• An exploration of the impact of the Green-Schools programme on the development of sustainable behaviours in the home 

  O'Neill, Claire (University College Cork, 2015)

  Concern for the sustainability of our planet is widespread. The ever-increasing economic activity and large scale industralisation our consumer society requires has increased concerns among academics, politicians, and ...
• Leader's reflections on knowledge, knowing and not knowing: an analysis of change over time 

  Cooper, Patrice (University College Cork, 2013)

  One commonality across the leadership and knowledge related literature is the apparent neglect of the leaders own knowledge. This thesis sought to address this issue through conducting exploratory research into the content ...
• Theory, the uncanny and the sacred 

  Kavanagh, Donncha (2014-07)

  This paper examines the related but different concepts of the uncanny and the sacred. Drawing on two cases – one fictional and one real – and using Žižek’s Symbolic-Real-Imaginary as an organising frame, the paper analyses ...
• Work and play in management studies: a Kleinian analysis 

  Kavanagh, Donncha (University of Leicester; University of Essex, 2011-12)

  This paper takes some of Melanie Klein’s ideas, which Bion (1961/1998) previously used to understand group dynamics, to analyse the discipline of management studies since its ‘birth’ in the United States in the late 19th ...
• Understanding the work of the city manager 

  Griffin, Quincy; Kavanagh, Donncha (2003-01)

  The managerial behaviour approach to understanding managerial work has developed from research over the course of fifty years. The approach represents a marked departure from mainstream (and still prevalent) management ...

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