Eleanor Doyle

Biography

Dr. Eleanor Doyle is Professor of Economics. She is Director of the practitioner-oriented, developmental, doctoral research programme, DBA (Business Economics) and has supervised sixteen doctoral theses to completion. She is Director of the Competitiveness Institute and her teaching and research relate to the integration of professional and organisational development and its impact on the environment for business and in turn on economic development and prosperity. Between 2011 and 2016 she contributed to the management, organisation and development of Economics at UCC across roles of Assistant Head, Acting Head and Head of the School of Economics. 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 (). She is an inaugural member of the European MoC Chapter and is current annual Chairperson. For her contribution to this network over ten years she was honoured to be elected into the ‘Hall of Fame’ of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, only the sixth person to receive this honour. (). She leads the Competitiveness Survey Group at UCC providing Irish input to the Executive Opinion Survey for the annual Global Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum. (). She has developed a three-year joint learning and development initiative between the Institute for Business Development and Competitiveness and the MBA Association of Ireland, Southern Chapter which delivered a Workshop on Overcoming Your Immunity to Change delivered by Robert Kegan, The William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education [. Professor Kegan's constructive-developmental perspective is also a source of ongoing and valuable contribution to the DBA programme where the limits of theories in business, economics and learning for making sense of professional experience are tested and examined. Her PhD at the University of Birmingham focused on international trade and growth, central themes in her research publications in The Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics and the Journal of Economic Studies. The related themes of productivity, innovation and competitiveness formed the basis for research collaborations with Prof. Philip Shapira (Manchester Business School), Dr. Adrian Kuah (Nottingham Business School), Dr. Damien Ward (Bradford University School of Management) and Fergal O'Connor (University of York) examining productivity, innovation and competitiveness implications for small open economies. This research, funded by the Department of Trade, Investment and Innovation, Northern Ireland, is informing the economic strategy of Northern Ireland. Related research has been published and presented in Helsinki, Dublin and Glasgow. Her research on Doctoral Study for practitioners has led been presented through NAIRTL (the National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning) in 2009 and the UK Council for Graduate Education in 2014. Her teaching-focused publications include The Economic System published by Wiley (2005) and several case studies published in the leading European strategy textbook, Exploring Corporate Strategy (Prentice-Hall). She contributes regularly to debates in national and international media on such topics as competitiveness on The Business on Radio 1, on the housing and financial bubbles on The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 and on the Banking Crisis on Newstalk's Down to Business. She is active in regional fora as a member of the Economic and Enterprise Committee of Cork Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development sub-committee of CASP (Cork Areas Strategic Plan). She was invited to participate in the South Western Regional Authority Regional Innovation Cluster & Regional Economic Competitiveness Project, and contributed an invited session at "Thinking Through Cork's Competitiveness" organised by the Development Boards of Cork City and County in 2010. Along with colleagues she has developed and delivered a practitioner programme for business transformation which has worked with approximately 30 businesses across West Cork.

Research Interest

Economic Development: competitiveness, clusters. Dr. Doyle leads the Competitiveness Survey Project in the Dept. of Economics, which undertakes an annual Executive Opinion Survey of national competitiveness, published in the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum. Click here 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.