Martin Quinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Quinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinn |
| SIGNATURE | QUINN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7753-8218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Electricity to Rural No. 1 – The Beginning of Ireland's Quiet Revolution
From 1945 and into the 1950s in Ireland's economic history has been described as post-war recovery and gloom and doom respectively, leading to the 1960s golden age. However, despite this gloomy outlook, with some delays attributed to the Emergency, a ‘quiet revolution’ kicked off in late 1946. That revolution was the Rural Electrification Scheme (RES) of the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, a scheme designed to bring electric power to every v…
Methodological subversions in the absence of archives
This paper provides a methodological contribution around how the history of a sector can be researched when the records of the past have either not been maintained or erased. Set against the backdrop of Vietnam’s colonial history and experiences of political turmoil, we had to overcome this challenge creatively, understanding what made sense for that context, what could be asked, and how to collect data when it was not possible due to (auto)censo…
Public service management reform
Research on how public service management copes in difficult times is needed. This paper theorizes how collective action frames are created to nurture new practices in challenging contexts. The case concerns an Irish local authority, the 2008 financial crash and subsequent severe austerity. We draw on institutional work to make sense of collective action created for reform, actors’ reflexivity of their situated logics, and institutional embeddedn…
“If You Want to Get Rid of Filth Diseases, You Must First Get Rid of the Filth”—The “Economic” Decision by a City Corporation to Collect Household Waste
The collection of household waste is now taken for granted. Such services have a cost, borne by local/central government or householders. Literature highlights such costs, also noting how householders can reduce them by recycling. Waste collection was not always a service offered to householders, with the first such services appearing from the mid-19th century. Although accounting history literature has explored accounting in cities and the publi…
Reorganizing public value for city life in the Anthropocene
Public value and city governance are fundamental notions in contemporary settings, but, currently conceived, they are not fit for the challenges presented by the proposed new epoch of geological time—the Anthropocene. Walking through the locked-down streets or calle of Venice, we face the sudden emptiness that starkly reveals the impact of human activity on the city and its waterways. Reflecting on the walk, our starting point is to problematize …
Strategic expansion – Guinness Nigeria, management accounting information and upper echelons
Research based on upper echelons theory has examined characteristics of top managers and their effects on accounting choices. In this paper, we show that management accounting information may influence the relationship between top manager characteristics and organizational outcomes. We draw on the historical case of the Guinness brewing company expanding operations to Nigeria in the 1960s. Our analysis of the case reveals some top manager charact…
The Welfare Effects of Mobile Internet Access
We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-like-at-home regulation, which has drastically reduced the price of accessing the mobile Internet for residents of the European Economic Area when travelling abroad in the European Economic Area. Our estimates using individual-level consumption data suggest that consumer surplus increased by around €2.44 per user and travel day. We show that around 40% of the consumer surplus gains originated from a red…
The Incite model of policy development for the creative industries
Purpose This paper develops a new model of policy development for the creative industries in a transitional economy setting. These sectors could potentially make a significant contribution to the continuing growth of the Vietnamese economy; however, they are currently held back by a lack of policies designed to support them Design/methodology/approach The paper uses data collected from a mixed-methods study of the creative and cultural sectors in…
Designing regional innovation systems in transitional economies
Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) have become a policy panacea for states looking to develop their economies. However, much of the research on RIS is from Western developed economies, which have established infrastructures and institutional governance networks. Yet, in transitional economies, the growth rate in some parts of the economy is so rapid that policy makers and institutions are unable to record changes as they occur, including the emerg…
Restricted Funding
This paper examines, from a management accounting perspective, the efficacy of the dominant ‘restricted’ funding structure in the international development NGO sector in terms of overall sector effectiveness, and whether it is the most appropriate means of funding NGOs. The objective is to encourage theoretical debate around the tensions highlighted between external accountability for funding and overall value-for-money delivered by individual de…
The impact of place on policy outcomes
This paper explores the impact of place on policy outcomes by examining the implementation of economic development policy in the East Midlands of England. To do so it poses two questions: does the East Midlands meet any of the criteria that might be used to define a region and does this matter for the implementation of policy. As states look to establish new areas to attract EU regional funds, the nature of a region needs to be considered careful…
The Importance of Health in Promoting Employability in the East Midlands
This paper analyses the relationship between health and employability in the context of the East Midlands, a high employment region with a history of manufacturing and coal mining, though both sectors' importance has declined due to considerable industrial restructuring. It is argued that the health of the unemployed and economically inactive cannot be considered without an understanding of such contextual factors. Gender, age, the socio-economic…
Shaw on Dickens
Strategic expansion – Guinness Nigeria, management accounting information and upper echelons
Research based on upper echelons theory has examined characteristics of top managers and their effects on accounting choices. In this paper, we show that management accounting information may influence the relationship between top manager characteristics and organizational outcomes. We draw on the historical case of the Guinness brewing company expanding operations to Nigeria in the 1960s. Our analysis of the case reveals some top manager charact…
Restricted Funding
