• Comparing PPP with traditional procurement: the case of schools procurement in Ireland 

  O'Shea, Cian; Palcic, Dónal; Reeves, Eoin (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Advocates of public-private partnerships (PPPs) argue that they can deliver public infrastructure more efficiently than traditional procurement through timelier completion and superior value for money. Despite these claims ...
• Global perspectives on wage stagnation 

  Kinsella, Stephen; Howe, John (University of Adelaide Press, 2018)

  The purpose of this chapter is to place the stagnation of Australian wages in the context of developments in other rich nations from the post-war period to today. We do this using internationally comparative data. We are ...
• Risk assessment of emerging technologies using Bayesian networks 

  Sheehan, Barry (University of Limerick, 2018)

  The benefits of emerging technologies are often recognized prior to the acknowledgement of potential barriers such as legal restrictions, regulatory scrutiny or liability conundrums. Consequently, supervisory bodies and ...
• Shop steward representation in contemporary Irish industrial relations: experiences, tasks, responsibilities and challenges 

  Rock, Mick (University of Limerick, 2018)

  Shop stewards as workplace union representatives provide protection for workers concerning problems with their treatment by management at their workplace. This study set out to examine shop steward representation and the ...
• Ireland’s retail banking crisis: lessons to learn and policy implications 

  Kennedy Fogarty, Julie (University of Limerick, 2018)

  Lessons have been learned since the Irish banking crisis, and important regulatory and supervisory actions have been taken both domestically and internationally. While, there exists an extensive body of research investigating ...
• Hong Kong unrest and implications for the Hang Seng index 

  Morales, Lucía; Andreosso-O'Callaghan, Bernadette (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

  With the September 2014 ‘Umbrella Revolution’ in Hong Kong, China faced one of the biggest political challenges since the Tiananmen Square events. Beijing’s proposed electoral reform was perceived as a direct attack to ...
• The role of service providers’ resilience in buffering the negative impact of customer incivility on service recovery performance 

  Sommovigo, Valentina; Setti, Ilaria; Argentero, Piergiorgio (MDPI, 2019)

  In the service sector, customer-related social stressors may weaken employees’ well-being, impairing job-related outcomes. Drawing on the Conservation of Resources theory and on the psychology of sustainability, fostering ...
• Has the crisis affected Spanish investment strategy abroad? A spatial panel data approach 

  Gutiérrez-Portilla, Paula; Maza, Adolfo; Villaverde, José (Wiley and Sons Ltd.,, 2018)

  This paper investigates whether the Spanish investment strategy abroad has been affected by the Great Recession. Applying a panel spatial Durbin model for two sample periods, pre‐crisis (1996–2007) and crisis (2008–14), ...
• Government policy failure in public support for research and development 

  Haapanen, Mika; Lenihan, Helena; Mariani, Marco (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2014)

  Promoting Research and Development (R&D) and innovative activity is a key element of the EU Lisbon Agenda and is seen as playing a central part in stimulating economic development. In this paper we argue that, even allowing ...
• Empowering citizens in international governance of nanotechnologies 

  Malsch, Ineke; Subramanian, Vrishali; Semenzin, Elena; Hristozov, Danail; Marcomini, Antonio; Mullins, Martin; Hester, Karena; McAlea, Eamonn; Murphy, Finbarr; Tofail, Syed A.M. (Springer, 2015)

  The international dialogue on responsible governance of nanotechnologies engages a wide range of actors with conflicting as well as common interests. It is also characterised by a lack of evidence-based data on uncertain ...
• The what, how, where and when of resilience as a dynamic, episodic, self-regulating system: a response to Hill et al. (2018) 

  Bryan, Christopher; O'Shea, Deirdre; MacIntyre, Tadhg E. (American Psychological Association, 2018)

  Resilience research is undergoing a shift away from trait approaches, acknowledging the inherent process and dynamism of stress interactions. Hill et al. (2018) suggest that to understand the iterative nature of the ...
• A fragmented field: deinstitutionalisation and competing logics in the reorganisation of art and design higher education in Ireland and the United Kingdom 

  Flynn, Orla (University of Limerick, 2017)

  The provision of art and design higher education at the formerly-independent art colleges in Ireland and the United Kingdom is examined from an organisational and institutional perspective. It is argued that the historic ...
• Outperformance in exchange-traded fund pricing deviations: generalized control of data snooping bias 

  Kearney, Fearghal; Murphy, Finbarr; Cummins, Mark (Elsevier, 2014)

  An investigation into exchange-traded fund (ETF) outperforrnance during the period 2008-2012 is undertaken utilizing a data set of 288 U.S. traded securities. ETFs are tested for net asset value (NAV) premium, underlying ...
• Man thou art dust: rites of passage in austere times 

  O'Loughlin, Deirdre M.; Szmigin, Isabelle; McEachern, Morven; Barbosa, Belem; Karantinou, Kalipso; Fernadez-Moya, María Eugenia (SAGE Publications, 2017)

  In response to recent calls for further cross-disciplinary research on austerity and a deeper sociological understanding of the impact and aftermath of the economic crisis on individuals and societies, this article builds ...
• Gas storage valuation under multifactor Lévy processes 

  Cummins, Mark; Kiely, Greg; Murphy, Bernard (Elsevier, 2018)

  A practical problem for energy companies is instituting a consistent framework across its supply and trading activities to deliver on all-important P&L and at-Risk reporting requirements. With a focus on storage assets and ...
• Forecasting implied volatility in foreign exchange markets: a functional time series approach 

  Kearney, Fearghal; Cummins, Mark; Murphy, Finbarr (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2018)

  We utilise novel functional time series (FTS) techniques to characterise and forecast implied volatility in foreign exchange markets. In particular, we examine the daily implied volatility curves of FX options, namely; ...
• The impact of Brexit on the stock markets of the greater China region 

  Morales, Lucía; Andreosso-O'Callaghan, Bernadette (MDPI, 2018)

  An examination of Brexit and its initial impact on the main stock markets in the Greater China Region (GCR) was conducted using augmented market models that integrate Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) and implied volatility ...
• Liminal consumption of 'The Cosmic Ballet': an authoethnography 

  Kapoor, Kapoor; Patterson, Maurice; O'Malley, Lisa (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2018)

  .This study explores the consumption of dance during the identity transition of a homosexual man as a means of appreciating the role of dance in identity management. The account explicates how consumption of a transcendental ...
• Wii are family: consumption, console gaming and family togetherness 

  Nash, Catriona; O'Malley, Lisa; Patterson, Maurice (Emerald, 2018)

  Purpose – This paper aims to understand the relationship between family togetherness and consumption. This is important given the inherent tension permeating discourses of family consumption and a lack of a critical ...
• More than clothes hangers: cultural intermediaries in the field of fashion 

  Lonergan, Patrick P.; Patterson, Maurice (Emerald, 2018)

  Purpose – This paper aims to elucidate how cultural intermediaries shape the subjectivity of other marketplace actors in fashion, thus preserving the illusio underpinning this field of cultural production. Design/meth ...

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