Browsing Management (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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Cultural Control and the Culture Manager: Employment Practices in a Consultancy
(Work Employment and Society, 2000-01-01)This article explores the use of company culture as a means of management control. It reports research conducted in a consultancy that aimed to secure loyalty from its employees through a conscious policy of organised play ... -
De-collectivism and managerial ideology: towards an understanding of trade union opposition
(International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2010)Employers have long preferred to manage without the incursion of a trade union in company affairs. Much of the extant literature views managerial opposition to unions in terms of discrete typologies of union suppression ... -
A ‘deviant men’ theory of business expectations in nascent entrepreneurs
(Springer, 2022-12-01)In this article, we develop a gendered analysis of the expectations of venture growth by nascent entrepreneurs. Male entrepreneurs are notably overrepresented in the small cohort of firms that attain growth; to explore ... -
Different rooms, different voices: Double-breasting, multi-channel representation and the managerial agenda
(International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2011)Double-breasting has been identified as where companies run union voice and non-union voice mechanisms across different plants. While research has focused on the incidence of such arrangements, there is a dearth of evidence ... -
Different rooms, different voices: Double-breasting, multi-channel representation and the managerial agenda
(2011)Double-breasting has been identified as where companies run union voice and non-union voice mechanisms across different plants. While research has focused on the incidence of such arrangements, there is a dearth of evidence ... -
Doubly disadvantaged: Gender, spatially concentrated deprivation and nascent entrepreneurial activity
(Wiley, 2019-12-02)Drawing on human capital, intersectionality and mixed embeddedness theory, we test hypotheses on the relationship between gender differences in human capital and gender differences in nascent entrepreneurial activity across ... -
Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp
(Tilde University Press, 2012)PharmaCorp is a subsidiary of one of Japan's largest pharmaceutical companies, employing 60 people in its Dublin bulk pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. The plant makes the active ingredients for four products, supplying ... -
Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp
(Tilde University Press, 2012)Crann Iorrais Teoranta (CIT) was established in 1987 in Co Mayo in Ireland as a forestry company engaged in a wide range of forestry-based activities for the private, commercial and semi-state sectors throughout Ireland. ... -
Early indicators of very long term venture performance: A 20 year panel study
(Academy of Management, 2020-04-17)This paper discovers early indicators of very long term performance of high technology new ventures (HTNVs). We tracked the progress of a sample of 142 HTNVs founded at the Israeli government s Technology Incubator Program ... -
An Emergent Theory of HRM: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of Determinants of HRM among Irish Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
(Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 2006-11)Utilizing data drawn from 18 in-depth case studies the authors explore in detail the factors shaping employment in a diverse range of Irish Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. Existing theory in HRM is deemed inadequate ... -
Employer Hostility to Union Organising in the UK
(Industrial Relations Journal, 2002)This paper presents empirical evidence about the shape and pattern of non-union employer strategies to remain union free. The data are collected from seven case studies across different industrial sectors and organisational ... -
Entrepreneurial finance journeys: embeddedness and the finance escalator
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-05-19)This paper re-visits the traditional model of the finance escalator, which outlines alternative financial pathways for entrepreneurs depending on their aspirations and stage of development. Building on social, spatial and ... -
Environmental performance and practice across sectors: methodology and preliminary results
(2011)This paper introduces a new methodology for measuring and modeling manufacturers' environmental performance and the managerial and technological practices that affect it. Facility level licensing data are used to develop ... -
From gendered organizations to compassionate borderspaces: Reading corporeal ethics with Bracha Ettinger
(SAGE Publications, 2014-12-04)In this article, we propose a new way of approaching the topic of ethics for management and organization theory. We build on recent developments within critical organization studies that focus on the question of what kind ... -
Gender gaps and reentry into entrepreneurial ecosystems after business failure
(Springer Verlag, 2018-02-09)Despite the significant role played by serial entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurial process, we know little about group differences in reentry decisions after business failure. Using an ecosystems framework and stigma theory, ... -
Governance and Institutional Change in Ireland
(OECD, 2005)An innovation driven policy agenda has emerged in Ireland against a backdrop of remarkable economic growth and convergence. Policy makers now recognise that convergence in innovative performance will also be required ... -
How to whistle-blow: Dissensus and demand
(Springer, 2020-01-22)What makes an external whistleblower effective? Whistleblowers represent an important conduit for dissensus, providing valuable information about ethical breaches and organizational wrongdoing. They often speak out about ... -
Human Resource Development in Multinational Organisations: Introductory Forward to Special Issue
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The ideology of union busting
(International Union Rights Journal, 2006)Many of the worlds largest multinationals, both American and non-American owned companies are avowedly anti-union. The likes of Walmart, Amazon, McDonalds or Disney do not oppose union representation just for pragmatic or ... -
The importance of apology to mediation: A mixed-methods study of role, effectiveness and implications for practice
(Maynooth University, 2021)This paper explores the role of apology in the resolution of conflict through mediation. The paper outlines the distinctive features of mediation that contribute to its unique potential to help restore relationships, with ...