This paper examines, from a management accounting perspective, the efficacy of the dominant ‘restricted’ funding structure in the international development NGO sector in terms of overall sector effectiveness, and whether it is the most appropriate means of funding NGOs. The objective is to encourage theoretical debate around the tensions highlighted between external accountability for funding and overall value-for-money delivered by individual de…
The Importance of Health in Promoting Employability in the East Midlands
This paper analyses the relationship between health and employability in the context of the East Midlands, a high employment region with a history of manufacturing and coal mining, though both sectors' importance has declined due to considerable industrial restructuring. It is argued that the health of the unemployed and economically inactive cannot be considered without an understanding of such contextual factors. Gender, age, the socio-economic…
Shaw on Dickens
The Importance of Health in Promoting Employability in the East Midlands
This paper analyses the relationship between health and employability in the context of the East Midlands, a high employment region with a history of manufacturing and coal mining, though both sectors' importance has declined due to considerable industrial restructuring. It is argued that the health of the unemployed and economically inactive cannot be considered without an understanding of such contextual factors. Gender, age, the socio-economic…
The impact of place on policy outcomes
This paper explores the impact of place on policy outcomes by examining the implementation of economic development policy in the East Midlands of England. To do so it poses two questions: does the East Midlands meet any of the criteria that might be used to define a region and does this matter for the implementation of policy. As states look to establish new areas to attract EU regional funds, the nature of a region needs to be considered careful…
Restricted Funding
This paper examines, from a management accounting perspective, the efficacy of the dominant ‘restricted’ funding structure in the international development NGO sector in terms of overall sector effectiveness, and whether it is the most appropriate means of funding NGOs. The objective is to encourage theoretical debate around the tensions highlighted between external accountability for funding and overall value-for-money delivered by individual de…
The Incite model of policy development for the creative industries
Purpose This paper develops a new model of policy development for the creative industries in a transitional economy setting. These sectors could potentially make a significant contribution to the continuing growth of the Vietnamese economy; however, they are currently held back by a lack of policies designed to support them Design/methodology/approach The paper uses data collected from a mixed-methods study of the creative and cultural sectors in…
Designing regional innovation systems in transitional economies
Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) have become a policy panacea for states looking to develop their economies. However, much of the research on RIS is from Western developed economies, which have established infrastructures and institutional governance networks. Yet, in transitional economies, the growth rate in some parts of the economy is so rapid that policy makers and institutions are unable to record changes as they occur, including the emerg…
The Welfare Effects of Mobile Internet Access
We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-like-at-home regulation, which has drastically reduced the price of accessing the mobile Internet for residents of the European Economic Area when travelling abroad in the European Economic Area. Our estimates using individual-level consumption data suggest that consumer surplus increased by around €2.44 per user and travel day. We show that around 40% of the consumer surplus gains originated from a red…
Public service management reform
Research on how public service management copes in difficult times is needed. This paper theorizes how collective action frames are created to nurture new practices in challenging contexts. The case concerns an Irish local authority, the 2008 financial crash and subsequent severe austerity. We draw on institutional work to make sense of collective action created for reform, actors’ reflexivity of their situated logics, and institutional embeddedn…
“If You Want to Get Rid of Filth Diseases, You Must First Get Rid of the Filth”—The “Economic” Decision by a City Corporation to Collect Household Waste
The collection of household waste is now taken for granted. Such services have a cost, borne by local/central government or householders. Literature highlights such costs, also noting how householders can reduce them by recycling. Waste collection was not always a service offered to householders, with the first such services appearing from the mid-19th century. Although accounting history literature has explored accounting in cities and the publi…
Reorganizing public value for city life in the Anthropocene
Public value and city governance are fundamental notions in contemporary settings, but, currently conceived, they are not fit for the challenges presented by the proposed new epoch of geological time—the Anthropocene. Walking through the locked-down streets or calle of Venice, we face the sudden emptiness that starkly reveals the impact of human activity on the city and its waterways. Reflecting on the walk, our starting point is to problematize …
Strategic expansion – Guinness Nigeria, management accounting information and upper echelons
Research based on upper echelons theory has examined characteristics of top managers and their effects on accounting choices. In this paper, we show that management accounting information may influence the relationship between top manager characteristics and organizational outcomes. We draw on the historical case of the Guinness brewing company expanding operations to Nigeria in the 1960s. Our analysis of the case reveals some top manager charact…
Electricity to Rural No. 1 – The Beginning of Ireland's Quiet Revolution
From 1945 and into the 1950s in Ireland's economic history has been described as post-war recovery and gloom and doom respectively, leading to the 1960s golden age. However, despite this gloomy outlook, with some delays attributed to the Emergency, a ‘quiet revolution’ kicked off in late 1946. That revolution was the Rural Electrification Scheme (RES) of the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, a scheme designed to bring electric power to every v…
Methodological subversions in the absence of archives
This paper provides a methodological contribution around how the history of a sector can be researched when the records of the past have either not been maintained or erased. Set against the backdrop of Vietnam’s colonial history and experiences of political turmoil, we had to overcome this challenge creatively, understanding what made sense for that context, what could be asked, and how to collect data when it was not possible due to (auto)censo…
Economics (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)