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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Cullen | Towards a theory of the role and effectiveness of boards of directors in investment fund governance | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Neil Dunne |
A decade of scrutiny: Mobilizing Goffman to study the Big Four’s institutional logics, impression management and strategic framing |
Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Karen Ann Dwyer |
Auditor planning judgements: Audit materiality thresholds and auditor risk assessments in expanded audit reports |
Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Maureen Flynn | The Practice of Accountability for “Clinical Governance”: A Life-and-Death Setting | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Collette Kirwan | Role conflict and non-executive directors on boards of unlisted family firms | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Orla Lenihan | A Study of CEO Bonus Plans: Performance Measures, Target Difficulty, and Non-GAAP Reporting Practices | Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Maria Scanlon |
Evolution of auditor-client negotiations from the initial audit tender to subsequent audit cycles: A qualitative study of (non)cooperativeness |
Accounting | Professor Niamh Brennan |
| Emer Hunt |
The Legal System as a Black Box: a Systems Theoretical Approach to the State Aid Enforcement Action taken by the European Commission in relation to Tax Rulings. |
Accounting | Dr Gerardine Doyle |
| 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 |
| Jiawei Qian | Property-Casualty Insurers Loss Reserving Behaviours, Incentives, and Institutional Factor | Accounting | Professor Eamonn Walsh |
| Liang Xu | Accounting quality and the design of syndicated loans | Accounting | Professor Eamonn Walsh |
| Deven Bathia | Asset Pricing implications of investor sentiment | Banking & Finance | Professor Don Bredin |
| Martina Assereto |
Evaluating and mitigating the financial risks of renewable energy integration systems: a real options approach |
Banking & Finance | Dr Julie Byrne |
| Xuanyu Yue |
Essays on Corporate Environmental Performance and Aviation-related Carbon Emissions |
Banking & Finance | Dr Julie Byrne |
| Min Cao | Risk Management in Aviation Finance | Banking & Finance | Professor Tom Conlon |
| Ioannis Ropotos | Essays in international finance | Banking & Finance | Professor Tom Conlon & Professor John Cotter |
| Fiona Hickey | The impact of ownership structure and the performance and risk exposure of European banks during the financial crisis. | Banking & Finance | Professor Tom Conlon & Dr Cormac MacFhionnlaoich |
| Emmanuel Eyiah-Donkor | Essays on Return Predictability and Portfolio ChoiceÈ | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter |
| Chenglu Jin | Essays on Asset Pricing and the Horizon Effect | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter & Professor Thomas Conlon |
| Yan Ping Zhong | Validating Risk Measurement Models for Market Risk Management | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter |
| Niall McGeever | Essays in International Finance and Asset Pricing | Banking & Finance | Professor John Cotter |
| Jing Dang | The Static Approximation to Dynamic Asset Allocation - A Stochastic Programming Approach | Banking & Finance | Dr David Edelman |
| Ekaterina Goryagina | Investing with Minimal Regret | Banking & Finance | Dr David Edelman |
| Fabiola Schneider | Essays on Climate Transition Accounting and Finance | Banking & Finance | Professor Andreas Hoepner |
| Yumeng Gao | Essays on Sustainable Finance across Asset Classes: Empirical Evidence from China and the US | Banking & Finance | Professor Andreas Hoepner |
| Min Ye | Foreign Exchange Exposure and Exchange Rate Regimes: The Case of Emerging Market Firms | Banking & Finance | Dr Elaine Hutson |
| Shivam Agarwal | Essays on Regulatory Risk in Financial Institutions | Banking & Finance | Professor Cal Muckley |
| Parvati Neelakantan | Essays in Environmental and AI Finance | Banking & Finance | Professor Cal Muckley |
| Patrick Shallow | Empirical Measurement and Analysis of Retail Credit Risk | Banking & Finance | Professor Louis Murray |
| Michael Sheehan - MPhil | Application Software Risk and Returns 2009 - 2019 | Banking & Finance | Professor Louis Murray |
| Brian Healy | Are cross sectional differences in ex-dividend day abnormal returns priced by the options markets? | Banking & Finance | Dr Conall O'Sullivan |
| Diego Pérez Guisande |
Essays in Sustainable Banking and Finance: Divestment, Engagement & Transition |
Banking & Finance | Dr Conall O'Sullivan & Professor Andreas Hoepner |
| Yan Wang | Effective Spanning with Options | Banking & Finance | Dr Conall O'Sullivan |
| Wael Almaquoshi | Audit Committee Indices: Applications in Financial Reporting Quality and Merger & Acquisition Outcomes | Banking & Finance | Professor Ronan Powell |
| Huong Tran | Essays on R&D Collaboration, Innovation, Competition, and Mergers & Acquisitions | Banking & Finance | Professor Ronan Powell |
| Yang Zhao | Essays on Information Asymmetry and Corporate Restructurings | Banking & Finance | Professor Ronan Powell |
| Ronald Wafula | Liquidity resiliency of the euro-area sovereign bond market | Banking & Finance | Assistant Professor Vassilios Papavassiliou |
| Bianca Föhrer | Collaboration through Education? Transnational Competence and Trade Unions’ Cross-Border Commitment | Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor Roland Erne |
| Costanza Galanti | Struggling for care in the European Union. Workers and unions in and between Italy and Romania | Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor Roland Erne |
