Declan Curran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Declan Curran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Declan |
| FAMILY NAME | Curran |
| SIGNATURE | CURRAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0788-1210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intrapreneurship and regional development in the South East of Ireland
Intrapreneurship is known to play an important role in enhancing innovation and competitiveness within firms. However, there remains a dearth of literature on the workings of intrapreneurship at the regional level. Based on a qualitative analysis of intrapreneurship in the South East Region of Ireland, this paper explores the link between intrapreneurship and regional development. It makes several contributions that further the understanding of i…
Policymaking, Ideational Power and the Role of the Media
The ideational power framework developed by Carstensen and Schmidt has sought to make explicit the manner in which ideas can exert an influence over policy outcomes. However, one key feature of this theoretical framework has not yet been adequately conceptualised: the communicative process through which policy entrepreneurs convey their ideas to the general public. This article focuses on one specific form of communicative discourse as a means of…
Policy divergence across crises of a similar nature
This paper explores the phenomenon of policy divergence in response to crises of a similar nature. We argue that politically dominant interpretations of the nature of a crisis constitute a central mechanism that determines the shape of prevailing policy responses to that crisis. These interpretations lend legitimacy to views and policy proposals of certain political actors over others, which strengthens their position in the political bargain fro…
Do Crises Induce Reform? A Critical Review of Conception, Methodology and Empirical Evidence of the ‘Crisis Hypothesis’
The notion that economic crises induce the adoption of reform ranks among the most widely accepted concepts in the political economics literature. However, the underlying mechanism of the so‐called ‘crisis hypothesis’ has yet to be fully understood. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the relevant empirical evidence to date, and scrutinizes the operationalization of the hypothesis’ key concepts: crisis, reform and the political mediatio…
A measure for identifying substantial geographic concentrations
Strategic transformations in large Irish-owned businesses
This research explores resistance to a universal business organisation by analysing large firms in Ireland. Drawing on our dataset of large Irish firms, a strategy-structure-ownership-performance (SSOP) informed study identifies strategic transformations such as increased internationalisation and changes in ownership regime across three benchmark years of 1978, 1990 and 2010. However large Irish firms are not characterised by convergence to a uni…
Articles of Practical Banking Written by Practical Bankers’
This article analyses the reportage of the banking publication Bankers’ Magazine over the duration of the Great Irish Famine (1845–50). It explores attitudes to famine incidence and relief prevalent among Irish and British banking officials, as expounded in the trade publication representing their views. These professionals, employed in branch networks across both Irish and British society, were not political elites or ideologues, but rather saw …
Regional economic resilience in Ireland
This paper examines the resilience of Irish regions during the course of the post- \n2007 economic crisis, focusing specifically on employment change in firms in receipt \nof assistance from the Irish government’s enterprise development agencies. The paper \nclassifies both regions and sectors in terms of their employment performance both \nbefore and during the recession and employs a number of techniques to assess the \nroles of sectoral compos…
Spatial Concentration in the I rish Pharmaceutical Industry
This paper explores the idea that spatial planning‐triggered satellite industrial platform‐type concentrations may, over time, automatically gain the capacity to generate substantial agglomeration economies and ultimately transform into entities capable of stimulating self‐perpetuating growth. Applying the lexicon of agglomeration theory, the idea is explored in the context of the spatial dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry in I reland. Spati…
Regional economic resilience in Ireland
This paper examines the resilience of Irish regions during the course of the post- \n2007 economic crisis, focusing specifically on employment change in firms in receipt \nof assistance from the Irish government’s enterprise development agencies. The paper \nclassifies both regions and sectors in terms of their employment performance both \nbefore and during the recession and employs a number of techniques to assess the \nroles of sectoral compos…
A measure for identifying substantial geographic concentrations
Policymaking, Ideational Power and the Role of the Media
