• Defining and regulating zero hours work:lessons from a liberal market economy 

  Ryan, Lorraine; Lavelle, Jonathan; O’Sullivan, Michelle; McMahon, Juliet; Murphy, Caroline; Turner, Tom; Gunnigle, Patrick; O’Brien, Mike (Roskilde Universitet, 2019)

  The apparent rise in precarious work has received increased attention in a number of countries in recent decades. However, studies highlight the difficulties of both defining and capturing the extent of precarious work. ...
• Application of bayesian networks in determining nanoparticle-induced cellular outcomes using transcriptomics 

  Furxhi, Irini; Murphy, Finbarr; Poland, Craig A.; Sheehan, Barry; Mullins, Martin; Mantecca, Paride (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  Inroads have been made in our understanding of the risks posed to human health and the environment by nanoparticles (NPs) but this area requires continuous research and monitoring. Machine learning techniques have been ...
• Autonomous vehicles and embedded artificial intelligence: The challenges of framing machine driving decisions 

  Cunneen, Martin; Mullins, Martin; Murphy, Finbarr (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  With the advent of autonomous vehicles society will need to confront a new set of risks which, for the first time, includes the ability of socially embedded forms of artificial intelligence to make complex risk mitigation ...
• More subsidies, more innovation? evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation 

  Mulligan, Kevin; Lenihan, Helena; Doran, Justin (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  Policy-makers at regional, national and European Union (EU) levels of governance use a variety of subsidy programmes to stimulate firm-level innovation. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates three important issues ...
• Machine learning prediction of nanoparticle in vitro toxicity: a comparative study of classifiers and ensemble-classifiers using the Copeland Index 

  Furxhi, Irini; Murphy, Finbarr; Mullins, Martin; Poland, Craig A. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Nano-Particles (NPs) are well established as important components across a broad range of products from cosmetics to electronics. Their utilization is increasing with their significant economic and societal potential yet ...
• The role of social capital and culture on social decision-making constraints: a multilevel investigation 

  Wang, Zhan; McNally, Regina; Lenihan, Helena (Elsevier, 2019)

  Social capital is a powerful theory explaining how organisations and their members access resources through relationships. Yet, it is important to examine potential negative consequences, as significant investments are ...
• From semi to fully autonomous vehicles: new emerging risks and ethico-legal challenges for human-machine interactions 

  Bellet, Thierry; Cunneen, Martin; Mullins, Martin; Murphy, Finbarr; Pütz, Fabian; Spickermann, Florian; Braendle, Claudia; Baumann, Martina Felicitas (Elsevier, 2019)

  The provision of an adequate liability regime for ADAS technologies is an essential prerequisite for its roll out over the coming decade. Facing to the challenge of future highly automated vehicles, this paper proposed ...
• Treasured trash? A consumer perspective on small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) divestment in Ireland 

  Casey, Katherine; Lichrou, Maria; Fitzpatrick, Colin (Elsevier, 2019)

  Small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (sWEEE) is a particularly problematic category of electronic waste. A growing body of research indicates that sWEEE tends to be either stockpiled or disposed of improperly ...
• Identifying mechanisms underlying peer effects on multiplex networks 

  Xiong, Hang; Payne, Diane; Kinsella, Stephen (SimSoc Consortium, 2018)

  We separately identify two mechanisms underlying peer effects in farm households' adoption of a new crop. A farmer can follow his peers to adopt a new crop because he learns knowledge about the new crop from them ...
• Making prepublication independent replication mainstream 

  Tierney, Warren; Schweinsberg, Martin; Uhlmann, Eric Luis (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  The widespread replication of research findings in independent laboratories prior to publication is suggested as a complement to traditional replication approaches. The pre-publication independent replication approach ...
• Lifting the lid: the private financing of motorway PPPs in Ireland 

  Palcic, Dónal; Reeves, Eoin; Stafford, Anne (Economic and Social Studies, 2018)

  This paper addresses the complete absence of detailed information on, and analysis of, the financial aspects of Irelands road publicprivate partnership (PPP) programme to date. We focus on the eight hard toll roads in ...
• State-owned enterprise sector, 2018 

  Palcic, Dónal; Reeves, Eoin (De Gruyter Open, 2019)

  Table 1 provides some basic financial indicators for the 2017 financial year for the fourteen largest non-financial state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Ireland. The results highlight the significant contribution of the ...
• Expatriates' identity salience, work stressors, and work–nonwork conflict: moderating role of gender and marital status 

  Vijayakumar, Pooja B.; Cunningham, Christopher J.L. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Drawing from identity theory, we proposed individuals with high work salience experienced high work stressors (interpersonal conflict, workhours, and workload), resulting in positive work‐nonwork conflict (WNWC), and ...
• Integrating formal learning into work-integrated learning to create a semi-formal environment 

  Nagle, Louise; Lannon, John; McMahon, Juliet (2018)

  This paper will put forward an argument that work-integrated learning (WIL) should be semi-formal in nature and will examine the characteristics of this proposed learning environment. When a student work placement is ...
• Book Review on "HR from the Outside In: Review of Competencies for the Future of HR" 

  Kieran, Sarah (Irish Academy of Management, 2018)

  Book Review on HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources. Dave Ulrich, Jon Younger, Wayne Brockbank and Mike Ulrich New York: McGraw Hill, 2012
• A whole school approach to guidance counselling in the Irish post primary sector: findings from a holistic single case study. 

  Hearne, Lucy; King, Paul; Geary, Tom; Kenny, Neil (2016)

                             This theoretical paper will discuss the findings from a holistic single case study of a whole school approach to guidance counselling in the Irish voluntary post primary sector in 2015-2016. ...
• 'Science of the singular'; an explanatory single case study of whole school guidance counselling in Ireland 

  Hearne, Lucy; King, Paul; Geary, Tom; Kenny, Neil (Springer, 2018)

  This article will discuss the findings of a single explanatory case study on the model of whole school guidance counselling in the Irish secondary school system, which was carried out during a turbulent period of policy ...
• Subnational location capital: the role of subnational institutional actors and socio-spatial factors on firm location 

  Monaghan, Sinéad M.; Gunnigle, Patrick; Lavelle, Jonathan (Wiley and Sons Ltd.,, 2019)

  Firms do not simply locate, but rather seek to accrue location‐based advantages such as knowledge, market insidership and resource utilization. Adopting the lens of social capital, this paper explores how subnational ...
• Connected and autonomous vehicles: a cyber-risk classification framework 

  Sheehan, Barry; Murphy, Finbarr; Mullins, Martin; Ryan, Cian (Elsevier, 2018)

  The proliferation of technologies embedded in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) increases the potential of cyber-attacks. The communication systems between vehicles and infrastructure present remote attack access ...
• Chinese firms in Ireland: profile, motives and impact of human resource factors 

  Wang, Yanyi; Lavelle, Jonathan; Gunnigle, Patrick (Inderscience, 2018)

  Despite its small scale and peripheral location, Ireland has enjoyed remarkable success in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). This is predicated on a combination of incentives, principally low corporation tax but ...

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