning in distance education. Distance education has been around for many years and the use of collaborative learning techniques in distance education is ... -
Deprivation and access to work in Dublin city: the impact of transport disadvantage
Ahern, Aoife; Vega, Amaya; Caulfield, Brian (Elsevier, 2016-09-29)Ireland's economy underwent a period of rapid expansion between 1995 and 2007, accompanied by a boom in construction. The subsequent decade saw a rapid decline in construction as Ireland went through an unprecedented ... -
The Determinants of Residential Gas Demand in Ireland
Harold, Jason; Lyons, Seán; Cullinan, John (Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2014)This paper examines the determinants of residential gas demand in Ireland using a microeconometric analysis of the daily gas consumption panel data from Ireland's Smart Metering Gas Consumer Behavioural Trial. It also ... -
Dissecting optional micro-decisions in online transactions: perceptions, deceptions and errors
Hogan, Mairéad; Barry, Chris; Lang, Michael (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-05-02)Online firms frequently increase profit by selling optional extras. However, opt-in rates tend to be low. In response, questionable design practices have emerged to nudge consumers into inadvertent choices. Many of these ... -
Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp
Hilliard, Rachel (Tilde University Press, 2012)PharmaCorp is a subsidiary of one of Japan's largest pharmaceutical companies, employing 60 people in its Dublin bulk pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. The plant makes the active ingredients for four products, supplying ... -
Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp
Hilliard, Rachel (Tilde University Press, 2012)Crann Iorrais Teoranta (CIT) was established in 1987 in Co Mayo in Ireland as a forestry company engaged in a wide range of forestry-based activities for the private, commercial and semi-state sectors throughout Ireland. ... -
E-Government in the Irish Revenue: the Revenue On-Line Service (ROS) - a success story?
Robbins, Geraldine; Mulligan, Emer; Keenan, Fiona (Wiley, 2015-09-16)e-Government in the Irish Revenue: The Revenue On-Line Service (ROS) a success story? AbstractThe Revenue Online Service (ROS) is one of the first e-government initiatives introduced in Ireland. The primary purpose of ... -
E-regulation and the rule of law: smart government, institutional information infrastructures, and fundamental values
Kennedy, Rónán (IOS Press, 2016-02-15)Information and communications technology (ICT) is increasingly used in bureaucratic and regulatory processes. With the development of the Internet of Things , some researchers speak enthusiastically of the birth of the ... -
Economics, politics and democracy in the age of credit-rating capitalism
Raghavendra, Srinivas (Sameeksha Trust, 2013-02-02)Unlike in earlier major economic crises, the current turmoil in the global economy has seen the consolidation of orthodoxy as the dominant paradigm. This essay traces the political economy of change in the current situation ... -
Employment sub-centres and travel-to-work mode choice in the Dublin region
Vega, Amaya (2008)In this paper, travel-to-work patterns are analysed for a number of key employment sub-centres in the Dublin region. Geographical information system (GIS) visualisations and regression analysis are used to identify a small ... -
Environmental performance and practice across sectors: methodology and preliminary results
Hilliard, Rachel; Parker, Valerie (2011)This paper introduces a new methodology for measuring and modeling manufacturers' environmental performance and the managerial and technological practices that affect it. Facility level licensing data are used to develop ... -
European Family Law: the Beginning of the End for "Proper" Provision?
Buckley, Lucy-Ann (2012-06)European law has become increasingly relevant to Irish family law issues. The measures in question are wide-ranging, covering matters as diverse as the enforcement of maintenance decisions in other Member States, the ... -
A European Law Perspective: Science, Technology and New Challenges to Ocean Law
Long, Ronan (Martinus Nijhoff, 2013-10-11)[no abstract available] -
The Eurozone: Saved by the Bell
Twomey, Cian (Institute of Bankers, Dublin, 2012)The article focuses on the European Central Bank (ECB) as a lender of last resort (LOLR) for the government bond markets of the Eurozone. It states that the increase of bond yields in the European crisis changed the liquidity ... -
An expanded definition of environmental information? Minch v Commissioner for Environmental Information [2016] IEHC 91
Kennedy, Rónán (SAGE Publications, 2016)A recent Irish High Court decision has overturned a decision of the Commissioner for Environmental Information not to grant access to a report on broadband networking infrastructure on the grounds that the document sought ... -
An eye tracking pilot study of optional decision constructs in B2C transactional processes
Hogan, Mairéad; Torres, Ann; Barry, Chris (14th International Conference on WWW/INTERNET (ICWI), 2015-10)Previous research indicated the design of certain decision constructs could be unclear to users in the business to consumer (B2C) transactional process. This pilot study, using eye tracking and cued retrospective think-aloud ... -
Family law and the corporate veil: accessing company assets on marital breakdown after Prest v. Petrodel Resources Ltd
Buckley, Lucy-Ann (Dublin University Law Journal, 2014)When, if ever, can a company’s assets be used to meet the family law liabilities of private persons? This question has arisen infrequently in Irish law, perhaps because family lawyers tend to assume that assets held by ... -
Financial policies and practices of companies listed on the Irish Stock Exchange
Robbins, Geraldine (vLex Ireland, 2010-12)This paper reports the results of a recent comprehensive survey of the chief financial officers of companies listed on the Irish Stock Exchange. The survey focused upon three major areas of financial policy and practice: ... -
Financial provision on relationship breakdown in Ireland: A constitutional lacuna?
Buckley, Lucy-Ann (Dublin University Law Journal, 2013)In recent decades, legislation has had an extraordinary impact on personal property rights in the context of marital and relationship breakdown. Initially under the Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989, and ...