Baddeley, MC & Barrowclough, DV 2009, Running Regressions, Cambridge University Press.
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Running Regressions introduces first-year social science undergraduates, particularly those studying economics and business, to the practical aspects of simple regression analysis, without adopting an esoteric, mathematical approach. It shows that statistical analysis can be simultaneously straightforward, useful and interesting, and can deal with topical, real-world issues. Each chapter introduces an economic theory or idea by relating it to an issue of topical interest, and explains how data and econometric analysis can be used to test it. The book can be used as a self-standing text or to supplement conventional econometric texts. It is also ideally suited as a guide to essays and project work.
Eckert, C 2009, Dynamische Aspekte im Kaufverhalten, 1, Gabler, Wiesbaden, Germany.
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Fleming, P 2009, Authenticity and the Cultural Politics of Work New Forms of Informal Control, Oxford University Press.
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Now many large corporations can be found exhorting their employees to simply be themselves. This book critically investigates the increasing popularity of personal authenticity in corporate ideology and practice.
Fleming, P & Zyglidopoulos, SC 2009, Charting corporate corruption: Agency, structure and escalation, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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In the post-Enron era, corporate corruption is increasingly on the research agenda. This informative book provides a novel approach by charting the causes of corruption. It demonstrates how agency (decisions and choices of individuals) and structure (the contextual pressures in the business environment) can interact to result in the rapid escalation of corporate crime. By analyzing and describing the social psychological dimensions of this escalation, the book will be effective in creating preventive measures that can be designed and implemented in business organizations. © Peter Fleming and Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos 2009. All rights reserved.
Schweinsberg, SC 2009, Sustainable Tourism Development and Rural Community Values: An Examination of Australia's Forest Regions, 1st, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.
Stenberg, LC & Siriwardana, M 2009, A computable general equilibrium model for environmental policy analysis: The case of deforestation in the Philippines.
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The deterioration of forest resources and poor economic performance in the Philippines calls for a serious rethinking in economic policies addressing both environmental and economic objectives. In order to protect the Philippine forests, the government implemented the Master Plan for Forestry Development covering a 25-year period (i.e. 1991-2015). However, after 16 years of implementation, the Philippine forestry industry has experienced a further reduction in production and in areas devoted to old-growth forests. The annual allowable cut remains excessive as it was prior to 1990. This proves to be an important forestry policy instrument as the findings in this book suggest that the volume of timber or the rate of deforestation is directly affected by the annual allowable cut rather than by population growth and poverty. The recent economic literature suggests the possibility of attaining both macroeconomic growth and sustainability in natural resource use. To examine the economy-wide effects of the Master Plan and the plausibility of attaining sustainable growth, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is developed with an appended forestry sub-model adopted from Dee (1991). The research found that given steady-state in forestry, the Dee model can serve as a simple representation of forest growth. However, in the context of positive environmental services and non-steady state growth in forestry, the Dee model might be inappropriate. Given the present land use arrangements in the Philippines, the book suggests that the country will meet both objectives of growth and conservation via a combination of a reduction in forestry discount rate and a uniform reduction in sectoral tariffs. Despite the positive effect of uniform tariff reduction on gross domestic product, employment in some sectors is negatively affected particularly that of farmers, fishers and foresters. This indicates the significance of reforestation as an employment generation tool, notwithstandi...
Beirman, D 2009, 'Crisis and Post-Crisis Tourism Destination Recovery Marketing Strategies' in Pforr, C & Hosie, P (eds), Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry, Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 207-223.
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Cao, L, Yu, PS, Zhang, C & Zhang, H 2009, 'Preface' in Cao, L, Yu, PS, Zhang, C & Zhang, H (eds), Data Mining for Business Applications, Springer, pp. v-vi.
Clarke, T & Klettner, AL 2009, 'The development of corporate governance in Australia' in Jolly, A & Burmajster, A (eds), The Handbook of International Corporate Governance, Institute of Directors and Kogan Page, London and Philadelphia, pp. 334-345.
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A well-established corporate governance framework should ensure that corporate boards effectively monitor managerial performance and achieve an equitable return for shareholders - reinforcing the values of fairness, transparency, accountability and responsibility. But new legislation - notably the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, and the UK's Companies Act - means new duties and benchmarks for directors and senior managers, particularly for those with cross-jurisdictional responsibilities. With commentary from the World Bank, BP, 3i, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Watson Wyatt, 'The Handbook of International Corporate Governance' looks at shareholder rights and directors' responsibilities, issues relating to control and disclosure, and the relevant legislation and codes of practice. There is a major section of the book that provides coverage of corporate governance practice for 21 separate jurisdictions, as well as five regional overviews, with each profile focusing on key areas such as the development of laws, models and codes; board structures; shareholder rights; disclosure and transparency; responsibility; directors; and, executive pay and performance.
Clegg, S 2009, 'Introduction' in Clegg, S & Cooper, C (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume II - Macro Approaches, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, UK, pp. 1-38.
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Most research in organizational behavior is micro in focus, beraying the deep embeddedness of the discourse in psychology, the study of individuals. Thus, the distinctive feature of micro-organizational behavior is that it is the study of the behavior of individuals and groups in the organization, as seen from a psychological perspective. If there are similar disciplinary auspices for macro-organizational behavior they relate to sociology, strategy and economics.
Clegg, S & Carter, C 2009, 'Globalization and Organizational Behavior' in Clegg, S & Cooper, C (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume II - Macro Approaches, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, UK, pp. 496-508.
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Clegg, S & Haugaard, M 2009, 'The SAGE Handbook of Power' in Riello, G & McNeil, P (eds), The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives, SAGE Publications Ltd, London and New York, pp. 1-14.
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Scholars have paid a great deal of attention to the changing role and nature of fashion, both conceptually and practically. They have underlined how present-day societies find thei,. identity and formulate thei,. understanding of change not simply by referring to technological progress, economic growth or cultural transformation in society, but also through the medium of fashion. Today few individuals would deny the powerful role of fashion in everyday life. The media presents us with an array of images from the real to the fantastic. Large multinational corporations and powerful fashion houses shape the discourse of fashion, influence public opinion and sct in place global productive and distributive structures. Fashion is thus a specific vision of change that is shaped by practices, economic systems and actors. Fashion is also heavily contested, opposed and criticised. It retains in the public mind strong connections with vanity, frivolity, waste and folly. It can be conveniently blamed for everything from psychological illness, the ratings of Miss World, nastiness on Project Runway and the death of baby animals. \There is something about fashion that can make people ve!'y nervous' remarks Vogue editor Anna Wintour in the 2009 film The September Issue.
Clegg, S & Lounsbury, M 2009, 'Weber: Sintering the Iron Cage Translation, Domination, and Rationality Stewart Clegg' in The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies, Oxford University Press, pp. 118-145.
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This article emphasizes how Weber's approach to bureaucracy was first and foremost a cultural theory. In addition, it shows how the very notion of rationality for Weber was multiplex and culturally embedded. Conceptualizing organizational environments as comprised of multiple modes of rationality and forms of domination can lead to an understanding of the ‘iron cage’ as more porous than is traditionally thought, thus opening up new lines of multilevel analysis. This article therefore aims to sinter the iron cage. Sintering is a method to make metal porous, and the porosity allows lubricants to flow through the medium of the metal. The article briefly highlights some of Weber's key works and reviews scholarly developments in organizational theory that have stemmed from his scholarship. It then discusses how some lines of inquiry have been eschewed in favor of others, and how a reengagement with some core foundational ideas can spur new lines of theoretical development.
Clegg, SR 2009, 'Managing Power in Organizations: The Hidden History of its Constitution' in Clegg, SR & Haugaard, M (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Power, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, UK, pp. 310-331.
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Management as a practice of power involving the imposition of will is directed at framing not only the conduct of others but also oneself. It is a form of govemment linking how to mandate'with 'how to obey'. Managing implies power because it involves governing the conduct of oneself and others. Managing in any epoch will be a particular skill that involves execution and doing. It will be active, a practice. Moreover, it will not merely be a practice of the self - one doesn't just learn how to be a manager - but it is also a practice of the many others who are to be managed. Others must leam to be managed just as those who will manage them must leam that which constitutes managing in any given place and time.
Clegg, SR & Haugaard, M 2009, 'Discourse of Power' in Clegg, S & Haugaard, M (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Power, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, UK, pp. 400-465.
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Writing a conclusion to such a large and varied volume as this was a task that demanded some consideration. Obviously, we had commissioned the pieces that we did because we thought that the authors invited were the best able to address the topics that they were invited to address. Yet, we wanted to engage with the contributors in this conclusion, not to treat them irreverently but not to teat tlem too reverently either. We wanted to engage in tribute and critique of their efforts, in the most positive and constructive sense of these terms; tribute as praise, review, as acknowledgement. In doing this we pay tribute to our contributors, in attempting to probe and understand the limitations Lotft of the concept itself and the contributors' understandings of it. We seek to deploy reasoned judgement in our readings, drawing on a broad background of analysis, one that is capable, we hope, of the interpretive leaps needed for seasoned and systematic inquiry into the conditions and consequences of the use of a concept as central and as contested as'power'. Having made this decision, there was the question of how we should organize our ideas.When we started to write the conclusion we were on opposite sides of the earth, so the opportunities for face-to-face discussion were precluded. Mark suggested that we might try *d conduct a conversation by e-mail, as a dialogue about the chapters, pulling out the points and implications that seemed significant. So this is what we did. The conversation started with Mark.
Dalton, BM & Wilson, R 2009, 'Improving quality in Australian child care: the role of the media and non-profit providers' in King, D & Meagher, G (eds), Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices, Sydney University Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 204-230.
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It is widely acknowledged that the quality of cen tre-based care for young children is a critical determin ant of a range of positive social, education and health-related outcomes (Barnett & Ackerman 2006; Vandell et al, 1988; Schweinhar t et at. 1993). Yet in 2001, Australia ranked at near the bottom of an OECD league table measuring how much countries invest in children's earliest years (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2001). Further, Australia's quality assurance regime for child care has been criticised, particularly for its failure to make reliable or comparable information on th e quality of child care services readily available to parents (Radich 2002; Hill, Pocock & Elliott 2007; Rush 2006).
Edwards, DC & Foley, CT 2009, 'Australian War Memorial, Australian Museum and the Art Gallery of New South Wales' in Holmes, K & Smith, K (eds), Managing Volunteers in Tourism, Elsevier, London, UK, pp. 159-173.
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This case study tells the story of how three large museums in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory in Australia manage their volunteers. Each museum operates a successful volunteer program for which there is a waiting list of volunteers. The volunteers at each museum are well managed, happy, and doing a valuable job for their respective organizations. We can learn something from their success. The volunteer coordinators from each organization have also identified areas in which their volunteers could be better managed in terms of the volunteer programs' integration into the larger organization and the ongoing support and training of the managers and coordinators who supervise volunteers. These are significant insights from practitioners in the field, which provide valuable learning opportunities. The case study provides an overview of the three organizations and their successful volunteer programs, and identifies key issues and a model for successful volunteer management. Three prominent Australian museums are the center of this case study: The Australian War Memorial (the Memorial), located in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, in the Australian Capital Territory; the Australian Museum (the Museum), located next to Hyde Park in the center of Sydney, New South Wales; and, also in central Sydney, the Art Gallery of New South Wales (the Gallery), located in The Domain.
Foley, CT & Hayllar, BR 2009, 'Freedom to be: friendship and community at holiday parks' in Fleming, S, Andrews, H, Hackett, P, Meadows, M & Selby, M (eds), Leisure and Tourism: International Perspectives on Cultural Practice, Leisure Studies Association, United Kingdom, pp. 33-52.
Green, R, Liyanage, S, Pitsis, TS, scott-kemis, D & Agarwal, R 2009, 'Fostering Young Entrepreneurial and Managerial Talent' in OECD (ed), OECD, OECD, Geneva, pp. 1-127.
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Prepared for the OECD by the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, September 2009; Authorship - Green, R., Liyanage, S., Pitsis, T., Scott-Kemis, D. and Agarwal R.
Hayllar, B, Edwards, D, Griffin, T & Dickson, T 2009, 'Inside the triangle: images of a capital.' in Maitland, R & Ritchie, BW (eds), City tourism: national capital perspectives, CABI, UK, pp. 77-93.
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Holmes, K & Smith, K 2009, 'Managing Volunteers in Tourism' in Managing Volunteers in Tourism: Attractions, Destinations and Events, Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 161-174.
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Josserand, EL & Coumau, J 2009, 'Orange Brand Launch in France - inside=outside brand transformation' in Riesenbeck, H & Perrey, J (eds), Power Brands: Measuring, Making and Managing Brand Success, Wiley, UK, pp. 233-237.
Keller, LR, Simon, J & Wang, Y 2009, 'Multiple objective decision analysis involving multiple stakeholders' in Oskoorouchi, MR (ed), TutORials in Operations Research - Decision Technologies and Applications, INFORMS, Hanover, USA, pp. 139-155.
Maruyama, S 2009, 'Health care system in Australia - Its unique dual system' in Masako Ii (ed), National health care systems in Asia and Oceania, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 1-33.
McCann, J & Bryson, D 2009, 'Preface' in Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology, Elsevier, pp. xxi-xxiii.
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Michayluk, D 2009, 'Stock Splits, Stock Dividends, and Reverse Stock Splits' in Baker, HK (ed), Dividends and Dividend Policy, Wiley, USA, pp. 325-341.
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Onyx, J, Bullen, P & Edwards, M 2009, 'Social capital: A meta analysis' in Woolcock, G & Manderson, L (eds), Social Capital and Social Justice: Critical Australian Perspectives, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin NT, pp. 151-168.
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Perrott, B 2009, 'Managing Organizational Change in Public Services' in By, RT & Macleod, C (eds), Managing Organizational Change in Public Services: International Issues, Challenges and Cases, Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 39-57.
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As in the private sector, public sector organizations face increasingly turbulent operating environments. To succeed and survive, public sector managers need to progressively adapt and change in order to mai ntain an alignment between conditions of the environment and their organizational direction and capabilities. Strategic issue management is one disCipline that, when practised effectively, can facilitate the ongoing management of this alignment process and of organizational cbange. This chapter will examine aspects of strategic issues management as one useful component of the change management process when applied to public sector organizations. First, the chapter will discuss general conditions facing the public sector, and explore the current operating environment. Second, it wiJJ provide suggestions on how to measure environmental turbulence in order to inform managers and prepare them for organizational change. Third, the chapter will look at strategic management, and in particular strategic issue management, as sets of tools and processes that can be effective and appropriate in the process of managing change in public sector organizations operating in high levels of turbulence.
Pina e Cunha, M, Vieira Da Cunha, J & Clegg, SR 2009, 'Improvisational Bricolage: A Practice-based Approach to Strategy and Foresight' in Costanzo, LA & MacKay, RB (eds), Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 182-199.
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Pullen, A & Rhodes, CH 2009, 'Borderlines' in Pullen, A & Rhodes, C (eds), Bits of Organization, Copenhagen Business School Press, Denmark, pp. 9-17.
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Rhodes, C & Pullen, A 2009, 'Organizational Moral Responsibility' in The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume II - Macro Approaches, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 340-355.
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Rhodes, CH & Kornberger, MM 2009, 'Writing in the crowded margin: Transgression, postmodernism and organization studies' in Pullen, A & Rhodes, C (eds), Bits of Organization, Copenhagen Business School Press, Denmark, pp. 99-118.
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Rhodes, CH & Pullen, A 2009, 'Narrative and stories in organizational research: An exploration of gendered politics in research methodology' in Buchanan, DA & Bryman, A (eds), The Sage Handbook of Organizational Research Methods, Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 583-601.
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Waller, DS 2009, 'Social, Ethical and Regulatory Aspects' in Belch, G, Belch, M, Kerr, G & Powell, I (eds), Advertising and Promotion: An Integrated Marketing Communications Perspective, McGraw-Hill, Sydney, Australia, pp. 56-83.
Adair, D 2009, 'Australian Sport History: From the Founding Years to Today', Sport in History, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 405-436.
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The academic study of sport history in Australia is a relatively recent initiative, dating back to the 1970s. It was inspired by a handful of enterprising scholars, each of whom is now retired. The following paper has two aims. First, it reflects on the efforts of early sport historians to carve out a research niche within the Australian academy. In keeping with the festschrift theme, it also dwells upon the profound influence of Wray Vamplew - a Yorkshireman who had the temerity to help pioneer sport history in an Antipodean setting. Second, the main body of the paper goes on to identify three key areas of research developed over the past thirty years by scholars of Australian sport history, then concludes with recommendations for further research.
Agarwal, R & Selen, W 2009, 'Dynamic Capability Building in Service Value Networks for Achieving Service Innovation', Decision Sciences, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 431-475.
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Service organizations increasingly create new service offerings that are the result of collaborative arrangements operating on a value network level. This leads to the notion of âelevated service offerings,â our definition of service innovation, implying new or enhanced service offerings that can only be eventuated as a result of partnering, and one that could not be delivered on individual organizational merits. Using empirical data from a large telecommunications company, we demonstrate through structural equation modeling (SEM) that higher-order dynamic capabilities in services are generated as a result of collaboration between stakeholders. Furthermore, it is through collaboration and education of the stakeholders that additional higher-order capabilities emerge (customer engagement [CuE], collaborative agility [CA], entrepreneurial alertness [EA], and collaborative innovative capacity), all of which influence the service innovation outcome. Our study also reveals empirical evidence for an ongoing process of continuous dynamic capability building in accordance with the changing dynamics of business. Managers of service organizations should recognize the potential embedded in these higher-order skill sets, starting from collaboration, learning, and management of creative ideas for both strategic and operational benefits. Moreover, the capabilities of CA, EA, and CuE are even more important in managing the flexibility, timely delivery, and reliability of service offerings. Managers should take measures to inculcate, promote, and manage these dynamic capability skill sets to foster innovation in services.
Anufriev, M & Branch, WA 2009, 'Introduction to special issue on complexity in economics and finance', JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1019-1022.
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Anufriev, M & Panchenko, V 2009, 'Asset prices, traders' behavior and market design', JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1073-1090.
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The dynamics of a financial market with heterogeneous agents are analyzed under different market architectures. We start with a tractable behavioral model under Walrasian market clearing and simulate it under different trading protocols. The key behavioral feature of the model is the switching by agents between simple forecasting rules on the basis of a fitness measure. By analyzing the dynamics under order-driven protocols we show that the behavioral and structural assumptions of the model are closely intertwined. The high responsiveness of agents to a fitness measure causes excess volatility, but the frictions of the order-driven markets may stabilize the dynamics. We also analyze and compare allocative efficiency and time series properties under different protocols.
Bajada, C & Schneider, F 2009, 'Unemployment and the Shadow Economy in the oecd', Revue économique, vol. Vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1033-1067.
