Irish Journal of Management back issues from January 2006:
To Know and to Do: Academics' and Practitioners' Approaches to Management Research
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT In the context of the ongoing debate between academic research and practitioner action, this article, from a supply side perspective, explores the different expressions of these debates - the relevance debate and the epistemological debate. It points to several ways forward - ...
Reflections on How to be a Theoretical Researcher in Business and Management Studies
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This is a reflective or theoretical paper, which examines some of the ideas that underpin the practice of non-empirical or theoretical research. The paper explores different ways in which the word theory is used, defines theoretical research and describes the limits of ...
The Role of Foreign Exchange Risk Management in Malaysia
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT During the financial crisis period of September 1997 to August 1998, many Malaysian multinationals suffered badly as a result of currency fluctuations. Thus foreign exchange risk management has become an important theme in the emerging markets such as those in Malaysia. This ...
A Tour into the Factors Affecting the Choice of Vendors in the Middle East
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Since choosing IT vendors is an integral component of the firm's IT deployment strategy, the final choice of an IT vendor should be the result of careful and in-depth analysis of the various variables involved in the deployment. For the purposes of this study, the ...
The Internationalisation of Indigenous Irish Software Technology Companies: An Exploratory Study
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT In the context of Ireland's increasing levels of outward foreign direct investment (FDI), the strategic importance of the indigenous software technology sector and increasing levels of globalisation, this paper describes an exploratory study of the internationalisation of the ...
Review of the Potential and Practice of Professional Roles and Responsibilities of Executive Directors on Boards
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The roles and responsibilities of executive directors on boards are given scant literature attention in comparison to their non-executive counterparts, and potential professional roles and responsibilities receive minimal review or mention even in the light of a growing focus on ...
Management Style in the Non-Profit Sector in Ireland
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper examines the style of management in the non-profit sector in Ireland and it explores the extent to which the values of managers translate into the practice of management in Irish voluntary organisations. One of the most obvious manifestations of management practices ...
Value of Analysts' Investment Recommendations: Evidence from the Irish Stock Market
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper is the first study investigating the market impact of sell-side analyst investment recommendations in the largely unexplored Irish stock market. We find the market is influenced by analysts' recommendations. The price reaction to sell recommendations is greater than ...
Union Organising, Union Recognition and Employer Opposition: Case Studies of the Irish Experience1
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT In the last few years a dramatic decline in union density has prompted the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to seek a formal procedure to support union recognition. This has resulted in the institution of new codes of practice and the passage of the Industrial Relations Amendment ...
An Exploratory Study of the Process by which Recent Graduate Entrepreneurs (RGEs) Become Self-Employed
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship is recognised as a lot more than a business or economic activity. It has become a social ethos, forming what is known as the 'entrepreneurial society'. However, there is a need to develop effective entrepreneurial programmes that provide entrepreneurs with a ...
Introduction
Jan 01, 2006; ... This special edition of the Irish Journal of Management represents a selection of the best papers from the Eighth Annual Conference of the Irish Academy of Management which took place on 7-9 September, 2005, in the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. By all accounts it was a very successful ...
Sports Tourism: Marketing Ireland's Best Kept Secret - The Gaelic Athletic Association
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Destination marketing has assumed heightened importance in the tourism industry as destinations are confronted with increasing competition from new and emerging countries. Kolter et al. (1993) employ the term 'place wars' to describe the cut-throat nature of modern tourism ....
An Obstacle to Management Innovation? Some Myths Uncovered on Multi-Union Workplaces in Ireland
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT It has often been claimed in academic literature and the media that multi-unionism, or the presence of two or more recognised trade unions in a workplace, is problematic for both trade unions and management. The problems which arise, it is maintained, stem from inter-union ...
Technophobia Amongst Older Adults in Ireland
Jan 01, 2006; ... INTRODUCTION Older Adults and Computer Usage The number of older adults is growing worldwide. The United Nations (2002) estimates that by the year 2015 those over sixty will represent 23.7 per cent of the population in the more developed regions of the world, with 24 per cent of ...
Feminisation and Paradox: Stratification and Segmentation in Professional Contexts
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The past three decades have been characterised by dramatic labour-market developments including the mass entry of women into formerly exclusively male domains. Professional work is particularly indicative of this trend where growth in female membership has fuelled optimistic ...
Academic Performance Evaluation and the Organisation of Knowledge in the Research-Intensive University
Jan 01, 2006; ... INTRODUCTION T Tniversities are widely acknowledged to play a key role in the LJ development of advanced 'knowledge economies'1 and, as such, it is unsurprising that their structures and practices are coming under increasing public scrutiny. In his address to the Conference of Heads of ...
Management Styles of a Newly Appointed Leader in a Turnaround Context
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT1 Some disillusion pervades much of the research on leadership in turnaround contexts with Castrogiovanni, Baliga and Kidwell arguing that the 'research on performance turnaround following CEO change has been limited and inconclusive' (1992: 27). More importantly most research on ...
Strategic Resources and Social Capital
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Strategic resources are often socially constructed, which implies human capital and social capital in action. Most scholars interested in social capital define it by the actual web of social networks within a community (or organisation) and by the norms, values, trust and ...
