Publications

Bamforth, J & Gapps, B 2016, Planning, Funding, and Community Action The Area Assistance Story, Common Ground Publishing, Champaign, USA.
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This book celebrates the enormous achievement of the Area Assistance Scheme over its 30-year history in encouraging and resourcing community and social infrastructure, networks, support systems, and innovation.

Campbell, F, White, A & Warren, V 2016, Cloud 9 Ltd II: An Audit Case Study, Canadian Edition, Wiley, Fiona.
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This case study book is designed to provide students with the opportunity to work through various audit procedures that are performed during the planning and interim phases of a financial statement audit. Typical client scenarios that are regularly observed in the profession are the basis for this case study, and the aim is to expose students to the tasks they would typically perform in their first year of auditing practice.

Coulton, J, Ribeiro, A, Shan, Y & Taylor, S 2016, The RISE and RISE of NON-GAAP DISCLOSURE A Survey of Australian Practice and Its Implications.

Culmsee, P & Awati, K 2016, The Heretic's Guide to Management: The Art of Harnessing Ambiguity, Heretics Guide Press, Marsfield, NSW.

Klettner, A 2016, Corporate Governance Regulation The changing roles and responsibilities of boards of directors, Routledge, UK.
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The changing roles and responsibilities of boards of directors Alice Klettner ... to improve their own prospects through a form of soft regulation. The first set of Australian corporate governance standards was developed by a working group made ...

Pazmandy, GP 2016, Develop and Use Complex Spreadsheets, Tekniks Publications Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia.
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Developing quantitative decision models using Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet productivity software.

Perey, R 2016, Ecological Imaginaries Reframing Organisation, Copenhagen Business School Press, Denmark.
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The research for this book investigated organisational enactment of sustainability. The findings highlight barriers concerned with meaning construction that view nature as an excluded other.

Reviews, CTI 2016, Managing and Organizations, An Introduction to Theory and Practice Business, Management, 4th, Cram101 Textbook Reviews, London.
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... Business ethics • Ethics • Information processing • Selfschema • Pygmalion effect • Halo effect • Cognitive dissonance • External • Fundamental attribution error • Organizational structure • Selfserving bias • Empathy • Inference • Open system ...

Scheule, H, Baesens, B & Roesch, D 2016, Credit Risk Analytics Measurement Techniques, Applications, and Examples in SAS, John Wiley & Sons.
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This book ends the search by providing a comprehensive, focused resource backed by expert guidance. Credit Risk Analytics is the reference every risk manager needs to streamline the modeling process.

Summers, A 2016, Damned Whores and God's Police, NewSouth.
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Stereotypes persist to this day, argues Anne Summers in this updated version of her classic book which, in the 40 years since it was first published, has sold well over 100,000 copies and been set on countless school and university ...

Wearing, SL, Schweinsberg, S & Tower, J 2016, Marketing National Parks for Sustainable Tourism, 1, Channel View Publications, UK.
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provides a framework to apply marketing principles to inform practices and guide the sustainable management of national parks and protected areas. The main themes address the foundation principles of marketing and contextualise these principles around a series of key insights and challenges related to the delivery of sustainable tourism services in national parks. The book centres on the issues faced by park managers as they address the need to manage national parks sustainably for future generations. It will be of interest to natural resource and tourism students, tourism scholars and natural resource managers as well as researchers in the areas of geography and forestry.

Adair, D 2016, 'Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity' in Nauright, J & Wiggins, DK (eds), Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity, Routledge, New York, pp. 146-159.
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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the full sweep of approaches to the study of sport, race and ethnicity.

Adair, D 2016, 'Spectacles of speed and endurance: The formative years of motor racing in Europe' in The Motor Car and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century, pp. 120-134.

Adriaanse, JA, Cobourn, S & Frawley, S 2016, 'Governance, csr and diversity: A critical field of study in global sport management' in Schulenkorf, N & Frawley, S (eds), Critical Issues in Global Sport Management, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 9-22.
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Baddeley, M 2016, 'Behavioral Approaches to Managing Household Energy Consumption' in New Perspectives for Environmental Policies Through Behavioral Economics, Springer International Publishing, pp. 213-235.
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This chapter explores behavioral insights relevant to designing policies to promote efficient household energy consumption. Standard economic approaches to managing household energy efficiency tend to focus on price factors and demand management. While there is some evidence that these methods are partially effective, they are an incomplete solution. Blending conventional economic policies with policy insights from behavioral economics can enable a more holistic approach to energy policy design and behavior change. Behavioral economics does not depend on strict rationality assumptions and allows that ordinary households are affected by various forms of behavioral bias and social influence. Understanding the range of behavioral drivers and constraints affecting household energy decisions-including social influences; heuristics, bias and folk wisdom; procrastination and self-control problems will facilitate the development of a more nuanced and comprehensive set of policy tools to encourage households' efficient management of fuel consumption.

Baddeley, M 2016, 'Behavioural macroeconomics: Time, optimism and animal spirits' in Routledge Handbook of Behavioral Economics, pp. 266-279.
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Becker-Ritterspach, FAA, Blazejewski, S, Dorrenbacher, C & Geppert, M 2016, 'Foreword: Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation' in Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation Foundations, Applications and New Directions, Cambridge University Press 2016, University Printing House.
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An organizational politics perspective on intra-firm competition in multinational corporations. Management International Review, 50(4): 533–559. Bélanger, J. and Edwards, P. 2006. Towards a political economy framework: TNCs as national ...

Beede, P, Boddewyn, J, Dickinson, S, Kerr, GF, Mortimer, K & Waller, DS 2016, 'Towards a Global Framework for Advertising Self Regulation' in Campbell, C & Ma, J (eds), Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science, Springer International Publishing, Germany, pp. 601-602.
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One of the forces which has indelibly shaped marketing is the internet. It has not only changed the way we communicate, but our marketing practices and our advertising self-regulation process (Kerr, et al 2012). Most advertising self-regulatory frameworks are country specific and typically an artefact of culture and the national regulatory environment (Boddewyn 1989; Rotfeld 1992). The importance of protecting consumers from deceptive advertising is universal, and in trying to regulate a global medium, we need to integrate national concerns into global guidelines and international best practice. Currently there is no global framework for advertising self-regulation, even though there is an urgent need to both protect consumers in this unregulated environment and ensure marketers’ obligations for legal, decent and truthful advertising are met.

Bodenstedt, M, Rösch, D & Scheule, H 2016, 'The path to impairment: Do credit-rating agencies anticipate default events of structured finance transactions?' in Contemporary Issues in Financial Institutions and Markets, Routledge, UK, pp. 31-50.
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The global financial crisis (GFC) has led to a general discussion of ihe accuracy and declining standards of credit-rating agency ratings. Substantial criticism has been directed towards the securitisation market, which has been identified as one of the main sources of the crisis. This study focuses on the ability of rating agencies to adjust their ratings prior to impairments of structured finance transactions. We develop a new measure that quantifies a rating agency's performance in advance of defaults. By analysing a large number of impaired transactions rated by Moody's Investors Service, we find that rating quality deteriorated during the GFC. Furthermore, we identify tranche-specific and macroeconomic factors that explain differences in Moody's performance.

Caldas-Coulthard, CR & Iedema, R 2016, 'Preface' in Coulthard & Iedema (eds), Identity Trouble, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills Basingstoke, UK, pp. xiii-249.
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Chadee, D, Kouznetsov, A & Roxas, B 2016, 'Institutional Reform and Export Competitiveness of Central and Eastern European Economies' in International Business, IGI Global, pp. 1402-1425.
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Following their political and economic independence in 1989, a group of ten Central and Eastern European countries (CEEs) embarked on major institutional reforms to modernise their economies in order to become an integral part of the global economy. This chapter provides an overview of the main institutional reforms undertaken in the CEEs and their effects on export competitiveness. The chapter focuses on selected meso and macro institutional reforms, namely price liberalisation, competition policy, trade and foreign exchange, privatisation, and corporate governance. The results show that institutional reforms in the CEEs were rapid and generally successful. All CEEs became members of the European Union (EU) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Institutional reforms contributed significantly to improved efficiency and growth in the export sector. The results also suggest that further reforms are needed to improve competition policy and corporate governance, both of which are still below the standards found in Western industrialised countries.

Clarke, T & Klettner, A 2016, 'Implementing corporate social responsibility: A creative tension between regulation and corporate initiatives?' in Aras, G & Crowther, D (eds), Global Perspectives on Corporate Governance and CSR, Gower Publishing/Ashgate, Surrey, England, pp. 269-312.

Clegg, S 2016, 'Foreword' in Becker-Ritterspach, FAA, Blazejewski, S, Dorrenbacher, C & Geppert, M (eds), Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation, Cambridge University Press, pp. xiv-xviii.
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© Cambridge University Press 2016. For some years I had a small presence in the research area of multinational organizations, largely as a result of the good auspices of the editors of this volume, who have found my more general work on power and politics useful in the field. Over the years I have delved into the fields of strategy, globalization and international business. These experiences required a considerable amount of reading on my part. It was somewhat surprising to find that so much of the literature on and around multinationals seemed quite blind to issues of power and politics; the overwhelming approaches were founded in an economics perspective that seemed immune to social, organizational and political relations. If only this volume had been available to me earlier! It really is an indispensable guide to current thinking from the more sociologically oriented literature, which, as the editors suggest, has seen a recent and sustained flowering. The flowering is acutely represented in this volume. It begins with consideration of fundamental definitions and core concepts, mainly derived from organizational studies and organizational sociology, which will help researchers interested in phenomena related to politics and power in the multinational in framing their literature search. The authors draw on the wider literature in politics, political and sociological theory to inform their scanning of the field in a version of scholarship that seeks to facilitate translation between fields - an important and necessary task, especially where that field might seem to practise intellectual border control as an art form. The field of international business and management (IB&M) emerged largely from the contributions of economists for whom consideration of power, politics and conflict was not a central disposition. However, the introduction of organization studies prepared perspectives that were far more attuned to conceptions of multinationals as essentially politica...

Clegg, S 2016, 'Power and organizations: A brief but critical genealogy' in Mir, R, Willmott, H & Greenwood, M (eds), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies, Routledge, London, pp. 517-524.
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Clegg, SR 2016, 'Foreword: Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation: Foundations, Applications and New Directions' in Foreword: Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation: Foundations, Applications and New Directions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. xv-xvii.

Cohen, A 2016, 'Routledge Handbook of Theory in Sport Management' in Cunningham, GB, Fink, JS & Doherty, A (eds), Routledge Handbook of Theory in Sport Management, Routledge, USA, pp. 141-142.
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Collins, J, Morrison, M, Krivokapic-Skoko, B, Butler, R & Basu, PK 2016, 'Indigenous small businesses in the Australian Indigenous economy' in Sanders, W (ed), Engaging Indigenous Economy, AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV, Australia, pp. 265-274.
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There are many pathways to Indigenous entrepreneurship in Australia: partnerships between corporate Australia and Indigenous corporations/communities; Indigenous community-owned enterprises; Indigenous social enterprises and cooperatives; and Indigenous private enterprises. One of the most significant developments in the Australian Indigenous economy over the last decade has been the increasing importance of Indigenous enterprises and Indigenous entrepreneurs. As Foley (2006) has persuasively argued, not all Indigenous enterprises are run by community organisations and they are not all in the outback. The majority of Indigenous enterprises are private enterprises. Analysing census data from 1991 and 2011, Hunter (2013) provided evidence that the number of Indigenous selfemployed—the largest component of Indigenous entrepreneurship— almost tripled from 4,600 to 12,500. Indigenous entrepreneurs are also much more likely to employ Indigenous workers than other Australian enterprises (Hunter 2014: 16).

Cotton, D & Buzevska, M 2016, 'Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance' in Lehner, OM (ed), Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 571-586.
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Cunha, MPE, Clegg, SR, Rego, A & Story, J 2016, 'From the Physics of Change to Realpolitik: Improvisational Relations of Power and Resistance' in Clegg, S & Matos, JAD (eds), Sustainability and Organizational Change Management, Routledge, London, pp. 79-95.
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Change and resistance to change constitute a long-lasting couple in the organizational literature. We problematize the mechanistic action-reaction types of analyses, uncover some fragilities in the current debates, and offer minimal structures and the improvisations they favour as possibilities for reconsidering the roles attached to the participants in change processes beyond the established separation between agents and recipients. Improvisation is a space where the established orders of organizing are challenged and alternative orders are allowed to flourish. We suggest that structural interventions, such as minimizing structure, shifting roles and combining paradoxical requirements, help to diffuse resistance to change and to recreate the nature of change in organizations.

Czarniawska, B 2016, 'A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies' in Czarniawska, B (ed), A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 126-135.
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Dinar, A, Espinola-Arredondo, A, Munoz-Garcia, F, Matthew, RA, Harron, C, Goodrich, K, Maharramli, B, Nizkorodov, E, Bryant, T & Botelho, A 2016, 'The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change' in World Scientific Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, pp. 15-42.
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© 2017 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. There is a growing literature that studies the management of Common Pool Resources (CPRs) within the context of controlled laboratory experiments. A major thesis of this work is that non-binding communication (cheap talk) among appropriators of the commons may be sufficient to permit them to manage the commons efficiently without requiring an outside regulator. In this chapter we compare three CPR environments in controlled laboratory sessions with and without non-binding communication. We identify the nature of the differences across the environments and propose several new environments that may support a conjecture that cognitive differences induced by the framing of the sessions leads to the differences we find. Our results suggest that the success of nonbinding communication in reducing over-appropriation from a CPR may be dependent upon the characteristics of the CPR's yield function, the nature of the communication and the number of appropriators.

Ellis, RB & Waller, DS 2016, 'A Study of the Marketing Curriculum in Australia: The 1930S to Now' in Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science, Springer International Publishing, Germany, pp. 86-93.
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“Marketing” was first taught in Australia at a university-level was at the University of Melbourne in 1929. Nine years later a detailed syllabus was produced by the co-ordinator A.G. Whitlam. This paper presents a historical analysis of the subject and compares it to the current Principles of Marketing subject taught today. An analysis of the subject structure, syllabus, and textbooks provides an insight into the changing Marketing curriculum. From the findings marketing educators can draw on the past to help understand the marketing curriculum of today, and raise issues for marketing subjects in the future.

Fleming, P 2016, 'The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies' in Mir, R, Willmott, H & Greenwood, M (eds), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies, Routledge, London, pp. 370-378.
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Frawley, S 2016, 'Sport mega-events: Managerial dimensions' in Managing Sport Mega-Events, Routledge, London, pp. 1-7.
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The two biggest sport events in the world today, by any measure, are the Summer Olympic Games and the Football World Cup (Frawley & Adair, 2013, 2014). Both events are held every four years and given the global media impact and attention these two events achieve they can be truly classified as sport megaevents. Cities and nations bid aggressively for the right to stage these events and through doing so seek to accrue a range of (potential) benefits (Baade & Matheson, 2002). The main advantages often sought by bidding cities and nations include: generating increased economic activity arising through international tourism, infrastructure development and interconnected financial investment (Barney, Wenn & Martyn, 2002); the chance to position, brand or re-brand a city or nation (Hall, 2006); the ability to generate national pride and identity derived from staging a successful event (Tomlinson, 2005); and helping the national team achieve better results by competing on familiar territory, leading to further positive social outcomes (Bloomfield, 2003). While the benefits of hosting a sport mega-event at first seem attractive, the staging of such large events requires extensive and detailed planning and multifarious stakeholder management across local, national and international institutions (Guttmann, 2002). The cost of failure, both financially and politically, can therefore be significant (Searle, 2002). The complexity of sport mega-events is highlighted by the number of groups and networks that become involved and engaged (Young & Wamsley, 2005).

