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No three strikes for Ireland (yet): EU Copyright Law and individual liability in recent internet filesharing litigation
(Wolters Kluwer, 2011)This article is a summary of recent Irish cases involving peer-to-peer file-sharing. These cases are another step in the ongoing development of this fast-changing area of the law, and raise some interesting questions about ... -
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 ... -
Nonmonotonic Reasoning and the Foundations of Rational Choice
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002)The paper applies a technique developed in artificial intelligence to frame and analyze on the foundational level A. Sen's critique of internal consistency conditions in various choice situations. -
Occupation as resistance: The case of worker sit-ins in the Irish Republic
(International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA), 2010-06)Replicating global trends, the Irish Republic has been mired in a deepening fiscal and economic crisis since 2008. At workplace level there has been a steady increase in cash-strapped firms forced to restructure and/or ... -
The Off-Farm Labour Force Participation of Mayo Farm Households
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)The objective of this paper is to examine the factors affecting both participation in an off-farm job and the number of hours worked off-farm by couples in farm households in an Irish region. Data from 278 farm households ... -
Official indifference and persistent procrastination: An analysis of Sinnott
(Judicial Studies Institute, 2002)The Supreme Court decision in Sinnott v. Minister for Education, 1 though predictable, resulted in widespread disappointment among disability groups and families of people with disabilities. By a majority of six to ... -
On Growth and Saving
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2003)This paper is concerned with the relevance of the macroeconomic theory of income distribution to the ?new? growth theory. Specifically, it shows that the Cambridge equation, originally outlined in the context of the ... -
On the Axiomatic Approach to Freedom as Opportunity: A General Characterization Result
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2000)The aim of this paper is to provide a different, somewhat more general, approach to the axiomatic ranking of opportunity sets in terms of freedom of choice. The opportunity ranking is defined axiomatically relative to some ... -
On the Axiomatic Ranking of Opportunity Sets in a Logical framework
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2000)The paper presents an axiomatic analysis of opportunity ranking within a logical framework. It establishes that any opportunity or freedom ranking is completely determined by a subjacent logical chain that is interpreted ... -
On the Sustainability of Current Account Deficits: Evidence from Four ASEAN Countries
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002)This paper examines the sustainability of the current account imbalance for four ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand) over the 1961-1999 period. To this end, we utilize the intertemporal ... -
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 ... -
Once more with ‘sympathy’ but no resolution for intended mothers: the EU, Ireland and the surrogacy dilemma
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-10-26)This article examines the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Z v A Government Department and the Board of Management of a Community School and the court's interpretation of existing EU legislation ... -
Opaque web practices among low-cost carriers
(Elsevier, 2009-04-01)The low-cost airlines' adoption of Web technologies to facilitate direct sales has accelerated their market penetration. However, some low-cost carriers are increasingly using Websites to create distance between themselves ... -
Opaque web practices among low-cost carriers
(Elsevier Ltd., 2009-11)The low-cost airlines' adoption of Web technologies to facilitate direct sales has accelerated their market penetration. However, some low-cost carriers are increasingly using Websites to create distance between themselves ... -
Open innovation as a route to value in cloud computing
(AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2013-06-09)Both the cloud computing and open innovation paradigms represent recent phenomenon and as such many unanswered questions still persist. Indeed cloud computing s full innovation potential may only be fully realised through ... -
Opening the Doors to a Global Classroom: An International Social Media Collaboration in North American Colleges & Teachers of Agriculture, Special Issue: Globalization: Implications for Teaching and Learning in Post-secondary Agricultural Education
(North American Colleges & Teachers of Agriculture, 2013-09-01)A social media platform (ValuePulse) linked California agribusiness undergraduates in a marketing class to students in a marketing course in Ireland. The social media platform was used to create a combined group allowing ... -
Optimal Design of an Immigration Points System
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009-09)There is growing interest in the United States and elsewhere in the use of a points-based system for selecting immigrants on the basis of their observed human capital. This paper explores the design of an optimal skills-based ... -
Organisational culture, procedural countermeasures, and employee security behaviour: A qualitative study
(Emerald, 2017-06-12)Purpose - This paper provides new insights about security behaviour in selected US and Irish organisations by investigating how organisational culture and procedural security countermeasures tend to influence employee ... -
Organisational factors that influence the Blockchain adoption in Ireland: A study by J. E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics in association with the Blockchain Association of Ireland
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2018)Research carried out at NUI Galway has found a 40% blockchain adoption rate among Irish enterprises to date. The study investigated why implementation in Ireland is relatively low, and proposes recommendations to increase ... -
Organizational form and pro-social fantasy in social enterprise creation
(SAGE Publications, 2019-03-11)Why do social entrepreneurs retain their faith in social entrepreneurship despite the organizational tensions and anxieties inherent to this field of practice? In this article, we employ the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy ...