Maynooth University School of Business
Toggle2021-2022
| Conference | School of Business Participants | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Irish Academy of Management Annual Conference
24-25 August 2022 & Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2022 (USA) 5-9 August 2022 |
Dr James Duggan |
Throughout the last decade, the gig economy has increasingly drawn attention from scholars and policymakers. This concern has been far-reaching, ranging from the potentially unsafe conditions faced by gig workers to the encompassing role of new technologies. Yet, few predicted these issues would manifest so strikingly when the Covid-19 pandemic began, as gig workers simultaneously found themselves classified as ‘essential’, while still largely unable to rely on social safety nets. This study conducts an in-depth analysis of government-initiated supports for gig workers across liberal market economies, considering issues such as state actions affecting gig work and the provision of supports. |
| British Academy of Management Annual Conference
8 September |
Dr Tatiana Andreeva | Dr. Tatiana Andreeva together with Professor Jan Dul (Rotterdam School of Management) conducted a workshop on Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) at the British Academy of Management Annual Conference. Our theories often claim that a certain factor is necessary to be put and kept in place to avoid guaranteed failure. Practitioners often talk about “must haves”, “bottlenecks”, “critical factors”, or “disqualifiers”. NCA is an emerging data analysis method that allows us to properly test these claims. This workshop aimed to introduce NCA to researchers who are not yet familiar with it, discuss recent developments of the method, and demonstrate how the method can be applied to a range of management problems. |
| British Academy of Management 2021 Annual Conference
24 Spetember |
Prof. Audra Mockaitis |
Professor Audra Mockaitis has received a Best Paper award at the British Academy of Management 2021 annual conference. The paper, co-authored with Dr Christina Butler (Kingston University), entitled “New Ways of Working and the Illusion of Flexibility: The Impact of Temporal Schemata, Role Conflict and Overload on the Wellbeing of Global Virtual Team Members” was awarded best developmental paper for the International Business and International Management Track. The project on which the paper is based was internally funded by the School of Business. |
| Academy of Management Conference
1 October |
Dr Richa Chugh, Prof Joseph Coughlan, Dr Paul Donovan, Dr Gillian Moran, Dr Olga Ryazanova |
A group of researchers from the School of Business presented their working paper at the Management Education and Development Writers’ Workshop at the recent Academy of Management conference. The paper was co-authored by Dr Olga Ryazanova, Dr Paul Donovan, Prof Joseph Coughlan, Dr Gillian Moran and Dr Richa Chugh, and focused on novel methods of engaging students in large classes, in particular, during remote teaching. One of the team, Dr Ryazanova, was also a panellist at the Writers’ Workshop, providing developmental advice to researchers studying management education |
| 2nd International Conference on Self-Initiated Expatriation 11-12 April |
Dr Marian Crowley-Henry |
Dr Marian Crowley-Henry chaired, presented, participated, and moderated during various sessions of the 2-day blended conference on self-initiated expatriation, hosted by the University of Bamberg, Germany on 11-12 April 2022. Marian and co-authors presented their research on ‘The influence of complexity, chance and change on the career crafting strategies of SIEs’ (together with PhD student Blanca Suarez-Bilbao, Prof Maike Andresen and Dr Edward O’Connor) and on ‘Painting a fuller picture of SIEs’ careers across national contexts: Employing a multi-level intelligent career system’ (together with Assoc Prof Shamika Almeida, Prof Santina Bertone and Dr Asanka Gunasekara). The conference shared research on the careers of Self-Initiated Expatriates (SIEs) and migrant populations, as well as the value these globally mobile individuals bring to companies and, more broadly, to host-country economies and societies. |
| Irish Accounting and Finance Association (IAFA) Doctoral Colloquium and 34th Annual Conference 2022 8th-10th June 2022 |
Dr Hilary Qualter Dr Danny Chow |
The 34th IAFA Annual Conference and Doctoral Colloquium was hosted by Maynooth University School of Business on 8th-10th June 2022. The conference was organised and chaired by Dr Hilary Qualter, Maynooth University School of Business and was opened by Professor Peter McNamara, Head of Maynooth University School of Business. The keynote conference address was given by Professor Mark Clatworthy, University of Bristol, President-elect of the European Accounting Association (EAA). The title of his talk was “Are Intangibles making accounting irrelevant?” During the conference, 36 research papers were presented by academics on many areas of accounting and finance including accounting education, AI, board reporting, financial risk, governance, pensions, performance management and sustainability. The presentations were insightful, stimulating and well received.
