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Facebook and luxury fashion brands: self-congruent posts and purchase intentions
(Emerald, 2020-04-07)
This study explores consumers self-congruence with luxury fashion brands they mention on Facebook. It investigates the extent to which those brands are congruent with the actual self (ASC) or the ideal self (ISC), and ...
Systems for team empowerment: Research on practice 2020
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2020-07)
Teams are incredible. Teamwork has raised humanity’s achievements to greatness. Not only have
most of humanity’s greatest achievement resulted from teamwork but those teams were empowered
by systems of work, systems of ...
Flooded cities
(American Economic Association, 2020-04)
Does economic activity move away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floods, which displaced more than 650 million people worldwide in the last 35 years. We study ...
What drives unverified information sharing and cyberchondria during the COVID-19 pandemic?
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-07)
The World Health Organisation has emphasised that misinformation – spreading rapidly through social media – poses a serious threat to the COVID-19 response. Drawing from theories of health perception and cognitive load, ...
Remote working during COVID-19: Ireland's national survey - Phase II report
(National University of Ireland Galway, Whitaker Institute and Western Development Commission, 2020-10)
Introduction & Background
The national remote working project is undertaken by NUI Galway and the Western
Development Commission (WDC).
This report sets out the findings of Phase II of the Remote Working during COVID-19 ...
Life imprisonment and the Parole Act 2019: Assessing the impact of legislative reform
(Judicial Studies Institute, 2020)
This article examines the Parole Act 2019 and its likely impact on decision-making
surrounding the release of life sentence prisoners in Ireland. The informal and political nature of the release process for life sentence ...
Does multitasking computer self-efficacy mitigate the impact of social media affordances on overload and fatigue among professionals?
(Emerald, 2020-10-20)
Purpose
This paper investigates the moderating role of multitasking computer self-efficacy on the relationship between social media affordances and social media overload as well as its moderation between social media ...
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 ...
Gender and proposed Auto-enrolment in the Republic of Ireland: Lessons from the UK
(Wiley, 2020-06-18)
The introduction of “soft” compulsion in the form of Auto‐enrolment into non‐state pensions has been seen as a key policy response to the challenges presented by an ageing population and concerns about under‐saving for ...
Training and organisational performance: A meta-analysis of temporal, institutional, and organisational context moderators
(Wiley, 2020-02-03)
Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta-analysis of the training and organisational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moderating effects of quality versus quantity of ...