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Arestis, P, Baddeley, M & McCombie, JSL 2007, Economic growth: New directions in theory and policy.
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This enlightening and significant new volume focuses on the nature, causes and features of economic growth across a wide range of countries and regions. Covering a variety of growth related topics - from theoretical analyses of economic growth in general to empirical analyses of growth in the OECD, transition economies and developing economies - the distinguished cast of contributors address some of the most important contemporary issues and developments in the field. © Philip Arestis, Michelle Baddeley and John S.L. McCombie 2007. All rights reserved.

Clarke, T 2007, Fundamentals of Corporate Governance Volume II Boards and Directors,, Sage, London.
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Fundamentals of Corporate Governance assembles definitive work by leading international scholars in the field of corporate governance from the United States, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. The editors of this four-volume set provide an illuminating focus on the mechanisms and institutions of corporate governance. Each of the volumes address a major theme, examining historical and current debates, analyzing research findings, and projecting policy development. Volume II looks at the board of directors and how boards maintain balance and exercise strategic control.

Clarke, T 2007, Fundamentals of Corporate Governance: Vol IV Stakeholders and Sustainability, Sage, London.
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Fundamentals of Corporate Governance assembles definitive work by leading international scholars in the field of corporate governance from the United States, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. The editors of this four-volume set provide an illuminating focus on the mechanisms and institutions of corporate governance. Each of the volumes address a major theme, examining historical and current debates, analyzing research findings, and projecting policy development. Volume IV considers the increasing influence of institutional investors and the importance of corporate social responsibility.

Clarke, T 2007, Fundamentals of Corporate Governance: Volume I Ownership and Control, Sage, London.
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Fundamentals of Corporate Governance assembles definitive work by leading international scholars in the field of corporate governance from the United States, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. The editors of this four-volume set provide an illuminating focus on the mechanisms and institutions of corporate governance. Each of the volumes address a major theme, examining historical and current debates, analyzing research findings, and projecting policy development. Volume I explores fundamental issues of ownership and control.

Clarke, T 2007, Fundamentals of Corporate Governance: Volume III Executives and Performance, Sage, London.
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Fundamentals of Corporate Governance assembles definitive work by leading international scholars in the field of corporate governance from the United States, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. The editors of this four-volume set provide an illuminating focus on the mechanisms and institutions of corporate governance. Each of the volumes address a major theme, examining historical and current debates, analyzing research findings, and projecting policy development. Volume III examines the controversial issue of CEO power and reward.

Clarke, T 2007, International Corporate Governance A Comparative Approach, Routledge.
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... 3 Public regulators, like central banks and securities exchange commissions 4 Self-regulatory organizations (SRO), either ... CRISES IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Cycles of corporate governance in their normal form are associated with ...

Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM & Pitsis, TS 2007, Ledning och Organisation, Liber, Oslo.

Dunphy, DC, Griffiths, AB & Benn, SH 2007, Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability, 2, Routledge, London, UK.
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second edition involving major new writing and including new case material

Earley, PC, Murnieks, C & Mosakowski, E 2007, Cultural Intelligence and the Global Mindset.
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Fleming, P & Spicer, A 2007, Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations, Cambridge University Press.
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© Peter Fleming and André Spicer and Cambridge University Press, 2007. In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Contesting the Corporation counters this view by showing that today's corporations are driven by political struggle, power plays and attempts to resist control. Building on a wide range of theoretical sources, Fleming and Spicer present an analysis of the different ways in which power operates within the modern workplace. They begin by building a theoretical perspective that synthesizes previous investigations of power and resistance, identifying struggle as a key concept. Each subsequent chapter illustrates a different dimension of workplace struggle through an array of original empirical studies relating to sexuality, cynicism, new social movements and new-wave trade unionism. The book concludes by demonstrating that social justice claims underlie even the most innocuous forms of resistance, helping to transform some of the largest modern corporations.

Jackson, J, McIver, R & Bajada, C 2007, Economic principles (2nd edition), 2nd, McGraw-Hill, Australia.

Nikolova, N 2007, The Client-Consultant Relationship in Professional Business Service Firms, 1, Koelner Wissenschaftsverlag, Germany.

Pride, W, Elliott, G, Rundle-Thiele, S, Waller, DS, Paladino, A & Ferrell, OC 2007, Marketing: Core Concepts and Applications, 2nd edn, John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane.
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Marketing Textbook

Pride, W, Rundle-Thiele, S, Waller, DS, Elliott, G, Paladino, A & Ferrell, OC 2007, Marketing: Asia Pacific Edition, 1st edn, John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane.
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Marketing textbook

Roberts, A, Benrimoj, SI, Dunphy, DC & Palmer, IC 2007, Community Pharmacy: Strategic Change Management, 1, McGraw Hill, Australia.

Schlenker, K 2007, Understanding the social impacts of festivals on communities., University of Western Sydney, Sydney.
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Unpublished PhD thesis

Toohey, KM & Veal, AJ 2007, The Olympic Games: A social science perspective, 2, CABI, Wallingford, Oxon, UK.
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The Olympic Games are the largest and most prestigious sporting competition in the world and have grown into a massive, multi-billion dollar sport and commercial event. The scale and significance, both sporting and cultural, of these games have attracted increasing attention not only from the media and wider public but also from researchers and managers of sporting events. This extended, new edition of The Olympic Games: A Social Science Perspective covers the Olympic phenomenon from political, economic, historical and sociological perspectives, discussing topics from the history and the media to commercialism and drug use. Providing a detailed and comprehensive account and extensive bibliography, this book will be essential reading for researchers and students in leisure and sports studies.

Westwood, R & Rhodes, C 2007, Humour, Work and Organization, Routledge, London.
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Considering the relationship between humour and organization in a nuanced and radical way and this book takes the view that humour and comedy are pervasive and highly meaningful aspects of human experience.

Anandakumar, A, Pitsis, TS & Clegg, SR 2007, 'Everybody hurts, sometimes: The language of emotionality and the dysfunctional organization' in Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace: Management Challenges and Symptoms, pp. 187-215.

Arthur, D & Chadwick, S 2007, 'Promoting Pacific Islander rugby in a crowded marketplace: Using media relations to overcome the challenge' in International Cases in the Business of Sport, pp. 287-298.
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The nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland have a long tradition of rugby union competition and consequently strong brand recognition in the European marketplace. The English Rose, Irish Clover, Scottish Thistle and the Welsh Dragon are all well-known symbols associated with these countries and their sporting heritage. The Australian Wallabies, South African Springboks and New Zealand All Blacks, through their strong performances over a number of years (between them they have won four of the five Rugby World Cup's (RWC's) contested), have similarly strong brand recognition. However, the Pacific Islanders do not enjoy such an exalted position given their comparative lack of history. In marketing terms generally, and public relations specifically, the 2006 tour to Europe for test matches versus Wales, Scotland and Ireland therefore represented a significant challenge for the Pacific Islanders management team and their constituent nations. Indeed, even the rugby public in the Islands, more used to supporting the individual nations rather than the combined Pacific Islanders side, needed to be harnessed and won over from their traditional parochialism. As 2006 Pacific Islanders coach Pat Lam (2006) intimated: There's a lot of expectation back in the islands, he said. They'll all be up until three, four o'clock in the morning watching the games and the boys know that. We realise that there is a responsibility. If we do well there are huge benefits on and off the pitch for pacific island rugby, so it's a great challenge. This case examines how the vitally important role of media relations as an essential element of public relations was undertaken on the 2006 Pacific Islander's tour.

Beirman, D 2007, 'Restoring Kenyan Tourism in Crisis: Kenyan Tourism's Response to Negative Travel Advisoroes 2003' in Laws, E, Prideaux, B & Chon (eds), Crisis Management in Tourism, Cabi Publishing, Wallingford UK, pp. 286-297.

Benn, SH & Dunphy, DC 2007, 'Introduction' in Benn, S & Dunphy, D (eds), Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Challenges for Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 1-5.

Benn, SH & Dunphy, DC 2007, 'New Forms of Governance: Changing Relationships between Corporates, Government and Community' in Benn, S & Dunphy, D (eds), Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Challenges for Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 9-35.

Benn, SH, Dunphy, DC & Griffiths, AB 2007, 'Integrating Human and Ecological Factors: a Systematic Approach to Corporate Sustainability' in Marinova, D, Annandale, D & Phillimore, J (eds), The International Handbook on Environmental Technology Managemant, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 222-240.
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In this chapter we propose an integrated perspective on organizational change, which is designed to progress the corporation to a position of both human and ecological sustainability. Human sustainability is defined here as the development and fulfilment of human needs whilst ecological sustainability is the protection and renewal of the biosphere. The chapter defines key steps along the way to this ‘organization of the future’ and explains ways of achieving an incremental – or, in some cases, a transformative – transition to the fully sustainable and sustaining corporation. Case studies of both incremental and transformative change are also provided to illustrate how organizations have moved toward ecological sustainability through the development of their human sustainability.

Benn, SH, Dunphy, DC & Griffiths, AB 2007, 'Synthesising Governance Themes from Political and Management Theory' in Benn, S & Dunphy, D (eds), Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Challenges for Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 76-93.
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In this chapter we explore, both theoretica lly and empirically, how the relationship between political systems and corporate governance practices can be used to progress corporate sustainability. We argue that corporate sustainabil ity is facili tated by ' total responsibility management ' , as outlined by Waddock et al. (2002). Waddock et al. 2002 argue that corporate sustainability requires internal corporate governance to move beyond compliance to the holistic approach of 'total responsibil ity management' .

Carter, C & Clegg, SR 2007, 'Institutional theory, new.' in George Ritzer (ed), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 2351-2352.

Carter, C & Clegg, SR 2007, 'Management fashion' in George Ritzer (ed), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 2729-2731.

Carter, C, Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM, Laske, S & Messner, M 2007, 'Introduction' in Carter, C, Clegg, S, Kornberger, M, Laske, S & Messner, M (eds), Business ethics as practice : representation, discourse and performance, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-9.

Clarke, T 2007, 'The materiality of sustainability: Corporate social and environmental responsibility as instruments of strategic change?' in Benn, S & Dunphy, D (eds), Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Challenges for Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 219-251.
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In recent years, as corporations and governments have increasingly been confronted with managing the expectations of a society newly alerted to the social and environmental risks of economic development, recognition is dawning that achieving a sustainable world is dependent upon the democratic management and equitable distribution of these risks for now, and for the future. This book, the first to explore the themes of corporate governance and sustainability, argues that a better system of governance on a number of levels holds the key.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Bureaucracy and the public sector governmentality' in George Ritzer (ed), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 376-378.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Preface' in Power without Glory - A Genealogy of a Management Decision, Copenhagen Business School Press, Denmark, pp. 9-12.

Clegg, SR & Carter, C 2007, 'Management' in George Ritzer (ed), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 2710-2719.

Clegg, SR & Courpasson, D 2007, 'The emergence of modern management' in Organization Science, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 17-30.

Clegg, SR, Courpasson, D & Phillips, N 2007, 'The curious case of Max Weber' in Organization Science, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 31-47.

Clegg, SR, Courpasson, D & Phillips, N 2007, 'The Hawthorne experiments' in Ybema, S & Bijlsma-Frankema, K (eds), Organization Science, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, UK, pp. 61-73.

Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM & Pitsis, TS 2007, 'Conformance and obedience and groupthink' in Ybema, S & Bijlsma-Frankema, K (eds), Organizational Science, Sage Publications, London, pp. 117-120.

Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM & Pitsis, TS 2007, 'Managing power and politics in organizations' in Ybema, S & Bijlsma-Frankema, K (eds), Organizational Science, Sage Publications, London, pp. 478-496.

Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM & Pitsis, TS 2007, 'McDonaldization' in Ybema, S & Bijlsma-Frankema, K (eds), Organizational Science, Sage Publications Ltd, London, pp. 48-50.

Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM & Pitsis, TS 2007, 'Whose meaning?' in Ybema, S & Bijlsma-Frankema, K (eds), Organizational Science, Sage Publications Ltd, London, pp. 111-113.

Clegg, SR, Wang, KY & Berrell, M 2007, 'Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China: An Introduction' in Clegg, SR, Wang, K & Berrell, M (eds), Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, London, UK, pp. 3-27.

Collins, J 2007, 'Ethnic Precincts as Contradictory Tourist Spaces' in Jan Rath (ed), Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City, Routledge, USA, pp. 67-86.

Collins, J 2007, 'The Disloyal Loyalty of Economic Rationalism and Neo-Liberalism' in Mason, V (ed), Loyalties, Network Books, Perth, Australia, pp. 87-99.

Collins, J 2007, 'The Landmark of Cronulla' in Jupp, Nieuwenhuysen & Dawson (eds), Social cohesion in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, Australia, pp. 61-69.

Collins, J & Kunz, P 2007, 'Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Ethnic Precincts and Toursim: The Case of Sydney Australia' in Richards, G & Wilson, J (eds), Tourism, Creativity and Development, Routledge, UK, pp. 201-214.

Dwyer, L, Forsyth, P, Spurr, R & Van Ho, T 2007, 'Tourism's economic contribution versus economic impact assessment: Differing roles for satellite accounts and economic modelling' in Tourism Management: Analysis, Behaviour and Strategy, pp. 459-469.
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Understanding tourism's economic contribution is essential for both practitioners and policy makers. Estimating tourism's economic contribution to a destination (nation or region) requires a different approach than assessing tourism's economic impacts on the destination. Tourism satellite accounts can estimate tourism's economic contribution to a destination. For economic impact estimation, however, to determine the effects on key economic variables in response to changes in tourism demand, an economic model is required. This chapter first provides a brief overview and discusses tourism satellite accounts' uses in estimating the economic contribution of tourism. Next, the chapter critically examines the validity of tourism satellite accounts. Do tourism satellite accounts provide realistic estimates of the economic impacts on the destination of shocks to tourism demand? The chapter argues that the preferred model for economic impact analysis is computable general equilibrium modelling rather than input-output modelling. To illustrate the two techniques' differences, a model of tourism shock compares the estimates of input-output models to a computable general equilibrium model. The results show TSA provides an important basis for CGE modelling to estimate the economic impacts of tourism shocks. Both the TSA, in their capacity to estimate the economic contribution of tourism, and CGE models, with their capacity to estimate economic impacts of tourism shocks, are important tools for policy making. Both techniques represent substantial advances in managing tourism. © CAB International 2008.

Francis, JR 2007, 'Auditing in the United States: From laissez faire to government control in 70 years' in Auditing, Trust and Governance: Regulation in Europe, pp. 243-262.
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Kornberger, MM & Rhodes, CH 2007, 'Business ethics' in Ritzer, G (ed), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 1439-1442.

Martin, A, Benn, SH & Dunphy, DC 2007, 'Towards a Model of Governance for Sustainability: Networks, Shared Values and New Knowledge' in Benn, S & Dunphy, D (eds), Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Challenges for Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 94-121.

Navone, M 2007, 'Principi di asset allocation e l'analisi del rischio' in Musile Tanzi (ed), Manuale del private banker, Egea, Italy, pp. 37-66.

Nguyen, DT & Barrett, NJ 2007, 'Internet-based knowledge internalization and firm internationalization in transition markets' in Rialp, A & Rialp, J (eds), International Marketing Research: Opportunities and Challenges in the 21st Century, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 369-390.

Nguyen, TT, Barrett, NJ & Nguyen, DT 2007, 'The role of market and learning orientations in relationship quality: Evidence from Vietnamese exporters and their foreign importers' in Rialp, A & Rialp, J (eds), International Marketing Research: Opportunities and Challenges in the 21st Century, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 107-128.
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This study examines the roles of market and learning orientations in relationship quality between exporters in transition economies and their foreign importers and subsequently, export performance. A random sample of 283 export firms in Vietnam provides evidence to support the hypothesized main effects. The results further indicate that learning orientation plays a role in building high-quality relationships for both new and mature relationships. However, the impact of market orientation on relationship quality is found only in the new relationship. In addition, firm-ownership structure does not moderate the relationships between learning orientation, market orientation, relationship quality, and export performance.

Nikolova, N 2007, 'Actor network theory' in Clegg, S & Balley, J (eds), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Sage publications, UK, pp. 27-31.

Nikolova, N 2007, 'Moral hazard' in Clegg, S & Balley, J (eds), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Sage publications, UK, pp. 917-919.

Nikolova, N 2007, 'Outsourcing' in Clegg, S & Balley, J (eds), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Sage publications, UK, pp. 1208-1211.

Pitsis, TS & Clegg, SR 2007, 'Interpersonal Metaphysics - "We live in a political world": The paradox of managerial wisdom' in Kessler, EH & Bailey, JR (eds), Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, USA, pp. 399-421.

Rhodes, CH 2007, 'Management Discourse' in George Ritzer (ed), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, London, pp. 2722-2725.

Rhodes, CH & Pullen, A 2007, 'Representing the d'other: The grotesque body and masculinity at work in The Simpons' in Westwood, R & Rhodes, C (eds), Humour, Work and Organization, Routledge, London, pp. 161-179.

Rhodes, CH & Westwood, R 2007, 'Letting Knowledge Go: Ethics and Representation of the Other in International and Cross-Cultural Management' in Carter, C, Clegg, S, Kornberger, M, Laske, S & Messner, M (eds), Business Ethics as Practice: Representation, Reflexivity and Performance, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 68-83.

Rhodes, CH, Iedema, RA & Scheeres, HB 2007, 'Identity, Surveillance and Resistance' in Pullen, A, Beech, N & Sims, D (eds), Exploring Identity: Concepts and Methods, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, pp. 83-99.

Small, J, Cadman, K, Friend, L, Gannon, S, Ingleton, C, Koutroulis, G, McCormack, C, Mitchell, P, Onyx, J, O'Regan, K & Rocco, S 2007, 'Unresolved Power for Feminist Researchers Employing memory-work' in Ateljevic, I, Pritchard, A & Morgan, N (eds), The Critcal Turn in Tourism Studies: Innovative research methodologies, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 261-278.
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The use of memory-work as a qualitative method in feminist social research is well established in Australia and New Zealand. Memory-work, though, still brings with it many theoretical and methodological dilemmas and issues. To open some of these issues to collective discussion, a group of experienced feminist researchers used the process of memory-work to explore specific experiences of working with memory-work groups. Our exploration suggested that using memory-work within the dominant positivist discourses and patriarchal structures of academia could, at times, leave feminist researchers feeling powerless. Through this collective we expressed concern about method and methodological process in ways which had not been articulated through our earlier memory-work projects.

Teo, ST & Wang, KY 2007, 'Human Capital, Social Capital and Firm Performance in Chinese SMEs' in Clegg, S, Wang, K & Berrell, M (eds), Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China, Edward Elgar, London, pp. 230-251.

Wang, KY 2007, 'The Contextual Balance of Social Capital within Hierarchical Relations in China: Benefits and Risks' in Clegg, S, Wang, K & Berrell, M (eds), Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China, Edward Elgar, London, pp. 209-229.

Westwood, R & Rhodes, CH 2007, 'Humour and the study of organizations' in Westwood, R & Rhodes, C (eds), Humour, Work and Organization, Routledge, London, pp. 1-14.

Wood, RE, Beckmann, N & Pavlakis, F 2007, 'Humor in organizations: No laughing matter' in Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace: Management Challenges and Symptoms, pp. 216-232.

Arestis, P, Baddeley, M & Sawyer, M 2007, 'The relationship between capital stock, unemployment and wages in nine EMU countries', Bulletin of Economic Research, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 125-148.
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The focus of this paper is to investigate the importance of the capital stock in the determination of wages and unemployment in a range of EMU countries and to compare the results across countries. A time-series analysis is conducted in the case of nine euro area countries, which were selected solely on the basis of data availability and consistency: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain. The paper begins with a short review of the literature on capital stock and unemployment, before it deals with the theoretical model. This is followed by estimation and testing of the theoretical model put forward, using both time-series and panel data. The results are supportive of the main hypothesis of the paper: capital stock is an important determinant of unemployment and wages in the countries considered for the purposes of the paper. © 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research.

Arestis, P, Baddeley, M, McCombie, J & Avendano Vargas, BL 2007, 'The new monetary policy', INVESTIGACION ECONOMICA, vol. 66, no. 261, pp. 147-154.

Baddeley, M 2007, 'Putting workfare in place - local labour markets and the New Deal', AREA, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 557-558.
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Balkrishna, H, Coulton, JJ & Taylor, SL 2007, 'Accounting losses and earnings conservatism: Evidence from Australian generally accepted accounting principles', Accounting and Finance, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 381-400.
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We provide evidence on three important aspects of Australian financial reporting; namely, the characteristics of losses, the extent to which Australian firms earnings are conditionally conservative (i.e. bad news is reflected in earnings more quickly than good news) and the extent to which losses reflect incrementally greater conditional conservatism. We find evidence that loss incidence in Australia is frequent, with around 40 per cent of the sample firm-years from 1993 to 2003 being losses. Losses are also surprisingly persistent, and the probability of loss reversal declines monotonically as the history of losses extends. Although conditional conservatism is also shown to be a pervasive aspect of Australian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, we demonstrate that it is more evident among loss observations. This result is robust across different methods of capturing conditional conservatism, and supports the conclusion that the relatively high frequency of losses is, at least in part, a reflection of conservative reporting.

Bartolomé, A, Ramos, V & Rey-Maquieira, J 2007, 'Sport tourism: interrelationships, impacts and issues by Brent W. Ritchie and Daryl Adair (eds), Channel View Publications, Clevedon, 2004. No. of pages: 302 + x. ISBN 1-873150-66-0; ISBN 1-873150-65-2', International Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 392-393.
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Basioudis, IG & Francis, JR 2007, 'Big 4 audit fee premiums for national and office-level industry leadership in the United Kingdom', AUDITING-A JOURNAL OF PRACTICE & THEORY, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 143-166.
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Bayley, L & Taylor, SL 2007, 'Identifying Earnings Overstatements: A Practical Test'.

Birch, S, Haas, MR, Savage, EJ & Van Gool, K 2007, 'Targeting services to reduce social inequalities in utilisation: An analysis of breast cancer screening in New South Wales', Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, vol. 4:12, pp. 1-9.
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Many jurisdictions have used public funding of health care to reduce or remove price at the point of delivery of services. Whilst this reduces an important barrier to accessing care, it does nothing to discriminate between groups considered to have greater or fewer needs. In this paper, we consider whether active targeted recruitment, in addition to offering a 'free' service, is associated with a reduction in social inequalities in self-reported utilization of the breast screening services in NSW, Australia.

Bird, R & Casavecchia, L 2007, 'Sentiment and Financial Health Indicators for Value and Growth Stocks: The European Experience', The European Journal of Finance, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 769-793.
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The well-documented market underperformance of the majority of value and growth stocks over a 12-month holding period reflects that traditional valuation metrics might tell us whether a stock is potentially cheap or expensive but little about when, or even if, it will experience a market correction. Two indicators have come to the fore in recent years that provide useful insights: sentiment/momentum and accounting fundamentals/financial health.We examine their single and combined impact on value and growth stocks and find that (i) they are effective in introducing a timing element into the selection of both value and growth stocks, (ii) the sentiment indicator completely dominates the financial health indicator and, (iii) both indictors contribute to the performance of the good and bad growth stocks. The size and significance of the investment profits that potentially can be generated using the two indicators in combination questions of the efficiency of the European equity markets.We conclude that our findings are consistent with the pricing cycle for a stock proposed by Lee and Swaminathan (Lee, C. and Swaminathan, B. (2000) Price momentum and trading volume, Journal of Finance, 55, pp. 2017–2069.) and the under- and over-reaction in pricing inherent in models proposed by Barberis et al. (Barberis, N., Shleifer A., and Vishny, R. (1998) A model of investor sentiment, Journal of Financial Economics, 49, pp. 307–343.) and Hong and Stein (Hong, H. and Stein, J.C. (1999) A unified theory of underreaction, momentum trading and overreaction in asset markets, Journal of Finance, 54, pp. 2143-2184.).