Fujak, H, Frawley, S & Morgan, A 2016, 'Broadcasting sport mega-events' in Managing Sport Mega-Events, Routledge, USA, pp. 89-104.
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Broadcasting represents a key component in the successful delivery of megaevents. Not only have broadcast rights become a critical financial pillar that underpins the functioning of mega-events, but also, and perhaps more importantly, television broadcasting remains the central mechanism that connects the event itself to the world. Taken further, it can be argued that the development of broadcast technology has in fact been a key contributor in the creation of the modern archetype that is today known as the ‘sport mega-event’. This is perhaps best exemplified by the correlation between the increased size and scope of the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup and associated growth in broadcast valuations over the last three decades (Frawley & Adair, 2013, 2014). The broadcasting of mega-events can now be considered a relatively mature phenomenon. It is approximately 80 years since the first Olympic broadcast took place during the 1936 Berlin Games and 60 years since the first Football World Cup was broadcast in 1954 (IOC, 2014; Lisi, 2011). Yet, despite the dramatic growth in these two mega-events, the historical development of the broadcasting landscape for both has been dynamic and fluid rather than a linear pathway. This chapter therefore sets out to provide an overview of the growth in broadcast rights valuations for the two mega-events as well as an analysis of audience size and reach.

Karsaklian, E & Fee, A 2016, 'From Green to Ethical Consumers: What Really Motivates Consumers to Buy Ethical Products?' in Campbell, C & Ma, JZ (eds), Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science, Springer International Publishing, Germany, pp. 192-201.
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Ethical consumers have evolved from boycotting to consuming and ethical consumption has attracted much attention from marketing researchers recently. Several studies have been conducted to understand what motivates consumers to buy certain ethical products such as fair trade, eco-friendly or animal-friendly. While a number of disparate, and primarily descriptive, studies have identified motivations of ethical consumers towards an array of different products and in a variety of contexts, researchers are yet to develop a more generalizable framework for understanding ethical consumption motivations. In this paper, we present a framework of four universal motivations to explain why consumers buy ethical products.

Kavanagh, D 2016, 'Preface.' in Majumder, P, Mitra, M, Mehta, P, Sankhavara, J & Ghosh, K (eds), Working notes of FIRE 2016 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Kolkata, India, December 7-10, 2016., CEUR-WS.org, Sydney, pp. 202-222.
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The chapter presents the framework of the book, sets the thematic direction and outlines each of the chapters.

Klettner, A 2016, 'Governing corporate responsibility: The role of soft regulation' in Aras, G & Ingley, C (eds), Corporate Behavior and Sustainability: Doing Well by Being Good, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 83-102.
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Koo, TTR, Wu, CL & Dwyer, L 2016, 'Air transport and spatiality of tourist flows: The case of Australia' in Air Transport in the Asia Pacific, pp. 125-142.
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Changing spatiality (the concentration or dispersion) of air transport reflects the evolution of aircraft technology, regulatory systems, production systems of firms, and the nature of air travel demand (e.g., Bowen 2010, O’Connor 2003). Knowledge about the changing spatiality of air transport is relevant for understanding airline behaviour and the geographic distribution of its externalities (Reynold-Feighan 1998, 2010), and aids the management of various impacts. The externalities (pecuniary and non-pecuniary) include the changes in the spatiality of tourism and tourist dispersal. A closer look into the link between aviation and the spatiality of tourist flows has merit in that the latter is an indicator of the quality of aviation impact. The rapidly increasing affordability of air services, coupled with a liberalising air transport environment, means that air transport in the Asia Pacific is expected to achieve rapid growth (Graham 2010). The quality of this aviation growth, however, at least in the domain of air transport research, is often overlooked. ‘Quality’ can have a number of dimensions and is often subjective in its interpretation. Our approach is to take a perspective whereby quality is defined by the impact of aviation on tourism, the sector with which it is closely linked. More specifically, we focus on the spatial distribution of aviation-related tourist flows as an important facet of the quality of aviation impact.

McEwen, C & Trede, F 2016, 'Educating Deliberate Professionals: Beyond Reflective and Deliberative Practitioners' in Professional and Practice-based Learning, Springer International Publishing, pp. 223-229.
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With this chapter, we highlight contributing authors’ insights into what it means to educate the deliberate professional. We concisely discuss the authors’ common understanding that there is a need to reconcile critique (thinking), participation (doing) and moral responsibility (relating to others) in professional practice and professional education. We also review the book’s main threads: the critique of the current context within which professional education is delivered at university and professional practice is carried out in workplaces; and the alternative view of a professional practice and professional education that addresses and redresses the imbalance between technical know-how, moral stance and collective action. We conclude by considering the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead in further implementing this concept, especially at organisational and societal levels.

Morgan, A, Frawley, S, Fujak, H & Cobourn, S 2016, 'Sponsorship and sport mega-events' in Managing Sport Mega-Events, Routledge, pp. 105-120.
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Professional sport has become reliant on commercially generated revenue, namely through sponsorship partnerships and broadcast rights fees. Sport mega-events in particular, are highly dependent on the financial and resource investment of their sponsorship partners. Over the past 30 years, not only has sponsorship emerged as a major source of revenue for sport events, it is also a key marketing tool for sponsoring companies. Moreover, worldwide sponsorship has become a critical component of marketing communications strategies. Global sponsorship expenditure has escalated from US$2 billion in 1984 (Sponsorship Research International, 1998, cited in Meenaghan & Shipley, 1999) to US$55.3 billion in 2014 (IEG, 2015a). Sport accounts for the majority of global sponsorship spend, receiving approximately 70 per cent of sponsor investment (Chadwick, Liu & Thwaites, 2014). As sponsorship has proliferated over the last three decades, the manner by which it has been activated and leveraged has changed significantly. Sport sponsorship has evolved into a major industry in the global marketplace. This chapter discusses the growth of sponsorship and related trends within the sport mega-event industry.

Morgan, A, Taylor, TL, Adair, D & Hermens, A 2016, 'Tensions within Interorganizational Alliances: A sponsorship Case Study' in Das, TK (ed), Governance Issues in Strategic Alliances, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC USA, pp. 201-223.

Mukherjee, A & Clegg, SR 2016, 'Théorie des organisations: l'espace perdu? (Organisational Theory: Wasted Space?)' in de Vaujany, FX, Hussenot, A & Chanlat, JF (eds), La théorie des organisations: Nouveaux tournants (Organisational Theory: New Twists), Economica, 49, rue Hericart, 75015 Paris, pp. 199-226.

Noguti, V, Singh, S & Waller, DS 2016, 'Gender Differences in Motivations to Use Social Networking Sites' in English, R & Johns, R (eds), Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology, IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA, pp. 32-49.
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This chapter investigates gender differences in motivations to use social networking sites (SNS), a subset of social media. The present research focuses on Facebook given its prominence among currently available SNS. Analysing a survey of university students in Australia, the results indicate that female consumers are more likely than male consumers to use Facebook to seek information (to research and learn new things and to discuss products and brands) and for convenience (to obtain things with little effort). Both of these reasons in turn relate positively to their degree of engagement on Facebook, where engagement is operationalized as cognitive absorption which is a state of deep involvement with an activity.

Onyx, J, Schwabenland, C, Lange, C & Nakagawa, S 2016, 'Organising for emancipation/emancipating organisations?' in Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations: Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?, Policy Press, pp. 343-358.

Orsato, RJ, Clegg, SR & Falcao, H 2016, 'The Political Ecology of Palm Oil Production' in The political ecology of palm oil production featured in Sustainability and Organizational Change Management, Routledge, Routledge, London, pp. 63-78.
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Perey, R 2016, 'A Future Beyond Growth' in Washington, H & Twomey, P (eds), A Future Beyond Growth: Towards a steady state economy, Routledge, USA, pp. 213-222.
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Phillips, P & Schulenkorf, N 2016, 'Coaches, officials and change agents in sport development' in Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P (eds), Managing Sport Development, Routledge, pp. 107-118.
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Putni__, TJ & Sauka, A 2016, 'The components and determinants of the shadow economy: evidence from the Baltic countries' in Entrepreneurship and the Shadow Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 60-88.
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Rhodes, C 2016, '‘Permission taking’: The humanities and critical pedagogy in the MBA' in Steyaert, C, Beyes, T & Parker, M (eds), The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education, Routledge, UK, pp. 361-373.
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The MBA has been under significant critique in recent years, most saliently in relation to its narrow functional focus, instrumental orientation and lack of attention to the ethical dimensions of business (Mintzberg 2004; Navarro 2008; Muff et al. 2013). Although it is common for responses to these issues to focus on broad-based programmes and curricular change (for example, Moldoveanu and Martin 2008; Datar et al. 2010), with this chapter I want to explore ways in which individual educators can respond and have responded to these issues in the classroom. In so doing I am not dismissing the importance of changes to the structure of education at the level of either policy or practice; clearly what happens at such lofty levels has a significant impact on teachers and students. Commentary on, for example, changes to government funding arrangements, the widespread vocationalization of management education, or universities focusing on using management programmes in a way that puts revenue generation above education is critical to maintaining democratic debate over the future of education. However, for most of us who toil away in the classroom our influence on such matters is for the most part limited, rendering us almost passive in our receipt of changes that eventually trickle down to us. We might engage with them in a similar manner to how we care about national politics, but our position is as citizens (in this case of the university) rather than as politicians. Moreover, if as individual educators we become enthralled solely with general debates at the expense of considering the possibilities of our own professional practice, then we risk avoiding taking action in the very location where we can make a difference. Although it may be the case that changes to the structure and governance regimes of universities have augmented managerial power at the expense of that of individual academics (Parker and Jary 1995), the classroom is a prime site where such encr...

Schlenker, K, Foley, C & Carroll-Dwyer, E 2016, 'The Parkes Elvis Festival, Attendee and Host Community Perspectives' in Newbold, C & Jordan, J (eds), Focus on World Festivals, Goodfellow Publishers, Oxford, pp. 299-308.
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Each year, up to 20,000 people descend upon the rural town of Parkes, 365km west of Sydney, to attend the Parkes Elvis Festival. Initiated in 1993 by a group of locals who were Elvis Presley fans, the annual festival has grown from the humble beginnings of a one-day event with a few hundred attendees to a five day festival. In a bid to assist the festival organisers to understand the impacts of the Parkes Elvis Festival on both attendees and the host community, researchers designed a set of survey instruments to deliver a comprehensive evaluation of the social and economic impacts of the festival. Research was carried out in 2010 and separate surveys were conducted for festival organisers, attendees and local residents. After a brief explanation of the festival, and the man it is inspired by, this chapter explores the methods used to collect data before outlining the results. The results are divided into two key sections, attendees’ perceptions, and host community perceptions. First we profile the demographics, motivations and experience of festival attendees. Second, we profile the perceptions of the host community with respect to both the economic and social impacts of the festival. The surveys demonstrate the overwhelming goodwill and enthusiasm for the festival, by both the host community and attendees. Results show that the festival attracts a mix of first time and repeat visitors, and that many of the returning attendees do so to catch up with friends made at previous festivals. For residents, regardless of whether they attend or not, the large majority understand the economic, tourism and community benefits generated by the festival.

Schulenkorf, N, Schlenker, K & Thomson, A 2016, 'Event leverage and sport mega-events' in Managing Sport Mega-Events, Routledge, USA, pp. 139-149.
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Schulenkorf, N, Sugden, J & Sugden, J 2016, 'Sport for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding' in Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P (eds), Managing Sport Development: An International Approach, Routledge, pp. 147-158.

Schwabenland, C, Lange, C, Onyx, J & Nakagawa, S 2016, 'Introducing the anthology' in Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations: Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?, Policy Press, pp. 1-19.

Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P 2016, 'Evaluating sport development' in Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Phillips, P (eds), Managing Sport Development, Routledge, pp. 161-176.
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Thomson, A, Schlenker, K, Schulenkorf, N & Brooking, E 2016, 'The social and environmental consequences of hosting sport mega-events' in Frawley, S (ed), Managing Sport Mega-Events, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 150-164.
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The social and environmental consequences of sport mega-events have become increasingly important when trying to understand the benefits and costs of hosting such events for cities and their residents. Thus, event bids and related marketing campaigns often tell us about the benefits that mega-events may bestow on host cities, such as community pride, enhanced community cohesion and/or urban regeneration. However, many intangible, or soft, opportunities are not always backed up by evidence, or underpinned by an adequate understanding of how these outcomes are realised. This chapter presents an overview of recent research in the areas of social and environmental consequences of mega-events, including: a) civic pride and community cohesion; b) urban regeneration and displacement effects; and c) environmental impacts and legacies.

Trede, F & McEwen, C 2016, 'Carving Out the Territory for Educating the Deliberate Professional' in Professional and Practice-based Learning, Springer International Publishing, pp. 15-28.
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In this early part of the twenty-first century, we are witnessing dramatic changes to the university education landscape. Student cohorts are increasingly more diverse and globally mobile, the advent of technology-mediated learning and teaching is changing the way we used to teach and learn, the demands for their greater economic relevance together with stronger graduate employability are knowingly, or not, separating universities’ dual obligations of education for competent technicians and education for moral professionals. Together, these neoliberal developments threaten to erode the socially responsible pedagogical project of university education. In this chapter, the authors explore what might be required of university education to produce professionals for a society that is increasingly complex and rapidly changing. What does it take for students to engage with the complexities, ambiguities, diversity and uncertainties of emerging professional practices? Opportunities are identified that allow learners and educators to take ownership of and some sense of control over their emerging practice within uncertain and rapidly changing times. An argument is presented for a pedagogy of deliberateness: A new learning and teaching framework for university education, in general, and workplace learning, in particular. This new concept offers a framework to redress the imbalance from technical, instrumental learning towards moral, autonomous, democratic and consequential learning that produces not only competent technicians, but also educates deliberate professionals who are thoughtful, courageous and morally responsible actors who strive to improve the way things are.

Trede, F & Mcewen, C 2016, 'Deliberate Marginalia' in Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia, SensePublishers, pp. 101-108.
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Trede, F & McEwen, C 2016, 'Scoping the Deliberate Professional' in Professional and Practice-based Learning, Springer International Publishing, pp. 3-14.
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This chapter outlines the origins of the concept of deliberate professional and frames it within a discussion of notions of ‘professional’, ‘deliberate’ and ‘practice’. We suggest reasons why the ‘deliberate professional’ offers a way of redressing the balance of possibilities away from exclusive economic values towards more encompassing socio-cultural values in the globalised context of university education. We then discuss how our concept of educating the deliberate professional can be translated within the wider context of social and professional practice theories, critical university studies and critical pedagogy, into a pedagogy of deliberateness. We conclude by drawing out connections with the other discussions included in the book.