| Darragh Golden | Bridging National and Diverging Socio-Economic Interests :Transnational Labour Migration, Industrial Relations and the European Integration Process | Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor Roland Erne |
| Vincenzo Maccarrone | Common pressure and uneven trajectories. The commodifying impact of the European Union’s new economic governance regime on Irish and Italian industrial relations | Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor Roland Erne |
| Mary Naughton |
Protest in response to the commodification of healthcare in the era of the European Union’s new economic governance regime |
Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor Roland Erne |
| Loredana Dreptate | An examination of the shifting contours of employee voice in the Irish banking sector: A case analysis from the period of economic buoyancy, to financial crisis through to economic recovery | Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor John Geary |
| Ilona Hunek | Accounting for the Employment and HR Practices of Foreign-owned Banks in Poland under Transition | Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor John Geary |
| Julius Nyiawung |
The Influence of Shifting Geopolitics, Power Relations and Informal Institutions on the Management of Employment Relations Practices in Multinational Companies in a Developing Economy: The Case of Cameroon’s Oil Industry |
Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor John Geary |
| Suzanne Carthy | Inequality regimes and long hours: A mixed methods analysis of gender inequality in the solicitors' profession in Ireland. | Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Associate Professor Colm McLaughlin |
| Treasa Kenny | Workplace Mediators in Ireland: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study | Human Resource Management & Employment Relations | Professor Bill Roche |
| Benjamin Siedler |
Examining Processes of Moral Dissociation: A Study of the Financial Market |
Management | Professor Rashedur Chowdhury |
| Yanan Lin | Perceived External Prestige and Employee Commitment in Chinese Hospitals | Management | Professor Rosa Chun |
| Roberto Chavez Clavijo |
Supply Chain Management Practices, Supply Chain Management Performance, Business Performance and Industry Clockspeed: A Path Analytical Model |
Management | Professor Brian Fynes |
| Ali Nazarpour | The Impact of Mass Customisation Capability on Operational Performance | Management | Professor Brian Fynes |
| George Onofrei | Manufacturing Practices and Factory Fitness: A Swift Even Flow Perspective | Management | Professor Brian Fynes |
| Antonio Vico Garcon | Organisational Learning and R&D Performance | Management | Professor Patrick Gibbons |
| Cubie Lau | An Exploratory Study of Environmental Strategies in China | Management | Professor Patrick Gibbons |
| Ruifang Wang | Middle Managers' Ambidexterity: Exploring Individual Level Antecedents | Management | Professor Patrick Gibbons |
| Phil Halligan | Transformational Leadership in a Professional Practice Environment: Exploratory Study in an Acute Healthcare Setting | Management | Professor Aidan Kelly |
| Olga Ryazanova | Drivers of Occupational Human Capital: Identifying and Developing Research Productivity in the Globalized Business School Industry | Management | Dr Peter McNamara |
| Kevin Walsh | Influence of prior employers and capital within entrepreneurial ecosystems | Management | Dr Rory O'Shea |
| Michail (Michalis) Louis | A dynamic risk sensing capability: a qualitative study in the context of sustainable supply chain management | Management | Professor Mark Pagell |
| Eric Clinton | Strategic Entrepreneurship in Multi-Generational Family Firms : A Resource Management Perspective | Management | Professor Frank Roche |
| Nicola Mountford |
Off the fence and onto the field: Roles, rules, and relationships in the re-organisation of healthcare |
Marketing | Professor Susi Geiger |
| Fernandos Ongolly |
Contextual Advocacy in Bridging the Last Mile Gap in Access to Essential Medicines: A Comparative Study in Lower and Higher-Income Settings |
Marketing | Professor Susi Geiger |
| Ruiqi Wei |
The Management and Governance of Digital Platforms in Business-to-Business Markets |
Marketing | Professor Susi Geiger |
| Gillian Moran | More than Words: How Content Marketing Strategy Influences Customer Brand Engagement | Marketing | Dr Laurent Muzzellec & Professor Mary Lambkin |
| Valerie Gannon | Beauty Blogging & You-tubing Practices : Negotiating Authenticity | Marketing | Professor Andrea Prothero |
| Vanja Međugorac |
Whose energy systems? Ownership and social acceptance of energy-system- |
Marketing | Associate Professor Geertje Schuitema |
| Charity Delmus Alupo (MPhil) |
Applied Machine Learning, Renewable Energy, Developing World |
Management Information Systems | Associate Professor Paula Carroll |
| Samir Mirdad |
Inventory optimisation for telecommunications network support |
Management Information Systems | Professor Michael MacDonnell |
| 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 |
| Stefano Mauceri |
Representations for One-Class Time Series Classification |
Management Information Systems | Dr Miguel Nicalou |
| Nam Le Hai |
The Interplay between Evolution and Learning in Dynamic Environments: Computational Metaphor of Adaptive Algorithms |
Management Information Systems | Professor Michael O'Neill |
| Stefan Forstenlechner | Program Synthesis with Grammars and Semantics in Genetic Programming | Management Information Systems | Professor Michael O'Neill |
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