Bird, R & Casavecchia, L 2007, 'Value Enhancement Using Momentum Indicators: The European Experience', International Journal of Managerial Finance, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 229-262.
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Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the extent to which various price and earnings momentum measures can be used to enhance portfolio performance by better timing entry into value stocks (and isolating those growth stocks that still have some period to run). Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the traditional methodology of ranking stocks on the basis of certain value and momentum measures (e.g. book-to-market, market return over some prior period), forming portfolios based on these rankings which are held for a specific period of time. The portfolios are formed on the basis of a single measure of multiple measures and the returns and associated p-values are calculated with the objective of determining how these portfolios perform relative to a benchmark portfolio composed of all the companies in the universe. The analysis is conducted on a database consisting of approximately 8,000 companies drawn from 15 European countries over the period from January 1989 to May 2004.

Browitt, J, King, S & Martinez-Exposito, A 2007, 'Introduction', Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies, vol. 12, no. 2.

Bugeja, M 2007, 'Voluntary use of independent valuation advice by target firm boards in takeovers', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 368-387.
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This study examines why target firm directors commission a voluntary expert to assess offer adequacy in Australian takeovers. The results indicate that expert use is higher where the board is rejecting the offer. In addition, experts are hired where the board faces greater complexity in valuing the consideration offered and the target firm. Expert use is found to be in target shareholders' interest as it increases the likelihood that the bidder will increase the offer price. These findings add to existing evidence on whether target board's act in shareholders' interest during corporate control contests.

Bugeja, M & da Silva Rosa, R 2007, 'The inefficient management and disciplinary motives for takeover in Australia', Corporate Ownership and Control, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 469-481.
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The disciplinary motive and removal of inefficient target management are widely cited as explanations for takeovers. This study tests the prevalence of these explanations using Australian takeover targets from 1990 to 2002. We find that the vast majority of target firms are unlikely candidates for disciplinary action. Contrary to the disciplinary hypothesis, we find that target shareholdings are highly concentrated and are more concentrated than non-target firms. Unlike Agrawal and Jaffe’s (2003) US study, we find ASX targets are typically poor performers but, contrary to the inefficient management hypothesis, we find that takeover success is higher for better performing targets

Bugeja, M & da Silva Rosa, R 2007, 'The Influence of Target Shareholder Taxation on Premiums and Abnormal Returns in Takeovers'.

Burke, PF & Reitzig, M 2007, 'Measuring patent assessment quality - analyzing the degree and kind of (in)consistency in patent offices' decision making', Research Policy, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 1404-1430.
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Byers, D & Rhodes, CH 2007, 'Ethics, Alterity and Organizational Justice', Business Ethics: A European Review, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 239-250.
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This paper articulates a conception of organizational justice based on the promise of a mode of organizing that does not violate the particularity of each and every other person. It argues that the decisive condition for such a form of justice resides in the realities of the cultural practices of an organization as they are apparent in the conduct of people in relation to multiple others. These are practices that can only seek justification in the primary right of each person to be regarded with absolute alterity. It also argues that a degree of violence is unavoidable within any practical ordering of justice and that any consideration of ethics and justice in organizations must account for such violence and seek to negotiate its existence on ethical terms. The organizational justice that is referred to is one sensitive to the exercise of its own power and authority in the context of its unavoidable violation of its basis in ethics. This is a justice that is ethically necessary, but is never sure of itself.

Carpenter, A & Wang, J 2007, 'Herding and the information content of trades in the Australian dollar market', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 173-194.
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This study shows that the information content of FX transactions depends on the identity of market participants. Using spot FX transactions of a major Australian bank, we find that central banks have the greatest price impact, followed by non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) such as hedge funds and mutual funds. Trades by non-financial corporations have the least impact on dealer pricing. In the interbank market, dealers with greater private information tend to choose direct trading which has lower post-trade transparency. Indirect trading via brokers is partially revealed to the market and has little price impact. The price impact largely comes from institutions in the top quartile of the trading volume. Furthermore, NBFIs have the greatest propensity for herding, followed by interbank dealers. Non-financial corporations do not herd in their trades. Except for central banks, the differential impact of market participants can largely be explained by their propensity for herding

Carroll, A, Houghton, S, Wood, R, Perkins, C & Bower, J 2007, 'Multidimensional self-concept - Age and gender differences in Australian high school students involved in delinquent activities', SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 237-256.
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Carter, C, Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM, Mueller, F & Contardo, I 2007, 'Sketches of Spain: the politics of fashion', Management Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 205-212.
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In this paper, we propose an understanding of what personnel professionals consume when they adopt black-box management initiatives (Scarbrough, 1995; Wilson, 1992). Second, we explore the way in which professional associations and, hence, institutional actors pursue their own professional projects (Abbott, 1988) within a context of political legitimacies and illegitimacies. Thus, in a double move, we seek to explore the linkages between managerial methods used by institutions to increase their jurisdiction or their authority to speak (Foucault, 1972) and the processes of isomorphism.

Chiarella, C, Dieci, R & He, X 2007, 'Heterogeneous Expectations and Speculative Behavior in a Dynamic Multi-Asset Framework', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 408-427.
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This paper develops a dynamic model of a financial market where heterogeneous agents invest among multiple risky assets and a risk-free asset, under a market maker scenario. Particular attention is paid to the case of two risky assets and two agent types, fundamentalists and trend chasers, whose beliefs on both first and second moments of the conditional distribution of returns are based on past observations. Conditions for the stability of the “fundamental” equilibrium are established and the effect of the correlation between the risky assets is examined. It turns out that investors’ anticipated correlation and dynamic portfolio diversification do not always have a stabilizing role, but rather may act as a source of complexity in the financial market.

Chiarella, C, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C & Schlogl, E 2007, 'A Control Variate Method for Monte Carlo Simulations of Heath-Jarrow-Morton Models with Jumps', Applied Mathematical Finance, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 365-399.
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This paper examines the pricing of interest rate derivatives when the interest rate dynamics experience infrequent jump shocks modelled as a Poisson process. The pricing framework adapted was developed by Chiarella and Nikitopoulos to provide an extension of the Heath, Jarrow and Morton model to jump-diffusions and achieves Markovian structures under certain volatility specifications. Fourier Transform solutions for the price of a bond option under deterministic volatility specifications are derived and a control variate numerical method is developed under a more general state dependent volatility structure, a case in which closed form solutions are generally not possible. In doing so, a novel perspective is provided on control variate methods by going outside a given complex model to a simpler more tractable setting to provide the control variates.

Chiarella, C, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C & Schlogl, E 2007, 'A Markovian Defaultable Term Structure Model with State Dependent Volatilities', International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 155-202.
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The defaultable forward rate is modelled as a jump diffusion process within the Schonbucher [26,27] general Heath, Jarrow and Morton [20] framework where jumps in the defaultable term structure fd(t, T) cause jumps and defaults to the defaultable bond prices Pd(t, T). Within this framework, we investigate an appropriate forward rate volatility structure that results in Markovian defaultable spot rate dynamics. In particular, we consider state dependent Wiener volatility functions and time dependent Poisson volatility functions. The corresponding term structures of interest rates are expressed as finite dimensional affine realizations in terms of benchmark defaultable forward rates In addition, we extend this model to incorporate stochastic spreads by allowing jump intensities to follow a square-root diffusion process. In that case the dynamics become non-Markovian and to restore path independence we propose either an approximate Markovian scheme or, alternatively, constant Poisson volatility functions. We also conduct some numerical simulations to gauge the effect of the stochastic intensity and the distributional implications of various volatility specifications.

Clarke, T 2007, 'The evolution of directors duties bridging the divide between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility', Journal of General Management, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 79-105.
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The evidence that large corporations are beginning to take social and environmental responsibilities more seriously is reviewed, drawing on international surveys carried out by KPMG and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The emergence of a dynamic stakeholder model that is driving enlightened shareholder value is noted. The challenge enterprises face in pursuing market opportunities while maintaining accountability is discussed and the way in which the duty to promote the success of the company is taking companies beyond simple compliance with the law is explored. A similar process is seen to be guiding investment solutions to address environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in their policies and processes. The importance of corporate reporting of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is highlighted and the principles developed by the Global reporting Initiative (GRI) are outlined.

Clegg, SR & Courpasson, D 2007, 'The end of history and the future of power, 21st Century Society.', Twenty-First Century Society, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 131-154.
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Clegg, SR & Courpasson, D 2007, 'The futures of power', Revista de administracao de empresas, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 223-248.
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Some may recall, or have read about, those heady days when history allegedly ended, as the Berlin Wall collapsed(3). When the wall came down it seemed to may observers as if, with the end of communism at least in Europe the only threat to existing democratic political power was vanquished. Liberal, plural democracy, the open society and open organizations seemed to stretch as a vista into a future full of promise offering peace in our time, with all its assumed dividends, and the triumph neither of the will nor the state but of decent, ordinary democracy. Surely the chance to build a better world of organizations was imminent?

Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM & Rhodes, CH 2007, 'Business Ethics as Practice', British Journal of Management, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 107-122.
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In this article we develop a conceptualization of business ethics as practice. Starting from the view that the ethics that organizations display in practice will have been forged through an ongoing process of debate and contestation over moral choices, we examine ethics in relation to the ambiguous, unpredictable, and subjective contexts of managerial action. Furthermore, we examine how discursively constituted practice relates to managerial subjectivity and the possibilities of managers being moral agents. The article concludes by discussing how the 'ethics as practice' approach that we expound provides theoretical resources for studying the different ways that ethics manifest themselves in organizations as well as providing a practical application of ethics in organizations that goes beyond moralistic and legalistic approaches.

Clegg, SR, Kornberger, MM & Rhodes, CH 2007, 'Organizational ethics, decision making, undecidability', Sociological Review, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 393-409.
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In this paper we develop a conceptualisation of organizational decision-making as a practice that is, necessarily, ethical. The paper starts with a discussion of the notion of decision-making as it relates to organizational rationality and the relationsh

Clegg, SR, Rhodes, CH & Kornberger, MM 2007, 'Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Organizational Identity and Emerging Industries', Organization Studies, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 495-513.
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In this article we examine the process of organizational identity formation in emerging industries. We argue that organizational identity is best understood in terms of the relationship between temporal difference (i.e. the performance of a stable identity over time) and spatial difference (i.e. by locating organizational identity in relation to other firms, both similar and different). It is the relationship between these two forms of difference that enables the construction of a legitimate sense of organizational identity. Our discussion is illustrated using empirical material from a study of the emerging industry of business coaching in Australia.

Collins, J 2007, 'Immigrants as Victims of Crime and Criminal Justice Discourse in Australia', International Review of Victimology, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 57-79.

Colwell, D, El-Hassan, N & Kwon, O 2007, 'Hedging Diffusion Processes by Local Risk Minimization with Applications to Index Tracking', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 2135-2151.
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This paper extends the local risk-minimization criterion for hedging contingent claims, as introduced in F?er and Sondermann [Hedging of non-redundant contingent claims. In: Hildenbrand, W., Mas-Colell, A. (Eds.), Contributions to Mathematical Economics. Elsevier Science, North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 205?223], F?er and Schweizer [Hedging of contigent claims under incomplete information. In: Davis, M., Elliot, R. (Eds.), Applied Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Monographs, vol. 5, Gordon and Breach, London/New York, pp. 389?414] and Schweizer [Option hedging for semimartingales. Stochastic Processes and their Applications 37, 339?363], to the hedging of entire stochastic processes, and determines the necessary and sufficient conditions under which this is possible. The results are then applied to the problem of stock index tracking to obtain simple criteria for selecting the optimal set of assets with which to form tracker portfolios, and to derive a value-at-risk type measure for the set of assets used.

Corron, N, He, X & Westerhoff, FH 2007, 'Butter Mountains, Milk Lakes and optimal Price Limiters', Applied Economic Letters, vol. 14, no. 15, pp. 1131-1136.
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It is known that simple price limiters may have unexpected consequences in irregular commodity price fluctuations between bull and bear markets and complicated impacts on the size of buffer stocks. In particular, imposing a lower price boundary may lead to a huge buffer stock, e.g. to a ‘butter mountain’ or a ‘milk lake’ and this is a real problem for regulators since storage costs may become impossible to finance over time. The relation between price limiters and the size of buffer stocks is nontrivial and there may exist some optimal price limiters which require only weak market interventions and thus provide a rather inexpensive option to regulate commodity markets. In this article, we use a simple commodity market model to explore the relation between price limiters and the average growth rate of the buffer stocks. It is found that these optimal price limiter levels are simply the minimum values of unstable periodic orbits of the underlying deterministic system.

Coulton, J, Ruddock, CMS & Taylor, SL 2007, 'Audit Fees, Non-Audit Services and Auditor-Client Economic Bonding'.

Cunha, MPE, Cardoso, CC, Rego, A & Clegg, SR 2007, 'From 'This Job is Killing Me' to 'I Live in the Life I Love and I Love the Life I Live', or from Stakhanov to Contemporary Workaholics', FEUNL Working Paper Series, no. 519.

Darcy, SA 2007, 'Disablity awareness - Are you losing business?', Our Hotel, vol. Summer, pp. 41-43.

De Cock, C, Fleming, P & Rehn, A 2007, 'Organizing revolution?', Management and Organizational History, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 107-114.
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dela Rama, MJ 2007, 'Aged care money may be heading in wrong direction.', The Age: Business Day, vol. September, no. 16th, pp. 6-6.
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I was asked to write an opinion piece for the Melbourne newspaper, The Age, which was based on my presentation at the Aged and Community Services Australia held in Melbourne. This article appeared on 16th September 2007, the day of my conference presentation.

dela Rama, MJ 2007, 'Private equity, subsidies and the care sector', Brisbane Line, vol. 8, no. November.
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We are hearing more and more about private equity nowadays. But while it is growing in importance and influence, the nature and purposes of private equity appear little understood. In this article, Marie dela Rama shines a light on recent private equity activity in the aged care sector in Australia and around the world.

Delli Gatti, D, Di Guilmi, C, Gallegati, M & Giulioni, G 2007, 'Financial Fragility, Industrial Dynamics and Business Fluctuations in an Agent Based Model', Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 11, no. S1, pp. 62-79.
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n the 1990s a large body of literature--sometimes referred to as the financial accelerator hypothesis, broad credit view, or balance sheet channel--focused on the role of financial factors in business fluctuations and in the transmission of monetary shocks [Bernanke and Gertler (1989, 1990, 1995), Bernanke et al. (1996, 1999), Greenwald and Stiglitz (1988, 1990, 1993), Stiglitz and Greenwald (2003)]. Insightful new additions to the literature, albeit along different lines, have been provided by Kiyotaki and Moore (1997, 2002) and Cooley and Quadrini (2001). In these models, in principle, agents are heterogeneous, and sometimes it is also recognized that heterogeneity is a necessary ingredient of important business cycle features (such as composition effects), but the nature and consequences of heterogeneity are not thoroughly explored. At a certain point of the analysis, the representative agent pops up and heterogeneity gets lost or is simply neglected. The temptation to keep the analysis simple by resorting to the representative agent is understandable. After all, the representative agent framework has been one of the most successful tools in economics [Hartley (1997); Stoker (1993)] and is still the cornerstone of standard macroeconomics. This modeling strategy, however, is justified if heterogeneity is temporary, that is, if the population of different households/firms converges over time to a stationary distribution in which agents are identical. This condition is generally not fulfilled empirically. In real economies heterogeneity is not bound to disappear and the evolution over time of the distribution of heterogeneous agents affects the dynamics of the macrovariables. If macroeconomic modeling relies on the representative agent, therefore, the analysis of business fluctuations and of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy will be too simple and sometimes even simplistic.

Denize, SM & Young, LC 2007, 'Concerning Trust and Information', Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 968-982.
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communication and the associated information exchanges are key drivers of the development of relationships and of the trust embedded within them. this paper considers the development of business relationships in terms of the continuing co-evolution of trust and information exchange and the issues associated with researching these processes

Dwyer, L, Deery, M, Jago, L, Spurr, R & Fredline, L 2007, 'Adapting the tourism satellite account conceptual framework to measure the economic importance of the meetings industry', Tourism Analysis, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 247-255.
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© 2007 Cognizant Comm. Corp. Thisarticle presents the findings from research undertaken for the United Nations World Tourism Organization that examines the global meetings industry. In particular, the research investigate the type, source, and credibility of data collected on the meetings industry and the potential to use the data for evaluating the economic contribution of the meetings industry. In so doing, the article details the data that are available and presents a method, using the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA), to evaluate the meetings industry on a global basis. The research found that the industry lacked clear definitions and therefore inconsistent data. The article provides suggested definitions and a conceptual framework for use in a TSA evaluation of the meetings industry.

Dwyer, L, Forsyth, P & Spurr, R 2007, 'Contrasting the uses of TSAs and CGE models: Measuring tourism yield and productivity', Tourism Economics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 537-551.
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Tourism satellite accounts (TSAs) and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are used increasingly in tourism analysis, though they have distinctly different functions. These are illustrated by means of two examples. The first of these involves developing measures of profitability and productivity of the Australian tourism industry - the national TSA was used to provide the database for this exercise. The second involves measuring the yield of different types of tourists to the tourism industry and the economy as a whole. TSAs provide an appropriate technique to estimate economic yield at the industry level, while the CGE approach is used to estimate the yield to the economy as a whole.

Dwyer, L, Forsyth, P, Fredline, L, Deery, M, Jago, L & Lundie, S 2007, 'Yield measures for special-interest Australian inbound tourism markets', Tourism Economics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 421-440.
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Different tourism stakeholders mean different things by 'yield' and this presents a barrier to communication and policy discussion. Primarily, this paper provides an overview of different concepts of yield. It also operationalizes several of these measures using inbound tourism expenditure data for Australia so that the origin markets and market segments identified as generating high yields under the various measures can be compared. The paper further identifies the manner in which the concept of yield can be broadened to embrace sustainable yield by incorporating measures of environmental and social impact. It concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of the study.

Dwyer, L, King, B & Prideaux, B 2007, 'The effects of restrictive business practiceson Australian inbound package tourism', Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 47-64.
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International visitors to Australia on package tours have expressed concern about aspects of their holiday experience. These aspects relate to restrictive business practices on the part of inbound tour operators. The origin markets most affected are China, Korea and Taiwan in particular, and, to a lesser extent, Japan. This paper first sets out the nature of the restrictive business practices and then discusses their underlying causes. It then estimates their effects on visitor satisfaction and the impact of this on future package tourism flows to Australia from the identified markets. Finally, some estimates are made of the economic costs of the practices. It is argued that Australia will benefit from the development of quality tours rather than persisting with the price driven tours currently on offer within these markets.

Edwards, DC 2007, 'Corporate Social Responsibility Of Large Urban Museums: The Contribution Of Volunteer Programs', Tourism Review International, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 167-174.
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Out of a growing concern about the erosion of social infrastructure has come an increase in pressure on business to take up more of the responsibility to invest in building strong communities. While many tourism organizations have been slow to involve themselves in any long-term and meaningful way with communities, the volunteer programs of large Australian museums unintentionally create partnerships of engagement, participation, and involvement between the museum and their urban communities. These volunteer programs represent a contribution to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Drawing on the author's previous work, the CSR literature, and museum reports and information posted on the Internet, this article discusses why and how this occurs. First, the article explores the relationship between CSR and social capital. Second, the contribution that museums make to social capital through their volunteer programs is outlines. Third, it is considered whether museums could do more in terms of their CSR and volunteer programs. Finally, suggestions are made for the way in which museums can continue to fulfill and advance their CSR activities. Museums, in acknowledging and documenting the CSR activities of their volunteer programs, can improve CSR outcomes and enhance the social and economic outcomes for both the community and the museum.

Edwards, DC 2007, 'Leisure-seeking volunteers: ethical implications', Voluntary Action, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 19-39.
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People construct socially salient identities of others that in some cases affect their morally significant perceptions of, and interactions with, those groups. If these perceptions are flawed, this has a bearing on fundamental ethical questions: in particular, how one sees, treats and understands those groups. Museum volunteers are a group that are often viewed with differing positive and negative associations and values. The objective of this article is to explore the values and commitment of serious leisure volunteers in order to make a more appropriate representation of volunteers. The article presents the results of a study of volunteers at three large museums and art galleries. The results show that these volunteers place a very high value on the work they do for the institution, and that their commitment to the institution is a combination of affective and continuance commitment. These findings challenge typified representations of volunteers, and the implications for ethical volunteer management are discussed.

Edwards, M & Onyx, J 2007, 'Social capital and sustainability in a community under threat', Local Environment, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 17-30.
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Engaging with dialogue concerning the relevance and applicability of social capital to a model of sustainable community development, we illustrate an in-depth case of a community experiencing an ideological clash with the dominant politico-societal structures. We argue that while the exclusivity of bonding social capital has been described as the `dark side, it may be essential for progressive sustainable community development (PSCD). When faced with a development threat, such bonds are essential for building links, bridges and solidarity, enabling cultural reproduction and promoting environmental protection for sustainability

Fam, K, Waller, DS & Henry, J 2007, 'Effects and Future of the Internet on the Malaysian Advertising Industry', International Journal of Business and Society, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 13-24.
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The Internet is having a major effect around the world on how businesses are being run, with changes in relation to marketing communications, customers, media selection, and dealing with advertising agencies. What has been the effect of this new media, and what changes are perceived for business in the future? This paper will examine Malaysian advertising executives' views on the effects of the Internet on business communications, and seeks predictions on the future of the advertising industry. A survey of 51 advertising executives indicated that the Internet will not entirely replace traditional mass media for advertising use, although it will have some effect on media planning. Keywords: Advertising; Malaysia; Internet; Advertising industry; Communication.

Feletto, E, Dunphy, DC, Palmer, IC & Benrimoj, C 2007, 'An Industry Approach To Practice Change In Community Pharmacy', Pharmacy World & Science, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 712-712.
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Feletto, E, Dunphy, DC, Palmer, IC, Benrimoj, C & Roberts, A 2007, 'Practice Change In Community Pharmacy - Tools For Service Implementation', Pharmacy World & Science, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 712-713.
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Fleming, P 2007, 'Sexuality, power and resistance in the workplace', Organization Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 239-256.
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This paper investigates whether the expression of sexuality in organizations represents an opportunity for employee resistance or increased management control. It draws upon an empirical study of a high-commitment culture programme that encouraged both heterosexual and homosexual discourses. The study reveals a complex scenario in which sexuality is simultaneously a facet of control, a site of empowerment and an object of resistance. It is suggested that a multilevelled conceptualization of power and resistance is required in order to untangle the complex political implications of sexuality and re-eroticization at work. Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications.

