{"title":"The Business Landscape 2021/2022","authors":"H. Barry","doi":"10.34719/8c6b-7225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34719/8c6b-7225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358913,"journal":{"name":"Irish Business Journal","volume":"225 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120881864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The dramatic decrease in overseas visitors to Ireland in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the risks, for the tourism sector, associated with being over-reliant on international tourism. Growing the domestic tourism market is now critical for sustaining jobs and businesses within the sector. The purpose of this paper is to examine the micro-determinants of expenditure on domestic holidays by households in the Republic of Ireland. Using data from the Irish Household Budget Survey 2015-2016, instrumental variable estimators are used to conduct the analysis. The results reveal that disposable income, being located in the Border, Midlands and Western region and being aged between 55 and 64, positively impact on domestic holiday expenditure. Non-manual workers, manual skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers and farmers and agricultural workers spend significantly less on domestic holidays relative to employers and managers. The findings are important from a policy and tourism industry perspective. As the results reveal an insight into the consumer, initiatives can be developed to stimulate further expenditure in the domestic tourism sector.
{"title":"An Analysis of the Micro-determinants of Domestic Holiday Expenditure by Households in the Republic of Ireland","authors":"L. Noonan","doi":"10.34719/e02s-xn86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34719/e02s-xn86","url":null,"abstract":"The dramatic decrease in overseas visitors to Ireland in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the risks, for the tourism sector, associated with being over-reliant on international tourism. Growing the domestic tourism market is now critical for sustaining jobs and businesses within the sector. The purpose of this paper is to examine the micro-determinants of expenditure on domestic holidays by households in the Republic of Ireland. Using data from the Irish Household Budget Survey 2015-2016, instrumental variable estimators are used to conduct the analysis. The results reveal that disposable income, being located in the Border, Midlands and Western region and being aged between 55 and 64, positively impact on domestic holiday expenditure. Non-manual workers, manual skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers and farmers and agricultural workers spend significantly less on domestic holidays relative to employers and managers. The findings are important from a policy and tourism industry perspective. As the results reveal an insight into the consumer, initiatives can be developed to stimulate further expenditure in the domestic tourism sector.","PeriodicalId":358913,"journal":{"name":"Irish Business Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123783623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Public support for entrepreneurship varies across countries and depends on issues such as sector, regional location and stage of the start-up. In making it easier for people to set up a business, many countries provide access to finance, training and advice. Business incubation (BI) centres are one such model of support for entrepreneurship. The current research provides some preliminary insights into the extent of the demand for post-incubation services in supporting new ventures to thrive and survive. Employing a unique data set based on information gathered from business incubation centre managers, current and alumni clients, we adopted an exploratory research method to contribute to knowledge on potential demand for post-incubation services in supporting new ventures to grow and scale beyond the on-site incubation phase. The findings contribute to the literature for and need to provide tailored services in the post-incubation phase. A gap that emerged from this research is the transition phase from graduating from a formal programme the next stage of business development, often without the continued business development support and government funding provision. Additional supports or scaffolding in this pre-revenue phase is sought by firms.
{"title":"Stand Alone or Continue to Support: Exploring the Need for Post Incubation Services for New and Growing Enterprises.","authors":"Miriam Adair, Breda Kenny, Helen McGuirk","doi":"10.34719/fe8r-qz96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34719/fe8r-qz96","url":null,"abstract":"Public support for entrepreneurship varies across countries and depends on issues such as sector, regional location and stage of the start-up. In making it easier for people to set up a business, many countries provide access to finance, training and advice. Business incubation (BI) centres are one such model of support for entrepreneurship. The current research provides some preliminary insights into the extent of the demand for post-incubation services in supporting new ventures to thrive and survive. Employing a unique data set based on information gathered from business incubation centre managers, current and alumni clients, we adopted an exploratory research method to contribute to knowledge on potential demand for post-incubation services in supporting new ventures to grow and scale beyond the on-site incubation phase. The findings contribute to the literature for and need to provide tailored services in the post-incubation phase. A gap that emerged from this research is the transition phase from graduating from a formal programme the next stage of business development, often without the continued business development support and government funding provision. Additional supports or scaffolding in this pre-revenue phase is sought by firms.","PeriodicalId":358913,"journal":{"name":"Irish Business Journal","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121727937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Johnson, Aaron D Johnson, Kristen B. Crossney, Emily Devereux
COVID-19 has forced the knowledge-based workforce into full-time remote work, amplifying every-day stressors. The crisis has resulted in employees having to juggle work and home life simultaneously, while forcing many organizations with little to no experience to implement and manage teleworking. This brief study explores employee perceived stress as it relates to perceived support and age within an American workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a global era of uncertainty and crisis, the findings suggest that employees’ perceived stress is negatively related to age and perceived organizational support, but not related to perceived supervisor support. The pre-pandemic world will likely be a way of the past. Organizations across sectors now have a need to ensure that perceived organizational support is not neglected during the pandemic to ensure that these employers are poised to manage the aftermath.
