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Between Boston and Berlin: American MNCs and the shifting contours of industrial relations in Ireland
(Routledge, 2008)Drawing on detailed qualitative case studies and utilizing a national business system lens, we explore a largely underrepresented debate in the literature, namely the nature of change in a specific but critical element of ... -
Multinational corporations and industrial relations research: A road less travelled
(Wiley, 2008)While there is a large body of academic debate surrounding human resource management issues in MNCs, industrial relations issues often fail to receive the same degree of attention. This paper attempts to move the debate ... -
Composing the Top Management Team in the International Subsidiary: Qualitative Evidence on International Staffing in US MNCs in the Republic of Ireland
(Elsevier, 2008)International staffing is a central plank of enquiry in MNC research. In this context, much of the research effort has been dedicated to providing an understanding of expatriation from a headquarter perspective and on ... -
Strategic Talent Management: A review and research agenda
(Elsevier, 2009)Despite a significant degree of academic and practitioner interest the topic of talent management remains underdeveloped. A key limitation is the fact that talent management lacks a consistent definition and clear conceptual ... -
Lotus Automation
(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 ... -
Thatcherism delayed? The Irish crisis and the paradox of social partnership
(Industrial Relations Journal, 2010)This article reviews the state of Irish industrial relations in light of the current economic crisis. It argues that social partnership, paradoxically, was rooted in the continuation of a tradition of permissive voluntarism ... -
The roles and functions of shop stewards in workplace partnership: evidence from the Republic of Ireland
(Employee Relations, 2010)Purpose: This article examines the roles and influence of shop stewards under workplace partnership regimes in five case study firms in the Republic of Ireland. It assess the dynamics and potential longevity of partnership ... -
De-collectivism and managerial ideology: towards an understanding of trade union opposition
(International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2010)Employers have long preferred to manage without the incursion of a trade union in company affairs. Much of the extant literature views managerial opposition to unions in terms of discrete typologies of union suppression ... -
Interviewing Reluctant Respondents: Strikes, Henchmen and Gaelic Games
(Organizational Research Methods, 2010)This paper deals with interviewing reluctant respondents. The analysis is used to construct a process oriented model of respondent rapport and empathy. By assessing respondent rapport in a reflective way the paper contributes ... -
LotusWorks
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Non-union employee representation, union avoidance and the managerial agenda
(2011)Non-union employee representation is an area which has attracted much interest in the voice literature. Much of the literature has been shaped by a dialogue which considers NERs as a means of union avoidance. More recently ... -
Environmental performance and practice across sectors: methodology and preliminary results
(2011)This paper introduces a new methodology for measuring and modeling manufacturers' environmental performance and the managerial and technological practices that affect it. Facility level licensing data are used to develop ... -
Different rooms, different voices: Double-breasting, multi-channel representation and the managerial agenda
(International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2011)Double-breasting has been identified as where companies run union voice and non-union voice mechanisms across different plants. While research has focused on the incidence of such arrangements, there is a dearth of evidence ... -
Cluster Versus Firm Specific Factors in the Development of Dynamic Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Ireland: A Study of Responses to Changes in Environmental Protection Regulations
(2011)Cluster versus firm specific-factors in the development of dynamic capabilities in the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland: a study of responses to changes in environmental protection regulations, Regional Studies. This ... -
Different rooms, different voices: Double-breasting, multi-channel representation and the managerial agenda
(2011)Double-breasting has been identified as where companies run union voice and non-union voice mechanisms across different plants. While research has focused on the incidence of such arrangements, there is a dearth of evidence ... -
Re-conceptualising employee silence: problems and prognosis
(Work Employment and Society, 2011)A growing literature has emerged on employee silence, located within the field of organisational behaviour. Scholars have investigated when and how employees articulate voice and when and how they will opt for silence. ... -
(Still) Up to No Good: Reconfiguring Worker Resistance and Misbehaviour in an Increasingly Unorganized World
(2012)The way industrial conflict and worker resistance have been analyzed has undergone significant transformation over the past few decades. While researchers have observed the quantitative decline of traditional forms of ... -
Unitarism and employer resistance to trade unionism
(2012)Active employer resistance to trade union recognition is often explained through the rubric of the unitary ideology. Yet, little attention has been devoted to an examination of unitarism as an explanatory construct for ... -
Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp
(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 ...