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Ciarán Mac an Bhaird

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Ahc S118

T:Ext. 8914

E:Ciaran.MacAnBhaird@dcu.ie

AHC S130
T:Ext. 8914

E:Ciaran.MacAnBhaird@dcu.ie

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.

Book

	Year	Publication
	2010	Mac an Bhaird, C. (2010) Resourcing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. : Springer-Verlag HD.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2017	Lyons, R., Lynn, T., Mac an Bhaird, C. (2017) 'Social loafing in student entrepreneurship teams' In: The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Behaviour: Intention, Education and Orientation. Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar.
	2015	Mac an Bhaird, C., Whittam, G., Taylor, S. (2015) 'SME lending: A new role for Credit Unions?' In: International Research Handbook in Entrepreneurial Finance. Lisbon and Lund : Edward Elgar. [Link]
	2010	Mac an Bhaird, Ciarán (2010) 'Ireland and the global economic crisis' In: Lagoarde-Segot, Thomas(Eds.). After the crisis: Rethinking finance. New York : Nova.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2025	Metzger, M.; O'Reilly, S.; Mac an Bhaird, C. (2025) 'Generative artificial intelligence augmenting SME financial management'. Technovation, 147 . [Link] [DOI]
	2025	O’Reilly, S.; Mac an Bhaird, C.; Greene, F.J. (2025) 'The role of equity capital in speeding cleantechs across the ‘Valley of Death’'. International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 43 . [Link] [DOI]
	2024	O’Reilly, S.; Gorman, L.; Mac An Bhaird, C.; Brennan, N.M. (2024) 'Implementing the European Union Green Taxonomy: implications for small- and medium-sized enterprises'. Accounting Forum, 48 . [Link] [DOI]
	2023	O'Reilly, S.; Mac An Bhaird, C.; Cassells, D. (2023) 'Financing Early Stage Cleantech Firms'. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 70 . [Link] [DOI]
	2023	Wilson, J.; Sanchez Rodrigues, V.; Bhaird, C.M.a.; Lotfi, M.; Kumar, M.; Horgan, D.; Dodd, S.; Danson, M. (2023) 'On the beer wagon: the past, present and future of Celtic craft brewing and its policies'. REGIONAL STUDIES REGIONAL SCIENCE, 10 . [Link] [DOI]
	2020	Lynn, T., Rosati, P., Nair, B., Mac an Bhaird, C. (2020) 'An Exploratory Data Analysis of the #Crowdfunding Network on Twitter'. Journal Of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, And Complexity, 6 (3):1-22. [Link] https://doi.org/10.3390/joitmc6030080
	2020	Cummins, M., Mac an Bhaird, C., Rosati, P., Lynn, T. (2020) 'Institutional Investment in Online Business Lending Markets'. International Review of Financial Analysis, 71 (October 2020):1-15. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101542
	2019	Mac an Bhaird, C., Owen, R., Drakopoulou-Dodd, S., Wilson, J., Bisignano, A. (2019) 'Small beer? Borrowers’ perspectives of peer to peer lending in the craft beer sector'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, 28 (1):59-68. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2246
	2019	Cummins, Mark; Lynn, Theo; Bhaird, Ciaran Mac An; Rosati, Pierangelo (2019) 'Addressing Information Asymmetries in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending'. DISRUPTING FINANCE: FINTECH AND STRATEGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY, . [DOI]
	2019	Owen, R., North, D., Mac an Bhaird, C. (2019) 'The role of government venture capital funds: Recent lessons from the U.K. experience'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, 28 (1):69-82. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2247
	2018	Drakopoulou-Dodd, S., Wilson, J., Mac an Bhaird, C., Bisignano, A. (2018) 'Habitus emerging: The development of hybrid logics and collaborative business models in the Irish craft beer sector'. International Small Business Journal, 36 (6):637-661. https://doi-org.dcu.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0266242617751597
	2016	Mac an Bhaird, C., Sanchez-Vidal, J., Lucey, B. (2016) 'Discouraged borrowers: Evidence for Eurozone SMEs'. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 44 :46-55. [Link]
	2015	Lyons, R Lynn, T Mac an Bhaird, C (2015) 'Individual Level Assessment in Entrepreneurship Education: An Investigation of Theories and Techniques'. Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 18 :136-156.
	2015	Mac an Bhaird, CCurran, D (2015) 'Sectoral differences in determinants of export intensity'. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 17 (2):299-313.
	2015	Mac an Bhaird, C. Lynn, T. (2015) 'Seeding the cloud: Financial bootstrapping in the computer software sector'. VENTURE CAPITAL - AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE, 17 .
	2015	Talbot, S Mac an Bhaird, C Whittam, G (2015) 'Can credit unions bridge the gap in lending to SMEs?'. VENTURE CAPITAL - AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE, 17 .
	2013	Mac an Bhaird, C. (2013) 'Demand for debt and equity before and after the financial crisis'. Research in International Business and Finance, 28 :105-117.
	2011	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2011) 'An empirical investigation of the financial growth life cycle'. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 18 :715-731.
	2011	Gurdgiev, C., Lucey, B., Mac an Bhaird, C., Roche-Kelly, L. (2011) 'The Irish economy: Three strikes and you're out?'. Panoeconomicus, 58 :19-41.
	2010	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2010) 'Determinants of Capital Structure in Irish SMEs'. SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS (PRINT), 35 :357-375.
	2010	Mac an Bhaird, C. (2010) 'The Modigliani-Miller proposition after fifty years and its relation to entrepreneurial finance'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, 19 :9-28.
	2009	Ciaran Mac An Bhaird , Brian Lucey (2009) 'Determinants of capital structure in Irish SMEs'. SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS (ONLINE), .

