Drawing on Hearn’s (1999:125) idea that managers are involved in the ‘creation of knowledges…indeed of what counts as knowledge’, this article focuses on Irish Universities as creators and evaluators of knowledge’. Using ...

In this paper we outline the features of an emergent resistance in Ireland. We examine its stunted development in the context of the period of speculative expansion known as the ‘Celtic Tiger’. We draw attention to ...

Analysts doing cluster analysis sometimes want the data to tell them the optimum number of clusters. Common "stopping rules" use the Calinski-Harabasz pseudo-F statistic and Duda-Hart indices, which are based on squared ...

  We focus on gender stereotypes in West European university management by comparing two countries: Sweden and Ireland. In secular Sweden there are strong policies that are implemented at all political levels supported ...

Resumo Este artigo analisa as soluções para o problema da conciliaçao entre trabalho e vida familiar, apresentadas por jovens de ambos os sexos, de idades entre 18 e 30 anos, numa sociedade em mudança como é a Irlanda. ...

This thesis elaborates a critical empirical and theoretical exposition of the impact of the Irish welfare to education programme, the Back to Education Allowance, on classbased exclusion. In doing so, it contributes to ...

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Despite over 60years of research on leadership, few attempts have been made to ensure that the models of leadership are inclusive of women or other outsiders'. This paper explores variation in the constructions of leadership ...

Introduction The gendered nature of Irish Society, North and South, is very much a taken for granted reality. Connell (1987) has argued that although we think of gender as a property of individuals, it is necessary to go ...

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