Waller, DS & Waller, HJ 2016, 'Advertising and Public Memory' in Schutt, S, Roberts, S & White, L (eds), Advertising and Public Memory: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs, Routledge, London, pp. 289-304.
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Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who commissioned them, painted them, viewed them and view them today.

Wearing, SL & Wearing, M 2016, 'On Decommodifying Ecotourism’s Social Value' in Mostafanezad, M & Hannam, K (eds), Moral Encounters in Tourism, Routledge, Surry, pp. 137-152.
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Wearing, SL & Wearing, M 2016, 'Political Ecology of Tourism' in Mostafanezhad, M, Norum, R, Shelton, EJ & Thompson-Carr, A (eds), Political Ecology of Tourism: Community, power and the environment, Routledge, Oxon, pp. 188-206.
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In the 1990s, O’Brien and Penna developed an ‘ecological citizenship approach’ to the welfare state which remains a strong and trenchant critique of the profit motive as commodifying the use of nature, particularly in contemporary Western ecotourism development. This approach captured the internationally recognized definition of ecotourism as ‘responsible travel’ that conserves the environment and ‘improves the welfare of local people’ (The International Ecotourism Society, http://www.ecotourism.org). Understanding the social, economic and human rights not only of nation state citizens, but also in relation to environmental concerns such as animal well-being and care, is just as urgent an agenda for future life on this planet as it was several decades ago (Benton, 1993; Carson, 1962; Leopold, 1949; Linzey, 2009; Naess, 1973, 1989; Singer, 1975).

Adair, D 2016, 'Confronting ‘race’ and policy: sport, race and indigeneity', Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 212-217.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. CONTEXT: This section of the journal encourages discussion between several authors on a policy related topic. The same question may, therefore, be addressed from different theoretical, cultural or spatial perspectives. Dialogues may be applied or highly abstract. The Dialogue in this issue starts with Kevin Hylton and Jonathan Long's contribution doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2015.1115950.

Adelstein, J & Clegg, S 2016, 'Code of Ethics: A Stratified Vehicle for Compliance', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 138, no. 1, pp. 53-66.
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Ethical codes have been hailed as an explicit vehicle for achieving more sustainable and defensible organizational practice. Nonetheless, when legal compliance and corporate governance codes are conflated, codes can be used to define organizational interests ostentatiously by stipulating norms for employee ethics. Such codes have a largely cosmetic and insurance function, acting subtly and strategically to control organizational risk management and protection. In this paper, we conduct a genealogical discourse analysis of a representative code of ethics from an international corporation to understand how management frames expectations of compliance. Our contribution is to articulate the problems inherent in codes of ethics, and we make some recommendations to address these to benefit both an organization and its employees. In this way, we show how a code of ethics can provide a foundation for ethical sustainability, while addressing management intentions and employees’ ethical satisfaction.

Adriaanse, J 2016, 'Gender Diversity in the Governance of Sport Associations: The Sydney Scoreboard Global Index of Participation', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 137, no. 1, pp. 149-160.
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© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht This paper examines gender diversity in sport governance globally. Theoretically, the study draws on gender dynamics in organisations, in particular on Kanter’s concepts of gender ratios and critical mass. An audit of the gender ratio on boards of National Sport Organisations (n = 1,600) was conducted in 45 countries. Data were collected through the Sydney Scoreboard, an interactive website that tracks women’s presence on sport boards internationally. Findings show that women remain under-represented on three key indicators: as board directors (global mean 19.7 %), board chairs (10.8 %) and chief executives (16.3 %). Few countries have achieved a critical mass of 30 % representation and no continent has achieved the critical mass on any of the three indicators. Women’s under-representation in sport governance is due to complex gender dynamics. Gender diversity on sport boards is associated with four interwoven dimensions of gender relations: production, power, emotion and symbolism. The combination of the four dimensions produces an environment that may or may not be conducive to gender diversity.

Adriaanse, JA & Claringbould, I 2016, 'Gender equality in sport leadership: From the Brighton Declaration to the Sydney Scoreboard', INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 547-566.
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Agarwal, R, Green, R, Agarwal, N & Randhawa, K 2016, 'Benchmarking management practices in Australian public healthcare', Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 31-56.
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Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the quality of management practices of public hospitals in the Australian healthcare system, specifically those in the state-managed health systems of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW). Further, the authors assess the management practices of Queensland and NSW public hospitals jointly and globally benchmark against those in the health systems of seven other countries, namely, USA, UK, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy and Canada.Design/methodology/approach– In this study, the authors adapt the unique and globally deployed Bloomet al.(2009) survey instrument that uses a “double blind, double scored” methodology and an interview-based scoring grid to measure and internationally benchmark the management practices in Queensland and NSW public hospitals based on 21 management dimensions across four broad areas of management – operations, performance monitoring, targets and people management.Findings– The findings reveal the areas of strength and potential areas of improvement in the Queensland and NSW Health hospital management practices when compared with public hospitals in seven countries, namely, USA, UK, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy and Canada. Together, Queensland and NSW Health hospitals perform best in operations management followed by performance monitoring. While target management presents scope for improvement, people management is the sphere where these Australian hospitals lag the most.Practical implications– This paper is of interest to both hospital administrators and health care policy-makers aiming to lift m...

Agarwal, R, Green, R, Agarwal, N & Randhawa, K 2016, 'Management practices in Australian healthcare: can NSW public hospitals do better?', Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 331-353.
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Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of best management practices in an Australian state-run healthcare system, namely New South Wales (NSW), and studies the impact of a range of hospital factors in driving best management practices as a means of enhancing healthcare delivery.Design/methodology/approach– This study adapts a unique survey instrument globally tested to quantify the multi-dimensional nature of hospital management practices in 42 acute care public hospitals of NSW. The authors then analysed the role of hospital-specific characteristics in driving best management practices, namely hospital size (measured by the number of hospital beds, employees and doctors), level of skill and education, degree of hospital manager autonomy and organisational hierarchy.Findings– The findings of this study show the areas of strength and potential areas of improvement in NSW hospitals. The authors find a positive association between the adoption of better management practices and hospital size (measured by the number of hospital beds and employees), level of skills and education, degree of hospital manager autonomy and organisational hierarchy. However, hospital size as measured by the number of doctors did not have a statistically significant relationship.Practical implications– This paper is of interest to both hospital administrators, clinical doctors and healthcare policy-makers who want to improve and develop strategies for better management in the healthcare sector.Originality/value<...

Alexeev, V, Dungey, M & Yao, W 2016, 'Continuous and Jump Betas: Implications for Portfolio Diversification', Econometrics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 27-27.
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Using high-frequency data, we decompose the time-varying beta for stocks into beta for continuous systematic risk and beta for discontinuous systematic risk. Estimated discontinuous betas for S&P500 constituents between 2003 and 2011 generally exceed the corresponding continuous betas. We demonstrate how continuous and discontinuous betas decrease with portfolio diversification. Using an equiweighted broad market index, we assess the speed of convergence of continuous and discontinuous betas in portfolios of stocks as the number of holdings increase. We show that discontinuous risk dissipates faster with fewer stocks in a portfolio compared to its continuous counterpart.

Auger, P, Devinney, T, Dowling, G & Eckert, C 2016, 'Inertia and discounting in the selection of socially responsible investments', Annals in Social Responsibility, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 29-47.
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PurposeSocially responsible investment (SRI) funds have grown dramatically as an investment alternative in most of the developed world. The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a structured experimental approach to determine if the decision-making process of investors to invest in SRIs is consistent with the process used for conventional investments. The theoretical framework draws on two widely studied concepts in the decision making and investment literature, namely, inertia and discounting.FindingsThe authors find that inertia plays a significant role in the selection of SRI funds and that investors systemically discount the value of SRIs.Research limitations/implicationsThe results suggest that SRIs need to be designed to cater to the risk/return profiles of investors and that these investors need to be better informed about the performance of SRIs vs conventional investments to reduce their systematic discounting.Originality/valueUnique experimental approach applied to investment alternatives in a manner that captures individual level variation.

Baer, B, Collins, J, Maalaps, K & den Boer, SPA 2016, 'Sperm use economy of honeybee (Apis mellifera) queens', Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 2877-2885.
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AbstractThe queens of eusocial ants, bees, and wasps only mate during a very brief period early in life to acquire and store a lifetime supply of sperm. As sperm cannot be replenished, queens have to be highly economic when using stored sperm to fertilize eggs, especially in species with large and long‐lived colonies. However, queen fertility has not been studied in detail, so that we have little understanding of how economic sperm use is in different species, and whether queens are able to influence their sperm use. This is surprising given that sperm use is a key factor of eusocial life, as it determines the fecundity and longevity of queens and therefore colony fitness. We quantified the number of sperm that honeybee (Apis mellifera) queens use to fertilize eggs. We examined sperm use in naturally mated queens of different ages and in queens artificially inseminated with different volumes of semen. We found that queens are remarkably efficient and only use a median of 2 sperm per egg fertilization, with decreasing sperm use in older queens. The number of sperm in storage was always a significant predictor for the number of sperm used per fertilization, indicating that queens use a constant ratio of spermathecal fluid relative to total spermathecal volume of 2.364 × 10−6 to fertilize eggs. This allowed us to calculate a lifetime fecundity for honeybee queens of around 1,500,000 fertilized eggs. Our data provide the first empirical evidence that honeybee queens do not manipulate sperm use, and fertilization failures in worker‐destined eggs are therefore honest signals that workers can use to time queen replacement, which is crucial for colony performance and fitness.

Bajada, C & Trayler, R 2016, 'Introduction to threshold concepts in business education', Education + Training, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 458-462.
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Purpose – To introduce to the special issues on threshold concepts in business education. Design/methodology/approach – Provides an overview of the various papers comprising this special issue. Findings – There are no specific findings in this paper as its purpose is to introduce the selected papers in this special issue. Originality/value – Editorial.

Bajada, C, Jarvis, W, Trayler, R & Bui, AT 2016, 'Threshold concepts in business school curriculum – a pedagogy for public trust', Education + Training, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 540-563.
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Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the implications for curriculum design by operationalizing threshold concepts and capabilities (TCC) in subject delivery. The motivation for undertaking this exploration is directly related to addressing public concerns for the business school curriculum.Design/methodology/approach– Apost factoanalysis of a compulsory subject in finance that is part of an Australian business degree and the impact on a subsequent finance subject.Findings– Customary approaches to granting part-marks in assessing students, (fractionalising) understanding of content can mean students pass subjects without grasping foundational concepts (threshold concepts) and are therefore not fully prepared for subsequent subjects.Research limitations/implications– Students passing subjects through fractionalization are poorly equipped to undertake deeper explorations in related subjects. If replicated across whole degree programs students may graduate not possessing the attributes claimed for them through their qualification. The implications for undermining public trust and confidence in qualifications are profound and disturbing.Practical implications– The literature has exposed risks associated with operationalizing threshold through assessments. This highlights a risk to public trust in qualifications.Originality/value– Operationalizing threshold concepts is an ...

Batista, MG, Clegg, SR, Cunha, MPE, Giustiniano, L & Rego, A 2016, 'Improvising Prescription: Evidence from the Emergency Room', British Journal of Management, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 406-425.
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Global medical practice is increasingly standardizing through evidence-based approaches and quality certification procedures. Despite this increasing standardization, medical work in emergency units necessarily involves sensitivity to the individual, the particular and the unexpected. While much medical practice is routine, important improvisational elements remain significant. Standardization and improvisation can be seen as two conflicting logics. However, they are not incompatible, although the occurrence of improvisation in highly structured and institutionally complex environments remains underexplored. The study presents the process of improvisation in the tightly controlled work environment of the emergency room. The authors conducted an in situ ethnographic observation of an emergency unit. An inductive approach shows professionals combining ostensive compliance with protocols with necessary and occasional 'underlife' improvisations. The duality of improvisation as simultaneously present and absent is related to pressures in the institutional domain as well as to practical needs emerging from the operational realm. The intense presence of procedures and work processes enables flexible improvised performances that paradoxically end up reinforcing institutional pressures for standardization.

Bedford, DS, Malmi, T & Sandelin, M 2016, 'Management control effectiveness and strategy: An empirical analysis of packages and systems', Accounting, Organizations and Society, vol. 51, pp. 12-28.
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© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. This study examines management control (MC) combinations that are effective in different strategic contexts through two related approaches - MC as a package and MC as a system. First, this study identifies how a set of MC practices combine (i.e. MC packages) to achieve effective control outcomes for firms operating in defender and prospector strategic contexts by applying fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Using data from a survey of top managers the analysis reveals that there are multiple ways by which firms can effectively combine MC practices in a given strategic context. Furthermore, the analysis shows that not all MC practices found to be relevant in isolation are relevant when examined simultaneously as a package. Second, based on a comparison of effective MC packages this study examines interdependencies between MC practices (i.e. MC systems). Results show that in defender firms a diagnostic control use of accounting and mechanistic structural controls act as complements, while mechanistic structural controls and measure diversity act as substitutes. In prospector firms an interactive control use of accounting and organic structural controls are found to have complementary effects. These results indicate that the effectiveness of accounting control and structural control choices are determined not only by their fit with strategic context but also by how they fit with each other. This study also demonstrates how an understanding of MC packages can provide guidance for theory development and empirical analysis of MC systems.

Bird, R, Foster, D, Gray, J, Raftery, AM, Thorp, S & Yeung, D 2016, 'Experiences of Current and Former Members of Self-Managed Superannuation Funds', CIFR Paper, vol. 46, no. 128, pp. 304-325.
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We surveyed 854 current and 147 former members of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) in 2016. The results of our survey document their aspirations, operational practices and experiences. Both current and former members expressed high general interest in superannuation, but ‘detractors’ of SMSFs outnumbered ‘promoters’. SMSF members said they enjoy ‘control’ of investment, but a majority delegated tasks to financial professionals. Three times as many members rated the performance of their fund as above the SMSF average as below, although most did not measure the performance of their fund adequately. The probability of closing a SMSF is significantly higher if members use net returns, rather than other indicators such as account balance, to judge performance. JEL Classification: H55, H75, J32

Bond, D, Govendir, B & Wells, P 2016, 'An evaluation of asset impairments by Australian firms and whether they were impacted by AASB 136', ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 259-288.
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© 2016 AFAANZ. This study evaluates how managers of Australian firms are implementing the regulation requiring the impairment of assets and whether asset impairments can be categorised as non-discretionary. We find some evidence that realised asset impairments are reflective of regulatory requirements. However, for the majority of firms exhibiting at least one externally observable indicator of impairment, they are not recognising asset impairments, and recognition is often delayed. Accordingly, while realised asset impairments might be categorised non-discretionary, the timing of their recognition appears highly discretionary. There is some evidence that the realisation of asset impairments increased subsequent to transition to IFRS; however, the majority of firms with indicators of impairment are still not recognising asset impairments.

