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Exploring strategic agency in sustainability-oriented entrepreneur legitimation (2017)
Journal Article
Reynolds, O., Sheehan, M., & Hilliard, R. (2017). Exploring strategic agency in sustainability-oriented entrepreneur legitimation. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-03-2016-0100

Purpose– This exploratory paper focuses on the role played by three archetypal constructs pertaining to the individual sustainability-oriented entrepreneur, namely prior knowledge, sustainability orientation and sustainability intention, in legitimat... Read More about Exploring strategic agency in sustainability-oriented entrepreneur legitimation.

Business Start-Ups & Youth Self-Employment. Case Study Findings Synthesis Report (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
McNamara, A., Sheehan, M., Ortlieb, R., Weiss, S., Masso, J., Paes, K., …Fohrbeck, A. (2016). Business Start-Ups & Youth Self-Employment. Case Study Findings Synthesis Report. Brighton: European Union

Mc Namara, A. et al. (2016) Business Start-Ups & Youth Self-Employment. Case Study Findings Synthesis Report, STYLE Working Papers, STYLE-WP 7.3. CROME, University of Brighton, Brighton. http://www.style-research.eu/publications/

Policy Synthesis and Integrative Report on Youth Self-Employment in Europe (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Sheehan, M., McNamara, A., Ortlieb, R., Weiss, S., Masso, J., Paes, K., …Swift, S. (2016). Policy Synthesis and Integrative Report on Youth Self-Employment in Europe. Brighton: European Union

This report summarises the main objectives and findings underpinning all three deliverables of Work Package 7 (WP7) of the EU STYLE project 'Business start-ups and youth self-employment'. In Europe, the rate of youth unemployment is high (20 per cent... Read More about Policy Synthesis and Integrative Report on Youth Self-Employment in Europe.

Leadership Style and Behaviour, Employee Knowledge-Sharing and Innovation Probability (2016)
Book Chapter
Sheehan, M. (2016). Leadership Style and Behaviour, Employee Knowledge-Sharing and Innovation Probability. In H. Shipton, P. Budhwar, P. Sparrow, & A. Brown (Eds.), London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465191_12

The importance of innovation for sustained national and firm competitiveness is widely acknowledged by scholars, practitioners and policymakers (Cho & Pucik, 2005; OECD, 2012). Firms with higher levels of innovation will be more successful in respond... Read More about Leadership Style and Behaviour, Employee Knowledge-Sharing and Innovation Probability.

Human Resource Development in Central and Eastern Europe (2016)
Book Chapter
Sheehan, M., & Buchelt, B. (2016). Human Resource Development in Central and Eastern Europe. In T. N. Garavan, A. M. McCarthy, & M. J. Morley (Eds.), Global Human Resource Development: Regional and Country Perspectives. New York: Routledge. https://doi.or

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is a region that includes the European countries that were under Soviet economic and political influence before 1990 and often referred to as the ‘Eastern Bloc’. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of t... Read More about Human Resource Development in Central and Eastern Europe.

Mapping Patterns of Self Employment: Secondary Analysis Synthesis Report (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Masso, J., Tverdostrup, M., Sheehan, M., McNamara, A., Ortlieb, R., Weiss, S., …Fohrbeck, A. (2015). Mapping Patterns of Self Employment: Secondary Analysis Synthesis Report. Brighton: European Union

Part of this research project (Task 1) provided an overview of the policy literature on selfemployment and entrepreneurship in Europe where emphasis was placed on differentiating between self-employment and entrepreneurship, the key policies at EU an... Read More about Mapping Patterns of Self Employment: Secondary Analysis Synthesis Report.

Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD Research (2015)
Book Chapter
Sheehan, M., Saunders, M. N., & Wang, C. L. (2015). Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD Research. In M. N. Saunders, & P. Tosey (Eds.), Handbook of research methods on human resource developmentEdward Elgar Publishing

As Human Resource Development (HRD) research has developed, a growing variety of quantitative and qualitative data collection procedures and analysis techniques have been adopted; research designs now include mono, multiple and mixed methods. This Ha... Read More about Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD Research.

Talent Management and Organisational Diversity: A call for research (2015)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., & Anderson, V. (2015). Talent Management and Organisational Diversity: A call for research. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 26(4), 349-358. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21247

Talent management (TM) represents one of the fastest growing areas of both academic research and HRD practice. Since proclamations of a ‘War for Talent’ in the late 1990s the term ‘talentmanagement’ has become one of the most common terms in the mana... Read More about Talent Management and Organisational Diversity: A call for research.

