Browsing School of Business and Economics by Type "Book chapter"

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    • Blockchain adoption: Technological, organisational and environmental considerations 

      Clohessy, Trevor; Acton, Thomas; Rogers, Nichola (Implications of the Blockchain, 2018)
      Information technology (IT) innovation is rapidly reshaping organisations, affecting fundamental aspects of their everyday business activities and processes. This development is accompanied by benefits as well as challenges. ...

    • 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 ...

    • Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp 

      Hilliard, Rachel (Tilde University Press, 2012)
      PharmaCorp is a subsidiary of one of Japan's largest pharmaceutical companies, employing 60 people in its Dublin bulk pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. The plant makes the active ingredients for four products, supplying ...

    • Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp 

      Hilliard, Rachel (Tilde University Press, 2012)
      Crann Iorrais Teoranta (CIT) was established in 1987 in Co Mayo in Ireland as a forestry company engaged in a wide range of forestry-based activities for the private, commercial and semi-state sectors throughout Ireland. ...

    • Global human resource development: landscaping the anatomy of an evolving field 

      Garavan, Thomas N.; McCarthy, Alma; Morley, Michael J. (Routledge, 2016)
      [No abstract available]

    • Governance and Institutional Change in Ireland 

      Hilliard, Rachel; Green, Roy (OECD, 2005)
      An innovation driven policy agenda has emerged in Ireland against a backdrop of remarkable economic growth and convergence. Policy makers now recognise that convergence in innovative performance will also be required ...

    • Human resource development in Ireland and the UK 

      McCarthy, Alma (Routledge, 2016)
      [No abstract available]

    • 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.

    • 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 ...

    • Lotus Automation 

      Cunningham, James (Blackhall Press, 2009)
      A few days back from a trip to China, Fergal Broder is driving into the offices of LotusAutomation in Sligo for a meeting with his Chief Financial Officer and other members of his management team. He is looking forward to ...

    • LotusWorks 

      Cunningham, James; Hilliard, Rachel (Orpen Press, 2010)
      Key issues facing LotusWorks are how to double turnover within four years, increase the company's global impact and ensure that the appropriate management structures and employee talents are in place for LotusWorks to ...

    • 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 ...

    • New institutional sociology and the endogeneity of law 

      Mulligan, Emer (Routledge, 2012)
      [No abstract available]

    • The phallus: Power and vulnerability 

      Kreps, David; Ruddell, Caroline (Routledge, 2022-07-29)
      This chapter focuses upon the contemporary cultural significance of the image of the erect penis, aka the phallus. Historically, it appears in many forms, both attached to male figures and on its own, amongst the material ...

    • Regional Aspects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of the Irish Pharmaceutical Sector 

      Hilliard, Rachel; Jacobson, David (Liffey Press, 2003)
      This chapter develops a broader than conventional understanding of regional policy that takes into consideration the functionally and sectorally specific effects of local institutions and policies. It does this through an ...

    • 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 ...

    • Tricks and clicks - how low-cost carriers ply their trade through self-service websites 

      Barry, Chris; Torres, Ann M. (Springer Verlag, 2009)
      Ethics on the Internet has been a widely debated topic in recent years, covering issues that range from privacy to security to fraud. Little, however, has been written on more subtle ethical questions, such as the exploitation ...