Bugeja, M, da Silva Rosa, R, Izan, HY & Ngan, S 2016, 'To Scheme or Bid? Choice of Takeover Method and Impact on Premium', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 212-243.
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In recent years there has been an increasing use of members’ schemes of arrangement to bring about a change in corporate control. This increasing use of schemes has been criticised in public quarters on the basis that unlike takeovers, schemes are not subject to the Eggleston principles and have arguably led to target shareholders receiving lower offer prices. This study provides the first large-sample empirical evidence on differences between schemes and takeovers. We find that the likelihood of the use of schemes significantly increases when target firm ownership concentration is higher and when the bidder has a lower toehold. Scheme usage is also more likely for larger targets and bidders with higher leverage. Consistent with public criticisms of schemes, we find that after controlling for self-selection premiums in schemes are significantly lower than those in takeovers.

Bugeja, M, Fohn, S & Matolcsy, Z 2016, 'Determinants of the Levels and Changes in Non‐Executive Director Compensation', Accounting & Finance, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 627-667.
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Bugeja, M, Matolcsy, Z & Spiropoulos, H 2016, 'The Association Between Gender-Diverse Compensation Committees and CEO Compensation', JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, vol. 139, no. 2, pp. 375-390.
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. We examine the association between gender-diverse compensation committees and CEO pay and find that CEO compensation levels are negatively associated with gender-diversity of the compensation committee, but not gender-diversity of the board. Furthermore, we find that excess CEO compensation is negatively related to subsequent return on assets for firms with an all-male compensation committee but not for firms with a gender-diverse compensation committee. These results suggest that CEOs do receive some level of excess compensation which can be mitigated by having one or more females on the compensation committee.

Butler, K, Gordon, R, Roggeveen, K, Waitt, G & Cooper, P 2016, 'Social marketing and value in behaviour?', Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 144-168.
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PurposeDrawing on value theory, this study aims to explore the perceived value of using energy efficiently amongst a low-income older population group. It aims to provide an empirical exploration of the concept of value-in-behaviour, and, in doing so, identify that it is a logical addition to the extant concepts of value-in-exchange and value-in-use.Design/methodology/approachExploratory focus group research was conducted to explore older, low-income people’s perceived value towards using energy efficiently in the contexts of their everyday lives. The research was conducted in regional New South Wales, Australia, with 11 focus groups of 59 people (40 females, 19 males) aged over 60 with a personal disposable income below $26,104 per annum.FindingsUsing this framework, functional, economic and ecological value appeared to be the most pertinent value dimensions for using energy efficiently, while social or emotional value was less relevant. Attention is drawn to how value in using energy efficiently emerges within the everyday contingencies and constraints configured by individual households’ financial, social, material and cultural contexts. These findings suggest that programmes in this area and with similar target groups would benefit from trying to promote and co-create such value.Originality/valueThe present study provides empirical evidence that consumers in a social marketing context appear to perceive value-in-behaviour in relation to using energy efficiently. This approach inspires social marketers to foster individual behaviour change through a better understanding of how value is...

Casari, M, Zhang, J & Jackson, C 2016, 'Same Process, Different Outcomes: Group Performance in an Acquiring a Company Experiment', IZA Discussion Paper, vol. 19, no. 9614, pp. 764-791.
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© 2015, Economic Science Association. It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why groups underperformed with respect to a “truth wins” benchmark and why they performed better than individuals deciding in isolation in a simple version of the task but worse in the more difficult version. Implications are drawn on when to employ groups rather than individuals in decision making.

Casavecchia, L 2016, 'Fund managers' herding and the sensitivity of fund flows to past performance', INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, vol. 47, pp. 205-221.
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Casavecchia, L 2016, 'Fund managers’ herding and mutual fund governance', International Journal of Managerial Finance, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 242-276.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the implications of managerial herding for investors’ wealth and capital allocation across funds, and the critical role played by fund governance in monitoring herding incentives. Design/methodology/approach – The author adopt the fund herding measure first proposed by Grinblatt et al. (1995) over the long sample period 1992-2007. Univariate and multivariate tests are then constructed to examine the relationship between managerial herding, performance, and investors’ sensitivities. OLS, fixed-effect panel data models are utilized to conduct the tests. Findings – The author show that managers that do not herd have above-average managerial skills, trade less on noise, and significantly outperform herding managers. The author also illustrate that although fund herding could be used as a signal of managerial quality, underperforming herding funds manage to survive in equilibrium, indicating that investor flows do not adequately respond to the information content of a persistent herding behavior. Finally, the author demonstrate that better governance in the form of stronger managerial incentive schemes constitutes a significant deterrent against detrimental herding strategies, representing an effective monitoring device of the response of fund managers to poor flow-performance sensitivity. Originality/value – The paper provide...

Casavecchia, L & Tiwari, A 2016, 'Cross trading by investment advisers: Implications for mutual fund performance', JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION, vol. 25, pp. 99-130.
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Catalano, M & Di Guilmi, C 2016, 'Uncertainty, Rationality and Complexity in a Multi Sectoral Dynamic Model: The Dynamic Stochastic Generalized Aggregation Approach', CAMA Working Paper, vol. 157, no. 16, pp. 117-144.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The paper proposes an innovative approach for the analytical solution of agent-based models. The approach is termed dynamic stochastic generalized aggregation (DSGA) and is tested on a macroeconomic model articulated in a job and in a goods markets with a large number of heterogeneous and interacting agents (namely firms and workers). The agents heuristically adapt their expectations by interpreting the signals from the market and give rise to macroeconomic regularities. The model is analytically solved in two different scenarios. In the first, the emergent properties of the system are determined uniquely by the myopic behavior of the agents while, in the second, a social planner quantifies the optimal number of agents adopting a particular strategy. The integration of the DSGA approach with intertemporal optimal control allows the identification of multiple equilibria and their qualitative classification.

Cederström, C & Fleming, P 2016, 'On Bandit Organizations and Their (IL)Legitimacy: Concept Development and Illustration', Organization Studies, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1575-1594.
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Outlaw organizations are neglected in organization studies. This is understandable given the presumption of illegitimacy they attract. Our article challenges the presumption by positing the concept of ‘bandit organizations’, demonstrating how some can build impressive levels of legitimacy among their audience. The case of Christopher ‘Dudas’ Coke, a philanthropic Jamaican drug cartel leader, and his ‘Shower Posse’ gang, is used to investigate how contemporary bandit organizations foster legitimacy. By placing ‘shadow economy’ organizations like this in the spotlight, we seek to extend scholarship on organizational legitimacy, while avoiding any undue romanticization of criminal organizations.

Chavan, M & Agarwal, R 2016, 'The Efficacy of Linkages for Relational Capability Building and Internationalization-Indian and Australian Mining Firms', International Journal of Business and Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 51-78.
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This research explores the significance of linkages in building relational capability between Australian and Indian mining firms which lead to new international opportunities. Building upon knowledge-based and network views, this qualitative study presents the 'The Relational Capability-Linkages Model.'

Chelliah, J 2016, 'Labour exploitation', Human Resource Management International Digest, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 4-6.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to highlight the risks faced by employers as a result of subjecting vulnerable employees to exploitative business practices that are akin to slavery.Design/methodology/approachThe study considers examples of exploitative approaches that employers have recently adopted.FindingsThe paper reveals that employers should be aware of the serious legal consequences including imprisonment that could result from slavery like business practices.Research limitations/implicationsGuides managers in preventing claims of slavery.Practical implicationsThe paper serves to guide managers in preventing claims of slavery or exploitation.Social implicationsIt helps to draw attention to the risks associated with exploitative labour practices at the workplace.Originality/valueThis paper aims to raise the issue of organizational awareness and preparedness to prevent predatory or exploitative employment practices.

Chelliah, J & Skinner, A 2016, 'Organizational Transformation: Strategic Application of Lean Six Sigma for High Performance', Journal of Global Business Management, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 85-92.

Chelliah, J, Boersma, M & Klettner, A 2016, 'Governance Challenges for Not-for-Profit Organisations: Empirical Evidence in Support of A Contingency Approach', Contemporary Management Research: an international journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
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This article presents empirical evidence of the governance challenges faced by Australian not-for-profit (NFP) organisations. There is a dearth of academic research in the not-for-profit sector on issues of governance. Using survey and interview data, we explore what NFP leaders believe are key governance challenges, and what this means for theory and practice of NFP governance. We demonstrate that the effectiveness of governance systems is influenced by internal and external contingencies that NFP organisations face, such as variations in board roles, stakeholder and membership demands, funding arrangements, board member recruitment processes, skills of board members, and resources for training and development. We argue for a shift of focus away from prescriptive and normative NFP governance models, and contend that generic best practice governance standards for NFPs ought not to be further pursued, and that a contingency approach is more promising.

Chen, C, Zhang, J & Guo, R-S 2016, 'The D-Day, V-Day, and bleak days of a disruptive technology: A new model for ex-ante evaluation of the timing of technology disruption', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 251, no. 2, pp. 562-574.
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© 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The recent failure of major PC and smartphone makers in launching new generations of high-tech products in time shows that analyzing and capturing the timing of technology disruption is an important yet less explored research area. This paper conducts theoretical and empirical analyses for ex-ante quantitative evaluation of the timing of technology disruption. We conceptualize the ease and network factors as key determinants of performance improvement for a disruptive technology. A dynamic consumer model is developed to identify two critical times, termed D-Day and V-Day, of technology disruption. We also show that, if the network factor dominates the performance improvement process, there may exist some 'bleak days' during which a firm would discontinue a 'promising' technology that will eventually disrupt. Empirical tests are conducted with data of hard disk drives, semiconductor technologies, and CPU performance for mobile devices to verify key model assumptions and to show how to estimate the ease and network factors. We also perform a numerical experiment to demonstrate how to forecast the timing of technology disruption. A decision tree and a systematic framework are also developed to operationalize key model parameters and analytical results from a decision-support perspective. This paper contributes to the literature by presenting a novel analytical tool and new insights for high-tech companies to forecast and manage the timing of technology disruption.

Child, J, Clegg, S, Sorge, A, Wilson, D, Tsoukas, H, Courpasson, D, den Hond, F, Holt, R & Reay, T 2016, 'Professor David J. Hickson', Organization Studies, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 1401-1402.
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Choudhary, V, Currim, IS, Dewan, S, Jeliazkov, I, Turner, J & Mintz, O 2016, 'Evaluation Set Size and Purchase: Evidence from a Product Search Engine', Journal of Interactive Marketing, vol. 37, pp. 16-31.
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© 2016 The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the popularity of product search engines, yet the analysis of consumer behavior at such sites remains a challenging research problem despite its timeliness and importance. In this article, we develop and estimate a copula model of evaluation set size and purchase behavior employing data from 3,182 hotel searches by customers at a large travel search engine. The model allows us to jointly study purchase behavior, evaluation sets, and their antecedents. Our results reveal that evaluation set size and purchase are negatively correlated and that factors typically presumed to be associated with purchase—i.e., when users sort search results by price or quality, request many rooms, disclose that there are many guests in their party, or arrive from other search engines and/or partner sites—actually relate to larger evaluation sets but lower purchase probability. In contrast, when users filter the search results, we observe smaller evaluation sets and higher purchase probability. The theoretical background and practical implications of our findings suggest that efforts to increase purchases need not necessarily be predicated on cultivating larger evaluation sets.

Chowdhury, MMH & Quaddus, M 2016, 'Supply chain readiness, response and recovery for resilience', Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 709-731.
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PurposeDespite the proliferation of supply chain risk management (SCRM) studies, a theoretically supported and empirically validated study on justifying the antecedents and measurement dimensions of supply chain resilience (SCRE) is rare. Therefore, drawing on extensive literature review, this study aims to explore and validate the antecedents and the measurement dimensions of SCRE.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses positivist paradigm using quantitative method. However, it also uses qualitative approach in the form of field study to contextualize the research model. The quantitative study is conducted by operationalising a survey research. Partial least square-based structural equation modelling has been used to analyze the data.FindingsStudy results suggest that the psychometric properties of the SCRE dimensions, supply chain readiness, response and recovery, are reliable and valid. It also affirms that supply chain orientation (SCO), learning and development and supply chain risk management culture (SCRMC) significantly influence the SCRE. Further, SCRMC mediates the relationship between SCO and SCRE.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study will assist the supply chain managers in taking decision on readiness capability development and reducing the decisional uncertainty during response and recovery.Originality/valueDrawing on extensive extant literature on crisis management and supply chain management, this study develops and validates the measurement dimensions of SCRE in...

Chowdhury, MMH & Quaddus, MA 2016, 'A multi-phased QFD based optimization approach to sustainable service design', International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 171, no. 2, pp. 165-178.
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© 2015. Sustainable service design is vital for customer satisfaction and for meeting stakeholders' requirements. However, despite its significance, there appears to be two significant gaps in the literature in service design domain: (i) addressing the sustainability dimensions (social, environmental and economic) in service design in an integrated way, and (ii) development of methodology for sustainable service design grounded on strong conceptual foundation. This paper aims to address these gaps in the literature. In doing so we propose "sustainable service concept" which considers service design and service delivery design linking them with the attainment of social, environmental and economic goals of the organization. The paper presents a detailed methodology in this respect using multi-phased 0-1 optimization model within fuzzy quality function deployment (QFD) approach. We apply our methodology in the m-health service design in Bangladesh. The results show that lack of awareness, lack of skilled human resource, poor logistical support and resource shortage inhibit effective delivery of m-health service. To overcome these barriers and to deliver sustainable m-health service in Bangladesh optimal strategies are campaigns, recruitment of skilled human resources, performance measurement as well as monitoring and supervision. Theoretical and managerial implications of our findings are discussed and future research is also highlighted.

Clegg, S, e Cunha, MP, Munro, I, Rego, A & de Sousa, MO 2016, 'Kafkaesque power and bureaucracy', Journal of Political Power, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 157-181.
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The metaphor of Kafkaesque bureaucracy has attracted the imagination of organization theorists for decades. While the critical and metaphorical approach offers vibrant insights about organizing, it has not been complemented by systematic empirical analysis. We take a step in that direction and conduct an inductive study of how people experience and deal with the Kafkaesque bureaucracy. We focus on the Kafkaesque organization as constructed in process and practice by those who experience its effects as citizens and clients. Data uncovered three major affordances of Kafkaesque bureaucracy: inactiveness, helplessness and meaninglessness. These combine in a mutually debilitating configuration that constitutes the Kafkaesque bureaucracy as an effortful everyday accomplishment.

Clegg, S, Josserand, E, Mehra, A & Pitsis, TS 2016, 'The Transformative Power of Network Dynamics: A Research Agenda', ORGANIZATION STUDIES, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 277-291.
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Clegg, SR 2016, 'The Futures of Strategic Management', ManageMagazine.