The main conference was preceded by the Doctoral Colloquium on 8th June 2022, chaired by Professor Joan Ballantine, University of Ulster. This event provided an opportunity for both current and prospective doctoral students to learn more about the research process, research methodologies and publishing academic work. In total, 16 current doctoral students presented their work and received feedback from experienced academics, who gave generously of their time for this event. There were two keynote speakers at the IAFA Doctoral Colloquium this year. Professor Ingrid Jeacle, University of Edinburgh presented on the topic of “Netnography Research and Publishing Tips.” Professor Beatriz García Osma, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid gave “Advice on Publishing/Negotiating the Publishing Process in Accounting Journals.” |
| Work Family Researchers' Network conference in New York 23-26 June 2022. |
Dr. Marian Crowley-Henry | Dr Marian Crowley-Henry organised, presided, and presented her research on 'Does Country Matter? Skilled Migrant Mothers' Careers in Ireland, France, the USA, and Australia'. Marian organised and chaired the paper symposium on 'Subjectivities of Motherhood and Work' at the conference, which included five multi-disciplinary academic research papers on the intersection of mothers, work, careers, and narratives. The use of narratives and subjective accounts of motherhood allows scholars from different academic backgrounds to share discipline-specific research via a common research approach. Rich narratives from mothers experiencing work and motherhood were shared in the panel from research in business/management studies, media studies, language studies, social policy, and social work domains. The panel epitomised three of Maynooth University School of Business’ values in particular: being research-informed, liberal (shared experiences between people of difference & disciplines) and egalitarian by proactively engaging with research across disciplines to better understand research phenomena. |
| 7th Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED)
27-28 June 2022 |
Dr Alireza Keshavarz | We devote this paper to answering the call for sales force turnover research proposed in recent reviews and contributing to the growing body of research in this field. In this study, we investigate the effects of human capital isolating mechanisms on the turnover of high/low performing sales forces. Organizations try to recruit and retain high-performing salespeople not just because they are the main value generators but also because they may destroy value through dysfunctional turnover and mobility to a competitor. Drawing on matching and social network theories, we introduce and test the effect of two isolating factors of labor forces, i.e. compensation dispersion in sales organizations and regional concentration of salespeople on the functional/dysfunctional turnover of salespeople. For the first time in salesforce research, we investigate the effect of compensation policies on the defection of sales forces to competitors, which has been shown to significantly impact firm performance. This research contributes to the literature on turnover and determinants of sales force mobility by introducing a labor market factor combined with an organizational factor. It also provides interesting practical insights on the organizational structure design of sales functions. |
2020-2021
| Conference | School of Business Participants | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2021 Annual Meeting
24-27 October |
Dr Ali Nazarpour | |
| Irish Academy of Management 2021 Conference
25 - 27 August 2021 |
Dr Marian Crowley-Henry | ‘The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on organisational and management related matters in both the Irish and international context’.
