Some feminist writings have claimed that 'bureaucracy' is inherently 'patriarchal'. This paper challenges this argument by comparing the experience of women in Ireland in a state sector organization and in a cluster of software firms. While the bureaucratic state company has been reformed to...

When examining the immigration of workers into Ireland many different lenses could be adopted: economic, gender, racial, political. Each lens offers a different perspective, highlighting some issues and down-playing other issues. For instance the economic lens, which has been the lens favoured...

Geographical proximity between firms is often believed to favour cooperation, mutual learning, knowledge creation as well as innovation. From Marshall onwards, study after study has demonstrated that both cooperation and successful innovations arise from geographically proximate clusters....