Clegg, SR, Burdon, S & Nikolova, N 2016, 'The Outsourcing Debate: Theories and Findings', Journal of Management and Organization, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 37-52.
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This paper addresses the issue of services outsourcing by looking at both theoretical and empirical arguments. Previous debates have often concentrated on the motives for adopting the practice rather than the outcomes. These various themes can be discussed under the twin concepts of the cost and efficiency argument and the fashion and isomorphism approach. Our research provides strong evidence to support the cost efficiency argument. On average, significant cost advantages were sought and delivered, as well as improvements in service levels and systems. Many organisations in the current environment in Australia look at outsourcing not only as a method of increasing efficiency but also as gaining competitive advantage through harnessing the superior specialist skills and experience of the outsourcing provider who takes someone's back office function and transforms them into their front office. A 10% net cost saving was considered necessary by an organisation before embarking on an organisational change that was disruptive and in some cases involved downside risks. Even if other efficiency gains such as service levels or systems improvements were required, so were 10%+ cost savings. A number of the organisations thought their skills in managing outsourcing had improved considerably such that they were in a position to move from a client/server relationship to a partnership model (i.e. an alliance).

Clegg, SR, Cunha e, MP & Rego, A 2016, 'Great Leadership: The Missing Link', ManageMagazine.

Clegg, SR, Cunha, MPE & Rego, A 2016, 'Explaining Suicide in Organizations: Durkheim Revisited', Business and Society Review, vol. 121, no. 3, pp. 391-414.
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Drawing on Durkheim's concept of anomie, we address the under-explored phenomenon of anomic suicide in contemporary organizations and discuss the consequences of solidarity for organizations and society. The relations of social solidarity to issues of identity and insecurity are explored through the cases of France Telecom Orange and Foxconn. Remedial implications for organizing, considered as community building, are discussed. Durkheim wrote not only about anomic but also altruistic suicide. We will also analyze examples of this type of suicide. Some tentative suggestions are made for how to organize to minimize the incidence of suicidal violence in organizations.

Coca-Stefaniak, A, Morrison, AM, Edwards, D, Graburn, N, Liu, C, Pearce, P, Ooi, CS, Pearce, DG, Stepchenkova, S, Richards, GW, So, A, Spirou, C, Dinnie, K, Heeley, J, Puczkó, L, Shen, H, Selby, M, Kim, H-B & Du, G 2016, 'Editorial', International Journal of Tourism Cities, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 273-280.
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Cohen, A & Levine, J 2016, '“This class has opened up my eyes”: Assessing outcomes of a sport-for-development curriculum on sport management graduate students', Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, vol. 19, pp. 97-103.
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Collins, CD, Baddeley, M, Clare, G, Murphy, R, Owens, S & Rocks, S 2016, 'Considering evidence: The approach taken by the Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee in the UK', Environment International, vol. 92-93, pp. 565-568.
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Collins, J, Baer, B & Weber, EJ 2016, 'Evolutionary Biology in Economics: A Review', Economic Record, vol. 92, no. 297, pp. 291-312.
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As human traits and preferences were shaped by natural selection, there is substantial potential for the use of evolutionary biology in economic analysis. In this paper, we review the extent to which evolutionary theory has been incorporated into economic research. We examine work in four areas: the evolution of preferences, the molecular genetic basis of economic traits, the interaction of evolutionary and economic dynamics, and the genetic foundations of economic development. These fields comprise a thriving body of research, but have significant scope for further investigation. In particular, the growing accessibility of low‐cost molecular data will create more opportunities for research on the relationship between molecular genetic information and economic traits.

Cummings, JR & Wright, S 2016, 'Effect of Higher Capital Requirements on the Funding Costs of Australian Banks', Australian Economic Review, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 44-53.
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The 2014 Murray Financial System Inquiry recommends that Australian banks be required to have higher capital levels. This article examines the arguments about the impact of higher capital requirements on banks' funding costs and assesses their relevance to the Australian banking sector. Based on scenario analysis, we estimate that higher capital requirements will result in a modest increase in the borrowing costs faced by bank customers (in the order of 20 basis points annually for a 5 percentage point increase in the ratio of equity capital to bank assets). We discuss other consequences of higher capital requirements for the Australian banking sector.

Dalton, B & dela Rama, M 2016, 'Understanding the rise and decline of shareholder activism in South Korea: the explanatory advantages of the theory of Modes of Exchange', ASIA PACIFIC BUSINESS REVIEW, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 468-486.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract: The extent to which Korea has become a full-fledged neoliberal state has been subject to debate. We argue that the recent rise and fall of shareholder activism in Korea is related to the coexistence of neoliberal and developmental state characteristics. Uncertainty as to ‘the rules of the game’ during this uneven transition has provided the chaebol with an opportunity to defuse the radical potential of shareholder activism. Through an analysis of media reports, this article argues there is a relationship between the rise of fall shareholder activism in Korea and a retreat from neoliberalism. It then discusses advantages of the theory of Modes of Exchange to make sense of these developments.

Dalton, B & Jung, K 2016, 'Femininity in North Korea', East Asia Forum Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2.
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Important changes are taking place inside North Korea. The collapse of the command economy, and the emergence of capitalism in its place, is ongoing. A burgeoning moneyed elite and increasing exposure to foreign pop culture are transforming how North Korean femininity is conceived. These changes are reaching far beyond Pyongyang to affect many, if not most, women in the country.Officially, North Korea’s founding juche (self-reliance) ideology supports gender equality. In practice the leadership cult that was entrenched under Kim Il-sung, who led the country from 1948 to 1994, gave patriarchal relations a significant boost. Under Kim Il-sung, the nation was recast in line with traditional, largely Confucian, male-dominated family structures — a considerable backslide from the progressive gender norms promoted by the early Korean socialist movement. Despite its rhetoric, Kim Il-sung’s juche ideology directly perpetuated gender subordination.

Dalton, B, Jung, K, Willis, J & Bell, M 2016, 'Framing and dominant metaphors in the coverage of North Korea in the Australian media', The Pacific Review, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 523-547.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Through the selective allocation of attention, framing and metaphors in covering foreign affairs and countries, media narratives often act to delegitimise, marginalise and demonise international actors. Focusing on Australian reportage of North Korea in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2012, this paper explicates how the framing mechanisms utilised in media point to media complicity in reinforcing a negative, adversarial orientation towards North Korea. It also discusses implications for how Australians view the North Korean people, Australian–North Korean relations, and policy pertaining to Northeast Asia more broadly.

Darcy, S, Maxwell, H & Green, J 2016, 'Disability citizenship and independence through mobile technology? A study exploring adoption and use of a mobile technology platform', DISABILITY & SOCIETY, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 497-519.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract: This article explores the use of a mobile technology platform as experienced by people with disability, their significant other and service providers. An interpretive qualitative study design was adopted involving observations and interviews. The data were analysed using the combined lenses of the social approach to disability and the PHAATE model which represents the factors for consideration in service design for assistive technology. The findings suggest that the adoption of the technology by those in the study could be characterised by a typology of users. The implications of the typology are discussed together with the influencing factors that affected social participation and disability citizenship.

Darcy, S, Taylor, T & Green, J 2016, '‘But I can do the job’: examining disability employment practice through human rights complaint cases', Disability & Society, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1242-1274.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Natural data on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s website outlining the complaint cases generated from Disability Discrimination Act, 1992 (DDA) were used to examine the social construction of disability employment discrimination. Using a social model and human rights citizenship lens, some 987 complaint cases were analysed to assess the prevalence of disability discrimination in employment, and its relationship to the types of disability, gender, entity undertaking the actions and organisational context. Of all complaint cases across the Australian Human Rights Commission’s operations, by far the largest proportion involves disability discrimination. Within the disability discrimination complaint cases, employment makes up the greatest proportion of these cases. In examining the patterns of discrimination seven major themes emerged involving: distinctive patterns across disability type; access to premises; human resource mismanagement; selection of new employees; integration of assistive technology; perception of cost of disability inclusions; and inflexible organisational workplace practices. The discussion examines the underlying reasons for the emergent themes where employers misunderstood key legal concepts that underpin the DDA including: unjustifiable hardship; inherent requirements; reasonable adjustment; direct; and indirect discrimination. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of the findings as a way of understanding the social construction of disability discrimination in employment to signal ways to better develop inclusive organisational practice.

Darcy, SA 2016, 'Paralympic Legacy - learning from the Sydney 2000 to prepare for Tokyo 2020', Journal of the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Research, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 43-61.

Deans, EG, Thomas, SL, Daube, M, Derevensky, J & Gordon, R 2016, 'Creating symbolic cultures of consumption: an analysis of the content of sports wagering advertisements in Australia', BMC Public Health, vol. 16, no. 1.
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Delavande, A & Kohler, H-P 2016, 'HIV/AIDS-related Expectations and Risky Sexual Behaviour in Malawi', The Review of Economic Studies, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 118-164.
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Deville, A, Wearing, S & McDonald, M 2016, 'Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: a collision of two spaces in sustainable agriculture', JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, vol. 111, no. B, pp. 421-429.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. The purpose of this paper is to offer a conceptual analysis of the space created by the Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF) host as a part of the organic farming movement and how that space now collides with the idea of tourism heterotopias as the changing market sees WWOOFers who may be less motivated by organic farming and more by a cheaper form of holiday. The resulting contested space is explored looking at the role and delicate balance of WWOOFing as a form of sustainable tourism in the context of socially constructed understandings of space. Poststructural concepts of space suggest that it is impermanent, fragile and under constant threat of change. Space is constantly produced and reproduced in the process, spaces become sites where struggle and contestation occur, in this instance as one discourse or discursive practice, namely WWOOFing, intersects with and is influenced by the more dominant capital centric discourse of mass tourism.

Deville, A, Wearing, S & McDonald, M 2016, 'WWOOFing in Australia: ideas and lessons for a de-commodified sustainability tourism', JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 91-113.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This paper considers Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOFing) as a form of sustainable tourism with particular focus on its social and cultural dimensions and the means by which deep engagement in these appear to lead participants to a better awareness or understanding of ecological sustainability issues. It draws upon a grounded theory-based exploration of the perspectives and interactions of WWOOFers and WWOOF hosts in Australia, using 323 formal written surveys of hosts and 188 surveys of WWOOFers, together with 16 in-depth unstructured WWOOFer interviews, which collectively enhances understanding of WWOOFing as an emerging, unique and valuable form of sustainable tourism. By virtue of the highly engaged and symbiotic basis of the exchange involved, WWOOFing is commonly perceived to facilitate a transcendence of the role of tourist. The research indicates this is the product of a unique relationship forged in the WWOOFing context, which differs markedly to relationships forged in more typical fee-for-service tourism contexts in which there is a different relationship at play between power, authenticity and sustainability. This relationship is outlined in order to articulate the notion that WWOOFing represents a type of “sustainability tourism” that is unexplored in the sustainable tourism literature.

Dholakia, U, Tam, L, Yoon, S & Wong, N 2016, 'The Ant and the Grasshopper: Understanding Personal Saving Orientation of Consumers', Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 134-155.
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© The Author 2016. A low savings rate is a persistent social issue with significant present and future ramifications. As an alternative to conceptualizing saving money as goal-directed behavior, the present research examines the chronic tendencies of people to save money in a consistent and sustained manner through a personal saving orientation (PSO). Drawing upon theorizing on action control and research on forming and maintaining habits, the PSO emphasizes consistent, sustainable saving activities and incorporating them into one's lifestyle. In a set of nine studies, the PSO scale is developed and its nomological, test-retest, discriminant, and predictive validities are established. The results also show that the PSO moderates the relationship between consumers' financial knowledge and their accumulated savings. Additionally, low-PSO consumers are responsive to an intervention to help them save money. The PSO offers an effective method for understanding differences between consumers in their financial decision making and behaviors, and it can be used as a guide to encourage consistent and sustained saving practices.

Dickson, TJ, Darcy, S, Johns, R & Pentifallo, C 2016, 'Inclusive by design: transformative services and sport-event accessibility', The Service Industries Journal, vol. 36, no. 11-12, pp. 532-555.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the service dimensions required to be inclusive of people with access needs within a major-sport event context. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities seeks to counter disability discrimination and enable citizenship rights of people with disabilities, including access to goods and services, across all dimensions of social participation including major-sport events (e.g. Olympic and Paralympic Games, world cups in football, cricket and rugby union). Providing for people with disability and access needs is also an emerging tourism focus with initiatives addressing accessible tourism included in the World Tourism Organizations mission and recent strategic destination plans. To enhance the understanding of service delivery for an accessible tourism market in a major-sport event context, a case study of the Vancouver Fan Zone for the FIFA Womens World Cup Canada, 2015 TM is analyzed through the lens of transformative services. From this analysis future research directions are identified to benefit those with access needs who wish to participate in major-sport events.

Doan, MP, Alexeev, V & Brooks, R 2016, 'Concurrent momentum and contrarian strategies in the Australian stock market', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 77-106.
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Dowling, G 2016, 'Defining and measuring corporate social reputations', Annals in Social Responsibility, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 18-28.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to outline a theory-based approach to defining the corporate reputation construct.Design/methodology/approachThe approach taken is to describe how to create a well-formed nominal definition of a construct and then show how this definition is translated into an operational definition that guides the selection of an appropriate measure. New definitions of corporate social reputation and appropriate measures of this construct are provided to illustrate this framework.FindingsThe definitional framework used suggests that many measures of corporate social responsibility and reputation are under specified. Thus, the measures derived from these definitions are poorly constructed. The strengths and weaknesses of three new types of measure of corporate social reputation are reviewed.Practical implicationsFor scholars the advantages of creating a well-formed definition are that it will lead to a valid measure of the construct under investigation. This will then help to better interpret what are significant findings and non-findings of empirical research.Originality/valueThis paper is an extension of the author’s previous work on defining the corporate reputation construct. Because what is meant by corporate social responsibility is contested amongst scholars this and related constructs need more precise definition and measurement. This paper offers a theory-based approach to achieve this aim.

Dowling, GR 2016, 'Defining and Measuring Corporate Reputations', European Management Review, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 207-223.
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Corporate reputation is a construct that has gained widespread recognition in the disciplines of strategy, corporate social responsibility, management and marketing because a good reputation is thought to be more commercially valuable than a bad reputation. However, recent reviews of the scholarly literature suggest that because the construct of corporate reputation has been defined in a wide variety of ways it is difficult to understand the antecedents and consequences of the construct. To illustrate this problem 50 different definitions of corporate reputations are reviewed. This analysis suggests that some of the most prominent measures are not grounded in the definitions that are thought to underpin them. This phenomena presents a challenge to anybody wanting to meta‐analyze findings and to build new theories of corporate reputation. To help advance the field a framework is presented to guide the refinement of scholarly definitions so that they are well constructed and thus capable of guiding the development of valid measures of the construct. To illustrate this framework a new definition and some new measures are provided.

Duffy, M, Waitt, G & Harada, T 2016, 'Making sense of sound: Visceral sonic mapping as a research tool', Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 20, pp. 49-57.
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Dwyer, L 2016, 'WHO IS THE IDEAL TOURIST?', ACTA TURISTICA, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 151-182.

