Seán Ó Riain
Biographic Data
| ID | 249379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seán Ó Riain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seán Ó |
| FAMILY NAME | Riain |
| SIGNATURE | RIAIN S Ó |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9839-6397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Afterword
This paper reviews the papers in the Special Issue on Global Ethnographic Comparison (GEC), developing certain broader implications of the approach as expressed in the studies in the issue. The approach is inclusive and varies based on the procedural strategies used in fieldwork, the sequence of case studies undertaken and the character of the ‘global objects’ being studied and the processes shaping them. While a distinct approach, GEC is likely …
Compte rendu de Ó Laighin (2022): Pobal na Gaeilge — Daonra, Institiúidí, Stádas, agus Cumhacht (La Communauté irlandophone — Population, Institutions, Statut, et Pouvoir
Workplace regimes and contractual insecurity in European employment
This paper uses the European Working Conditions Survey to investigate how different forms of work organisation, or ‘workplace regimes’, affect the prevalence and distribution of non-permanent employment in 14 EU countries from 2005 to 2015. These regimes include variants of Lean, Learning, Simple and Taylorist forms of work organisation. In particular, the paper investigates the relative effects of workplace regimes and social and institutional f…
Tax games: The case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation
Key Features and Vulnerabilities of the Irish Growth Model
The Politics of Banking in Ireland
The chapter traces the historical development of banking and finance in Ireland. The financial system has historically been characterized by domestic economic weakness alongside significant activity by foreign firms, with state agencies filling the gap. Overall, the sector has been vulnerable to internationalization, and booms and risks. The chapter explores how, through the 1990s, it transformed from a sleepy backwater to one of the most financi…
The ongoing project of Irish sociology
This short article provides an auto-ethnographic perspective on the history of Irish sociology. It is based on the author's experience of Irish sociology, including: experiences as an undergraduate student in the late 1980s and later as a research assistant; a PhD in the US during the 1990s, starting during mass emigration but completed as the ‘Celtic Tiger’ emerged and sociology grew; 5 years in Ireland as a head of department, leading up to the…
Labour's declining share of national income in Ireland and Denmark: The National Specificities of Structural Change
The share of national income going to workers has decreased steadily across Europe since the 1980s. This apparently uniform decrease in labour's share conceals differences amongst states however-in 'liberal' Ireland, this fall has been drastic, while that of 'social democratic' Denmark has been moderate. This article presents a parallel time series analysis of institutional and structural factors shaping labour's share in Ireland and Denmark. Our…
Work–life advantage: Sustaining regional learning and innovation
This fascinating book offers a well-grounded and clearly stated argument that work–life balance is a crucial element in the mix of factors that sustain regional learning and innovation, making a significant contribution to the literature that has burgeoned on this topic in recent decades. In the process, it develops a profound critique of the literature on regional development as largely gender-blind and overly focused on production networks to t…
The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust
In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US and European economies. Not long ago, however, Ireland was celebrated as an example of successful market-led globalisation and economic growth. How can we explain the Irish crisis? What does it tell us about the causes of the international crisis? How should we rethi…
Social and Spatial Structures of Innovation in the Irish Animation Industry
This paper assesses the relevance of the knowledge base conceptualization and the relationship between the symbolic knowledge base and the spatiality of knowledge flow in the context of the animation industry in Ireland. The paper draws on findings from a study of four innovation case studies. In broad terms, the findings provide further support for the applicability of the knowledge base approach and the association of the animation industry wit…
The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society
Being and Well-Being: Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley
Global ‘Body Shopping’: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry – By Xiang Biao
Irish and Scottish Gaelic: A European perspective
This survey discusses the motives and consequences of the 13 June 2005 decision to include Irish among the EU’s official and working languages, and the 15 July 2008 decision to upgrade the status of languages recognised by law in the UK, such as Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. It also looks at the current state of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Irish’s new EU status coincides with increased support at the top political level in Ireland. A tentative conclu…
Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
Dominance and change in the global computer industry: Military, bureaucratic, and network state developmentalisms
Time-space intensification: Karl Polanyi, the double movement, and global informational capitalism
The Politics of High Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy
This book argues that beneath the Irish trade and foreign investment boom lies a more interesting story of regional innovation promoted by an alliance between the state and local technical communities. This alliance was governed through a decentralized set of state institutions, drawing on 'global' and 'local' economic and political resources. This 'Developmental Network State' has had a significant impact on the growth of Ireland's high tech clu…
Flows and filters: The politics of ICT regions in a global economy
Berlin's regional economy, socio-spatial fabric and 'worst practice' urban governance Governance in cross-border regions in Europe and North America Searching for the urban 'sustainability fix' in Manchester and Leeds An institutional analysis of local regeneration partnerships in the UK Local development policy in two Hungarian regions Social inclusion, new regionalism and associational governance in Queensland
The politics of mobility in technology-driven commodity chains: Developmental coalitions in the Irish software industry
Through a case study of the Irish software industry, this article explores how an industry and region that was 'locked in' to a dependent relationship of routine production within the global software production network managed to partially move up the production and technology chain to develop more sophisticated operations among foreign firms and in the Irish-owned sector. Relations within production networks tend to become institutionalized and …