Further details The impact of Covid 19 on .... |
| The 18th Conference of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
23 August 2021 |
Dr Bastian Rake | Dr Bastian Rake presented the paper “Geography of authorship: How geography shapes authorship attribution in global team science” at the 18th Conference of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. The conference was held online. In this research project, Dr Rake and his co-author Jarno Hoekman (Utrecht University) study under which conditions local scientific research teams become authors in publications associated with multi-locational clinical trials. |
| The Academy of Management Annual Conference 2021
20 August 2021 |
Dr. Tatiana Andreeva,
Dr. Paola Zappa |
Dr. Tatiana Andreeva and Dr. Paola Zappa have co-authored a paper that was presented at the Academy of Management Annual Conference 2021. Their paper focuses on knowledge hiding within organizations and explores how male and female employees differ in recurring to this behaviour. |
| Academy of Management USA
29 July - 4 August 2021 |
Dr Tatiana Andreeva
Dr Paola Zappa |
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| Organising and chairing a conference track at the Networks 2021 conference (virtual)
5 July 2021 |
Dr Paola Zappa | |
| Academy of Management
23 June 2021 |
Dr Kiera Dempsey-Brench | Congratulations to Kiera Dempsey-Brench School of Business, Maynooth University and co-authors, Prof. Amanda Shantz, Melissa Sayer, Shirley Kavanagh (Trinity Business School), and Assistant Prof. Janice Byrne (Ivey Business School) for being awarded the Academy of Management’s Management, Education and Development Division best paper award, which is the highest award given in this division.
The paper entitled: ‘In the eye of the storm: Turbulent times and the MBA’, demonstrates through two studies how current MBA curricula falls short at equipping students on how to anticipate and manage global challenges. However, the study evidences that there are existing programme features that can be leveraged and mobilized to address this gap. |
| 13th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics 14th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics King's College London
19-21 December 2020 |
Dr Juan Carlos Arismendi-Zambrano | |
| Academy of Marketing Science
19 November 2020 |
Dr Christina O'Connor |
2019-2020
2018-2019
| Conference | School of Business Participants | Details |
|---|---|---|
| SMS (Strategic Management Society) 38th Annual Conference in Paris
22-25 September 2018 |
Dr Ruifang Wang | Lecturer in the School of Business, Dr. Ruifang Wang, has presented a paper ‘Political Skill and Managerial Ambidexterity: The Pivotal Role of Goal Orientation” with her co-author Prof. Patrick Gibbons (University College Dublin), for the SMS (Strategic Management Society) 38th Annual Conference in Paris, from the 22nd to 25th September 2018. SMS is unique in bringing together the worlds of reflective practice and thoughtful scholarship. The Society consists of over 3,000 members representing a kaleidoscope of backgrounds and perspectives from more than 80 different countries. Membership, composed of academics, business practitioners, and consultants, focuses on the development and dissemination of insights on the strategic management process, as well as on fostering contacts and interchange around the world. The Annual Conferences of SMS focus on global issues within the field of Strategic Management and bring together around 1,000 attendees alternating between locations in Europe and North America. |
| Academy of Management Conference
10 September 2018 |
Our faculty has intensively contributed to the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) this year, with over 40% of our faculty serving as an author, reviewer or organizer. 30% of our faculty attended the conference, presenting their research at 6 research paper sessions, organizing and contributing to 3 professional development workshops, 2 symposia and holding 3 service roles in various AOM committees. Academy of Management Conference is one of the most important international conferences for management scholars, drawing more than 11,000 management researchers from 92 countries this year. |
2017-2018
| Conference | School of Business Participants | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Academy of Management Annual Meeting (USA)
27 August 2018 |
Professor Peter McNamara | In a recent Academy of Management (AOM) annual meeting in Chicago, MU School of Business faculty Dr Olga Ryazanova and Professor Peter McNamara received the “Global Forum” Award for their paper. The Academy of Management is a leading academic organisation in the field of management with almost 20,000 members worldwide, more than 11,000 of whom attended the annual meeting this year.
