20 research outputs found
The importance of support networks to entrepreneurs in business: a study in the north east region of the Republic of Ireland
No full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to determine the importance entrepreneurs place on support networks in Ireland. Also to examine what categories of support networks exist for an entrepreneur and the types of support networks that currently exist in the North East Region of Ireland. The study focused on the North East Region of Ireland as it is according to the Irish Census (2006) the busiest economic corridor in Ireland. The current author used a combination of qualitative techniques including interviews and quantitative techniques including questionnaire. Reichardt and Cook (1979) believe that combining qualitative methods and quantitative methods will enable the researcher to choose between the mixes of attributes from the two paradigms resulting in the researcher being able to meet the research problems. The current author decided to conduct face to face interviews with five entrepreneurs. Schober and Conrad (1997) assert the view that it is clear that face to face conversational interviews result in a greater level of accurate information. Seventy questionnaires were distributed to entrepreneurs in each of the conurbation centres in the North East Region of Ireland
Parish Registers, Demography and Historical Geography: A Case Study of the Parish of Macroom (1837-1896)
No full textDespite the considerable amount of research carried out on population trends in nineteenth centuryIreland (Connell, 1951, 1962, 1965; Cousens, 1961, 1964; Kennedy, 1973; Lee, 1968; McKenna, 1974; Walsh, 1969, 1970), parish registers. have not been used to any great extent as a source material. With a view to examining the utilisation of, and the results that can be obtained from, this particular source, some register-based research undertaken by the author will be discussed (Flynn, 1984). It is hoped in so doing to highlight the merits and defects of parish registers as a source for social. historical, and geographical research
'Are undocumented migrants condemned to remain invisible as persons before the law?'
No full textIn this dissertation, it was shown that the modem undocumented migrant is to be found ever deeper in invisible activities, and increasingly in the form of the undocumented migrant female domestic worker meeting the demands of the demographics of modem society. The undocumented migrant is subject to layers of illegality which make it very difficult to align with the legal system at any level to secure meaningful redress, with some notable exceptions, in particular in the areas of access to health and education. Thereappears to be a slowly evolving jurisprudence in favour of applying fundamental legal rights to undocumented migrants, however, there is ongoing uncertainty in Irish jurisprudence. Bold initiatives are required to bring real improvement to the recognition of the undocumented migrant as a person before the law.
The research undertaken showed apparent difficulties in how principles of fundamental rights of the migrant are translated from the level of international law to domestic legislation and court rulings, in part due to the different treatment of citizenship in different parts of the world, and also through the complex interplay between the rights of migrants and the sovereignty of countries. Through the application of socio-legal, comparative-interpretative, and reform oriented methodological approach, the undocumented migrant was analysed as the subject matter of recognition and of legislation. The language used in regard to undocumented migrant can have a profound effect on public, media and policy makers' discourse. This dissertation regards the term 'undocumented migrant' to be most balanced, fair and least prejudicial.
The results of the research conducted reaffirmed that the situation of the undocumented migrant is tremendously complex and nuanced. The author found no easy solutions which would achieve a workable balance in the recognition of the undocumented migrant before the law. The author recommends the development of the principle of 'full protection' using amendment of the rules of the locus standi in Ireland and, exploring the prospects in the norms of jus cogens
Women on the net: An exploratory study of gender dynamics on the soc.women computer network
No full textMy goal in this project was to illuminate some of the workings of gender in computer-mediated interactions. I observed that, although much of the research on electronic communication valorized the media's ability to foster open and democratic exchanges, little of this research actually took gender into account. In this project, attention was paid to women's experiences of computer-mediated interaction in the Soc.women computer network newsgroup.The qualitative methodology of triangulation was used to understand the communicative atmosphere of the Soc.women forum. This included observations of the computer network for several months and close coding and analysis of one month of computer network transcripts. In addition, women participants who contributed to the forum during the period analyzed were mailed a survey electronically which asked them about their perceptions and experiences in the Soc.women forum."I found that explanations of computer-mediated dynamics that focused primarily on the status leveling effects or the ""free flow"" of information afforded by computer networks were missing the gendered dimension of the discussions. This research revealed that many women's online experiences were negative--largely because the discursive space was dominated by contentious patterns of interaction in which the women felt threatened and unsatisfied. I believe that this study provides a starting point to begin to address the gender dynamics of on-line discussions."Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:17:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Accounting for goodwill in an Australian context
No full textThis article empirically documents the impact of regulation of goodwill accounting practice in Australia. Using a sample of 84 firms over the period 1983 to 1989, this study investigates changes in accounting practice in response to both professional regulation (AAS 18) and statutory-backed regulation (ASRB 1013). Evidence presented reveals that the diversity of accounting practice was reduced after the imposition of AAS 18 and was reduced further after the imposition of ASRB 1013. The findings support the contention that statutory regulation was relatively more effective than professional regulation in the promotion of uniformity of practice. Previous writers have suggested that the effectiveness of the regulation was limited because firms avoided the application of the goodwill standards by making discretionary changes to their treatment of identifable intangibles. This study confirms that the average balance of identifiable intangible assets increased subsequent to the imposition of accounting regulation
Men and Domestic Labor: A Missing Link in the Global Care Chain
No full text This article develops Manalansan’s critique that the concept of global care chains, while feminizing scholarship on the relationship between migration and globalization, has been less successful at gendering it, in part because it largely ignores men. The article responds to this gap by focusing on male domestic workers. The focus is such, however, that a new dimension to the emerging research agenda on male domestic workers is suggested. Thus, it is argued that in addition to examining how men are implicated in the global redistribution of stereotypically female tasks of domestic labor, we need to broaden our conceptualization of social reproduction to interrogate the ways in which stereotypically male areas of domestic work, such as gardening and household repair and maintenance, are embedded in global care chains. The argument is based on a review of the existing literature, as well as findings emerging from the author and colleague’s on-going exploration in the United Kingdom, using quantitative and qualitative research methods, of the scale, characteristics, dynamics, and drivers of the commoditization of specifically male tasks of social reproduction and their displacement onto migrant men. </jats:p
Le processus de recomposition agricole : enjeux et défis pour le développement des localités rurales fragiles.
