This study investigates the internal and external pressures which explain the adoption or non-adoption of the Irish human resource development standard among organisations. National governments use a variety of strategies ...

Annual Hours (AH) is a way of organising working time by averaging hours and pay across the year rather than the week or month. A claimed advantage of AH agreements is that they potentially offer mutual gains to management ...

Empirical studies testing the predictions of the trade-off and pecking order theories have invariably produced inconsistent and contrary results when employing a multiple linear regression model. These erratic and ...

Firm performance is important for a number of reasons related to job creation, firm survival, innovation, competiveness and overall economic performance; motivating a large body of research on its determining factors. It ...

Governments everywhere are under pressure to deliver service to the community in a situation where the expectation of the population is growing and the public finances are static or falling. To address this problem many ...

While the Higher Education literature is replete with studies investigating the effects the work environment has on the employment relationship and job-related attitudes of academics, there is a paucity of empirical research ...

This thesis consists of four individual essays which are framed by an introductory and a concluding chapter. While independent from each other, the essays all focus on the topic of foreign investment in developing and ...

Innovation is a well-recognised determinant of growth in firms, regions and the economy as a whole. Many studies focus on tangible conditions and factors related to innovation, including human capital. Human capital is an ...

Developing countries have recently been emulating innovation policies implemented by developed countries with the firm conviction that it will improve their economic development prospects. Nevertheless, the specificities ...

This purpose of this study is to understand and explain the relationships between managers’ participation in career-focused learning and development (CFLD) and a multiplicity of individual, dispositional, organisational, ...