Among more than 130 papers submitted to the Management Education and Development division of AOM, MU faculty’s paper was chosen as the paper that best creates the opportunity to address global issues of significance to management education and/or development. The paper, titled “International Mobility in the Age of Managerialism: To Go or Not to Go” reports on the study that explored the careers of 376 European academics. The study provides insights into the influence of international mobility on careers and work outcomes of knowledge workers, and has implications beyond academic context. |
| 34th EGOS Colloquium
5-7 July 2018 |
Dr Anja Schaefer | Senior Lecturer in the School of Business, Dr Anja Schaefer, has had a paper on ‘Embodied Moral Identities’ accepted for the 34th EGOS Colloquium which will take place from 5– 7 July 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia. EGOS is the European Group of Organization Studies Conference. The theme of this year’s Colloquium is ‘Surprise in and around Organizations: Journey’s to the Unexpected’. Anja’s paper proposes some considerations regarding the embodied nature of moral identities at work, illustrated with empirical examples from several different studies. Anja joined the School of Business as a Senior Lecturer in Marketing in January 2018. She previously worked as a Lecturer and later as Senior Lecturer in Management at the Open University, where she contributed to teaching and research and held the roles of Programme Director and Head of Department. |
| 34th EGOS Colloquium
5-7 July 2018 |
Dr Marian Crowley-Henry | Edward O’Connor and Dr Marian Crowley-Henry have recently had a paper accepted for the 34th EGOS Colloquium which will take place in Talinn (Estonia) from 5-7 July 2018. The theme of this year’s Colloquium is ‘Surprise in and Around Organizations: Journeys to the Unexpected’. EGOS is the European Group for Organisational Studies, and is a scholarly association which aims to further the theoretical and/or empirical advancement of knowledge about organisations, organising and the contexts in which organisations operate. As a collective, one of its main aims is to maintain and provide a voice for the critical and analytical approaches of its members to the study of organization worldwide. Edward and Marian’s paper is titled ‘From home to host: The instrumental careers of skilled migrants’. The paper is an exploration of how skilled migrants, from Poland and the Baltic Republics and who currently live and work in Ireland, cope with the institutional change and career disruption caused by their home to host country career transition. Edward is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the School of Business. His research interests are in the areas of Careers, Skilled Migration, Expatriation and HRM. Marian is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the School of Business. Her research interests are in the areas of careers, expatriation and identity. |
| The 25th Annual EurOMA Conference
24-26 June 2018 |
Dr Ali Nazarpour | Dr Ali Nazarpour has been appointed as Chair of the Strategy Track of the 25th Annual EurOMA Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘To Serve, To Produce and to Servitize in the Era of Networks, Big Data and Analytics’ and it will take place from 24 – 26 June in Budapest, Hungary. EurOMA (the European Operations Management Association) is an international network of academics and practitioners from around the world who have a common interest in the continuing development of Operations Management. It is a European-based network with rapidly growing international links, whereby members can share their ideas, knowledge, and experience. Ali is a Lecturer in Management at the School of Business. He has been awarded a PhD in Operations and Supply Chain Management from UCD Smurfit School of Business. Prior to his PhD studies, Ali worked for two years in the construction sector and seven years in the automotive industry where he served as Sales Supervisor, Marketing and Sales Planning Chief, and Inventory Management Project Manager. |
| AMA Winter Academic Conference
26 February 2018 |
Dr Christian Martin | Dr Christian Martin, Lecturer in Marketing at the School of Business has co-authored a conference contribution ‘Materialism Versus Green Values: Revisiting Research on Value Conflicts’ together with Pia Furchheim (ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland) and Felicitas Morhart (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). In the paper, the authors study how and why consumers who embrace a materialistic lifestyle while being concerned about the natural environment at the same time might experience diminished well-being. The paper was presented at the 2018 American Marketing Association Winter Academic Conference in New Orleans, LA (USA). Christian is the Programme Director for the BBS in Marketing. His teaching interests are consumer behaviour, research methods, branding, and international aspects of marketing. |
| 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
3-6 January 2018 |
Professor Brian Donnellan
Dr Giovanni Maccani |
