Irish Business and Management Research: Towards the Post <i>Irish Journal of Management</i> Era

Abstract This paper considers the future of management and organisation research in Ireland in the context of the final issue of the Irish Journal of Management after five decades of publication. The Irish Journal of Management has provided a platform for Irish-based scholarship and scholarship on business and management in the Irish context while also embracing international contributions. Its demise coincides with a shift within Irish business schools towards internationalisation and a focus on publication in higher impact outlets, driven in no small part by research funding reforms, the drive for international accreditation, and global academic league tables. While this has greatly enhanced the profile of Irish business schools internationally, it has also arguably reduced the emphasis on Ireland as a research context. This raises some concern in that it privileges universal, theory-driven contributions to the detriment of more contextual insights. In this paper, we call for renewed attention to Irish-specific phenomena, including indigenous firms, and multinational subsidiaries. In so doing, we align with calls for greater more responsible research that values both the local and global. We illustrate the importance of contextualised research before concluding by outlining considerations for Irish management scholarship in a post-Irish Journal of Management era.