The Impact of Agricultural Knowledge Transfer Resources on Farm Level Profitability during the Economic Recession – A Quantitative Study

Cawley, A.; O'Donoghue, C.; Heanue, K.; Hilliard, R.; Sheehan, M.

doi:10.1080/1389224X.2019.1583816

Trade Credit Financing, Social Trust, and Financial Distress: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies (2025)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Wang, B., Moro, A., Chen, J., & Sheehan, M. (2025). Trade Credit Financing, Social Trust, and Financial Distress: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies. Research in International Business and Finance, 79, Article 103053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2025.103053

This research investigates the relationship between trade credit financing and firms’ financial distress using a sample of Chinese listed companies from 2000 to 2020. Our results reveal a significant U-shaped relationship between firms’ trade credit... Read More about Trade Credit Financing, Social Trust, and Financial Distress: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies.

Training Investments and Innovation Gains in Knowledge Intensive Businesses: The Role of Firm Level Human Capital and Knowledge Sharing Climate (2024)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T., & Morley, M. (2025). Training Investments and Innovation Gains in Knowledge Intensive Businesses: The Role of Firm Level Human Capital and Knowledge Sharing Climate. Human Resource Management Journal, 35(3), 667-686. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12586

Training investments are important in securing innovation gains. However, research on this relationship in knowledge intensive businesses is nascent. In particular, questions remain concerning what value different types of training hold for different... Read More about Training Investments and Innovation Gains in Knowledge Intensive Businesses: The Role of Firm Level Human Capital and Knowledge Sharing Climate.

Fintech's Influence on Green Credit Provision: Empirical Evidence from China’s Listed Banking Sector (2024)
Journal Article
He, Z., Ge, F., Ban, S., Du, A. M., & Sheehan, M. (2024). Fintech's Influence on Green Credit Provision: Empirical Evidence from China’s Listed Banking Sector. Research in International Business and Finance, 70(B), Article 102394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102394

We explore the impact of financial technology (fintech) advancements on green credit provision, investigating publicly traded banks in China from 2007 to 2022. We particularly focus on credit modelling innovation, examining the non-linear dynamics be... Read More about Fintech's Influence on Green Credit Provision: Empirical Evidence from China’s Listed Banking Sector.

How Knowledge Transfer Impact Happens at the Farm Level: Insights from Advisers and Farmers in the Irish Agricultural Sector (2023)
Journal Article
Cawley, A., Heanue, K., Hilliard, R., O’Donoghue, C., & Sheehan, M. (2023). How Knowledge Transfer Impact Happens at the Farm Level: Insights from Advisers and Farmers in the Irish Agricultural Sector. Sustainability, 15(4), Article 3226. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043226

Many studies show that interaction with agricultural advisory services impacts productivity and profitability on farms. However, less attention is paid to explaining how this impact is achieved. This paper explores the factors that determine the impl... Read More about How Knowledge Transfer Impact Happens at the Farm Level: Insights from Advisers and Farmers in the Irish Agricultural Sector.

Case Study 12: Higher Performance Work Practices in SMEs (2022)
Book Chapter
Sheehan, M., & Saunders, M. N. (2023). Case Study 12: Higher Performance Work Practices in SMEs. In M. N. Saunders, P. Lewis, & A. Thornhill (Eds.), Research Methods for Business Students (643-646). (9th edn.). Pearson

The Political Economy of Covid-19: Covid-19, Inequality and Government Responses (2022)
Book
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2022). The Political Economy of Covid-19: Covid-19, Inequality and Government Responses. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003307440

This comprehensive book brings together research published during 2021 analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy – on output and employment, on inequality, and on public policy responses.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been the great... Read More about The Political Economy of Covid-19: Covid-19, Inequality and Government Responses.

The Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities for Incremental and Radical Innovation in Knowledge‐Intensive Businesses (2021)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Morley, M. J. (2023). The Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities for Incremental and Radical Innovation in Knowledge‐Intensive Businesses. British Journal of Management, 34(1), 220-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12582

We theorize and test the impact of two microfoundations of dynamic capabilities on incremental and radical innovation in knowledge-intensive businesses (KIBs). We argue that numerical flexibility and training, as human resources (HR) microfoundations... Read More about The Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities for Incremental and Radical Innovation in Knowledge‐Intensive Businesses.

High-Performance Work Practices and Labour Productivity: A Six Wave Longitudinal Study of UK Manufacturing and Service SMEs (2021)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., & Garavan, T. (2022). High-Performance Work Practices and Labour Productivity: A Six Wave Longitudinal Study of UK Manufacturing and Service SMEs. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 33(16), 3353-3386. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2021.2005658

This study utilises both evolutionary resource-based view (EBRV) and open systems theory to investigate the long term impact of high-performance work practices (HPWPs) on labour productivity in UK manufacturing and service sector SMEs. We investigate... Read More about High-Performance Work Practices and Labour Productivity: A Six Wave Longitudinal Study of UK Manufacturing and Service SMEs.

The ‘Great Reset’ to tackle Covid-19 and other crises (2021)
Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2021). The ‘Great Reset’ to tackle Covid-19 and other crises. International Review of Applied Economics, 35(6), 793-795. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2021.1999690

The 2021 World Economic Forum pledged a ‘Great Reset’, recognising that the Covid-19 crisis would be compounded by several other crises, actual and threatened, including the climate crisis, financial crises, social and economic inequality, and the th... Read More about The ‘Great Reset’ to tackle Covid-19 and other crises.

Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda (2021)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., McCarthy, A., Lai, Y., Clarke, N., Carbery, R., Gubbins, C., Sheehan, M., & Saunders, M. N. (2021). Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda. Human Resource Management Journal, 31(4), 870-903. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12337

Research investigating training and firm performance is currently at an inflection point; capable of recognising previous achievements but also having a focus on the future. Based on our review of 207 quantitative papers over a 40‐year period, we fin... Read More about Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda.

Building back better? (2021)
Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2021). Building back better?. International Review of Applied Economics, 35(2), 111-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2021.1882035

A global health and economic crisis was created by the spread of Covid-19 across the world during the course of 2020 and into 2021. This Special Issue of the International Review of Applied Economics brings together papers analysing various aspects o... Read More about Building back better?.

Skill Enhancing HR Investments, Contextual Endowments, and Innovation: A Four Country, Two-Wave Study (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T., & Morley, M. J. (2020, August). Skill Enhancing HR Investments, Contextual Endowments, and Innovation: A Four Country, Two-Wave Study. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2020), Online

We theorize and test the combined effects of both firm level skill- enhancing human resource investments, designed to boost specific and general knowledge resources, and of national level human capital contextual endowments, on incremental and radica... Read More about Skill Enhancing HR Investments, Contextual Endowments, and Innovation: A Four Country, Two-Wave Study.

Learning and development effectiveness in organisations: An integrated systems-informed model of effectiveness (2020)
Book
Garavan, T., O'Brien, F., Duggan, J., Gubbins, C., Lai, Y., Carbery, R., Heneghan, S., Lannon, R., Sheehan, M., & Grant, K. (2020). Learning and development effectiveness in organisations: An integrated systems-informed model of effectiveness. (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48900-7

This book offers an integrated and contextualised framework for learning and development (L&D) effectiveness that addresses both the nature of L&D and its antecedents and outcomes in organisations. Scholars and practitioners alike have recognised the... Read More about Learning and development effectiveness in organisations: An integrated systems-informed model of effectiveness.

Training and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Temporal, Institutional and Organizational Context Moderators (2020)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., McCarthy, A., Lai, Y., Murphy, K., Sheehan, M., & Carbery, R. (2021). Training and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Temporal, Institutional and Organizational Context Moderators. Human Resource Management Journal, 31(1), 93-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12284

Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta-analysis of the training and organizational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moderating effects of quality versus quantity of training, time, institutional,... Read More about Training and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Temporal, Institutional and Organizational Context Moderators.

Transformational leadership and work unit innovation: A dyadic two-wave investigation (2019)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Morley, M. J. (2020). Transformational leadership and work unit innovation: A dyadic two-wave investigation. Journal of Business Research, 109, 399-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.10.072

Mobilising arguments from conservation of resources theory (COR) and employing time-lagged, multi-source data, we propose and test a model connecting unit level transformational leadership (TFL) to work unit innovation performance. We theorise that u... Read More about Transformational leadership and work unit innovation: A dyadic two-wave investigation.

L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise (2019)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., Heneghan, S., O'Brien, F., Gubbins, C., Lai, Y., Carbery, R., Duggan, J., Lannon, R., Sheehan, M., & Grant, K. (2020). L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise. European Journal of Training and Development, 44(1), 1-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-09-2019-0166

This monograph reports a study investigating the roles of learning and development (L&D) professionals in Irish, UK European and US organisations. The study investigates the contextual factors influencing L&D roles in organisations, the strategic and... Read More about L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise.

Room for improvement? A briefing report on leadership and management in the public sector. Findings from the 2018 Workforce Development Survey (2019)
Report
Parry, J., Grant, K., & Sheehan, M. (2019). Room for improvement? A briefing report on leadership and management in the public sector. Findings from the 2018 Workforce Development Survey. The Workforce Development Trust

The research which underpins this briefing report was driven by a primary, quantitative Workforce Survey which focused on understanding the views of employers across the public sector – in particular, health and justice. This involved respondents sha... Read More about Room for improvement? A briefing report on leadership and management in the public sector. Findings from the 2018 Workforce Development Survey.

Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor (2019)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., McCarthy, A., Sheehan, M., Lai, Y., Saunders, M. N. K., Clarke, N., Carbery, R., & Shanahan, V. (2019). Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 30(3), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21345

We review the methodological rigor of empirical quantitative studies that have investigated the training and organisational performance relationship. Through a content analysis of 219 studies published in quality journals, we reveal significant vali... Read More about Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor.

The Impact of Agricultural Knowledge Transfer Resources on Farm Level Profitability during the Economic Recession – A Quantitative Study (2019)
Journal Article
Cawley, A., O'Donoghue, C., Heanue, K., Hilliard, R., & Sheehan, M. (2019). The Impact of Agricultural Knowledge Transfer Resources on Farm Level Profitability during the Economic Recession – A Quantitative Study. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 25(2), 161-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224X.2019.1583816

Purpose: The outcomes from agricultural knowledge transfer (KT) are dependent on the access to and the quality of services available, coupled with the motivation of prospective clients to implement new skills. Within this context, the allocation of r... Read More about The Impact of Agricultural Knowledge Transfer Resources on Farm Level Profitability during the Economic Recession – A Quantitative Study.

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