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    Irish Business and Management Research: Towards the Post Irish Journal of Management Era


    McDonnell, Anthony and Collings, David G. (2025) Irish Business and Management Research: Towards the Post Irish Journal of Management Era. The Irish Journal of Management, 44 (2): 6. pp. 155-164. ISSN 1649-248X

    Abstract

    This paper considers the future of management and organisation research in Ireland in the context of the final issue of the Irish Journal of Management after five decades of publication. The Irish Journal of Management has provided a platform for Irish-based scholarship and scholarship on business and management in the Irish context while also embracing international contributions. Its demise coincides with a shift within Irish business schools towards internationalisation and a focus on publication in higher impact outlets, driven in no small part by research funding reforms, the drive for international accreditation, and global academic league tables. While this has greatly enhanced the profile of Irish business schools internationally, it has also arguably reduced the emphasis on Ireland as a research context. This raises some concern in that it privileges universal, theory-driven contributions to the detriment of more contextual insights. In this paper, we call for renewed attention to Irish-specific phenomena, including indigenous firms, and multinational subsidiaries. In so doing, we align with calls for greater more responsible research that values both the local and global. We illustrate the importance of contextualised research before concluding by outlining considerations for Irish management scholarship in a post-Irish Journal of Management era.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Irish Business and Management Research; Post Irish Journal of Management Era; Irish journal of management;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
    Item ID: 20985
    Identification Number: 10.2478/ijm-2025-0007
    Depositing User: IAM School of Business
    Date Deposited: 08 Jan 2026 12:44
    Journal or Publication Title: The Irish Journal of Management
    Publisher: Sciendo
    Refereed: Yes
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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