No full textÀ l’instar des autres sociétés avancées, l’espace rural québécois a subi, au cours du dernier siècle, d’importantes mutations économiques. La recomposition du secteur agricole constitue certes, l’un des changements les plus importants que le Québec a connu depuis les 50 dernières années. L’objectif de cet article est d’identifier et de caractériser les principales transformations qui ont affecté l’activité agricole dans les localités fragiles de la région Chaudière-Appalaches. L’analyse, qui porte sur la période 1951-1996, est effectuée sur le base de quatre indicateurs : le nombre d’agriculteurs et les emplois reliés à l’agriculture, le nombre et la taille des fermes, l’écoumène et le capital agricole. Ce processus de restructuration a favorisé l’émergence d’une agriculture parallèle dont les retombées sont peu significatives pour les milieux en restructuration en raison des nombreuses difficultés auxquelles ils sont confrontés. En guise de conclusion, l’auteur propose quelques pistes de réflexion afin de réorienter l’agriculture dans ce segment de l’espace rural québécois. Elles concernent notamment le développement de nouveaux créneaux et l’élaboration d’une politique agricole orientée vers la correction des problèmes structurels de ces milieux fragiles.The process of agricultural restructuring: what is at stake and what the challenges are for the development of rural areas at risk. Examples of restructuring projects in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of the Province of Quebec As in all other modern societies, the Quebec rural areas have undergone in the last century important economic changes. The restructuring of the agricultural sector is certainly one of the most important changes that have occurred in the Province of Quebec over the past 50 years. The purpose of this article is to identify and characterise the main structural transformations that have modified agricultural activities in rural areas at risk in the Chaudière-Appalaches region. The following analysis, that covers the 1951-96 period, is carried out according to four parameters: the number of farmers and the jobs related to agriculture; the number and the size of the farms; the farming land available or écoumène; and the agricultural capital. The restructuring process has promoted the growth of a parallel agriculture whose fall-outs have had little effect on the restructuring projects because of a number of difficulties with which they were confronted. By way of conclusion, the author makes a few suggestions in order to give a new impetus to agriculture in rural areas at risk. These suggestions point in particular to the development of new openings and the formulation of an agricultural policy directed towards the correction of the structural problems of those rural areas at risk
Women on the net: An exploratory study of gender dynamics on the soc.women computer network
No full textMy goal in this project was to illuminate some of the workings of gender in computer-mediated interactions. I observed that, although much of the research on electronic communication valorized the media's ability to foster open and democratic exchanges, little of this research actually took gender into account. In this project, attention was paid to women's experiences of computer-mediated interaction in the Soc.women computer network newsgroup.The qualitative methodology of triangulation was used to understand the communicative atmosphere of the Soc.women forum. This included observations of the computer network for several months and close coding and analysis of one month of computer network transcripts. In addition, women participants who contributed to the forum during the period analyzed were mailed a survey electronically which asked them about their perceptions and experiences in the Soc.women forum.I found that explanations of computer-mediated dynamics that focused primarily on the status leveling effects or the "free flow" of information afforded by computer networks were missing the gendered dimension of the discussions. This research revealed that many women's online experiences were negative--largely because the discursive space was dominated by contentious patterns of interaction in which the women felt threatened and unsatisfied. I believe that this study provides a starting point to begin to address the gender dynamics of on-line discussions.U of I OnlyETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissio
Risky Business: Constructing the ‘choice’ to ‘delay’ motherhood in the British press
No full textOver the last few decades the number of women becoming pregnant later on in life has markedly increased. Medical experts have raised concerns about the increase in the number of women having babies later, owing to evidence that suggests that advancing maternal age is associated with both a decline in fertility and an increase in health risks to both mother and baby (Nwandison & Bewley, 2006). In recognition of these risks, experts have warned that women should aim to complete their families between the ages of twenty and thirty-five (Bewley, Davis and Braude, 2005). As a consequence, women giving birth past the age of thirty-five have typically been positioned as ‘older mothers.’ In this paper we used a social constructionist thematic analysis in order to analyse how ‘older mothers’ are represented in newspaper articles in the British press. We examined how the topics of ‘choice’ and ‘risk’ are handled in discussions of delayed motherhood, and found that the media position women as wholly responsible for choosing the timing of pregnancy and, as a consequence, as accountable for the associated risks. Moreover, we noted the newspapers also constructed a ‘right’ time for women to become pregnant. As such, we discuss the implications for the ability of women to make real choices surrounding the timing of pregnancy
Speak for Yourself Book Launch
No full textFilmed Tuesday 30 October 5:30pm. Northern Territory Library, Parliament House Darwin. Speak for Yourself launched by Chief Minister, the Hon. Terry Mills MLA
Speak For Yourself introduces you to the eight Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory, as they reflect on how it is to be a Chief Minister of a Territory, rather than the Premier of a state. The book brings together for the first time, the stories of the key players in the history of the Northern Territory and the federal moves that challenged its independence and authority.
The author and interviewers are two locals ? the seventh Chief Minister, Clare Martin and award-winning historian Dr Mickey Dewar. The book is published by CDU Press
