Dr Maura Sheehan
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Brighton Business School
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Brighton
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Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642225
Email: M.Sheehan@brighton.ac.uk
Maura has a BSc in Economics from New York University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Notre Dame, USA. Before coming to the University of Brighton, she was an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Management, University of Dallas. From 1993-2000, Maura taught at the Queen's University of Belfast. She taught at St Catharine's College Cambridge, Birkbeck College, University of London and was a visiting research fellow at the ESRC Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. She was external examiner at the University of Birmingham Business School from 2004-2007.
She is currently an EU Marie Curie Scholar (2009-2012). She is investigating the determinants and performance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the emerging economies of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The project also compares how labour is managed and by whom in foreign and domestic subsidiaries of the same organisations. The relationships between strategic HRM, devolvement of HR to line managers and subsidiary performance is examined. The importance of country and organisational culture in understanding differences in SHRM and the delivery of HR is central to this investigation. This project represents a synthesis of Maura’s expertise in industrial and labour economics and human resource management.
In a non-academic capacity, Maura worked as a consultant for numerous US companies, focussing mostly in the areas of implementing successful human resource management practices, talent management, etc. She also assisted in attracting funding for several start-up companies in the US and Northern Ireland. She served as a small business development consultant and economic regeneration consultant for the EU in Ireland and Lebanon and the UN in Palestine. Maura is a member of the British and American Academies of Management.
Maura is a member of CROME.
Research Publications
Sheehan, Maura (2012) Developing managerial talent: exploring the link between management talent and perceived performance in multinational corporations European Journal of Training and Development, 36 (1). pp. 66-85. ISSN 2046-9012
Sheehan, Maura (2012) Devolvement of HRM and perceived performance within multinational corporations (MNCs) European Journal of International Management, 6 (1). pp. 101-127. ISSN 1751-6765
Sheehan, Maura (2012) Exploring the link between management development and perceived performance in multinational corporations (MNCs): an analysis of Polish and UK subsidiaries Human Resource Management (Poland) . (In Press)
Sheehan, Maura and Sparrow, Paul (2012) Global human resource management and economic change: a multiple level of analysis research agenda International Journal of Human Resource Management . ISSN 0958-5192 (In Press)
Sheehan, Maura (2012) Investing in management development in turbulent times and perceived organisational performance: a study of UKÂ MNCs and their subsidiaries International Journal of Human Resource Management . ISSN 0958-5192 (In Press)
O'Reilly, Jacqueline, Lain, David, Sheehan, Maura, Smale, Bob and Stuart, Mark (2011) Managing uncertainty: the crisis, its consequences and the global workforce Work, Employment & Society, 25 (4). pp. 581-595. ISSN 1469-8722
Bachan, Ray and Sheehan, Maura (2011) On the labour market progress of Polish accession workers in South-East England International Migration, 49 (2). pp. 104-134. ISSN 1468-2435
Michie, Jonathan, Sheehan, Maura and Zubanov, Nicholas (2010) Corporate strategy, HR and and employee attitudes International Journal of Business and Economics (IJBE), 2 (1). pp. 17-33. ISSN 1906-5582
Sheehan, Maura and Michie, Jonathan (2010) Human resource management and corporate performance: Evidence from UK and US small firms In: International Handbook Of Entrepreneurship And HRM. Edward Elgar Publishing, London, UK, pp. 137-164. ISBN 978 1 84980 050 1
Michie, Jonathan and Sheehan, Maura (2008) Business strategy, human resource management and corporate performance: evidence from small firms in the UK and US In: Determinants of Innovative Behaviour. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 13-42. ISBN 9780230206328
Cosgrove, Michael, Singh, Chet and Sheehan, Maura (2008) Euro area money demand stability Journal of Business & Economics Research, 6 (2). pp. 15-21. ISSN 2157-8893
Michie, Jonathan and Sheehan, Maura (2005) Business strategy, human resources, labour market flexibility and competitive advantage. international Journal of Human Resource Management, 16 (3). pp. 445-464. ISSN 1466-4399
Wall, Toby, Michie, Jonathan, Patterson, Malcolm, Wood, Stephen, Sheehan, Maura, Clegg, Chris and West, Michael (2004) On the validity of subjective measures of company performance Personnel Psychology, 57 (1). pp. 95-118. ISSN 1744-6570
Guest, David, Michie, Jonathan, Neil, Conway and Sheehan, Maura (2003) Human resource management and corporate performance in the UK British Journal of Industrial Relations, 41 (2). pp. 291-314. ISSN 1467-8543
Sheehan, Maura, Kitson, M. and Michie, Jonathan (2003) Markets, competition, cooperation and innovation In: Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance Issues and Perspectives. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 29-44. ISBN 9780415267861
Michie, Jonathan and Sheehan, Maura (2003) Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27 (1). pp. 123-143. ISSN 1464-3545
Sheehan, Maura and Michie, Jonathan (2002) Labour 'flexibility': securing management’s right to manage badly? In: Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 178-191. ISBN 9780415282833
Michie, Jonathan and Maura, Sheehan (2001) Labour market flexibility, human resource management and corporate performance British Journal of Management, 12 (4). pp. 287-306. ISSN 1045-3172
