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The management of voice in non-union organisations: managers perspectives
(Employee Relations, 2005)
Purpose: Given the emergence of new legal initiatives for union recognition, declining levels of union membership and the growth of alternative forms of employee representation, this paper aims to examine the management ...
Hypermedia systems development practice: a survey
(IEEE, 2005)
Are hypermedia
projects guided and
controlled by ad
hoc, ¿quick & dirty¿
techniques? This
survey shows that
talk of a ¿crisis¿
is largely
unfounded.
Review of the empirical literature on factors affecting the supply of off-farm labour
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
The objective of this paper is to assess the currently available literature relating to the labour allocation of farm households. An overview of the theoretical model relating to joint participation and hours of labour ...
On Uncertainty Aversion under Complete Ignorance: Some Further Observations on the Impossibility Results
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
The paper claims that the Monotone Consistency condition utilized by Baigent in his proof of the impossibility theorem is too strong. We factorize this condition into two different weaker conditions and show that they are ...
Delineating Daily Activity Spaces in Rural Areas
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
The new relational geography challenges notions of inherently coherent, integrated `territory-based' systems of relations. This paper uses network methods and correspondence analysis to try and describe some of the spatial ...
Cost of Living Indices and Flexible Consumption Behaviour: A partial critique
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
This paper questions the alleged superiority of superlative prices indices (like the Fisher index) over more standard base year indices (like the Laspeyre index) as measures of changes in the 'cost of living' (COL). The ...
Cohabitation in Ireland: evidence from survey data
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
Cohabitation has grown strongly in Ireland over the last decade. We use large-scale surveys to characterise its extent and nature. We find it has almost tripled in incidence between 1994 and 2002. It is associated with ...
Using CGE and Microsimulation Models for In come Distribution Analyses: A Survey.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
This paper carries out a survey of CGE and Microsimulation models used in
the evaluation of issues related directly or indirectly to incomes distribution.
Different model structures are discussed which have been employed ...
Extra-judicial Comment by Judges
(Judicial Studies Institute, 2005)
This article looks at recent occasions where extrajudicial speech has been the subject of public comment in Ireland. It then examines case law from other jurisdictions, focusing on examples from common law countries and ...
Information System Development over Time - More Lessons from the Field.
(Irish Academy of Management, 2005)
This paper presents further results from a longitudinal research study that has been conducted
with one organization, the Western Financial Services (WFS) Group, over a six-year period
(Barry 2004). They operate in the ...