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Although there has been considerable discussion on the size of the shadow economy, comparatively little attention has been given to relationship between unemployment and participation in this sector. The objective of this paper is to examine participation in the shadow economy by those who claim to be unemployed and in receipt of social security benefits but working surreptitiously in the shadow economy. In doing so, we provide a first attempt at gauging the contributions by the unemployed to shadow economy activity. It is of considerable policy interest to know how the extent and duration of shadow economy activity are influenced by changes in the unemployment rate. A significant positive relationship between shadow economy activity and unemployment can be said to generate employment cycles in the shadow economy, which if supported by welfare payments, distorts the equity in the social security system. We find that changes in unemployment contribute to the employment cycles in the shadow economy, which on the whole appears to increase duration spells in unemployment.
Bajada, C & Schneider, FG 2009, 'Unemployment and the shadow economy in the OECD', Revue économique, vol. 60, no. 2009/5, pp. 1033-1067.
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Although there has been considerable discussion on the size of the shadow economy, comparatively little attention has been given to relationship between unemployment and participation in this sector. The objective of this paper is to examine participation in the shadow economy by those who claim to be unemployed and in receipt of social security benefits but working surreptitiously in the shadow economy. In doing so, we provide a first attempt at gauging the contributions by the unemployed to shadow economy activity. It is of considerable policy interest to know how the extent and duration of shadow economy activity are influenced by changes in the unemployment rate. A significant positive relationship between shadow economy activity and unemployment can be said to generate employment cycles in the shadow economy, which if supported by welfare payments, distorts the equity in the social security system. We find that changes in unemployment contribute to the employment cycles in the shadow economy, which on the whole appears to increase duration spells in unemployment.
Bardon, T & Josserand, E 2009, 'Why do we play the games? Exploring institutional and political motivations', Education + Training, vol. 51, no. 5/6, pp. 460-475.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore why digital games based learning (DGBL) is spreading rapidly in all educational settings, when the literature does not provide clear empirical evidence of the pedagogical benefits. The paper seeks to understand why DGBL is constantly developing despite this lack of consensus about the learning outcomes.Design/methodology/approachIn order to identify the motivations for DGBL adoption and implementation beyond pedagogical ones, the authors use organizational theories to propose a three‐dimensional framework in which pedagogical motivation is articulated with political (linked to local characteristics) and institutional (linked to the macro‐environment) motivations. They then study the respective importance the three kinds of motivation in the adoption decisions and the implementation process of DGBL. To this end, they conducted a retrospective analysis of four embedded case studies in European business schools.FindingsThe authors find that institutional motivation plays a major role in adoption decisions while political motivations can contribute to the decision but are not necessarily present. Isomorphic pressure is essentially mimetic for early adopters and combined with coercive elements for late adopters.Practical implicationsDuring the implementation phase customization is mainly driven by political objectives while institutionalized ideas about the best way to implement the game are not typically influential.Originality/valueThe study shows that pedagogical benefits ...
Benckendorff, P, Edwards, D, Jurowski, C, Liburd, JJ, Miller, G & Moscardo, G 2009, 'Exploring the Future of Tourism and Quality of Life', Tourism and Hospitality Research, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 171-183.
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The article reports on the future of tourism and its impact on the quality of life of residents. There has been very little research into the impact tourism has on residents and their community or their attitudes towards tourism. A research model used for determining the future of tourism is the Futures Wheel which is a structured mind-mapping method that looks into trends and decisions. During the mind-mapping one should focus on identifying the most ideal methods and futures for tourism as well as possible outcomes.
Benn, S, Dunphy, D & Martin, A 2009, 'Governance of environmental risk: New approaches to managing stakeholder involvement', Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 1567-1575.
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Disputes concerning industrial legacies such as the disposal of toxic wastes illustrate changing pressures on corporations and governments. Business and governments are now confronted with managing the expectations of a society increasingly aware of the social and environmental impacts and risks associated with economic development and demanding more equitable distribution and democratic management of such risks. The closed managerialist decision-making of the powerful bureaucracies and corporations of the industrial era is informed by traditional management theory which cannot provide a framework for the adequate governance of these risks. Recent socio-political theories have conceptualised some key themes that must be addressed in a more fitting approach to governance. We identify more recent management and governance theory which addresses these themes and develop a process-based approach to governance of environmental disputes that allows for the evolving nature of stakeholder relations in a highly complex multiple stakeholder arena.
Bjørkeng, K, Clegg, S & Pitsis, T 2009, 'Becoming (a) Practice', Management Learning, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 145-159.
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This article presents findings from longitudinal ethnographic research of a mega-project alliance. For five years we followed the leadership team of a large Australian Alliance Program made up of a large public and several private organizations, analyzing `practice' as novel patterns of interaction developed into predictable arrays of activities, changing and transforming while at the same time continuing to be referred to as `the same'. In this article we focus on three such arrays of activities: authoring boundaries, negotiating competencies and adapting materiality. We suggest that these are essential mechanisms in becoming a practice. While most studies of practice deal with already established practices, the significance of our research is that we develop a notion of practice as it unfolds. In this way we can provide a better account of the constant change inherent in practices.
BROWN, P, FERGUSON, A & JACKSON, AB 2009, 'Pierpont and the Capital Market', Abacus, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 147-170.
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For almost forty years Trevor Sykes was one of the most recognizable business journalists in Australia. Sykes created his Pierpont character in February 1972 while writing for Australia's leading financial paper, the Australian Financial Review. Pierpont was a take on J. Pierpont Morgan, founder of the J. P. Morgan banking house. Sykes used his Pierpont column to research and reflect on the curious world of Australian business. Articles were mostly in narrative form, comprising an in-depth critique of one or more companies and written with more than a touch of humour. Over the years Pierpont garnered a large following, and it is therefore quite possible his musings influenced investors' beliefs about company fundamentals. We assess this possibility by examining the share price movements of companies around the time they found themselves featured in a Pierpont column. We extend previous work in this area by examining the market reaction to a popular columnist's writings published regularly over a lengthy period, and by implementing an extensive double-coding procedure that allows us to more finely and reliably partition trading recommendations based on the content of each column. In brief, we find evidence that stocks with positive coverage by Pierpont enjoyed abnormal returns averaging 6.4 per cent over thirty days around the publication date, while stocks with negative coverage suffered abnormal losses of 5.5 per cent. Trading volume was also affected.
Bruti-Liberati, N, Nikitopoulos-Sklibosios, C, Platen, E & Schlögl, E 2009, 'Alternative Defaultable Term Structure Models', Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-31.
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The objective of this paper is to consider defaultable term structure models in a general setting beyond standard risk-neutral models. Using as numeraire the growth optimal portfolio, defaultable interest rate derivatives are priced under the real-world probability measure. Therefore, the existence of an equivalent risk-neutral probability measure is not required. In particular, the real-world dynamics of the instantaneous defaultable forward rates under a jump-diffusion extension of a HJM type framework are derived. Thus, by establishing a modelling framework fully under the real-world probability measure, the challenge of reconciling real-world and risk-neutral probabilities of default is deliberately avoided, which provides significant extra modelling freedom. In addition, for certain volatility specifications, finite dimensional Markovian defaultable term structure models are derived. The paper also demonstrates an alternative defaultable term structure model. It provides tractable expressions for the prices of defaultable derivatives under the assumption of independence between the discounted growth optimal portfolio and the default-adjusted short rate. These expressions are then used in a more general model as control variates for Monte Carlo simulations of credit derivatives.
Bugeja, M 2009, 'Monitoring and the acquiring firm reaction to bad takeover bids', Corporate Ownership and Control, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 208-223.
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This study investigates variables that explain why bidding firms raise their offer price following a negative capital market reaction to a takeover announcement. We find that whilst an increasing number of blockholders restrains the pursuit of unprofitable takeovers, greater institutional ownership and takeover hostility increases the likelihood a bidder will raise their offer price. Multiple bidders and board independence are unrelated to an increase in takeover price. Inconsistent with agency theory, management ownership and free cash flow do not explain bidder actions.
Bugeja, M 2009, 'Monitoring and the acquiring firm reaction to bad takeover bids', Corporate Ownership & Control, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 208-223.
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This study investigates variables that explain why bidding firms raise their offer price following a negative capital market reaction to a takeover announcement. We find that whilst an increasing number of blockholders restrains the pursuit of unprofitable takeovers, greater institutional ownership and takeover hostility increases the likelihood a bidder will raise their offer price. Multiple bidders and board independence are unrelated to an increase in takeover price. Inconsistent with agency theory, management ownership and free cash flow do not explain bidder actions.
Bugeja, M, Rosa, RDS & Lee, A 2009, 'The Impact of Director Reputation and Performance on the Turnover and Board Seats of Target Firm Directors', JOURNAL OF BUSINESS FINANCE & ACCOUNTING, vol. 36, no. 1-2, pp. 185-209.
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Burdon, S, Chelliah, J & Bhalla, A 2009, 'Structuring enduring strategic alliances: the case of Shell Australia and Transfield Services', Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 42-51.
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PurposeThis paper provides insights into the evolution of the strategic alliance between Shell and Transfield Services in Sydney, Australia in the area of engineering and facilities management.Design/methodology/approachTo gain an in‐depth understanding of the distinct developmental phases in the alliance relationship, we conducted 12 interviews and a survey yielding 39 responses from the management and operations staff of both these organizations.FindingsInitially the alliance between Shell and Transfield Services was established with fundamental building blocks of trust and flexibility. However, as the relationship progressed with subsequent contract renewals, complex value adding demands were placed on the alliance. This paper provides insights into understanding three generations of evolution in the relationship‐starting from the building of a successful relationship based on labor savings and then on to one which seeks incremental innovations to become one of the most efficient maintenance operators in the world and finally seeking additional capabilities to continue improving alliance outcomes.Originality/valueThe paper is aimed at managers who are involved in structuring and managing outsourcing arrangements. Referring to outsourcing as an alliance arrangement, the paper points out that as alliance relationships mature, managers need to progress from a fee‐for‐service model to trusted collaboration, and finally to an alliance with joint strategic objectives. Drawing from the case of Shell and Transfield, we pre...
Bush, S, Menzies, G & Thorp, S 2009, 'An Array of Online Teaching Tools', Teaching Statistics, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 17-20.
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The Internet offers a huge array of teaching resources for statistics. Here we present a selection of engaging Web-based tools, ranging from class surveys to individual simulation experiments.
Camilleri, AR & Newell, BR 2009, 'The role of representation in experience-based choice', Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 518-529.
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Abstract
Recently it has been observed that different choices can be made about
structurally identical risky decisions depending on whether information
about outcomes and their probabilities is learned by description or from
experience. Current evidence is equivocal with respect to whether this
choice “gap” is entirely an artefact of biased samples. The current
experiment investigates whether a representational bias exists at the point
of encoding by examining choice in light of decision makers’ mental
representations of the alternatives, measured with both verbal and nonverbal
judgment probes. We found that, when estimates were gauged by the nonverbal
probe, participants presented with information in description format (as
opposed to experience) had a greater tendency to overestimate rare events
and underestimate common events. The choice gap, however, remained even when
accounting for this judgment distortion and the effects of sampling bias.
Indeed, participants’ estimation of the outcome distribution did not mediate
their subsequent choice. It appears that experience-based choices may derive
from a process that does not explicitly use probability
information.
Chelliah, J, Nikolova, N & Davis, D 2009, 'Outsourcing to self-employed knowledge workers: What are the key success factors?', NZ Journal of Human Resources Management, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 72-85.
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This paper reveals the lack of discovery of the interrelationships between the various factors identified as key factors in building successful in situations where organisations outsource knowledge work to self employed management consultants. Masterful management of these success factors could lead to fruitful outcomes for both clients and consultants alike. In addition, consultants mastering these factors could gain a competitive advantage in a highly competitive profession. This paper reviews both academic and practitioner literature in relation to factors that are seen as impacting significantly on consulting assignment outcomes for both client and consultant and highlights the dearth of research surrounding the investigation of the interplay, connectedness and relationship between the various factors identified in isolation in the existing literature. In addressing this gap, a conceptual framework is proposed with a broad research agenda with seven propositions to establish the linkages between the significant success factors identified in the literature. This paper makes a unique contribution towards future research in this respect through the provision of a clear conceptual framework and robust research agenda.
Chen, R, Dyball, MC & Wright, S 2009, 'The Link Between Board Composition and Corporate Diversification in Australian Corporations', Corporate Governance: An International Review, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 208-223.
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Clarke, T & Klettner, AL 2009, 'Regulatory responses to the global financial crisis - the next cycle of corporate governance reform?', Keeping Good Companies, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 280-286.
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The causes of the global financial crisis are complex and multidimensional. A combination of factors including low interest rates, highly complex financial products, poor risk management and excessive incentive schemes contributed to the spectacular failure of many financial institutions, which in turn has damaged the wider international economy. The long-term policy response to deal with the crisis has focused on issues of transparency, disclosure, and risk management. The coordinated global effort to rebuild the financial system and restore economic growth has three essential dimensions: containing the contagion and restoring market operations coping with long-term systemic problems aligning international regulation and oversight of financial institutions.
Clegg, S 2009, 'Book Review: Michael Thompson Organising and disorganising: A dynamic and non-linear theory of institutional emergence and its implications', Organization Studies, vol. 30, no. 8, pp. 909-912.
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Clegg, S 2009, 'Bureaucracy, the Holocaust and Techniques of Power at Work', management revu, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 326-347.
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Clegg, S 2009, 'Foundations of organization power', Journal of Power, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 35-64.
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I shall argue that the foundations of organization power were laid down in practice through theories of power - in the sense that they sought to explain power - but through quite pragmatic practices that were not necessarily regarded as embodying a theory of power, which I shall maintain they most assuredly did. Thus, in a second move, I shall argue that while these practices began with a focus on the body of the employee they moved on to consider their consciousness and soul. Third, I shall briefly consider the main themes in organization theories' treatment of power, organized around notions of system rationality and uncertainty. These have an implicit idealism attached to them, I shall suggest. Fourth, I shall switch focus to the broader canvass of social theory in the post-war era and suggest that this has also displayed a strongly idealist streak, focusing especially on the celebrated structuralist account of power as a matter of layered dimension that Steven Lukes (1974, 2005) produced. Fifth, I shall contrast the idealism of this approach with a more pragmatic conception of power, one that can be found in the perspectives with which I opened the paper, perspectives that derive from more Foucauldian-influenced currents of contemporary social theory. Drawing on these, I will suggest a different way of understanding Lukes' radical third dimension of power as a means of organizing and rationalizing innovations in power relations, drawing on the literature of the 'dominant ideology thesis' (Abercrombie et al. 1980) to do so. Finally, I shall suggest switching from the structuralist metaphors of dimensions to an imagery of flows as a more appropriate model for understanding power relations.
Clegg, SR 2009, 'Book Review: Barbara Townley Reason's Neglect: Rationality and Organizing', Organization Studies, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 803-806.
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Clegg, SR & van Iterson, A 2009, 'Dishing the dirt: gossiping in organizations', CULTURE AND ORGANIZATION, vol. 15, no. 3-4, pp. 275-289.
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In an exercise in social theory, rather than an empirical investigation, we concentrate on the role of gossip - spreading 'news about the affairs of another' - in relation to the dynamics of power in organizations. Gossip has often been seen in functional terms, as both positive and negative for the organization. In this paper we challenge this functionalist approach. Gossip can be associated with what Freud called the narcissism of minor differences: the gossipers tend not to be too dissimilar from those gossiped about in terms of proximity. Propinquity may increase the animosity of gossip. We see formal organization as a self-regulating system that constantly refines its boundaries, and gossip is the dirt that trickles in and out of these boundaries, illegitimate, formally disdained and often destructive. The writer who has done most to encourage and clarify thinking about the nature of dirt is Mary Douglas, the anthropologist, especially her notion of expressive pollution. The paper concludes with some implications for ethics in practice viewed through power relations.
Collins, J & Jordan, K 2009, 'Ethnic Precincts as Ethnic Tourism Destinations in Urban Australia', Tourism Culture & Communication, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 79-92.
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Australia has received one of the relatively largest and most diverse intakes of immigrants of any of the Western nations, with more than half of the population of Australia's largest cities first- or second-generation immigrants. The tourism literature places great importance on the
cultural industries and the growth of cultural tourism in countries like Australia. But the link between immigration, ethnic diversity, and tourism, which we call ethnic tourism, in Australia and elsewhere has received little attention by scholars. By ethnic tourism we mean not only
the tourism by ethnic minorities to countries like Australia but also the way that nonminority tourists—in Australia, this means British, New Zealand, and North American tourists—are attracted to ethnic tourist sites such as ethnic precincts. The cosmopolitan character of Australia's
largest cities, a result of the great ethnic diversity of Australia's immigration intake over the past 60 years, has lead to the development of ethnic tourism, a subset of cultural tourism. Ethnic tourism thus includes tourism to destinations that are labeled, marketed, and identified
with the cultural diversity of a particular minority ethnic group. Ethnic precincts such as Chinatown, Little Italy, Thaitown, and Koreatown attract customers who are locals, national tourists, or international tourists to experience the 'ethnic neighborhoods' of
the city. These customers are often attracted by the presence of ethnic businesses—restaurants, shops, services—set up by ethnic entrepreneurs. Some tourists may be seeking an 'authentic' ethnic experience in the precinct. This may involve the quality and style of food, the smells
and sounds arising from restaurants, the presence of locals and 'co-ethnic' customers and staff, and the décor and iconography of the s...
Collins, J & Reid, C 2009, 'Minority Youth, Crime, Conflict, and Belonging in Australia', Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 377-391.
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In recent decades, the size and diversity of the minority population of contemporary western societies has increased significantly. To the critics of immigration, minority youth have been increasingly linked to crime, criminal gangs, anti-social behaviour, and riots. In this article, we draw on fieldwork conducted in Sydney, Australias largest and most ethnically diverse city, to probe aspects of the criminality, anti-social behaviour, national identity, and belonging of ethnic minority youth in Australia. We conclude that the evidence on minority youth criminality is weak and that the panic about immigrant youth crime and immigrant youth gangs is disproportionate to the reality, drawing on and in turn creating racist stereotypes, particularly with youth of `Middle Eastern appearance. A review of the events leading up to the Sydney Cronulla Beach riots of December 2005 suggests that the underlying cause of the riots were many years of international, national, and local anti-Arab, anti-Muslim media discourse, and political opportunism, embedded in changing but persistent racist attitudes and practises. Our argument is that such inter-ethnic conflict between minority and majority youth in Sydney is the exception, not the rule. Finally, we draw on a hitherto unpublished survey of youth in Sydney to explore issues of national identity and belonging among young people of diverse ethnic and religious background. We conclude that minority youth in Sydney do not live `parallel lives but contradictory, inter-connected cosmopolitan lives. They are connected to family and local place, have inter-ethnic friendships but are often disconnected to the nation and the flag.
Comerton-Forde, C & Putniņš, TJ 2009, 'Measuring Closing Price Manipulation', Journal of Financial Intermediation, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 135-158.
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We quantify the effects of closing price manipulation on trading characteristics and stock price accuracy using a unique sample of prosecuted manipulation cases. Based on these findings we construct an index of the probability and intensity of closing price manipulation. As well as having regulatory applications, this index can be used to study manipulation in the large number of markets and time periods in which prosecution data are not readily available.
