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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.

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., …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)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T., & Morley, M. J. (2020). Skill Enhancing HR Investments, Contextual Endowments, and Innovation: A Four Country, Two-Wave Study. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.19174abstract

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., …Grant, K. (2020). Learning and development effectiveness in organisations: An integrated systems-informed model of effectiveness. (1). Basingstoke: 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., …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., …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.

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: 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?.

The Impact of Extension Services on Farm‐level Income: An Instrumental Variable Approach to Combat Endogeneity Concerns (2018)
Journal Article
Cawley, A., O’Donoghue, C., Heanue, K., Hilliard, R., Sheehan, M., & Stefanou, S. (2018). The Impact of Extension Services on Farm‐level Income: An Instrumental Variable Approach to Combat Endogeneity Concerns. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 40(4), 585-612. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppx062

Agricultural extension is an important policy instrument utilized to diffuse knowledge and increase profitability among farmers. However, analyses on impact are subject to endogeneity concerns, causing multiple biases. Failure to combat endogeneity c... Read More about The Impact of Extension Services on Farm‐level Income: An Instrumental Variable Approach to Combat Endogeneity Concerns.

Strategic talent management: A macro and micro analysis of current issues in hospitality and tourism (2018)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Grant, K., & Garavan, T. (2018). Strategic talent management: A macro and micro analysis of current issues in hospitality and tourism. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1), 28-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2017-0062

Purpose This article provides an academic viewpoint on contemporary factors associated with talent management (TM) in the hospitality and tourism sector. Design/Methodology A critical discussion of macro and micro level factors is provided, while... Read More about Strategic talent management: A macro and micro analysis of current issues in hospitality and tourism.

Workplace bullying and employee outcomes: a moderated mediated model (2018)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., Sheehan, M., McCabe, T. J., & Garavan, T. (2020). Workplace bullying and employee outcomes: a moderated mediated model. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(11), 1379-1416. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1406390

This paper investigates the relationship between workplace bullying and employee outcomes in a healthcare setting. Drawing on HR process theory, we investigate the mediating role of the perceived effectiveness of implementation of anti-bullying pract... Read More about Workplace bullying and employee outcomes: a moderated mediated model.

Employee Engagement in Discussion: goals, perspectives and recommendations (2017)
Journal Article
Jeske, D., Sheehan, M., Linehan, C., & Moran, M. (2017). Employee Engagement in Discussion: goals, perspectives and recommendations. Journal of Human Resource Management, 20(2), 21-29

This paper represents a summary of a debate on employee engagement that was conducted in a Business School setting. in this debate, representatives from key stakeholders group participated in this debate. The debate highlighted several critical conce... Read More about Employee Engagement in Discussion: goals, perspectives and recommendations.

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.

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)
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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/

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.

Policy Synthesis and Integrative Report on Youth Self-Employment in Europe (2016)
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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.

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.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.

Mapping Patterns of Self Employment: Secondary Analysis Synthesis Report (2015)
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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.

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)
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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).

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.

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.

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 Resource Development Quarterly, 24(4), 417-428. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21176

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/10.1080/09585192.2012.668400

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.

Devolvement of HRM and perceived performance within multinational corporations (MNCs) (2012)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (2012). Devolvement of HRM and perceived performance within multinational corporations (MNCs). European Journal of International Management, 6(1), 101-127. https://doi.org/10.1504/ejim.2012.044760

This paper examines the process of delivery of HR practices within Multinational Companies (MNCs). Neo-institutional, resource-based and agency theories are used to explore whether devolvement of HR to line managers is attempted in MNCs. Issues of ag... Read More about Devolvement of HRM and perceived performance within multinational corporations (MNCs).