The German interlinguistics society Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik
The German interlinguistics society Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik e.V (GIL) was founded in Berlin in 1991 by twelve German interlinguists to bring together interlinguistics and esperantology scholars, mainly in Germany. GIL’s principal fields of activity are the dissemination of interlinguistic knowledge, the promotion and support of relevant research and teaching, and the support of national and international cooperation among interlinguists.…
Global Ethnography
Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular communities and places. Ethnographic sites are globalized by means of various external connections across multiple spatial scales and porous and contested boundaries. Global ethnographers must begin their analysis by seeking out “place-making projects” that seek to define new ki…
Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace
Managing Knowledge: Critical Investigations of Work and Learning
Global Ethnography
Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular communities and places. Ethnographic sites are globalized by means of various external connections across multiple spatial scales and porous and contested boundaries. Global ethnographers must begin their analysis by seeking out “place-making projects” that seek to define new ki…
The Flexible Developmental State: Globalization, Information Technology, and the 'Celtic Tiger
In the late 20th century Ireland underwent a dramatic economic transformation based on the growing strength of its information technology indutries. This article discusses Ireland's development strategies, in particular focussing on the Irish software industry
States and Markets in an Era of Globalization
The paper considers how states and markets shape one another at the national and world-system levels and how globalization is transforming that relationship. This process is illustrated through a review of research on liberal, social rights, developmental, and socialist states in the postwar capitalist economy. These state models were reconciled with expanding international markets through a series of controls on trade and capital flows. Globaliz…
The politics of mobility in technology-driven commodity chains: Developmental coalitions in the Irish software industry
Through a case study of the Irish software industry, this article explores how an industry and region that was 'locked in' to a dependent relationship of routine production within the global software production network managed to partially move up the production and technology chain to develop more sophisticated operations among foreign firms and in the Irish-owned sector. Relations within production networks tend to become institutionalized and …
Time-space intensification: Karl Polanyi, the double movement, and global informational capitalism
Labour's declining share of national income in Ireland and Denmark: The National Specificities of Structural Change
The share of national income going to workers has decreased steadily across Europe since the 1980s. This apparently uniform decrease in labour's share conceals differences amongst states however-in 'liberal' Ireland, this fall has been drastic, while that of 'social democratic' Denmark has been moderate. This article presents a parallel time series analysis of institutional and structural factors shaping labour's share in Ireland and Denmark. Our…
Dominance and change in the global computer industry: Military, bureaucratic, and network state developmentalisms
Irish and Scottish Gaelic: A European perspective
This survey discusses the motives and consequences of the 13 June 2005 decision to include Irish among the EU’s official and working languages, and the 15 July 2008 decision to upgrade the status of languages recognised by law in the UK, such as Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. It also looks at the current state of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Irish’s new EU status coincides with increased support at the top political level in Ireland. A tentative conclu…
Flows and filters: The politics of ICT regions in a global economy
Berlin's regional economy, socio-spatial fabric and 'worst practice' urban governance Governance in cross-border regions in Europe and North America Searching for the urban 'sustainability fix' in Manchester and Leeds An institutional analysis of local regeneration partnerships in the UK Local development policy in two Hungarian regions Social inclusion, new regionalism and associational governance in Queensland
The German interlinguistics society Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik
The German interlinguistics society Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik e.V (GIL) was founded in Berlin in 1991 by twelve German interlinguists to bring together interlinguistics and esperantology scholars, mainly in Germany. GIL’s principal fields of activity are the dissemination of interlinguistic knowledge, the promotion and support of relevant research and teaching, and the support of national and international cooperation among interlinguists.…
The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society
Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
An Offshore Silicon Valley? The Emerging Irish Software Industry
This paper assesses the development potential of local inter-firm networks in Newly Industrializing Countries. This is done through an analysis of the role of such networks in the growth of the software industry in the Republic of Ireland. Transnational software companies located in Ireland developed extensive local supply networks. Local social networks and a local culture of innovation contributed to the growth of an indigenous software develop…
The Flexible Developmental State: Globalization, Information Technology, and the 'Celtic Tiger
In the late 20th century Ireland underwent a dramatic economic transformation based on the growing strength of its information technology indutries. This article discusses Ireland's development strategies, in particular focussing on the Irish software industry
States and Markets in an Era of Globalization
The paper considers how states and markets shape one another at the national and world-system levels and how globalization is transforming that relationship. This process is illustrated through a review of research on liberal, social rights, developmental, and socialist states in the postwar capitalist economy. These state models were reconciled with expanding international markets through a series of controls on trade and capital flows. Globaliz…
Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace
Managing Knowledge: Critical Investigations of Work and Learning
Global Ethnography
Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular communities and places. Ethnographic sites are globalized by means of various external connections across multiple spatial scales and porous and contested boundaries. Global ethnographers must begin their analysis by seeking out “place-making projects” that seek to define new ki…
The German interlinguistics society Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik
The German interlinguistics society Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik e.V (GIL) was founded in Berlin in 1991 by twelve German interlinguists to bring together interlinguistics and esperantology scholars, mainly in Germany. GIL’s principal fields of activity are the dissemination of interlinguistic knowledge, the promotion and support of relevant research and teaching, and the support of national and international cooperation among interlinguists.…
The Politics of High Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy
This book argues that beneath the Irish trade and foreign investment boom lies a more interesting story of regional innovation promoted by an alliance between the state and local technical communities. This alliance was governed through a decentralized set of state institutions, drawing on 'global' and 'local' economic and political resources. This 'Developmental Network State' has had a significant impact on the growth of Ireland's high tech clu…
Flows and filters: The politics of ICT regions in a global economy
Berlin's regional economy, socio-spatial fabric and 'worst practice' urban governance Governance in cross-border regions in Europe and North America Searching for the urban 'sustainability fix' in Manchester and Leeds An institutional analysis of local regeneration partnerships in the UK Local development policy in two Hungarian regions Social inclusion, new regionalism and associational governance in Queensland
The politics of mobility in technology-driven commodity chains: Developmental coalitions in the Irish software industry
Through a case study of the Irish software industry, this article explores how an industry and region that was 'locked in' to a dependent relationship of routine production within the global software production network managed to partially move up the production and technology chain to develop more sophisticated operations among foreign firms and in the Irish-owned sector. Relations within production networks tend to become institutionalized and …
Dominance and change in the global computer industry: Military, bureaucratic, and network state developmentalisms
Time-space intensification: Karl Polanyi, the double movement, and global informational capitalism
Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
Global ‘Body Shopping’: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry – By Xiang Biao
Irish and Scottish Gaelic: A European perspective
This survey discusses the motives and consequences of the 13 June 2005 decision to include Irish among the EU’s official and working languages, and the 15 July 2008 decision to upgrade the status of languages recognised by law in the UK, such as Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. It also looks at the current state of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Irish’s new EU status coincides with increased support at the top political level in Ireland. A tentative conclu…
Being and Well-Being: Health and the Working Bodies of Silicon Valley
Social and Spatial Structures of Innovation in the Irish Animation Industry
This paper assesses the relevance of the knowledge base conceptualization and the relationship between the symbolic knowledge base and the spatiality of knowledge flow in the context of the animation industry in Ireland. The paper draws on findings from a study of four innovation case studies. In broad terms, the findings provide further support for the applicability of the knowledge base approach and the association of the animation industry wit…
The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society
The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust
In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US and European economies. Not long ago, however, Ireland was celebrated as an example of successful market-led globalisation and economic growth. How can we explain the Irish crisis? What does it tell us about the causes of the international crisis? How should we rethi…
Work–life advantage: Sustaining regional learning and innovation
This fascinating book offers a well-grounded and clearly stated argument that work–life balance is a crucial element in the mix of factors that sustain regional learning and innovation, making a significant contribution to the literature that has burgeoned on this topic in recent decades. In the process, it develops a profound critique of the literature on regional development as largely gender-blind and overly focused on production networks to t…
The Politics of Banking in Ireland
The chapter traces the historical development of banking and finance in Ireland. The financial system has historically been characterized by domestic economic weakness alongside significant activity by foreign firms, with state agencies filling the gap. Overall, the sector has been vulnerable to internationalization, and booms and risks. The chapter explores how, through the 1990s, it transformed from a sleepy backwater to one of the most financi…
The ongoing project of Irish sociology
This short article provides an auto-ethnographic perspective on the history of Irish sociology. It is based on the author's experience of Irish sociology, including: experiences as an undergraduate student in the late 1980s and later as a research assistant; a PhD in the US during the 1990s, starting during mass emigration but completed as the ‘Celtic Tiger’ emerged and sociology grew; 5 years in Ireland as a head of department, leading up to the…
Labour's declining share of national income in Ireland and Denmark: The National Specificities of Structural Change
The share of national income going to workers has decreased steadily across Europe since the 1980s. This apparently uniform decrease in labour's share conceals differences amongst states however-in 'liberal' Ireland, this fall has been drastic, while that of 'social democratic' Denmark has been moderate. This article presents a parallel time series analysis of institutional and structural factors shaping labour's share in Ireland and Denmark. Our…
Key Features and Vulnerabilities of the Irish Growth Model
Workplace regimes and contractual insecurity in European employment
This paper uses the European Working Conditions Survey to investigate how different forms of work organisation, or ‘workplace regimes’, affect the prevalence and distribution of non-permanent employment in 14 EU countries from 2005 to 2015. These regimes include variants of Lean, Learning, Simple and Taylorist forms of work organisation. In particular, the paper investigates the relative effects of workplace regimes and social and institutional f…
Political science (19 works) · Economics (15 works) · Irish (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic system (7 works) · Economy (7 works)