Browsing Faculty of Business & Hospitality: Midlands by Issue Date
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The current state of cooking in Ireland: the relationship between cooking skills and food choice.
(Athlone Institute of Technology, 2011-06)This research investigated the attitudes of Irish people to food to ascertain whether the acquisition of cooking skills influences food choice. Caraher et al. (1999) report on the state of cooking in England noted that ... -
An investigation into succession planning of family businesses in the Midlands.
(2012)Family businesses are a significant contributor to the Irish economy and succession planning has been stressed in the literature as one of the most pressing issues that challenges their continuity among generations. ... -
Financial fair play: can it regulate European club football? An investigation into UEFA’s Financial Fair Play regulations, how they work and its potential success or failure in regulating European club football.
(2013)European club football today has seen a financial trend where wealthy clubs in Europe are making substantial trading losses, spending way beyond their means in order to become successful in European and domestic competition. ... -
An investigation into the financial and debt literacy and overindebtedness of third level students in Ireland
(2013)The significance of financial literacy and debt literacy to success, both at the family and national levels, cannot be overstated. The core concern of financial literacy is the understanding of key financial concepts ... -
An assessment of the relationship between reward management and employee motivation in a sports retail outlet store in the midland region.
(2013)The concept of total rewards has been the subject of much discussion in the past with confusion existing about what the term actually means. According to World at Work (2010), total rewards are all of the tools used to ... -
An investigation into the relevance and sufficiency of third level accounting courses to career needs from the perspective of accounting employers.
(2013)This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relevance of third level accounting education to accounting graduate roles and to determine its sufficiency in preparing graduates for the workplace, from the ... -
The ethical consumer: an investigation into purchasing behaviour towards Fairtrade Coffee in Ireland
(2013)The Fairtrade brand is experiencing high growth rates globally as demand for ethically produced goods intensifies. This indicates that consumers have identified the need to provide supplying countries with an honest ... -
An investigation into the changes relating to duties and image of small to medium sized accountancy firms, with an emphasis on firms in the Midlands, over the past ten years.
(2013)The accountancy profession has been continuously evolving over time, particularly in the past ten years. The financial crisis played a big role in changing the method in which accountants interact with their clients; and ... -
A study of occupational health and safety management in Irish veterinary practices
(2013)It is widely acknowledged within the literature that veterinary professionals are faced with a unique set of occupational health and safety risks. High levels of work-related infections, disease and injuries have been ... -
Mark Twain and the Innocents Abroad: illuminating the tourist gaze on death
(Emerald, 2013-08-02)Purpose In 1867, the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a great pleasure excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to ... -
'Welcome to the home of Auschwitz tours': The online marketing of genocide tourism
(Advances in Tourism Marketing, 2013-10)This chapter explores the online promotion by private tour operators of the World War Two Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland. The chapter contributes to understanding how genocide is ... -
Beauty versus tragedy: thanatourism and the memorialization of the 1994 Rwandan genocide
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)Almost 20 years after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda remains confronted with the complexity of an enduring reconciliation process; a process both enabled and complicated by the arrival and increase of international tourism to ... -
What factors influence accounting students deliberating their choice of professional qualification?
(2014)Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing intentions toward becoming a student member of one of the four major professional accountancy bodies in Ireland by students who are studying ... -
Value investing in the Malaysian Stock Market
(2014)This purpose of this paper is to test the value investing method as proposed by Michael O’Higgins (2000) as one investment strategy applied specifically to the Malaysian market. The investment portfolio incorporates 30 ... -
An investigation of the reasons why Chinese students choose colleges in Ireland as a place to study.
(2014)This study was devoted to find out what can attract the Chinese students to study in Ireland as an increasing number of Chinese students choose to study abroad. To find this out, it focused on current Chinese students ... -
Exploring the costs & benefits of employing a person with a disability.
(2014)The main purpose of this research project is to “Explore the Costs & Benefits of Employing a Person with a Disability”. The overall research aim that deals with this is as follows; What are the costs and benefits of ... -
An evaluation of the key strategic issues facing a company moving from contract manufacturing to own brand manufacturing
(2014)In today‟s very competitive business environment contract manufacturing companies are continually competing to gain new customers, increase revenue and aspiring to become number one in their manufacturing environment. ... -
The geographies of thanatourism
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-08-11)This article explores the geographies of thanatourism, a form of travel where tourists encounter places associated with death, disaster and the macabre. It seeks to encourage geographers' engagement with thanatourism to ... -
Ireland's dairy sector: SME adoption and use of social media marketing.
(IAM, 2015-09)This paper addresses the deficit of literature on social media adoption and usage within small businesses in the dairy sector in Ireland. The author avails of an action research methodology through in–depth case analysis ... -
Cross-institutional development of sharable learning technology tools for flexible accounting education
(EADTU, 2015-10)This paper describes a collaboration between three Irish Institutes of Technology to develop a series of sharable, e-learning resources to support students learn introductory aspects of financial accounting. It describes ...
