Publications

Bainton, B 1999, Commercial Computing Using Microsoft Office.

Collins, J & Castillo, A 1999, Cosmopolitan Sydney: Explore the World in One City, 1, Comerford & Miller, UK.

Pazmandy, G 1999, Business Modelling, 5, Tekniks Publications, Vaucluse, NSW.

Summers, A 1999, Ducks on the Pond An Autobiography, 1945-1976, Viking Books.
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Autobiography that tells of the author's childhood as a Catholic schoolgirl in South Australia, her early succession of low-paid jobs, her involvement in the women's liberation movement and her career as an award-winning journalist.

Whittred, G, Zimmer, I & Taylor, SL 1999, Financial accounting: Incentive effects and economic consequences, 5, Harcourt Brace, Sydney.

Wieder, B 1999, Kosten- und Erloesrechnung im Marketing-Accounting - ein integriertes Konzept des internen Rechnungswesens, Gabler/DUV, Wiesbaden, Germany.
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Cost and Revenue Accounting in the Marketing Accounting Concept - An Integrated Approach

Clegg, S & Clarke, T 1999, 'Intelligent Organizations?' in Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 177-201.
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Clegg, S, Ibarra-Colado, E & Bueno-Rodriquez, L 1999, 'Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities' in Clegg, S, Ibarra-Colado, E & Bueno-Rodrigues, L (eds), Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities,, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 177-201.
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How intelligence is embedded and used in organisations

Savage, EJ 1999, 'Issues in structural reform' in Structural adjustment: exploring the policy issues, Productivity Commission, Canberra, pp. 163-200.

Amir, R & Wooders, J 1999, 'Effects of one-way spillovers on market shares, industry price, welfare, and R & D cooperation', JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 223-249.
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With one-way spillovers, the standard symmetric two-period R & D model leads to an asymmetric equilibrium only, with endogeneous innovator and imitator roles. We show how R & D decisions and measures of firm heterogeneity-market shares, R & D shares, and profits-depend on spillovers and on R & D costs. While a joint lab always improves on consumer welfare, it yields higher profits, cost reductions, and social welfare only under extra assumptions, beyond those required with multidirectional spillovers. Finally, the novel issue of optimal R & D cartels is addressed. We show an optimal R & D cartel may seek to minimize R & D spillovers between its members.

BAJADA, C 1999, 'Estimates of the Underground Economy in Australia', Economic Record, vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 369-384.
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In an age of tighter government regulation, many individuals and businesses are distorting our notion of the size of the Australian economy by actively participating in the underground economy. The consequences are clear: policy makers have imperfect knowledge on the state of economic affairs. Although there exists considerable international literature on the size of the underground economy, academics and public officials alike appear to have paid little attention to the extent of illicit economic behaviour in Australia. The aim of this paper is to provide the first known time‐series estimate of the size of the Australian underground economy and to illustrate that its existence has implications for the nature of the business cycle in Australia.

Booth, PJ & Giacobbe, F 1999, 'Activity-based costing in Australian manufacturing firms: the 'state of play'', Contemporary Perspectives on Management Accounting, vol. -, pp. 35-61.

Brown, P, Taylor, SL & Walter, TS 1999, 'The impact of statutory sanctions on the level and information content of voluntary corporate disclosure', Abacus, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 138-162.
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This article examines the effect of statutory civil and criminal sanctions on voluntary corporate disclosures by firms listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Apart from direct investigation of the quantity of voluntary disclosure, we also investigate several possible consequences of altered corporate disclosure policies, namely properties of analysts’ forecasts, the degree to which share prices anticipate the information content of periodic earnings reports, and the relationship between volatility and corporate disclosures. Results suggest that, post-sanctions, any increase in voluntary disclosure is confined to smaller firms and those which performed relatively poorly. Moreover, analysts’ earnings forecasts did not become more accurate or less diverse following the introduction of statutory sanctions, and there was no statistically significant increase in the weight placed on each disclosure’s ability to explain return volatility. There is some evidence that share prices have anticipated earlier the value relevant components of annual periodic accounting data, although this result is again confined to smaller firms. Although the tests used are not independent and have a limited time period post-sanctions, the results cast doubt on the extent to which the imposition of substantive civil or criminal sanctions affects corporate disclosure policy. © 1999 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Budd, M, Adair, D, Lenskyj, H, Silk, M, Wedgwood, N, Russell, D, Boyle, R, Sage, GH, Guttmann, A & Nash, R 1999, 'Book reviews', Culture, Sport, Society, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 127-145.
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Carson, SJ, Devinney, TM, Dowling, GR & John, G 1999, 'Understanding institutional designs within marketing value systems', JOURNAL OF MARKETING, vol. 63, pp. 115-130.
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Clarke, T & Clegg, S 1999, 'Changing Paradigms in Public Service Management', Administrative Theory & Praxis, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 485-490.
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Analysis of changing paradigms in public sector management in recent decades

