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Thatcherism delayed? The Irish crisis and the paradox of social partnership
(Industrial Relations Journal, 2010)
This article reviews the state of Irish industrial relations in light of the current economic crisis. It argues that social partnership, paradoxically, was rooted in the continuation of a tradition of permissive voluntarism ...
The roles and functions of shop stewards in workplace partnership: evidence from the Republic of Ireland
(Employee Relations, 2010)
Purpose: This article examines the roles and influence of shop stewards under workplace partnership regimes in five case study firms in the Republic of Ireland. It assess the dynamics and potential longevity of partnership ...
Non-union employee representation, union avoidance and the managerial agenda
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Work-worlds colliding: Self-reflexivity, power and emotion in organizational ethnography
(SAGE Publications, 2014-06-26)
While organizational ethnographers have embraced the concept of self-reflexivity, problems remain. In this article we argue that the prevalent assumption that self-reflexivity is the sole responsibility of the individual ...
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 ...
Censored: Whistleblowers and impossible speech
(SAGE Publications, 2017-11-10)
What happens to a person who speaks out about corruption in their organization, and finds themselves excluded from their profession? In this article, I argue that whistleblowers experience exclusions because they have ...
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 ...