Enhancing the Role of the HRD Function: The Case of a Health Services Organisation
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Human Resource Development continues to grow in importance within organisations due to the strategic priorities of competitiveness and change. The present study examined the role of the HRD function in a services organisation. The study specifically investigates the perceptions ...
Encouraging Research and Development in Ireland's Biotechnology Enterprises
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Over the last ten years, the Irish government has actively promoted the biotechnology industry. Following an extensive series of funding and investment programmes introduced in the early 1990s, Ireland is beginning to emerge as an attractive location for multinational ...
The Role of Person, Spouse and Organisational Climate on Work-Family Perceptions
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The present study examines the individual, additive and interactive effects of employee gender and two organisational climate variables on employee ratings of role conflict, work-family conflict, family-work conflict and time-energy imbalance. Data gathered from eighty-one ...
CRM Best Practice: Getting it Right First Time at ESB International (ESBI)
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This study investigates the implementation of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) initiative within ESB International1 (ESBI). During 2003, ESBI used the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Business Excellence framework2 to identify key business areas for ...
Revisiting the First-Mover Advantage Theory: A Resource-Based Perspective
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The Internet phenomenon of late has instigated a fresh surge of interest in the first-mover advantage theory and offers proof of its continued relevance today. Following a critical analysis of the first-mover advantage theory literature, theoretical and empirical inconsistencies ...
Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
Jan 01, 2006; ... Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development by Henry Mintzberg (2004) San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. DR. JAMES CUNNINGHAM* This latest book of Henry Mintzberg sent shivers down the spines of deans and MBA ...
CEO Power and CEO Stock Options Design
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper analyses the types of stock option plans (SOPs) used to compensate the CEOs of the 115 Spanish firms that best represented the General Index of the Madrid Stock Exchange during 1999-2001. In addition, it examines the relationship between the types of stock option ...
Methodological and Research Issues Using E-S-QUAL to Measure Online Service Quality in Irish SMEs
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The analysis of service quality in an online context has become a popular research activity. In this paper the research process of an empirical study in this area is described. At the time of writing, the survey instrument, E-S-QUAL, had not been utilised in Ireland, and as far ...
Development of the Leader Behaviour Assessment Profile
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Leadership as a concept has interested psychologists, sociologists, political scientists and management scientists. Significant efforts have been made by researchers since the 1920s to understand the concept of leadership. The more we research leadership, the more complexity ...
An Alternative Methodology for Testing a Resource-Based View Linking Intangible Resources and Long-Term Performance
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to discuss, from a theoretical and an empirical perspective, the linkage between a group of intangible resources and performance in Spanish SMEs (small to medium enterprises). The relationship between intangibles (reputation, quality, participative ...
The Usefulness of Budgets in the Healthcare Sector
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT In addition to setting the performance agenda for the year ahead, (revenue) budgets in the healthcare sector can facilitate tighter financial control, more responsive decision-making and staff motivation. However, many healthcare managers may lose respect for the use of ...
Building a Partnership Model to Manage Irish Heritage: A Policy Tools Analysis
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT For many years, the Irish State has had the role of both owning and operating the majority of heritage sites and resources in Ireland. However, with the dramatic growth in the range and variety of heritage phenomena requiring protection over recent years, the State has found its ...
Sidelined? The Future of Marketing in the Contemporary Organisation
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper reports on the perceived sidelining of marketing, and in particular Relationship Marketing, within the contemporary organisation and analyses the potential consequences of this. Based on in-depth interviews with eleven top European marketing practitioners the research ...
The Impact of Organisational Culture Factors on Innovation Levels in SMEs: An Empirical Investigation
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT An innovative organisational culture is one in which continuous improvement throughout the organisation is the norm. This is achieved through the generation and implementation of ideas. In other words, innovation is not confined to something that a small minority are charged ...
Reflexivity in Management and Business Research: What Do We Mean?
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Reflexivity is the concept used in the social sciences to explore and deal with the relationship between the researcher and the object of research. Being reflexive seems to be the favourite word with which to conjure in contemporary research. However, the concept of reflexivity ...
What Makes for Top Team Success? A Study to Identify Factors Associated with Successful Performance of Senior Management Teams
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Within organisations there is a growth in the use of team development interventions designed to enhance effective team performance. This had been particularly notable in senior management and leadership teams. However this development has not been underpinned by rigorous, ...
Theoretical Assumptions of Knowledge Creation
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT A prominent theme in the debate about knowledge and organisations is the role of knowledge in the theory of the firm. The knowledge-intensive firm is both important economically and a source of great interest academically; it operates in highly dynamic environments, which ...
Irish Workers' Perceptions of the Impact of Immigrants: A Cause for Concern?
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Immigrant workers are increasingly essential to the EU economy as Europe's population continues to decline. In Ireland there has been an influx of approximately 250,000 migrants into the country since 1997. Using a recent survey of citizens in the European Union the attitudes of ...
Ideas at Work: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey MacKechnie
Jan 01, 2006; ... Ideas at Work: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey MacKechnie edited by Frank Litton, Tony Farmar and Frank Scott-Lennon (2006) Dublin: A. & A. Farmar Many outside of Ireland would not have heard of Geoffrey MacKechnie. And, as management writing becomes more global and reading lists ...