Clarke, T & Clegg, S 1999, 'The Paradoxes of Globalization', The International Scope Review, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 1-26.
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A critique of the globalization thesis which suggests convergence towards uniformity in institutions and values. On the contrary the world is composed of a rich diversity of cultures, values and beliefs which are enduring, and make a significant contribution to the social and cultural richness of the world at a time of enforced homogenisation.

Clegg, S 1999, 'Globalizing the Intelligent Organization', Management Learning, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 259-280.
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This article contrasts exploratory with exploitative learning, in order to argue for the importance of both-not just the latter. It considers three case studies briefly: Microsoft, Berlei and Patricks. While Microsoft may often be thought of as the epitome of an `intelligent' organization, the company has a reputation for unreliable products. Although the employees at the Lithgow plant of Berlei achieved world's best practice, their jobs were exported offshore, on the basis of the learning that they had achieved for the company. In the case of Patricks we can see the effect of managerial cleverness (advised by some of the best legal and accounting expertise available), producing fundamentally flawed attempts at re-organization that failed to consider the social, political or organizational dimensions or consequences of the type of learning unleashed. At the same time, this article argues a particular case for organization studies that situates itself within a classical tradition of sociology that stretches from Max Weber, through C. Wright Mills, to the present.

Clegg, S 1999, 'Informal Learning in the Workplace:', Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1-4.
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Clegg, SR, Linstead, S & Sewell, G 1999, 'Only Penguins: A Polemic on Organization Theory from the Edge of the World', Organization Studies, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 103-117.
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The paper is a reflection on some of the conditions associated with being an Australian Management scholar in the Organization Studies field.

Devinney, TM & Dowling, GR 1999, 'Getting the piper to play a better tune: Understanding and resolving advertiser-agency conflicts', Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 19-58.

Eddey, PH & Taylor, SL 1999, 'Directors’ Recommendations on Takeover Bids and the Management of Earnings: Evidence from Australian Takeovers', Abacus, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 29-45.
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This article investigates whether Australian companies manage their earnings during takeover bids in a manner consistent with the earnings‐management hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts that directors who reject a bid use accrual accounting to increase current earnings, supporting their claim that the bid, relative to earnings, is inadequate. Likewise, directors who accept a bid are predicted to use accrual accounting to decrease current earnings. Overall, the results are not consistent with the earnings‐management hypothesis. However, some components of unexpected accruals (our proxy for managed earnings) change in the direction predicted by the earnings‐management hypothesis, although these changes are not statistically significant. Using industry adjusted performance measures the conclusion is that unexpected accruals are primarily a manifestation of poor financial performance of target firms in the period leading up to the takeover bid.

Goldbaum, D 1999, 'A nonparametric examination of market information: application to technical trading rules', Journal of Empirical Finance, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 59-85.
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This paper develops a nonparametric approach for testing whether an information set is useful for generating greater stock market returns. The approach is model free and thus the test of the information does not depend on the particular assumptions of an asset pricing model. Assuming No Arbitrage, a stochastic discount factor (SDF) is constructed from observed market assets. This SDF can be used as a pricing operator for examining dynamic portfolio returns to indicate the information content in the underlying trading strategy. Trading strategies based on technical trading rules are examined with the developed approach.

