Department of Business & Management: Recent submissions
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Social media marketing adoption and usage within the Irish Dairy Sector.
(Academy of Marketing, 2016-07)The agri-food sector in Ireland contributes €24 billion to the national economy, and export values for dairy ingredients and product has surpassed €3 billion. This figure represents a 15% growth on 2012 and indicates ... -
Ireland's food and drink sector: the effect of Brexit on SME adoption and use of social media marketing.
(IAM, 2017-08)This paper examines whether SMEs within Ireland’s food and drinks sector adopting and using social media marketing (SMM) and do they see Brexit as a factor. The research avails of qualitative and quantitative methods and ... -
Inspired employees encourage eWOM.
(Academy of Marketing, 2019-07)This pilot examines whether employees in SMEs within the food and drinks sector promote their business through eWOM. Another consideration is whether employees adopt and use eWOM because they are motivated by their job ... -
Encouraging adoption and usage of eWOM: the factors contributing to employee brand advocacy.
(IAM, 2018-09)Social Media platforms offer businesses new ways to strength customer relationships, create brand awareness and develop loyal customers. Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) initiatives such as visually enriched content makes ... -
Submission to the Public Consultation on General Scheme of the House and Planning and Development Bill 2019.
(A. Hough, 2020-01-27)The Aarhus Convention (UNECE, 1998) arose out of Principle 10 (UNEP) of the Rio Declaration 1992 (UN, 1992), which embodies a key principle of international environmental law, that environmental decisions are best handled ... -
Opening statement to the Joint Committee on Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
(A. Hough, 2019-07-04)I am a barrister and law lecturer, based in Athlone Institute of Technology. I was commissioned by the Environmental Pillar and NIEL (Northern Ireland Environment Link) to produce an independent report on the role of the ... -
Written submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
(A. Hough, 2019-07-04)This submission presents a summary of the research carried out for the report “Brexit, The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and the Environment: Issues arising and possible solutions” which explored the impact of Brexit on ... -
UN legal research on plastics: plastic bags, single use plastics. Country Report: Ireland.
(EMLA, 2018-04-21)UN Environment is seeking to create three targeted reports to provide a global overview of the progress of countries in passing laws and regulations that limit the manufacture, import, sale, use and disposal of selected ... -
Brexit, the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and the environment: issues arising and possible solutions.
(Environmental Pillar/Northern Ireland Environment Link, 2019-04)This report sets out to examine cross-border environmental co-operation and joint action on the environment facilitated by the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, and what role if any the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement will have ... -
Coming down the tracks: anticipated changes to the environmental impact assessment regime as a result of the Directive 2014/52/EU and the Aarhus Convention
(Lawtext Publishing, 2016-10)This paper outlines the main changes introduced by the amending Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2014/52/EU, and considers what these changes will mean for operators on the ground in Ireland and England when the ... -
Workplace spirituality and person-organisation fit theory: development of a theoretical model.
(Sage, 2019-08-21)This article advances the theoretical and practical value of workplace spirituality by drawing on person–organization (PO) fit theory and transpersonal psychology to investigate three questions: (a) What antecedents lead ... -
Employee brand advocacy in social media: employers' absent roles.
(Irish Academy of Marketing, 2019-12)This paper examines whether employers in SMEs within the food and drinks sector motivates their employees to adopt and use eWOM to promote their businesses. Another consideration is whether employees adopt and use eWOM ... -
The public participation principle: effective implementation of Aarhus participation rights by the European Union Legal Framework.
(Lawtext Publishing, 2017)This paper considers the principle of Public Participation as envisaged by the Aarhus Convention. It addresses the academic debate regarding the true nature of public participation as a civil and political right and the ... -
The potential of the Good Friday Agreement post-Brexit environmental governance on the island of Ireland.
(IRLII, 2019)This article presents a summary of research report carried out for the Environmental Pillar and Northern Ireland Environmental Link (NIEL), examining cross-border environmental co-operation and joint action on the ... -
Changes to the environmental impact regime in Ireland.
(Inshore Ireland, 2016)The Amending EIA Directive 2014/521/EU will take effect on May 16 2017. It will substantially change how Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is conducted in Ireland. This article outlines some of the changes it will make ... -
Motorhome tourism on the Wild Atlantic Way in Co.Clare
(2017)Motorhome tourism is a growing phenomenon throughout the developed world. The modern motorhome contains kitchen bathroom and bedroom allowing the motorhome user the freedom to tour without using the facilities offered by ... -
An exploration into the effectiveness of service collaboration between two Irish charities providing homeless support services.
(2017)The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of service collaboration between two Irish charities providing homeless support services. The objectives of this study were to explore the views of the members within ... -
Schools in the Midlands of Ireland.
(2017)The present study explored satisfaction levels of teachers in three second-level schools in the midlands of Ireland, concentrating on student-teacher relations, pay, contracts of employment, promotional opportunities, ... -
Employer attractiveness and employee commitment: the case of a large multinational software company in Ireland.
(2017)This research succeeds in two aspects. Firstly, it gauges the attractiveness of a multinational software company in Ireland (Company X) from the perspective of Masters and undergraduate software engineering students at ... -
Economic impact of international students attending Athlone Institute of Technology to Athlone.
(2017)While studies have been published on spending and economic benefits of international students both nationally and internationally, there is still no evidence of a study being focused on only one institute, even in Ireland. ...