{"title":"Brief report: Employees’ perceptions of stress and support during a pandemic mandated telework","authors":"D. Johnson, Aaron D Johnson, Kristen B. Crossney, Emily Devereux","doi":"10.34719/82cm-yh19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34719/82cm-yh19","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 has forced the knowledge-based workforce into full-time remote work, amplifying every-day stressors. The crisis has resulted in employees having to juggle work and home life simultaneously, while forcing many organizations with little to no experience to implement and manage teleworking. This brief study explores employee perceived stress as it relates to perceived support and age within an American workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a global era of uncertainty and crisis, the findings suggest that employees’ perceived stress is negatively related to age and perceived organizational support, but not related to perceived supervisor support. The pre-pandemic world will likely be a way of the past. Organizations across sectors now have a need to ensure that perceived organizational support is not neglected during the pandemic to ensure that these employers are poised to manage the aftermath.","PeriodicalId":358913,"journal":{"name":"Irish Business Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121057605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Extant literature fails to address change management in the military during technological change. Few researchers have examined how military organisations, undergo change and what, if any, processes do they use to manage this change. As such, whether change management processes are found to have a positive impact on military organisations or not, the extant literature in the sociology and military domains are being added to by the findings of this research. The aim of this paper is to determine if the Irish Defence Forces would benefit from the introduction of change management processes when implementing new technological systems. The extant theory has neglected to examine the application of change management processes in military organisations, a shortcoming this paper addresses. The research draws on semi-structured interviews undertaken with military and civil servant professionals from the Irish Defence Forces and the Department of Defence. A primary outcome identified the urgent need for the Irish Defence Forces to develop and implement a change management process for managing technological change. The current ‘ad-hoc approach’ which relies on key personnel highlights the lack of competence which exists at the leadership level and is further exacerbated by the personnel rotation policy currently used in the Irish Defence Forces, thereby having a detrimental impact on organisational efficiency. The study is significant as it informs theoretical understanding of change management processes by introducing a focus on the Irish Defence Forces, hitherto lacking, and informs the understanding of organisational change in a military organisation. Finally, the combination of the theoretical and empirical research contributes to the extant body of knowledge.
{"title":"Change Management in the Irish Defence Forces during Technological Change","authors":"P. Hegarty","doi":"10.34719/bqr8-3529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34719/bqr8-3529","url":null,"abstract":"Extant literature fails to address change management in the military during technological change. Few researchers have examined how military organisations, undergo change and what, if any, processes do they use to manage this change. As such, whether change management processes are found to have a positive impact on military organisations or not, the extant literature in the sociology and military domains are being added to by the findings of this research. The aim of this paper is to determine if the Irish Defence Forces would benefit from the introduction of change management processes when implementing new technological systems. The extant theory has neglected to examine the application of change management processes in military organisations, a shortcoming this paper addresses. The research draws on semi-structured interviews undertaken with military and civil servant professionals from the Irish Defence Forces and the Department of Defence. A primary outcome identified the urgent need for the Irish Defence Forces to develop and implement a change management process for managing technological change. The current ‘ad-hoc approach’ which relies on key personnel highlights the lack of competence which exists at the leadership level and is further exacerbated by the personnel rotation policy currently used in the Irish Defence Forces, thereby having a detrimental impact on organisational efficiency. The study is significant as it informs theoretical understanding of change management processes by introducing a focus on the Irish Defence Forces, hitherto lacking, and informs the understanding of organisational change in a military organisation. Finally, the combination of the theoretical and empirical research contributes to the extant body of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":358913,"journal":{"name":"Irish Business Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129622510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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