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2014	Mac an Bhaird, C., Lynn, T. (2014) Financing SME Growth in the UK: Meeting the Challenges after the Global Financial Crisis Seeding the cloud: Funding SMEs in the application software sector Middlesex University CEEDR Conference, 03/06/2014-03/06/2014.
	2014	Mac an Bhaird, C., Sanchez-Vidal, J., Lucey, B. (2014) 12th Infiniti Conference on International Finance Discouraged borrowers: Evidence for European SMEs Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, 09/06/2014-10/06/2014.
	2014	Mac an Bhaird, C. (2014) 12th Infiniti Conference on International Finance Workshop on SME finance Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, 09/06/2014-10/06/2014.
	2014	Mac an Bhaird, C. (2014) Ontology of Organizations Conference From Schumacher to Silicon Valley: Sustainability and the small firm Kedge Business School, Marseille, France, 25/07/2014-26/07/2014.
	2014	Mac an Bhaird, C., Whittam, G., Talbot, S. (2014) Financing SME Growth in the UK: Meeting the Challenges after the Global Financial Crisis Credit Unions Past Present and Future: Can they be utilised for start-ups? Middlesex University CEEDR Conference, 03/06/2014-03/06/2014.
	2011	Mac an Bhaird, C. (2011) 9th Rural Entrepreneurship Conference Sustainable Financing for a sustainable rural? Nottingham Conference Centre, 23/06/2011-24/06/2011.
	2011	Mac an Bhaird, C. (2011) Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 34rd Conference Demand for debt and equity before and after the financial crisis Sheffield, 08/11/2011-10/11/2011.
	2011	Mac an Bhaird, C., Lynn, T., John A. (2011) Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 34rd Conference Seeding the cloud: Funding SMEs in the application software sector Sheffield, 08/11/2011-10/11/2011.
	2010	Mac an Bhaird, C. (2010) Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 33rd Conference Firm Financing: A Resource Based View London, 07/11/2010-09/11/2010.
	2010	Mac an Bhaird, C., Lucey, B., Kearney C. (2010) Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 33rd Conference Culture's Influences: An investigation of inter-country differences in capital structure London, 07/11/2010-09/11/2010.
	2009	Mac an Bhaird, C., Lucey, B., Kearney C. (2009) 7th Infiniti Conference on International Finance Cultural influences on SME financing Trinity College Dublin, 08/06/2009-09/06/2009.
	2008	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2008) Midwest Finance Association 57th Meeting Determinants of the capital structure of SMEs: A seemingly unrelated regression approach San Antonio Rivercenter, Texas, 27/02/2008-01/03/2008.
	2008	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2008) Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 31st Conference Financing preferences in SMEs: Consideration of firm owners' strategic objectives Belfast, 05/11/2008-07/11/2008.
	2008	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2008) 6th INFINITI Conference on International Finance A study of the impact of business goals, motivations and preferences on the capital structure decision in Irish medium sized firms Trinity College, Dublin, 09/06/2008-10/06/2008.
	2007	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2007) Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 30th Conference The financial growth life cycle: An empirical examination of Irish SMEs Radisson SAS Hotel, Glasgow, 07/11/2007-09/11/2007.
	2007	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2007) Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 30th Conference Determinants of the capital structure of SMEs: A seemingly unrelated regression approach Radisson SAS Hotel, Glasgow, 07/11/2007-09/11/2007.
	2007	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2007) 5th Infiniti Conference on International Finance The financial growth life cycle: An empirical examination of Irish SMEs Trinity College, Dublin, 11/06/2007-12/06/2007.
	2006	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2006) International Comparisons in the Financing of SMEs in Developed Countries An exploratory cross-sectional study on the capital structures of Irish SMEs Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Warwick Business School, 04/04/2006-05/04/2006.
	2006	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2006) Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance The capital structure of Irish small and medium sized enterprises: An exploratory study Sheraton Pasadena, Pasadena, California, 19/04/2006-21/04/2006.
	2006	Mac an Bhaird, C. and Lucey, B. (2006) Entrepreneurship: Occupational Choice and Financing Capital structure and the financing of SMEs: Empirical evidence from an Irish survey National Agency for Enterprise and Construction, Copenhagen, 06/06/2006-07/06/2006.
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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.