School of Business and Economics

How technostress and self-control of social networking sites affect academic achievement and wellbeing

Whelan, Eoin; Golden, Willie; Tarafdar, Monideepa (Emerald, 2022-03-28)

Purpose - Social networking sites (SNS) are heavily used by university students for personal and academic purposes. Despite their benefits, using SNS can generate stress for many people. SNS stressors have been associated ...

The importance of apology to mediation: A mixed-methods study of role, effectiveness and implications for practice

Curran, Deirdre; Coakley, Alec (Maynooth University, 2021)

This paper explores the role of apology in the resolution of conflict through mediation. The paper outlines the distinctive features of mediation that contribute to its unique potential to help restore relationships, with ...

Inside-out hospitality: A study of working conditions in the hospitality sector in Ireland

Curran, Deirdre (NUI Galway, 2021-06)

[No abstract available]

Estimating the cost of type 1 diabetes in Ireland

Sharma, Shikha; Gillespie, Paddy; Hobbins, Anna; Dinneen, Sean F. (Wiley, 2021-12-27)

Background Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease, which given its existing and projected prevalence, is likely to pose a significant economic burden, both in terms of directs costs to the healthcare system and indirect ...

Discovering sense of community enabling factors for public and government staff in online public engagement

O'Brien, Ann; Golden, William; Scott, Murray (Springer, Cham, 2021-08-31)

eParticipation has largely not lived up to expectations and government responsiveness to public feedback, provided via eParticipation has proved challenging. In a new conceptualization of the theory of Sense of Community ...

Theorizing digital experience: Four aspects of the infomaterial

Kreps, David (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-03-22)

With the goal of finding new philosophical foundations upon which indigenous theory can be built in information systems (IS), this chapter proposes building around the notion of infomateriality inspired from Henri Bergson’s ...

The impact of human choice and computers and technical committee 9 on ICTs and society: A critical sociotechnical tale

Kreps, David; Fletcher, Gordon (Springer, 2021-08-04)

In this chapter we briefly recount the history of the Human Choice and Computers conference series, and of Technical Committee 9, and show that not only has there been a marked focus, over more than four decades, on a ...

IFIP Code of Ethics

Kreps, David (Springer, 2021-08-04)

A short introduction to the creation of the IFIP Code of Ethics, followed by the Code itself.

Men, individualism, and process: A Pardoner’s Tale

Kreps, David (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021-08-04)

Taking a long look back through the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary hyper-masculinity, from renaissance writers such as Hobbes and Locke up to modern American philosopher, Nozick, this chapter maps out the key ...

Implementing digitally enabled collaborative innovation: A case study of online and offline interaction in the German automotive industry

Aalbers, Rick (H.L.); Whelan, Eoin (Wiley, 2021-05-06)

In the context of implementing collaborative innovation, a range of digitally enabled infrastructures impact core organizational activities. Automotive manufacturing is one such industry where competitors now openly ...

A typology of conspicuous donation on Facebook

Wallace, Elaine; Buil, Isabel (Emerald, 2021-02-05)

Purpose This study aims to present a typology of Facebook followers of charities, drawing on theories of value co-creation, impression management and conspicuous donation behavior. Design/methodology/approach Data ...

Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda

Garavan, Thomas N.; McCarthy, Alma; Lai, Yanqing; Clarke, Nicholas; Carbery, Ronan; Gubbins, Claire; Sheehan, Maura; Saunders, Mark N.K. (Wiley, 2021-03-12)

Research investigating training and firm performance is currently at an inflection point; capable of recognising previous achievements but also having a focus on the future. Based on our review of 207 quantitative papers ...

A casino in my pocket: Gratifications associated with obsessive and harmonious passion for mobile gambling

Whelan, Eoin; Laato, Samuli; Islam, A. K. M. Najmul; Billieux, Joël (Public Library of Science, 2021-02-24)

Mobile gambling differs from land-based and traditional forms of gambling in that the opportunity to place bets and engage with casinos is constantly present and easily accessible. Instead of going to a physical bookmaker ...

Does a social media abstinence really reduce stress? A research-in-progress study using salivary biomarkers

Whelan, Eoin (Springer, 2019-10-24)

There is much scientific evidence in recent years indicating that our ‘always on’ culture powered by platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp, is leading to negative health outcomes, particularly ...

Does multitasking computer self-efficacy mitigate the impact of social media affordances on overload and fatigue among professionals?

Islam, A.K.M. Najmul; Whelan, Eoin; Brooks, Stoney (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 ...