Costas, J & Fleming, P 2009, 'Beyond dis-identification: A discursive approach to self-alienation in contemporary organizations', Human Relations, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 353-378.
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Dis-identification is now an important research area in organization studies investigating how employees subjectively distance themselves from managerial domination by constructing identities considered more `authentic'. But how should we understand situations where actors become aware that their putative`real' selves are paradoxically unreal and foreign? We draw inspiration from the concept of self-alienation to explain experiences beyond dis-identification, where actors perceive the truth of themselves (`who I really am') as alien. An empirical study of a global management consultancy firm demonstrates how a discursive and non-essentialist understanding of self-alienation might usefully capture this experience of identity. Three causes of self-alienation are proposed and we discuss their significance in relation to identity and authenticity in contemporary organizations.
Crawford, M, Lee, I-C, Portnoy, G, Gurung, A, Khati, D, Jha, P & Regmi, AC 2009, 'Objectified Body Consciousness in a Developing Country: A Comparison of Mothers and Daughters in the US and Nepal', Sex Roles, vol. 60, no. 3-4, pp. 174-185.
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Self-objectification (Fredrickson and Roberts 1997) has been related to negative psychological consequences in U.S. women. However, little cross-cultural research has been done. We compared convenience samples of American and Nepali women on two measures of self-objectification. Pairs of Nepali mothers and daughters (N∈=∈23) and pairs of U.S. mothers and daughters (N∈=∈24) completed a quantitative and a qualitative measure of self-objectification. Cultural and generational differences were found. Nepali women engaged in less self-surveillance than U.S. women. Older women engaged in less self-surveillance than younger women. Women in both cultures had high beliefs in their ability to control the body. An additional dimension of body consciousness, termed Functionality, was particularly important to younger Nepali women. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Dalton, BM & Jung, K 2009, 'Feeding the dictator or making a difference? The experiences of international aid and development agencies in North Korea 1995-2005', The International Review of Korean Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-28.
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Since 2005 food aid to North Korea has been in steep decline, however, during the period 1995 to 2005 North Korea received more food aid from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and US government than any other country. Similarly, private relief aid to North Korea significantly increased, with approximately 130 organisations worldwide providing over US$2 billion in aid between 1995 and 2005. This article revisits this period marked by the most extensive engagement of humanitarian organisations since the establishment of the Democratic Peopleâs Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1948. In the context of this dependence on foreign aid the article examines the impact of International Aid Agencies or International Nongovernment Organisationsâ (INGOs) operations, not only in humanitarian terms but with regards to political, social and economic development. We argue that due to tight operating restrictions there was no discernable impact on North Korean society or the polity. However, it is argued that longer term and unanticipated effects are likely due to the extensive diversion of aid to the emerging informal market economy.
Dalton, BM, Wilson, R & Harvison, J 2009, 'Job satisfaction and HR issues for nurses in non-profit, non-hospital settings', Employment Relations Record, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-18.
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High levels of nursing staff turnover have placed increasing pressure on the healthcare systems in many countries (Andrews & Dziegielewski 2005; Ruggiero 2005; Lynn & Redman 2005). The impact of high turnover in nursing staff and related nursing skills shortages has been wide-ranging, from reducing the effectiveness and productivity of health organisations to reducing access to services and the quality of patient care (Saratoga Institute & Kepner-Tregoe 1999, Hay Group 2001). Recognition of the severity of these impacts has encouraged professionals and researchers to identify new ways to attract and retain nursing staff with hundreds of articles and reports published about the issue in recent years.
Dameron, S & Josserand, EL 2009, 'Le piege identitaire: les difficultes de developpment d'une communaute de pratique.', Finance Controle Strategie, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 127-154.
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This article examines the contribution of the identification process in building up a community of practice. Despite the presence of artefacts and activities typical of the emergence of a common identity, the transformation of the network under study into a community of practice appears incomplete. The construction process gets stuck in its own production, its identity dynamics preventing a real confrontation of the individual strategies. Identity thus appears as a useful disguise of more fundamental oppositions. So the community is caught up in an 'identity trap', a situation in which identity building overshadows the ongoing practical concerns and strategies of the participants.
Darcy, S & Dickson, TJ 2009, 'A Whole-of-Life Approach to Tourism: The Case for Accessible Tourism Experiences', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 32-44.
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This article examines the concept of a whole-of-life approach to tourism through presenting the case for `accessible tourism. The importance of this approach is that it has been estimated that 30% of a population will have access requirements at any point in time, and most people will have a disability at some stage during their life. This article presents the case for proactively developing a strategic accessible tourism approach by presenting a brief background to the area. First, the article outlines the relationship between access, disability, ageing and tourism. Second, it reviews the development of easy access markets and accessible tourism, and places these in context to universal design. Third, the article overviews pertinent legislation that shapes the accessible tourism environment in Australia. Fourth, accessible environments are placed within context to destination management and accessible destination experiences. The article concludes by presenting four contemporary Australian examples of accessible destination experiences within broader destination management approaches.
Darcy, S & Taylor, T 2009, 'Disability citizenship: an Australian human rights analysis of the cultural industries', Leisure Studies, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 419-441.
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Research on disability and cultural life (the arts, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism) in the Australian context has largely been captured by medical approaches to disability. In contrast, this paper takes direction from social approaches to disability that place the experience of people with disabilities (PwD) at the centre of the research paradigm by examining this population's human rights' experiences. The paper is framed by reviewing the United Nations' disability initiatives including the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. The research then analyses the implementation and operation of Australia's Disability Discrimination Act, 1992 in respect to the cultural life of PwD. The research design uses a mixed method interpretive approach drawing on the management information systems of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the Federal Court. The analysis of 420 complaint cases and 80 Federal court actions show a relationship between the types of discrimination experienced in cultural life and gender, disability type and industry sector. The recurring themes of discrimination demonstrate an ongoing struggle by PwD to assert their rights of citizenship.
Darcy, S & Wearing, S 2009, 'Public–private partnerships and contested cultural heritage tourism in national parks: a case study of the stakeholder views of the North Head Quarantine Station (Sydney, Australia)', Journal of Heritage Tourism, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 181-199.
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This paper examines the public perceptions of stakeholders towards a proposed cultural heritage public-private partnership (PPP) within a national park in Sydney, Australia. Governments in Australia are initiating PPPs for the purposes of designing, planning, constructing and operating projects that would traditionally be regarded as 'public goods'. The North Head Quarantine Station (Sydney, Australia) was one of the first proposed PPPs in national parks that moved beyond the licensing of private sector operations within park boundaries. The Quarantine Station is used as a case study to offer insights into the PPP process because of its place in the cultural heritage of Australia, its prime a facie tourism position within Sydney Harbour and its prolonged history of development. The case study provides a mechanism for examining public opinion on cultural heritage tourism issues in national parks through understanding stakeholder perspectives presented in newspaper media accounts. The accounts are analysed on political and environmental considerations with implications drawn for future developments.
Delavande, A & Kohler, H-P 2009, 'Subjective expectations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi', Demographic Research, vol. 20, pp. 817-875.
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Di Domenico, M & Fleming, P 2009, '`It's a guesthouse not a brothel': Policing sex in the home-workplace', Human Relations, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 245-269.
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This article aims to explain why guesthouse or `Bed & Breakfast' proprietors in the UK attempt to police sex among guests. Unlike interactive service situations that take place in more neutral locations, guesthouse proprietors open their homes to customers. We propose that they attempt to regulate sexual conduct (as well as other behaviours) in an attempt to delineate their homes as a traditional sphere of family values and purity. Sex is `useful' in this regard for defining what their home is not — a `seedy' hotel or even a brothel. The article presents evidence of the specific regulatory mechanisms deployed by proprietors and the rationale behind them. The research contributes to the interactive service work literature by illustrating the unique tensions experienced by this subset of home-workers, and the organizational sexuality literature, by exploring its importance in settings where the putative private/public dichotomy is overtly undermined.
Docherty, P 2009, 'RE-EXAMINING THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW CONSENSUS: ENDOGENOUS MONEY AND TAYLOR RULES IN A SIMPLE NEOCLASSICAL MACRO MODEL', Metroeconomica, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 495-524.
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This paper re-examines the impact of endogenous money in a neoclassical model with interest-sensitive expenditures. It first outlines a benchmark model with exogenous money and the usual full employment and money growth-determined inflation results. It then replaces exogenous money with endogenous money, which is shown to generate model indeterminacy. Two methods of resolving this indeterminacy are then explored: money illusion and a Taylor rule for monetary policy, a key feature of new consensus models. The paper concludes that endogenous money has negative implications for the behaviour and interpretation of neoclassical and new consensus models.
Docherty, PT & Tse, HP 2009, 'A survey of AS-AD models for teaching undergraduates at intermediate level', Australasian Journal of Economics Education, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 52-81.
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The Aggregate Supply-Aggregate Demand (AS-AD) model has been an important part of undergraduate teaching in economics for many years. It has, however, been the subject of recent criticism and new frameworks have been suggested to replace it. Given this antagonism, it seems a useful time to reflect on the AS-AD models suitability for teaching intermediate macroeconomics. A preliminary step in this process would be to provide a careful survey of AS-AD models used at this level. This paper surveys four common versions of the AS-AD model used in intermediate macroeconomics texts, considers the structure of these models, and carefully analyses their adjustment dynamics for negative demand and supply shocks. It argues that incorporating more than one of the approaches considered into intermediate classes would provide students with a better understanding of the state of economics and would enhance their critical skills by requiring them to understand the similarities and differences between the different approaches.
Docherty, PT & Tse, HP 2009, 'Re-evaluating the AS-AD model as a device for teaching intermediate macroeconomics', Australasian Journal of Economics Education, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 64-86.
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In the previous issue of this journal, we provided a survey of AS-AD models used in intermediate macroeconomic textbooks. That exercise was seen as preliminary to a careful consideration of criticisms made of the AS-AD model that suggest it should cease to be used as a device for teaching intermediate macroeconomics. In this paper, we undertake this investigation and examine a range of problems that have been identified with the AS-AD model. We argue that that while a number of these criticisms are valid, they may be overcome in ways that leave the model largely intact as a device for teaching the neoclassical explanation of price-output determination. One of these ways involves a new interpretation the model. We do, however, point out two more fundamental criticisms of the AS-AD model that have not featured in the literature, and argue that acceptance of these criticisms would require replacement of the neoclassical paradigm itself. Until a decision to do this is taken by the profession, we argue that a revised AS-AD model has a continuing role to play in teaching intermediate macroeconomics.
Dunkerley, D, Clegg, S & Thompson, A 2009, 'Obituary', Organization Studies, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 1165-1166.
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Dwyer, L & Edwards, D 2009, 'Tourism Product and Service Innovation to Avoid 'Strategic Drift'', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 321-335.
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Dealing with change in the external environment creates substantial challenges for tourism managers. Given the complexity of strategy formulation it is difficult for managers to analyse all aspects of their environment or establish precise objectives, consequently business strategies tend to be characterised by small strategic adjustments or incrementalism. However, these marginal adjustments of strategy within an organisation's existing culture may lead to strategic drift reflecting strategies that are inconsistent with changes taking place in the external environment. The paper begins with a brief overview of the global trends that comprise the remote environment of tourism organisations. It argues that the standard response of tourism organisations to changes in the remote environment can be characterised as strategic incrementalism. The paper also addresses the concern that strategic incrementalism can give rise to strategic drift. In the face of changing global trends the paper explores some of the barriers that must be overcome, discussing seven areas of importance on which managers can focus to assist them to avoid strategic drift.
Dwyer, L & Spurr, R 2009, 'A Critique of the Productivity Commission's Report on Assistance to Australian Tourism', Tourism Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 181-192.
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Australia's Productivity Commission has released a study of government assistance to Australian tourism which has proved quite controversial. Various aspects of the Commission's paper are of interest to tourism researchers and several of these are explored in this paper. The paper sets out the main arguments in the Productivity Commission's research paper, critiques those arguments and discusses the implications for tourism policy.
Dwyer, L, Edwards, D, Mistilis, N, Roman, C & Scott, N 2009, 'Destination and enterprise management for a tourism future', TOURISM MANAGEMENT, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 63-74.
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A key element of a successful tourism industry is the ability to recognise and deal with change across a wide range of key factors and the way they interact. Key drivers of global change within the external environment can be classified as economic, political, environmental, technological, demographic and social. Based on a series of workshops comprising a range of Australian tourism stakeholders 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 organizations and to develop tourism in a sustainable way.
Dwyer, L, Forsyth, P & Dwyer, W 2009, 'Tourism and Economic Development Three Tools of Analysis', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 307-318.
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© 2009 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. Abstract: Increasingly, developing countries are embracing international tourism as a source of economic growth. Tourism is one of the world's largest economic activities. It is the leading industry in many countries, as well as a substantial source of job creation worldwide. In recent years, three tools of analysis have become available to inform tourism policy-making by destination managers and planners: the Tourism and Travel Competitiveness Index, Tourism Satellite Accounts, and Computable General Equilibrium models. These tools perform different functions which together provide insights into the competitive strengths and weaknesses of a destination, the economic contribution of tourism to the economy, and the economy-wide impacts of changes in tourism demand. Unfortunately, it is not always the case that destinations most in need of the benefits that such tools can provide have employed them in policy formulation. At the same time, tourism researchers have not always appreciated the different uses to which such tools can be put. The paper discusses the nature of each tool and their importance to policy, planning and the development of tourism, with particular emphasis on lesser developed economies.
Eckert, C & Klapper, D 2009, 'Bridging the gap between ACA and CBC - The relevance of task and context effects for choice simulators', Marketing - Journal of Research and Management, vol. 2, pp. 88-100.
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It is well known that preferences are not invariant across elicitation processes or contexts, suggesting that there may be systematic differences between choice and judgement tasks (Moore 2004). Thus, when predicting market shares or choices via choice simulators, such differences should be taken into consideration. Surprisingly, current choice simulators based on judgement tasks ignore them, even though the selection of choice simulator has a huge impact on the validity of predictions based on judgement tasks (Hartmann and Sattler 2004).
Fam, K-S, Waller, DS & Yang, Z 2009, 'Addressing the Advertising of Controversial Products in China: An Empirical Approach', JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, vol. 88, no. Supp 1, pp. 43-58.
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China is a country that has undertaken a great transformation since the late 1970s, and among these changes, has seen a massive growth in the advertising industry with the influx of foreign advertisers, and the development of regional and global media, such as satellite television and the Internet. This has resulted in the Chinese people of all ages having a greater opportunity of exposure to different types of advertising, including the advertising of potentially controversial products, which could clash with traditional Chinese values. Using a stakeholder theory approach, this study analyzes the responses of 630 Chinese respondents to discover who is offended by controversial advertisements and determine ways potentially offensive advertising messages can be reduced, thereby assisting marketers in being more socially responsible in their advertising messages.
Fan, E & Zhao, R 2009, 'Health status and portfolio choice: Causality or heterogeneity?', Journal of Banking & Finance, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1079-1088.
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This paper explores the role of unobserved individual characteristics in the health-assets and health-portfolio correlations. We apply various econometrics models to a unique longitudinal dataset with rich information that allows for the exploitation of four different health indices. Our findings show strong cross-sectional correlations between health and both financial and non-financial assets, but these correlations seem to be mainly driven by heterogeneity as the correlations largely disappear in the fixed-effects model. Adverse health shocks, however, are found to motivate a safer portfolio choice even after individual fixed-effects are controlled for - a result consistent with the prediction made by the background risk theory. Our findings suggest that health shocks shift investment from risky assets toward other financial assets, but keep the total financial assets unchanged.
Fleming, P & Sturdy, A 2009, '“Just be yourself!”', Employee Relations, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 569-583.
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PurposeThe paper seeks to explore the nature and employee experience of an emergent approach to managing employees which emphasises “being yourself” through the expression of fun, individuality and difference.Design/methodology/approachThe paper utilises interviews and observations in a US‐owned call centre in Australia.FindingsThe management approach outlined is located within the emergence of market rationalism and associated claims of the limitations of normative control. With its emphasis on diversity and identity derived from non‐(paid) work contexts, it is presented as complementary to, but distinct from, the group conformity and organisational identity associated with conventional culture and “fun” management. The seemingly liberal regime is shown to be controlling in its limited scope and by exposing more of the employees' self to the corporation. This raises questions about the nature of workplace control, resistance and the meaning of authenticity at work.Originality/valueThe research provides an insight into an approach to management which has been largely neglected in research and proposes a modified concept of culture and “fun” management – neo‐normative control. It also serves to challenge the liberal claims made by proponents of the new approach and of “fun at work” more generally, that it is liberating for employees, a form of “existential empowerment”.
Foley, C 2009, 'Sport and society: a student introduction', Leisure Studies, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 368-370.
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Frawley, S & Toohey, K 2009, 'The importance of prior knowledge: the Australian Olympic Committee and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games', Sport in Society, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 947-966.
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This study investigates how the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) was involved in the formation of the Sports Commission (SSC) within the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) and as a critical contributor to the staging of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Using a figurational sociological framework, the intended and unintended consequences of the AOC's strategic and operational involvement are explored. The case shows how important early negotiations were in the case of the Sydney Olympics, when the host governments and Olympic Organizing Committees, in the period immediately following the winning of a bid, were inexperienced in Olympic negotiations and distracted by the euphoria of securing the Games. This left the more knowledgeable Olympic organization, the AOC, well placed to leverage its prior experience and extensive Olympic figurations, in order to gain a strategic advantage over the other Australian Olympic stakeholders. The research makes a contribution to Olympic studies, specifically in relation to the role of the host National Olympic Committee (NOC) in the organizing of an Olympic Games. Furthermore, the research findings have management implications for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and future host NOCs, particularly in relation to the structuring of Olympic Organizing Committee governance arrangements
Garbarino, E & Slonim, R 2009, 'The robustness of trust and reciprocity across a heterogeneous U.S. population', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 226-240.
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Giacobbe, F & Booth, P 2009, 'Controlling International Joint Ventures: An Investigation of Australian Parent Partners', AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 103-116.
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From a strategic point of view, international joint ventures (IJV) are used to exploit peripheral markets or technologies, and are perceived as critical elements of an organisation's business networks, as strategic weapons for competing within core markets and technologies (Harrigan 1987), and as a way of facilitating inter-organisational learning (Buckley and Casson 1988; Hamel 1991; Makhija and Ganesh 1997). In addition, successful IJVs create synergies and enhance economic rents to the partners resulting from risk reduction, economies of scale and scope, production rationalisation, convergence of technologies, and better local acceptance (Harrigan 1988a, 1988b; Hennart 1988; Parkhe 1993). IJVs, therefore, represent an important and effective way for multinational organisations to compete globally (Perlmutter and Heenan 1986). The results suggest that Australian parent partners seek tighter formalised structures. This is an indication of greater extent of control achieved by using more formal bureaucratic methods. It could be argued that these choices may counter the limitations of narrow focus of control. Despite Australian parent partners formally controlling only a limited set of activities, they seek de facto dominant decision-making power in a wide range of strategically important functional areas, protecting, therefore, their overall interest in the venture.