Foley, CT & Hayllar, BR 2007, 'A tale of two caravan parks: friendship, community and the freedom thing', Tourism Today, vol. 7, pp. 7-28.
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This paper presents the findings of a research project that explored notions of friendship and community in the context of caravan park holidays for repeat visitors to two caravan parks. The study was conducted by way of in-depth interview with 22 visitors to a caravan park on the south coast of News South Wales (Australia) in 2006 and 20 visitors to a caravan park in far north Queensland (Australia) in 2007. For both parks the findings indicate that the major attractions of caravan park holidays for long term repeat visitors are the friendships that build up over years of repeat visitation, and the relaxing lifestyle that the holiday affords. For the older and smaller of the parks the respondents also reported that a strong sense of community existed among the visitors and that this was a very satisfying feature of their holiday experience. There was less mention of a sense of community from respondents at the larger and more recently established park. Theoretical implications: there is an emerging literature documenting the possibilities of ‘serious leisure’ and ‘focal leisure activities’ as significant investment channels in the accumulation of social capital. This paper supports the theory that focal leisure activities can foster the development of a sense of community, however, our findings indicate that factors influencing this growth may include the “age” of the group and also the size of the group. Management and marketing implications: caravan park (and other tourist service) organisations may benefit from including notions of friendship and community in their marketing campaigns rather than the usual narrow focus upon facilities From a management perspective it may be useful to consider programming activities and providing amenities that facilitate social engagement and communal activity.

Foley, CT, Holzman, C & Wearing, SL 2007, 'Moving Beyond Conspicuous Leisure Consumption: adolescent women, mobile phones and public space', Leisure Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 179-192.
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In this paper we explore mobile phones as a form of fashion accessory for young women in contemporary culture and the possible value of such fashionable items as a source of identity and self-worth. Despite reliance on the usual stultifying stereotypes produced by marketeers to promote mobile phones, we explore the possibility that increased access to public space generates for adolescent girls alternative choices of leisure experiences and possibilities of multiple enriching identities. The findings suggest that mobile phone use can impart a sense of self-confidence, sexuality and autonomy which defies the male gaze in public spaces and may allow adolescent women to reject traditional images of femininity at a formative stage in the life course and take steps to a further array of leisure choices. It may only be a temporary image that assists a sense of self at a vulnerable time in life, or it may infiltrate other aspects of subjectivity and assist an ongoing sense of self-confidence. However, this particular leisure activity can be seen as enabling, allowing entry to an arena, that of public space, that has hitherto been limited by the male gaze and other stereotypes of adolescent women. Through in-depth interviews with teenage mobile phone users and a review of the literature we have examined the success that this form of technology has had with this social group.

Gatti, DD, di Guilmi, C, Gallegati, M & Giulioni, G 2007, 'Financial fragility, industrial dynamics, and business fluctuations in an agent-based model', Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 62-79.
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In this paper we present and discuss a simple financial accelerator agent-based model, whose conceptual core is the interaction of heterogeneous firms and the banking system. Its simplicity notwithstanding, the model is able to replicate through simulations a large number of stylized facts concerning the shape and evolution over time of the distribution of firms' sizes, growth rates, profits, and “bad debt. © 2007, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.

Gibson, CB & Earley, PC 2007, 'Collective cognition in action: Accumulation, interaction, examination, and accommodation in the development and operation of group efficacy beliefs in the workplace', Academy of Management Review, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 438-458.
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Group efficacy has emerged as an important and significant predictor of group effectiveness. However, most conceptual work on group efficacy fails to capture its complexity. In this article we extend extant theory and develop a more in-depth model of how group efficacy develops and operates within existing groups, including complex moderating factors. We conclude with a discussion of implications and future research concerning motivation in collaborative efforts. Copyright of the Academy of Management, all rights reserved.

Graham, A, Lin, B, Michayluk, D & Stuerke, P 2007, 'Sarbannes-Oxley: Some Unintended Consequences', Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 39-46.

Green, J & Dalton, BM 2007, 'Values and virtues or qualifications and experience? An analysis of non-profit recruitment advertising in Australia', Employment Relations Record, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1-14.

Hafalir, IE 2007, 'Efficiency in coalition games with externalities', GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 242-258.
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He, X & Li, Y 2007, 'Power-Law Behaviour, Heterogeneity, and Trend Chasing', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Constrol, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 3396-3426.
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Long-range dependence in volatility is one of the most prominent examples in financial market research involving universal power laws. Its characterization has recently spurred attempts to provide some explanations of the underlying mechanism. This paper contributes to this recent line of research by analyzing a simple market fraction asset pricing model with two types of traders - fundamentalists who trade on the price deviation from estimated fundamental value and trend followers whose conditional mean and variance of the trend are updated through a geometric learning process. Our analysis shows that agent heterogeneity, risk-adjusted trend chasing through the geometric learning process, and the interplay of noisy fundamental and demand processes and the underlying deterministic dynamics can be the source of power-law distributed fluctuations. In particular, the noisy demand plays an important role in the generation of insignificant autocorrelations (ACs) on returns, while the significant decaying AC patterns of the absolute returns and squared returns are more influenced by the noisy fundamental process. A statistical analysis based on Monte Carlo simulations is conducted to characterize the decay rate. Realistic estimates of the power-law decay indices and the (FI)GARCH parameters are presented. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Hensher, DA & Rose, JM 2007, 'Development of commuter and non-commuter mode choice models for the assessment of new public transport infrastructure projects: A case study', TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 428-443.
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Hensher, DA, Puckett, SM & Rose, JM 2007, 'Agency decision making in freight distribution chains: Establishing a parsimonious empirical framework from alternative behavioural structures', TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART B-METHODOLOGICAL, vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 924-949.
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Hensher, DA, Puckett, SM & Rose, JM 2007, 'Extending stated choice analysis to recognise agent-specific attribute endogeneity in bilateral group negotiation and choice: a think piece', TRANSPORTATION, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 667-679.
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Hensher, DA, Rose, J & Bertoia, T 2007, 'The implications on willingness to pay of a stochastic treatment of attribute processing in stated choice studies', Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 73-89.
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Individuals processing the information in a stated choice experiment are asked to evaluate a set of attributes offered and to choose their most preferred alternative. It has always been thought that some attributes are not attended to in this process for many reasons, including a coping strategy to handle their perception of the complexity of the choice task. However analysts proceed, with rare exception, to estimate discrete choice models as if all attributes have influenced the outcome to some degree. In this paper we investigate the implications of bounding the attribute processing task by attribute elimination through not attending to one or more attributes. Using a sample of car non-commuters in Sydney we estimate a mixed logit model in which all attributes are assumed to be attended to, and models which assume that certain attribute(s) are not attended to, based on supplementary information provided by respondents. The supplementary information is accounted for in a deterministic and a stochastic way; the latter in recognition of the analyst's lack of full information on why a specific attribute processing (AP) strategy was adopted by each sampled individual. We compare the value of travel time savings distribution under alternative attribute processing regimes. As expected, there are noticeable variations in the mean and standard deviation willingness to pay (WTP) across the three AP strategies. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Islam, T, Louviere, JJ & Burke, PF 2007, 'Modeling the effects of including/excluding attributes in choice experiments on systematic and random components', International Journal of Research in Marketing, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 289-300.
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This paper examines the impact of attribute presence/absence in choice experiments using covariance heterogeneity models and random coefficient models. Results show that attribute presence/absence impacts both mean utility (systematic components) and choice variability (random components). Biased mean effects can occur by not accounting for choice variability. Further, even if one accounts for choice variability, attribute effects can differ because of attribute presence/absence. Managers who use choice experiments to study product changes or new variants should be cautious about excluding potentially essential attributes. Although including more relevant attributes increases choice variability, it also reduces bias.

Johns, RE, Teo, ST & Harrington, K 2007, 'Pick Me! Perceptual Differences of Graduate Recruitment and Selection Methods', Employment Relations Record, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
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This paper reports the findings from a study which examines the adoption of recruitment and selection methods for graduates in Australia by examining the differences and similarities in the perceptions between graduate recruiters and recent graduates. The study reveals that a wide range of selection methods are used to recruit graduates into Australian firms and that if recruiters wish to attract the best graduates, they should be well-versed in the way these potential recruits perceive the usefulness and importance of recruitment and selection methods.

Jordan, K, Krivokapic-Skoko, B & Collins, J 2007, 'Ethnic Minorities and the Built Environment in Rural and Regional Australia', The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 167-176.
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Australia has one of the highest proportions of migrants of any country in the world. One aspect of this migration that is still poorly understood is the impact of different ethnic groups on the built environment of Australian cities and towns. Recent arrivals often seek to create a home by modifying their new landscape, transforming public spaces by building monuments, religious buildings, social clubs and community centres. These sites have often been overlooked in studies of Australia’s built environment heritage. However, they often hold enormous significance not only for migrant communities but also in reflecting contestation over space and the contribution of migrants to the Australian political economy. Crucially, in a time of increasing concern over inter-cultural relations in Australia, these places can also be sites of inter-cultural exchange. Based on preliminary fieldwork in Griffith in New South Wales, the paper will explore the social, political and economic significance of one place built by non-Anglo-Celtic migrants to Australia: the Griffith Italian Museum and Cultural Centre. Using the concepts of inter-cultural dialogue and bonding and bridging social capital, the paper explores the role of the Museum in facilitating social networks and improved relations within and between Griffith’s ethnic communities.

Karande, K, Magnini, VP & Tam, L 2007, 'Recovery voice and satisfaction after service failure: An experimental investigation of mediating and moderating factors', JOURNAL OF SERVICE RESEARCH, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 187-203.
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Kean, SE & Wells, PA 2007, 'Earnings decomposition and the persistence of earnings', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 112-128.
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Forecasting future period profitability is widely identified as an aim of financial statement analysis, and these forecasts are typically relied upon for the estimation of firm value. To facilitate this, the decomposition of earnings into its components or drivers, is typically advocated. This paper investigates the existence of systematic differences in persistence across the components of earnings. If components of earnings experience differences in persistence, this may provide insights into the determinants of aggregate earnings level and persistence. This paper provides evidence of differences in persistence between components of earnings. Differences are found between components formed on the basis of: financial ratios; operating and financing activities; and cash and accruals. Furthermore, there is evidence that earnings components improve the explanatory power of models evaluating aggregate earnings persistence, with this result being strongest for firms with extreme income decreasing accruals. Due to the pivotal role of earnings in firm valuation, the results from this paper have direct implications for valuation.

Kim, N & Pae, JH 2007, 'Utilization of new technologies: organizational adaptation to business environments', JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 259-269.
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Kim, N & Srivastava, RK 2007, 'Modeling cross-price effects on inter-category dynamics: The case of three computing platforms', OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 290-301.
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Klettner, AL, Clarke, T & Adams, MA 2007, 'Balancing Act - the Tightrope of Corporate Governance Reform', Keeping Good Companies, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 648-653.
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Over the last five years, corporate governance has proved an insistent issue in the boardrooms of Australia. In March 2003, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) Corporate Governance Council launched its Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice Recommendations (the guidelines). The following year amendments to the Corporations Act 2001 came into force, designed to improve corporate accountability and auditing practices. In annual reports for 2004-2005, Australian corporations were asked to disclose more information about their corporate governance practices than ever before. This prompted a review of existing governance structures and procedures against those recommended or required by the new regulation.

Ladik, DM, Carrillat, FA & Solomon, PJ 2007, 'The effectiveness of university sponsorship in increasing survey response rate', Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 263-271.
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The purpose of this research is to investigate mail survey response rate effects of local university sponsorship (i.e., targeting respondents living within the vicinity of a partner university). Data from 165 questionnaires reveal that (1) response rates in the home city of the sponsor university are higher than in out-of-state cities, (2) the effectiveness of university sponsorship does not diminish when prenotification techniques are also used, and (3) the effects of university sponsorship and prenotifications are additive, the best results being obtained when both techniques are used together. © 2007 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved.

Larssen, AT, Robertson, TJ, Loke, L & Edwards, J 2007, 'Introduction To The Special Issue On Movement-based Interaction', Personal And Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 11, pp. 607-608.
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Leonard, R, Onyx, J & Maher, A 2007, 'Constructing short episodic volunteering experiences: Matching grey nomads and the needs of small country towns', Third Sector Review, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 121-139.

Leung, LT 2007, 'Mobility and Displacement: refugees' mobile media practices in immigration detention', M/C Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-5.
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The paper discusses mobility in the context of displacement. How is the mobile phone appropriated by refugees in immigration detention? What does the mobile phone, and indeed, mobility, signify in an Australian policy landscape of mandatory detention of asylum seekers and formerly prohibited access to mobile phones for detainees inside immigration detention centres? What does this intimate about the perceived dangers of ânewâ and mobile media? The authorâs preliminary research with refugees in Australian immigration detention centres compares policy and practice. Firstly, it interrogates the unwritten policies regulating refugeesâ access to media technologies when incarcerated in immigration detention. As there is no written policy on technology access and practices vary across immigration detention centres, the information in this paper has been given by detainees and has not been verified by the management of detention centres. The paper suggests that the utopian promises of mobile media echo those made about cyberspace in the 1990s. Furthermore, the residual effects of such rhetoric have infiltrated government policy in terms of perceiving mobile media as dangerous when adopted by marginalised groups such as refugees. Secondly, the research examines how and why the mobile phone has been adopted by immigration detainees despite their former prohibition. It explores the ways in which refugees practice an imagined mobility through media whilst in detention, and finds that this is critical to sustaining connection with their imagined communities.

Lim, S, Matolcsy, ZP & Chow, D 2007, 'The Association Between Board Composition And Different Types Of Voluntary Disclosure', European Accounting Review, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 555-583.
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This study examines the association between board composition and voluntary disclosure in annual reports. In particular, it addresses the incentives within the agency theory framework for both inside and independent directors to disclosure additional inf

Lock, DJ, Taylor, TL & Darcy, SA 2007, 'Fan identity formation in a revamped league: A-League (Australia)', Sport Marketing Europe, vol. 2007, no. Spring.

Loke, L, Larssen, AT, Robertson, TJ & Edwards, J 2007, 'Understanding movement for interaction design: Framework and Approaches', Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 691-701.
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The results of a study of two computer games, that use human movement as direct input, were analysed using four existing frameworks and approaches, drawn from different disciplines that relate to interaction and movement. This enabled the exploration of the relationships between bodily actions and the corresponding responses from technology. Interaction analysis, two design frameworks and Laban movement analysis were chosen for their ability to provide different perspectives on human movement in interaction design. Each framework and approach provided a different, yet still useful, perspective to inform the design of movement-based interaction. Each allowed us to examine the interaction between the player and the game technology in quite distinctive ways. Each contributed insights that the others did not.

Lopes, FD, Clegg, SR, Vieira, M & Gudergan, S 2007, 'Institutional Environments in the Formation of International Joint Ventures: A Brazillian Case Study', Revista Eletrônica deGestão Organizacional, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 171-197.

Lundie, S, Dwyer, L & Forsyth, P 2007, 'Environmental-economic measures of tourism yield', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 503-519.
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A focus on 'tourism yield' is an important aspect of business strategies to maintain and enhance destination competitiveness. Ideally the notion of 'tourism yield' should include tourism's environmental and social value to a destination in addition to economic value. This paper attempts to develop measures of economic and environmental yield. It first describes how measures of economic yield may be estimated and presents results for Australian inbound tourism. Environmental yield estimates are then developed for the same visitor markets. A hybrid approach is employed, combining input-output analysis with an onsite audit for tourist accommodation. The relevant environmental impacts include those on energy use, water use, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological footprint. The findings reveal that, for some inbound markets, simultaneous achievement of relatively high economic and environmental goals is not possible, and that economic-environmental tradeoffs may be necessary. The results have implications for all destinations which use notions of 'tourism yield' to inform their marketing strategies. © 2007 S. Lundie et al.

Massey, GR & Dawes, PL 2007, 'Personal Characteristics, Trust, Conflict, And Effectiveness In Marketing/sales Working Relationships', European Journal Of Marketing, vol. 41, no. 9/10, pp. 1117-1145.
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Purpose - The key objective of this research is to test how two trust dimensions (cognition-based trust and affect-based trust) mediate the effects of three personal characteristics (psychological distance, the marketing manager's sales experience, and t

Massey, GR & Dawes, PL 2007, 'The Antecedents And Consequence Of Functional And Dysfunctional Conflict Between Marketing Managers And Sales Managers', Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1118-1129.
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Focusing on the working relationship between Marketing Managers and Sales Managers, our study examines two dimensions of interpersonal conflict: dysfunctional conflict and functional conflict. Drawing on relevant theory, we include three communication va

Massey, GR & Kyriazis, E 2007, 'Interpersonal Trust Between Marketing And R&D During New Product Development Projects', European Journal Of Marketing, vol. 41, no. 9/10, pp. 1146-1172.
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Purpose - The primary objective of this research is to test a model examining interpersonal trust between marketing managers and R&D managers during new product development projects. Design/methodology/approach - In this study interpersonal trust as a bi

Masso, M, Bezzina, AJ, Siminski, P, Middleton, R & Eagar, K 2007, 'Why patients attend emergency departments for conditions potentially appropriate for primary care: Reasons given by patients and clinicians differ', EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 333-340.
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Objectives: To compare reasons identified by clinical staff for potential primary care attendances to the ED with those previously identified by patients. Methods: Survey of staff and primary care patients in five ED in New South Wales, Australia using questionnaire based on reasons identified in published studies. Results: Clinicians in the survey identify a broader spectrum of reasons for potential primary care cases presenting to the ED than the patients themselves report. Doctors reported on average 4.1 very important reasons and nurses 4.8 compared with patients 2.4 very important reasons. The main reasons identified by both doctors and nurses were similar and quite different to those identified by patients. Clinicians were more likely to emphasize cost and access issues rather than acuity and complexity issues. There was no difference within the clinician group between doctors and nurses nor by varying levels of experience. Furthermore doctors with significant experience in both primary care and emergency medicine did not differ from the overall clinicians' pattern. Conclusions: These data confirm that clinician perspectives on reasons for potential primary care patients' use of ED differ quite markedly from the perspectives of patients themselves. Those differences do not necessarily represent a punitive or blaming philosophy but will stem from the very different paradigms from which the two protagonists approach the interactions, reflecting the standard tension in a provider - consumer relationship. If policy is to be developed to improve system use and access, it must take both perspectives into account with respect to redesign, expectations and education. © 2007 The Authors.

Mathew, P, Michayluk, D & Kofman, P 2007, 'Are Foreign Issuers Complying with Regulation Fair Disclosure?', Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 246-260.
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Regulation Fair Disclosure (RFD) requires that any release of material information be made to the general public rather than to select individuals. The regulation represents an attempt by the Securities and Exchange Commission to restore a level of fairness to the market. Foreign issuers, however, are currently exempt from this rule. We examine liquidity changes around earnings announcements of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) before and after the introduction of RFD. We find that market makers have adjusted spreads to reflect the new, less information asymmetric environment for U.S. issues, but the same changes are not observed for our ADR sample. Similarly, the decline in activity measures of U.S. issues is not observed in our ADR sample. Our results suggest that investors and market makers are not yet convinced that foreign issuers are complying with RFD.

Matolcsy, ZP & Wright, AP 2007, 'Australian CEO compensation: The descriptive evidence', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 47-59.
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CEO compensation has been well documented in the US in the academic and professional literature. However, despite widespread attention by the Australian business community and the federal government to this issue, descriptive evidence on Australian CEOs' compensation contracts is very sparse. Using a sample of large Australian firms for three years, this study provides the first detailed descriptive evidence on both the levels and structures of Australian CEO compensation. The study compares these findings with those from the US and reveals significant variations in CEO compensation contracts between the Australian and US markets.

McEwen, C 2007, 'An empowering practice?: Questioning the empowerment discourses in Australian performance based community cultural development', Australasian Drama Studies, vol. 50, pp. 123-137.

Milunovich, G, Stegman, A & Cotton, DJ 2007, 'Carbon Trading: Theory and Practice', JASSA, vol. 2007, no. 3, pp. 3-9.
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We present a summary of current initiatives to climate change management including a review of existing carbon trading schemes and the economic arguments supporting those schemes. We also outline conditions under which the existing carbon market structures are optimal as well as those under which improvements upon the current schemes can be made.

Ng, S & Spooner, KB 2007, 'From IR to HRM: Thank God for AACSB!', New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 69-86.

Nguyen, TT, Nguyen, DT & Barrett, NJ 2007, 'Hedonic shopping motivations, supermarket attributes, and shopper loyalty in transitional markets: Evidence from Vietnam', Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 227-239.
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Purpose - This study aims to explore the impact of hedonic shopping motivations (HSM) and supermarket attributes (SMA) on shopper loyalty (SLO). Design/methodology/approach A sample of 608 supermarket shoppers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was surveyed to test the model. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. Findings It was found that SMA and HSM had positive effects on SLO. It was also found that the impact of hedonic motivations on SLO was different between the younger and older, as well as lower and higher income groups of customers. However, no such difference was found between female and male shoppers. Research limitations/implications A major limitation of this study was the use of a sample drawn from one transitional market. Cross-national samples will be a direction for further research. Also, the study focuses on attitudinal loyalty. Behavioral loyalty should be taken into account in future research. Practical implications The findings suggest that the supermarket managers showed concentrate their positioning strategies not only on the utilitarian dimension but also on the hedonic motivations to stimulate SLO, especially for older and higher income segments of customers. Originality/value The major contribution of the study is to empirically examine the role of hedonic motivations in SLO in Vietnam, a transitional market.

Onyx, J & Leonard, R 2007, 'The Grey Nomad Phenomenon: Changing The Script Of Aging', International Journal Of Aging & Human Development, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 381-398.
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This article explores a relatively new and little understood phenomenon, that of the Australian Grey Nomads. Every year increasing numbers of older Australians take to the road. This article explores the phenomenon both empirically and theoretically. A g

Onyx, J, Edwards, M & Bullen, P 2007, 'The Intersection of Social Capital and Power: An application to Rural Communities', Rural Society Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 215-230.
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The central aim of the article is to examine the relationship between power and social capital within the cultural, historical and spatial contingencies of three rural communities in Australia. These communities are West Wyalong NSW, Broken Hill NSW and Maleny Qld. Each has variously experienced the threats of deindustrialisation, revitalisation, and commercial development pressures (Beaver and Cohen, 2004). To understand how these communities have addressed their circumstances we examine each in turn within the overriding analytical framework of social capital. We find that social capital is used in different ways in each community. The article is prefaced by an exploration of the core theoretical concepts: Social capital, bonding bridging and linking and power, followed by a brief analysis of each of the three cases.

Page, L & Page, K 2007, 'The second leg home advantage: Evidence from European football cup competitions', JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES, vol. 25, no. 14, pp. 1547-1556.
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Page, L, Garboua, LL & Montmarquette, C 2007, 'Aspiration levels and educational choices: An experimental study', ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 747-757.
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Pegg, S & Darcy, SA 2007, 'Sailing on Troubled Waters: Diversional Therapy in Australia', Therapeutic Recreation Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 132-140.
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This paper seeks to explore the notion of Therapeutic Recreation (TR) in an Australian context. It does so through first reviewing the historical development of Diversional Therapy (DT) services in Australia and then examining the impact on service delivery of ongoing national reform in the health and community care sectors. The paper suggests that such reforms have created a somewhat fluid state of affairs whereby DT staff need decide whether or not they effectively embrace change and the challenges that such reforms have brought, or accept a substantially lesser role in the overall scheme of Australian health services in the not-too-distant future. With this need for positive (and immediate) action in mind, the paper concludes with a discussion of what it is that DT staff need do to establish a valued place in the Australian health care mainstream.