On the Labour Market Progress of Polish Accession Workers in South-East England: Labour market progress of Polish accession workers (2011)
Journal Article
Bachan, R., & Sheehan, M. (2011). On the Labour Market Progress of Polish Accession Workers in South-East England: Labour market progress of Polish accession workers. International Migration, 49(2), 104-134. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00637.x

The enlargement of the European Union (EU) in May 2004 produced a very significant wave of immigration to the United Kingdom that is likely to continue to impact its labour market in forthcoming years. Polish migrants were by far the largest cohort o... Read More about On the Labour Market Progress of Polish Accession Workers in South-East England: Labour market progress of Polish accession workers.

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 EnvironmentLondon: 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.

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.

Euro Area Money Demand Stability (2008)
Journal Article
Cosgrove, M., Singh, C., & Sheehan, M. (2008). Euro Area Money Demand Stability. Journal of Business and Economics Research, 6(2), 15-22

The European Central Bank (ECB) has price level stability as its primary target, and operates via an interest-rate measure to achieve its target over the short term. The ECB also explicitly incorporates a quantity measure, M3, into their monetary fra... Read More about Euro Area Money Demand Stability.

Business strategy, human resources, labour market flexibility and competitive advantage (2005)
Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2005). Business strategy, human resources, labour market flexibility and competitive advantage. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(3), 445-464. https://doi.org/10.1080/0958519042000339598

This paper contributes to the strategic human resource management literature by testing the three main approaches – the universalistic (‘best practice’), contingency and configurational – against an original database. Specifically, we examine: (1) th... Read More about Business strategy, human resources, labour market flexibility and competitive advantage.

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. London: 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 market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation (2003)
Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2003). Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27(1), 123-143. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/27.1.123

Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of UK firms, this paper investigates the relationships between firms' use of, on the one hand, various flexible work practices, human... Read More about Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' 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. London: 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?.

Labour Market Flexibility, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance (2001)
Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan-Quinn, M. (2001). Labour Market Flexibility, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance. British Journal of Management, 12(4), 287-306. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.00211

Labour market flexibility is often portrayed as a key to the competitive success of the UK and US economies. We surveyed several hundred firms in the UK, and using the resulting data (on over 200 manufacturing firms) this paper investigates the relat... Read More about Labour Market Flexibility, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance.

The Unequal Unemployed: Discrimination, unemployment and state policy in Northern Ireland (1999)
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Sheehan, M., & Tomlinson, M. (1999). The Unequal Unemployed: Discrimination, unemployment and state policy in Northern Ireland. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431371

First published in 1999, this volume is about unemployment and discrimination, with a focus on Northern Ireland and its debate over patterns of inequality between unemployed Catholics and Protestants. The Unequal Unemployed uses the important and rev... Read More about The Unequal Unemployed: Discrimination, unemployment and state policy in Northern Ireland.

No Innovation Without Representation? An analysis of participation, representation, R&D and innovation (1999)
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Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (1999). No Innovation Without Representation? An analysis of participation, representation, R&D and innovation. Economic Analysis, 2(2), 85-97

Does it pay for firms to involve their workforce, or is such participation an expensive luxury? For those who would like to see increased employee participation and representation, this is a key issue. What, though, would be the mechanisms through wh... Read More about No Innovation Without Representation? An analysis of participation, representation, R&D and innovation.

HRM practices, R&D expenditure and innovative investment: evidence from the UK's 1990 workplace industrial relations survey (WIRS) (1999)
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Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (1999). HRM practices, R&D expenditure and innovative investment: evidence from the UK's 1990 workplace industrial relations survey (WIRS). Industrial and Corporate Change, 8(2), 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/8.2.211

Labour 'flexibility' is often portrayed as necessary for an innovative economy. Using evidence from the UK's 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey we investigate the relationships between firms' human resource management practices and innovation... Read More about HRM practices, R&D expenditure and innovative investment: evidence from the UK's 1990 workplace industrial relations survey (WIRS).

Unemployment Duration in an Unemployment Blackspot (1998)
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Sheehan, M., & Tomlinson, M. (1998). Unemployment Duration in an Unemployment Blackspot. LABOUR, 12(4), 643-673. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9914.00084

This paper analyses the factors affecting the duration of an unemployment spell amongst a sample of exclusively long‐term unemployed individuals. The results indicate that person‐specific unemployment propensities have a significant effect on re‐empl... Read More about Unemployment Duration in an Unemployment Blackspot.