Glover, K, Peskir, G & Samee, F 2009, 'The British Asian Option', Sequential Analysis, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 311-327.
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Following the economic rationale of [7] and [8] we present a new class of Asian options where the holder enjoys the early exercise feature of American options whereupon his payoff (deliverable
immediately) is the ‘best prediction’ of the European payoff under the hypothesis that the true drift of the stock price equals a contract drift. Inherent in this is a protection feature which is key to
the British Asian option. Should the option holder believe the true drift of the stock price to be unfavourable (based upon the observed price movements) he can substitute the true drift with the contract
drift and minimise his losses. The practical implications of this protection feature are most remarkable as not only is the option holder afforded a unique protection against unfavourable stock price
movements (covering the ability to sell in a liquid market completely endogenously) but also when the stock price movements are favourable he will generally receive high returns. We derive a closed form
expression for the arbitrage-free price in terms of the rational exercise boundary and show that the rational exercise boundary itself can be characterised as the unique solution to a nonlinear integral
equation. Using these results we perform a financial analysis of the British Asian option that leads to the conclusions above and shows that with the contract drift properly selected the British Asian
option becomes a very attractive alternative to the classic (European) Asian option.
Gordon, R, Clegg, S & Kornberger, M 2009, 'Embedded Ethics: Discourse and Power in the New South Wales Police Service', Organization Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 73-99.
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In this paper we report an ethnographic research study conducted in one of the world's largest police organizations, the New South Wales Police Service. Our research question was, `How do forms of power shape organizational members' ethical practices?' We look at existing theories that propose the deployment of two interrelated arguments: that ethics are embedded in organizational practices and discourse at a micro-level of everyday organizational life, which is contrasted with a focus on the macro-organizational, institutional forces that are seen to have an impact on ethics. Resisting this distinction between the `micro' and the `macro', we build on these two bodies of knowledge to explain ethical change as deeply embedded in power relations that traverse the scale of social action.
Gordon, R, Kornberger, M & Clegg, SR 2009, 'POWER, RATIONALITY AND LEGITIMACY IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS', PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 15-34.
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In this paper we propose answers to the research question: how does power shape the construction of legitimacy in the context of public organizations? We suggest that while organizational structures of dominancy will be embedded, not all structures of dominancy align with those that are normatively presented as legitimate and authoritative. Such situations make the creation and sustenance of legitimacy problematic for organizational action. This paper advances our understanding of the relation between power, rationality and legitimacy by showing how structures of domination recursively constitute, and are constituted by, legitimacy that may not be authoritative. We show, empirically, how these relations prevented a police organization from reforming by breaking the recursive patterns of domination and legitimization. Theoretically, we argue that understanding organizational change must be connected to issues of power and legitimacy.
Green, W, Czernkowski, R & Wang, Y 2009, 'Special treatment regulation in China: potential unintended consequences', Asian Review of Accounting, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 198-211.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to trace the behaviour of Chinese companies receiving a special treatment (ST) designation in order to determine the extent to which the application of this regulation may have led companies to engage in activities conducive to the removal of the ST designation. In particular, the paper examines evidence of opinion shopping or earnings manipulation by these companies.Design/methodology/approachEmpirical analysis of annual report databases for Chinese‐listed companies, including statistical significance testing relating to ST companies.FindingsMost ST companies have removed the ST status by the third year after the initial ST designation. Compared to non‐ST companies, ST companies losing the ST status are more likely to engage in practices indicating earnings manipulation. Also, compared to non‐ST companies, ST companies are more likely to change auditors after an initial or second year of ST designation. However, while this behaviour suggests opinion shopping, auditor switching for the ST companies is not associated with losses becoming profits nor with improved audit opinions.Research limitations/implicationsThe results reported in this paper must be considered in light of the limitations inherent in empirical analyses. That is, the relationships identified in this paper are indicative of potential earnings management or audit opinion shopping; however, the study cannot provide the actual reasons for these empirical results.Practical implicationsThe results suggest the ST regulati...
Hafalir, I & Krishna, V 2009, 'Revenue and efficiency effects of resale in first-price auctions', Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 45, no. 9-10, pp. 589-602.
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He, L, Wright, S, Evans, E & Crowe, S 2009, 'What makes a board independent? Australian evidence', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 144-166.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine what aspects of board independence, in terms of board structure and characteristics of non‐executive directors (NEDs), are associated with effective monitoring of management, as evidenced through lower levels of earnings management.Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines the effectiveness of board independence requirements under the 2003 Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice Recommendations (POGCG) for a sample of 231 firms listed on the ASX in the financial year 2005. The associations of board composition, share ownership and compensation of NEDs with the level of earnings management are estimated. To explore the characteristics of NEDs that are important for effective monitoring, NEDs are separated into “grey” (affiliated) directors and independent directors and compensation is separated into variable and fixed components.FindingsThe results of the paper indicate a positive relation between earnings management and share ownership of NEDs, particularly that of grey directors. There is a negative relation between NED compensation and the level of earnings management, particularly the fixed compensation component for independent directors.Practical implicationsThis paper is important to shareholders, academics and policy makers because it shows the type of remuneration and ownership levels for NEDs that are consistent with good corporate governance. NEDs are more effective monitors when independent directors are compensated more as a fixed amount that ...
Hutcheson, TJ 2009, 'A suggestion for using oral presentations to reduce the incidence of plagiarism in business courses', Australasian Journal of Economics Education, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 44-63.
Ishimine, K & Wilson, R 2009, 'Centre-based child care quality in urban Australia', Australian Journal of Early Childhood, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 19-29.
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This study investigates the quality of childcare centres in urban Australian communities designated according to different bands of Centre Location Demographics (CLD). Childcare centres were assessed using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale - Revised Edition (ECERS-R) and the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale - Extension (ECERS-E). Statistically significant differences were seen in quality on total scores across the five CLD areas. On both scales, middle and partially disadvantaged areas were identified as having substantial disadvantage in terms of childcare centre quality. The provision, and potential impact, of quality regulation and accreditation for childcare centres is discussed.
Jordan, K, Krivokapic-Skoko, B & Collins, J 2009, 'The ethnic landscape of rural Australia: Non-Anglo-Celtic immigrant communities and the built environment', JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 376-385.
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Rural ethnic minorities occupy unique economic, social, as well as geographical places in Australian society. Non-Anglo-Celtic immigrants have transformed the rural landscapes through the construction of public and private spaces expressing their cultural heritage. These sites can also significantly impact the dynamics of social cohesion and inter-cultural relations in multicultural rural communities. The paper explores the potential role of the sites built by rural ethnic minorities in promoting both intra-group solidarity and inter-group dialogue. It also provides insights into complexities of multicultural place-making. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part briefly explores the literature on the migration and heritage, place, belonging and social cohesion, and the relationship between social capital and the built environment. The second part outlines empirical findings from Griffith. a regional town in New South Wales. The focus is on the places built by Italian immigrants, such as the Italian clubs and the recently built Italian Museum and Cultural Centre. The construction of these places facilitated a sense of solidarity among the Italian immigrants and expressed their belonging to place. However, the immigrant's attempts at place-making simultaneously involved inscribing a degree of exclusivity and a strategy of becoming more a part of their new environment. In doing this there is also potential for multicultural place-making to intensify the existing intra- and inter-group tensions.
Kattiyapornpong, U & Miller, KE 2009, 'Socio‐demographic constraints to travel behavior', International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 81-94.
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PurposeThis study aims to ascertain the effect of socio‐demographic constraints on dimension of travel choice. This study also seeks to derive personal ecological explanations for variation in travel preference, travel intention and travel choice behavior of a wide range of destinations.Design/methodology/approachA large representative sample of 49,105 Australian respondents is utilized. Binary logistic regression is used to determine the impact of constraint variables.FindingsAge, income and life stage have significant differential and interactive effects on travel behavior. Socio‐demographic variables act in different ways to constrain/free different types of travel behavior. However there are significant levels of travel by even the most constrained groups as well as significant amounts of non‐travel by the least constrained sectors of our society. These impacts are country specific.Research limitations/implicationsThe travel motivations of constraint groups need to be considered to order better understand travel behavior. Investigation of psychological and ecological facilitators and constraints to travel is needed.Practical implicationsThis information is most useful for market segmentation and the development of constraint group destination marketing plans. Managers can use utilize such results to minimize the barriers to travel by particular groups.Originality/valueThis paper utilizes a large database to provide insi...
Kerr, GF, Waller, D & Patti, C 2009, 'Advertising Education in Australia', Journal of Marketing Education, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 264-274.
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In Australia, advertising is a $13 billion industry that needs a supply of suitably skilled employees. Over the years, advertising education has developed from vocational-based courses to degree courses across the country. This study uses diffusion theory and various secondary sources and interviews to observe the development of advertising education in Australia from its early past to its current-day tertiary offerings, to discussing the issues that are arising in the near future. Six critical issues are identified, along with observations about the challenges and opportunities within Australian advertising education. By looking back to the future, it is hoped that this historical review provides lessons for other countries of similar educational structure or background, or even other marketing communication disciplines on a similar evolutionary path.
Kofman, P, Michayluk, D & Moser, JT 2009, 'Reversing the lead, or a series of unfortunate events? NYMEX, ICE, and Amaranth', Journal of Futures Markets, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 1130-1160.
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Krause, K-L & McEwen, C 2009, 'Student induction to e-learning: A progress report', University of Southern Queensland report by Link Affiliates Team within the Australian Digital Futures Institute, available on-line at http://www. linkaffiliates. net. au/Publications/SIeL_Mar09_Report. html (accessed December 2009).
Kulendran, N & Dwyer, L 2009, 'Measuring the Return from Australian Tourism Marketing Expenditure', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 275-284.
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Tourism Australia, the primary agency responsible for marketing Australia as a destination internationally, spends around 32% of its total marketing expenditure in Asian markets. Asia contributes around 40% of the visitor arrivals to Australia. When Tourism Australia invests public money to promote Australia as a tourist destination, there is a need to estimate the return per dollar investment. This article estimated the return per dollar investment in Asia using a dynamic modeling approach and cost-effectiveness analysis. The study found that the return per dollar investment is 17:1 for Asia and 8:1, 36:1, 3:1, and 7:1 for Japan, New Zealand, the UK, and the United States respectively. The results have implications for targeting the highest yield markets to increase the economic returns to Australia from its destination marketing activity. It is argued that the cost-effectiveness approach is a useful tool for destination managers to ensure the effectiveness of their marketing expenditure.
Kwak, K & Yoon, K 2009, 'Investigating Source of Purchase-Occasion Heterogeneity with Implications for Acquisition and Retention Strategy'.
Lau, J, Sinnadurai, P & Wright, S 2009, 'Corporate governance and chief executive officer dismissal following poor performance: Australian evidence', Accounting & Finance, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 161-182.
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Le, KN, Tam, VWY & Tam, L 2009, 'Assessment schemes in engineering courses using spectral techniques', International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 547-556.
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This paper studies assessment schemes with regard to attitudes and understanding in engineering undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Griffith University, Australia. A survey was conducted consisting of eight typical assessment schemes: seminar, open-book mid-semester test, closed-book mid-semester test, problem-based assignment, presentation, multiple-choice question, closed-book final examination and open-book final examination. F-test, Relative Important Indices (RII), and rankings of each scheme are estimated. An additional insight into the student responses is given by using a novel spectral technique of computing the power spectrum of the data. Detailed comparisons are made. Recommendations are given. Further work is also outlined. © 2009 TEMPUS Publications.
Leonard, R & Onyx, J 2009, 'Volunteer tourism: The interests and motivations of grey nomads', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 12, no. 3-4, pp. 315-332.
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Volunteer tourism is increasingly being recognized as a distinct phenomenon which needs to draw on an understanding of both tourism and volunteer motivations.
Linnenluecke, MK, Russell, SV & Griffiths, A 2009, 'Subcultures and sustainability practices: the impact on understanding corporate sustainability', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 432-452.
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Lock, D, Darcy, S & Taylor, T 2009, 'Starting with a clean slate: An analysis of member identification with a new sports team', Sport Management Review, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 15-25.
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Soccer in Australia underwent a series of changes following a Federal Government inquiry into its future. A report into the Structure, Governance and Management of Soccer in Australia (2003) recommended a process of structural change, aimed at repositioning and re-branding soccer as association football. The restructure yielded the replacement of the National Soccer League with the A-League, five new Australian teams and a concerted attempt to separate soccer from its ethnic ties in the antipodes. This paper examines member identification in relation to a specific A-League clubâs members. Using the Sports Spectator Identity Scale (Wann & Branscombe, 1993) to measure sport fan identity in a new team context, a survey of club members of Sydney FC (n = 510), was undertaken. Survey findings indicated that members of Sydney FC reported relatively strong team identification in the first year of the new competition, with some nuanced differences based on age and income. The SSIS demonstrated a good level of fit in relation to a new sports team, although it is evident that rivalries and identification with a new team need time to develop fully.
Lyons, K, Wearing, S & Benson, A 2009, 'Introduction to the special issue on volunteer tourism', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 12, no. 3-4, pp. 269-271.
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Mar, J, Bird, R, Casavecchia, L & Yeung, D 2009, 'Fundamental Indexation: An Australian Investigation', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 1-20.
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Capitalisation-weighted indexes provide the basis for passive investment strategies designed to capture market performance. However, these cap-weighted indexes are claimed to be sub-optimal because of their tendency to overweight overvalued shares and underweight undervalued shares. U.S. evidence suggests that fundamental indexes, which select, rank and weight stocks according to fundamental measures of size such as book value and revenue, outperform cap-weighted indexes. This study examines fundamental indexation in an Australian context over the period 1995 to 2006 and finds support for the U.S. results. However, we also find that the superiority of fundamental indexation is largely explained by its inherent bias towards value stocks, which raises the question as to whether a more overt value tilt may not provide a superior means for exploiting mispricings in markets.
Maruyama, S 2009, 'Estimating Sequential-Move Games by a Recursive Conditioning Simulator', UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper, no. 2009.
McDonald, MG, Wearing, S & Ponting, J 2009, 'The nature of peak experience in wilderness.', The Humanistic Psychologist, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 370-385.
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This study sought to identify the distinctive elements of wilderness settings that contribute to triggering peak experiences. Thirty-nine participants who had visited wilderness areas were recruited using a voluntary wilderness registration system operated by the Victorian National Parks Service, Australia. Using a postal survey, participants were asked to provide a written response to an open-ended question requesting them to describe, in their own words, a peak experience in the wilderness. A conventional approach to qualitative content analysis of the participants' descriptions revealed that the aesthetic qualities of the wilderness setting and being away from the pressures, people, distractions, and concerns of the human-made world were key elements in their peak experiences. To gain an understanding of this phenomenon, the concept and theory of restorative environments was applied to the participants' experiences. This analysis indicates that wilderness settings provide a mix of aesthetic pleasure and renewal that can lead to a triggering of peak experiences that provides the basis for individual spiritual expression. © 2009, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Michayluk, D & Zhao, L 2009, 'Stock Splits and Bond Yields: Isolating the Signaling Hypothesis', The Financial Review, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 375-386.
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One explanation offered for stock splits is that the split signals positive information by reducing the stock price range in expectation of improved future prospects. Price declines also lead to changes in stock price dynamics, but related securities are not subject to these other changes and therefore can be used to provide a separate assessment of the markets interpretation of the split. We examine corporate bond issues around stock splits and find a significant decline in the bond yield spread following stock splits, supporting the signaling hypothesis. We also confirm improvements in forecasted and realized earnings subsequent to stock splits.
Michayluk, D, Prather, L, Woo, L-AE & Yip, HYK 2009, 'What do Options have to do With It?: Inclusion of Options Market Indicators in Bid-ask Spread Decomposition', Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 455-489.
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This paper develops a cross-market model to extend Huang and Stoll (1997) by utilizing information from trade flows in the options market. Empirical tests reveal a significant increase in the estimated adverse information component, which stays consistent irrespective of the degree of option leverage. Further, intraday variation in stock bid-ask spread components is affected by the stock trade size and the extent of imbalance in information-based option trades. Including the options market information in decomposition of the stock bid-ask spread enhances the quality of its estimation.
Nikolova, N, Reihlen, M & Schlapfner, J-F 2009, 'Client-consultant interaction: Capturing social practices of professional service production', Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 289-298.
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Summary Based on the investigation of seven consultancy projects within an international technical consulting firm, we identify three major practices that characterize client-consultant interaction - shaping impressions, problem-solving, and negotiating expectations - and discuss their respective characteristics, activities, and contingencies. Our discussion of these practices provides not only a more differentiated picture of client-consultant interaction but also uncovers the critical role that clients play in these practices.
O'Neill, MS & Johns, RE 2009, 'How a welfare approach to maternity has facilitated low workforce participation rates for Australian women of child-bearing age', International Employment Relations Review, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 53-72.
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Australia is only one of two OECD Countries that has no legislated universal paid maternity leave scheme. It also ranks eighth lowest in the OECD for the workforce participation rate of women of child-bearing age. This paper examines why consecutive Australian governments have opted to provide a welfare approach to the issue of maternity rather than encourage and embrace womens workforce participation by providing legal entitlements within an employment relations context. The paper examines the history of welfare and paid maternity leave in Australia through an institutional framework in which society, politics and the economy become the bases for the argument. By using this framework for the examination, the paper aims to provide an understanding for the comparatively low workforce participation rate of women of child-bearing age observed within Australia.
Pina e Cunha, M, Clegg, SR & Rego, A 2009, 'An Essay on Archaic Postmodernity: The Case of Portugal', Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 191-201.
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In this paper, some peculiarities of a Southern European country are made explicit, namely, how the attraction of new, "global," management practices combines with deeply persistent, thus traditional, ways of imagining organization. The dominant Anglo-Saxon and Protestant models of management may not be fully adequate to characterize management and organization in the Latin Catholic countries of the south, or those postcolonial societies that they inscribed in Latin America. We present an interpretation of why what are glossed by moderns as dysfunctional management practices persist, sometimes despite their recognized inadequacy. The contributions advanced here may thus be relevant to researchers interested in the route of transition from closed to open societies and who are concerned that all models need to be appreciated in context.
Putniņš, TJ 2009, 'Naked Short Sales and Fails to Deliver: An Overview of Clearing and Settlement Procedures for Stock Trades in the US', Journal of Securities Operations and Custody, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 340-350.
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This article outlines the process of clearing and settlement for stock trades in the US. It pays particular attention to what happens when the seller of a stock fails to deliver that stock at settlement and describes the mechanisms to resolve delivery failures. Fails to deliver can occur for a number of reasons, such as human error, administrative delays and the controversial practice of naked short selling. This article helps understand the implications of naked short selling for trade counterparties and, more generally, the effects of naked short selling on the clearing and settlement system.
Rauyruen, P, Miller, KE & Groth, M 2009, 'B2B services: linking service loyalty and brand equity', JOURNAL OF SERVICES MARKETING, vol. 23, no. 2-3, pp. 175-185.