Perrott, B 2007, 'A strategic risk approach to knowledge management', Business Horizons, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 523-533.
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In today's business environment, strong forces of competition and globalization have created an urgency to focus how an organization controls and nurtures its intellectual capital. The concept of knowledge and its management has gained currency and momentum as technology has enabled thoughts and ideas to be more easily generated and distributed. With increased application of technologies such as the Internet, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and advanced software capabilities, it has been suggested the time has come for discussion of a new paradigm for knowledge management. Toward that end, this article examines the knowledge literature and reviews the experience of a leading private healthcare group, with the objective of gaining a better understanding of the issues that confront effective knowledge management in contemporary organizations. Finally, a tentative knowledge process model is developed herein, one which is intended to guide future discussion in the ongoing knowledge debate.

Perrott, B 2007, 'Industry dynamics in practice: insights from an industry study', Journal of database marketing amd customer strategy management, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 236-253.
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Some researchers contend that it is only through a deep understanding of the possibilities and nature of routine coordinated activity that whole industries can be properly framed and understood. This paper sets out to examine industry dynamics of the Australian private hospital industry regarding factors that will impact industry members in setting business and marketing strategy for future directions. A strategy framework is used to examine the extent of competitive rivalry, the threat of new entrants, the role of consumers, the role of substitutes and the role of suppliers. In discussion, an assessment is made of the industry's attractiveness, implications of the findings for industry managers and an overview of future issues facing the industry.Journal of Database Marketing & Customer Strategy Management (2007) 14, 236-253

Puckett, SM, Hensher, DA, Rose, JM & Collins, A 2007, 'Design and development of a stated choice experiment for interdependent agents: accounting for interactions between buyers and sellers of urban freight services', TRANSPORTATION, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 429-451.
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Quist, J, Skalen, P & Clegg, SR 2007, 'The power of quality models: The example of the SIQ model for performance excellence', Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 445-462.
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Most contemporary total quality management (TQM) practice is influenced, directly or indirectly, by structured, acontextual and standardized quality models. The present paper focuses on the strategic introduction of one such model, namely the Swedish Institute for Quality (SIQ) model for performance excellence, in a Swedish public-sector organization, which we refer to as 'the Authority.' We take our theoretical stance from Foucault's concept of 'power/knowledge.' In describing the case, we focus on the management team of one of the Authority's ten regions. Our analysis shows the members of the management team using the SIQ model to objectify both the organization and themselves as managers. However, contrary to many critical or managerial accounts, the SIQ model was not totalizing: management subjectivities changed but were not entirely reconstituted, and some resistance to them was generated by the members of the management team, in their role as professionals

Rama, D & Massey, GR 2007, 'The Impact of Communication Behaviours on New Product Development Speed and Organisational Learning', International Review of Business Research Papers, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 162-182.
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The purpose of this research is to understand how communication behaviours influence new product development (NPD) speed and organisational learning. Through the use of structural equation modelling, this research tests a model examining the effects of communication behaviours (i.e. communication quality, bi-directional communication, and communication frequency) on NPD speed and organisational learning, and also the effect of organisational learning on NPD speed. The results indicate that communication behaviours had no direct effect on NPD speed; however, each communication behaviour had a significant positive effect on organisational learning, particularly communication quality. Moreover, the results indicate a strong direct relationship between organisational learning and NPD speed. These findings suggest that to increase NPD speed, importance needs to be placed on improving organisational learning within the firm. In addition, our findings suggest that three useful means to improve organisational learning involve improving the quality of communication exchanged between managers within the firm, increasing bidirectional communication, and communication frequency between managers responsible for NPD.

Rammal, HG 2007, 'Communicating Successfully: The Importance of Nonverbal Messages in the Communication Process', Samadhan-The Solution, vol. 10, pp. 21-26.

Rammal, HG & Zurbruegg, R 2007, 'Awareness of Islamic banking products among Muslims: The case of Australia', Journal of Financial Services Marketing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 65-74.
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Rauyruen, PY & Miller, K 2007, 'Relationship quality as a predictor of B2B customer loyalty', Journal of Business Research, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 21-31.
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This study aims to provide a picture of how relationship quality can influence customer loyalty in the business-to-business (B2B) context. Building on prior research, we propose relationship quality as a higher construct comprising trust, commitment, satisfaction and service quality. We believe that these dimensions of relationship quality can reasonably explain the influence of overall relationship quality on customer loyalty. In addition, this study provides more insightful explanations of the influence of relationship quality on customer loyalty through two levels of relationship quality: relationship quality with employees of the supplier and relationship quality with the supplier itself as a whole. Aiming to fully explain the concept of customer loyalty, we follow the composite loyalty approach providing both behavioral aspects (purchase intentions) and attitudinal loyalty. We seek to address three main research issues: Does relationship quality influence both aspects of customer loyalty? If so, which relationship quality dimensions influence each of the components of customer loyalty? And which level of relationship quality (employee level versus organizational level) has more influence on customer loyalty? This study uses the courier delivery service context in Australia and targets Australian Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). We selected mail survey and online survey as the two methods of data collection, and together they received 306 usable respondents.

Ray, T & Clegg, SR 2007, 'Can we make sense of knowledge management's tangible rainbow? A radical constructivist alternative', Prometheus, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 161-185.
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Rhodes, CH 2007, 'Outside The Gates Of Eden - Utopia And Work In Rock Music', Group & Organization Management, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 22-49.
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This article explores how the relationship between work and utopia has been articulated in rock music. Rock is a cultural discourse that provides insight into the tension between representations of utopian imagination with the often hard realities of the

Richardson, G & Lanis, R 2007, 'Determinants of the variability in corporate effective tax rates and tax reform: Evidence from Australia', Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 689-704.
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This study examines the determinants of the variability in corporate effective tax rates in Australia spanning the Ralph Review of Business Taxation reform. Our results indicate that corporate effective tax rates are associated with several major firm-specific characteristics, including firm size, capital structure (leverage) and asset mix (capital intensity, inventory intensity and R&D intensity). While the Ralph Review tax reform had a significant impact on many of these associations, corporate effective tax rates continue to be associated with firm size, capital structure and asset mix after the tax reform. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Roesch, D & Scheule, H 2007, 'Multi-year dynamics for forecasting economic and regulatory capital in banking', The Journal of Credit Risk, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 113-134.

Roesch, D & Scheule, H 2007, 'Stress-testing credit risk parameters: An application to retail loan portfolios', Journal of Risk Model Validation, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 55-75.

Sahli, M, Dwyer, L, Maupertuis, MA & Nowak, JJ 2007, 'Special issue: Island tourism economies and sustainable development', Tourism Economics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 494-498.
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Schlenker, K 2007, 'Social dimensions of community festivals: an application of factor analysis in the development of the Social Impact Perception (SIP) scale', Event Management, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 45-55.
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The increasing popularity of festivals and events, coupled with their positive and negative impacts on host communities, has led to a growing body of research on the social impacts of festivals and events. To date, work by several authors represents research in impact scale development specifically related to the social impacts of festivals and events. This article reports on the scale developed by Small and Edwards in 2003, now known as the Social Impact Perception (SIP) scale, which measures residents’ perceptions of the social impacts resulting from community festivals. The aim of this study was to test the SIP scale using a larger sample, allowing for further refinement of the scale using exploratory factor analysis. This research represents development of the SIP scale, and is in line with the refinement of other event impact scales, to which factor analysis has also been applied. This represents the most recent stage of this research, which has the aim of refining the SIP scale and identifying the underlying dimensions of the social impacts of community festivals. Factor analysis identified six underlying dimensions of the social impacts of community festivals: inconvenience, community identity and cohesion, personal frustration, entertainment and socialization opportunities, community growth and development, and behavioral consequences.

Schwarz, G, Clegg, SR, Cummings, T, Donaldson, L & Miner, JB 2007, 'We see dead people?: The state of organization science', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 300-317.
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This essay responds to John Miner's (1984) assessment of the state of organizational science. Slightly more than two decades ago, Miner found little evidence of a correlation between organizational scholars' ratings of the importance of a theory, its use, and its estimated validity. In response, he suggested the need for organizational science to readjust its goals, paradigms, and basic processes so that it develops as a discipline. Despite this challenge, the intervening years have seen the field become seemingly more paradigmatically fragmented, promoting discussion on its place in the social sciences. The essay presents four reviews in response to what has followed since Miner's original study. It offers a judgment on Miner's evaluation, a suggestion for the field's development, a position paper, and a response from Miner. Combined, the ensuing dialog offers practical suggestions to the problem of a seemingly perennially emerging organizational science

Schweinsberg, SC 2007, 'Contributions to Economic Social Impact Assessment Methods from Psychological Values Analysis: a review', Australian Planner, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 44-51.

Small, K 2007, 'Social dimensions of community festivals: An application of factor analysis in the development of the social impact perception (SIP) scale', Event Management, vol. 11, no. 1-2, pp. 45-55.
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The increasing popularity of festivals and events, coupled with their positive and negative impacts on host communities, has led to a growing body of research on the social impacts of festivals and events. To date, work by several authors represents research in impact scale development specifically related to the social impacts of festivals and events. This article reports on the scale developed by Small and Edwards in 2003, now known as the Social Impact Perception (SIP) scale, which measures residents' perceptions of the social impacts resulting from community festivals. The aim of this study was to test the SIP scale using a larger sample, allowing for further refinement of the scale using exploratory factor analysis. This research represents development of the SIP scale, and is in line with the refinement of other event impact scales, to which factor analysis has also been applied. This represents the most recent stage of this research, which has the aim of refining the SIP scale and identifying the underlying dimensions of the social impacts of community festivals. Factor analysis identified six underlying dimensions of the social impacts of community festivals: inconvenience, community identity and cohesion, personal frustration, entertainment and socialization opportunities, community growth and development, and behavioral consequences. Copyright © 2007 Cognizant Comm. Corp.

Spicer, A & Fleming, P 2007, 'Intervening in the inevitable: Contesting globalization in a public sector organization', Organization, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 517-541.
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Drawing on data from a study of an Australian public broadcaster (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), this paper demonstrates how the marketization of public sector organizations involves a 'discourse of globalization' that legitimates marketization initiatives by making them appear inevitable. This discursive dimension also becomes a site of contestation. We examine three oppositional groups that challenge the apparent inevitability of globalization through a range of discursive tactics. They are surfacing implicitly shared values, appropriating dominant themes of globalization, and recovering traditional notions of public service. The paper explores the socio-political effects of such discursive tactics as they relate to understandings of globalization 'from below'. Copyright © 2007 SAGE.

Tang, Y, Wang, PZ & Zhang, Y 2007, 'Marketing and Business Performance of Construction SMEs in China', Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 118-125.
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This study examines the association between a number of variables pertaining to marketing strategy and business performance of small construction firms in Tianjin, China.

Van de Venter, G & Michayluk, D 2007, 'Subjectivity in Judgements: Further Evidence from the Financial Planning Industry', The Journal of Wealth Management, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 17-24.
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Asset allocation is a critical component of portfolio performance and is a significant component of the advice provided by financial plan-ners. The fiduciary obligation of financial planners is to provide investment advice that is appropriate to a client's personal circumstances. Academic research has found evidence of inconsistencies in advice provided by financial advisors. Using a survey of 352 Australian financial planners, the article also finds inconsistencies in a hypothetical asset allocation decision. These inconsistencies may be attributed to the presence of subjective judgment in the decision-making process due to the presence of various psychological factors such as expectations, traits, and biases, the lack of any standardized method for collecting information from clients, and different assumptions, perceptions, and interpretations based on the financial planner's own knowledge, experience, intuitions, and skill sets. The choice of financial planners influences the asset allocation and ultimately the investment returns and outcome.

Waller, DS 2007, 'Consumer Offense Towards the Advertising of Some Gender-Related Products', Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 72-85.
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Causing people to take offense can occur when a marketer undertakes a controversial advertising campaign. What can make this a particularly important issue is when companies make what for many individuals is a controversial product, like condoms, erectile dysfunction drugs, feminine hygiene products and certain kinds of underwear. Such companies manufacture legitimate products for their target customers, and they need to be able to communicate an effective message to their customers without causing offense that can lead to dissatisfaction, negative publicity, the rejection of the message, boycotts, other forms of complaining behavior, or other unpleasant outcomes. This article presents the results of a survey of 265 university students to examine whether they perceive particular gender-related products as offensive, what execution techniques, if any, lead them to find advertisements offensive, in general, and to calculate correlations to find out any potential association between specific gender-related products and specific offensive advertising execution techniques. The inquiry uncovered a number of execution techniques that were perceived as offensive and there were several statistical differences in comparisons between gender and age.

Wang, J 2007, 'Foreign equity trading and emerging market volatility: Evidence from Indonesia and Thailand', Journal of Development Economics, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 798-811.
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This paper documents a strong contemporaneous relationship between foreign equity trading and market volatility in Indonesia and Thailand. Although foreign selling accounts for only a small portion of daily trading, it has the highest explanatory power for market volatility in both countries. Trading within foreign and local investor groups is often negatively related to volatility. The findings are robust to different sub-periods and different measures for volatility and trading activities. We explore two economic explanations for the asymmetric effects of foreign and local investors

Wang, J 2007, 'Foreign ownership and volatility dynamics of Indonesian stocks', Asia Pacific Financial Markets, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 201-210.
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This note explores how foreign ownership and participation affect the volatility dynamics of individual stocks in Indonesia. After controlling for size and turnover, we show that stocks with high foreign holdings have greater volatility persistence and lead other stocks in the daily volatility changes. The finding holds during and after the Asian financial crisis, and is consistent with domestic investors mimicking foreign trading.

Wang, KY & Casimir, G 2007, 'How Attitudes of Leaders May Enhance Organizational Creativity: Evidence from a Chinese Study', Creativity and Innovation Management, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 229-238.
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It has been argued that a key factor in the development of competitive advantage is the provision of an environment that encourages employees to be creative. Leaders play a crucial role in cultivating an environment that encourages subordinates to be creative. Based on a survey of 219 managers in privately owned enterprises in China, this study investigates how trust in subordinates in terms of their reliability and their loyalty to the leader is related to leaders encouraging subordinates to be creative. The findings reveal positive relationships between these two types of trust in subordinates and leaders encouraging subordinates to be creative. The findings also reveal that attitude to formalization moderated the relationship between trust in subordinates and encouraging them to be creative.

Wang, KY & Clegg, SR 2007, 'Managing to lead in private enterprises in China: Work values, demography and the development of trust', Leadership, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 149-172.
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Wang, KY & Fulop, L 2007, 'Managerial Trust and Work Values within the Context of International Joint Ventures in China', International Management, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 164-186.
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The paper reports on a study of International Joint Ventures (IJVs) in China and provides empirical evidence on how Chinese managers in IJVs, compared with their State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) counterparts, are responding to their new work environments. Changing work practices, in particular human resource management (HRM), are altering the trust dynamics between managers and their subordinates. Changed trust relations pose problems for many Chinese managers originally from SOEs but now working in IJVs. The study examines how Chinese mangersâ perceptions of trust in subordinates are being influenced by the work values in IJVs. Key findings of our study suggest that for these managers, trust in subordinates is related to certain beliefs surrounding work values of centralization, formalization and group orientation.

Wang, PZ, Menictas, C & Louviere, JJ 2007, 'Comparing Structural Equation Models with Discrete Choice Experiments for Modelling Brand Equity and Predicting Brand Choices', Australasian Marketing Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 12-25.
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Brands play an important role in consumers' perception and choice of a product. Measuring brand equity has thus become a topic of growing interest among both practitioners and researchers in marketing. This paper examines the Erdem and Swait (1998) brand equity framework, which is one of the key consumer-based brand equity models developed in the brand literature. Specifically, it investigates the external validity of the Erdem-Swait framework using two alternative approaches: One is based on structural equation models (SEMs) and the other is based on discrete choice experiments (DCE). Four data sets pertaining to four different product categories were collected from the Australian financial services sector to compare the ability of expected utilities calculated from SEMs and DCEs to predict the actual brand choices of real consumers in real markets. Although both models performed well, results showed that the predictions of the DCE models were consistently better than those of the SEMs in all cases. These findings have implications for both academics and practitioners in brand evaluation and management.

Wearing, SL, van der Duim, R & Schweinsberg, SC 2007, 'Equitable representation of local porters: Towards a sustainable Nepalese trekking industry', Matkailututkimus - Turismforskning - Finnish Journal of Tourism Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 72-93.
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Tourism sustainability, as an accompaniment to economic growth from tourism development, is a significant issue in many developing countries. In Nepal, the internationally renowned trekking industry in localities such as Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) brings in tourist dollars for the national and local economies. However, it also has the potential to be detrimental to local communities. In examining the benefits of purely economic sustainability versus a more holistic interpretation of sustainable tourism which includes concern for local populations; this paper is focussed on the representation of local porters by the tourism industry. Through conceptual reference to colonialist tourism discourses we argue that it is only when the myth of tourism is deconstructed that researchers can adequately comprehend the changes that need to be made to trekking industries in Nepal which will allow for a truly sustainable tourism sector to develop.

Xiao, J 2007, 'A method for analyzing strategic product launch', Frontiers of Economics in China, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 458-464.
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This paper proposes a method to analyze how the manufacturers make product launch decisions in a multi-product oligopoly market, and how the heterogeneity in their products affects the manufacturers' decisions on model launch and withdrawal. © 2007 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag.

Adriaanse, JA 2007, 'Chat with the experts: International developments in women and sport', American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Convention, AAHPERD, Baltimore.

Adriaanse, JA 2007, 'Current issues in the international women's sport movement', The International Academy of Sport Science and Technology: Sport Management Seminar for Women, Lausanne.

Adriaanse, JA 2007, 'Fourth World Conference on Women and Sport: Kumamoto and beyond', American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Convention, AAHPERD, Baltimore.

Adriaanse, JA 2007, 'Harnessing the decision making process with women on board', International Women and Sports Conference '07 Proceedings, WSFFM, Kuala Lumpur.

Agarwal, R & Selen, W 2007, 'Drivers of elevated service offerings in collaborative service networks', 3rd Conference POMS College of Service Operations, College of Service Operations Production and Operations Management Society, London Business School, London, UK, pp. 1-41.
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Service industries are radically transforming the manner in which firms operate within the context of globalisation and service delivery mechanisms, thereby creating new service industry and market opportunities. Innovations in technology, integration with computers and telecommunications and the use of internet are viewed not only as a powerful facilitating mechanism for service organizational growth, but also as drivers for creating new service markets.

Agarwal, R & Selen, W 2006, 'Elevated service offering in service value networks: Building dynamic capability', 18th Annual Conference of the Productions and Operations Management Society, Annual Conference on Production and Operations Management Society, POMS, Dallas, USA, pp. 1-35.
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Service organisations create new service offerings that are the result of collaborative arrangements operating on a value network level. This leads to the notion of elevated service offering, implying new or enhanced service offerings which can only be eventuated as a result of partnering, and one that could not be delivered on individual organisational merits. Thus, organisations are faced with important challenges and opportunities which require strategic focus.

Benn, SH, Edwards, M, Perey, R & Dunphy, DC 2007, 'Emergence, complexity and sustainability: A study of the "sub-political arena"', Academy of Management, Academy of Management, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, pp. 1-36.

Bertin, W, Fowler, P, Michayluk, D & Prather, L 2007, 'Price discovery in the option and warrant markets', 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, New Orleans, USA.

Bertin, W, Fowler, P, Michayluk, D & Prather, L 2007, 'The intraday price behaviour of Australian exchange traded options and warrants', Multinational Finance Society Annual Conference, Thessaloniki, Greence.

Bertin, W, Fowler, P, Michayluk, D & Prather, L 2007, 'The intraday price behaviour of Australian exchange traded options and warrants', Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting and Management Annual Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Bird, R & Casavecchia, L 2007, 'Insights into the market impact of different investment styles', Trading Strategies and Financial Market Inefficiency, London, UK.

Bird, R & Casavecchia, L 2007, 'The profitability of style rotation for value and growth stocks along their earnings and momentum life cycle', European Financial Management Association Conference, Vienna, Australia.

Bird, R, Casavecchia, L & Reggiani, F 2007, 'Corporate social responsibility and corporate performance: Where to begin?', European Financial Management Association Conference, Vienna, Australia.

Bird, R, Casavecchia, L & Reggiani, F 2007, 'Corporate social responsibility and corporate performance: Where to begin?', European Academy of Management Conference, Paris, France.

Bjorking, K, Clegg, SR & Pitsis, TS 2007, 'Catching memes: Emerging practices in an alliance program', EGOS, EGOS, EGOS, Vienna.
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Paper presented to The Evolution of Practices track, EGOS.

Bond, DK 2007, 'Student engagement in a first-year accounting subject', AAA Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Bond, DK 2007, 'Student engagement in a first-year accounting subject', 2007 AFAANZ Conference Website, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1-19.
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The aim of this study is to provide further evidence as to what drives student performance. Numerous studies (for example see Launius 1997, Thomas and Higbee 2000, Clump et al. 2003, Moore, 2003 and Gump 2005) have examined the link between tutorial attendance and student performance within a tertiary setting. Whilst the general conclusions are that reduced attendance is linked to decreased performance, these studies are unable to determine whether it is tutorial attendance or some other unobservable factor which influences performance.

Brown, PJ, Matolcsy, ZP & Wells, PA 2007, 'Economic determinants of group versus individual compensation schemes for senior executives', 2007 AFAANZ Conference, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1-66.
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This paper investigates firm characteristics associated with the choice of individual versus group compensation schemes for senior executives below the CEO level. We define individual compensation schemes where senior executives are compensated independently from other senior executives, where incentive compensation is linked to individual performance. In contrast, group compensation schemes are defined where senior executive compensation is jointly determined with other senior executives, with compensation linked to common incentives. This paper is motivated by limited evidence on compensation schemes for senior executives beyond the CEO, limiting critical evaluation of senior executives compensation. Preliminary evidence using Australian data provides support that individual compensation schemes are adopted by firms where individual senior executive inputs (effort) and outputs are separable and observable. We also find support that group compensation schemes are adopted where there are efficiencies from senior executive co-operation and interdependencies between executives, such as in integrated firms. The empirical evidence suggest that there are important differences between how firms set changes in total compensation as apposed to the mix of long and short term incentive components. The findings contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding the determination of appropriate corporate governance mechanisms in the presence of agency conflicts, and especially executive compensation schemes.

Brown, PJ, Matolcsy, ZP & Wells, PA 2007, 'Economic determinants of group versus individual compensation schemes for senior executives', Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, Lisbon, Portugal.

Bruti Liberati, N, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C, Platen, E & Schlogl, E 2007, 'Defaultable term structure models under the benchmark approach', Quantitative Methods in Finance 2007 Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Bruti Liberati, N, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C, Platen, E & Schlogl, E 2007, 'Real-World Pricing for Defaultable Term Structure Models', CREDIT 2007, Venice, Italy.

Buchen, PW & Konstandatos, O 2007, 'On pricing double barrier options', Quantitative Finance Research Centre Workshop: Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Industry, Sydney, Australia.

Buchmueller, TP, Fiebig, DG, Jones, G & Savage, EJ 2007, 'Advantageous selection in private health insurance', Australian Conference of Health Economists, Brisbane.

