Feminist critique has yet to deconstruct the new 'superwoman' ideal: the modern woman who can and must have everything, but who, in reality, is never good enough. This media myth is fertile ground for harmful practices that focus on a woman's own body and of course for specific consumerist...

The article is a contribution to the evolving field of competition research. More precisely our paper provides a comprehensive typology of the different ways competitization is and has been studied across different disciplines and research programs. The article goes beyond a classical literature...

While problems in the housing system in Ireland have been under the spotlight for the last decade, relatively little attention has been paid to the experience of children and to the consequences of housing issues for child development. International research has highlighted a range of effects of...

Obviously one of the threshold questions in the field of organizational studies is defining exactly what is meant by the term “organization.” There are a wide variety of definitions with the words and emphasis changing depending upon the academic school of thought. The simple neoclassical...

The socio-political system that has developed over the last several decades has had a detrimental effect on our societal values and has all but brought the nation to a standstill. The way that individuals work and act has been significantly impacted as a result. Our ideas of human resource...