Regional convergence in the UK, 1970-1995 (1998)
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Mcguinness, S., & Sheehan, M. (1998). Regional convergence in the UK, 1970-1995. Applied Economics Letters, 5(10), 653-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/135048598354357

This paper tests for the existence of long run inter-regional equilibrium relationships in income per capita within the UK over the period 1971–95. We examine both the cross-sectional and time-series evidence of inter-regional convergence. The time s... Read More about Regional convergence in the UK, 1970-1995.

Government Policies and Employers' Attitudes Towards Long-term Unemployed People in Northern Ireland (1998)
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Sheehan, M., & Tomlinson, M. (1998). Government Policies and Employers' Attitudes Towards Long-term Unemployed People in Northern Ireland. Journal of Social Policy, 27(4), 447-470. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279498005364

The article discusses government policies towards unemployed people in the context of the development of ‘fair employment’ policy in Northern Ireland. It presents results from a survey of long-term unemployed people in West Belfast which challenge th... Read More about Government Policies and Employers' Attitudes Towards Long-term Unemployed People in Northern Ireland.

Political Conflict, Partition, and the Underdevelopment of the Irish Economy (1998)
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Sheehan, M., Hamilton, D., & Munck, R. (1998). Political Conflict, Partition, and the Underdevelopment of the Irish Economy. Review of Radical Political Economics, 30(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/048661349803000101

This paper argues that the partition of Ireland has not only contributed to over seventy years of political instability and conflict, but has also contributed to the underdevelopment of the Irish economy, North and South. The paper examines the histo... Read More about Political Conflict, Partition, and the Underdevelopment of the Irish Economy.

The political economy of a divided Ireland (1998)
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Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (1998). The political economy of a divided Ireland. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 22(2), 243-259. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013715

For a peace process in Ireland to succeed it will require an active transition away from the underlying causes of conflict—not just the partition of the country, but the inequalities of opportunities and employment between the communities in Northern... Read More about The political economy of a divided Ireland.

The Evolution of Technical Efficiency in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector, 1973-1985 (1997)
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Sheehan, M. (1997). The Evolution of Technical Efficiency in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector, 1973-1985. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 44(1), 59-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9485.00045

This paper uses a stochastic frontier production function approach to measure technical efficiency in firms in Northern Ireland. Firm level census of production panel data were used to examine how efficiency in firms changed over the period 1973–1985... Read More about The Evolution of Technical Efficiency in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector, 1973-1985.

Economic awareness in Northern Ireland (1995)
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Hitchens, D. M. W. N., Birnie, J. E., & Sheehan, M. (1995). Economic awareness in Northern Ireland. Research in Education, 54(1), 42-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/003452379505400105

Hitchens, D. M. W. N., Birnie, J. E., & Sheehan, M. (1995). Economic awareness in Northern Ireland. Research in Education, 54(1), 42-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/003452379505400105

The Investment Decision-making Process and Investment Determinants in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector (1994)
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Sheehan, M. (1994). The Investment Decision-making Process and Investment Determinants in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector. Regional Studies, 28(5), 511-520. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343409412331348436

The investment decision-making process and investment determinants in the Northern Ireland manufacturing sector, Reg. Studies 28, 511-520. The way in which companies make investment decisions is one of the least understood processes in the workings o... Read More about The Investment Decision-making Process and Investment Determinants in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector.

Government Financial Assistance and Manufacturing Investment in Northern Ireland (1993)
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Sheehan, M. (1993). Government Financial Assistance and Manufacturing Investment in Northern Ireland. Regional Studies, 27(6), 527-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343409312331347745

This paper analyses the influence of government grants on the investment decision making process in the Northern Ireland manufacturing sector. The paper is based on detailed interviews with Northern Ireland manufacturing firms and focuses on two time... Read More about Government Financial Assistance and Manufacturing Investment in Northern Ireland.