Prof Eleanor Doyle

Biography

Eleanor Doyle is Professor of Economics and Vice-Dean for Internationalisation and External Engagement at Cork University Business School (CUBS).  She is an invited member of the international Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MoC) network of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School, led by Prof. Michael Porter (www.isc.hbs.edu/).  She co-chairs the Knowledge Generation Council of the network and organises its annual presentation of research at HBS. 
She is academic director of CUBS’ practitioner-oriented doctoral research programme (DBA) and has supervised19 doctoral theses to completion. 

She lead Irish input to the Executive Opinion Survey for the annual Global Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum for over a decade: (https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-competitiveness-report-2017-2018). Her recent research project, funded through an Environmental Protection Agency Grant, considers links between sustainability and competitiveness, leveraging international data from the World Economic Forum. (http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/econ/Research_Report_237.pdf).

Eleanor is active in regional fora including Cork’s Chamber of Commerce (through its Public Affairs Council) and the Economic Development sub-committee of CASP (Cork Areas Strategic Plan).

Languages

• English
• French
• German

Grants and Honours

• 14/03/2016 - AEPESS Intergrated Indicators for Ireland Adjusting Economic Progress for Enviromental and Social Sustainability.
• 25/05/2011 - Business Reports. Business Ca\se for service/product development. Analysis on National Innovation Policy. Economics impact analysis.
• 01/01/2011 - Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. Hall of Fame Award, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School
• 07/01/2009 - Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness in Small Open Economies

Other Activities

• 27/10/2022 - International Competitiveness, Sustainability and Resilience: Keynote Conference Presentation
• 15/09/2022 - Training : Cluster Managers & Policy Makers, Northern Ireland and Ireland
• 15/06/2022 - European Academy of Management
• 13/06/2022 - Irish Environmentalist Researchers Colloquium
• 05/05/2022 - Irish Economic Association Annual Conference
• 16/06/2021 - Annual conference of European Academy of Management
• 13/06/2021 - Irish Economic Association
• 04/12/2020 - European Academy of Management
• 26/06/2019 - European Academy of Management
• 24/06/2019 - European Academy of Management
• 03/09/2018 - Irish Academy of Management
• 28/08/2018 - European Regional Science Association
• 25/06/2018 - European Academy of Management
• 19/06/2018 - European Academy of Management
• 01/02/2018 - Ulster University Programme External Examiner: MSc Business Development and Innovation
• 01/12/2017 - Microeconomics of Competitiveness Network, Institute for Strategy and Competiteveness, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School
• 29/08/2017 - European Regional Science Association
• 26/06/2017 - European Academy of Management
• 25/06/2017 - European Academy of Management
• 24/06/2016 - European Academy of Management
• 03/06/2016 - European Academy of Management Conference

Pedagogic Experiences

• 2022 - Microeconomics of Competitiveness Case-based Workshop, Faculty of Economics and Globalization
• 2021 - Microeconomics of Competitiveness Case based Workshop, Ruhr University Bochum

Research Domains

• DBA (Business Economics)
• Microeconomics of Business Strategy
• Principles of Economics 
• International Trade and Competitiveness
• Economic Development: competitiveness, clusters.
•  Competitiveness Survey Project 
• Efficiency of Irish Industry/Role of FDI in Irish Industry.
• Sources of Irish Growth. 
• Linkages between firm, industry, sectoral and national competitiveness.
• Organisational architecture and governance.

Thesis

• 2018 - The development of a conceptual framework for equality-based practice in organizations (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2019 - Developing a Learner Centred Pedagogy: Applications to Accounting (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2019 - Effectuation in Practice: Developmental Perspectives (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2022 - Essays on Economic Growth: Sources of Growth for Saudi Arabia (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2019 - Population Impacts on Economic Growth: National, Provincial and City Analyses (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2015 - Developing executive capability: banking and beyond (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2015 - The Role of Transformative Thinking and Practice in a Property Entrepreneur's Response to the Funding Crisis since 2008, University College Cork (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2015 - Evolving Perspectives on Business and Books: Practitioner Implications, University College Cork (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2021 - Competition and Scale Effects, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
• 2017 - Addressing Strategy and Innovation in Family Business Practice; a Process of Adaptive Change (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• 2018 - Practising critical pedagogy through the lens of constructive-developmental theory, Department of Economics,University College Cork (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
• Bridge Building and Foundations in Clusters: An Exploratory Case Study, International University of Monaco (Thesis Co-Supervisor)

Publications