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Purpose A significant way of achieving high profitability is to retain existing customers who contribute to the service provider's revenue by continuously purchasing and paying more for products and services and building brand equity to the provider. The main objective of this study is to empirically examine and extend the knowledge underlying the linkage between service loyalty and brand equity performance outcomes in the context of business-to-business markets. It aims to develop and empirically test a theoretical model examining the antecedents and the outcomes of service loyalty in a business-to-business context. The model also aims to examine the relationship between service loyalty and customer share of wallet and price premium, as well as the links between the proposed antecedents (habitual buying, trust in the service provider, and perceived service quality) and service loyalty.
Rawlings-Way, OMF 2009, 'Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism- by Sallie B. King', Journal of Religious History, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 117-118.
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Reynolds, SS & Wooders, J 2009, 'Auctions with a buy price', ECONOMIC THEORY, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 9-39.
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eBay and Yahoo allow sellers to list their auctions with a buy price at which a bidder may purchase the item immediately. On eBay, the buy-now option disappears once a bid is placed, while on Yahoo the buy-now option remains in effect throughout the auction. We show that when bidders are risk averse, both types of auctions raise seller revenue for a wide range of buy prices. The Yahoo format raises more revenue than the eBay format when bidders have either CARA or DARA. Bidders with DARA prefer the eBay auction, while bidders with CARA are indifferent between the two.
Rhodes, C 2009, 'After Reflexivity: Ethics, Freedom and the Writing of Organization Studies', ORGANIZATION STUDIES, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 653-672.
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Building on existing considerations of reflexivity in research writing, this essai seeks to reappraise the concept of responsibility in relation to the ethics of post-representational research methodology in organization studies. Jacques Derridas discussions of responsibility and undecidability and Emmanuel Lévinas distinction between the saying and the said are brought to bear on the ethics of the discursive construction of organizational research as a form of representing the Other. The essai argues that responding to reflexivity extends beyond textual practice and self-accounting towards a responsibility for the exercise of academic freedom. This freedom entails a radical openness that is operationalized in an ongoing reinvention that resists the institutionalization of the field of inquiry through a form of transformative knowledge. It is the legacy and promise of reflexivity in organization studies that can invigorate the imagination in research its poiesis as an ongoing project of saying the ethical.
Rhodes, C 2009, ''All I want to do is get that check and get drunk' Testifying to resistance in Charles Bukowski's Factotum', JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 386-401.
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the themes of resistance to organizations in Charles Bukowski's novel Factotum in relation to contemporary theory in organization studies, and to consider the ways in which the literary depiction of resistance can be used to extend theoretical debates on the subject Design/methodology/approach - Literary fiction, and the novel in particular, is theorized as an undecidable space between experiential reality and creative/fictional experiment that offers a valuable exposition of and experimentation with, the meaning of work in organizations. The theme of resistance to organizations in Factotum is read in terms of how the experiment of the novel can be articulated with discussions of resistance in organization studies. Findings - The paper shows how Bukowski's novel portrays a form of resistance that has elided attention in the organization studies literature - that which is highly individualistic and disorganized yet extreme and overt. This is a resistance that does not just work against the power structures of one organization, but rather rejects all aspects of capitalist work relations other than those necessary for survival. Originality/value - Theoretically, the paper extends theories of resistance in organizations by using Factotum to explore the meaning of extreme individualised organizational resistance. Methodologically the paper exemplifies how the reading of novels can provide insight to the paper of organizations not available through more conventional means by testifying to, and experimenting with, the meaning of organizational experience.
Richardson, G & Lanis, R 2009, 'The impact of the Ralph Review Tax Reform on corporate capital investment in Australia', Australian Tax Forum: a journal of taxation policy, law and reform, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 261-279.
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This study analyzes the impact of tax reform on corporate capital investment in Australia stemming from the Ralph Review of Business Taxation reform. Based on panel data spanning the Ralph Review tax reform, our regression results indicate that corporate capital investment decreased in Australia because of the tax reform. We find that that the negative effects of the removal of accelerated depreciation exceeded the positive effects of the reduction in the corporate tax rate, so there was a decline in corporate capital investment. Our findings are robust to several robustness checks
Roberts, K, Rowe, D, Andrews, DL, Havitz, ME, Jordan, F, Veal, AJ & Downward, P 2009, 'Book Reviews', Leisure Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 221-236.
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Roesch, D & Scheule, HH 2009, 'Credit Portfolio Loss Forecasts for Economic Downturns', Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-26.
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Recent studies find a positive correlation between default and loss given default rates of credit portfolios. In response, financial regulators require financial institutions to base their capital on `Downturn loss rates given default which are also known as Downturn LGDs. This article proposes a concept for the Downturn LGD which incorporates econometric properties of credit risk as well as the information content of default and loss given default models. The concept is compared to an alternative proposal by the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Insurance Corporation. An empirical analysis is provided for US American corporate bond portfolios of different credit quality, seniority and security.
Roesch, D & Scheule, HH 2009, 'Credit Rating Impact on CDO Evaluation', Global Finance Journal, Vol. 19, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 235-251.
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One of the most significant developments in international credit markets in recent years has been the trade in Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO), which has enabled financial institutions to repackage the credit risk of an asset portfolio into tranches to be transferred to investors. The present paper evaluates the credit risk of such a portfolio and the related tranches by applying two prominent prototypes for credit ratings, namely the point-in-time and through-the-cycle approach. The central parameters default probability and correlation are forecast for multiple years and related forecasting errors are included. The article's main findings are that banks which transfer debt tranches but retain an equity part and apply a through-the-cycle rating approach may be exposed to higher insolvency risk. Firstly, the credit risk retained may be underestimated resulting in an inadequate capital allocation. Secondly, the credit risk transferred may be overestimated resulting in additional risk-based transfer costs.
Roxas, HBG, Lindsay, V, Ashill, N & Victorio, A 2009, 'Economic Accountability in the Context of Local Governance in the Philippines: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach', Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 17-37.
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Sainty, R 2009, 'Update: UN Global Compact', Living Ethics: Newsletter of the St. James Ethics Centre, vol. 78, no. 12, pp. 12-12.
Schulenkorf, N 2009, 'An Ex Ante Framework for the Strategic Study of Social Utility of Sport Events', Tourism and Hospitality Research, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 120-131.
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The area of sport event tourism has been growing over the past decade, which has led to an increasing amount of research on both the economic and social impacts of sport events. Whereas a substantial number of ex post assessment frameworks for event evaluation is available, there is growing demand for process- orientated ex ante frameworks that guide the strategic study of social utility of events. To address this issue, this paper presents a framework suitable for theoretical and practical research in the area of inter-community sport events. It combines the areas of community participation, intergroup relations, social identity and event impacts in a process towards generating social development within and among communities. The ex ante framework is designed to support the strategic investigation of inter-community sport events and their contribution to social capital, social change and capacity building, and ultimately the enhancement of communities' quality of life.
SEETARAM, N & DWYER, L 2009, 'Immigration and Tourism Demand in Australia: A Panel Data Analysis', Anatolia, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 212-222.
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Compared to other OECD countries Australia depends heavily on immigration as a source of population growth. This can have implications for its tourism industry. This paper investigates whether immigration leads to an increase in inbound tourism to Australia. Tourism arrivals were regressed against, GDP per capita, real exchange rate, population of the origin country, and the number of Australian resident bom overseas, which was used as a proxy for immigration. A panel of dataset from 1992 to 2006 for nine of the main markets of Australia, namely New Zealand, UK, USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea was used. A log linear model was specified and estimated. The results strongly support the hypothesis that immigration is a major determinant of total inbound arrivals to Australia.
SIMINSKI, P 2009, 'A Welfare Analysis of the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card', Economic Record, vol. 85, no. 269, pp. 164-180.
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Sivabalan, P, Booth, P, Malmi, T & Brown, DA 2009, 'An exploratory study of operational reasons to budget', ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 849-871.
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Budgets are used widely but criticized, mainly for performance evaluation reasons. We find that organizations regard budgets as more important for planning and control than evaluation, thus proposing a rationale for their continued use irrespective of evaluation-based criticisms. This finding is also important, because most extant budget research focuses on evaluation, suggesting a potential disconnect between budget research and practice. We also find that rolling forecasts are used in tandem with the annual budget in most organizations, and for the same reasons. This was unexpected, as coexistence suggests their adoption for different reasons.
Slonim, R & Garbarino, E 2009, 'Similarities and differences between stockpiling and reference effects', Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 351-371.
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Stronach, M & Adair, D 2009, '‘Brave new world’ or ‘sticky wicket’? Women, management and organizational power in Cricket Australia1', Sport in Society, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 910-932.
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In 2003 the men's Australian Cricket Board (ACB) and Women's Cricket Australia (WCA) amalgamated to form a gender integrated national body, Cricket Australia. This essay shows that this new organization has served the interests of women well in a number of key areas, including junior development, coaching of talented youth, financial support and scholarships. There have also been modest improvements to the publicity and profile of the women's game. Yet these benefits are, arguably, compromised by an arm's length managerial strategy in which women have little decision-making voice in the state organizations, and are absent from the board of CA itself. The men who run the game of cricket have recourse to substantial amounts of revenue and sponsorship income, which are deployed as they see fit. We argue that if women's cricket is to emerge out of the shadow of the men's game, it is vital to have female representation on the CA board and more generally among state cricket organizations.
Sundin, H, Brown, D, Wakefield, J & Ranganathan, J 2009, 'Management Control Systems in a Non-Enterprise Network: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative', AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 93-102.
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A study explores the use of management control systems in a unique multi-stakeholder collaborative network, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative (GHGPI). The primary objective of the GHGPI was to harmonise greenhouse gas accounting practices through the development of one international standard. The central problems in the collaboration were the multiple differing stakeholder ideologies and the practical challenges of a geographically dispersed network being able to work together. To overcome these problems, MCS were designed around socio-ideological, planning and administrative controls. The GHGPI faced the problems of the collaboration not having a financial or profit objective, high levels of uncertainty about outcomes, conflicting stakeholder ideologies, and the practical issue of enabling a geographically dispersed network to work together. Collaborations are becoming popular forms of organising people and resources because they enable multiple stakeholders to be involved in projects. Despite the benefits, however, the issue of conflicting stakeholders' views may arise (Cleland 1986; Jugdev and Müller 2005) and put the achievement of project outcomes at risk. The case of the GHGPI provides insights into the management of such challenges, because it was such a large and ultimately successful multistakeholder collaboration. The insight from the analysis of the GHGPI can be applied not only to accounting standard developments, but more broadly to various other forms of collaboration
Sutton-Brady, C, Scott, KM, Taylor, L, Carabetta, G & Clark, S 2009, 'The value of using short-format podcasts to enhance learning and teaching', ALT-J, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 219-232.
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Talia, D, Maassen, J, Huet, F & Jha, S 2009, 'Introduction.', Euro-Par, vol. 5704, no. 2, pp. 629-629.
Tatz, C & Adair, D 2009, 'Darkness and a little light: 'Race' and sport in Australia', AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STUDIES, vol. 2009, no. 2, pp. 1-14.
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Despite 'the wonderful and chaotic universe of clashing colors, temperaments and emotions, of brave deeds against odds seemingly insuperable', sport is mixed with 'mean and shameful acts of pure skullduggery', villainy, cowardice, depravity, rapaciousness and malice. Thus wrote celebrated American novelist Paul Gallico on the eve of the Second World War (Gallico 1938 [1988]:9-10). An acute enough observation about society in general, his farewell to sports writing also captures the 'clashing colors' in Australian sport. In this 'land of the fair go', we look at the malice of racism in the arenas where, as custom might have it, one would least want or expect to find it. The history of the connection between sport, race and society - the long past, the recent past and the social present - is commonly dark and ugly but some light and decency are just becoming visible.
Taylor, S 2009, 'Capital Markets Regulation: How Can Accounting Research Contribute?', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 319-325.
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In examining the possible contribution that accounting research can play in ensuring effective and efficient regulation of securities markets, two principal opportunities stand out. First, the role of research in informing debate about proposed regulator
Taylor, T, Lock, D & Darcy, S 2009, 'The Janus face of diversity in Australian sport', Sport in Society, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 861-875.
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In this paper, Janus is used as a metaphor for examining the nature of cultural diversity in Australian sport. It does so by firstly presenting a historical context for sport in Australia and the relative lack of cultural diversity found in sport. Within a country dominated by the running codes of football and cricket, the position of soccer in Australia was somewhat unique as it became a bastion for many non-Anglo migrant groups. However, in the 1980s and 1990s soccer's lack of organizational success at the state and national level was negatively ascribed to the tensions between the ethnically affiliated clubs, the same clubs that were ironically the stalwarts driving the growing popularity of the sport. We examine the initiatives used to restructure the game in Australia to make football more appealing to mainstream (i.e. non-ethnically aligned) spectators. The contemporary situation is explored through secondary documentation and the results of a survey of 3,056 spectators undertaken during the first season of the new A-League are presented. The paper concludes with a discussion about the relative success of the restructure in terms of changing the face of Australian soccer.
Walker, S & Partington, G 2009, 'A market valuation for Optus pre-listing: a case note', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 90-94.
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Predicting the price at which a stock will first list on a stock exchange is not an easy task. In this paper we present a market valuation of Optus based on data available before the listing date. As a by-product of our analysis we provide a method of valuing some non-renounceable rights issues. The valuation of Optus is based on the price behaviour of shares in Mayne Nickless. A large tranche of the Optus shares were to be made available through a non-renounceable e~titlement offer to shareholders in Mayne NIckless. In principle, by observing the exentitlement price drop on Mayne Nickless shares, an estimate can be made of the value of Optus. In reality there are complications in this approach. For example, Mayne Nickless went ex-dividend and ex-entitlement on the same day. We overcome these problems by utilising price differences from concurrent trading in Mayne Nickless shares, ex-dividend/exentitlement, and ex-dividend/cum-entitlement.
Waller, DS & Hingorani, AG 2009, 'Advertising Students’ Perceptions of Skills and Attributes for Future Employment', Journal of Advertising Education, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 15-24.
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Changes in the tertiary education are making universities and ecadcmicsmore accountable to stakekeholders. This can be difficult as there are multiple objectives from different stakeholders, including academic colleagues, employers, students, the university hierarchy, alumni, the local community and governmental bodies (Moore and Ortinau 1993; Young, MeIntyre land Gilbert 1994). For academics, the objectives of tertiary education could include ensuring that students gain a solid understanding of the theory and practical skills which are applicable to various business situations, as well as maintaining appropriate "academic standards" within their subjects and discipline (Polonsky and Waller 1998).
Waller, DS & Lanis, R 2009, 'CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) DISCLOSURE OF ADVERTISING AGENCIES An Exploratory Analysis of Six Holding Companies' Annual Reports', JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 109-121.
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The corporate annual report has become more than a mandatory financial report for public companies, with many companies also using it as an important marketing tool. As corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an issue of growing interest in the business world, many publicly listed companies, including advertising agencies, are voluntarily disclosing information regarding their CSR activities in their annual reports. While there is criticism of the ethical values of advertising, some advertising agencies can use CSR to promote a positive side of the agency's business. This descriptive study analyzes the annual reports of the top six holding companies in the global advertising industry to promote discourse and theory development in the area. This will be done by observing which advertising companies disclose their CSR activities and what activities they undertake, as well as the development of a CSR disclosure index for advertising agencies. The results indicate that some advertising companies do engage in CSR activities and disclose them in their annual reports, but the level of these CSR disclosures is different between the organizations.
Wearing, S, Grabowski, S, Chatterton, P & Ponting, J 2009, 'Participatory planning for eco-trekking on a potential World Heritage site: the communities of the Kokoda Track', PACIFIC ECONOMIC BULLETIN, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 101-117.
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Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is an approach to data collection in participatory research. In this approach, the researcher is required to acknowledge and appreciate that research participants have the necessary knowledge and skills to be partners in the research process. PRA techniques were used to collect data on the Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea, illuminating the communities perceptions of eco-trekking and how they could better benefit from it. This case study is an example of the implementation of community-based eco-tourism development and of understanding the multiplicity of forces that support or undermine it
Wearing, SL & Whenman, AE 2009, 'Tourism as an Interpretive and Mediating Influence: A Review of the Authority of Guidebooks in Protected Areas', Tourism Analysis, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 701-716.
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This short review seeks to present the outcomes of a study that examined the potential effectiveness of guidebooks as a form of interpretation in reducing environmental impacts in a national park. In it, Wearing and Whenman provide a review based on information gained from interviews
with 29 trekkers undertaking the Overland Track in Tasmania, Australia. Results from the interviews where correlated with the literature and indicate that trekkers are more likely to use guidebooks at the planning stage of a trek in order to make decisions about what area to visit, what equipment
to take, transport, and accommodation. The guidebooks used by trekkers in this inquiry were found to have only a small amount of information on minimal impact messages and such messages were found to be poorly structured. As a result, guidebooks were found to have little influence in mediating
responsible environmental behavior in protected areas. The study recommends that well-structured minimal impact messages be incorporated into guidebooks using the Elaboration Likelihood Model of attitude change and persuasion to direct the process. Readers of Tourism Analysis are encouraged
to reflect upon how the guidebooks available in their own tourism/tourist arenas strongly influence or undersuspectingly mediate what is there.
Zhang, J & Chen, C 2009, 'The Inconvenient Truth about Improving Vehicle Fuel Efficiency: A Multi-Attributes Analysis of the Technology Efficient Frontier of the US Automobile Industry', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, vol. 14, pp. 22-31.
Zhang, J & Wang, R 2009, 'The Role of Information Revelation in Elimination Contests', The Economic Journal, vol. 119, no. 536, pp. 613-641.
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Zyglidopoulos, SC, Fleming, PJ & Rothenberg, S 2009, 'Rationalization, Overcompensation and the Escalation of Corruption in Organizations', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 84, no. S1, pp. 65-73.
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An important area of business ethics research focuses on how otherwise normal and law-abiding individuals can engage in acts of corruption. Key in this literature is the concept of rationalization. This is where individuals attempt to justify past and future corrupt deeds to themselves and others. In this article, we argue that rationalization often entails a process of overcompensation whereby the justification forwarded is excessive in relation to the actual act. Such over-rationalization provides an impetus for further and more serious acts of illegality. Using a number of high profile cases, it is argued that this dynamic gap between the act and excessive rationalization can explain why corruption often escalates in severity and scope in the organization. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Adriaanse, JA 1970, 'Empowering women through physical activity and sport.', 53rd Session United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, USA.
Arthur, N, Czernkowski, RM & Huynh, T 1970, 'The impact of cash flows and accruals on belief asymmetry', BAA Annual Conference 2009, British Accounting Association Annual Conference 2009, British Accounting Association (BAA), Dundee.
Arthur, N, Czernkowski, RM & Huynh, T 1970, 'The impact of cash flows and accruals on belief asymmetry', 2009 AFAANZ Conference, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 1-38.