Dwyer, L, Armenski, T, Cvelbar, LK, Dragićević, V & Mihalic, T 2016, 'Modified Importance–Performance Analysis for Evaluating Tourism Businesses Strategies: Comparison of Slovenia and Serbia', International Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 327-340.
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AbstractA modified nine‐quadrant importance–performance analysis is employed to assess the importance which Slovenian and Serbian tourism industry stakeholders attach to 48 nominated strategic activities to promote business and destination competitiveness. An important finding is that respondents in each country allocated the bulk of activities to the ‘keep up the good work’ strategy. In both destinations, this strategy was dominated by activities related to product development and innovation. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the identified priority activities require close examination to determine their ‘enabling conditions’ and the implications of an action based on them. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Dwyer, L, Dragićević, V, Armenski, T, Mihalič, T & Knežević Cvelbar, L 2016, 'Achieving destination competitiveness: an importance–performance analysis of Serbia', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 19, no. 13, pp. 1309-1336.
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Dwyer, L, Forsyth, P & Spurr, R 2016, 'Tourism economics and policy analysis: Contributions and legacy of the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, vol. 26, pp. 91-99.
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Dwyer, L, Jago, L & Forsyth, P 2016, 'Economic evaluation of special events: Reconciling economic impact and cost–benefit analysis', Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 115-129.
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Dwyer, L, Pham, T, Jago, L, Bailey, G & Marshall, J 2016, 'Modeling the Impact of Australia’s Mining Boom on Tourism', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 233-245.
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The Australia tourism industry faces challenges associated with a boom in minerals exports. The erosion of the price competitiveness of destination Australia associated with exchange rate appreciation has adversely affected inbound and domestic tourism while generating increased outbound tourism flows. The mining boom has also driven up labor costs, making it difficult for tourism stakeholders in mining areas to recruit and retain staff. This article highlights the importance of both tourism and mining to Australia, and the changes that are taking place in each sector. It employs a computable general equilibrium model to estimate the economic effects of the boom on Australia’s tourism industry and tourism market segments. A micro-level analysis, supplemented by input from key tourism organizations, then highlights the extent and range of tourism impacts associated with the boom, and the strategy implications for different groups of tourism stakeholders.

Erev, I, Roth, AE & Slonim, R 2016, 'Minimax across a population of games', Journal of the Economic Science Association, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 144-156.
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Essen, MV & Wooders, J 2016, 'Dissolving a Partnership Dynamically', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 166, pp. 212-241.
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In financial disputes arising from divorce, inheritance, or the dissolution of a partnership, frequently the need arises to assign ownership of an indivisible item to one member of a group. This paper introducesand analyzes a dynamic auction for simply and efficiently allocating an item when participants are privately informed of their values. In the auction, the price rises continuously. A bidder who drops out of the auction, in returnfor surrendering his claim to the item, obtains compensation equal to the difference between the price at which he drops and the preceding drop price. When only one bidder remains, that bidder wins the item and pays the compensationsof his rivals. We characterize the unique equilibrium with risk-neutral and CARA risk averse bidders. We show that dropout prices are decreasing as bidders become more risk averse. Each bidder’s equilibrium payoff is at least 1/N-thof his value for the item. Indeed, we show that each bidder’s security payoff is 1/N-th of his value. We introduce the notion of a perfect security strategy, we show that each bidder has a unique perfect security strategy, and thatit coincides with the equilibrium bidding strategy as bidders becomes infinitely risk averse.

Feigin, A, Ferguson, A, Grosse, M & Scott, T 2016, 'Evidence on why firms use different disclosure outlets', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 274-291.
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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to consider why firms use different disclosure outlets. The authors argue that the firm's choice of disclosure outlet can be explained by voluntary disclosure theories and investigate whether the market response around different disclosure outlets varies.Design/methodology/approachThe authors investigate differences in the characteristics of firms purchasing analyst research, holding investor presentations or Open Briefings and compare market reactions around each disclosure event.FindingsThe authors find that firm incentives to reduce information acquisition costs or mitigate disclosure risk affect firm disclosure outlet choice, and mixed evidence in support of talent signalling motivations. There is a lower absolute abnormal return around Open Briefings and a higher signed abnormal return around purchased analyst research.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is exploratory in nature and only considers a small subset of disclosure outlets. There may be differences in information content across disclosure outlets.Originality/valueThey show disclosure outlets are not homogenous and provide empirical evidence voluntary disclosure theories help explain differences between firms’ use of disclosure outlets. Considering the growing number of disclosure outlets available, disclosure outlet choice is likely to be an increasingly important topic in accounting research.

Ferguson, A & Lam, P 2016, 'Government policy uncertainty and stock prices: The case of Australia's uranium industry', Energy Economics, vol. 60, pp. 97-111.
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© 2016 Elsevier B.V. We investigate effects of government policy uncertainty on stock prices, reflecting tension between ‘private interest’ (economic benefits) and ‘public interest’ arguments over uranium mining. Using a sample of Australian-listed uranium firms from January 2005 through June 2008, we document a positive contemporaneous correlation between stock returns and volatility and two measures of government policy uncertainty, proxied by the spread in voters’ opinion polls between the two major political parties and a news-based sentiment index. Event-study results show significant stock price reactions to key uranium-related policy events, with cross-sectional variation in event returns predicted by models incorporating firm- and project-level characteristics. Our research design and findings may inform future research on the capital market effects of government policy uncertainty in other regulated industries.

Ferguson, A & Scott, T 2016, 'The determinants and market reaction to Open Briefings: an investor relations option and evidence on the effectiveness of disclosure', Accounting & Finance, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 803-843.
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AbstractOpen Briefings are market announcements styled as question and answer transcripts from a mock analyst interview and run by Orient Capital, an investor relations consultant. We found that Open Briefings are used by both growth and mature firms, and that Open Briefings are significant market events at both the daily and intraday level. In addition, the positive abnormal return does not soon reverse, suggesting Open Briefings are used by investors. We contribute to the existing literature by finding a stronger market reaction for firms with greater incentives to increase market awareness.

Fisher, J & Wooders, J 2016, 'Interacting Information Cascades: On the Movement of Conventions between Groups', Economic Theory, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 211-231.
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When a decision maker is a member of multiple social groups, her actions may cause information to “spill over” from one group to another. We study the nature of these spillovers in an observational learning game where two groups interact via a common player, and where conventions emerge when players follow the decisions of the members of their own groups rather than their own private information. We show that: (i) if a convention develops in one group but not the other group, then the convention spills over via the common player; (ii) when conventions disagree, then the common player’s decision breaks the convention in one group; and (iii) when no convention has developed, then the common player’s decision triggers the same convention in both groups. We also show that information spillovers may reduce welfare, and we investigate the surplus-maximizing timing of spillovers.

Fisher, JCD & Hafalir, IE 2016, 'Matching with aggregate externalities', Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 81, pp. 1-7.
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Fleming, P 2016, 'Resistance and the “Post-Recognition” Turn in Organizations', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 106-110.
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Fleming, P & Banerjee, SB 2016, 'When performativity fails: Implications for Critical Management Studies', Human Relations, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 257-276.
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This article argues that recent calls in this journal and elsewhere for Critical Management Studies scholars to embrace rather than reject performativity presents an overly optimistic view of (a) the power of language to achieve emancipatory organizational change and (b) the capability of lone Critical Management Studies researchers to resignify management discourses. We introduce the notion of failed performatives to extend this argument and discuss its implications for critical inquiry. If Critical Management Studies seeks to make a practical difference in business and society, and realize its ideals of emancipation, we suggest alternative methods of impact must be explored.

Foley, S & Putniņš, TJ 2016, 'Should We Be Afraid of the Dark? Dark Trading and Market Quality', Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 456-481.
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© 2016 We exploit a unique natural experiment—recent restrictions of dark trading in Canada and Australia—and proprietary trade-level data to analyze the effects of dark trading. Disaggregating two types of dark trading, we find that dark limit order markets are beneficial to market quality, reducing quoted, effective, and realized spreads and increasing informational efficiency. In contrast, we do not find consistent evidence that dark midpoint crossing systems significantly affect market quality. Our results support recent theory that dark limit order markets encourage aggressive competition in liquidity provision. We discuss implications for the regulation of dark trading and tick sizes.

Frawley, JK, Dyson, LE, Wakefield, J & Tyler, J 2016, 'Supporting Graduate Attribute Development in Introductory Accounting with Student-Generated Screencasts', International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL), vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 65-82.
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In recent years educational, industry and government bodies have placed increasing emphasis on the need to better support the development of “soft” skills or graduate attributes within higher education. This paper details the adoption of a student-generated multimedia screencast assignment that was found to address this need. Implemented within a large introductory accounting subject, this optional assignment allowed undergraduate students to design, develop and record a screencast so as to explain a key accounting concept to their peers. This paper reports on the trial, evaluation and redesign of this assignment. Drawing on data from student surveys, practitioner reflections and descriptive analysis of the screencasts themselves, this paper demonstrates the ways that the assignment contributed to the development and expression of a number of graduate attributes. These included the students' skills in multimedia, creativity, teamwork and self-directed learning. Adopting free-to-use software and providing a fun and different way of learning accounting, this novel approach constitutes a sustainable and readily replicable way of supporting graduate attribute development. This paper contributes understandings that will be relevant to both researchers and practitioners.

Fu, Q, Lu, J & Zhang, J 2016, 'Disclosure Policy in Tullock Contests with Asymmetric Stochastic Entry', Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 52-75.
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© 2016 Canadian Economics Association We examine how disclosure policy can be optimally designed to incentivize contestants when their participation is exogenously stochastic. In a generalized Tullock contest setting with two players who are asymmetric in both their values and entry probabilities, we fully characterize the necessary and sufficient conditions under which no disclosure dominates full disclosure. We find that the comparison depends solely on a balance effect exercised by entry probabilities on the expected total effort. The optimal disclosure policy must better balance the competition. These conditions continue to hold when the precision r of Tullock contests is endogenously chosen by the designer.

Fujak, H & Frawley, S 2016, 'Broadcast Inequality in Australian Football', Communication & Sport, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 187-211.
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The Australian sporting landscape is characterised by centralised broadcasting agreements that leave individual clubs at the mercy of league and broadcaster objectives in determining the nature and degree of their broadcast exposure. As a by-product, the potential exists for variances in television coverage between clubs that may result in significant economic disparity. This article endeavours to quantify this variance and discuss the related management implications of findings by analysing television ratings for a sample of 2,297 Australian Football League and National Rugby League fixtures played between 2007 and 2011. The article concludes that there is significant variance in the coverage provided and corresponding cumulative audience exposure of clubs within both leagues that was likely to impact sponsorship desirability and ability to engage fans. Notably, there was distinct favouritism shown towards those traditionally perceived as “powerhouse” clubs. The degree to which free-to-air broadcasts and finals matches deliver superior audience outcomes to subscription-only telecasts and regular season matches was also quantified.

Fujak, H & Frawley, S 2016, 'The Relationship Between Television Viewership and Advertising Content in Australian Football Broadcasts', Communication & Sport, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 82-101.
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The traditional view of football fans, especially in a country such as Australia, has often been an unflattering one, with fans cast as being young, male, and with a beer in one hand. This article performed a demographic analysis of television viewership within Australia’s two largest football codes, the Australian Football League and the National Rugby League, to explore the demographics of this audience more closely. This was coupled with an advertising content analysis of corresponding football telecasts to consider the degree of synchronicity between audience and advertising. The article concludes both codes have an older, male-orientated audience skew. However, given that approximately 40% of the audience is female, both codes can lay claim to a more even-gender share of viewership than might be expected, given the highly masculine and physical nature of both sports. Notably, in-game advertising largely reflects its audience, with the majority of the advertisers selling products that appeal to both men and women. Commercial breaks within the broadcasts of both codes were also found to be strongly concentrated towards a small number of leading advertisers.

Gauriot, R, Page, L & Wooders, J 2016, 'Nash at Wimbledon: Evidence from Half a Million Serves', pp. 1-48.
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Minimax and its generalization to mixed strategy Nash equilibrium is the cornerstone of our understanding of strategic situations that require decision makers to be unpredictable. Using a dataset of nearly half a million serves from over 3000 matches, we examine whether the behavior of professional tennis players is consistent with the Minimax Hypothesis. The large number of matches in our dataset requires the development of a novel statistical test, which we show is more powerful than the tests used in prior related studies. We find that win rates conform remarkably closely to the theory for men, but conform somewhat less neatly for women. We show that the behavior in the field of more highly ranked (i.e., better) players conforms more closely to theory.

Gendall, P, Eckert, C, Hoek, J, Farley, T, Louviere, J, Wilson, N & Edwards, R 2016, 'Estimating the ‘consumer surplus’ for branded versus standardised tobacco packaging', Tobacco Control, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 641-647.
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Tobacco companies question whether standardised (or 'plain') packaging will change smokers' behaviour. We addressed this question by estimating how standardised packaging compared to a proven tobacco control intervention, price increases through excise taxes, thus providing a quantitative measure of standardised packaging's likely effect.We conducted an online study of 311 New Zealand smokers aged 18 years and above that comprised a willingness-to-pay task comparing a branded and a standardised pack at four different price levels, and a choice experiment. The latter used an alternative-specific design, where the alternatives were a branded pack or a standardised pack, with warning theme and price varied for each pack.Respondents had higher purchase likelihoods for the branded pack (with a 30% warning) than the standardised pack (with a 75% warning) at each price level tested, and, on average, were willing to pay approximately 5% more for a branded pack. The choice experiment produced a very similar estimate of 'consumer surplus' for a branded pack. However, the size of the 'consumer surplus' varied between warning themes and by respondents' demographic characteristics.These two experiments suggest standardised packaging and larger warning labels could have a similar overall effect on adult New Zealand smokers as a 5% tobacco price increase. The findings provide further evidence for the efficacy of standardised packaging, which focuses primarily on reducing youth initiation, and suggest this measure will also bring notable benefits to adult smokers.

Giacobbe, F, Matolcsy, Z & Wakefield, J 2016, 'An investigation of wholly-owned foreign subsidiary control through transaction cost economics theory', Accounting and Finance, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1041-1070.
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This paper investigates the management control systems used by multinational corporation headquarters to control wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries. Our theory development is based on transaction cost economics. First, we conduct a series of exploratory interviews, providing an insight into the context, and second, we provide empirical evidence based on cross-sectional survey data. Our results indicate that activity traits (uncertainty, asset specificity and post hoc information impactedness) have significant implications on control choices, in particular the control archetype combinations chosen by headquarters, although not all results are consistent with theory predictions. Our findings are supported by extensive alternative testing.

Gilbride, TJ, Currim, IS, Mintz, O & Siddarth, S 2016, 'A Model for Inferring Market Preferences from Online Retail Product Information Matrices', Journal of Retailing, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 470-485.
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© 2016 New York University This research extends information display board methods, currently employed to study information processing patterns in laboratory settings, to a field based setting that also yields managerially useful estimates of market preferences. A new model is proposed based on statistical, behavioral, and economic theories, which integrates three decisions consumers must make in this context: which product-attribute to inspect next, when to stop processing, and which, if any, product to purchase. Several theoretical options are considered on how to model product attribute selection and how to treat uninspected attributes. The modeling options are empirically tested employing datasets collected at a popular e-tailer's website, while customers were making product evaluation and purchase decisions. Subsequent to identifying the best model, we show how the resulting attribute preference estimates can be managerially employed to improve customer targeting of abandoned shopping carts for follow up communications aimed at improving sales conversions.

