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National Innovation Systems and Entrepreneurship
(2008-09-26)Porter (1990) argues that the future battles for competitiveness will not be fought just between organisations but also between nations. Looking at the nation as the unit of analysis, one way to become more competitive ... -
A needs and resources assessment of fiscal equalisation in the Irish local government system
(Economic and Social Studies, 2015)In 2000 the central government in Ireland introduced a formula-based needs and resources equalisation model in its local government system to ensure that the allocation of general purpose grants to local authorities was ... -
New Branches, Old Roots: A Study of Methods and Techniques in Web/Hypermedia Systems Design
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New Estimates of the Cost of Disability in Ireland Using the Standard of Living Approach
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Addressing the extra economic costs of disability seems a logical step towards alleviating elements of social exclusion for people with disabilities. This paper estimates the economic cost of disability in Ireland in terms ... -
New fields of employment: problems and possibilities in local and community economic development
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-09)There has been a renewal of interest in the possibilities for new local employment in the social economy and this may be a suitable area where community initiative and effort can be concentrated. The literature suggests ... -
The Nice Treaty and the Irish Referendum: What Values are at Stake?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002)The purpose of this paper is primarily to highlight the issue of values in the European Union (EU) in terms of its practices as opposed to official rhetoric. The debate surrounding the Treaty of Nice, the context in which ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...