Dr Giovanni Maccani, Lecturer in the School of Business, and Professor Brian Donnellan have recently had a paper accepted for the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Their paper, which they have co-authored with McLoughlin, S. and Prendergast, D., is entitled ‘Living Labs: A Bibliometric Analysis’, and will be presented within the Organizational Systems and Technology track of the conference (mini-track: Advances in Design Science Research). Paper Abstract The objective of this study is to understand how Living Lab(s) (LL) as a concept and research approach has developed, proliferated and influenced scholarly research to date. The goal is in assisting both the LL and Action Design Research (ADR) communities in advancing both fields by establishing understanding, commonalities and challenges in advancing both research agendas. We adopt a bibliometric methodology to understand the scholarly impact, contribution and intellectual structure of LL as a new approach to innovation. We conclude with recommendations on advancing both ADR and LL fields of research, highlighting that increased cross-collaboration going forward offers clear opportunities to both fields. Giovanni is currently lecturing in IT Governance, Performance and Risk, Digital Business Leadership, and Managing IT for Business and undergraduate and postgraduate level within the School of Business. Professor Donnellan is Professor of Information Systems Innovation at the School of Business, Academic Director of the Innovation Value Institute, and Vice President and Dean of International Affairs for the University. |
| International Conference on Information Systems
27-29 December 2017 |
Dr Niall Connolly
Dr Giovanni Maccani |
School of Business lecturers Dr Niall Connolly, Dr Giovanni Maccani, and Professor Brian Donnellan recently had a paper accepted for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which will take place in Seoul, South Korea, this coming December. The paper is entitled ‘IT Governance in Smart Cities: a Conceptual Framework’ and will be presented during the ‘Transforming Society with Digital Innovation’ theme track. Paper Abstract This paper describes the development of a conceptual framework for investigating IT governance in Smart Cities. This is proposed as an initial contribution to the following research question formulated for this study: How do IT governance mechanisms sustain and extend the organization’s strategy and objectives in smart cities? Smart cities are defined in this study as a collection of IT-dependent strategic initiatives of the city authority with the ultimate goal of achieving public value. This study aims to address the lack of research in smart city governance, and the broader paucity of IS research on IT governance in the public sector. To this end the relationship between IT governance and performance in organizations is reviewed and transposed onto a smart city context. These reflections led to the formulation of an initial Smart City IT Governance Framework which is being currently leveraged for empirically investigating this phenomenon. Dr Connolly is a Lecturer within the School of Business and the Innovation Value Institute. Dr Macanni is currently lecturing in IT Governance, Performance and Risk, Digital Business Leadership, and Managing IT for Business and undergraduate and postgraduate level within the School of Business. Professor Donnellan is Professor of Information Systems Innovation at the School of Business, Academic Director of the Innovation Value Institute, and Vice President and Dean of International Affairs for the University. |
| POMS 2017 International Conference, Sydney
12-14 December 2017 |
Dr Ali Nazarpour | A paper co-written by Dr Ali Nazarpour was presented at the POMS 2017 International Conference, which took place from 12 – 14 December 2017 in Sydney, Australia. The theme of the conference was ‘Navigating the Future: Innovative Technologies and Methodologies in Operations Management’ and it was hosted by the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). POMS is the Production and Operations Management Society, an international professional organization representing the interests of POM professionals from around the world. The title of the paper is ‘Resiliency in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains: Collaborative Sourcing under Disruptions and Competition’. Although outsourcing to Contract Manufacturing Organisations in cheaper locations is a cost-efficient strategy (specially to reduce the manufacturing and material costs) in Pharmaceutical industry, the inherent uncertainty of decentralization and the potential for supply chain disturbances are critical issues that needs to be considered at early design stages. Dr Ali Nazarpour is a Lecturer in Management at the School of Business. He has been awarded a PhD in Operations and Supply Chain Management from UCD Smurfit School of Business. Prior to his PhD studies, Ali worked for two years in the construction sector and seven years in the automotive industry where he served as Sales Supervisor, Marketing and Sales Planning Chief, and Inventory Management Project Manager. |
| CIPD Applied Research Conference
1 December 2017 |