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We examine the market-relevance of disaggregating earnings into cash flow and accrual components. Unlike the majority of capital markets accounting research to-date, which has restricted analysis to price effects (returns), we focus on belief asymmetry as our measure of market-relevance. Specifically we examine the effect, which the earnings component disclosure has on the level of belief asymmetry in the market. Our measure of belief asymmetry is based on the model developed by Kim and Verrecchia (1991). Cross-sectional ordinary least square regression models are used to analyse the market response to measures of cash flow and accrual surprise.
Bedford, DS & Malmi, T 1970, 'Configurations of Control: An Exploratory Analysis', Performance Measurement and Management Control, Nice, France.
Bedford, DS & Malmi, T 1970, 'Configurations of Control: An Exploratory Analysis', Global Management Accounting Research Symposium (GMARS), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bedford, DS & Malmi, T 1970, 'Configurations of Control: An Exploratory Analysis', 32nd European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Tampere, Finland.
Beirman, D 1970, 'Planning for and Responding to Crises', Tourism Futures Conference, Marriott Hotel Surfers Paradise Queenlsnd.
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A presentation on business preparedmess for various crisis typologies and receovery strategies.
Beirman, D 1970, 'Regional Marketing in the Eastern Mediterranean', International Forum on Tourism Marketing, Kuching Malaysia.
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A presentation relating the marketing of the Eastern Mediterranean in Australia to regional tourism marketing of destinations to long haul source markets.
Beirman, D 1970, 'Tourism Risk, Crisis and Recovery Management', Tourism Futures Conference, Marriott Hotel Surfers Paradus.
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Keynote Address dealing with the primary risks to tourism in the future.
Bentrott, I, Kolyshkina, I & Kwak, K 1970, 'Use of Non-parametric Methods to Improve Efficiency of a Marketing Mix Model in a Commercial Setting', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Bond, D, Holland, T & Wells, P 1970, 'Student performance and its association with utilisation of teaching material', 8th European Conference on eLearning 2009, ECEL 2009, European Conference on e-Learning, Academic Publishing Limited, Italy, pp. 91-99.
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This study examines the utilization of online course material by students and evaluates the relation with students' subsequent performance in assessments. Evidence is provided of the extensive utilization of online course material, although the pattern of utilization suggests that the label of 'digital natives' being applied to these students may be somewhat presumptuous. Specifically there is some evidence of a positive link between utilisation of practical exercises and performance as well as lecture slides and performance. No significance is found for either the utilisation of the discussion questions, quizzes or podcasts. Whilst we have made a necessary first step in order to ascertain impact of student utilisation and performance, a bigger question remains. How to increase students' timely utilisation of material?
Booth, PJ, Giacobbe, F & Wakefield, JA 1970, 'Controlling newly established foreign subsidiaries in transition economies', 2009 AFAANZ Conference Website, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 1-29.
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This paper invest igates the management control system choices exercised by a multinational corporation headquarters to control a newly established wholly owned foreign subsidiary located in a t ransition economy. Specifically t his paper aims to identif y what the core ch allenges of establishing and operating subsidiaries in transition economies are and how these are addressed t hrough the mult inational headquarters' management control systems. A case study is conducted of an Eastern European based subsidiary owned and controlled by a multinational corporation origi nating from South-East Asia. The challenges of operating the subsidiary in the transition economy are reported, which primarily ent ail cultu ral differences, lack of experience, lack of external integration and recruitment issues. Preliminary f indings indicate that the management control system primarily util ises personnel and results controls, which appear to address operational and management challenges.
Brian, D, Monga, M, Shen, J & Chelliah, J 1970, 'Employee Perceptions of Human Resource Diversity Management Practices in Australia.', The Academy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting on Green Management Matters, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Academy of Management, Chicago, pp. 1-39.
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Changing workforce demographics have significantly increased the importance of managing diversity in the Australian workplace. Yet, empirical research on HR diversity management practices in Australia is still scarce. This study examined employee perceptions of the extent to which nine large organizations in the Australian manufacturing sector were using effective HR diversity management practices. The perceived challenges and benefits of diversity in the workforce were also investigated. 92 workers from 28 different ethnic backgrounds participated in our study. Analysis of the data indicated that overt discrimination does not exist in the Australian manufacturing sector. However, employers have failed to adopt good HR diversity management practices. Overall, we found that organizations in the Australian manufacturing sector do not value diversity and have not capitalized on the benefits of workforce diversity. Management appears to adopt a âlegalistic compliance approachâ instead of using workforce diversity as a source of competitive advantage. Inadequate recognition of overseas skills, lack of fluency in English for many new migrants and social isolation were perceived as the main challenges. The perceived benefits of workforce diversity included a stronger work ethic among multicultural employees, greater opportunities to learn from other cultures, lower absenteeism and less labour turnover. The significance of these findings and implications for future research are discussed in this paper.
Bruti-Liberati, N, Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C, Platen, E & Schlogl, E 1970, 'Alternative Defaultable Term Structure Models', Quantitative Finance Research Centre Research Paper, X Workshop on Quantitative Finance to the Memory of Nicola Bruti-Liberati, Milan, Italy.
Bugeja, M 1970, 'Takeover Premiums and the Perception of Auditor Independence and Reputation', 2009 AFAANZ Conference, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 1-41.
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This study investigates if there is a positive association between takeover premiums and the bidders perception of target firm auditor reputation and independence. Using auditor size as a proxy for auditor reputation, the results indicate that target shareholders receive a higher takeover premium when a Big 4 auditor audits the target firm in the year prior to the takeover announcement. This result is only significant however in the period prior to the highly publicised audit failures. The impact of perceived auditor independence on takeover premiums is studied using the levels and size of non-audit service (NAS) fees provided by the target firm auditor. Using three proxies for auditor independence, the results do not show an association between perceived auditor independence and takeover premiums. This finding is robust to partitioning the sample by auditor size, takeover hostility and splitting the sample into takeovers pre- and post- the corporate scandals that occurred in 2002.
Bugeja, M, da Silva Rosa, R, Duong, L & Izan, HY 1970, 'CEO Compensation from M&As in Australia', American Accounting Association Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting, American Accounting Association (AAA), American Accounting Association, San Francisco, California.
Burke, PF & Louviere, JJ 1970, 'Factor identification, description, reduction and level valuation: The use of interim best worst scaling to understand quality recreational fishing experiences', 3rd Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, pp. 1-11.
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The purpose of this paper is to report on research undertaken at the request of a state government department that wished to determine what matters in defining a quality recreational fishing experience. The department, the identify of which cannot be disclosed at their request, is charged with managing in a range of public sector arenas, including those relating to commercial and recreational fishing. Activities include managing fishing licences, setting perimeters for sustainable fishing and advising local government on facilities required to promote tourism and leisure activities in their areas.
Casavecchia, L & Hulley, H 1970, 'The fee-performance relationship does not demand unsophisticated investors', Seminar Presentation, University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Australia.
Chelliah, J & Benn, SH 1970, 'HP Australia: Sustainability in supply chain strategies', Proceedings of the International Conference on Business and Information, International Conference on Business and Information, Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 1-9.
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This case study explores the supply chain management strategies of Hewlett Packard Australia.(HP). At the heart of HP's supply chain strategy is sustainability. HP sees itself as a socially responsible organisation and therefore pursuing sustainable supply chain practices are seen as an integral part of achieving the social responsibility. HP proactively seeks to use its sustainable supply chain practices as a competitive tool so as to improve its image among stakeholders as a good global citizen. HP runs an ambitious program of asset recovering centred on recycling as part of its supply chain and encourages both suppliers and customers to become part of its sustainability program.
Chiarella, C & Di Guilmi, C 1970, 'Financial instability hypothesis: A stochastic microfoundation framework', The Sixth International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chiarella, C & Di Guilmi, C 1970, 'Financial instability hypothesis: A stochastic microfoundation framework', 8th Annual Meeting of the European Economics and Finance Society International Conference, Warsaw, Poland.
Dalton, BM & Jung, K 1970, 'The Humanitarian's Dilemma: The experience of international NGOs in North Korea', The Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) Conference, Biennial Korean Studies Association of Australasia Conference, University of Sydney, University of Sydney, pp. 201-216.
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Until the drastic reduction in the flow ofinternational aid precipitated by US sanctions in 2005, International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) conducted significant operations in the Democratic People's Republic ofKorea (DPRK). The DPRK solicited assistance from the international community in 1995, after a major flood and subsequent chronic food shortage. Over subsequent years the country became increasingly dependant on international assistance. Given this dependence on foreign aid by one of the world's most isolated, repressive andpotentially dangerous regimes and the recent withdrawal of' many aid agencies, it is timely to examine the impact of NGO operations, not only in humanitarian terms but with regards to economic, political and social development. After discussion of the various theories relating to the role ofINGOs in economic, social and political development, including their potential to promote democratisation, the pdper examines the impact of the activities of international aid organisations participating directly or indirectly in the provision ofhumanitarian aid, assistance or development in the DPRK. Based on the findings of10 semi-structured telephone interviews with relevant INGO personnel, INGO documents and other economic and social data, the paper examines the impact of INGOs on three key areas: Humanitarian objectives, economic development andpolitical/ social development.
Darcy, SA 1970, 'Accommodation accessibility criteria: Towards improving accessible accommodation information formats', Travel and Tourism Research Association 4th Annual Conference Proceedings, TTRA, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. 1-10.
Di Guilmi, C 1970, 'Financial instability hypothesis: A stochastic microfoundation framework', Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality 2009 Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Docherty, PT 1970, 'Interest rate rules in a demand-led Kaldor-Pasinetti-Sraffa-Keynes growth model', Conference on the Political Economy of Central Banking, Toronto, Canada.
Docherty, PT & Sadeghian, D 1970, 'Modelling the overnight rate: Can central banks change the policy rate without changing a financial aggregate?', Canadian Economic Association Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Dwyer, L & Forsyth, P 1970, 'Public Sector Support for Special Events', Eastern Economic Journal, pp. 481-499.
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The standard approach taken to assessing the economic impacts of special events, using input-output (I-O) modeling, has come under increasing attack in the recent research literature. Critics have argued that both I-O modeling should be replaced by computable general equilibrium modeling and that cost benefit analysis should be used to account for the wider social and environmental impacts of events. This article explores the critics concerns, prior to highlighting the preferred economic impact assessment tool. The role of CBA is also discussed, highlighting the type of data that is needed for informed analysis. Researchers tend to treat economic impact analysis and CBA as distinct techniques of assessment, with the potential to provide conflicting recommendations. The article outlines a method for partially integrating the two techniques. To set a context for the discussion, reference is made to the findings from research recently undertaken to estimate both the economic impacts and the net benefits of the Formula One Grand Prix held in Melbourne, Australia.
Dyson, L, Litchfield, A, Raban, R & Tyler, J 1970, 'mInteract: Online tool for sustainable active experiential mobile learning', ASCILITE 2009 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, pp. 230-232.
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The rapid evolution and ubiquitous use of mobile devices is an historical opportunity to improve experiential interactivity in education practices to support 'deep' learning. A major barrier to the widespread adoption of mobile learning in higher education is that of cost. Opportunities to overcome this barrier include the high rate of ownership of mobile phones by university students and technological solutions such as packet transmission technologies. mInteract™ is an online system which uses packet technology to build no-to-low cost interactivity into learning spaces. mInteract supports sustainable active experiential learning transactions for both student and teacher. © 2009 Laurel Dyson, Andrew Litchfield Ryszard Raban and Jon Tyler.
Dyson, LE, Litchfield, AJ, Raban, R & Tyler, JV 1970, 'Reflections on interactive classroom mLearning and the experiential transactions between students and lecturer', Same places, different spaces. Proceedings ascilite Auckland 2009, Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, The University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology, and Australasian Society for Computer, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 232-242.
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This paper seeks to address a major deficit in understandings of mobile learning, that is, its lack of a solid theoretical foundation. An overview of existing theoretical concepts of mobile learning is presented, followed by an analysis of interactive classroom systems and the learning that they provide. The implementation of a specific interactive system mInteract in the lectures of a large accounting subject is described. mInteract is a Webbased system using no-to-low cost data-packet technology and provides for interactions from students own Internet-enabled mobile devices. The paper examines, by means of reflections from the lecturer and students, the learning which took place during the implementation. The analysis demonstrates that interactive mobile learning can be interpreted using experiential learning theory, and that both students and lecturers engage in experiential learning. Furthermore, they enter into transactions of knowledge which are facilitated by the mobile learning system.
Eckert, C & Klapper, D 1970, 'The long-term impact of price promotions on consumer purchase behavior: Investigating the role of consistency in price calendars', Hamilton, New Zealand.
Eckert, C & Klapper, D 1970, 'The long-term impact of price promotions on consumer purchase behavior: Investigating the role of consistency in price calendars.', Proceedings of the 5th Marketing Dynamics Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton.
Eckert, C & Louviere, JJ 1970, 'Merging Brand Equity and Product Feature Choice Experiments to Disentangle Variance Components', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Edwards, DC, Griffin, T, Hayllar, BR & Dickson, T 1970, 'Making tracks and collecting images: new methods for examining tourists' spatial behaviour in cities', Congress of the International Academy of Legal Medicine, Fremantle.
Edwards, DC, Hayllar, BR, Griffin, T & Dickson, T 1970, 'Tracking Visitors in Urban Environments', State of the Cities: Unlocking the Data Conference.
Fernandez, L & Michayluk, D 1970, 'Are short sellers really informed?', Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Niagra-on-the-Lake, Canada.
Fine, B, Bray, D, Wang, PZ & Menictas, C 1970, 'When the Real World Problem is Extremely Complex, How do We Overcome Excessive Cognitive Load When Mirroring Intensive and Intricate Conditions in Research?', 100 Stories: AMSRS Conference Proceedings CD 2009, AMSRS National Conference, AMSRS, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-30.
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This paper presents a case study of new product development (NPD) for a private health insurance (PHI) provider in Australia. The information respondents need to process when considering PHI in Australia is extremely complex and intricate to say the least. The client needed to test multiple product options, thereby calling for a discrete choice experiment to elicit preferences so that we could model the utility of each product component, where we would later combine each component to simulate a new product, via a decision support system (DSS).
Fine, B, Menictas, C & Wang, PZ 1970, 'The sourcing challenge - Remedying the differences due to multiple online panel sources', Online Research 2009. Online Panels and Beyond, Online Research 2009, ESOMAR, Chicago, USA, pp. 1-6.
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The sourcing challenge - Remedying the differences due to multiple online panel sources An earlier presentation by the authors at the ESOMAR 2006 Panel Conference identified that a hidden bias exists as a result of respondents belonging to multiple online panels. This presentation provides a remedy to remove this bias when preparing research outputs. The procedure, known as non-parametric modeling using CART, provides an elegant solution to this issue.
Fiorini, M 1970, 'The effect of home computer use on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills', 4th Annual Society for Labor Economics Meetings, Boston, USA.
Fiorini, M & Keane, M 1970, 'How the allocation of children's time affects cognitive and non-cognitive development', Seminar Presentation, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
Fiorini, M & Keane, M 1970, 'How the allocation of children's time affects cognitive and non-cognitive development', Seminar Presentation, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Fiorini, M & Keane, M 1970, 'How the allocation of children's time affects cognitive and non-cognitive development', Seminar Presentation, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
Foley, CT & Schlenker, K 1970, 'Progressing event evaluation: global trends and indicators for triple bottom line reporting', Sustainable Development and Events - Proceedings of ACEM 5th International Event Management Summit, Australian Centre for Event Management, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1-1.
Frawley, SM, Van Den Hoven, P & Cush, A 1970, 'Major sport events and participation legacy: The case of the 2003 IRB Rugby World Cup and Australia's qualification for the 2006 FIFA Football World Cup', The International Event Management Summit Conference Proceedings, The International Event Management Summit, Australian Centre for Event Management, Gold Coast, Queensland, pp. 391-403.
Freeman, LM, Koh, B, Jonson, PT & Zaslawski, CJ 1970, 'Athletes healthcarebehaviour: an ethnographers conumdrum', Proceedings of 4th Annual International Ethnography Symposium, University of Liverpool, Liverpool England.
Freeman, LM, Spanjaard, DC & Young, LC 1970, 'The accidental ethnographer: ajourney within the world of the supermarket', Proceedings of 4th Annual International Ethnography Symposium, University of Liverpool, Liverpool England.
Glover, K 1970, 'Path dependent British options', Seminar Presentation, School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
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We examine the British payoff mechanism (introduced in Peskir and Samee, 2008) in the context of path dependent options. In particular, we focus on the âBritish Asianâ and the âBritish Russianâ option. Such options provide their holder with an endogenous protection against unfavourable stock price movements. The price of such options can be characterised as the unique solution to a parabolic free-boundary problem, whose properties and solution we investigate. Finally, we provide a preliminary financial analysis of both options and conclude that in many circumstances these options can be considered an attractive alternative to existing path dependent options.
Glover, K 1970, 'Path dependent British options', Quantitative Methods in Finance 2009 Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Glover, K, Peskir, G & Samee, F 1970, 'Path dependent British options', PDEs and Mathematical Finance III Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
Glover, K, Peskir, G & Samee, F 1970, 'Path dependent British options', Optimal Stopping with Applications Symposium, Turku, Finland.
Glover, K, Peskir, G & Samee, F 1970, 'Path dependent British options', Seminar Presentation, Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham, UK.
Hambusch, G 1970, 'Intertemporal effects of capital requirements on risk taking behaviour of banks', European Financial Management Association Conference, Milan, Italy.
Hambusch, G 1970, 'Intertemporal effects of capital requirements on risk taking behaviour of banks', 27th Australasian Economic Theory Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand.
Hambusch, G 1970, 'Optimal management of mean reverting losses', Quantitative Methods in Finance 2009 Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Hambusch, G, Shaffer, S & Finnoff, D 1970, 'Intertemportal effects of capital requirements on risk taking behavior of banks', Seminar Presentation, Centre for Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Henckel, T, Menzies, GD & Zizzo, DJ 1970, 'Threshold Pricing in a Noisy World', CAMA Working Paper, Seminar Presentation, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Hingorani, A & Freeman, LM 1970, 'The role of acculturation in the body perceptions of immigrants', Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research, Association for Consumer Research, Asia Pacific Conference, ACR, Hydrabad, India, pp. 184-185.
Islam, T, Gudergan, S, Kwak, K, Louviere, JJ & Wang, PZ 1970, 'Less (or More) than Meets the Eye: A Comparison of Ways to Handle Error Variability Differences in Best-Worst Choices', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Jang, H, Jung, K & Dalton, BM 1970, 'Factors influencing labour migration of Korean women into the entertainment and sex industry in Australia', Global Korea: Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference Korean Studies Association of Australa, KSAA, KSAA, University of Sydney, Australia, pp. 254-265.
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Johar, M, Jones, G, Keane, M, Savage, EJ & Stavrunova, O 1970, 'The influence of waiting times on the decision to purchase private health insurance', Labour Econometrics Workshop, Brisbane.
