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Chaos and Order in Agile Software Development: a Comparison of Two Software Development Teams in a Major IT Company
(2007)
Agile methods have emerged and become popular over last few years as a response to shortcomings of the waterfall process model. However, agile processes are stamped by some as chaotic processes and are placed in opposition ...
Exploring geographic variation in corporate broadband adoption; evidence from Irish small- and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs)
(CISC, 2007-12)
We explore the context-speci c determinants of broadband takeup among small- and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs), attempting to shed some light on the sources of the considerable geographic variation in particular. We ...
Linking Local and Global Feminist Advocacy: Framing Women's Rights as Human Rights in the Republic of Ireland
(Elsevier, 2007)
This article argues that global-level feminist advocacy in the 1990s has had a significant impact within feminist advocacy in the Republic of Ireland. An important manifestation of this is the growing engagement of groups ...
Benefits and drawbacks of open source software: An exploratory study of secondary software firms
(Springer, 2007-06-14)
Much of the assessment of OSS benefits and drawbacks has been based on anecdotal evidence appearing in practitioner publications, white papers, web articles etc. To a greater extent this research has tended to concentrate ...
Empathy and teamwork: reflections on the legacy of Claudio Ciborra through the phenomenology of Edith Stein.
(European Conference on Information Systems, 2007-06)
Claudio Ciborra argued that the position of information and communications technology
(ICT) in organisations requires a shift from the present focus on the ¿scientific paradigm¿ to
an ¿alternative centre of gravity: human ...
How Perceptions of Open Source
(2007)
Much of the assessment of OSS benefits and drawbacks has been based on anecdotal evidence appearing in practitioner publications. Due to its focus on software development, such work neglects whether managerial ...
Supply chain transformation in APC Ireland: lean thinking, opposing logics and bricolage.
(ECIS, 2007-06)
This paper presents a number of observations and findings from an ongoing study of supply chain
transformation in a subsidiary of American Power Conversion (APC) located in the West of Ireland.
The study is being carried ...
The triple helix, open innovation and the DOI research agenda.
(Springer Verlag, 2007-01-07)
This paper examines the implications for research on the diffusion of innovations (DOI) arising from a growing body of literature in two related fields. The first area concerns the debate on the role of regional and national ...
A Framework for a Strategic Repositioning Strategy: A Case Study of Bulmers Original Cider
(Irish Academy of Management, 2007)
Repositioning is conscious adaptation to a changing environment, representing a fundamental shift in the firm's value proposition (Turner, 2003). Repositioning as a pure play is largely neglected in the strategy literature, ...
Health promoting school indicators: schematic models for children.
(Emerald, 2007-06)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to outline a three-stage process for engaging with students to develop school level indicators of health; in sequential class groups students first generated, then categorised indicators ...