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Low-Cost Carriers and High-Tech Barriers - User Views on Questionable Web Design Practices in Ireland
(Irish Academy of Management, 2011)hat information systems/information technology (IS/IT) practitioners should use best practice in information systems development is universally agreed. We expect systems to enhance the user experience and allow them to ... -
Making the Commons Work: Conservation and Cooperation in Common Property Resources. The Case of Irish Commonage
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)Commonage represents land held under common property which incorporates a system of local cooperative arrangements and rules to conserve and manage the Irish uplands. We analyse the institutional and economic factors which ... -
Management control practices and pragmatism
(Emerald, 2023-06-28)Purpose Pragmatism is very relevant to workplace management and performance measurement, yet in the accounting literature, it is a term used loosely and in a colloquial manner. By drawing on a framework based on classical ... -
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 ... -
Managing (In)Stability in complex and dynamic software teams: A sporting momentum perspective
(NUI Galway, 2018-04-27)How should complex and dynamic software teams manage stability and instability? Contemporary information systems development (ISD) methods such as agile have been commonly cited as the answer to this question. However, ... -
Managing different types of innovation: Mutual reinforcing management control systems and the generation of dynamic tension
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-17)Using a single case study of a highly innovative medical device company engaged in two types of innovation (technological and customer-oriented), this paper examines the nature of the relationship between mutually reinforcing ... -
Managing Lean Supply and Innovation: Cross-cultural Knowledge Transfer in an Multi-national Company
(2008)There is growing evidence that organisations are increasingly using the concept of lean supply to foster innovation. This paper considers key factors that influence this management approach in the context of the ... -
Manipulating an ordering
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)It is well known that many social decision procedures are manipulable through strategic behaviour. Typically, the decision procedures considered in the literature are social choice correspondences. In this paper we investigate ... -
Many-valued judgment aggregation: characteriing the possibility/impossibility boundary for an important class of agendas
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009-11)A general model of judgment aggregation is presented in which judgments on propositions are not binary but come in degrees. The primitives of the model are a set of propositions, an entailment relation, and a "triangular ... -
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive: A new European approach to the regulation of the marine environment, marine natural resources and marine ecological services
(International Bar Association, 2011-02)This article reviews the Marine Strategy Framework Directive which requires the Member States of the European Union (EU) to put in place measures to achieve and maintain good environmental status of marine waters by 2020. ... -
The Market for Financial Services in Rural Mongolia. Rural Finance and Sustainable Livelihoods
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Market-driven entrepreneurship and institutions
(Elsevier, 2019-03-21)This research seeks to explain how particular conditions in the external environment are associated with market-driven entrepreneurship—more specifically, startup or early-stage business activity that addresses opportunities ... -
Matrimonial Home Bill
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Matrimonial property and Irish law: a case for community.
(Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland, 2002)Family property is a primary area of contention in property law. If spouses only have rights in relation to property to which they can show legal or beneficial title, they may be left unprotected in the event of marital ... -
The meanings and purpose of employee voice
(International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2004)In this paper we present and assess an analytical framework for examining the different 'meanings, purposes and practices' of employee voice. The data were collected from eighteen organizations in England, Scotland and ... -
A measure of distance between judgment sets (Working paper no. 169)
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-02)In the literature on judgment aggregation, an important open question is how to measure the distance between any two judgment sets. This is relevant for issues of social choice: if two individuals hold different beliefs ... -
Measuring public preferences for the conservation of the traditional farm landscape
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)This paper explores individuals' attitudes towards the traditional farm landscape. Results from a Generalised Tobit Interval model of willingness to pay for traditional farm landscape protection suggest that individuals ... -
Measuring the Employment Effects of the Rural Renewal Tax Scheme
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2003)This paper presents evidence on the effectiveness of the Rural Renewal Tax Scheme introduced by the Irish Government in 1998. The rationale for the scheme puts the emphasis on new economic activity and economic growth in ... -
Measuring the opportunity cost of time in recreation demand modelling: an application to a random utility model of whitewater kayaking in Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)The treatment of the opportunity cost of travel time and the measurement of travel costs in recreational demand modelling has been a contentious issue for many decades. This paper demonstrates how a potential wage rate ... -
Measuring Trends in Male Mortality by Socio-Economic Group in Ireland: A Note on the Quality of Data
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999)The objective of this paper is to examine measurement issues and data problems in the analysis of trends in male mortality differentials by socio-economic group in Ireland between 1981 and 1991. The study is based on ...