Hay, G, Mackay, ME, Awati, KM & Park, Y 1999, 'Pressure and temperature effects in slit rheometry', Journal of Rheology, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1099-1116.
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We present an approximate theoretical treatment of pressure and viscous heating effects on the flow of a power law fluid through a slit die. It is assumed that the flow remains one dimensional, and the accuracy of this approximation is checked via finite element simulations of the complete momentum and energy equations. For pressures typically achieved in the laboratory it is seen that the one dimensional approximation compares well with the simulations. The model therefore offers a method of including pressure and viscous heating effects in the analysis of experiments and is used to rationalize experimentally obtained pressure profiles for the flow of polymer melts through a slit die. Data for the flow of a linear low density polyethylene and a polystyrene melt in a slit die show these two effects are significant under normal laboratory conditions. Thus, the shear stress–shear rate curves will be affected to the point of being inaccurate at high shear rates. In addition, it is found that the typical technique to correct for a pressure dependent viscosity is also inaccurate being affected by the viscous heating and heat transfer from the melt to the die.

Lam, PHL & Tong, WHS 1999, 'Interdaily Volatility in a Continuous Order‐Driven Market', Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, vol. 26, no. 7-8, pp. 1013-1036.
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Since Amihud and Mendelson (1987) documented a higher open‐to‐open return volatility compared to close‐to‐close return volatility in the US market, there have been various explanations offered, such as call auction opening, a long halt of trade, and specialist systems. No consensus has been reached so far. As an order‐driven dealership market, the Hong Kong stock market provides another dimension for examination. If halt of trade is the major cause of the open‐to‐open volatility in the Hong Kong market, this volatility should also be higher. This is not observed. Positive autocorrelation of the open‐to‐open return series also suggests that there is no temporary price deviation at market opening. We view these as consistent with the specialist argument put forth by Stoll and Whaley (1990).

Laskowski, MC & Slonim, RL 1999, 'An Asymptotic Solution for Sealed Bid Common-Value Auctions with Bidders Having Asymmetric Information', Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 238-255.
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Mandle, B 1999, 'BOOK REVIEW: Daryl Adair and Wray Vamplew.SPORT IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY.Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.', Victorian Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 352-353.
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Mandle, B 1999, 'Sport in Australian history', VICTORIAN STUDIES, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 352-353.

Maree, T, Odendaal, JA & Van de Venter, TW 1999, 'Hedging currency risk in emerging markets', Accounting and Finance Update, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 19-20.

Massey, GR 1999, 'Product evolution: a Darwinian or Lamarckian phenomenon?', Journal of Product & Brand Management, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 301-318.
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Examines the product life cycle (PLC) concept as presented in much of the marketing literature, and the implications of PLC‐based strategic action for marketing practitioners. A range of problems is identified with the PLC, and an evolutionary perspective for product management decisions is considered. Concludes that an evolutionary perspective is more appropriate than PLC‐based approaches, and proposes an evolutionary model known as “Lamarckism”, which is better able to account for the realities of product evolution than the Darwinian model.

Menzies, GD 1999, 'ALICE IN ACADEMIA', Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 95-95.
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Onyx, J 1999, 'VI. Power between Women in Organizations', Feminism & Psychology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 417-421.
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Onyx, J & Dovey, K 1999, 'Cohabitation in the time of cholera: praxis in the community sector in the era of corporate capitalism', Community Development Journal, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 179-190.
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This paper is a response to Gary Craig's (1998) overview of the current state of the community sector within a global corporate capitalist economy. It attempts two things: firstly, to contribute to an analysis of the factors underlying the current state of, what Craig (ibid: 2) calls, 'ideological confusion' within and beyond the sector, by exploring the various contradictory ideological strands that have accompanied the project of modernization, and their relative status at the end of the millennium. Secondly, the paper revives the concept of praxis, as an appropriate methodology for action by those in the community sector, and identifies key strategic issues - those of the current economic rationalist policies of the state and of state enticement of the sector into collaborative ventures - that the sector needs to consider in taking strategic action to place its narrative of social justice and equity back on the state agenda.

Oost, EJ & Van de Venter, TW 1999, 'Bond market risk (Part 1): The traditional measurement approaches', Accounting and Finance Update, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 10-12.

Oost, EJ & Van de Venter, TW 1999, 'Bond market risk (Part 2): Value-at-Risk', Accounting and Finance Update, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 21-24.

