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Project managers - do they need to be certified?
(Springer, 2009-12-16)The purpose of this study is to examine the drivers behind the certification of project managers in Irish organisations, to identify the benefits and drawbacks of project management certification and to determine whether ... -
Proposing a formalised model for mindful information systems offshoring
(Springer Verlag, 2009-10-26)The central thesis of this paper is that Mathematical Economics can provide a novel approach to the examination of offshoring business decisions and provide an impetus for future research in the area. A growing body of ... -
Public sector IT outsourcing: a framework for evaluating risk
(IFIP, 2010-08-30)A recent trend has seen the significant growth of governments outsourcing IT projects to private sector partners. However, despite the high risk of failure in public sector IT projects, the literature on outsourcing risks ... -
Reconsidering the exclusion of metaphysics in human geography
(Fabrizio Serra Editore, 1997-05)From its beginning as a systematic branch of knowledge, human geography was strongly influenced by developments in the other branches of the social sciences. Once a predominantly descriptive and ideographic discipline, ... -
Reflecting with the Delone & McClean Model
(2011)This paper introduces a new approach to utilise the information system success model developed by DeLone and McLean. In practice, the new approach was to illustrate an information system project retrospectively and by ... -
Rethinking the Interplay of Feminism and Secularism in a Neo-Secular Age
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011-03-16)The need to re-examine established ways of thinking about secularism and its relationship to feminism has arisen in the context of the confluence of a number of developments including: the increasing dominance of the 'clash ... -
Rethinking the Role of the IS Function
(2008-09-26)This paper proposes that IS managers need to review what they regard as their core competencies if they are to be a valuable asset to organisations in the 1990s. The authors start by questioning whether the IS function ... -
Risk management in agile methods: a study of DSDM in practice
(2009-05-25)Businesses are increasingly operating in extremely turbulent environments necessitating the need to respond and adapt to change more quickly and improve overall time to market. From an Information Systems Development ... -
Risk mitigation and risk absorbsion in IOS: A proposed investigative study
(2004)This study examines the risk consequences of participation in inter-organisational information systems (IOS). The research aims to identify the risk mitigation and risk absorption impacts of IOS participation and ... -
The role of business process redesign in creating e-government in Ireland
(Emerald, 2006)The growth and popularity of e-commerce has both challenged and enabled public sector organizations to redefine their levels of service. E-government provides unparalleled opportunities for governments to streamline ... -
The Role of MNCs in Knowledge Accumulation, Absorption and Utilization in Indigenous Irish firms: A case study of the Galway Medical Technology Cluster
(CISC, 2010-06)This study examines the multifaceted role of MNCs in capabilities development of indigenous firms within a high-tech industrial cluster. The paper explores how MNCs and indigenous firms are involved in producing related ... -
The Role of Process Evolution in Achieving Citizen Centred e-Government
(2003)The growth and popularity of e-commerce has both challenged and enabled public sector organizations to redefine their levels of service. In the late 1990's E-government provided unparalleled opportunities for governments ... -
The role of process evolution in achieving citizen centered e-government
(Association for Information Systems, 2003)The growth and popularity of e-commerce has both challenged and enabled public sector organizations to redefine their levels of service. In the late 1990¿s E-government provided unparalleled opportunities for governments ... -
The role of the user story agile practice in innovation
(Springer, 2010-10)The concept of an innovation space where different knowledge and perspectives can interact leading to innovation is central to lean thinking. The SECI framework of organizational knowledge creation identifies five enabling ... -
The role of work-life balance policies in healthcare human resources management
(2011)Currently a European wide study has surveyed some 1,406 nurses in 115 units within over 30 hospitals as part of a longer study. This study looks at nurses' qualifications, productivity, their working environment as well ... -
Seeking Gender Justice in Post-Conflict Transitions: Towards a Transformative Women's Human Rights Approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)This article critically examines the prospects for achieving a comprehensive vision of gender justice in post-conflict transitional contexts. It is divided into three main sections. The first reviews the gendered limits ... -
Seeking the face of innovation with the ethical compass of Emmanuel Levinas.
(Springer Verlag, 2008)A recent biographer has described the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas as being permeated by one simple but profound theme: western philosophy has at best ignored and at worst suppressed the ¿Other¿. The approach of this ... -
Stress training enhances novice pilot performance in a stressful operational flight
(Sage, 2011-06)This study investigated whether stress training introduced during the acquisition of simulator- based flight skills enhances pilot performance during subsequent stressful flight operations in an actual aircraft. Despite ...