• Shifting sands: actor role and identity reconfigurations in service systems 

  Gummerus, Johanna; O'Loughlin, Deirdre M.; Kelleher, Carol; Penaloza, Lisa (Elsevier, 2021)

  Building on previous actor-to-actor perspectives in service systems, this study mapped the dialectic trajectory of actor role and identity transitions in the context of family caregiving. The study employed the theoretical ...
• Creating ethics guidelines for artificial intelligence and big data analytics customers: The case of the consumer european insurance market 

  Mullins, Martin; Holland, Christopher P.; Cunneen, Martin (CellPress, 2021)

  The research aims to provide a deep dive into the increasing ethical questions and contexts relating to the insurance industry’s sophisticated use of big data analytics, AI, and machine learning to sustain and develop its ...
• The impact of frailty screening of older adults with muLtidisciplinary assessment of those at risk during emergency hospital attendance on the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of care (SOLAR): a randomised controlled trial 

  Leahy, Aoife; McNamara, Rachel; Reddin, Catriona; Corey, Gillian; Carroll, Ida; The SOLAR team; O'Neill, Aoife; Flannery, Darragh; Devlin, Collette; Barry, Louise; MacCarthy, Brian; Cummins, Niamh M.; Shanahan, Elaine; Shchetkovsky, Denys; Ryan, Damien; O'Connor, Margaret; Galvin, Rose (BMC, 2021)

  Background: Older people account for 25% of all Emergency Department (ED) admissions. This is expected to rise with an ageing demographic. Older people often present to the ED with complex medical needs in the setting ...
• Support workers and the health professions in international perspective: The invisible providers of health care 

  Murphy, Caroline (SAGE, 2021)

  From a sociology of work standpoint, one of the noteworthy outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the extent to which it has increased the visibility of what heretofore was a largely overlooked frontline workforce ...
• Creative destruction in science 

  Tierney, Warren (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Drawing on the concept of a gale of creative destruction in a capitalistic economy, I argue that initiatives to assess the robustness of findings should aim to simultaneously test competing ideas operating in the same ...
• Running to stand still? Two decades of trade union activity in the Irish long-term care sector 

  Murphy, Caroline; O'Sullivan, Michelle (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  This article examines the ongoing efforts of trade unions in Ireland to protect and improve the working conditions of personal care workers amid employment and social policy regimes asso ciated with a liberal welfare ...
• Study abroad programme participation and subsequent academic performance: evidence from administrative data 

  Cullinan, John; Flannery, Darragh; Palcic, Donal (Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  There is increasing attention on study abroad programmes in higher education. However, there is little evidence on how participation might impact students’ academic performance on return. Using administrative data from ...
• Emerging economy inward and outward foreign direct investment: A bibliometric and thematic content analysis 

  da Silva‑Oliveira, Keilla Dayane; de Miranda Kubo, Edson Keyso; Morley, Michael; Médici Cândido, Rodrigo (Springer, 2021)

  Research examining emerging economy inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows is on a significant upward trajectory. In this bibliometric analysis covering 806 articles published between 1994 and 2019, we ...
• Entrepreneurial education: maker or breaker in developing students’ entrepreneurial confidence, aptitude and self-efficacy? 

  Costin, Yvonne; O'Brien, Michael P.; Hynes, Briga (SAGE, 2021)

  The development of students’ entrepreneurial confidence, aptitude and self-efficacy, irrespective of their discipline, is strongly advocated by researchers, policy makers and the media as an important societal institution, ...
• Associations between mobility patterns and COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic: A network structure and rank propagation modelling approach 

  Furxhi, Irini; Kia, Arash Negahdari; Shannon, Darren; Jannusch, Tim; Murphy, Finbarr; Sheehan, Barry (Elsevier, 2021)

  Background: From February 2020, both urban and rural Ireland witnessed the rapid proliferation of the COVID-19 disease throughout its counties. During this period, the national COVID-19 responses included stay-at-home ...
• Simple rules for sensemaking praxis: How HR can contribute to strategic change by developing sensemaking capability in organisations 

  Kieran, Sarah; MacMahon, Juliet; MacCurtain, Sarah (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)

  This paper explores how sensemaking theory offers a new perspective on HR's role during strategic change. As change in organisations today is less of a programme and more of a continuous cycle of business transformation, ...
• Extending the Heston model to forecast motor vehicle collision rates 

  Shannon, Darren; Fountas, Grigorios (Elsevier, 2021)

  We present an alternative approach to the forecasting of motor vehicle collision rates. We adopt an oft-used tool in mathematical finance, the Heston Stochastic Volatility model, to forecast the short-term and long-term ...
• Home and host distal context and performance appraisal in multinational enterprises: A 22 country study 

  Morley, Michael; Murphy, Kevin R.; Cleveland, Jeanette N.; Heraty, Noreen; McCarthy, Jean (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)

  Context is a central construct in the study of performance appraisal (PA) systems, but to date studies linking the distal context within which organizations operate to PA have been limited in two ways. First, these studies ...
• Good or bad jobs? characteristics of older female part-time work 

  O'Sullivan, Maeve; Cross, Christine; Lavelle, Jonathan (Wiley, 2021)

  Despite consistently high rates of part-time employment among older women, the quality of this cohort's work is largely under-researched with the focus being mainly on younger women. To address this gap, our paper engages ...
• Gender differences in solo self‐employment: gendered flexibility and the effects of parenthood 

  Bari, Lauren; Turner, Thomas; O'Sullivan, Michelle (Taylor and Francis, 2021)

  With greater flexibility and control over the timing and conditions of work, solo self‐employment (without em ployees) is seen as offering a potential solution to work‐ family conflict. This study examines whether this ...
• The dark side of school culture 

  Mannix-McNamara, Patricia; Hickey, Niamh; MacCurtain, Sarah; Blom, Nicolaas (MDPI, 2021)

  The extant literature evidences the link between incivility and workplace culture. Both have a symbiotic relationship whereby a change in one influences the other. When workplace cultures develop dysfunctional values and ...
• Human capabilities and firm growth; an investigation of women-owned established micro and small firms in Ireland 

  Costin, Yvonne; Igoe, Josephine; Flynn, Antoinette; Birdthistle, Naomi; Hynes, Briga (Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  Firm growth has been studied extensively, yet limited attention has been devoted specifically to growth in women-owned firms. Women entrepreneurship studies to date has focused largely on the start-up rather than the growth ...
• An exploration of the factors impacting on pre-professional identity formation during legitimate peripheral participation within nursing clinical placement 

  Nagle, Louise (University of Limerick, 2021)

  Pre-Professional Identity (PPI) development is a fundamental outcome of student nurse development. The process occurs as students engage in Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP), where a novice is involved in ...
• Exploring the influence of an entrepreneur’s gender on the quality of jobs they create 

  Harnett, Claire (University of Limerick, 2021)

  Job quality, and more explicitly the development of high-quality jobs, has been a priority on European policy-making agendas over the past decade. Consequently, entrepreneurship as a job creation strategy has received ...
• A machine learning tool to predict the antibacterial capacity of nanoparticles 

  Mirzaei, Mahsa; Furxhi, Irini; Murphy, Finbarr; Mullins, Martin (MDPI, 2021)

  The emergence and rapid spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria strains are a public health concern. This emergence is caused by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics leading to the evolution of antibiotic-resistant ...

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