scholarly journals Suburbia: social and spatial trends that emerged in Celtic Tiger Ireland.

Chimera ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (2012/2013) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Matthew Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Spatial Trends ◽  
Irish Case

Long after the roar of the “Celtic Tiger” has become inaudible; its effects remain in the form of ghost estates, incomplete rural development and inadequate service provision across the Irish landscape. This paper will give a brief account of suburban housing development in Ireland as a whole, followed by a detailed discussion of development in a specific Irish case study, Clerihan, Co. Tipperary. Through the analysis of data produced from resident questionnaires, an evaluation and discussion of the key motivations of Clerihan’s “Celtic Tiger” in-migrants shall emerge for the purpose of comparison with international suburban migration incentives. These incentives shall be addressed under four overarching themes; suburbia as an idyllic space and place, suburbia as an exclusive community while maintaining previous social networks, suburbia as a product of social and economic competition, and suburbia as an interdependent product of transport availability.

scholarly journals Bad influence: social networks, elite brokerage, and the construction of alliances

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 64-90
Author(s):  
Selim Can Sazak
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Business Elites ◽  
Complexity Result ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

If all states want to survive, why do some of them enter unpropitious alliances? International Relations (IR) theory’s conventional answer is that imperfect information and systemic complexity result in miscalculation. This explanation begs the question: any alliance that fails is a miscalculated one, so the puzzle is not whether but why such mistakes are made. This article imports from recent scholarship on network theory and interpersonal trust to offer an alternative explanation. Alliances are not entities ethereally formed out of strategic imperatives, but products of interactions within transnational social networks of political, military, and business elites in the prospective allies. Such interactions enable alliances because people who are connected to each other through mutual association or previous exchanges develop mutual trust and gain subjective certainty about each other’s intentions and capabilities, which points at a previously ignored mechanism in alliance behavior: brokerage. In a case study that combines theory-based archival research and social network analysis, this article uses historical evidence on the Turco-German alliance to empirically demonstrate the brokerage role Colmar von der Goltz, the head of the German military mission to the Ottoman Empire, played in the two countries’ relations at the turn of the century and their eventual alliance in the First World War. The analysis points at a potential means of bridging IR, history, and sociology while expanding our understanding of alliance behavior and providing policy-relevant insights on geo-economic competition and the weaponization of interdependence at a time of growing strategic rivalry on the world stage.

scholarly journals The end of the Celtic Tiger: an Irish case study on the failure of corporate governance and company law

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Irene Lynch Fannon
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Irish Case ◽  
Legal Frameworks

This article considers the effect, if any, that company law and corporate governance law had on the phenomenon of excessive lending and borrowing that occurred in the Irish economy towards the end of the Celtic Tiger era (1990–2008). The final years of the Celtic Tiger period saw the growth and collapse of the Irish property bubble, fuelled by lending of ‘cheap’ money by Irish banks and borrowing by indigenous Irish property development companies. This chain of events culminated in a state guarantee and bailout of the Irish banking sector which has led to ongoing significant damage to Ireland and its economy, the full consequences of which are continuing to be manifest. What is clear is that excessive risktaking by banks, as lenders, and property development companies, as borrowers, led to the collapse of both sectors. The Irish property bubble, and this pattern of behaviour that caused it, is used here as a case study to raise questions as to why corporate governance law and company law seem to have failed to curtail such risktaking during this period. In describing these events from a legal perspective, the paper hypothesises that the failure of law can be explained by considering the inter-relationship between law and non-legal norms, the latter seeming to be more powerful and to have the ability to trump the rule of law in certain circumstances and contexts. This analysis of the role of non-legal norms is not intended to suggest that legal frameworks do not matter, but more to illustrate that, where they have failed to deliver stated goals, other factors must be understood so that the law can address the causes and drivers of this failure.

Mobility and Immobility in a Transnational Context: Changing Views of Migration among the Kazakh Diaspora in Mongolia

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Werner ◽  
Holly R. Barcus
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Kazakh Population ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Inquiry into the causes and outcomes of transnational migration spans numerous disciplines, scales and methodological approaches.  Fewer studies focus on immobility.  Utilizing the Kazakh population of Mongolia as a case study, this paper considers how non-migrants view the economic and cultural costs of migrating.  We posit that three factors, including local place attachments specific to Mongolia, access to information about life in Kazakhstan and the importance of maintaining social networks in Mongolia, contribute substantially to their decision to not migrate. Our findings suggest that the decision to not migrate can be very strategic for non-migrants in highly transnational contexts.  

Merger regulation in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from Hungary, Romania and Slovenia

2002 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kravtseniouk
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Merger Control ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Domestic Markets ◽  
Study Methodology

This paper shows the principal features of merger control in selected transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), namely Hungary, Romania and Slovenia, by applying case study methodology. The presented findings are based on the analysis of Hungarian, Romanian and Slovenian competition law and merger rulings reached by the Competition Offices of these countries. A substantial part of the conclusions is drawn from a sample of 42 merger applications processed by the Office of Economic Competition of Hungary between 1994 and 2000. The results of empirical analysis demonstrate the considerable flexibility of merger control in the studied countries, its orientation towards the future of domestic markets and a close link with industrial policy. The paper also highlights the areas of interdependence of competition policy and transition and argues that merger control in the studied CEE countries may be regarded as currently adequate to the requirements imposed by transition.

Government Policies and Rural Entrepreneurship- Case Study of an Horticulture Entrepreneur

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinod N. Sambrani
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Rural Entrepreneurship ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
Startup Time ◽  
Nursery Management ◽  
The Government

India is a country which is in forefront of being called a developed nation. To be a developed nation, India has to first look at its rural development, because 70 percent of the population live in rural areas, which means more than 700 million people are spread across 6,27,000 villages. Rural development is more than ever before linked to entrepreneurship. Establishments and agencies promoting rural development now look at entrepreneurship as a strategic development medium that could speed up the rural development process. Development institutions believe that rural entrepreneurship offers a huge potential for employment. In this paper a case study of a young entrepreneur who has taken up horticulture (vegetable plants nursery) as his full time profession, with a mission to help the neighbouring farmers is studied, the purpose of this paper is to understand the government role (policies and schemes), the difficulties faced by the entrepreneur during the startup time and knowledge transfer from the horticulture department, nursery management. The methodology followed is in-depth interaction with the entrepreneur. The outcome of paper will be to understand how rural entrepreneurship is helping improve the quality of life for families, communities and individuals leading to sustainable economy and environment.

Applications of random graphs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.C.C. Coolen ◽  
A. Annibale ◽  
E.S. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
Interaction Network ◽  
Power Grids ◽  
Protein Protein Interaction ◽  
Topological Features ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Protein Protein Interaction Network

This chapter reviews graph generation techniques in the context of applications. The first case study is power grids, where proposed strategies to prevent blackouts have been tested on tailored random graphs. The second case study is in social networks. Applications of random graphs to social networks are extremely wide ranging – the particular aspect looked at here is modelling the spread of disease on a social network – and how a particular construction based on projecting from a bipartite graph successfully captures some of the clustering observed in real social networks. The third case study is on null models of food webs, discussing the specific constraints relevant to this application, and the topological features which may contribute to the stability of an ecosystem. The final case study is taken from molecular biology, discussing the importance of unbiased graph sampling when considering if motifs are over-represented in a protein–protein interaction network.

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