Dr Jean Cushen | Last week, Dr Jean Cushen presented at the CIPD Applied Research Conference. Jean presented a paper entitled ‘HRM in Annual Reports: Signalling Sustainable Value Creation’, an abstract for which you will find below. Jean is a Lecturer in the School of Business, the Programme Director of the MSc in Business Management, and a member of the Maynooth Uuniversity ‘Political Economy of Work’ research cluster. Her research explores the contemporary employment experience focusing on financialization, the labour process and human resource management (HRM). Paper Abstract This paper evaluates the voluntary HRM disclosures contained within the annual and sustainability reports of the largest publicly listed 150 companies across three developed economies; fifty companies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. We document the spectrum of HRM practices signalled, 36 in total, and uncover the most prominent practices by ranking their claimed importance to firm performance. We show how, where sufficient 'signal emission' exists, prominent HRM practices significantly positively correlate with firm performance; with some practices displaying a predictive causal relationship with key financial metrics. We close with recommendations to enhance the quality and importance of HRM reporting. |
| NSAI’s National Standards Forum
1 December 2017 |
Professor Brian Donnellan | Last month, Professor Brian Donnellan gave an invited talk at the NSAI’s National Standards Forum in the Spencer Hotel. Professor Donnellan who is Vice-President and Dean of International Affairs at Maynooth University, spoke about I.T. Governance. Additionally, Professor Donnellan is Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business, Academic Director of the Innovation Value Institute and Co-Principal Investigator of the Irish Software Research Institute. |
| Annual Meeting of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Division of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB)
26 September 2017 |
Dr Bastian Rake | Dr Bastian Rake, Lecturer in Innovation at the School of Business, recently presented a paper entitled ‘How do networks affect knowledge generation for drug development? – A study of investigator networks, knowledge domains, and knowledge generation’ at the Annual Meeting of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Division of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) which took place at the University of Koblenz-Landau.
In this paper, Bastian and his co-authors Pablo D'Este (INGENIO Valencia), Maureen McKelvey (University of Gothenburg), and Anne Assmus (University of Passau) analyse whether the interplay of structural holes and actors’ knowledge domains affects the production of new scientific knowledge in clinical trials. Bastian’s research explores real world phenomena with a particular focus on collaboration, networks, and innovation in knowledge intense industries such as bio-pharmaceuticals. In his recent research, he analyses the relationship between the characteristics of different types of cooperation partners for knowledge generation and successful innovative activities. Moreover, he studies the internationalisation of science and R&D activities with a particular focus on the internationalisation of clinical trials. |
| 15th conference of the Swiss Psychological Society
19 September 2017 |
Dr Christian Martin | Dr Christian Martin, Lecturer in Marketing at the School of Business, has co-authored a conference paper with Pia Furchheim (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) and Felicitas Morhart (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). The paper, which is entitled ‘Introducing the Green Materialist - A Segmentation Analysis of European and North American Consumers’ was presented at the 15th conference of the Swiss Psychological Society. In the paper, the authors identify a unique consumer segment (i.e., Green Materialists) who value consumption but also try to protect the environment. The research shows further that Green Materialists differ from green consumers and from materialistic consumers in their consumption behaviour. Implications of the existence of Green Materialists for marketers and public policy makers were also discussed. Christian lectures across different modules in Marketing. His teaching interests are consumer behaviour, research methods, branding, and international aspects of marketing. |
| Gothenburg Conference
15 September 2017 |
Dr Bastian Rake | Earlier this week, Dr Bastian Rake, Lecturer in Innovation at the School of Business, presented a paper on ‘Unlocking the Importance of Alliance Partners for the Quality and Impact of Company Publications’ at the Gothenburg Conference on Deciphering the New Challenges to Universities.
The paper is a collaborative project between Bastian with Maureen McKelvey of the University of Gothenburg. In the paper, the authors analyse the influence of the number as well as the organisation type of alliance partners on the scientific quality and the scientific impact of firm publications. Bastian’s research explores real world phenomena with a particular focus on collaboration, networks, and innovation in knowledge intense industries such as bio-pharmaceuticals. In his recent research, he analyses the relationship between the characteristics of different types of cooperation partners for knowledge generation and successful innovative activities. Moreover, he studies the internationalisation of science and R&D activities with a particular focus on the internationalisation of clinical trials. |