Irish Journal of Management back issues from January 2004:
Spamming and Scamming: The Real Picture!
Jan 01, 2004; ... DERIVATION OF WORD SPAM This paper discusses the current phenomenon of spam, assessing its cost to organisations and describing some of its impact on the University of Dublin. It also argues that more research needs to be undertaken by academics in order to combat this ...
Environmental Voluntary Approaches: The Irish Experience
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION - ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVING FORCES There is an immediate pressure on all firms, particularly MNCs to meet stringent legal and regulatory controls, with individual executives being held responsible under criminal laws ior firms' environmental damage (Simmons and Cowell, 1993; ...
Have Total Quality Management, Business Process Re-Engineering and the Learning Organisation been Replaced by Knowledge Management?
Jan 01, 2004; ... An Exploration of the Meaning, Popularity and Practical Relevance of Late 20th Century Management Theories INTRODUCTION Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Reengineering (BPR), the Learning Organisation (LO) and Knowledge Management (KM) are just four of many ...
Quantification of Output Growth and Value-Added Captured by the Irish Food Processing Sector
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION Value-added is defined as the value of output less the value of intermediate inputs consumed (Hill, 1971). It may be measured for any entity in which economic activity is conducted. It may be expressed in gross or net terms. In accounting terms, gross value added consists of ...
New Consumers and Football Fandom: The Role of Social Habitus in Consumer Behaviour
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION Association toothall (or soccer) is widely credited with being the most popular sport in the world (Derbaix et al., 2002). Whether that claim is verifiable is not the topic of this paper. What is beyond question is that sports fandom is a source ot excitement and pleasure ...
Managing the Marketing-Design-Manufacturing Interface: An Empirical Investigation of the Underlying Problems and Solutions
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION All firms face the common challenge of creating distinctive capabilities and improving their economic performance. The challenge is particularly acute when you consider how the internal network of intra-organisational relationships impinges on how firms manage their ...
Do Value Stocks Outperform Growth Stocks around the Release of Firms' Financial Results? Some Preliminary Evidence from the Irish Stock Exchange
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION The extant literature, predominantly US based, suggests that value strategies produce superior returns.' However, the interpretation of the nature of these superior returns remains an unresolved issue. One argument is essentially that the markets are efficient and that the ...
What Are they Doing? A Study of Contemporary Marketing Practice in Ireland
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION A study was undertaken in 2001 into contemporary marketing practice in five countries. The findings were published in the Journal of Marketing (Coviello et al., 2002). The paper called for other academics to replicate this research in different countries so that a ...
Government Activism and Industry Change: The Structural Evolution of Irish Wholesaling
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION Empirical studies of the structural evolution of whole industries are still quite rare in the economics literature, and rarer still beyond that discipline (Malerba and Orsenigo, 1996 Malerba et al., 1999). Within mainstream economics, industries are assumed to evolve quickly ...