Orssatto, RJ & Clegg, SR 1999, 'The Political Ecology of Organizations', Organization & Environment, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 263-279.
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The authors propose a framework to analyze the terrain of political relationships and actions in which environmental strategies and practices are embedded. The framework constitutes the political ecology of organizations. The concept of an organizational field is proposed as the optimal level for the analysis of business-environment relationships. Central to the framework is an anatomy of power (a mapping of the structuring of power relations). The framework is applied to the automobile industry. Initially, the influential approach of double dividends is analyzed from the perspective of political ecology. The main theoretical elements of the framework are subsequently introduced by using empirical examples of experiments with alternative cars (lightweight electric vehicles) and modes of transportation (car sharing) drawn from the Western European context. Through the use of the framework, one can identify the pressure points that are capable of fundamentally transforming the automobile system and, more generally, other macro systems of production and consumption.

Rhodes, C 1999, 'Book Reviews : John Garrick (1998) Informal learning in the workplace: Unmasking human resource development London: Routledge, xi + 212pp', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 118-120.
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Rhodes, C, Morari, M & Wiggins, S 1999, 'Identification of low order manifolds: Validating the algorithm of Maas and Pope', Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 108-123.
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The algorithm of Reference 1992 is presented as a method for identification of invariant reduced-order manifolds for stable systems which exhibit dynamics with a time-scale separation. While this method has been published previously in the literature, theoretical justification for the algorithm was not presented in the original work. Here, it will be shown rigorously that the algorithm correctly identifies the slow manifold. Before the theoretical results are presented, a brief background on the behavior of singularly perturbed systems is presented. The algorithm of Reference 1992 is then introduced. This method will be applied to two different examples, a distillation column and a two-phase chemical reactor. For each of these examples, the resulting reduced-order description will be compared to other standard methods of producing reduced-order models. In addition, some preliminary thoughts on how this method can be used to form reduced-order models are presented.

Rura‐Polley, T & Clegg, S 1999, 'Managing Collaborative Quality: A Challenging Innovation', Creativity and Innovation Management, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 37-47.
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This paper investigates the theoretical challenges involved in developing an administrative innovation: managing collaborative quality. The emergence of new collaborative organizational forms has left managers in a quandary: how can they manage quality where several organizations come together to produce a product or deliver a service? In the past most quality definitions and techniques focused exclusively on intra‐organizational quality. In strategic alliances, networks, project organizations and other collaborative arrangements, such an intra‐organizational focus leads to severe limitations. This paper shows how the current status of collaboration and quality research poses serious challenges for companies that want to develop innovative approaches to managing collaborative quality.

Slonim, R & Garbarino, E 1999, 'The Effect of Price History on Demand as Mediated by Perceived Price Expensiveness', Journal of Business Research, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
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Slonim, RL 1999, 'Learning rules of thumb or learning more rational rules', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 217-236.
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Veal, AJ, White, J, Ravinder, R, Darcy, S, Taylor, T & Veal, AJ 1999, 'Book Reviews', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 138-151.
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Walker, S & Partington, G 1999, 'The value of dividends: Evidence from cum‐dividend trading in the ex‐dividend period', Accounting & Finance, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 275-296.
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What is the market value of a dollar of fully franked dividends? We address this question by exploiting a new phenomenon in the Australian capital market—the trading of shares cum‐dividend during the ex‐dividend period. This allows a relatively clean measurement of the combined value of dividends and the associated tax effects net of transactions costs. Consistent with the theoretical model that we develop, the evidence from this sample is that one dollar of fully franked dividends, after tax effects and transaction costs, is worth significantly more than one dollar. We also show that, in contrast to our measure, the traditional measure of the ex‐dividend price drop‐off, based on close to close prices, has a lower average value and exhibits substantially more cross sectional variation.

Waller, DS 1999, 'Attitudes towards offensive advertising: an Australian study', Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 288-295.
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As society becomes more complex, as we become more aware of the harmful effects of some products and as agencies try to become more creative to “cut through the clutter” to gain awareness, there will be more advertisements which the general public perceive as “offensive”. Analyses the responses to a survey of attitudes towards the advertising of particular products and reasons for being offensive. The attitudes are examined by means of a survey which presents a series of potentially controversial/offensive products. The study can be used by advertising agencies to develop an understanding of which advertising is perceived by some people as offensive, and a list of potentially controversial clients.