Burke, PF & Greenacre, LM 2007, 'The Young and the Reckless: Message (In)Effectiveness about the Physical Consequences of Motor-Vehicle Accidents for Young Inexperienced Drivers', Proceedings of the 2007 ANZMAC Conference 3Rs: Reputation, Responsibility and Relevance, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 1152-1159.
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Many marketing communication strategies focus on the physical consequences of accidents to change young and inexperienced drivers’ management of risk and to curb their overrepresentation in fatalities. To assess this approach, we consider a framework of risk with two elements (uncertainty and consequences). We argue that drivers are uncertain about accidents occurring, and that young inexperienced drivers inappropriately cognitively manage this uncertainty by distorting their views on self-risk relative to drivers whom are more experienced or in their own peer group. We present evidence supporting this. We also consider, and find evidence to support the view, that young less experienced drivers are primarily concerned with physical consequences of risky driving behaviour relative to other consequences. It is concluded that the message has “gotten through” to such drivers about this consequence as a result of existing campaigns. Future research should now examine whether a change in theme may bring about further reductions in vehicle accidents among these drivers.

Burke, PF & Reitzig, M 2007, 'Multi-Stage Decision Consistency in the Public Policy Arena: Examining Patent Office Service Quality', XXIX INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, XXIX INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Singapore Management University, pp. 89-89.

Burke, PF, Burton, C, Wise, C, Louviere, JJ & Huybers, T 2007, 'Museum Visitors Care about Everything! Using Best-Worst Scaling for Strategic Focus', Proceedings of the 2007 ANZMAC Conference 3Rs: Reputation, Responsibility and Relevance, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 459-467.
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Museums face similar challenges to those encountered by managers of fast-moving consumer goods. For instance, both must determine what things (factors) attract consumers (visitors) to their products (museums). Several methodologies have been applied in this area to find out what matters to visitors. In general, these methods produce lengthy lists and do not discriminate between items in terms of relative positioning. In this paper, we explore the use of best-worst scaling (BWS) to reduce and to quantify factors in their order of impact or importance. BWS is simple to use, producing results that are easy to communicate to nontechnical audiences, fostering links between research and actionable implications. We use an example with museum visitors to provide insights into the applicability of this technique to the arts sector, its limitations and areas for further research.

Cadman, K, Friend, L, Gannon, S, Ingleton, C, Koutroulis, G, McCormack, C, Mitchell, P, Onyx, J, O'Regan, K, Rocco, S & Small, J 2000, 'Memory-workers doing memory-work on memory-work: Exploring unresolved power', Memory-Work Conference, Memory-Work Conference, UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Carrillat, F, Von, E & Colbert, F 2007, 'Attributions par les Consommateurs de Motivations aux Commanditaires des Arts et de la Culture vs. aux Commanditaires des Sports : Conséquences Attitudinales et Comportementales', 9th International Conference in Arts and Cultural Management, València, Spain, pp. 1-7.

Chan, A & Clegg, SR 2007, 'Total institutions as instruments of cultural genocide & their peculiar echoes in organization and management theory', EGOS, EGOS, EGOS.
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Presentation to sub-theme 10: Genocide, individuals and organization - Choices, actions and consequences for contemporary contexts, EGOS.

Chan, KM, Chelliah, J & Davis, D 2007, 'Study of HRM strategies for empowering call centre staff', Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-15.
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This study of the Accor call centre in Sydney is designed to show how employee empowerment practices that evolved at a time of significant competitive challenge to the business are viewed by employees working as call centre consultants. It also demonstrates how empowerment works both in ess and content terms within this service-oriented environment. The findings confirm that employees view empowerment initiatives as enhancing their motivation levels and as a positive factor that contributes to their job enrichment, organisational learning and higher productivity.

Chelliah, J & Davis, D 2007, 'Linking the psychological contract to success in management consulting', Conference Proceedings 2007 British Academy of Management (CD), British Academy of Management Conference, British Academy of Management, Warwick University UK, pp. 1-11.
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Our underlying proposition is that self-employed management consultants, who meet the psychological contracts of their clients, are more likely to secure further engagements and referrals than those who meet only the technical assignment requirements. We develop three propositions: 1. The importance of the psychological contract in a consulting assignment depends on the engaging executive’s motivation for engaging the consultant. 2. Skills related to emotional intelligence can help the consultant to understand and reveal the psychological motivation and other psychological expectations of the engaging executive. 3. The consultant’s competencies should be congruent with psychological expectations of the engaging executive’s psychological contract for a successful consultancy outcome. A conceptual model of the consulting process that incorporates the key ideas in the paper is presented.

Chiarella, C, Dieci, R & He, X 2007, 'Aggregation of heterogeneous beliefs and asset pricing theory: A mean-variance analysis', ASFA/FMA Conference, Hong Kong, China.

Chiarella, C, He, X & Zheng, M 2007, 'The stochastic price dynamics of speculative behaviour', 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Montreal, Canada.

Clarke, T 2007, 'Convergence and Diversity in Corporate Governance: Different Governance Systems are Better at Doing Different Things', 27th Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Strategic Management Society, San Diego, CA. USA.
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Sessions at this year's conference will focus broadly on issues such as Market and Non-Market Strategies and Globalization, Competitive Strategies, Global Strategies, Knowledge and Innovation and the Practice of Strategy. Other sessions will focus on relationships between the conference theme and strategy process, corporate strategy and governance, and entrepreneurship and strategy. These are topics which, when combined with the influences of non-market forces, can produce discussions charged with sociological, political, ethical as well as economic debates.

Clarke, T 2007, 'Corporate Social Responsibility: The New Business Imperatives?', 'Tip of the Iceberg? The Economics of Sustainability Risk Reporting, Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) Public Summit, FINSIA Public Summit, FINSIA, Sydney, pp. 1-55.
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The Summit examined the economic impact of sustainability risk reporting on companies, investors and the Australian economy. Finsia will also release unique economic modelling conducted by Econtech. The keynote address was presented by Professor Tim Flannery, 2007 Australian of the Year, internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, Professor at Macquarie University, Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council and author of 'The Weather Makers'. Other high profile speakers include: Mr Richard Gibbs, Chief Economist, Macquarie Bank; Senator Grant Chapman, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services; Senator Penny Wong, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance & Responsibility; Mr Chris Murphy, Director, Econtech; and Professor Thomas Clarke, Director, UTS Centre for Corporate Governance.

Clarke, T 2007, 'Institutional Investors And Corporate Governance: The Wolf In Shareholder's Clothing?', EURAM Annual Conference, European Academy of Management Conference, European Academy of Management, Paris, France.
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Management may be viewed as the art of collective action. As a relatively new field in the academic arena, it is a young science, still under construction, borrowing from Economics, Sociology, Psychology, History and many other long established fields. The Paris 2007 EURAM conference will aim at revisiting the complex and controversial relationships that Management has had with Social Sciences and Humanity. Researchers in management are invited to join us in Paris to reflect on the roots of Management, both as a scientific discipline and as a practice. In particular, Management's focus on organisational performance is one of the critical underpinnings that transform the discipline's borrowings from established social sciences into an autonomous field of academic investigation. This raises questions about the degree of subordination vs. emancipation of Management vis-à-vis the basic disciplines from which it draws. At stake in this discussion are the perspectives Management research can bring to such currently controversial topics as economic and corporate patriotism, the profitability of sustainable development, the fleeting or sustainable nature of competitive advantage, or the seemingly unstoppable trend toward globalisation and its consequences.

Clarke, T 2007, 'Institutional Investors And Corporate Governance: The Wolf In Shareholder's Clothing?', Academy of Management Annual Conference, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Academy of Management, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, USA.
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There are many ways to evaluate how well a firm is doing. Many of these are concerned (out of necessity) with the bottom line, focusing on stock prices and financial returns. But developments in other areas, such as the Balanced Scorecard, make it clear that there are multiple ways in which success can be gauged. Furthermore, any measure of success or performance must suffer from some degree of criterion deficiency, so that there are other indicators of performance that could be just as useful. One such indication of performance is the extent to which a firm improves the lives of its members and its stakeholders. Some have referred to this as Social Entrepreneurship but, whatever the name used, it represents the recognition that there is more to corporate success than the financial bottom line. More importantly, there is no reason to believe that a firm which spends it energies trying to improve the world around it, will necessarily suffer for those efforts. In fact, there is evidence that firms which âdo goodâ are often the same firms that âdo wellâ. Furthermore, many of the âbest practicesâ our colleagues from all parts of the Academy have suggested can lead to both financial success and social success. Thus there would seem to be micro, macro and international research topics that are consistent with these ideas.

Clarke, T 2007, 'The Challenges of Corporate Governance Regulation', Strategic Leadership and Vision Beyond Finance, CFO Congress, CFO Congress, Swissotel, Sydney.

Clarke, T 2007, 'The Globalisation Of Corporate Governance? Irresistible Markets Meet Immovable Institutions', 5th International Conference On Corporate Governance: Shareholders And Other Stakeholders, 5th International Conference On Corporate Governance: âShareholders And Other Stakeholders, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham Business School.
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This conference will appeal to academics, policy makers and business/industry professionals. The conference will provide a forum in which delegates can interact and network, with the topic areas being at the forefront of corporate governance developments in an international context.

Clarke, T 2007, 'The Globalisation Of Corporate Governance? Irresistible Markets Meet Immovable Institutions', Academy of Management Annual Conference, Academy of Management Annual Conference Theme: Doing Well By Doing Good, Academy of Management, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, USA.
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There are many ways to evaluate how well a firm is doing. Many of these are concerned (out of necessity) with the bottom line, focusing on stock prices and financial returns. But developments in other areas, such as the Balanced Scorecard, make it clear that there are multiple ways in which success can be gauged. Furthermore, any measure of success or performance must suffer from some degree of criterion deficiency, so that there are other indicators of performance that could be just as useful. One such indication of performance is the extent to which a firm improves the lives of its members and its stakeholders. Some have referred to this as Social Entrepreneurship but, whatever the name used, it represents the recognition that there is more to corporate success than the financial bottom line. More importantly, there is no reason to believe that a firm which spends it energies trying to improve the world around it, will necessarily suffer for those efforts. In fact, there is evidence that firms which âdo goodâ are often the same firms that âdo wellâ. Furthermore, many of the âbest practicesâ our colleagues from all parts of the Academy have suggested can lead to both financial success and social success. Thus there would seem to be micro, macro and international research topics that are consistent with these ideas.

Clarke, T 2007, 'What is the Impact of Government Regulatory and Corporate Governance Requirements on Small Corporations?', Reforming the Regulation of Small Corporations, Corporate Governance Project, University of Canberra, University of Canberra, University of Canberra.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Critical and Discourse Approaches to Power', University of Versailles Presentation, University of Versailles - Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Cutural revolution's peculiar echoes in organization theory', Department of Management, Universidade Nov Presentation, Lisboa, Universidade Nov..
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Presentation to Universidade Nov, Department of Management.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Enacting Ecological and Collaborative Rationality through Multi-party Collaborations', University of Paris-Dauphine Presentation, University of Paris-Dauphine.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'How to publish in top organization journals', University of Paris-Dauphine Presentation, University of Paris-Dauphine.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'In search of the critical in Latin American management/organization studies', AOM, AOM, Philadelphia, USA.
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Presentation to Professional Development Workshop Critical Management Studies Division

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Power in Organizations - A personal view', University of Paris-Dauphine, University of Paris-Dauphine.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Publishing in top-tier journals', Department of Management, University of Innsbruk Workshop, University of Innsbruk.
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Workshop for the University of Innsbruk, Department of Management.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mister Jones?', Keynote address to the British Academy sponsored Workshop on Post-bureacracy and Organizational Change in the Knowledge Society, The British Academy sponsored Workshop on Post-bureacracy and Organizational Change in the Knowledge Society, University of Essex, University of Essex.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Technology, place and practice', Copenhagen Business School Invited Presentation, Copenhagen Business School.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'Ten propositions concerning security, terrorism, and business', Global Business Symposium on Security, Terrorism and Business, Global Business Symposium, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Judge Business School.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'The future of organization studies', University of Innsbruck Public Lecture, University of Innsbruck.
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Public Lecture.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'The futures of power and the end of history', Eastern Academy of Management Meeting Plenary Presentation, Amsterdam.
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Plenary presentation to the Eastern Academy of Management meeting held in Amsterdam.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'The jungle and the academy', Academy of Management, AoM, Academy of Management, AoM.
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Presenting to All Academy Panel on "Good for whom? The enduring debate between Frederick Talyor's Scientific Management Principles and Upton Sinclair's socialist ideals.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'The politics of gossip', Department of Management, University of Bath Presentation, University of Bath.
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For the Department of Management.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'The politics of gossip', The Stockhom Centre of Organisational Research (Score) Presentation, University of Stockholm.

Clegg, SR 2007, 'The politics of rumour in inter-organizational relations', Department of Management, Lancaster University Seminar, Lancaster University.
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Presented to the Department of Management

Clegg, SR 2007, 'When organizational gossip matters: The relation between formulation and gloss', University of Paris-Dauphine Presentation, University of Paris-Dauphine.

Clegg, SR, Pitsis, TS & Bjorking, K 2007, 'The management of large engineering projects: debating a research agenda', Presentation to Professional Development Workshop dedicated to sharing and comparing different research agendas on the management of large engineering (infrastructure) projects, AoM., AOM, Philadelphia, USA.
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Presentation to Professional Development Workshop dedicated to sharing and comparing different research agendas on the management of large engineering (infrastructure) projects, AoM.

Clegg, SR, Toucotte, M & Marin, J 2007, 'Enacting ecological and collaborative rationality through multi-party collaboration.', Academy of Management Organizations, Academy of Management Organizations, Philiadelphia, USA.
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Presentation to Academy of Management Organizations and the Natural Enviornment section.

Clinch, GJ, Fuller, D, Govendir, B & Wells, PA 2007, 'The accrual anomoly: Australian evidence', 2007 AFAANZ Conference, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1-37.
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This paper investigates whether the accrual anomaly identified by Sloan (1996), whereby investors overestimate the impact of accruals on the persistence of earnings exists within an Australian context. While there is general support for the existence of the anomaly in Australia there are a number of idiosyncrasies in the results. First, there is evidence that in Australia investors underestimate the persistence of earnings. Second, there are greater errors in assessing the impact of cash flows on the persistence of earnings than accruals (i.e., a cash flow anomaly rather than an accruals anomaly). Third, returns to the hedged portfolio trading strategy are increasing over the three year period subsequent to portfolio formation. Analysis of these results indicates that they are primarily attributable to a limited number of firm year observations in the extreme positive tail of returns. Additionally, a range of sensitivity tests were undertaken to address the robustness of these results.

Collins, J 2007, 'Cosmpolitan civil societies and immigrant minorities in Australia: Challenges and opportunities', 1st UTS Conference on Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, Sydney, Australia.

Collins, J 2007, 'Ethnic entrepreneurship in Australia: New research findings', 12th International Metropolis Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Collins, J 2007, 'Immigrants in regional and rural Australia', Our Diverse Cities, 12th International Metropolis Conference, Metropolis, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 36-41.

Collins, J 2007, 'The Cronulla riots and social cohesion in Australia', 12th International Metropolis Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Collins, J & Jordan, K 2007, 'Ethnic precincts as built and social environments: Sydney's Chinatown and Perth's Northbridge', 7th International Diversity Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Collins, J & Jordan, K 2007, 'Sydney's Chinatown and Perth's Northbridge as places of ethnic leisure and consumption', Ethnic Neighborhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption, Rabat, Morocco.

Collins, J, Jordan, K & Krivokapic-Skoko, B 2007, 'Diversity beyond the metropolis: Heritage and multiculturalism in regional Australia', 7th International Diversity Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dalton, BM & Teo, ST 2007, 'Experience of nonprofit business venturing in Australia, UK and USA', Proceedings of the Academy of Management: Doing Well by Doing Good, The Academy of Management: Doing Well by Doing Good, Academy of Management, Philadelphia.

Darcy, SA 2007, 'A Methodology for Testing Accessible Accommodation Information Provision Formats', CAUTHE: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology, Sydney., Manly, NSW Australia, pp. 1-18.
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The combined effects of the increased ageing of the population, the relationship between ageing and disability rates and the proportion of the population who have a disability have significant implications for global tourism. Numerous studies have identified that the foundation of any tourism experience for people with mobility disabilities is locating appropriate accommodation. Such studies have identified serious issues with the way that accommodation information is documented, promoted and marketed by the accommodation sector. Other studies have identified that there is a considerable difference between the accommodation sectorâs understanding of access and that of people with disabilities. This research seeks to understand the 'discourse of accessâ between the demand and supply of accessible accommodation. To this point in time, no research has sought to assess the preferred accessible accommodation information formats for this group. This exploratory study presents a methodology for market testing four information formats for the mobility dimension of accessible accommodation. The information formats are based on current practice and proposed information formats. They are: AAA Tourism access icons; Spinal Cord Injury Australiaâs representation of AS1428; floorplan representation; and virtual tours/OSSATE. It is believed that the outcomes of this methodology will provide a suitable foundation for including access considerations as part of the broader Australian Tourism Data Warehouse; developing a business case for this class of accommodation through improved occupancy rates; and satisfaction with the presented information formats.

Darcy, SA 2007, 'Flying With Impairments: Improving Airline Practices By Understanding The Experiences Of People With Disabilities', Beating the Odds with Tourism Research!, TTRA Annual Conference, The Travel and Tourism Research Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 61-70.
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This paper presents an understanding of the air travel experiences of people with disabilities and draws implications for improving airline management practices. The theoretical foundation for the paper is based on applying a social approach to disability to the airline sector. The research design used a modified grounded and phenomenological qualitative approach that sought to understand the experiences of people with disabilities in their own words. These experiences were contrasted to the policies, procedures and operations of the three major Australian domestic airlines. The methods used to understand the experiences involved semi-structured, in-depth interviews that were part of a larger study into the tourism experiences of people with disabilities. Fifteen in-depth interviews were undertaken together with an analysis of the qualitative responses to a broader quantitative study on the same topic. The interviews were supplemented with complaint cases taken against airlines through the Australian Disability Discrimination Act, 1992. What emerged as the âessence of experienceâ was that airline procedures created a newly disembodied experience that transformed a person's impairment into socially constructed disability. The social construction was a product of international air regulations, airline procedures, pressures brought about by the introduction of low-cost airlines into Australia and a new wave of occupational health and safety considerations. The resultant experience for many was one of heightened anxiety, helplessness and, in too many cases, humiliation.

Darcy, SA, Griffin, T, Craig, M, Moore, S & Crilley, G 2007, 'Protected Area Visitor Data Collection and Management: Emerging Issues and Gaps in Current Australian Practices', CAUTHE: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Manly, NSW Australia, pp. 1-14.
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Protected area agencies are charged with the preservation, conservation and management of areas including wilderness, national parks and forests. These agencies are faced with increasing visitor numbers and decreasing budgets at a time where activities like tourism have to be managed alongside their traditional roles as natural resource managers. This paper reports on the outcomes of the first stage of a research project that seeks to guide a nationally consistent approach to visitor use data collection for protected area agencies. First, the paper provides a background literature review of approaches to visitor use data collection for protected area agencies. Second, the paper outlines the participatory action research approach used in the study where thirteen protected area agencies are collaborators in the research process. This approach ensures that the protected areas agencies data needs are central to the research outcomes and recognises the pragmatic organisational cultural issues associated with visitor data collection, management and use. The research process incorporates organisational networking at all levels from head office, regions, branches and individual parks involving management information systems, interviews, focus groups, presentations, briefings and follow-up contact. Third, the paper then presents the emergent themes that examine the issues and gaps in current visitor data collection, management and use systems. The paper concludes with discussion of the challenges to developing a national system of visitor data collection and use.

Davis, D, Connor, RW, Perrott, B, Perry, LJ & Topple, SJ 2007, 'Views from the Front Line: Insights Into the Role and Commitment of casual Business Academics', Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Promaco Conventions, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-12.
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Casual academic staff contribute significantly to the teaching load in many universities worldwide including Australia. However, their contribution and work needs are not always fully recognised. The aim of the research reported here was to investigate the role and support needs of casual academic teaching staff within a business faculty of an Australian metropolitan university. Data was collected through the conduct of three focus groups consisting of casual academics from the faculty and the administration of a questionnaire survey (N=106). The results showed that casual academic had a number of concerns most of which had been reported in the literature. Pay rates were generally considered not to have kept pace with workload, most casuals did not feel part of the faculty and some casuals found teaching classes with high proportions of overseas students challenging. Despite these and other concerns the general level of job satisfaction among survey respondents was high. It was clear that most enjoyed their teaching role. The relationship between casual academics their full-time academic subject coordinators was clearly very important. Satisfaction levels with coordinator support were generally high and perhaps the strength of these relationships is the glue that helps the casual teaching system to work reasonably smoothly.

dela Rama, MJ 2007, 'Private equity and the aged care sector', Paid Care Research Network Symposium: For Profit Providers of Paid Care, Faculty of Education Building, University of Sydney.
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ABSTRACT: This presentation looks at the entrance of private equity into the aged care sector. The 'new' owners in the aged care sector can be characterized by the ownership structure and investment horizon of their corporate entity. As the name suggests, the shares of private equity entities are generally not listed and are held in private hands. Due to the nature of private equity investing, aged care facilities are seen as part of a portfolio of assets. Therefore, the performance of this portfolio depends on the other assets (such as roads, airports, car parks etc). As this is an emergent ownership trend, more research is required to further analyse the impact of private equity owners on the aged care sector.

dela Rama, MJ 2007, 'Private equity enters the Australian aged care system', Aged and Community Services Australia, National Conference and Trade Exhibition, Melbourne.
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I was a speaker at the 2007 national conference of the Aged and Community Services Australia which represents the non-profit and community organizations that provide aged care. I spoke on the entrance of private equity players into the sector. I was the first speaker for the session on Financial Sustainability which was held on the 2nd day of the conference. There were 3 speakers in my session and the session was chaired by the CEO of Aged Care Queensland.

dela Rama, MJ 2007, 'The Impact of Corporate Governance Reforms on Two Asia Pacific Stock Exchanges', 2nd Asia Pacific Economic Business History Conference: Varieties of Capitalist Development and Corporate Governance, Asia Pacific Economic Business History Conference, APEBH, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-32.
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Stock markets and their institutional administrators - stock exchanges - play important roles in âfostering good standards of corporate governance.â (Maasen 1999:80) They are important corporate governance institutions in countries being intrinsically involved in the life cycle of public companies through listing, overseeing, regulating and delisting. In essence, they play a central role in the economic activities of the private sector. According to Summers (1987), financial markets are the wheels of economic growth, and âlocal stock exchanges are the keystone of the financial market-centred model of national economic growth.â (Weber & Davis 2000: 4). Stock markets channel capital, are mechanisms for effective governance, and are a fulcrum for producing institutional and social change within an economy. Firstly, this paper discusses the major corporate governance systems around the world. Secondly, current corporate governance reforms are examined with reference to the profound influence of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance (1999, revised 2004), and the criticism of the Principles. Thirdly, the growth of capital markets from 1990 to 2005 and the dominance of Anglo-American stock exchanges are examined. Fourthly, the state of two stock exchanges in two Asia Pacific countries with differing socio-economic histories is compared: the Australian Stock Exchange with the Philippine Stock Exchange. Finally, the paper concludes with recommendations for the future direction of corporate governance reforms.

Deroy, X & Clegg, SR 2007, 'Events, Ethics and Rules: Beyond Risk Management', EURAM, EURAM, EURAM, Paris.
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Paper presented to the track on Management Ethics and The Politics of Identity at EURAM.

Docherty, PT 2007, 'Monetary policy in a Kaldor-Pasinetti-Sraffa-Keynes model with endogenous money', Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference 2007, New York, USA.