Business Start-Ups & Youth Self-Employment: A Policy Literature Review Synthesis Report (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Sheehan, M., & McNamara, A. (2015). Business Start-Ups & Youth Self-Employment: A Policy Literature Review Synthesis Report. Brighton: European Union

This report provides an overview of the policy literature on self-employment and entrepreneurship, focusing on young people in Europe with a particular focus on six European Union (EU, hereafter) Member States: Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Spai... Read More about Business Start-Ups & Youth Self-Employment: A Policy Literature Review Synthesis Report.

Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD. European Journal of Training and Development, 38(5), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-04-2014-0034

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human resource development (HRD). Although issues of sustainability and CSR have become an important topic of rese... Read More about Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD.

Human capital or signalling, unpacking the graduate premium (2014)
Journal Article
Pericles Rospigliosi, A., Greener, S., Bourner, T., & Sheehan, M. (2014). Human capital or signalling, unpacking the graduate premium. International Journal of Social Economics, 41(5), 420-432. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijse-03-2013-0056

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to revisit the debate on the contribution of higher education (HE) to the economy which has been dominated by human capital theory and signalling theory. Human capital theory contends that HE contributes by addi... Read More about Human capital or signalling, unpacking the graduate premium.

Innovation and human resource development (HRD) (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Innovation and human resource development (HRD). European Journal of Training and Development, 38(1/2), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-11-2013-0128

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of human resource development (HRD) and innovation which has been under-researched despite the widespread recognition of the critical role of innovation for sustained national... Read More about Innovation and human resource development (HRD).

Uncertainty and Ongoing Economic Turbulence: Implications for HRD (2014)
Journal Article
McCarthy, A., & Sheehan, M. (2014). Uncertainty and Ongoing Economic Turbulence: Implications for HRD. Advances in developing human resources, 16(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422313508923

The Problem The global financial crisis and uncertainty has the potential to significantly affect the human resource development (HRD) field in terms of investment levels in training and development; the nature, content, and focus of HRD interventio... Read More about Uncertainty and Ongoing Economic Turbulence: Implications for HRD.

Investment in Training and Development in Times of Uncertainty (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (2014). Investment in Training and Development in Times of Uncertainty. Advances in developing human resources, 16(1), 13-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422313508924

The Problem: While there is some consensus in the economics literature that there is a negative association between uncertainty and investment in capital, whether this relationship applies to investment in human capital—in particular training and de... Read More about Investment in Training and Development in Times of Uncertainty.

The Generous Spirit of the Peer Review Process: Perspectives and Insights From the HRDQ Editorial Team on Providing High-Quality Reviews (2013)
Journal Article
Ellinger, A. D., Anderson, V., Gubbins, C., Lynn Lunn, M., Nimon, K. F., Sheehan, M., & Werner, J. M. (2013). The Generous Spirit of the Peer Review Process: Perspectives and Insights From the HRDQ Editorial Team on Providing High-Quality Reviews. Human R

Are you inclined to “agree,” are you “unavailable,” or do you “decline” when you receive a personal review invitation from Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ)? We sincerely hope that you will accept our invitations to perform reviews when we... Read More about The Generous Spirit of the Peer Review Process: Perspectives and Insights From the HRDQ Editorial Team on Providing High-Quality Reviews.

Human resource management and performance: Evidence from small and medium-sized firms (2013)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (2014). Human resource management and performance: Evidence from small and medium-sized firms. International Small Business Journal, 32(5), 545-570. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242612465454

This article examines human resource management (HRM) practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In particular, by examining the issue of causal order, it addresses a significant gap in the extant HRM–performance literature within the co... Read More about Human resource management and performance: Evidence from small and medium-sized firms.

Strategic HRM Outside of Corporate HQ: Lost in Translation? (2012)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (2012). Strategic HRM Outside of Corporate HQ: Lost in Translation?. Organization and Management, 4, 121-140

The paper evaluates the importance of successfully transferring knowledge about Human Resources role to subsidiaries within Multi-National Corporations. The author presents result of the research conducted on a group of MNC's Head Quarter HR director... Read More about Strategic HRM Outside of Corporate HQ: Lost in Translation?.

Investing in management development in turbulent times and perceived organisational performance: a study of UK MNCs and their subsidiaries (2012)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (2012). Investing in management development in turbulent times and perceived organisational performance: a study of UK MNCs and their subsidiaries. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(12), 2491-2513. https://doi.org/10.1080/

The recent global economic crisis has contributed to organisations carefully scrutinising all budgets. Resources allocated to investment in human capital, especially training and development, have been one of the first cuts in previous downturns. Thi... Read More about Investing in management development in turbulent times and perceived organisational performance: a study of UK MNCs and their subsidiaries.