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A study of innovation measurement and innovation management at Irish medical device SME's
(2009-09)The objective of this dissertation is to discuss the current state of innovation measurement and innovation management at Irish medical device SME's. Irish medical device SME's are often founded as spin-out companies ... -
A study of Irish medical device companies best practice new product development tools and methodologies
(2009)The aim of this study is to investigate what New Product Development (NPD) process methodologies and what NPD tools are in use by Irish medical device companies, and to then recommend an adapted NPD process with the ... -
A study of opacity in web design practices.
(Irish Academy of Management, 2010-09-01)That IS and IT practitioners should use best practice in information systems development is pretty much universally taken for granted. We expect systems to be developed that enhance the user experience and allow them to ... -
A study of the use and effectiveness of controls in agile information systems development projects
(2008)This study uses control theory as a lens to examine the use of control in agile information systems development (ISD) projects, specifically within software project teams that use agile methodologies. Traditionally, ... -
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 ... -
Subsidies in Irish fisheries: saving rural Ireland? (
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-12)Subsidies in the world's fishing industry have long been considered to have harmful effects on fish stocks. The fishing industry has suffered from overcapacity for many years, and subsidies encourage investment, leading ... -
A survey of cyberbullying amongst students in Ireland's higher education sector
(International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015-10-26)Cyberbullying is an extension of traditional bullying where victims are harassed via the internet or mobile phones. This study investigated the victims’ experiences of cyberbullying including the prevalence, type and ... -
A survey of multimedia and web development techniques and methodology usage
(IEEE, 2001)The authors present survey results which suggest that no uniform approach exists for multimedia systems development and that practitioners are not using the multimedia models cited in the literature. They conclude that ... -
Sustainable fishing in Irish waters: assessment of current practices, policies and alternative approaches (Economics Working Paper no. 165)
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)Irish fishing waters are currently governed as part of the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union. Under this regime, policies of strict regulation are employed to provide both an ecologically sustainable resource ... -
Systems for team empowerment: Research on practice 2018
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2018-07)Welcome to this collection of research papers on Systems for Team Empowerment. Achieving empowerment in teams is complex. Not only do team leaders need to understand the complex and nebulous interplays between systems, ... -
Systems for team empowerment: Research on practice 2020
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2020-07)Teams are incredible. Teamwork has raised humanity’s achievements to greatness. Not only have most of humanity’s greatest achievement resulted from teamwork but those teams were empowered by systems of work, systems of ... -
Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-10-26)Drawing on a study of three public science funding organizations in Ireland, Finland and New Zealand, we investigate the implementation of talent management (TM) through the lens of institutional complexity and paradox ... -
Tales of Expansionary Fiscal Contractions in Two European Countries: Hindsight and Foresight
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)It is ironic that the potential expansionary effects of fiscal contractions have become known as non-Keynesian effects. This paper highlights the fact that Keynes and his contemporaries were aware of such potential perverse ... -
Taming the Incomputable, Reconstructing the Nonconstructive and Deciding the Undecidable in Mathematical Economics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)It is natural to claim, as I do in this paper, that the emergence of non-constructivities in economics is entirely due to the formalizations of economics by means of 'classical' mathematics. I have made similar claims for ... -
Tax and performance measurement: an inside story
(EmeraldInsight, 2016)Against the background of increasing regulation and spotlight on the tax position of MNEs, this study explores the relationship between tax and performance measurement. The paper is informed by a series of in-depth ... -
Tax professionals at work in Silicon Valley
(Elsevier, 2015-10-21)This paper analyses a previously unexamined but nonetheless important facet of modern society the nature and impact of the relationship between in-house tax professionals in large multinational organizations, and the ... -
Tax, transition, and the State: the Case of Russia
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2001)The article sets out to assess the problems of taxation in Russia in the context of the Russian state, its relationship with the enterprise sector and the transition from plan to market. In this paper, we argue that Russia -
Technology and Intermediation: the Case of Banking
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-04)The aim of this paper is to look at ways in which the contribution of investment in technology to consumer welfare might be measured. One useful approach to this question is demonstrated by means of a simple spatial model ... -
Testing for monetary policy convergence in european countries
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-12)The paper tests for long-run monetary policy convergence and short-run policy interactions in seven ERM countries over the 1979-1992 period using the approach of multivariate cointegration and Granger-causality tests. ...