I have been asked to make my PhD thesis available. The thesis is titled ‘Irish community-based social enterprises: An investigation into their rationale, activities and motivations’ and was presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) to the University of Dublin, Trinity College in 2010.
In summary, the first three chapters constitute the literature review, chapter 4 is the methodology, chapters 5-8 are the research chapters and chapter 9 is the conclusions and recommendations. I also include the bibliography.
The purpose of doing a PhD is to add to knowledge and if this is of assistance to other students, researchers and practitioners then I am delighted to contribute. However, as this took 7 years of my life to complete I would ask that if you wish to cite it then please give proper credit and use the following reference citation:
Germaine, K (2010), ‘Irish community-based social enterprises: An investigation into their rationale, activities and motivations’ (PhD thesis presented to the University of Dublin, Trinity College, http://germaine.eu.com/?page_id=383)
Many regards,
Ken