Johns, RE & Ng, S 1970, 'Taking international students seriously', IERA 2009 17th Annual Conference: Book of Proceedings, International Employment Relations Association Conference, International Employment Relations Association, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 126-144.
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With Australia an attractive and highly sought after educational destination for many international students, consideration should be given to the difficulties experienced by this important student cohort. This paper aims to identify classroom teaching strategies and techniques that can assist in making study at an Australian university a more positive experience for international students from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds (NESBs).
Kenny, PM, Hall, JP, Hossain, I & Savage, EJ 1970, 'Supporting palliative care informal carers: Preferences and value of services', 6th Health Policy and Research Conference 2009, Brisbane.
Kerr, G, Dickinson, S, Waller, DS & Mortimer, K 1970, 'Testing advertising via new media: An exploratory study of advertising practitioner attitudes', Communication, Creativity and Global Citizenship: Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, Australian New Zealand Communications Association Annual Conference, Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 91-98.
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New media, as a free and universal communication tool, has had an impact on the power of the general public to comment on a variety of issues. As the public can comment favourably or unfavourably on advertisements, such as on Youtube, the advertising industry must start using weblogs to research reaction to their advertising campaigns. This exploratory study examines the responses of some advertising industry practitioners, both advertisers and agencies, on the impact of new media, specifically weblogs, and the use of new media as a source of research on advertising campaigns.
Klimova, A 1970, 'Gender occupational segregation in the Russian labour market', Far Eastern and South Asia Meetings of the Econometric Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Klimova, A 1970, 'Gender occupational segregation in the Russian labour market', Singapore Economic Review Conference, Singapore.
Krause, K-L & McEwen, C 1970, 'Engaging and retaining students online: a case study', 32nd HERDSA Conference, pp. 251-262.
Krause, K-L, McEwen, C & Blinco, K 1970, 'E-learning and the first year experience: A framework for best practice', Proceedings of the EDUCAUSE Australasia Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 3-6 May 2009, pp. 1-13.
Kwak, K, Bentrott, I, Gudergan, S, Louviere, JJ & Wang, PZ 1970, 'How to Identify Potential Attribute by Covariate Interactions in Discrete Choice Models?', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Litchfield, A, Raban, R, Dyson, LE, Leigh, E, Tyler, J & IEEE 1970, 'Using Students' Devices and a No-To-Low Cost Online Tool to Support Interactive Experiential mLearning', ICALT: 2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, IEEE Computer Society, Riga latvia, pp. 674-678.
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The rapid evolution and ubiquitous use of mobile devices is an historical opportunity to improve experiential interactivity in education practices to support deep learning. A major barrier to the widespread adoption of mLearning in higher education is that of cost. Usage charges and the cost of mobile hardware are key issues. Opportunities to overcome this barrier include the high rate of ownership of mobile phones by university students and technological solutions such as packet transmission technologies. The paper introduces mInteract, a system which uses packet technology (mobile WAP/WML) to build no-to-low cost interactivity into learning spaces. The online tool supports active experiential learning transactions for both student and teacher. In 2008 mInteract was trialled in a subject with large numbers. Focus group feedback is presented that indicates high levels of engagement with both users and non-users of the tool.
Matolcsy, ZP, Tyler, JV & Wells, PA 1970, 'Determinants of board composition in Australia and the impact of corporate governance regulation', BAA Annual Conference 2009 Website, British Accounting Association Annual Conference, British Accounting Association (BAA), Dundee, Scotland, pp. 1-36.
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This study investigates the relation between firm characteristics and board composition in Australia for a sample of the same 432 listed firms in 2001 and 2007 and the impact of the Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice issued by the Australian Stock Exchange in 2003. Two feature of this regulation were (a) it recommended independent boards for all firms, without regard to firm characteristics (an approach commonly described as `one size fits all) and (b) it allowed non-compliance through `if not why not reporting. Using various designations of independence and firm size subsamples we find for `Top 100 firms in 2001 up to 49% (Adjusted R2 48.8) of variation in board independence may be explained by firm characteristics, but generally the explanatory power was much lower. Evidence is provided that although more firms had majority independent boards the relation between board composition and firm characteristics may have weakened over the period. This highlights a potential concern that the regulation has imposed unnecessary costs or inappropriate governance mechanisms on Australian firms.
Michayluk, D & Van de Venter, G 1970, 'Does financial risk tolerance change over time?', Seminar Presentation, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Morgan, AA & Frawley, SM 1970, 'The Olympic Games and sponsorship legacy: The case of Sydney 2000', The International Event Management Summit Conference Proceedings, The International Event Management Summit, Australian Centre for Event Management, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 418-434.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the sponsorship legacy experienced by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) after hosting the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. A multi-layered theoretical framework based on the work of Daellenbach, Davies and Ashill (2006) forms the foundation of this analysis. Primary data was collected through in-depth interviews with 14 executives, who were specifically associated with sponsorship and the Sydney Games. The findings indicate the positive impact hosting the Games had on the AOCs profile and credibility in the sport industry. Conversely, the research found that the AOCs post Olympic sponsorship projections for the years 2001- 2004 were overly optimistic with less than half of the forecasted A$60 million revenue stream being achieved.
Mortimer, K, Kerr, G, Waller, DS & Dickinson, S 1970, 'The Use of Blog Sites to Share and Discuss Controversial Advertising', Australian Media Traditions. Internationalising Media History - From Australia to the World, Sydney.
Nankani, E, Simoff, S, Denize, S & Young, L 1970, 'Enterprise university as a digital ecosystem: Visual analysis of academic collaboration', 2009 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2009 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), IEEE, pp. 727-732.
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The concept of "enterprise university" [1] emerged to denote the new kind of higher education institution that resembles many elements of corporate governance. It has a tighter interaction and integration in the environment, as has to take in account market factors, such as student fee incomes, soft budget allocations for special initiatives, including research funding, risk factors and others. Hence an enterprise university can be viewed as a digital ecosystem. An essential part for the survival of such system is collaboration between academics. This paper presents a visual analytics methodology for analysis of academic collaboration that is geared towards real-time performance. We introduce a simple collaboration index in order to depict slices of prominent collaborators and investigate the networked clusters them. We demonstrate the work on an integrated data set from real-world University. The technology is a key component in the extended business intelligence support for the senior executive teams in these new type of digital ecosystems. ©2009 IEEE.
Nankani, E, Simoff, S, Denize, S & Young, L 1970, 'Supporting Strategic Decision Making in an Enterprise University Through Detecting Patterns of Academic Collaboration', Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 496-507.
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Collaborative networks are a topic, broadly researched from several perspectives, including the social network analysis (SNA). The organisations take advantage from the results of SNA to determine collaborative channels, information fusion through such channels and key participants or groups in the network. This work is focused on multi-facet analysis of academic collaboration, as it has been identified as a key factor in success and growth in the global educational market. The data sets include integrated data about different aspects of academic collaboration, including co-authorship, co-participation, co-supervision and other related data. We explore the concept of interestingness and its application to the field of network mining. Composing an appropriate interpretable set of interestingness measures will benefit decision makers in organisations in taking specific actions depending on the patterns in these measures. In this study we focus on interesting measures such as unexpectedness for academic networks and a collaborative score. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Ng, S 2009, 'Working lives and identities of midlevel faculty-based administrative staff (MFAS): A literature review', The 8th Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference, The 8th Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Nikolova, N, Reihlen, M & Schlapfner, J-F 1970, 'Client-consultant interaction: Capturing social practices of professional service production', SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Academy of Management, Anaheim, California, pp. 289-298.
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The interaction between clients and consultants during consulting projects is essential for their success and is, consequently, of critical importance for the long-term survival of con-sulting companies. Since the exchange of clients and consultants is embedded in ongoing social practices, it is essential to identify and analyse these practices in order to explain and design the client-consultant relationship. We integrate three main theoretical perspectives or models on the client-consultant interaction the expert model, the critical model and the social learning model to develop an empirically grounded theory on this issue. Based on the investigation of seven consultancy projects within an international technical consulting firm, we identify three major practices that characterize the client-consultant interaction shaping impressions, problem-solving, and negotiating expectations - and discuss their char-acteristics, activities, and contingencies.
O'Neill, MS & Johns, RE 1970, 'The history of welfare and paid maternity leave in Australia', IERA 2009 17th Annual Conference: Book of Proceedings, International Employment Relations Association Conference, International Employment Relations Association, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 172-196.
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Australia has a long tradition of providing women with welfare payments that correlate with maternity and having children. Since 1912, consecutive Australian governments have opted for welfare payments as opposed to opting for legislating universal paid maternity leave. This paper examines the history of welfare and paid maternity leave in Australia by examining the role maternity related welfare and paid maternity leave have played in the Australian context. Consideration is given to the implications maternity related welfare and paid maternity leave have had from the social, political and economical paradigms. The paper concludes that while it is clear that the provision of maternity welfare payment to families presents some obvious benefits, such as lowering infant mortality, maternity welfare does not take into account the implication that having a child can have upon women in paid employment and womens `dual responsibilities.
Onyx, J, Burridge, N & Baker, E 1970, 'Different types of community networks', Australian Social Policy Conference, Australian Social Policy Conference, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-10.
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Networks appear to be the basic ingredient of all community action. But what kind of networks, how formalized, for what purpose, and what specific impact are questions about which there is little understanding in either theory or practice. This paper explores three civil-society networks in Australia, which differ in structure, decision-making, and sharing. The research involved interviews of key informants in several organisations from each network. The first is a network with a ï½head officeï½. After establishment of ï½Job Networkï½, employment-service contracts were awarded to external agencies, and these agencies organised themselves into networks to jointly bid for contracts. These networks with formal structures proved difficult to manage. The second network is the Aged Care Alliance, which operates in a traditional civilsociety manner, with community organisations collaborating to mount a particular campaign, usually under the aegis of a peak body. This network has mounted several very successful campaigns. The third case describes a loose network, comprising a number of small, activist organisations operated mainly on-line and by young people. This type of network, although essential for the survival of these organisations, has no formalized structure. The three networks are treated as ideal types and are theorized, using complexity theory.
Oppewal, H, Morrison, MD, Waller, DS & Wang, PZ 1970, 'An Experimental Choice Study of the Introduction of a New Product Feature on Attribute Preferences', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Oppewal, H, Morrison, MD, Wang, PZ & Waller, DS 1970, 'How preferences change after receiving new product information in an experimental choice task', Proceedings of ANZMAC 2009, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Marketing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-8.
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Discrete choice experiments typically assume that preference structures remain stable over time and over multiple exposures to information about choice alternatives. However, this assumption may not be valid when the study concerns a new product, which individuals are less familiar with. This paper tests how attribute preferences shift when respondents are exposed to new product information in an experimental choice task. The findings indicate how attribute utilities vary across the before and after exposure conditions; further analysis however shows these effects to partly disappear when the effect of information on the scale constant is accounted for.
Professor Ronald Geoffrey Bird, R 1970, 'How do investors react under uncertainty?', Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality 2009 Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Reihlen, M & Nikolova, N 1970, 'A self-organizing theory of professional service production: The case of management consulting', Passion for creativity and innovation, European Group for Organizational Studies, Barcelona.
Savage, EJ & Van Gool, K 1970, 'The Medicare Safety Net and the ART of billing', 6th Health Services and Policy Research Conference 2009, Brisbane.
Schröder, A, Eckert, C & Klapper, D 1970, 'Measuring Retailersâ Stockout Costs From Scanner Panel Data', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Schulenkorf, N, Thomson, AK & Schlenker, K 1970, 'Beyond anecdotes: The development of social capital through inter-community sport events', Sustainable Development and Events - Proceedings of ACEM 5th International Event Management Summit, International Event Management Research Conference, Australian Centre for Event Management, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 435-456.
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Sport events are believed to promote dialogue, integration and peaceful understanding among groups, even when other forms of negotiation have not been successful (Croft, 2005; Sugden, 2006). At the same time, sport events are thought to play a role in the construction, reproduction or consolidation of social identities in politically, socially or ethnically divided societies. Better publicised events, such as the Olympics, may demonstrate this social utility of sport, where diverse communities stand and feel together as one. However, the social outcomes from sport events are largely anecdotal. This paper argues that for disparate communities to experience lasting benefits from sport events there is the need to move beyond symbolism and anecdotes. There is a need to examine the active engagement of groups with `others in participatory sport event projects where they experience first hand the impacts of cooperation and diversity
Schweitzer, J 1970, 'The Link Between Contractual Complexity And Governance Forms In Alliances', Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago, USA.
Sim, L, Wells, PA & Wyatt, A 1970, 'The association between busy directors and acquisition performance', 2009 AFAANZ Conference, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, AFAANZ, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 1-47.
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This paper addresses the question of whether independent directors of the bidding firm are effective monitors during acquisitions and whether this effectiveness is impaired when the independent directors serve on multiple boards. The choice of the acquisition setting, where the board of directors is known to be engaged in active decision-making, facilitates a direct test of the role of independent directors as effective, external monitors of the boards activities. We employ three indicators of the bidding boards performance in making optimal acquisition decisions: the acquisition premium (benchmarked against subsequent performance), a new indicator comprising the conflicts of interest associated with the acquisitions (conflicted acquisitions), and the post-acquisition stock performance. The results suggest that more independent boards and busy independent directors on the bidding firms board are associated with more effective acquisition decisions by the board. However, busy independent directors are associated with less effective acquisition decisions when the bidding firm has higher free cash flows consistent with Jensen (1986). We also find that busy executive directors on the bidding firms board have no implications for the effectiveness of acquisition decisions unless the director is a busy chairperson or busy CEO both of whom are associated with less effective acquisition decisions. This paper contributes direct evidence on the effectiveness of bidding firm independent directors in their role as monitors and decision-makers.
Singh, S, Ratchford, B & Strijnev, A 1970, 'Impact of category price competition on store choice and store traffic', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, 2009 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Michigan, USA.
Sivabalan, P 1970, 'On the question of budget relevance', 32nd Annual Congress European Accounting Association Programme, Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, European Accounting Association (EAA), Tampere, Finland.
Sood, SC, Kattiyapornpong, U, Miller, K & Woodside, A 1970, 'Assessing perceived destination image and brand equity through web 2.0', Travel and Tourism Research Association Conference Proceedings, 40th Travel and Tourism Research Association Conference, Travel and Tourism Research Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Spanjaard, DC, Freeman, LM & Young, LC 1970, 'Negative Behaviour or Positive Emotions?', Proceedings of the 5th International Academy of Marketing Brand Conference, Academy of Marketing, Cambridge England.
Stavrunova, O 1970, 'Equilibrium model of waiting times for non-emergency procedures in the NSW public hospitals', 31st Australian Conference for Health Economists, Hobart, Australia.
Stavrunova, O 1970, 'Equilibrium model of waiting times for non-emergency procedures in the NSW public hospitals', III World Conference of Spatial Econometrics, Barcelona, Spain.
Teo, ST, Morgan, A, Kandlbinder, PA, Wang, KY & Hingorani, A 1970, 'Predictors of the groupwork experience: generic skill development, peer appraisals, and country of residence', Proceedings of the ATN Assessment Conference 2009 - Assessment in Different Dimensions, Assessment in Different Dimensions, RMIT University, Melbourne, pp. 313-320.
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Humphrey et al. (1997) argued that a range of generic skills are important in enhancing the experience of groupwork for students. These skills include problem solving skills, leadership skills, research skills, study skills, and communication skills. However, little is known about the extent to which the development of such skills impact on the students' experience of groupwork, Students are also rarely given opportunities to develop their performance management skills in group assignments, despite often being expected to evaluate the performance of their peers. Those doing the appraisal may not learn how to provide feedback and justify their evaluations. It also means that those being appraised do not receive feedback regarding their strengths and whereimprovements are needed. As a consequence, students tend to report negative experiences of groupwork when they have to assess and be assessed by their peers. The current study aims to examine the effects of generic skill development and peerevaluation on the students' evaluation of their group experience, following their participation on a group assignment.
Thiagarajah, T, Malmi, T, Wells, PA & Sivabalan, P 1970, 'Management control systems (mcs) in the third sector: An exploratory study', 32nd Annual Congress European Accounting Association Programme, Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, European Accounting Association (EAA), Tampere, Finland.
Thiagarajah, T, Malmi, T, Wells, PA & Sivabalan, P 1970, 'Management control systems (MCS) in the third sector: An exploratory study', 7th Workshop on the Challenges of Managing the Third Sector, 7th Workshop on the Challenges of Managing the Third Sector, The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels.
Thomson, AK & Darcy, SA 1970, 'Examining rationales for government involvement in sport events', Sustainable development and events proceedings of ACEM 5th international event management summit, International Event Management Research Conference, Australian Centre for Event Management, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 243-258.
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It is recognised that government involvement in sport events is based on various rationales, and these rationales influence the potential outcomes a city may experience from hosting such an event (Gleeson & Low, 2000; Searle & Bounds, 1999; Veal, 2002). Over the last few decades, the economic potential that sport events offer a city has seen increased government interest and governments have been criticised for neglecting the social outcomes (Carrière & Demazière, 2002; Misener & Mason, 2006; Searle, 2002). Yet there is limited research that has empirically investigated government involvement in sport events. This paper aims to address two main objectives: to develop an understanding of rationales for government involvement in sport events and to understand how these rationales influence subsequent event outcomes.
Thomson, AK, Schlenker, K & Schulenkorf, N 1970, 'Event legacies: An Empirical Testing of the Legacy Concept.', Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ), Gold Coast, Australia.
Thomson, AK, Schlenker, K & Schulenkorf, N 1970, 'The legacy-factor: Towards conceptual clarification in the sport event context', Sustainable Development and Events - Proceedings of ACEM 5th International Event Management Summit, International Event Management Research Conference, Australian Centre for Event Management, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 360-374.
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Public policy planners and event organisers are increasingly promoting potential economic, tourism, social, and/or environmental legacies to justify significant investments required to host special events. Within the context of special events, legacy is recognised as the long-term outcomes for a host city from staging an event (Hiller, 2003; Preuss, 2007). The notion of legacy has emerged in the events field surrounding the strategic use of events in achieving outcomes for host cities. However, this is complicated by inconsistent conceptualisations of legacy across academic and industry practice.
Thorp, SJ, Hulley, H, McKibbin, R & Pedersen, A 1970, 'Means-tested income support, portfolio choice and decumulation in retirement', 17th Australian Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers, Sydney, Australia.
Thorp, SJ, Hulley, H, McKibbin, R & Pedersen, A 1970, 'Means-tested income support, portfolio choice and decumulation in retirement', Seminar Presentation, School of Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Tyler, JV, Matolcsy, ZP & Wells, PA 1970, 'Some descriptive evidence of the impact of corporate governance regulation on the composition of boards' of directors and committees in Australia', 32nd Annual Congress European Accounting Association Programme, Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, European Accounting Association, Tampere, Finland.
Van Gool, K, Savage, EJ & Viney, RC 1970, 'The impact of out-of-pocket costs on cervical screening: Evidence from an Australian panel dataset', iHEA 7th World Congress, Beijing, China.