Giustiniano, L, Cunha, MPE & Clegg, S 2016, 'Organizational zemblanity', European Management Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 7-21.
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. We introduce the concept of zemblanity to organization studies to refer to the enactment of disaster when, in systems designed to impede risk, key actors nonetheless construct their own misfortune. The case of the Costa Concordia provides an opportunity to discuss organizational zemblanity. Active as well as passive behaviours by the Costa Concordia's Captain created a vicious circle of inappropriate decision-making with traumatic effects. These were complemented by structural elements to be found both in the individual behaviours of others (mainly, the vessel's first line of command) and the lack of other effective organizational controls, both in terms of structures and routines. As our discussion illuminates, there are two overarching elements in play: an excess of individual discretion and a lack of proper organizational controls. We go on to consider the significant implications for both theory and practice that flow from our analysis.

Giustiniano, L, Cunha, MPE & Clegg, S 2016, 'The dark side of organizational improvisation: Lessons from the sinking of Costa Concordia', Business Horizons, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 223-232.
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© 2015 Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. High-reliability organizations operate in highly regulated sectors in which the main concern is ensuring the safety of people and goods. Despite high levels of formalization, organizations have to be sensitive to contingent situations and ready to face the unexpected, so the role of the people in command remains crucial. When unanticipated events and contingencies arise, organizational improvisation comes into its own. Improvisation is the deliberate fusion of design and execution in a novel production entailing the cognitive, rational, and event intuitive interpretation of prescribed rules and standards of conduct at various levels of aggregation. Standardization and improvisation are often represented as two conflicting demands rather than as necessarily interdependent; hence, the possible presence of improvisation in high-reliability organizations has been left underexplored. While most of the extant studies on improvisation have stressed the wisdom of improvised choices, not all improvisations are so successful. In this article we illuminate the dark side of organizational improvisation by analyzing the notorious case of the sinking of the Costa Concordia. The case shows how conformity to the formal adoption of standards and compliance to them can provide a shelter under which impromptu adaptation can be pursued, expressing the negative side of improvisation.

Glover, KJ & Hambusch, G 2016, 'Leveraged investments and agency conflicts when cash flows are mean reverting', JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL, vol. 67, pp. 1-21.
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© 2016 Elsevier B.V.. We analyse the effect of mean-reverting cash flows on the costs of shareholder-bondholder conflicts arising from partially debt-financed investments. In a partial equilibrium setting we find that such agency costs are significantly lower under mean-reverting (MR) dynamics, when compared to the ubiquitous geometric Brownian motion (GBM). The difference is attributed to the stationarity of the MR process. In addition, through the application of a novel agency cost decomposition, we show that for a larger speed of mean reversion, agency costs are driven mainly by suboptimal timing decisions, as opposed to suboptimal financing decisions. In contrast, under the standard GBM assumption the agency costs are driven mainly by suboptimal financing decisions for large growth rates and by suboptimal timing decisions for smaller or negative growth rates.

Gordon, R, Russell-Bennett, R & Lefebvre, RC 2016, 'Social marketing: the state of play and brokering the way forward', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 32, no. 11-12, pp. 1059-1082.
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Gordon, R, Zainuddin, N & Magee, C 2016, 'Unlocking the potential of branding in social marketing services: utilising brand personality and brand personality appeal', Journal of Services Marketing, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 48-62.
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PurposeThis paper aims to demonstrate the utility of branding theory for social marketing services. Specifically, this is to our knowledge the first to investigate brand personality (BP) and brand personality appeal (BPA) in a single study as predictors for consumer attitudes and intentions to engage with a service.Design/methodology/approachThe associations between BP and BPA and their subsequent associations with attitudes and intentions are tested in two service types, i.e. a commercial marketing service (banking) and a social marketing service (health screening). This involved a cross-sectional dual online survey administered to a sample of 395 women 50-69 years old in Queensland, Australia. This sampling criterion represented the primary target audience for the social marketing service, which was breastscreening and was maintained for the banking services sample. Multiple mediation analysis using a bootstrapping approach was conducted using Mplus 6.11.FindingsBP and BPA perform similarly across the two service types. BP and BPA are related and have direct and indirect associations with consumer attitudes and behavioural intentions towards both commercial and social marketing services. Specifically, the BP traits of responsibility and activity were found to have significant direct and indirect relationships with attitudes and behavioural intentions towards both commercial and social marketing services. The relationships for the emotionality and simplicity traits were non-significant. The results also suggest that the attractiveness, favourability and clarity BPA traits had the strongest associations with consumer responses.

Gössling, S, Ring, A, Dwyer, L, Andersson, A-C & Hall, CM 2016, 'Optimizing or maximizing growth? A challenge for sustainable tourism', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 527-548.
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Grabowski, S, Wearing, SL & Small, J 2016, 'Time as culture: exploring its influence in volunteer tourism', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 26-36.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Volunteer tourism engages the volunteer in a cultural exchange that is personal and often influential in their life experience. This paper explores one aspect of this exchange, the idea of time in travel, and finds that the volunteer tourist experience is particularly influenced by cultural time differences. When volunteer tourists travel and return home, the emotions and behaviours which emerge in their narratives of experience are usually framed by a range of reference points. One of these is the notion of time. ‘Time’ appears to play a role in travel across cultures and continues to affect tourists when they return home. This idea is explored here through the experiences of 12 volunteer tourists. Although all of their experiences, both incountry and on re-entry, were very unique, each volunteer tourist spoke directly or indirectly about adjustment to cultural time differences and this was the key factor in their ability to adapt in both settings.

Green, J & Dalton, B 2016, 'Out of the Shadows: Using Value Pluralism to Make Explicit Economic Values in Not-for-Profit Business Strategies', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 139, no. 2, pp. 299-312.
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In the last decade, Australian federal and state governments’ commitment to the economic rationalist imperatives of performance measures, accountability for outcomes, and value-for-money has driven significant change in the Australian not-for-profit community services sector. In an environment shaped by neoliberal-inspired government policies and a renewed government commitment to austerity, Australian not-for-profit community service organizations are now, more than ever, actively engaged in a variety of income-generating strategies to achieve and/or maintain economic sustainability. Central to this process is meeting the dual challenge of succeeding financially in a competitive environment and simultaneously serving mission. In this context, it is time to more closely examine the impact of these challenges, in particular the implications for the organizational values of not-for- profit community service providers themselves. This paper reports on a qualitative study of fourteen not-for-profit community service organizations, their core purposes, and their strategies for economic sustainability. In addition to the new data presented here, this paper contributes to the broader theoretical framework—the lens of value pluralism, which, we argue, provides a sharper focus on the relationship between mission and margin.

Hambusch, G & Shaffer, S 2016, 'Forecasting bank leverage: an alternative to regulatory early warning models', JOURNAL OF REGULATORY ECONOMICS, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 38-69.
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Han, W, Hellmann, A & Lu, M 2016, 'The impact of gender difference on the interpretation of uncertainty expressions', Asian Review of Accounting, vol. 24, no. 2.
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PurposeThis study conducts an empirical examination of auditors’ interpretation of selected key uncertainty expressions, namely virtually certain, probable and unlikely, included in accounting standards.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts a survey research method to examine the impact of gender difference on the interpretation of uncertainty expressions. Professional auditors in China were selected to examine whether gender difference influences the interpretation of uncertainty expressions.FindingsThe results show that female auditors are likely to interpret positive or negative uncertainty expressions more conservatively than male auditors. The extent of conservatism is higher when female auditors are interpreting in-context expressions. The results remain similar after controlling for additional variables, such as education and work experience, which possibly affect the interpretation of probability expressions.Originality/valueThe results of this study suggest that gender difference can affect the numerical thresholds that auditors’ assign to uncertainty expressions. This may lead to different application of professional judgments between male and female auditors. It also provides important implications to regulators and practitioners on the quality of financial reporting and auditing across organizations within and across countries.

Hassanli, N, Gross, MJ & Brown, G 2016, 'The emergence of home-based accommodations in Iran: A study of self-organization', Tourism Management, vol. 54, pp. 284-295.
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This paper examines the Iranian home-based accommodation sector using the theory of self-organization. With the aim of identifying the sector's organizing principles, interviews were conducted with the accommodation operators, providing 117 statements which were linked based on their key ideas and/or words. Using UCINET6, a network diagram of five organizing principles were identified: collective identity, balanced legitimacy, local embeddedness, mindful market, and networked finance. While the combination of these organizing principles is interpreted within the Iranian context, broad assumptions can be inferred. It is speculated that a collective aiming to organize itself needs to be considerate of its interactions with members of the collective, the authoritative body, the local community, the market, and capital. Additionally, each separate organizing principle might have relevance for small businesses in various industries. The study contributes to the commercial home and home-based accommodation literature while also providing insights into tourism development in Iran. Furthermore, the method used to identify organizing principles is considered novel and can be used with other collectives.

He, W & Shan, Y 2016, 'International Evidence on the Matching Between Revenues and Expenses', Contemporary Accounting Research, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1267-1297.
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AbstractThis study investigates the time‐series trend and determinants of matching between revenues and expenses in a sample of 42 countries. We find that the decline in matching documented by Dichev and Tang () is not unique to the United States, but is a worldwide phenomenon. Our results show that matching is weaker in countries with (i) wider use of accrual accounting; (ii) a larger proportion of firms reporting significant special items; (iii) slower economic growth; (iv) more research and development activities; (v) larger service sectors; and (vi) stronger investor protection. We find no evidence that mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards affects matching. Changes in accounting and economic factors collectively explain the downward trend in matching. Overall, the results suggest that both accounting and economic factors are important determinants of matching over time and across countries.

He, Y, Chen, Q, Tam, L & Lee, RP 2016, 'Managing sub-branding affect transfer: the role of consideration set size and brand loyalty', Marketing Letters, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 103-113.
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Although the essential role of affect transfer has been evidenced in the brand extension literature, scant research has focused on affect transfer when a firm attempts to add sub-brands into its brand portfolio. We conducted a series of four experiments to demonstrate that affect associated with a family brand does in fact transfer to its sub-brand, and the effect is more pronounced for a sub-brand that is closer to (vs distant from) its family brand. Further, the transfer of affect is contingent upon consideration set size and brand loyalty. While affect transfer is observed when consideration set is small, this effect dissipates when consideration set expands; such moderation effect further interacts with consumers’ loyalty to a family brand and a competing brand. Our findings caution brand managers to take into account consumers’ consideration set size and brand loyalty when managing their brand portfolios.

Hoek, J, Gendall, P, Eckert, C & Louviere, J 2016, 'Dissuasive cigarette sticks: the next step in standardised (‘plain’) packaging?', Tobacco Control, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 699-705.
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Standardised (or 'plain') packaging has reduced the appeal of smoking by removing imagery that smokers use to affiliate themselves with the brand they smoke. We examined whether changing the appearance of cigarette sticks could further denormalise smoking and enhance the negative impact of standardised packaging.We conducted an online study of 313 New Zealand smokers who comprised a Best-Worst Choice experiment and a rating task. The Best-Worst experiment used a 2×3×3×6 orthogonal design to test the following attributes: on-pack warning message, branding level, warning size and stick appearance.We identified three segments whose members' choice patterns were strongly influenced by the stick design, warning theme and size, and warning theme, respectively. Each of the dissuasive sticks tested was less preferred and rated as less appealing than the most common stick in use; a 'minutes of life lost' stick was the most aversive of the stimuli tested.Dissuasive sticks could enhance the effect of standardised packaging, particularly among older smokers who are often more heavily addicted and resistant to change. Countries introducing standardised packaging legislation should take the opportunity to denormalise the appearance of cigarette sticks, in addition to removing external tobacco branding from packs and increasing the warning size.

Hoek, J, Gendall, P, Eckert, C, Kemper, J & Louviere, J 2016, 'Effects of brand variants on smokers’ choice behaviours and risk perceptions', Tobacco Control, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 160-165.
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BACKGROUND: Australian tobacco companies have introduced evocative variant names that could re-create the aspirational connotations plain packaging aims to remove. To inform future regulation, we explored how brand descriptors affected smokers' responses to plain packs featuring different variant name combinations. METHODS: An online survey of 254 daily smokers or social smokers aged between 18 and 34 used a within-subjects best-worst experiment to estimate the relative effects of variant names. A 2×4×4×4 design contained four attributes: quality (premium or none), taste (smooth, fine, rich or none) connotation (classic, midnight, infinite or none) and colour (red, blue, white or none). In a between-subjects component, respondents evaluated one of two alternative packs according to its perceived harm and ease of quitting. RESULTS: The most important variant attribute was connotation, followed by taste, colour and quality; within these attributes, the most attractive descriptors were 'classic' and 'smooth'. We identified four distinct segments that differed significantly in their sociodemographic attributes and variant preferences, although not in their perceptions of the harm or quitting ease associated with two different variants. CONCLUSIONS: Some descriptors significantly enhance the appeal of tobacco products among different groups of smokers and may undermine plain packaging's dissuasive intent. Policymakers should explicitly regulate variant names to avoid the 'poetry on a package' evident in Australia. Options include disallowing new descriptors, limiting the number of descriptors permitted or banning descriptors altogether.

Hoek, J, Gendall, P, Eckert, C, Rolls, K & Louviere, J 2016, 'A comparison of on-pack Quitline information formats', Tobacco Control, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 211-217.
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Howard, J, Williams, T & Agarwal, R 2016, 'Smart Specialisation as an Engagement Framework for Triple Helix Interactions', HeliceMagazine, vol. 5, no. 3/4, pp. 18-28.
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The Triple Helix (TH) framework is a well-established theoretical concept and a basis for portraying patterns of industry-science-government interactions. The TH framework provides a useful depiction and description of what might take place in what are commonly described as ‘regional innovation ecosystems’. There is a presumption that interactions will evolve around the convergence of missions concerning creation and utilisation of knowledge, regional networks, government regulation and venture finance, and decisions of multinational corporations and international organisations.However, like the regional innovation systems model itself, the TH model offers little in the way of practical guidance about how interactions can be nurtured and developed, what and where new public and private innovation investments should be made, the most appropriate way to go about building and strengthening engagement between institutions to achieve innovation outcomes, and most significantly, the governance and intermediary arrangements appropriate to guide planning, budgeting and resource allocation at a regional level. This paper addresses the extent to which the Smart Specialisation framework can address those investment, engagement and governance issues.

Jacobs, K, Linnenluecke, M & Smith, T 2016, 'Are we impaired?', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 29, no. 3.
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Jarvis, WP & Logue, D 2016, 'Cultivating moral-relational judgement in business education: The merits and practicalities of Aristotle’s phronesis', Journal of Business Ethics Education, vol. 13, pp. 349-372.
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In this paper we reflect on the question “what do we mean by teaching ‘business ethics’ at all?” In response we suggest that phronesis - a values-based disposition integrating practical and affective dimensions of practical knowledge - warrants consideration in addressing the topic of ethics but more broadly in legitimising university-based management education in the face of widespread public trust deficit in business and management education. In this paper we consider the Aristotelian origins of phronesis, including its distinctive connection to emotion and moral imagination, and apply a phronesis-based approach to postgraduate management education, providing illustrations of its practical usage. In doing so, we argue this goes beyond thinking of ‘business ethics’ as a stand-alone subject in business education, and instead provides management educators a framework within which to cultivate graduate capabilities in moral-relational judgement and a profession-like praxis. Doing so would help - post Global Financial Crisis - to ameliorate justifiable loss of public trust and confidence in university-based management qualifications.

