NITL marked another important milestone in its development with the award by DIT of a Ph.D. to Claudia Wagner who works as a Senior Researcher at the Institute. Dr Wagner’s research was undertaken at NITL under the supervision of senior NITL academic staff. Her Doctoral thesis was entitled ‘The impact of Business-toBusiness E-Marketplaces as Extended Media in the Procurement Supply Chain of Airlines’.

 
               Prof. Brian Norton, President of DIT presents Dr. Claudia Wagner with her
               Ph.D. parchment in St. Patrick's Cathedral at the recent graduation ceremony
     
The primary contribution of this work was to provide an original starting point for a more structured focus to improve understanding of the adoption process and value creation of B2B e-Marketplaces. The work has resulted in several publications in leading international academic journals. The foundation provided by Dr Wagner’s thesis allows for further robust investigation in this field. Indeed, Dr Wagner is carrying out some of this work as part of her ongoing research activity within NITL.

NITL considers postgraduate research as an invaluable means of training students in examining problems and finding potential solutions. It gives the student experience in working independently, designing experiments to test theoretical hypotheses, describing thoroughly the results of such experiments, extracting conclusions from these results and relating these to fundamental problems. NITL views postgraduate research as a fundamentally important part of its overall portfolio of activities as it enables the Institute to make a positive contribution to the body of knowledge in the logistics and supply chain fields.

            Edward Sweeney of NITL, who was part of the supervisory team, 
            photographed with Dr. Claudia Wagner at the recent graduation ceremony.

NITL would like to congratulate Claudia on her fine achievement and looks forward to further success with its research student population in the not too distant future.