Abstract
Up to very recently, Ireland was spoken of in very adulatory terms, to the point of being dubbed the ‘Celtic Tiger.’ Taking path dependence as lens, this paper looks at an early sequence of events that shaped the country’s path to ‘tiger hood’, i.e., the policy shift from protectionism to outward-looking economic development. From relatively contingent and unpredictable beginnings has evolved an institutional matrix, with a clear focus on the global, that, ex ante, could not have been predicted when it was first established.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Event | Eastern Academy of Management-International Meeting - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Duration: 1 Jun 2009 → 30 Jun 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | Eastern Academy of Management-International Meeting |
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| Country/Territory | Brazil |
| City | Rio de Janeiro |
| Period | 1/06/09 → 30/06/09 |
| Other | Managing in a Global Economy XIII |
Keywords
- path dependence
- policy shift
- protectionism
- outward-looking economic development
- institutional matrix
- global