With high profile Multinational Enterprise (MNE) job losses being a regular news feature in Ireland of late, beginning largely with the first big announcement of the transfer of the production facility of Dell in Limerick ...

For a number of decades, a significant amount of resources have been devoted to supporting Irish industrial policy interventions. There has, however, been a distinct lack of evaluation of such interventions. Evaluation ...

We examine drivers of firm performance using a holistic multivariate model which relates services firm growth to firm-characteristic, firm strategy and macroeconomic variables. Using data for 905 services firms in Ireland ...

Combining natural capital accounting tools and ecosystem restoration approaches builds on existing frameworks to track changes in ecosystem stocks and flows of services and benefits as a result of restoration. This approach ...

Over recent years pay levels in the public sector of the economy have come under increasing scrutiny. This paper provides an assessment of the key issues and challenges central to a comparison of wage levels in the private ...

Abstract This paper draws industrial policy lessons for small Central and Eastern European states through a critical evaluation of recent Irish and Hungarian experiences. The paper outlines a ‘holistic view’ of industrial ...

This paper offers a critical evaluation of recent Irish industrial policy (IP) experience. It argues that whilst Ireland managed to get some things ‘right’ through its IP, substantial tensions arose through making foreign ...

Objectives: To examine levels of psychological distress among higher education students in Ireland overall and across a range of personal, higher education, and socioeconomic characteristics, prior to the COVID-19 ...

State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) operating in strategically important sectors such as energy, communications and transport make a substantial contribution to the Irish economy. This thesis presents an original analysis of ...