Van Gool, K, Vu, M, Savage, EJ, Haas, MR & Birch, S 1970, 'Breast screening in New South Wales, Australia: Predictors of regular attendance', iHEA 7th World Congress, Beijing, China.
Vilapakkam Nagarajan, S & Edwards, J 1970, 'The relevance of university degrees for developing work-ready Information Technology graduates', Proceedings of the 32nd HERDSA Annual Conference, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Annual Conference, HERDSA, Darwin, pp. 314-323.
Waller, DS & Kerr, G 1970, 'Good Citizenship or Good Business?: Pro Bono Work by Advertising Agencies', Australia and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
Waller, DS & Lanis, R 1970, 'CSR disclosure: An exploratory study of the leading media organizations', 2009 AMA Educator's Proceedings: Enhancing Knowledge Development in Marketing, American Marketing Association Summer, American Marketing Association, Chicago, USA, pp. 1-8.
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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 organizations, are voluntarily disclosing information regarding their CSR activities. While there is criticism of the ethical values of the media, some media organizations are using CSR to promote a positive side of their business. This exploratory study observes what the leading media organizations are doing in terms of CSR activities to propose a CSR disclosure index for the media industry, and discusses some implications for other organizations.
Waller, DS, Dickinson, S, Mortimer, K & Kerr, G 1970, 'On-line Consumer Empowerment and the Advertising Self-Regulation Process', Proceedings of the American Advertising Association Asia-Pacific Conference, American Advertising Association (AAA) Asia-Pacific Conference, American Advertising Association, Beijing, China.
Wearing, SL & Faulkner, S 1970, 'Volunteer tourism and intercultural exchange: Exploring the âotheredâ in this', Proceedings of BEST EN Think Tank IX: The Importance of Values in Sustainable Tourism & First International Symposium on Volunteering & Tourism, BEST EN Think Tank IX: The Importance of Values in Sustainable Tourism & First International Symposium on Volunteering & Tourism, University of Technology, Sydney, Singapore, pp. 120-120.
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Tourism in less developed countries is frequently criticised as creating development that results in power inequalities between host and guest. Volunteer tourism as a form of international development has been posed as an alternative mechanism that has the potential to achieve different socio-cultural outcomes. In this guise it aims to establish direct personal/cultural intercommunication and understanding between host and guest. This study explores the volunteer tourist and their interaction with the host community. The cultural exchange with those who are âotheredâ by the mainstream tourism experience is the basis for a discussion that highlights the complexity of the relationship between hosts and guests. Within the limited literature on volunteer tourism, it is suggested that these tourists have very different motivations for travel compared with the more traditional tourists or mass tourists. Preliminary analysis of a volunteer tourism NGOâs volunteers (Youth Challenge Australia), suggests that most volunteer tourists expect to have high to very high exposure to cultural interaction. Additionally, they have a great deal of concern for several aspects of the culture and community that they will be visiting. They are prepared for an experience with vastly different outcomes to a traditional tourism experience. It is argued that the relationship between the volunteer tourist and the community gives shape to a richer understanding of the volunteer tourism experience, where more equal power relationships are evolving and where the experience is more inclusive of the âotheredâ. It is suggested that a reason for this might include the limited skill development of youth volunteers which requires them to learn from more skilled community members. Finally a discussion is offered with reference to the alternative mechanisms that are developed to engage youth in volunteering for development.
Wells, PA & Watson, J 1970, 'What do pro-forma earnings bring to financial reporting: Some Australian evidence', 32nd Annual Congress European Accounting Association Programme, Annual Congress of European Accounting Association, European Accounting Association (EAA), Tampere, Finland.
White, A & Harding, N 1970, 'Identifying auditor stopping rules in decision making under uncertainty', Program American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, American Accounting Association (AAA), New York.
Wise, C & Burke, PF 1970, 'Difficult to evaluate product features: Why credible branding matters', Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, ANZMAC, Melbourne, pp. 1-9.
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This paper examines how difficulty in evaluation affects the role of features in consumer choice. Hsees (1996) work on evaluability of attributes suggests that hard-to-evaluate features become more (less) important in joint (separate) evaluation tasks where other feature levels are (not) present. Extending this, we examine what happens when difficulty in evaluating features remains even when the benchmark of another feature level is present. Using signalling theory, we argue that consumers utilise brand information, but the extent to which this occurs depends on feature evaluability. Preliminary data shows support for the hypothesised effects, suggesting credible branding generates value in terms of an overall effect on product assessment, but can additionally counteract the effects of hard-to-evaluate features being discounted in choice.
Yeung, ST & Chelliah, J 1970, 'Transnational Strategy of Australian Service Firms: Resource Management for Foreign Expansion.', Proceedings of the International Conference of Business and Information, Internatiional Conference of Business and Information, Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 1-17.
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Australian firms expanding overseas must have a business strategy to exploit any competitive advantage, strongly supported by corporate strategy and management. The focus of this research is on the transnational strategy and management of Australian firms. This study investigates the nature of the integration of home-base and offshore operations of Australian firms to achieve competitive positions in national and world markets. Its purpose is to analyze and assess the impact of the size of the firm, its management and the development of strategies. Conclusions of the study support the fact that management mentality and behavior are important. The study also analyzes management mentality in the context of intra-firm competition or collaboration for resources, in a manner which is consistent with firm's performance. Specifically it demonstrates that management can rationally have different views about priorities for the allocation of resources and international operations yet compete actively for the same resources, or collaborate whenever possible, in order to achieve their own goals.
Yoon, K, Kwak, K & Tran, T 1970, 'Differential Impacts of Brand Loyalty on Purchase Decisions of When, What, and How Much', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Yu, K 1970, 'Institutional change and organizational form: Revisiting the relationship between ideas and structure', 26th EGOS Conference - European Group for Organizational Studies 2009, ESADE Business School, Barcelona,.
Zhang, J, Buckley, N, Mestelman, S, Muller, RA & Schott, S 1970, 'Shut Up and Fish: The Role of Communication when Output-Sharing is used to Manage a Common-Pool Resource', Atlantic Canada Economics Association Conference.
Zlatevska, N & Jones, M 1970, 'Shedding Common Misperceptions about Successful Dieting: Communicating the Right Messages about Food', Society of Consumer Psychology (Summer).
Bedford, DS & Malmi, T CPA Australia 2009, Best Practice in Performance Management, Melbourne, Australia.
Darcy, SA, Griffin, T, Crilley, G & Schweinsberg, SC STCRC 2009, Helping park managers use their visitor information, pp. 1-38, Austraila.
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This report presents the composition of a generic park visitation survey instrument based on the core data variables that can be employed in multiple park level jurisdictions throughout Australia. Its focus is to identify the considerations for the future development of software-based solutions for data collection, aggregation, dissemination and reporting of park-based activity across the 14 protected area agencies.
Edwards, DC, Griffin, T, Hayllar, BR, Dickson, T & Schweinsberg, SC CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd. 2009, Understanding Tourism Experiences and Behaviour in Cities: An Australian Case Study, pp. 1-103, Gold Coast.
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This study aims to enhance the understanding of tourist experiences and behaviour in urban destinations by analysing the spatial movements of tourists, identifying the key attributes they are seeking in urban destinations, determining how important these attributes are to their experiences, evaluating how two urban destinations performed in relation to these attributes, and assessing whether there are key differences between different types of visitors to urban destinations. The ultimate aim of this project is to inform and guide the future governance and improved functioning of urban tourism destinations by developing a better understanding of the tourist in such settings.
Green, R, Agarwal, R, Tan, H, Brown, PJ & Randhawa, K DIISR 2009, Management Matters -Just how productive are we?- Background Report for the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) on manufacturing firms, pp. 1-138, Canberra.
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Management Matters â Just how productive are we?â Background Report for the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) on manufacturing firms.
Green, R, Agarwal, R, Van, RJ, Bloom, N, mathews, J, Boedker, C, Sampson, D, Gollan, P, Toner, P, Tan, H & Brown, PJ Department of Industry, Innovation, Science and Research 2009, Management Matters in Australia: Just how productive are we?, pp. 1-42, Canberra, Australia.
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This unique research project for the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research benchmarks management practices in Australian manufacturing firms against the global best. The project was undertaken by a research team from the University of Technology Sydney, Macquarie Graduate School of Management and the Society of Knowledge Economics, and is part of a world-wide study led by the London School of Economics, Stanford University and McKinsey & Co. The findings suggest that while some of our firms are as good as any in the world, we still have a substantial `tail of firms that are mediocre, especially in their approach to people management. This is a key differentiating factor between Australia and better performing, more innovative countries.
Moore, S, Crilley, G, Darcy, SA, Griffin, T, Taplin, R & Tonge, J STCRC 2009, Designing and Testing a Park-Based Visitor Survey, Australia.
Moore, S, Crilley, G, Darcy, SA, Griffin, T, Taplin, R & Tonge, J Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Council 2009, Designing and Testing a Park-Based Visitor Survey, Gold Coast.
Moore, S, Crilley, G, Darcy, SA, Griffin, T, Taplin, R, Tonge, J, Wegner, A & Smith, A CRC For Sustainable Tourism 2009, Designing and Testing a Park-Based Visitor Survey, pp. 1-42, Sydney, Australia.
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This technical report is part of a broader national project `Systematic and strategic collection and use of visitor information in protected area management, funded by Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC), and conducted in partnership with protected area agencies across Australia. The aim of this report is to provide a systematic approach to using a set of core variables to collect data in a way that can be consistently applied across Australian protected areas. This information is most relevant to park-level management, but is also of central interest for corporate reporting. An associated aim was to develop and test a questionnaire for collecting these data.
Savage, EJ, Van Gool, K, Haas, MR, Viney, RC & Vu, M Department of Health & Ageing 2009, Extended Medicare safety net review report 2009 : a report by CHERE prepared for the Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing, pp. 1-80, Canberra.
Wearing, SL, Schweinsberg, SC, Faulkner, S & Tumes, K CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd. 2009, Understanding Track/Trail Experiences in National Parks: A Review, pp. 1-46, Gold Coast, Queensland.
Wearing, SL, Schweinsberg, SC, Faulkner, S & Tumes, K CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd 2009, Understanding 'Track/Trail' Experiences in National Parks: A Review,, pp. 1-46, Australia (Gold Coast, Queensland).
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This desktop report aimed to draw attention to the various factors associated with track usage and visitor experience in national parks. A research classification spreadsheet was constructed in order to draw attention to the current state of academic research in this area. The main factors found to influence the track experience were congestion, interaction between trail user groups and environmental degradation. In addition to the classification of academic research this report also examined current management planning and visitor research conducted in three New South Wales national parks in order to provide examples of best practice that would be relevant to New South Wales stakeholders.
Anufriev, M & Branch, WA 2009, 'Introduction to the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control special issue on Complexity in Economics and Finance'.
Anufriev, M & Hommes, CH 2009, 'Evolutionary Selection of Individual Expectations and Aggregate Outcomes', Working Paper Series, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance.
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In recent 'learning to forecast' experiments with human subjects (Hommes, et
al. 2005), three different patterns in aggregate asset price behavior have
been observed: slow monotonic convergence, permanent oscillations and dampened
fluctuations. We construct a simple model of individual learning, based on
performance based evolutionary selectionor reinforcement learning among
heterogeneous expectations rules, explaining these different aggregate
outcomes. Out-of-sample predictive power of our switching model is higher
compared to the rational or other homogeneous expectations benchmarks. Our
results show that heterogeneity in expectations is crucial to describe
individual forecasting behavior as well as aggregate price behavior.
Bird, R, Casavecchia, L, Pellizzari, P & Woolley, PK 2009, 'The impact on the pricing process of costly active management and performance chasing clients', Working Paper Series, The Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality.
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Abstract: One of the necessary features of markets to produce efficient pricing is competition between information-based investors who quickly impound new information into price. However, a significant proportion of funds invested in today's equity markets are in the hands of managers who pursue a style that utilises little or none of the available information. We simulate such a market where the funds are being managed using the following three investment styles: fundamental, momentum and index. We conrm that the major pricing anomalies that have been highlighted previously in the literature are a natural consequence of competition between managers utilising these three investment styles. More importantly, we show that this situation is unlikely to change as long as markets continue to be dominated by costly active managers with clients who pursue out performance.
Bruti Liberati, N, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C, Platen, E & Schlogl, E 2009, 'Alternative Defaultable Term Structure Models', Quantitative Finance Research Paper Series.
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The objective of this paper is to consider defaultable term structure models in a general setting beyond standard risk-neutral models. Using as numeraire the growth optimal portfolio, defaultable interest rate derivatives are priced under the real-world probability measure. Therefore, the existence of an equivalent risk-neutral probability measure is not required. In particular, the real-world dynamics of the instantaneous defaultable forward rates under a jump-diffusion extension of a HJM type framework are derived. Thus, by establishing a modelling framework fully under the real-world probability measure, the challenge of reconciling real-world and risk-neutral probabilities of default is deliberately avoided, which provides significant extra modelling freedom. In addition, for certain volatility specifications, finite dimensional Markovian defaultable term structure models are derived. The paper also demonstrates an alternative defaultable term structure model. It provides tractable expressions for the prices of defaultable derivatives under the assumption of independence between the discounted growth optimal portfolio and the default-adjusted short rate. These expressions are then used in a more general model as control variates for Monte Carlo simulations of credit derivatives.
Carabetta, G 2009, ''Dismissal and the Law in Australian Policing: Balancing the interests of the individual police officer against the public interest’'.
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Guest seminar Presentation, Facolta Di Economia, Sede di Forli, Bologna, Italy
Carabetta, G 2009, ''The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and the Police: What’s In, What’s Out And Beyond', Invited guest Presentation, Police Federation of Australia Federal Council Meeting, Canberra, Australia, 17 November 2009.'.
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Invited guest Presentation, Police Federation of Australia Federal Council Meeting, Canberra, Australia, 17 November 2009
Clegg, S & Cooper, C 2009, 'The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume II - Macro Approaches', SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 1-518.
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© 2009 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. Handbook is an essential resource for researchers and students across management and organization studies.
Clegg, SR & Haugaard, M 2009, 'The SAGE handbook of power', pp. 1-484.
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The SAGE Handbook of Power is the first touchstone for any student or researcher wishing to initiate themselves in the ‘state of the art’ in this subject. Internationally acclaimed as at the top of their field, Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard have joined forces to select a collection of papers written by scholars with global reputations for excellence. These papers bridge different conceptual and theoretical positions and draw on many disciplines, including politics, sociology, and cultural studies.
Cronin, PA, Haas, MR, Savage, EJ & Vu, M 2009, 'Misperceptions of body mass: Analysis of NSW Health Survey 2003. CHERE Working Paper 2009/7'.
Darcy, SA 2009, 'WP10: Accessible Tourism Accommodation Information Preferences', School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism Working Papers Series.
Edwards, DC, Dickson, TJ & Darcy, SA 2009, 'Working Paper No 22 - Sydney World Masters Games: Volunteer Legacy Outcomes Sydney', School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism.
Frawley, SM 2009, 'WP5: Sport For All & Major Sporting Events: Project Paper 1: Introduction to the Project', School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Working Papers Series.
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Glover, K, Peskir, G & Samee, F 2009, 'The British Asian Option', Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
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Research Paper Number: 249 Abstract: Following the economic rationale of [7] and [8] we present a new class of Asian options where the holder enjoys the early exercise feature of American options whereupon his payoff (deliverable immediately) is the âbest predictionâ of the European payoff under the hypothesis that the true drift of the stock price equals a contract drift. Inherent in this is a protection feature which is key to the British Asian option. Should the option holder believe the true drift of the stock price to be unfavourable (based upon the observed price movements) he can substitute the true drift with the contract drift and minimise his losses. The practical implications of this protection feature are most remarkable as not only is the option holder afforded a unique protection against unfavourable stock price movements (covering the ability to sell in a liquid market completely endogenously) but also when the stock price movements are favourable he will generally receive high returns. We derive a closed form expression for the arbitrage-free price in terms of the rational exercise boundary and show that the rational exercise boundary itself can be characterised as the unique solution to a nonlinear integral equation. Using these results we perform a financial analysis of the British Asian option that leads to the conclusions above and shows that with the contract drift properly selected the British Asian option becomes a very attractive alternative to the classic (European) Asian option.
Goldbaum, D 2009, 'Follow the Leader: Steady State Analysis of a Dynamic Social Network'.
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A social pyramid is show to be the unique steady state social structure when agents gain utility from being early adopters of
subsequently popular trends. The environment is related to a majority game, but introduces the importance of the timing of adoption.
Utility derived from making a popular choice independent of timing is demonstrated as essential to support the hierarchy. The proposed
environment is relevant to a number of settings in which leadership and timing of decisions are important or where being perceived as a
trend setter is rewarded. The leadership position can be self-reinforcing. For a professional critic, for example, a cult-of personality
can dictate popular tastes, such as in art, food, and wine markets. A social hierarchy can also apply to the introduction of new products
or ideas including academic research and financial market analysts.
Goldbaum, D & Zwinkels, C 2009, 'An Empirical Examination of Learning in Foreign Exchange Market'.
Jarvis, W 2009, 'Moral Accountability in the MBA: A Kantian Response to a Public Problem'.
Thomson, AK, Darcy, SA & Edwards, DC 2009, 'Working Paper No 21: Social Outcomes of the Sydney World Masters Games: A Participant Study', School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism.
Thorp, SJ, Hulley, H, McKibbin, R & Pedersen, A 2009, 'Means-tested income support, portfolio choice and decumulation in retirement', Working Paper Series, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis.
Thorp, SJ, Hulley, H, McKibbin, R & Pedersen, A 2009, 'Means-tested income support, portfolio choice and decumulation in retirement', Research Paper Series, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
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Research Paper Number: 248 Abstract: We investigate the impact of means tested public income transfers on post-retirement decumulation and portfolio choice using theoretical simulations and panel data on Australian Age Pensioners. Means tested public pension payments in Australia have broad coverage and give insight into the incentive responsiveness of well-o¤, as well as poorer households. Via numerical solutions to a discrete time, fi?nite horizon dynamic programming problem, we simulate the optimal consumption and portfolio allocation strategies for a retired household subject to assets and income tests. Relative to benchmark, means tested households should optimally decumulate faster early in retirement, and choose more risky portfolios. Panel data tests on inferred wealth for pensioner households show evidence of more rapid spending early in retirement. However they also show that better-o¤ households continue to accumulate, even when facing a steeper implicit tax rate on wealth than applies to poorer households. Wealthier households also hold riskier portfolios. Results from tests for Lorenz dominance of the panel wealth distribution show no decrease in wealth inequality over the ?five years of the study.
Veal, AJ & Frawley, SM 2009, 'WP6: 'Sport For All' & Major Sporting Events: Project Paper 2: Trends in Sport Participation', School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Working Papers Series.
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Veal, AJ & Frawley, SM 2009, 'WP7: 'Sport For All' and Major Sporting Events: Project Paper 3', School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Working Papers Series.
Yu, K 2009, 'Bureaucracy and Social Movement in the American Labour Movement'.
