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    • Looking out of the black-hole: non-union relations in an SME 

      Dundon, Tony; Grugulis, Irena; Wilkinson, Adrian (Employee Relations Journal, 1999)
      Using a single case study approach this paper provides empirical evidence about managerial practices in a small, non-unionised firm which represents many of the features characteristic of the black-hole of no unions and ...
    • Lotus Automation 

      Cunningham, James (Blackhall Press, 2009)
      A few days back from a trip to China, Fergal Broder is driving into the offices of LotusAutomation in Sligo for a meeting with his Chief Financial Officer and other members of his management team. He is looking forward to ...
    • LotusWorks 

      Cunningham, James; Hilliard, Rachel (Orpen Press, 2010)
      Key issues facing LotusWorks are how to double turnover within four years, increase the company's global impact and ensure that the appropriate management structures and employee talents are in place for LotusWorks to ...
    • The management of voice in non-union organisations: managers perspectives 

      Dundon, Tony; Wilkinson, Adrian; Marchington, Mick; Ackers, Peter (Employee Relations, 2005)
      Purpose: Given the emergence of new legal initiatives for union recognition, declining levels of union membership and the growth of alternative forms of employee representation, this paper aims to examine the management ...
    • Market-driven entrepreneurship and institutions 

      Ali, Abdul; Kelley, Donna J.; Levie, Jonathan (Elsevier, 2019-03-21)
      This research seeks to explain how particular conditions in the external environment are associated with market-driven entrepreneurship—more specifically, startup or early-stage business activity that addresses opportunities ...
    • The meanings and purpose of employee voice 

      Dundon, Tony; Wilkinson, Adrian; Marchington, Mick; Ackers, Peter (International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2004)
      In this paper we present and assess an analytical framework for examining the different 'meanings, purposes and practices' of employee voice. The data were collected from eighteen organizations in England, Scotland and ...
    • Multinational corporations and industrial relations research: A road less travelled 

      Collings, David G. (Wiley, 2008)
      While there is a large body of academic debate surrounding human resource management issues in MNCs, industrial relations issues often fail to receive the same degree of attention. This paper attempts to move the debate ...
    • Non-union employee representation, union avoidance and the managerial agenda 

      Donaghey, Jimmy; Cullinane, Niall; Dundon, Tony; Dobbins, Tony (2011)
      Non-union employee representation is an area which has attracted much interest in the voice literature. Much of the literature has been shaped by a dialogue which considers NERs as a means of union avoidance. More recently ...
    • Occupation as resistance: The case of worker sit-ins in the Irish Republic 

      Cullinane, Niall; Dundon, Tony (International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA), 2010-06)
      Replicating global trends, the Irish Republic has been mired in a deepening fiscal and economic crisis since 2008. At workplace level there has been a steady increase in cash-strapped firms forced to restructure and/or ...
    • Organizational form and pro-social fantasy in social enterprise creation 

      Kenny, Kate; Haugh, Helen; Fotaki, Marianna (SAGE Publications, 2019-03-11)
      Why do social entrepreneurs retain their faith in social entrepreneurship despite the organizational tensions and anxieties inherent to this field of practice? In this article, we employ the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy ...
    • Organizations and violence: The child as abject-boundary in Ireland's Industrial Schools 

      Kenny, Kate (SAGE Publications, 2016-02-05)
      What role do organizations play in the enactment of large-scale violence against a specific group of people? In this paper, I depart from existing literature that focuses on violence within organizations, and instead ...
    • Pension provision by small employers in Ireland: an analysis of PRSAs using bounded rationality theory 

      Maloney, Maureen (2014)
      This paper applies the theory of bounded rationality to study small employer pension provision decision-making in Ireland. PRSA pension products were intended to provide inexpensive, flexible pension options, particularly ...
    • Pension provision by small employers in Ireland: an analysis of Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA) using bounded rationality theory 

      Maloney, Maureen; McCarthy, Alma (Sciendo De Gruyter, 2017-12-29)
      This paper applies a model of bounded rationality to study small employer pension provision decision-making in Ireland. PRSA pension products were intended to provide inexpensive, flexible pension options, particularly ...
    • Pension scheme defaults: questionable foundations and unconsidered outcomes 

      Maloney, Maureen (2015-03-27)
      Inertia, the behaviour of doing nothing and allowing the current situation to prevail, is reported in many empirical pension studies. However, the reasons for the behaviour are not agreed. Various explanations include: ...
    • Post-privatised shop steward organisation and union renewal 

      Dundon, Tony (Industrial Relations Journal, 1998)
      Using an ethnographic case study approach this article provides empirical evidence concerning the response of local union stewards to managerial-led change during and after the process of privatisation. Evidence supports ...
    • Power and politics in public inquiries: Bloody Sunday 1972 

      Kenny, Kate; Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (Routledge, 2021-03-16)
      What are the dominant framings by which public inquiries understand and analyze power dynamics in the events they examine? We draw on unique data from the Saville Inquiry into the killing of 13 people by British soldiers ...
    • Power and the construction of independence in ICTD organizations 

      Kenny, Kate (Taylor & Francis, 2013-07-04)
      How do powerful vested interests continue to influence ICT for development (ICTD) projects? In this paper, instead of adopting a macro-level analysis, I take an in-depth, ethnographic approach to focus on work practices ...
    • The psychological contract: a critical review 

      Cullinane, Niall; Dundon, Tony (International Journal of Management Reviews, 2006)
      Literature on the psychological contract has blossomed progressively over the last ten years to the extent that it is now firmly located within the lexicon of the Human Resource Management (HRM) discipline. Yet as this ...
    • Put Up and Shut Up: social mobilisation and employee attitudes in non-union firms 

      Dundon, Tony (British Universities Industrial Relations Association Proceedings, 2001-06)
    • Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda 

      Garavan, Thomas N.; McCarthy, Alma; Lai, Yanqing; Clarke, Nicholas; Carbery, Ronan; Gubbins, Claire; Sheehan, Maura; Saunders, Mark N.K. (Wiley, 2021-03-12)
      Research investigating training and firm performance is currently at an inflection point; capable of recognising previous achievements but also having a focus on the future. Based on our review of 207 quantitative papers ...