Doiron, D, Salale, V & Savage, EJ 2010, 'The effect of private health insurance on health care utilization', iHEA 6th World Congress on Health Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dwyer, L 2007, 'BEST Education Network think tank VII: Innovations for sustainable tourism', Anatolia, pp. 373-374.
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Dwyer, LM & Edwards, DC 2007, 'Innovation and New Service Development in Tourism', Proceedings BEST Education Network, Think Tank VII, Innovation for Sustainable Tourism, Northern Arizona, USA.

Dwyer, LM, Edwards, DC, Mistilis, N & Roman, C 2007, 'Destination and Enterprise Management for a Tourism Future', BEST Education Network Think Tank VII, BEST Education Network Think Tank, University of Technology Sydney, Arizona, USA, pp. 48-61.
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A key element of a successful tourism industry is the ability to recognize and deal with change across a wide range of key factors and the way they interact. Key drivers of global change can be classified as Economic, Social, Political, Technological and Environmental. This paper explores the way in which these key drivers could affect the global tourism industry to the year 2020. An exploration of these trends allows important change agents, on both the supply side and the demand side of tourism, to be highlighted and discussed. In response, innovative strategies can be formulated by destination managers and tourism operators to avoid strategic drift for their organisations and to develop tourism in a sustainable way.

Dwyer, LM, Edwards, DC, Mistilis, N & Roman, C 2007, 'Gambling with our tourism future: the role of research in destination and enterprise strategies to avoid strategic drift', Proceedings 38th TTRA Conference, Las Vegas, USA.

Eckert, C & Klapper, D 2010, 'Dynamic effects of promotions in choice data: Differences with respect to whether, what and how much to purchase', Marketing Dynamics, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Eckert, C & Klapper, D 2007, 'Modeling whether, what and how much to buy: Is the selectivity bias in quantity outcomes important?', Marketing Science, Singapore.

Eckert, C, Klapper, D & Schröder, A 2007, 'Should retailers carry medium prized and medium quality brands? An empirical investigation of the compromise effect in consumer goods markets.', German-French-Austrian-Colloquium, Cergy-Pontoise, France.

Fam, KS, Waller, DS & Yang, Z 2006, 'Reducing offensiveness of advertising for controversial products: an empirical study of three generations in China', 5th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA), International Conference on Research in Advertising, University of Bath, Bath, UK, pp. 1-5.

Fiebig, DG, Savage, EJ & Doiron, D 2007, 'Modelling dynamic choice: Private health insurance in Australia', Copenhagen, Denmark.

Fine, B, Wang, PZ & Menictas, C 2007, 'Panel differences: understanding research analyses implications of people who belong to multiple on-line panels', The Changing Face of Research AMSRS '07, Sydney, Australia.

Fine, B, Wang, PZ & Menictas, C 2007, 'Panel Differences: understanding research analyses implications of people who belong to multiple on-line panels', Proceedings of Australian Market & Social Research Society 2007 National Conference, The Changing Face of Research, Australian Market & Social Research Society, Luna Park, Sydney, pp. 1-13.

Foley, CT & Hayllar, BR 2007, 'Tourism and community: reflections on caravan holiday experiences', CAUTHE, Proceedings of the 17th annual conference, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology Sydney, Manly Pacific, Manly, Australia, pp. 1-13.

Frawley, SM 2007, 'Sponsorship Legacy and the Host National Olympic Committee: The Case of Sydney 2000', Sporting Traditions XVI: Conceiving, Locating, and Narrating Sports History, ASSH, Canberra.

Garlin, FV, Mcguiggan, RL, Miller, K & Wang, PZ 2008, 'Task Enactment in Goal-Directed Behavior: A New Conception and Operationalization of Task Demands', The La Londe Conference: 34th International Research Conference in Marketing: Marketing Communications and Consumer Behavior 2007 Proceedings, International Research Conference in Marketing, Aix Graduate School of Management, University Paul Cezanne, La Londe les Maures, France, pp. 7-19.
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The nature of tasks undertaken by consumers in the course of decision-making and consumption are an important consideration for researchers and practitioners alike, but on the whole neglected in the literature. In an effort to reinstate its significance, this paper provides a dedicated general analysis of consumer tasks under the tenet of goal-directed consumer behavior. A critique of alternative means by which to classify consumer tasks precedes the introduction of a new conceptualization with a model of task enactment, and a new means to classify and analyse tasks based on task demands. A study currently being undertaken is used to illustrate the development and operationalization of task demands. Some promising preliminary results pave the way for future research endeavours.

Goodall, H, Cadzow, AJ, Bryne, D & Wearing, SL 2007, 'Cultural diversity, heritage and the Georges River National Park', Cultural Heritage: a symposium of the Department of Environment and Climate Change, Maritime Museum, Sydney.

Goodall, H, Cadzow, AJ, Bryne, D & Wearing, SL 2007, 'Gold and Silver: Vietnamese Australians and parks in Vietnam and Sydney', Cultural Heritage Conference, Department of Environment and Climate Change - ANMM, Darling Harbour.

Goodall, H, Cadzow, AJ, Bryne, D & Wearing, SL 2007, 'Nets, Backyards and the Bush: prawns, wallabies and bluetongues: the conflicting cultures of nature on Sydney's Georges River', The Natural History of Sydney, Royal Zoological Society, Taronga Park Zoo.

Goodall, H, Cadzow, AJ, Byrne, D & Wearing, SL 2007, 'People, Politics and Public Nature on the Georges River', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Conference, University of Technology, University of Technology Sydney.

Green, J & Dalton, BM 2007, ''Warm hearted, genuine, compassionate seeks...' An Exploration of Recruitment Advertising for Managers in Australian Nonprofit Social Services', International Employment Relations Association (IERA) 2007 'Working Lives, Working Choices' 15th Annual Conference, International Employment Relations Association Conference, International Employment Relations Association, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK, 8-13 July 2007, pp. 1-22.
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Recruitment practices play a key role in organisational success (Cable & Judge, 1996). Designing an effective recruitment advertisement is critical in establishing the first link to appropriate potential employees (Backhaus, 2004). A consistent finding is that people join, succeed and stay with organisations where there is a strong alignment between the organisational culture and values and the individual’s values and direction. People ‘seek jobs with employers whose moral values match their own’ (Scott, 2000). It is a key in the perfect match.

Griffin, T, Edwards, DC & Hayllar, BR 2007, 'Urban tourism research priorities: Contrasting perspectives of industry and academia', CAUTHE: Proceedings of 17th Annual Conference: Past Achievements, Future Challenges, Tourism - Past Achievements, Future Challenges, University of Technology, Sydney, Manly, pp. 1-16.

He, X 2007, 'Aggregation of heterogeneity beliefs and asset pricing theory: A mean variance analysis', 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Montreal, Canada.

He, X 2007, 'Aggregation of heterogeneity beliefs and asset pricing theory: A mean-variance analysis', International Symposium on Financial Engineering and Risk Management 2007, Beijing, China.

He, X 2007, 'Heterogeneity, bounded rationality, and market dysfunctionality', The Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality Conference: Investing Strategies and Financial Market Inefficiency, Sydney, Australia.

He, X 2007, 'The stochastic bifurcation of a speculative asset pricing model', 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Applied Dynamical Systems, Jinhua, China.

He, X & Shi, L 2007, 'Zero-beta CAPM with heterogeneous beliefs', Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Hingorani, A 2006, 'Clear or glossy? The appearance of magazine ad information in the skincare market', 5th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA), International Conference on Research in Advertising, University of Bath, Bath, UK, pp. 1-5.
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There is limited publicly available information on the advertising strategies of skincare marketers. This is particularly true in Australia, which is a large market for skincare products for women. Moreover, it has been observed that the information contained in skincare advertisements has the potential to be quite misleading and confusing. Consequently, this study examines the type of information conveyed in magazine ads by skincare marketers. Specifically, it addresses the extent to which the headline and body copy of skincare ads from selected women's magazines in Australia are factual ("clear") or antifactual ("glossy"). This is achieved by drawing from the account on antifactual content by Preston (2002, 2003). An advertising content analysis supported the hypothesis that headlines in skincare ads are more frequently antifactual than factual. The hypothesis that the body copy in skincare ads is less frequently antifactual than factual was not supported. From these findings, suggestions for future research are provided.

Hingorani, A 2007, 'The Visual Content of Magazine Advertisements in the Skincare Market', ICORIA 2007 Papers - 6th International Conference on Research in Advertising, International Conference on Research in Advertising, European Advertising Academy (in association with Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1-7.
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Despite the observations that visuals are almost always present in skincare ads, and that they are noticed to a greater extent than the text in these ads, there appears to be virtually no publicly available research that has analysed the visual content of skincare ads. The purpose of this preliminary research is to identify some of the types (or elements) and roles (or functions) of skincare advertising visuals and examine the extent to which they are evident in ads selected from the April through August 2005 issues of four popular women’s magazines in Australia. 24 elements and five functions of skincare advertising visuals were identified, and their presence or absence was assessed in a sample of 52 ads. Due to the exploratory nature of the analysis, future research is required to fully understand the visual content of magazine advertisements in the skincare market.

Ho, HD 2006, 'How Do Low-Price Guarantees Deter Consumer Price Search? The Effects of Branded Variants and Search Costs', ADVANCES IN CONSUMER RESEARCH VOL XXXIV, 34th Annual Conference of the Association-for-Consumer-Research, ASSOC CONSUMER RESEARCH, Orlando, FL, pp. 494-494.

Holmes, K & Edwards, DC 2007, 'Volunteers as Hosts and Guests in Museums', CAUTHE: Proceedings of 17th Annual Conference: Past Achievements, Future Challenges, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Manly, Sydney, pp. 1-9.
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This paper proposes two arguments: one, that volunteering in museums can be considered an extension of visiting; and two, museum volunteers act as both hosts and guests. Volunteers are an extremely important resource to museums worldwide. In addition, there is a clear link between volunteer motivation and the reasons that people give for visiting a museum. This paper argues that museums volunteers are a part of the museum's audience, forming a link between more conventional visitors and paid staff. They are both hosts and guests at the same time.

Hoye, RS, Kuskelly, G, Taylor, TL & Darcy, SA 2007, 'Volunteer motives and satisfaction with management practices in community sport organizations', The 15th Congress of the European Association for Sport Management Sport Events and Sustainable Development, The 15th Congress of the European Association for Sport Management Sport Events and Sustainable Development, The European Association of Sport Management, Torino, Italy, pp. 141-142.

Humphreys, TJ, Leung, LT & Weakley, AJ 2007, 'Challenges in Prototyping Email in Three Dimensions', Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'07), International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia, VSMM Society, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 1-15.
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There are numerous arguments for the usefulness of paper prototyping. It allows the identification and prevention of design problems and usability issues before work begins on an electronic proof of concept (EPOC). It is less costly and more flexible than testing with an EPOC and then amending it after it has been built. However, this project presented challenges in relation to paper prototyping an application that represents email data threedimensionally. Although it was possible to do some abstract prototyping on paper, there were limitations in the extent to which a 3D model could be articulated two-dimensionally. The paper details the authors’ multimethodological approach to developing an application which enables the search, display and filtering of email data beyond the standard functionalities available in conventional email software. Such methodologies included persona development, task analysis, competitor analysis, abstract (paper and electronic) prototyping. This combination demonstrates the utility of Houde and Hill’s (1997) model of developing a range of prototypes within a single project to demonstrate role, look and feel and implementation of a proposed design.

Islam, T, Louviere, JJ & Burke, PF 2007, 'Estimating Preference Distributions From Models of Individual Decision Makers', XXIX INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, XXIX INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Institute for Opeations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Singapore Management University, pp. 6-6.

Johns, R & Perrott, B 2007, 'A study of SST's in Australian banking from a business perspective - Streams for further research', Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-19.
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Technology has dramatically altered the way businesses operate in a Business-to-Business (B2B) context and has had profound influences on services, altering the way services are delivered (Bitner, Ostrom & Meuter, 2002). The increased use of self-service technologies (SSTs) could have a great impact on B2B relationships, yet there is little understanding of this in the literature. Electronic banking is one technology that has streamlined business transactions, encouraged by banks as a way to reduce service delivery costs and improve service quality for customers (Australian Bankers Association, 2000). The importance of developing and fostering relationships with customers has long been regarded as important within services marketing (Berry, 1983) and also within B2B relationships (Ford, 1990). In the 1980s and 90s, a shift in marketing focus has seen an increased emphasis on Relationship Marketing (Morgan and Hunt, 1994). Recently, marketing theory has emerged with a focus on a service dominant logic (Vargo and Lusch, 2004). Therefore it is important to consider both Relationship Marketing and Service Dominant Logic in order to have an increased understanding of the impact of SSTs on business relationships. This is the beginning of a research project aimed at answering the research question “What impact does the use of SSTs have on relationships within a B2B context”? This will be examined in the context of electronic banking, however it is anticipated that this will be applicable in other contexts where SSTs are used by businesses.

Johns, R & Perrott, B 2007, 'The importance of trust in relationship marketing and the impact of self services technologies', Proceedings of the 2007 ANZMAC Conference 3Rs: Reputation, Responsibility and Relevance, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Otago University, Dunedin, NZ, pp. 3386-3391.
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Technology has dramatically altered the way businesses operate in a Business-to-Business (B2B) context and has had profound influences on services, altering the way services are delivered (Bitner, Ostrom & Meuter, 2002). The increased use of self-service technologies (SSTs) could have a great impact on B2B relationships, yet there is little understanding of this in the literature. In the 1980s and 90s, a shift in marketing focus has seen an increased emphasis on Relationship Marketing (Morgan and Hunt, 1994). This conceptual paper seeks to explain relationship marketing, and the importance of building trust in order to develop a relationship marketing approach. Many authors stress the importance of trust in relationships, however, does not consider the impact of self service technologies on relationships. Further research is needed to understand the impact of SSTs on relationship marketing.

Johns, RE 2007, 'Human Resource Practitioners' Perceived Usefulness of the Exit Interview Process', The 9th International Human Resource Conference, International Human Resource Conference, Estonian Business School, Tallinn, Estonia, pp. 1-8.
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This paper aims to gauge Australian HR practitionersa level of awareness and their perceived usefulness of the exit interview process in gauging job satisfaction, commitment and voluntary labour turnover. The results indicate that while a majority of respondents are aware of the benefits of conducting exit interviews many struggled in analysing and utilizing the valuable information generated through the process. It is hoped that through this study that the researcher can not only shed further insight into HR practitionersa perceptions of the exit interview process.

Johns, RE 2007, 'Reflections On The Development And Delivery of an Undergraduate Module That Introduces Students To The World Of Enterprise Negotiations', The 7th Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference, 14-16 November 2007, Caloundra,, Univeristy of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
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This paper reflects on the experience of developing and teaching a new undergraduate module in the subject Managing Employee Relations at the University of Technology, Sydney. The module aims to give business students who are generally in their second year of a three year undergraduate business degree majoring or sub-majoring in Human Resource Management a rounded experience of enterprise negotiations. Students are required to produce a collective enterprise agreement based on their analysis and research of the needs of a fictional organisation. While concerns were raised that this may be an overly ambitious task since most if not all the students are completely new to enterprise negotiations and are concurrently learning the fundamentals of employee relations. The paper discusses the institutional and educational pressures that led to the conception and development of such a demanding module. It describes the process that lead to the development of the module and explains the support mechanisms that have been developed to make it possible for students to succeed. Results are presented that indicate the module succeeds in several ways. It lays a useful practical foundation for later studies and work. It gives scope and encouragement for students to excel and this support mechanism helps weaker students to exceed their own expectations by acquiring skills and understanding that they may think at first are beyond their reach. The paper closes by summarizing the key lessons learned by the authors, which includes insights into the use of formative assessment to motivate students, and greater willingness to experiment.

Johns, RE & Johnson, C 2007, 'The Usefulness of Exit Interviews in Understanding Voluntary Labour Turnover in a Professional Publishing Firm', Conference Proceedings 2007 British Academy of Management - Management Research, Education and Business Success: is the future as clear as the past?, British Academy of Management Conference, British Academy of Management, Coventry, UK, pp. 1-12.
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While various researchers have put forward complex models to aid in understanding and managing the process of voluntary labour turnover for many firms it is the exit interview that often provides the only relevant and practical method for understanding the phenomenon. This paper set outs to find out how useful the exit interview is in understanding the voluntary labour turnover. To do this the researchers have undertaken an exploratory case study within a professional publishing firm that has business operations within five countries throughout the Asia Pacific region. By investigating the usefulness of the exit interview, at the single case firm, it is anticipated that the paper will be able to shed light on not only the usefulness but also the legitimacy of using exit interviews for understanding voluntary labour turnover.

Johns, RE & Johnson, CS 2006, 'Building a career in building: Carerr trajectories among women in the Australian construction industry', Proceedings of the 14th Internaitonal Employment Relations Conference, Family-Friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance, Internaitonal Employment Relations Conference, Family-Friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, pp. 224-235.
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Across the globe women’s participation in the paid workforce has increased exponentially over the past 30 years. This is no less evident than in Australia where there has been a momentous rise women’s participation. In 1964 women comprised 28 percent of total employment in Australia; by January 2004, this had increased to 44 percent (Equity Statistics Australia, 2004). Despite this momentous rise, women still remain under-represented in managerial roles, tending to be clustered in administration and service roles (Palmero, 2004). Women are also increasingly highly educated, and are academically outperforming their male counterparts in university exams, even in subjects with a higher proportion of males enrolled (Palmero, 2004). Yet the starting salaries of female graduates are on average lower than the starting salaries of male graduates.

Johns, RE & Singer, JL 2007, 'Don't Just Say Goodbye; it doesn't have to end this way: investigating the exit interview process within Australian organisations', International Employment Relations Association (IERA) 2007 'Working Lives, Working Choices' 15th Annual Conference, International Employment Relations Association Conference, International Employment Relations Association, Canterbury, New Zealand, pp. 1-9.
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Exit interviews are often portrayed as a good way of identifying a variety of human resource related issues, ranging from undesirable turnover rates to poor supervision. This exploratory study aims to gauge the extent to which Australian organisations are utilizing exit interviews as well as determine HR practitionersâ perceived usefulness of the exit interview process. The results indicate that while a majority of responding organisations carry out exit interviews and that HR practitionersâ are aware of the benefits associated with the exit interview process, many struggle in analysing and utilizing the valuable knowledge and insights captured. It is hoped that through this study that the researchers can not only shed further insight into HR practitionersâ perceptions of the exit interview process but also put forward valuable recommendations that can assist organisations and HR practitionersâ in gathering and utilizing the knowledge and insights captured during the exit interview process in a more constructive and strategic manner.

Jones, G & Savage, EJ 2007, 'Revealed risk preferences and health insurance', Australian Conference of Health Economists, Brisbane.

Jones, G, Gablinger, Y, Propper, C & Savage, EJ 2007, 'Has Australia become obese for the same reasons as the US?', Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jonmundsson, JB, Miller, K & Barrett, NJ 2007, 'A Study of the Personal Orientations of Web-Users for Self-Diagnosis Using General Causality Orientations Theory', Proceedings of 2007 Annual Conference, Association for Marketing and Health Care Research, Annual Conference, Association for Marketing and Health Care Research, Association for Marketing and Health Care Research, Jackson, Wyoming, pp. 1-12.

Jonmundsson, JB, Miller, K & Barrett, NJ 2007, 'Characteristics of Australian Information Seekers of Health Information via the Internet', Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Association for Marketing and Health Care Research, Annual Conference, Association for Marketing and Health Care Research, Association for Marketing and Health Care Research, Jackson, Wyoming, pp. 1-10.

Jonmundsson, JB, Miller, K & Barrett, NJ 2007, 'The Accuracy of Strategic Decisions for Brands of Car and ways of Market Segmentation Using Graded Structure of Categories', Flexible Marketing in and Unpredictable World: Proceedings of the 36th EMAC Conference, Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 1-8.
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The purpose of this article is to identify the role of concepts in categorisation with particular reference to brands of car and approaches to segmentation. The relationship between concepts and categories is between category features and exemplars (Hampton et al. 1993). The terms features and exemplars represent the means by which category members are defined, the latter by which they are represented in categories. Brands of car will have features that clearly distinguish them from other brands. Distinctive features define categories. Categories play a key role in defining competitive arenas. The managerial significance of accurate classification is discussed in this paper.

Kattiyapornpong, U & Miller, K 2007, 'Differences within and between Travel Preference, Planned Travel and Choice Behavior of Australians Traveling to Asian and Oversea Destinations', CAUTHE 2007 Tourism - Past Achievements Future Challenges, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Manly, NSW, pp. 1-12.
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This study seeks to examine differences in travel preference, travel intention and destination choice behavior of an aggregated set of Australian travelers. Additionally the study seeks to relate income, age, gender, life cycle and life style of Australians to the preference, planning and choice of Asian and overseas destinations. A large representative sample of 49,000 Australian respondents is utilized. Binomial regression is used to profile travelers to Asia and overseas in general. Specific significant variables and differences are highlighted. There are consistent relationships between travel preference, planning and choice and the set of independent variables of income, life cycle and life style. Age nor gender are not consistently related to travel planning or travel choice. It is apparent that a combination of demographics, e.g. age, income and life cycle, combined with life style will provide a more valuable basis for segmentation of Asian and overseas travel markets. The study aims to profile potential Australian tourists thereby making a contribution to tourism knowledge and market segmentation practice.

Kattiyapornpong, U, Noypayak, W & Miller, K 2007, 'Perspectives of Individual Firms and Destination Marketing Organizations in the Tourism Networks of Hong Kong and Australia', Proceedings of the 2007 Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, University of Valencia, Valencia Spain.

Klettner, AL 2007, 'Areas for Future Corporate Governance Reform in Australia: Lessons from the James Hardie Saga', Law and Society Conference, Law and Society Conference, Law and Society Conference, Berlin.

Klettner, AL 2007, 'Moving from Unthinking Compliance to Intelligent Engagement in the Reform of Corporate Governance', Law & Society Conference, Berlin.

Kwak, K, Russell, G & Duvvuri, S 2007, 'The Spillover Effects of Reference Price on Cross-Category Choice', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Singapore.
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We apply our cross-category model to investigate how reference prices in one product category influence consumer purchase behavior in other categories. The notion is that a consumerâs subjective judgment of the fairness of the prices in one category influences the choice decision of items in other categories, especially related categories. We build on existing research on reference price effects in choice models in specifying a cross-category purchase model. Our empirical application uses A. C. Nielsen scanner data for four related categories--liquid and powdered detergents, liquid and sheet softeners. Our flexible modeling framework allows us to study how reference price effects are transferred across categories. Preliminary results show that there are significant reference price effects in response behavior in all the four categories.

Lam, D, Lin, B & Michayluk, D 2007, 'Downward-sloping demand curves and liquidity: Evidence from the S&P 500 change to free float', Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

Larssen, AT, Robertson, TJ & Edwards, J 2007, 'Experiential Bodily Knowing as a Design (Sens)-ability in Interaction Design', European Workshop on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement, European Workshop on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement, 2007 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., University of Northumbria, pp. 117-126.

Larssen, AT, Robertson, TJ & Edwards, J 2007, 'The Feel Dimension of Technology Interaction:Exploring Tangibles through Movement and Touch', TEI07, Tangible and Embedded Interaction, ACM, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pp. 271-278.