The ideational power framework developed by Carstensen and Schmidt has sought to make explicit the manner in which ideas can exert an influence over policy outcomes. However, one key feature of this theoretical framework has not yet been adequately conceptualised: the communicative process through which policy entrepreneurs convey their ideas to the general public. This article focuses on one specific form of communicative discourse as a means of…
Spatial Concentration in the I rish Pharmaceutical Industry
This paper explores the idea that spatial planning‐triggered satellite industrial platform‐type concentrations may, over time, automatically gain the capacity to generate substantial agglomeration economies and ultimately transform into entities capable of stimulating self‐perpetuating growth. Applying the lexicon of agglomeration theory, the idea is explored in the context of the spatial dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry in I reland. Spati…
Spatial Concentration in the I rish Pharmaceutical Industry
This paper explores the idea that spatial planning‐triggered satellite industrial platform‐type concentrations may, over time, automatically gain the capacity to generate substantial agglomeration economies and ultimately transform into entities capable of stimulating self‐perpetuating growth. Applying the lexicon of agglomeration theory, the idea is explored in the context of the spatial dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry in I reland. Spati…
Regional economic resilience in Ireland
This paper examines the resilience of Irish regions during the course of the post- \n2007 economic crisis, focusing specifically on employment change in firms in receipt \nof assistance from the Irish government’s enterprise development agencies. The paper \nclassifies both regions and sectors in terms of their employment performance both \nbefore and during the recession and employs a number of techniques to assess the \nroles of sectoral compos…
Articles of Practical Banking Written by Practical Bankers’
This article analyses the reportage of the banking publication Bankers’ Magazine over the duration of the Great Irish Famine (1845–50). It explores attitudes to famine incidence and relief prevalent among Irish and British banking officials, as expounded in the trade publication representing their views. These professionals, employed in branch networks across both Irish and British society, were not political elites or ideologues, but rather saw …
Strategic transformations in large Irish-owned businesses
This research explores resistance to a universal business organisation by analysing large firms in Ireland. Drawing on our dataset of large Irish firms, a strategy-structure-ownership-performance (SSOP) informed study identifies strategic transformations such as increased internationalisation and changes in ownership regime across three benchmark years of 1978, 1990 and 2010. However large Irish firms are not characterised by convergence to a uni…
Do Crises Induce Reform? A Critical Review of Conception, Methodology and Empirical Evidence of the ‘Crisis Hypothesis’
The notion that economic crises induce the adoption of reform ranks among the most widely accepted concepts in the political economics literature. However, the underlying mechanism of the so‐called ‘crisis hypothesis’ has yet to be fully understood. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the relevant empirical evidence to date, and scrutinizes the operationalization of the hypothesis’ key concepts: crisis, reform and the political mediatio…
A measure for identifying substantial geographic concentrations
Policy divergence across crises of a similar nature
This paper explores the phenomenon of policy divergence in response to crises of a similar nature. We argue that politically dominant interpretations of the nature of a crisis constitute a central mechanism that determines the shape of prevailing policy responses to that crisis. These interpretations lend legitimacy to views and policy proposals of certain political actors over others, which strengthens their position in the political bargain fro…
Intrapreneurship and regional development in the South East of Ireland
Intrapreneurship is known to play an important role in enhancing innovation and competitiveness within firms. However, there remains a dearth of literature on the workings of intrapreneurship at the regional level. Based on a qualitative analysis of intrapreneurship in the South East Region of Ireland, this paper explores the link between intrapreneurship and regional development. It makes several contributions that further the understanding of i…
Policymaking, Ideational Power and the Role of the Media
The ideational power framework developed by Carstensen and Schmidt has sought to make explicit the manner in which ideas can exert an influence over policy outcomes. However, one key feature of this theoretical framework has not yet been adequately conceptualised: the communicative process through which policy entrepreneurs convey their ideas to the general public. This article focuses on one specific form of communicative discourse as a means of…
Economics (6 works) · Irish (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)