Social enterprise has been afforded a high profile by the UK government as a vehicle for enabling economic and social regeneration. The opportunity offered to social enterprise organisations to bid for public sector contracts has been growing with both the last and current government. This raises questions of viability, coherence and governance of ...
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This thesis is an exposition of the structural fragilities of the Irish credit union Movement focusing on relative performance and ICT technology adoption. To date Irish credit unions have evolved to a transitional stage of development and still embody a strong cooperative ethos with optimal membership value at is core. The evolution of the Irish c...
This study aimed to investigate the perceptions of the social networking site 'Facebook' amongst its users. Quantitative research on this topic has tended to focus on campus-based student samples, and a qualitative approach and a non-student sample was selected here in order to generate richer data for analysis within a wider group of Facebook user...
We derive a set of results of a statistical nature. We provide closed-form expressions to calculate the multivariate truncated moments of several distributions. The first major contribution of this research is a formula to calculate moments of an arbitrary order of the lower truncated multivariate standard normal (MVSN) distribution. This result is...
The dissertation aims to explore the supply and demand side determinant of child labour at macro, meso and micro level. At macro level it explores the effect of globalization (defined as openness to trade and inflow of foreign direct investment) and credit market imperfections on child labour. At meso level it explores the effect of labour market c...
Fishermen in the UK face a range of administrative, socioeconomic and environmental challenges that affect the financial performance, and ultimate viability of their businesses. These challenges are particularly salient within the ‘inshore sector’; those vessels of less than ten metres in length which account for over-three quarters of the domestic...