Wang, J 1999, 'Asymmetric information and the bid-ask spread: an empirical comparison between automated order execution and open outcry auction', Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 115-128.
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WEARING, S & DARCY, S 1999, 'Ecotourism Options In Coastal Protected Area Management: A Case Study Of North Head Quarantine Station', The Environmentalist, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 239-249.
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The challenges faced by coastal protected areas in both promoting highly attractive sites and preserving the natural attributes of these sites have been given a new dimension with the opportunities presented by ecotourism. Realising the market potential of a protected area and, at the same time, conserving the unique features of an area is a difficult task. This paper explores the possibilities that backpacker tourism may offer the Quarantine Station in Sydney Harbour National Park, in Australia. The Quarantine Station is a signicant cultural heritage site that is located in a sensitive coastal national park within Sydney's metropolitan area.

Wearing, S & Gartrell, N 1999, 'EXPLORING ECOTOURISM AND COMMUNITY BASED RESEARCH APPLICATIONS FOR JOINT MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS', World Leisure & Recreation, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 25-32.
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The increasing focus on natural resource-based tourism within Australia is posing problems for national parks management agencies and Aboriginal communities involved in tourism. Pressure from tourism is having significant effects on the local Aboriginal community. In an attempt to deal with these issues joint management approaches to management of national parks have been evolving. However, evaluative research frameworks need to be developed that facilitate a cross-cultural flow of information, which promote the development of the cross-cultural understanding, and which maximise possibilities for Aborigines. This paper suggests the principles of ecotourism can be incorporated in developing ways of researching that will enable us to study how facilitation of community ownership and control of tourism can help the joint management of Australian national parks for tourist use. The application of these principles has the potential to develop research approaches that may encourage current management to develop frameworks in an essential first step toward managing tourism equitably in national parks.

Booth, PJ & Giacobbe, F 1970, 'Management control and performance evaluation systems of international joint ventures: A research framework', Workshop on Interorganisational Collaboration, University of Melbourne.

Hingorani, A 1970, 'The effect of ad variation and brand familiarity on brand name and claim recall: A theoretical perspective', Marketing in the Third Millennium: Proceedings of ANZMAC99, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, UNSW, School of Marketing, Sydney, Australia, pp. on CD-ROM.

Partington, G & Walker, S 1970, 'Optus: A market valuation pre-listing', Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Partington, G & Walker, S 1970, 'The 45-day rule: The pricing of dividends and the crackdown on trading in imputation credits', Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Wearing, S & Wearing, M 1970, 'Decommodifying ecotourism: Rethinking global-local interactions with host communities', LOISIR & SOCIETE-SOCIETY AND LEISURE, 14th World Congress of Sociology, PRESSES UNIV QUEBEC, MONTREAL, CANADA, pp. 39-70.
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Wieder, B 1970, 'ERP-software integration at Australian universities - Recent developments in integrated business education', 10th Annual Conference of the Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI), Centre for Accounting Finance and Management, Brighton, UK.

Wieder, B 1970, 'Mangement of information systems - Recent developments and issues in ERP-software integration and integrated business education at universities, IV', CEMS Academic Conference 'Management in the Economic & Monetary Union (EMU)', Barcelona, Spain.

Wieder, B 1970, 'Revenue accounting in a united, but heterogeneous market - An integrated marketing-accounting approach, IV', CEMS Academic Conference 'Mangement in the Economic & Monetary Union (EMU)', Barcelona, Spain.

Collins, J 1999, 'GHASSAN HAGE WHITE NATION: FANTASIES OF WHITE SUPREMACY IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, PLUTO PRESS, SYDNEY, 1999', Wiley, pp. 387-394.
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Dowling, RK 1999, 'New Zealand Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference'.
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Bennett (2004, p. 112-113) suggested people in the developed world “lead urban lives, dedicated to the avoidance of risk” and therefore travel in order to challenge themselves. He referred to travelling as “a sort of bungee-jump. It has the tang of adventure… but is safer than crossing the road”. In this paper we expanded this metaphor of the bungee-jumper and applied it to volunteer tourists (VTs). Commercial volunteer tourism is personally challenging and requires a leap of faith into the unknown. However, like bungee-jumping, there is also a safety net. For the VTs in this case study, it was the structure and security provided by volunteer organisation.