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Power and the construction of independence in ICTD organizations
(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 ...
Austerity and Irish local government expenditure since the Great Recession
(Sciendo, 2018-12-31)
This paper sets out to establish the extent of austerity in the Irish local
government system during and after the Great Recession. Austerity is
measured by the adjusted change in local government expenditure from peak
to ...
Proceedings of the 1st IAIS workshop on Cloud computing research
(NUI Galway, 2013-09-27)
National University of Ireland, Galway is proud to host the first IAIS Workshop on
Cloud Computing Research (IWCCR) on Sep 27, 2013. The workshop is supported
by the Irish chapter of the Association for Information Systems ...
Organizations and violence: The child as abject-boundary in Ireland's Industrial Schools
(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 ...
Improving consumers’ willingness to pay using social media activities
(Emerald, 2018-10-05)
Purpose: This study examines the impact of social media activities on consumers willingness to pay a premium (WTPp) in the banking industry, and investigates the role of consumer-brand identification (CBI) on this ...
When care is left to roam: Carers' experiences of grassroots nonprofit services in Ireland
(Elsevier, 2010-03-20)
Increasingly countries are turning to nonprofit organisations to provide health and social care, particularly for people with disabilities. Alongside this change, debates continue about how states should manage the ...
Affective disruption: Walter Benjamin and the 'history' of Ireland's industrial schools
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-02-19)
What role do organizations play in writing history? In this paper, I address the part played by organizations in the enactment of large-scale violence, and focus on the ways in which the resulting histories come to be ...
Performance measurement systems as generators of cognitive conflict in ambidextrous firms
(Elsevier, 2018-06-21)
This study explores the decision-facilitating role of performance measurement systems (PMSs) in firms attempting to translate competence ambidexterity (i.e., the simultaneous pursuit of exploration and exploitation) into ...
Disrupting the status quo? Discrimination in academic promotions
(Thomson Round Hall, 2017)
In June 2016 the HEA Report of the Expert Group: HEA National Review of Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions (Gender Equality Review) reported and stated that there was a need for “radical action” without ...
Systems for team empowerment: Research on practice 2018
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2018-07)
Welcome to this collection of research papers on Systems for Team Empowerment. Achieving
empowerment in teams is complex. Not only do team leaders need to understand the complex and
nebulous interplays between systems, ...