The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business is pleased to list the following individuals as graduates of our PhD Programme. Remaining true to our core objective, all have made substantial and original contributions to knowledge, literature and science in their fields.
Our PhD Graduates
| Student Name | PhD Thesis title | Subject Area | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Shrives | Disclosure in disarray: Assessing corporate governance explanations of non-compliance | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Margaret Cullen | Towards a theory of the role and effectiveness of boards of directors in investment fund governance | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Collette Kirwan | Role conflict and non-executive directors on boards of unlisted family firms | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Susan Griffin-Holst | Tackling tax avoidance and contemporary professionalism: The impact of anti-avoidance tax legislation on the accounting profession | Accounting | Dr Gerardine Doyle & Professor Aileen Pierce |
| Kate Cullen | Investigating non-professional investors' susceptibility to impression management in earnings press releases: A mixed methods study | Accounting | Professor Ciaran O’hOgartaigh & Professor Aileen Pierce |
| Liang Xu | Accounting quality and the design of syndicated loans | Accounting | Professor Eamonn Walsh |
| Robert Bradley | Active versus Passive Investing: An Investigation of Market Timing | Banking & Finance | Professor Anthony Brabazon |
| Kai Fan | Implied and Excess Volatility Analysis with Novel Approaches | Banking & Finance | Professor Anthony Brabazon |
| Cui Wei | Adaptive Trade Execution and Liquidity Dynamics | Banking & Finance | Professor Anthony Brabazon |
| Yin Zheng | Essays on Genetic Programming Applied to Financial Modelling | Banking & Finance | Professor Anthony Brabazon |
| Deven Bathia | Asset Pricing implications of investor sentiment | Banking & Finance | Professor Don Bredin |
| Ningyue Liu | Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets | Banking & Finance | Professor Don Bredin |
| Colm Doyle | Three Essays on Dynamic Asset Allocation Implications for Risk Based Pension Plan Design | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter |
| Yan Ping Zhong | Validating Risk Measurement Models for Market Risk Management | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter |
| Jing Dang | The Static Approximation to Dynamic Asset Allocation - A Stochastic Programming Approach | Banking & Finance | Dr David Edelman |
| Richard McGee | Information-Efficient Investing | Banking & Finance | Dr David Edelman |
| Patrick O’Sullivan | Robust Portfolio Selection | Banking & Finance | Dr David Edelman |
| Elaine Laing | Foreign exchange exposure, multi-nationality, and corporate governance: a study of US firms | Banking & Finance | Dr Elaine Hutson |
| Min Ye | Corporate foreign exchange exposures in emerging markets | Banking & Finance | Dr Elaine Hutson |
| Saeed Alameri | A Comparative Evaluation of the Performance of the Islamic and Conventional Funds Industry | Banking & Finance | Professor Ray Kinsella |
| Beatrice Doran | Knowledge Management: an empirical analysis in relation to healthcare | Banking Finance | Professor Ray Knsella |
| Abinhav Goyal | Essays in Corporate Payout Determination | Banking & Finance | Dr Cal Muckley |
| Jian Ke | Volatility spill-over effects between the Chinese Stock Market and the main markets abroad | Banking & Finance | Professor Louis Murray |
| Patrick Shallow | Empirical Measurement and Analysis of Retail Credit Risk | Banking & Finance | Professor Louis Murray |
| Bianca Foehrer | Collaboration through Education? Transnational Competence and Trade Unions’ Cross-Border Commitment | Industrial Relations & Human Resources | Dr Roland Erne |
| Darragh Golden | Bridging National and Diverging Socio-Economic Interests:Transnational Labour Migration, Industrial Relations and the European Integration Process | Industrial Relations & Human Resources | Dr Roland Erne |
| Roberta Aguzzoli | Accounting for HRM Practices of a Brazilian Multi-national Company's Subsisiaries in Developed Countries | Industrial Relations & Human Resources | Professor John Geary |
| Ilona Hunek | Accounting for the Employment and HR Practices of Foreign-owned Banks in Poland under Transition | Industrial Relations & Human Resources | Professor John Geary |
| Lu Miao Shannon | Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Brokerage Centrality as Pathways to Emergent Leadership in Multicultural Settings | Management | Professor Tom Begley |
| Brona Russell | The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Attitudes in Negotiation Behaviour: An AET-Based Model | Management | Dr Jacob Eisenberg |
| George Onofrei | Collaborative Improvement: An Innovative Approach for Enhanced Performance | Management | Professor Brian Fynes |
| Antonio Vico Garcon | Organisational Learning and R&D Performance | Management | Professor Pat Gibbons |
| Cubie Lau | An Exploratory Study of Environmental Strategies in China | Management | Professor Patrick Gibbons |
| Phil Halligan | Transformational Leadership in a Professional Practice Environment: Exploratory Study in an Acute Healthcare Setting | Management | Professor Aidan Kelly |
| Ruifang Wang | Middle Managers' Ambidexterity: Exploring Individual Level Antecedents | Management | Professor Patrick Gibbons |
| Yan Zhang | Antecedents of Repatriation Adjustment: Evidence From Chinese Returned Students | Management | Professor Aidan Kelly |
| Fan Wang | The Relationship Between Personal Values and Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness and Efficiency | Management | Professor Aidan Kelly |
| David McKevitt | An exploratory study of mentoring relationships: context, processes, and outcomes | Management | Dr Donna Marshall |
| Peiran Su | The Influence of Failure on Product Innovation and Firm Performance | Management | Dr Peter McNamara |
| Olga Ryazanova | Drivers of Occupational Human Capital: Identifying and Developing Research Productivity in the Globalized Business School Industry | Management | Dr Peter McNamara |
| Niall Connolly | Cognitive Clusters: The Impact of Cognitive Style on Group Self Structuring | Management | Dr Eleanor O’Higgins |
| John Cashell | A Competence-Based Evolutionary Theory of the Multi-National Corporation Subsidiary | Management | Professor Frank Roche |
| Eric Clinton | Strategic Entrepreneurship in Multi-Generational Family Firms : A Resource Management Perspective | Management | Professor Frank Roche |
| Colm Foster | The Assessment of Leadership and The Impact of Personality & Emotional Intelligence | Management | Professor Frank Roche |
| Sen Xu | The role of benevolence and trust in fostering employee creativity | Management | Dr Ian Walsh |
| Mahabubur Rahman | Creating or Destroying Value through Mergers and Acquisitions: A Marketing Perspective | Marketing | Professor Mary Lambkin |
| Alan McCormack | The Genie and the Bottle: Capturing and Measuring Passion Brands | Marketing | Professor Tony Meenaghan |
| Cathy McGouran | Exploring Non-Consumption and its Effects on Consumer Well-Being | Marketing | Professor Andrea Prothero |
| Peadar O’Scolai | The politics of identity and materiality in Health Information System Innovation | Management Information Systems | Dr Seamas Kelly |
| Michael Phelan | Evolving multi-echelon supply chain inventory and ordering policies using biologically inspired grammar based meta-heuristics | Management Information Systems | Dr Sean McGarraghy |
| Paula Carroll | The Ring Spur Assignment Problem | Management Information Systems | Dr Sean McGarraghy |
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