Lee, KP, Salciuviene, L & Miller, K 2007, 'Understanding the Behavioral Aspect of Internet Users to Customize Internet Banner Ad', 2007 AMA Educators' Proceedings, AMA Educators' Conference, American Marketing Association, Washington, DC, pp. 68-69.
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This study investigates the importance of customizing banner ads to entice higher users’ interactivity and sequentially builds positive attitude towards the brand. This paper proposes that customization of a banner ad depends on the segmenting the consumers by profiling their individual differences in terms of their need for cognition, goal-directed motives, and their preferred information processing strategies (known as behavioral variables) with the purpose of tailoring the advertising content message that embrace their preference for informative and/or entertainment Internet ads.

Leung, LT 2007, 'Networks of Displacement: the role of technology-mediated communication amongst asylum seekers in institutionalized detention', BSA Annual Conference 2007 - Social Connections: Identities, Technologies, Relationships, BSA Annual Conference 2007 - Social Connections: Identities, Technologies, Relationships, British Sociological Association, London.
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The paper discusses the authorâs recent work with refugees in Australian immigration detention centres investigating how asylum seekers use technology to sustain connections with their virtual communities in situations of displacement. It explores the range of technology available to detainees to communicate with the outside world as well as the constraints in the ways that they can be used. The primary research questions were: what kinds of technologies are available to refugees? How are these used? How are their benefits and limitations perceived? What, if any, virtual communities surround these technologies? How are relationships of power surrounding these technologies negotiated? Can technology assist refugees in sustaining connections with their virtual communities and reducing their sense of isolation? Can technology play a role in reducing the well-documented effects of this incarceration by providing mediated social interaction?What are the implications for policy, especially in relation to allowable technologies and surveillance of communication practices? The research attempts to theorise and map detaineeâs community and communication networks using Mark Granovetterâs (1983) ideas about the strength of weak ties. This paper also provides an overview of the gaps in literature which exist in the study of technology use by refugees. It argues that the examination of diasporas in Cultural Studies and Internet Studies has neglected the specific experiences of refugees. In addition, it shows that within Refugee Studies, the means by which asylum seekers sustain virtual networks of communication has had scarce attention.

Leung, LT, Weakley, AJ & Humphreys, TJ 2007, 'Browsing archives in support of non-deliberate sharing', Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities: A Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop, Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities: A Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop, HCSNet ARC Network in Human Communication Science, University of New South Wales.

Lin, L, Michayluk, D, Oppenheimer, H & Sabherwal, S 2007, 'French and U.S. trading of cross-listed stocks around the period of NYSE decimalization: Volume, spreads and depth effects', 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, Eastern Finance Association, New Orleans, USA, pp. 1-41.

Lock, DJ, Taylor, TL & Darcy, SA 2007, 'What changed the minds of Australia's football supporters?', The 15th Congress of the European Association for Sport Management Sport Events and Sustainable Development, The 15th Congress of the European Association for Sport Management Sport Events and Sustainable Development, The European Association of Sport Management, Torino, Italy, pp. 205-206.

Massey, GR & Dawes, PL 2007, 'The Effects of Power and Dependence Asymmetry on Marketing/Sales Working Relationships', Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, ANZMAC, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 1-9.

Matolcsy, ZP, Tyler, JV & Wells, PA 2007, 'The relation between board composition, firm characteristics and the impact of regulation', Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, Lisbon, Portugal.

McDonnell, IG, Faulkner, S & March, M 2007, 'Tourism: Past Achievements, Future Challenges', CAUTHE, Proceedings of the 17th Annual CAUTHE Conference, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Manly.

Menzies, GD 2007, 'Inferential expectations', International Conference on Macroeconomics and Finance, Rethymnon, Greece.

Mercorelli, LR, Michayluk, D & Hall, T 2007, 'Modelling adverse selection on electronic order-driven markets', Seminar Paper, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, Australia.

Meyer, P & Edwards, DC 2007, 'The Future Of Volunteer Managed Festivals - Where Do We Go From Here?', CAUTHE: Proceedings of 17th Annual Conference: Past Achievements, Future Challenges, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Manly, Sydney, pp. 1-9.
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Agricultural shows are community based festivals that represent a majority of festivals staged in rural destinations. These shows are predominantly volunteer managed festivals which are finding it difficult to survive in an increasingly competitive and challenging environment. However little is understood about the volunteer managers of these festivals in terms of their motivation, skills and effectiveness in managing these festivals. To address these issues this paper has three aims. First it will present a review of the literature on volunteer managed festivals. Second the paper presents preliminary findings from a study conducted during 2005/2006 on rural agricultural shows. Third this paper discusses the implications for the management of future rural agricultural shows.

Michayluk, D 2007, 'Liquidity dysfunctionality on the Australian stock market', Investing Strategies and Financial Market Inefficiency Conference, Investing Strategies and Financial Market Inefficiency Conference, Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality, University of technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-27.

Michayluk, D & Neuhauser, K 2007, 'Is liquidity symmeric? A study of newly listed internet and technology stocks', 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, Eastern Finance Association, New Orleans, USA, pp. 1-30.

Michayluk, D & Neuhauser, K 2007, 'Is liquidity symmetric? A study of newly listed internet and technology stocks', 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, New Orleans, USA.

Michayluk, D & Zhao, L 2007, 'Risk changes subsequent to stock splits', 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, Eastern Finance Association, New Orleans, USA, pp. 1-32.

Michayluk, D & Zhao, L 2007, 'Risk changes subsequent to stock splits', 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, New Orleans, USA.

Michayluk, D, Prathier, L, Woo, L & Yip, H 2007, 'Decomposing the bid-ask spread of stock options: A trade and risk indicator model', University of Sydney Microstructure Meeting, Sydney, Australia.

Miller, K 2007, 'The Relationships between Socio-demographic Constraints and Travel Behavior', 5th Bi-Annual Symposium of Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure, 5th Bi-Annual Symposium of Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.

Moore, TS, Johns, RE & Johnson, CS 2006, 'Work/Life balance: Experiences of women in the Australian construction industry', Proceedings of the 14th Internaitonal Employment Relations Conference, Family-Friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance, International Employment Relations Conference, Family-Friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, pp. 37-46.
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Around the world women’s participation in the paid workforce has increased exponentially over the past 30 years. This is no less evident than in Australia where there has been a momentous rise in women’s participation. In 1964 women comprised 28 percent of total employment in Australia; by January 2004, this had increased to 44 percent (Equity Statistics Australia 2004). Despite this momentous rise, women still remain under-represented in managerial roles, tending to be clustered in administration and service roles (Palmero, 2004).

Newman, AL, Lings, IN, Gudergan, S & Noguti, V 2007, 'Relational Orientation versus Firm Orientation: Want versus Should', Proceedings of the 2007 ANZMAC Conference 3Rs: Reputation, Responsibility and Relevance, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Otago University, Dunedin - NZ, pp. 235-243.
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This paper provides insights into employee decision making when there is a conflict between doing what is best for the firm (firm orientation) and doing what is best for one’s interpersonal relationship with an external stakeholder representative (relational orientation). We apply construal level theory (Liberman and Trope, 1998; Trope and Liberman, 2003) to propose a framework that explains the effects of psychological distance dimensions on an employee's choice to act either in the best interests of their interpersonal relationships (what they want to do), or their firm (what they should do).

Ng, S 2007, 'University Staff: Learn to dance again: a literature review', Regional, National, Global: Emerging Trends in Employment Relations - Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference, Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference, Caloundra, Australia.

Ng, S & Spooner, KB 2007, 'Actioning the Faculty's Strategic Goal: Developing work ready graduates through the study of HRM', Regional, National, Global: emerging trends in employment relations, The 7th Annual Pacific employment Relations Association Conference 14-16 November 2007, Caloundra, Australia.

Nguyen, DT & Barrett, NJ 2007, 'Signaling in Importer-Exporter Relationships: Evidence from Vietnam', Exploiting the b2b Knowledge Network: New Perspectives and Core Concepts, The 23rd IMP Conference, Manchester Business School, Manchester Business School, Manchester, pp. 1-12.

Nguyen, DT, Nguyen, TT & Barrett, NJ 2006, 'Consumer Choices Based on Signals: The Case of Mobile Phone Services in Vietnam', Borderless Consumption: Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research Volume 7, ACR 2006 Sydney, Association for Consumer Research, Sydney, pp. 395-399.

Nguyen, T, Barrett, NJ & Nguyen, DT 2007, 'Signaling Theory in Exporter-Importer Relationships', ImpaCct of Technology on International Marketing Practice and Scholarship, CIMaR 2007 - Consortium for International Marketing Research, Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK, pp. 1-4.

Nguyen, V & Johns, RE 2006, 'Gazing over Rough Terrain: A Review of Australia's New Industrial Relations Landscape', Proceedings of the 14th Internaitonal Employment Relations Conference, Family-Friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance, Internaitonal Employment Relations Conference, Family-Friendly Employment Policies and Practices: An East-West Perspective on Work-Life Balance, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, pp. 228-235.
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Australia’s industrial relations system, like the New Zealand system, for much of the twentieth century has been operating under the ‘arbitral’ model, that is the arbitration institution “played a central role in determining outcomes where the parties were unable to determine them themselves or where the outcomes determined by the parties would be against the public interest” (Peetz 2005b). This system is in contrary to the ‘bargaining’ system employed by most other industrialised nations (Peetz 2005b). In the 1990s, with increasing demands and pressures for Australia to maintain its competitive advantage on the global scale, it was deemed necessary to readapt the industrial relations systems and deregulate the labour market. These changes were considered necessary if Australia was to shift and develop into a more ‘flexible’ and productive nation. This new movement of industrial relations reforms came initially in 1996, with the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (WR Act). The WR Act involved some compromise between the Coalition government and the Democrats. It introduced registered individual contracts in the forms of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs). These AWAs were to be subjected to the ‘no disadvantage’ test (NDT) which was to be applied by the new statutory authority known as Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA). The intention of the NDT was to ensure that AWAs leave employees no worse off than what they would be under their current relevant award.

Nguyen, V & Johns, RE 2006, 'Sydneysiders' Reactions to the Changes in the New Industrial Relations Regime', 6th Annual Conference of the Pacific Employment Relations Association Adelaide, Australia, 15-17 November 2006, The 6th Annual PERA Conference - Emerging Issues in Employment Relations, University of South Australia, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 1-18.
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Australiaâs new Industrial Relations (IR) reform package, WorkChoices, which officially began on the 27th of March 2006 foreshadowed significant change in Australianâs IR system. Though the new changes are merely an amendment to the previous Workplace Relations Act 1996, the changes are nevertheless radical. The government envisages that through these changes it will be able to make Australia more competitive in the global market. The objectives of the legislation are to create more jobs and increase the overall standard of living for Australian workers. The aim of the paper is to firstly examine previous empirical and analytical research in the field of IR within Australia in an effort to understand the future direction of IR, it then goes on to present the findings of a questionnaire conducted by the researchers on the initial reactions of Sydneysiders towards the recent changes. The results reveal that a majority of Sydneysiders regard WorkChoices as damaging for not only their own employment terms and conditions but for the future prospects of the Australian workforce in general.

Nikolova, N, Reihlen, M & Schlapfner, J 2007, 'Models of the Client-Consultant Interaction and their Empirical Relevance to the Consulting Practice', 23rd EGOS Colloqium, EGOS Colloqium, EGOS, Vienna, pp. 1-35.

Noguti, V & Onay, S 2007, 'Saving fun for a boring future', Proceedings of the 2007 ANZMAC Conference 3Rs: Reputation, Responsibility and Relevance, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Otago University, Dunedin, NZ, pp. 2307-2313.
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We discuss how experiences that fill a future waiting period, such as focusing on fun or boring future activities, affect intertemporal choices. We propose that savoring, the positive utility derived from anticipating future pleasant outcomes, is more likely to have an impact on intertemporal choices when the future seems boring than when it seems fun. We provide empirical evidence that people who foresee a busy future full of boring activities are more likely to prefer to delay rewards than people who foresee a future not so busy with boring activities.

Noguti, V & Soll, JB 2007, 'Inferences of interpersonal preference similarity based on unrelated product categories', Advances in Consumer Research, Association for Consumer Research Conference, Association for Consumer Research, Memphis - US, pp. 801-802.

Noguti, V & Soll, JB 2007, 'People who bought this also bought that', European Advances in Consumer Research, Association for Consumer Research - Europe, Association for Consumer Research, Milan - Italy, pp. 366-367.

Norman, R, Cronin, PA, Viney, RC, King, MT, Street, D, Brazier, JE & Ratcliffe, J 2007, 'Issues in the valuation of health using multi-attribute utility measures; the EQ-5D', Australian Conference of Health Economists, Brisbane.

Ossimitz, M & Wieder, B 2007, 'Determinants of ERPS-Fit and Impact on Firm Performance', International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting and Logistics (ICESAL) 2007, International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting and Logistics, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece, Corfu Island, Greece, pp. 25-52.
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Despite the large number of publications addressing ‘critical success factors’ of ERP software implementations, very little is actually known about the impact of organizational fit of ERP systems on ERP implementation success (in terms of increased organizational performance). Our objective is to investigate the role of ERP fit in the implementation and operation of ERPS; we do so by developing and testing a model which (a) identifies the determinants of ERP fit and (b) links ERP fit to organizational performance. Our research builds on data which was collected through a large-scale mail survey and telephone interviews in an earlier research project in 2001. Our key findings suggest that the adoption and use of ERPS does lead to firm performance increases already within one year after the go-live date, and is then sustained over a period of at least another two years. One of the key determinants of sustained performance increases is the organizational fit of the ERPS, which is again driven by software quality and the quality of the integration (adaptation) mechanisms.

Pattinson, HM & Sood, SC 2007, 'Marketers Inventing the Future: Scenario Planning for Marketing Action', Foresight 2007 Conference Papers, Foresight 2007, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, pp. 1-14.

Perey, R, Dunphy, DC, Edwards, M & Benn, SH 2007, 'Landcare and the livelihood of knowledge', Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-17.
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This paper explores how communities generate effective ecological solutions using both implicit narrative construction and explicit processes of knowledge creation and knowledge application. We argue that the act of developing a narrative frames our understanding of the environment and governs our relationship with our environment. We identify micro-narratives extracted from the interviews with members of Australian Landcare organizations and link these micro-narratives to knowledge creation and dissemination processes. We conclude that social change toward sustainability comes about through the rewriting of the environmental story within which we situate ourselves.

Perrott, B 2007, 'Gaining Insights from an Industry Study; Industry Dynamics in Practise', Conference Proceedings 2007 British Academy of Management, British Academy of Management Conference, British Academy of Management, Warwick, UK, pp. 1-19.
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Some researchers contend that only through a deep understanding of the possibilities and nature of routine coordinated activity, that whole industries be properly framed and understood This article sets out to demonstrate the practical advantage of conducting a focused examination of industry dynamics with a case example. The process acts as an important foundation for industry members in setting business and marketing strategy for future directions. Data for this article has been collected from a wide range of secondary and primary sources. A strategy framework is used to examine the extent of competitive rivalry, the threat of new entrants, the role of consumers, the role of substitutes, and the role of suppliers. In discussion, an assessment is made of the Industry’s attractiveness, implications of the findings for industry managers and an overview of future issues facing the case Industry.

Perrott, B 2007, 'Industry dimensions of knowledge management: Insights from an industry study', Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-15.
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Strong forces of competition and globalisation have created awareness and an urgency to focus how an organisation controls and nurtures its intellectual capital. The knowledge concept and its management have gained currency and momentum as technology has enabled thoughts and ideas to be more easily produced and distributed. With the increased application of recent technologies such as the Internet, CRM and advanced software capabilities, it has been suggested that the time has come for a debate on a new paradigm for knowledge management. As a contribution to this debate, this paper will examine exploratory research conducted in the Australian private hospital industry with a view to better understand issues related to knowledge management from an industry perspective.

Perrott, B 2007, 'Knowledge Management from an Industry Perspective', Conference Proceedings 2007 British Academy of Management, British Academy of Management Conference, British Academy of Management, Warwick, UK, pp. 1-18.
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Strong forces of competition and globalisation have created awareness and an urgency to focus how an organisation controls and nurtures its intellectual capital. The knowledge concept and its management have gained currency and momentum as technology has enabled thoughts and ideas to be more easily produced and distributed. It gained considerable discussion in the late 1990’s in the management literature. With the increased application of recent technologies such as the Internet, customer relationship management and advanced software capabilities, it has been suggested that the time has come for a debate on a new paradigm for knowledge management. As a contribution to this debate, this paper will examine exploratory research conducted in the Australian private hospital industry with a view to better understand issues related to knowledge management from an industry perspective.

Perrott, B 2007, 'Strategic Management in Turbulent Environments', Conference Proceedings 2007 British Academy of Management, British Academy of Management Conference, BAM, Warwick, UK, pp. 1-7.
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Organisations face a challenging future where managers will need to work smarter to achieve growth and profit targets. Senior managers and boards perceive the market place as becoming more complex and challenging. As environmental turbulence increases, strategic issues emerge more frequently that challenge the way an organisation plans and implements its strategy. It also brings into question responsibilities, the balance of power and decision making between those who manage and those who govern. It would be useful for management and board members to discuss perceptions of environmental turbulence from time to time. This would enable a meeting of the minds regarding the strategic position and future directions of the organisation. Strategic issue processing techniques present the opportunity for managers to identify issues and plan appropriate actions which will enable them to maintain an alignment with the demands of the external environment no matter how turbulent.

Professor Ronald Geoffrey Bird, R & Casavecchia, L 2007, 'The probability of style rotation for value and growth stocks along their earnings and momentum life cycle', 2007 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Financial Management Association, Orlando, Florida, pp. 1-27.

Professor Ronald Geoffrey Bird, R, Casavecchia, L & Woolley, PK 2007, 'The impact of the interaction of managers and clients on market price', Investing Strategies and Financial Market Inefficiency Conference, Investing Strategies and Financial Market Inefficiency Conference, The Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-27.

Quist, J, Skallen, P & Clegg, SR 2007, 'The power of quality models', Academy of Management Critical Management Studies section, AoM, AOM, Philadelphia, USA.
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Presented to session on Critical Perspectives on Mergers, Quality and Knowledge work, AoM.

Rama, D & Massey, GR 2007, 'The Impact of Communication Quality and Frequency on Organisational Learning during New Product Development', Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, ANZMAC, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 1-9.

Rauyruen, PY & Miller, K 2007, 'Service Quality and its contribution to Price Premium though Service Loyalty: a B2B Perspective', Proceedings of the 23rd IMP Conference: Exploiting the b2b knowledge network: New perspectives and core concepts, The IMP Conference, Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK, pp. 1-8.
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A steady stream of sales revenue for a service provider can be achieved through having superior market performance outcomes such a high price premium. Among the variables underlying customer relationships is the perceptions of quality received. However for relationships to be mutually profitable the customer’s willingness to pay must be taken into account (Ravald and Gronroos (1996). This indicator of market performance outcomes is directly related to service loyalty (Aaker 1991, 1996; Chaudhuri and Holbrook 2001). Achieving and maintaining a high price premium through attracting and retaining a loyal customer base is particularly significant in a business-to-business market. Nevertheless, there are opposing viewpoints in that loyal customers are not always seen as profitable despite arguments that loyalty makes customers less price sensitive.

Rhodes, CH, Clegg, SR & Pullen, A 2007, ''If I should fall from grace....': Narrative, Ethics, and Organizational downsizing', European Academy of Management 2007 Conference, European Academy of Management, EURAM, Paris, France.
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Paper presented to the track on Management Ethics and the Politics of Identity at EURAM.

Richardson, G & Lanis, R 2007, 'The impact of tax reform on corporate capital investment: Evidence from Australian panel data', 2007 AFAANZ Conference, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1-22.
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We examine the impact of tax reform on corporate capital investment in Australia spanning the Ralph Review of Business Taxation reform. Based on panel data, our results indicate that corporate capital investment reduced because of the tax reform. The negative effects of the removal of accelerated depreciation exceeded the positive effects of the decrease in the corporate tax rate, hence corporate capital investment declined. Moreover, the decline was broad-based as it occurred across all major industry sectors. These findings remain robust to an alternate measure of corporate capital investment.

Richardson, G & Lanis, R 2007, 'The impact of the Ralph review of business taxation reform on coprorate capital investment in Australia: Evidence from panel data', Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, Lisbon, Portugal.

Rose, J, Hensher, DA & Hess, S 2007, 'Examination of Respondent reported attribut processing strategies in stated choice experiments constructed from revealed preference data.', Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., U.S.A..

Savage, EJ & Lu, M 2007, 'Do financial incentives for supplementary private health insurance reduce pressure on the public system? Evidence from Australia', Copenhagen, Denmark.

Schlenker, K 2007, 'Residents' perceptions of the social impacts of community festivals: a cluster analysis', Proceedings of the Fourth International Event Research Conference, International Event Research Conference, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-11.
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This paper reports on the findings from a wider PhD study which examines residents' perceptions of the social impacts of community festivals. A survey of residents was undertaken in two communities, which each host a small community festival. Residents were clustered based on their demographic and behavioural characteristics, to identify distinct subgroups of the community who feel differently about a festival. This research examines the usefulness of demographic and behavioural segmentation of the host community rather than segmentation based on perceptions of impacts, where much previous research in the field has been conducted to date (Davis, Allen & Cosenza, 1988; Ryan & Montgomery, 1994; Madrigal, 1995; Fredline & Faulkner, 2000; Weaver & Lawton, 2001; Williams & Lawson, 2001).

Schweinsberg, SC, Wearing, SL & Darcy, SA 2007, 'Exploring community sustainability potential in nature based tourism: The far south coast nature tourism and recreation plan', Proceedings of the 17th Annual CAUTHE Conference, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Manly, Australia, pp. 1-13.
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Often nature tourism development is viewed as a path to changing the economic industry base, security, and by implication towards creating community sustainability in rural areas. This paper argues that a sole focus on economic growth is too narrow a representation of the linkages between the tourism industry and host communities. It asserts that community sustainability is better seen as an integrating, encompassing concern for the cultural, social, economic and environmental sustainability potential of the community in a particular locality. The objectives of the 2004 Far South Coast Nature Tourism and Recreation Plan are presented as a means of illustrating the challenge in developing a sustainable future for Australian rural communities.

Scotti, M 2007, 'Mutual funds, career concerns and trade volume', Investing Strategies and Financial Market Inefficiency Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Scotti, M 2007, 'Mutual funds, career concerns and trade volume', EEA/ESEM Congress, Budapest, Hungary.

Sivabalan, P, Booth, PJ & Malmi, T 2007, 'Budget participation and budget emphasis in low uncertainty conditions - Considering alternative reasons to budget', Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, Lisbon, Portugal.

Sivabalan, P, Booth, PJ & Malmi, T 2007, 'Budget participation and budget emphasis in low uncertainty conditions - Considering alternative reasons to budget', 2007 AFAANZ Conference, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1-33.
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This case study investigates how lower budget participation may be better suited to firms with a high budget emphasis, in lower uncertainty conditions. The organisation studied generates greater benefits when budget participation is low, though it has a high budget emphasis. This result is opposite to that found in Lau, et.al. (1995). The reason for this difference is shown to arise because budget emphasis in the case firm is not primarily related to performance evaluation as defined in prior budget research (Hopwood, 1972). Instead, the main reason for budgeting is operational planning (Hansen and Van der Stede, 2003), and this difference is shown to lead to the opposing findings. When budgets are used primarily for operational planning, their relationships to organisational antecedents appear to be different than when used for performance evaluation.

