O Riain, Sean (1997) An Offshore Silicon Valley? The emerging Irish Software Industry. Competition and Change, 2 . pp. 175-212.

O Riain, Sean (2006) Dominance and Change in the Global Computer Industry: Military, Bureaucratic, and Network State Developmentalisms. Studies in Comparative International Development, 41 (1). pp. 76-98.

O Riain, Sean (2004) Falling over the Competitive Edge. In: Place and Non-Place: The Reconfiguration of Ireland. Irish Sociological Chronicles (4). Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, pp. 19-29. ISBN 9781904541066

Gille, Zsuzsa and O Riain, Sean (2002) Global Ethnography. Annual Review of Sociology, 28 . pp. 271-295.

O Riain, Sean (2002) High-tech Communities: Better Work or Just More Work? Contexts, 1 (4). pp. 36-41.

O Riain, Sean (2000) Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace. In: UNSPECIFIED University of California Press.

O Riain, Sean (2004) Remaking the Service Class? Class Relations Among Software Developers in Ireland. National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA). Working Paper Series. No. 23. NIRSA - National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis.

Van Egeraat, Chris and O Riain, Sean and Kerr, Aphra (2009) Socio-Spatial Structures of Knowledge Flow and Innovation in the Irish Biotech and Digital Media Industries (NIRSA) Working Paper Series. No. 50. NIRSA - National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis.

O Riain, Sean (2005) State, Competition and Industrial Change in Ireland 1991-1999. The Economic and Social Review, 35 (1). pp. 27-53.

O Riain, Prof. Sean (2000) States and Markets in an Era of Globalization. Annual Review of Sociology, 26 . pp. 187-213.

O Riain, Prof. Sean (2000) The flexible developmental state: globalization, information technology and the "Celtic Tiger". Politics and Society, 28 (2). pp. 157-193.

O Riain, Sean and O'Connell, Philip J. (2000) The Role of the State in Growth and Welfare. In: UNSPECIFIED Institute of Public Administration, pp. 305-339.

O Riain, Sean (2006) The University and the Public Sphere after the Celtic Tiger. Maynooth Philosophical Papers .

O Riain, Sean (2006) Time–space intensification: Karl Polanyi, the double movement, and global informational capitalism. Theory and Society, 35 (5-6). pp. 507-528.