An Dr Ciarán
Mac an Bhaird

Primary Department
Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge
Role
Ollamh Comhlach
Ciarán Mac an Bhaird
Phone number:
01 700
8914
Campus
All Hallows
Room Number
AHC S130

Academic biography

Tá Ciarán Mac an Bhaird ina Ollamh Comhlach le Gnó agus Bainistíocht in Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath. Tá PhD bainte amach aige ó Choláiste na Tríonóide, chomh maith le B.Comm. agus céim L.L.B. ó Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, agus M.Sc. san Airgeadas ó Ollscoil na hÉireann, Baile Átha Cliath. Déanann sé taighde ar ghnéithe i saol an ghnó, ar nós struchtúr airgeadais agus bainistíocht airgeadais i bhfiontair bheaga agus mheánmhéide, fiontraíocht, forbairt réigiúnach, agus polasaithe tacaíochta do SMEs. Scríobh sé leabhar ar an ábhar seo, Resourcing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (Springer-Verlag, Berlin), a sheol an Aire Fiontair, Trádála agus Nuálaíochta.

Ciarán Mac an Bhaird (PhD, Trinity College Dublin) is Associate Professor of Business and Management in DCU. His research and teaching interests include resourcing the small firm economy, enterprise policy, and innovations in entrepreneurial finance. He is supervising PhD students conducting research on enterprise policy, financing high growth firms, entrepreneurship education, business angel networks and business accelerator programmes. He has published in international peer reviewed journals including Small Business Economics, the Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, the International Small Business Journal, and Strategic Change. He is an associate editor of Research in International Business and Finance, and serves on the editorial board of Venture Capital. He participated in the International Visitor Leadership Programme of the U.S. Department of State, and he chairs the Entrepreneurial Finance track at the annual Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference.


Research interests

Ciarán mac an Bhaird conducts research on resourcing the small firm economy, and has published original research on capital structure, alternative finance, bootstrapping, credit unions, financing young high-tech firms, discouraged borrowers and intertemporal differences in financing. He has also conducted research on public policy related to provision of support to SMEs and entrepreneurship education. He is the author of ‘Resourcing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises’ (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2010), which was launched by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation. He has prepared commissioned reports for Enterprise Ireland and the Irish League of Credit Unions. He has published in international peer reviewed journals including Small Business Economics, the Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, the International Small Business Journal, Venture Capital. Research in International Business and Finance, and Strategic Change. He is supervising PhD students conducting research on enterprise policy, financing high growth firms, entrepreneurship education, business angel networks and business accelerator programmes.