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Do business start-ups create high-quality jobs for young people? (2018)
Book Chapter
Ortlieb, R., Sheehan, M., & Masso, J. (2018). Do business start-ups create high-quality jobs for young people?. In J. O'Reilly, J. Leschke, R. Ortlieb, M. Seleib-Kaiser, & P. Villa (Eds.), Youth Labor in Transition: Inequalities, Mobility, and Policies in Europe. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190864798.001.0001

Since the onset of the recent economic crisis, there has been a renewed interest among policymakers across Europe in measures to stimulate self-employment and entrepreneurship as an alternative to unemployment. However, fundamental questions about po... Read More about Do business start-ups create high-quality jobs for young people?.

IHRD: investment in human capital and performance (2017)
Book Chapter
Sheehan, M., & Shanahan, V. (2017). IHRD: investment in human capital and performance. In T. Garavan, A. McCarthy, & R. Carbery (Eds.), Handbook of International Human Resource Development (149-168). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781954188.00014

This chapter analyses human capital investment in the context of international human resource development (IHRD) through a multi-level perspective. Specifically the inter-connections between the macro (national and regional) and micro (organisational... Read More about IHRD: investment in human capital and performance.

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. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315818177

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.

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.

Human resource management and corporate performance: Evidence from UK and US small firms (2008)
Book Chapter
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2008). Human resource management and corporate performance: Evidence from UK and US small firms. In R. Barrett, & S. Mayson (Eds.), International Handbook of Entrepreneurship and HRMEdward Elgar Publishing

Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2008). Human resource management and corporate performance: Evidence from UK and US small firms. In R. Barrett, & S. Mayson (Eds.), International Handbook of Entrepreneurship and HRM. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Business Strategy, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Small Firms in the UK and US (2008)
Book Chapter
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2008). Business Strategy, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Small Firms in the UK and US. In C. van Beers, A. Kleinknecht, R. Ortt, & R. Verburg (Eds.), Determinants of Innovative Behaviour: A Firm’s Internal Practices and its External Environment. Palgrave Macmillan

There is a large and growing literature on the relationship between the use of human resource management practices on the one hand, and corporate performance on the other (see for example Appelbaum et al., 2000; Guest et al., 2000; Huselid and Becker... Read More about Business Strategy, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Small Firms in the UK and US.

Labour Flexibility: securing management's right to manage badly? (2003)
Book Chapter
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2003). Labour Flexibility: securing management's right to manage badly?. In B. Burchell, S. Deakin, J. Rubery, & J. Michie (Eds.), Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203987179

Frank Wilkinson’s classic piece on ‘Productive Systems’ opens with a warning against the ‘increasingly dogmatic reassertion by a growing proportion of economists of the beneficial effects of the invisible hand of market forces’. These reassertions, W... Read More about Labour Flexibility: securing management's right to manage badly?.

Markets, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation (2003)
Book Chapter
Kitson, M., Michie, J., & Sheehan-Quinn, M. (2003). Markets, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation. In D. Coffey, & C. Thornley (Eds.), Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance: Issues and Perspectives. London: Routledge

The paper analyses the relationship between, on the one hand, markets, competition and cooperation, and on the other hand, firms' innovative behaviour. Drawing on ESRC Centre for Business Research survey results, the paper uses descriptive statistics... Read More about Markets, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation.

Labour ‘flexibility’ – Securing management’s right to manage badly? (2002)
Book Chapter
Sheehan, M., & Michie, J. (2002). Labour ‘flexibility’ – Securing management’s right to manage badly?. In B. Burchell, S. Deakin, J. Michie, & J. Rubery (Eds.), Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance. Routledge

Frank Wilkinson’s classic piece on ‘Productive Systems’ opens with a warning against the ‘increasingly dogmatic reassertion by a growing proportion of economists of the beneficial effects of the invisible hand of market forces’. These reassertions, W... Read More about Labour ‘flexibility’ – Securing management’s right to manage badly?.