Sivabalan, P, Brown, DA, Booth, PJ & Malmi, T 2007, 'An exploratory study of operational reasons to budget', An exploratory study of operational reasons to budget, European Accounting Association, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1-1.

Small, J & Onyx, J 2000, 'Memory-Work: An Introduction', Memory-Work Conference, Memory-Work Conference, http://hdl.handle.net/2100/412, Sydney.

Small, J, Darcy, SA & Packer, T 2007, 'Beyond a visual gaze: Tourist experiences of individuals with vision impairment', The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Promoting an Academy of Hope: Proceedings of the Second International Critcal Tourism Studies Conference, Second International Critcal Tourism Studies Conference, UWIC, Waginenen University and Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Split, Croatia, pp. 348-355.

Spooner, KB & Ng, S 2006, 'Implications of AACSB quality assurance for teaching and learning in HRM', The Sixth Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference Proceedings, The Sixth Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 254-264.
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Since 2002, a review of subjects taught in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has resulted in significant changes to the nature and implications of quality assurance processes relating to the teaching and learning of MBA core units. In particular, efforts to achieve accreditation with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) resulted in the development of key learning goals (KLGs) for each of the core units of the MBA which needed to be effectively integrated into a coherent set of KLGs for the overall program. The requirement to report on the assurance of KLGs provided a new quality assurance technique for this program.

Stegemann, N, Denize, SM & Miller, K 2007, 'Measuring Consumers' Attitudes to Luxury', The La Londe Conference 34th International Research Conference in Marketing: Marketing Communications and Consumer Behavior 2007 Proceedings, International Research Conference in Marketing, Aix Graduate School of Management, University Paul Cezanne, La Londe les Maures, France, pp. 81-89.
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Since the 90’s, there has been an increasing interest in the concept of luxury and luxury brand management. In this paper we focus on attitudes towards the concept of luxury and aim to identify the limitations of the extant measure proposed by Dubois & Laurent (1994). Our focus on a generalised attitudinal measure is particularly relevant given the significance of attitudes and perceptions in forming brand equity, and its role in the consumers’ purchase decisions. Using a panel of expert judges we reviewed the validity of the measure. We then considered the reliability by reviewing other studies and subsequently performed our own reliability checks using a small study (n=139) of Australian business students. Our analysis highlights concerns with the validity and reliability of the scale initially developed by Dubois & Laurent (1994). Thus, we advocate a complete revision of the measure following Rossiter’s scale development procedure C-OAR-SE (2002). The paper concludes with a proposed framework to be further tested using Rossiter’s (2002) approach.

Supornpraditchai, T, Miller, K, Lings, IN & Jonmundsson, JB 2007, 'Employee-Based Brand Equity: Antecedents and Consequences', Proceedings of the 2007 ANZMAC Conference 3Rs: Reputation, Responsibility and Relevance, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 1723-1733.

Sutcliffe, PJ, Solomon, AI & Edwards, J 2007, 'Finding the Population variance of Costs over the Solution Space of the TSP in Polynomial Time', Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS, WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, WSEAS Conference Proceedings, Dallas, Texas, pp. 23-28.

Tomkin, DF, Thomas, LE, Day, MB, Burke, PF, Franklin, J, Smith, G, Louviere, JJ & Street, D 2007, 'Solar Light for rooms without windows', Sustainable Innovation 07, Farnham, Surrey, UK.

Van Gool, K, Vu, M, Savage, EJ, Haas, MR & Birch, S 2007, 'Equitable use of breast screening services in NSW: The role of income, age and locality', 29th Australian Conference for Health Economists, Brisbane.

Veal, AJ 2007, 'Planning for future â with particular emphasis on urban parks', NSW Parks and Leisure Australia Conference: Parks for the Future, Wollongong.
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Planning for future leisure provision involves a number of inputs: one of these is the assessment of current and future demand. Demand for leisure activity is, however, not fixed but is affected by a wide range of factors, including: socio-economic and demographic change; local traditions; and the quantities, distribution and qualities of existing facilities and their management, promotion and marketing. All this is well known and is often documented in local plans. But the methodology for translating quantitative demand data into quantitative facility requirements is relatively undeveloped. While the process of translating participation rates into facility requirements is relatively straightforward for many leisure activities and facilities, it is problematical for informal recreation which takes place in urban parks. The paper considers ways in which his problem might be addressed.

Veal, AJ 2007, 'The right to leisure', Parks and Leisure Australia 2007 National Conference; âA Pivotal Roleâ, Townsville, Qld.
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The right to >rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay= is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The principle of the

Veal, AJ 2007, 'Working Hours and the desire for leisure and consumption', Leisure Studies Association conference: Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?, Eastbourne, UK.
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In 1969 John D. Owen published The Price of Leisure: An Economic Analysis of the Demand for Leisure Time, which examined influences on trends in work time and leisure time in the United States from 1900 to 1961. These influences included the development of the commercial recreation industry, education, commuting time, working conditions, unemployment, and fatigue arising from work. Owen showed that reductions in working hours â and hence the emergence of a âleisure societyâ â do not follow automatically from economic growth. A number of authors, including Juliet Schor, Peter Taylor and Chris Gratton, have since addressed the issues raised by Owen and, in part, extended his empirical analysis using more recent data and data from countries other than the United States. One conclusion from these more recent analyses is that trends in the patterns of work and leisure arising from economic development appear to vary significantly between countries. Thus, while Owenâs analysis was exemplary, his empirical conclusions do not necessarily apply outside of the United States. This paper uses OECD data to explore differences in the relationships between paid working hours, leisure and consumption in a number of OECD countries.

Viney, RC, Savage, EJ, King, MT & Hossain, I 2007, 'Using choice experiments to estimate QALYs: An application to prostate cancer', iHEA 6th World Congress on Health Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Viney, RC, Savage, EJ, King, MT & Hossain, I 2007, 'Using choice experiments to estimate QALYs: An application to prostate cancer', Australian Conference of Health Economists, Brisbane.

Vu, M, Van Gool, K, Savage, EJ, Haas, MR & Birch, S 2007, 'The role of income and locality in breast screening participation', 5th Health Services & Policy Research Conference, Auckland.

Waller, DS & Lanis, R 2007, 'Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: An Exploratory Study of the Top 10 Media Organisations', Proceedings of the 2007 ANZMAC Conference 3Rs: Reputation, Responsibility and Relevance, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 2847-2854.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an issue of growing interest in the business world, and many large, multinational companies, including media organisations, are voluntarily disclosing information regarding their CSR activities. While there is criticism of the ethical values of “the media”, some media organisations are using CSR to promote a positive side of their business. This exploratory study observes what the leading media organisations are doing in terms of CSR activities to propose a CSR disclosure index for the media industry, and discusses some implications for other organisations.

Waller, DS, Fam, K, Christy, TP & Barrett, NJ 2007, 'Perceptions of Offensive Advertising Elements: A China-US Comparison', Flexible Marketing in and Unpredictable World: Proceedings of the 36th EMAC Conference, Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 1-8.
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China is a country that is arousing a large amount of interest as a new mega-market, as it opens itself to a market-orientated economy and expands at a remarkable rate. However, the influx of international investment, new business opportunities and advertising from overseas has seen Chinese consumers being exposed to potentially offensive advertising products and images. While some products and images may seem acceptable in the West, there are some that may offend Chinese cultural sensitivities. The overall purpose of this study is to better understand cross-cultural advertising offensiveness by comparing perceptions of advertising offensiveness between United States and Chinese residents, specifically college students. The results indicate that there are a number of statistical differences that have business implications for international marketers.

Waller, DS, Wang, PZ, Oppewal, H & Morrison, MD 2007, 'Information Acceleration Effects on New Product Purchase Intention: The Case of Blu-Ray DVD Recorders', Proceedings of 2007 Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, ANZAM, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 1-8.
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The availability of relevant information is an important factor when customers are evaluating the purchase of a new technology. Information can be obtained from a range of sources, with varying levels of trustworthiness. This paper presents some findings regarding how different media are perceived and the effect of media exposure on purchase intent in the DVD recorder category. In an online survey regarding consumer preferences for DVD recorders respondents were exposed to different media with information either supporting the new Blu-ray or HDDVD disc technology. The paper presents results regarding the effects of this implementation of Information Acceleration (IA) on purchase intention and media trust. It is found that consumers exposed to positive information about Blu-Ray are significantly more inclined to consider purchasing a recorder with Blu-Ray technology.

Wang, KY 2007, 'Resource Acquisition: Effect of Commitment and Social Capital in China', Proceedings of the ANZIBA Conference 2007, Australia and New Zealand Business Academy Conference, ANZIBA, Newcastle, Australia, pp. 1-14.
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Social capital plays an important role in the growth of firms. However, limited research has been conducted on how the social capital of structural hole contributes to resource acquisition from the perspective of entrepreneurs and how behavioral commitment is related to the effectiveness of social capital. This study examines these issues based on a sample of Chinese firms. The findings indicate that behavioral commitment significantly mediates the relationship between social capital of structural hole and resource acquisition and that social capital of structural hole has positive direct effects on the firm’s resource acquisition in the context of China.

Wang, KY 2007, 'Trustworthiness on social capital of structural hole and firm resource acquisition', Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM 2007 Conference: Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-12.
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Social capital plays an important role in the growth of small-medium enterprises (SMEs). However, limited research exists on how the social capital of structural hole contributes to resource acquisition from the perspective of entrepreneurs and how trustworthiness is related to the effectiveness of social capital. The study examines these issues based on a sample of Chinese firms. The findings indicate that social capital of structural hole has positive effects on the firm’s resource acquisition and trustworthiness does not significantly mediates the relationship between social capital of structural hole and resource acquisition in the context of China.

Wang, KY, Fang, Y & Teo, ST 2007, 'Face Values and Managerial Practice Preference in China', Proceedings of the ANZIBA Conference 2007, Australia and New Zealand Business Academy Conference, ANZIBA, Newcastle, Australia, pp. 1-16.
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Social face values are found to have influence on the willingness of sharing information within cultural contexts. Face values profoundly penetrate the whole Chinese society, reflecting a high collectivist and large power distance culture. In such culture, members stress greater mutual-face and other’s face than member in individualistic cultures, which express more self-face maintenance. Previous studies address the face issues from diverse disciplines. However, there is limited research on how face issues influence on managerial behavior in manager-subordinate relationships through an empirical examination. We explore the extent to which a manager’s superior face saving is related to their sharing information with subordinates and inviting their initiatives. The findings of the study indicate that superior face-saving is negatively associated with sharing information with subordinates.

Wang, PZ, Menictas, C & Louviere, JJ 2007, 'Testing the Erdem and Swait Brand Equity Framework Using Latent Class Structural Equation Modelling', Proceedings of Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy 2007, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 1819-1825.
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This paper tests the Erdem and Swait (1998) brand equity framework using latent class structural equation modelling. While there are a number of conceptual and measurement models of brand equity in the literature, we focus on the Erdem and Swait brand equity framework because it is based on formal theory in information economics. The Erdem and Swait framework was originally tested in a structural equation modelling framework without taking into account consumer preference heterogeneity. In this study, we extend the Erdem and Swait framework to incorporate preference heterogeneity via the use of latent class structural equation modelling. Data were collected from the financial services sector and results show two distinct segments of brand equity. The findings have implications for both academics and practitioners in brand management.

Wearing, SL 2007, 'Introduction and overview of area', Volunteer Tourism Symposium (Hosted by National Institute for Governance and the Centre for Tourism Research, University of Canberra Supported by CAUTHE), Canberra University.

Wearing, SL & Chatterton, P 2007, 'The practice of community based tourism: Developing ecotrekking for the Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea', Proceedings of the 17th Annual CAUTHE Conference, University of Technology, Manly.

Wearing, SL & Wearing, M 2007, 'Post colonial development and tourism: Hybridity, ethics and the subjecting tourist', Proceedings of the 17th Annual CAUTHE Conference, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education annual conference, University of Technology, Manly.

Wearing, SL, Goodall, H, Cadzow, AJ & Bryne, D 2007, 'Masculinity and Power Recreation on the Georges River', In the Pipeline: a symposium new directions on cultural research on water, Centre for Cultural Research, Parramatta.

Wearing, SL, Goodall, H, Cadzow, AJ & Bryne, D 2007, 'Water flexibility: Vietnamese women's experiences of migrancy, gender relations and rivers in Sydney and Vietnam', In the Pipeline: a symposium new directions on cultural research on water, Centre for Cultural Research, Parramatta.

Wieder, B 2007, 'Management Accounting with ERP/SAP Systems â Myths and Realities (WORKSHOP)', International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting and Logistics (ICESAL) 2007, Corfu, Greece.

Yu, K 1970, 'Narratives and agency: political careers in a movement organization', Colloquium of the European Group for Organization Studies, Vienna, Austria.

Yu, K 1970, 'Origins of social movement unionism', Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Madrid, Spain.

Zlatevska, N & Cowley, E 2007, 'Regenerating Self Regulatory Resources: Identifying Individual Differences', European Marketing Academy Conference.

Centre for the Advancement of Trade Integration and Facilitation, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Institute for International Trade-University of Adelaide, Thailand Development Research Institute & Rammal, H ASEAN Secretariat 2007, Expanding Trade in Business Services in ASEAN, no. REPSF Project 05/006, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Clarke, T & Klettner, AL Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) 2007, Tip of the Iceberg? Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: The new business imperatives? An International Comparison, pp. 1-52, Sydney, Australia.
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A substantial increase in the range, significance and impact of corporate social and environmental initiatives in recent years suggests the growing materiality of sustainability. Once regarded as a concern of a few philanthropic individuals and companies, corporate social and environmental responsibility is becoming established in many corporations as a critical element of strategic direction, and one of the main drivers of business development, as well as an essential component of risk management. Corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR) is rapidly moving from the margins to the mainstream of corporate activity, with greater recognition of a direct and inescapable relationship between corporate governance, corporate responsibility, business performance and sustainable business development.

Clarke, T, Adams, MA & Klettner, AL Dibbs Abbot Stillman Lawyers 2007, The Changing roles and Responsibilities of Company Boards and Directors: Final Report, pp. 1-106, Sydney.

dela Rama, MJ Parliament House 2007, Submission No.5 to the Australian Senate Economics Committee on Private Equity, pp. 1-13, Canberra.
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I made a submission to the Senate Economics Committee on Private Equity Investment. My submission was cited on pages 53-54 of the main report "Private Equity Investment in Australia". The report is located here: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/economics_ctte/private_equity/report/

Edwards, DC, Griffin, T & Hayllar, BR CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd. 2007, Development of an Australian Urban Tourism Research Agenda., pp. 1-38, Gold Coast.
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Edwards, DC, Hayllar, BR & Schulenkorf, N TTF Australia and APEC 2007 Taskforce 2007, APEC 2007: Measuring the Injected Expenditure into Australia and New South Wales.

Wearing, Moscardo, G, Schweinsberg, SC & Archer, D 2007, Best Practice Interpretation Research for Sustainable Tourism: Framework for a New Research Agenda, CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd, Australia (Gold Coast Queensland).

Wearing, SL, Archer, DJ & Beeton, S Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre Pty Ltd 2007, The Sustainable Marketing Of Tourism In Protected Areas: Moving Forward, Gold Coast, Australia.

dela Rama, MJ 2007, 'Private Equity and the Australian Aged Care Sector', Perspective Program, ABC Radio National, ABC Studios, Ultimo, Sydney.
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This was a radio broadcast I made for the Perspective program of ABC Radio National, 576AM. It was first broadcast on the 26th of September 2007 at 5:55pm and the duration was 5 minutes. The transcript is available on the followng website http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/stories/2007/2041382.htm

Bruti Liberati, N, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C & Platen, E 2007, 'Pricing Under the Real-World Probability Measure for Jump-Diffusion Term Structure Models', Quantitative Finance Research Paper Series.
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This paper considers interest rate term structure models in a market attracting both continuous and discrete types of uncertainty. The event driven noise is modelled by a Poisson random measure. Using as numeraire the growth optimal portfolio, interest rate derivatives are priced under the real-world probability measure. In particular, the real-world dynamics of the forward rates are derived and, for specific volatility structures, finite dimensional Markovian representations are obtained. Furthermore, allowing for a stochastic short rate, a class of tractable affine term structures is derived where an equivalent risk-neutral probability measure does not exist.

Chiarella, C, He, X & Zheng, M 2007, 'The Stochastic Dynamics of Speculative Prices (208)', Quantitative Finance Research Paper Series.
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Within the framework of the heterogeneous agent paradigm, we establish a stochastic model of speculative price dynamics involving of two types of agents, fundamentalists and chartists, and the market price equilibria of which can be characterised by the invariant measures of a random dynamical system. By conducting a stochastic bifurcation analysis, we examine the market impact of speculative behaviour. We show that, when the chartists use lagged price trends to form their expectations, the market equilibrium price can be characterised by a unique and stable invariant measure when the activity of the speculators is below a certain critical value. If this threshold is surpassed, the market equilibrium can be characterised by more than two invariant measures, of which one is completely stable, another is completely unstable and the remaining ones may exhibit various types of stability. Also, the corresponding stationary measure displays a significant qualitative change near the threshold value. We show that the stochastic model displays behaviour consistent with that of the underlying deterministic model. However, when the time lag in the formation of the price trends used by the chartists approaches zero, such consistency breaks down. In addition, the change in the stationary distribution is consistent with a number of market anomalies and stylised facts observed in financial markets, including a bimodal logarithmic price distribution and fat tails.

Gao, J, Gong, G & He, X 2007, 'Monetary policy and exchange rate regime: Proposal for a small and less developed economy', Research Paper Series, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
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Research Paper Number: 199 Abstract: We investigate monetary policy under the assumption that a countryâs capital market is âopen❠under the WTO framework while the exchange rate is fixed. Our purpose is to determine if it is possible in this case for the economy to maintain an effective monetary policy for stabilizing the domestic economy. For this, we suggest two institutional restrictions. Given the restrictions, we demonstrate within a macro-dynamic model that monetary policy can still be effective. The implication of such an institutional design for an exchange rate regime is also discussed with special reference to small and less development economies.

Goldbaum, D 2007, 'Dissemination in an endogenous random network (or "follow the leader")'.

Goldbaum, D 2007, 'Dissemination in an endogenous random network (or "follow the leader")'.

Goldbaum, D 2007, 'Dissemination in an endogenous random network (or "follow the leader")'.

Goldbaum, D 2007, 'Heterogeneous beliefs in financial markets: Persistent endogenous noise and informationally efficient markets'.

Goldbaum, D 2007, 'Learning and adaptation as a source of market failure'.

Goldbaum, D 2007, 'Learning and adaption as a source of market failure'.

Hulley, H & Platen, E 2007, 'Laplace transform identities for diffusions, with applications to rebates and barrier options', Research Paper Series, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
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Research Paper Number: 203 Abstract: Using a simple integral identity, we derive general expressions for the Laplace transform of the transition density of the process, if killing or reflecting boundaries are specified. We also obtain a number of useful expressions for the Laplace transforms of some functions of first-passage times for the diffusion. These results are applied to the special case of squared Bessel processes with killing or reflecting boundaries. In particular, we demonstrate how the above-mentioned integral identity enables us to derive the transition density of a squared Bessel process killed at the origin, without the need to invert a Laplace transform. Finally, as an application, we consider the problem of pricing barrier options on an index described by the minimal market model.

Kirsanova, T, Menzies, GD & Vines, D 2007, 'Stiglitz versus the IMF on the Asian debt crisis: An intertemporal model with real exchange rate overshooting', Discussion Paper Series, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
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Discussion Paper Number: 6318

Abstract: This paper develops a real model of financial crisis, and uses it to elucidate the controversy between Joe Stiglitz and the IMF concerning the Asian financial crisis. Borrowers of foreign capital are bound by lending contracts to pay the world rate of return on their borrowing, following an adverse shock; by assumption, they do not default. This is onerous, since the shock makes the marginal product of capital fall to less than the world rate of return, and creates a debt overhang on which interest must be paid. The country faces a choice. It could choose to pay these extra interest obligations on its debt overhang -- a transfer -- in every period, raise taxes in order to meet these obligations, and thereby gradually reduce capital to its new lower level, at which point there would no longer be a debt overhang. We describe this as the `IMF strategy'. Alternatively the country could choose the `Stiglitz strategy': it could immediately borrow internationally the sum of all the future interest obligations on its debt overhang, perhaps with the assistance of the IMF. It would need to raise taxes in order to meet the interest costs on that extra borrowing. But the fiscal cost of doing this would be finite and the fiscal costs would be equally spread across time. The short run tax burden would thus be smaller. We show that balance sheet effects mean that the real exchange rate can greatly overshoot in the IMF strategy, whereas it need not overshoot in the Stiglitz strategy. That will lessen the `crisis' aspects of the short run responses to the shock.

Knox, SA, Savage, EJ, Fiebig, DG & Salale, V 2007, 'Joiners and leavers stayers and abstainers: Private health insurance choices in Australia, CHERE Working Paper 2007/8', CHERE Working Paper.

Menzies, GD & Zizzo, D 2007, 'Exchange rate markets and conservative inferential expectations', Working Paper Series, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University.
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Working Paper Number: 2007-02

Abstract: We present a macroeconomic market experiment on the financial determination of exchange rates, and consider whether the assumption that belief formation be treated as a classical hypothesis test, which we label inferential expectations, can explain the effect of uncertainty on exchange rates. In a non-stochastic environment, exchange rates closely follow standard predictions. In our stochastic environment, inferential expectations with a low test size alpha (conservative inferential expectations) predict exchange rates better than rational expectations in ten sessions out of twelve. Belief conservatism appears magnified rather than diminished at the market level, and the degree of belief conservatism seems connected to the failure of uncovered interest rate parity regressions.

Norman, R, Cronin, PA, Viney, RC, King, MT, Street, D, Brazier, JE & Ratcliffe, J 2007, 'Valuing EQ-5D health states: A review and analysis, CHERE Working Paper 2007/9', CHERE Working Paper.

Quiggin, R & Quiggin, J 2007, 'Intellectual Property and Indigenous Culture'.
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The extent to which cultural activities can generate social and economic benefits for Indigenous communities, and the way in which those benefits are shared within communities depends largely on the way in which the system of intellectual property rights handles Indigenous cultural products. The aim of this paper is to address these issues, taking account of both legal and economic perspectives. Rather than taking concepts of intellectual property as given, we ask what kinds of intellectual property systems, if any, can best contribute to meeting the economic, social and cultural needs of Indigenous communities.

Rose, JM & Scarpa, R 2007, 'Designs Efficiency for Non-market Valuation with Choice Modelling:How to Measure It, What to Report and Why'.
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We review the basic principles for the evaluation of design efficiency in discrete choice modelling with a focus on efficiency of WTP estimates from the multinomial logit model. The discussion is developed under the realistic assumption that researchers can plausibly define a prior on the utility coefficients. Some new measures of design performance in applied studies are proposed and their rationale discussed. An empirical example based on the generation and comparison of fifteen separate designs from a common set of assumptions illustrates the relevant considerations to the context of non-market valuation, with particular emphasis placed on C-efficiency. Conclusions are drawn for the practice of reporting in non-market valuation and for future work on design research.

Vu, M, Van Gool, K, Savage, EJ, Haas, MR & Birch, S 2007, 'The use of breast screening services in NSW: Are we moving towards greater equity? [Draft - not for quotation or citation], CHERE Working Paper 2007/7', CHERE Working Paper.