Johns, RE & Gorrick, J 2016, 'Exploring the behavioural options of exit and voice in the exit interview process', International Journal of Employment Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 25-41.
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Exit interviews are often considered to be a powerful tool for providing information to monitor and analyse employee turnover. The main objective of this study was to analyse the exit interview procedure adopted by a large professional publishing organisation. In doing this the effectiveness of the exit interview process was examined as a tool for employee voice on departure from an organisation. The exit and voice components of the ‘Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect’ model were used to determine the efficacy of the exit process. The results indicate that despite the praise awarded to exit interviews for employees to voice their dissatisfaction, the exit interview process may not be as effective in practice as we have been lead to believe.

Johnston, DW, Shields, MA & Siminski, P 2016, 'Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries', Journal of Health Economics, vol. 45, pp. 12-26.
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This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use several administrative sources, containing a near-universe of records on mortality (1994-2011), cancer diagnoses (1982-2008), and emergency hospital presentations (2005-2010). We also analyse a range of self-reported morbidity indicators (2006-2009). We find no significant long-term effects on mortality, cancer or emergency hospital visits. In contrast, we find significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected.

Joshi, RG, Chelliah, J, Sood, S & Burdon, S 2016, 'Nature and spirit of exchange and interpersonal relationships fostering grassroots innovations', The Journal of Developing Areas, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 399-409.
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Exchange and interpersonal relationships are central to the functioning and sustainability of socio-economic activities, including innovation. Grassroots innovations (GI) are dynamic and relational phenomena that evolve with grassroots innovators’ beliefs, expectations and obligatory relationships for varied resources, and the actualization of their desire to make novel and beneficial products. In this paper, the dynamics of exchange and interpersonal relationships that underpin the GI phenomenon are explored through the lens of exchange theory and the consideration of the psychological contract. While exchange theory provides an explanation for the interdependent and dyadic socio-economic relations present in GI, the psychological contract provides a view on the perceptions and expectations that are embedded in exchange and innovation activities. These two theoretical lenses serve as a foundation for the research to engage with the subjective reality of the grassroots innovators’ experiences. In examining the subjective reality of the innovation experiences of the grassroots innovators; the research thereby discerns the dominant form of exchange and socio-economic structure that fosters GI from ideation to commercial scaling. Through the use of phenomenological exploration and detailed thematic analysis of the innovation experiences of the thirteen Indian grassroots innovators, the research determined the nature and spirit of the relational commercial exchanges that both entail and foster GI. The paper starts off with the discussion of the theoretical foundations of the research. Thereafter, the paper briefly discusses the research methodology and the exchange dynamics present in GI. In assimilating the research findings, the paper enlists the features of exchanges embedded in GI phenomenon and highlights the capacity of relational commercial exchanges in fostering GI. The paper further proposes, through this discussion, an interpretive framework for u...

Josserand, E & Kaine, S 2016, 'Labour Standards in Global Value Chains: Disentangling Workers’ Voice, Vicarious Voice, Power Relations, and Regulation', Relations industrielles, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 741-767.
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Theoretical developments and case studies have started to explore the complexity and intricacies of new forms of labour regulation in Global Value Chains (GVCs). This paper builds on these to integrate what we know into a coherent framework that can guide practice and future research. We bring together existing knowledge on new forms of labour standards regulation—such as Private Social Standards (PSSs) and International Framework Agreements (IFAs)—into a framework that integrates and disentangles the contextual determinants, processes, regulatory mechanisms, and outcomes of such regulation in GVCs. Of special significance is the distinction between regulatory processes—vicarious voice, workers’ voice, coordinated international campaigns—, and regulatory mechanisms—IFAs and PSSs. Extant literature tends to deal with existing forms of regulation without much clarity on their respective roles. Our framework identifies two pathways from regulatory processes to regulatory mechanisms: the labour power and the customer power pathways. Our framework also establishes clear connections between concepts, underlining links of causality and moderating effects. We explore the impact of value chain structure, and specifically, the connections between workers’ and vicarious voice, on regulatory outcomes. With regard to the structure of supply chains, we examine the coupling of operations and the sensitivity of value chain participants to reputational risk and drive within value chains. We add the significant dimension of ‘internal drive’ to existing understandings of drive to capture the possible internal discrepancies leading managers in multinational companies (MNCs) to apply mixed incentives to their suppliers to comply with labour standards. Additionally, we introduce the concept of ‘vicariou...

Jung, K, Jang, H & Dalton, B 2016, 'Broken global explorations: The lived experience of Korean women working in the entertainment and sex industries in Sydney', Asian Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 208-227.
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© 2016 Asian Center for Women's Studies, Ewha Womans University. There has been limited discursive space for Korean women in the sex and entertainment industries, particularly for those working overseas in countries including Australia, to narrate their experience. Bringing out the voices of these women to the forefront, this paper offers a nuanced understanding of their migration trajectories and working and living conditions. Neither the abolitionist nor the decriminalization approach fully understands how women in these industries fare. The former neglects the agency of women who voluntarily choose this work, while the latter tends to silence the women trafficked into the industry. These views fail to encompass women’s complicated lived experience, often falling outside this binary. The 22 women interviewed here described their involvement in the industry as a short-lived and auxiliary part of their global exploration. Although they voluntarily chose such work, and despite its legal status, they still suffer from the stigma associated with it, while their working conditions are often deceptive, abusive and exploitative. The paper suggests that we need to transcend the dichotomy between the “free” and the “trafficked” assumed by both global and national policies regarding the sex trade, in order to develop policies and programs to support and protect these migrant women better.

Kang, H, Shin, W & Tam, L 2016, 'Differential responses of loyal versus habitual consumers towards mobile site personalization on privacy management', Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 56, pp. 281-288.
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. We examine how two different underlying mechanisms of behavioral loyalty to a brand - attitudinal loyalty and habit - impact smartphone users' privacy management when they browse personalized vs. non-personalized mobile websites. The online experimental study conducted with Amazon Mechanical Turk workers (N = 73) finds different responses of attitudinal loyalty and habit towards personalization in significant three-way interactions between personalization, attitudinal loyalty, and habit on privacy disclosure and protection behaviors. When interacting with a personalized website, highly habitual consumers without high level of attitudinal loyalty disclosed the most personal information on a personalized mobile site, and displayed the least intention of protecting their privacy on their smartphones, whereas consumers with high levels of both habit and attitudinal loyalty reported the highest tendency of privacy protection behavior. However, habit and personalization do not have a significant effect on disclosure behaviors when users have high attitudinal loyalty to a brand. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Keane, M & Stavrunova, O 2016, 'Adverse selection, moral hazard and the demand for Medigap insurance', Journal of Econometrics, vol. 190, no. 1, pp. 62-78.
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V. In this paper we study the adverse selection and moral hazard effects of Medicare supplemental insurance (Medigap). While both have been studied separately, this is the first paper to analyze them in a unified econometric framework. We find that adverse selection into Medigap is weak, but the moral hazard effect is substantial. On average, Medigap coverage increases health care spending by 24%, with especially large effects for relatively healthy individuals. These results have important policy implications. For instance, they imply that conventional remedies for inefficiencies created by adverse selection (e.g., mandatory enrollment) may lead to substantial health care cost increases.

Kellner, R, Roesch, D & Scheule, H 2016, 'The role of model risk in extreme value theory for capital adequacy', JOURNAL OF RISK, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 39-70.
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© 2016 Incisive Risk Information (IP) Limited. In the recent literature, methods from extreme value theory (EVT) have frequently been applied to the estimation of tail risk measures. While previous analyses show that EVT methods often lead to accurate estimates for risk measures, a potential drawback lies in large standard errors of the point estimates in these methods, as only a fraction of the data set is used. Thus, we comprehensively study the impact of model risk on EVT methods when determining the value-at-risk and expected shortfall. We distinguish between first-order effects of model risk, which consist of misspecification and estimation risk, and second-order effects of model risk, which refer to the dispersion of risk measure estimates, and show that EVT methods are less prone to first-order effects. However, they show a greater sensitivity toward secondorder effects.We find that this can lead to severe value-at-risk and expected shortfall underestimations and should be reflected in regulatory capital models.

Khalili, H, Sameti, A & Sheybani, H 2016, 'A Study on the Effect of Empowerment on Customer Orientation of Employees', Global Business Review, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 38-50.
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Over the recent years, managers have used empowerment as a practical tool to motivate their employees to demonstrate their talents, intentions and generally to achieve better results. Today, organizations have targets, and they use empowerment to achieve some of their most important targets, such as customer attraction and retention. The present article intends to study the effect of empowerment on customer orientation. The data were collected from the sample by using questionnaires. The sample consists of 176 staff members from Bank Sepah, who were selected randomly. The findings have been obtained through statistical analysis in SPSS using Spearman correlation test, regression analysis and path analysis. The findings indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between all the components of managerial and psychological empowerment and customer orientation of employees in Bank Sepah, in the west Tehran branches.

Khan, EA, Dewan, MNA & Chowdhury, MMH 2016, 'Reflective or formative measurement model of sustainability factor? A three industry comparison', Corporate Ownership and Control, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 83-92.
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The sustainability concept is commonly used in many domains. However, the assessment of reflective and formative measurement has been ignored largely. As a result, sustainability factor scales are specified wrongly and this might lead to reduced scale validity. The aim of the study is find out the nature of sustainability factors either reflective or formative by investigating three distinct industrial settings in Bangladesh. A quantitative research design is used and the data is analysed through Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis. PLS analysis validates the indicators and factors. Sustainability factors in context of microbusiness and supply chain found reflective in nature whereas in e-business it was formative. The study suggests that sustainability factor is a context specific phenomena and it can be treated either reflective or formative.

Klettner, A 2016, 'CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CODES AND GENDER DIVERSITY: MANAGEMENT-BASED REGULATION IN ACTION', UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES LAW JOURNAL, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 715-739.
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Over the last two decades corporate governance codes have become a popular method of regulating corporate behaviour worldwide. Many stock exchanges now use the ‘comply-or-explain’ mechanism to encourage adoption of corporate governance practices seen to be beneficial to listed companies and their stakeholders. The proliferation of these codes in recent years has been dramatic: 24 countries were reported to have a code of corporate governance in place in 1999; 64 countries in 2008; and 93 countries had provided their codes to the European Corporate Governance Institute in 2015.The aim of this article is to explore how these codes take effect in terms of altering organisational behaviour. In order to do this the article takes part of the Australian corporate governance code (ASX code) as a regulatory case study. It analyses the corporate response to the ASX code’s recommendations on gender diversity shortly after their introduction. By doing so the article is able to provide insights into the way in which code recommendations are implemented by companies and the management processes that can be instigated as a result of this kind of soft regulation.

Klettner, A, Clarke, T & Boersma, M 2016, 'Strategic and Regulatory Approaches to Increasing Women in Leadership: Multilevel Targets and Mandatory Quotas as Levers for Cultural Change', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 133, no. 3, pp. 395-419.
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. While substantial evidence is emerging internationally of positive increases in the participation of women on company boards, there is less evidence of any significant change in the proportion of women in senior executive ranks. This paper describes evidence of positive changes in the number of women on boards in Australia. Unfortunately these changes are not mirrored in the senior executive ranks where the proportion of women remains consistently low. We explore some of the reasons for these disproportionate changes and examine the likely effect of the recent amendments to the Australian stock exchange’s corporate governance code designed to improve gender diversity both on boards and throughout organisations. Based on the early corporate response to these regulatory changes, it is interesting to consider whether Australia’s approach in promoting voluntary self-regulation at the corporate level may be as effective in the long run as the emerging trend in Europe to apply legislated quotas for female corporate board representation. Interview evidence is presented suggesting that the primary reasons for the lack of women in leadership are not simply lack of opportunity at the apex of the corporation, but issues at mid-management level that are unlikely to be resolved by mandatory board quotas. In some circumstances carefully monitored voluntary targets may be more effective at promoting cultural and strategic change at the heart of the corporation. In summary, mandatory quotas (set through hard law usually with sanctions for noncompliance) may achieve early and significant results in terms of female board representation. However, voluntary targets for women’s participation on boards and in executive ranks (proposed in soft regulation such as corporate governance codes and set as part of corporate strategy) may promote more effective cultural and practical change in support of greater representation of wom...

Knežević Cvelbar, L, Dwyer, L, Koman, M & Mihalič, T 2016, 'Drivers of Destination Competitiveness in Tourism', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 1041-1050.
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Debates about competitiveness and productivity are practically unexplored with respect to tourism. This article posits a productivity-related measure—total tourism contribution to GDP per employee in tourism—in order to examine destination competiveness. Comprehensive results based on a destination competitiveness model are obtained by analyzing tourism-specific and wider economy-based competitiveness factors. These are represented by six destination competitiveness factors measured by 55 indicators for 139 destinations over the period 2007–2011. Study findings demonstrate that tourism-specific factors, such as Tourism Infrastructure and Destination Management, are the major competitiveness drivers in developing countries, while destination competitiveness in developed countries depends on the tourism-specific factor of Destination Management as well as on wider economic conditions such as General Infrastructure, Macro-Environment, and Business Environment. The study offers a novel approach in the operationalization and estimation of a theoretically grounded and empirically validated tourism competitiveness model and discusses the implications for tourism policy.

Kovacevic, A, Hambusch, G, Michayluk, D & Van de Venter, T 2016, 'The Effectiveness of Ethics Training on the Development of Moral Judgement in Finance Students', Australasian Journal of Economics Education, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1-31.
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This paper reports on the effects of a freestanding ethics course in a universityfinance curriculum on the moral development of students. While a number ofstudies have examined the effects of such educational initiatives on business andaccounting students, very few studies have focused on the finance discipline. AModified Defining Issues Test (MDIT) was thus developed and used in a test-retestmethodology to examine whether students in the Ethics in Finance course at theUTS Business School possessed enhanced moral development after taking thecourse. We find evidence of a statistically significant improvement in moralreasoning understood from a Kohlbergian perspective. This effect was, however,more pronounced in males than females with females beginning from a higher baseof moral development and improving only slightly. While a number of suggestionsare made for future research that might improve on the work reported in this paper,our results justify t

Krivokapic‐Skoko, B & Collins, J 2016, 'Looking for Rural Idyll ‘Down Under’: International Immigrants in Rural Australia', International Migration, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 167-179.
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AbstractThis article outlines the empirical findings of the first national longitudinal study of almost 1,000 recent immigrants who decided to move to non‐metropolitan Australia. The national survey (2008‐2010) identified that new international immigrants tend to move to rural areas because of the natural beauty, lifestyle and community spirit to be found there, as well as the idyllic image of peacefulness and a relaxing environment associated with these areas. Natural attractors, such as rurality and climate, were important features of the places which, according to the survey, were particularly liked. However, there is tension between the imagined Australian rural ideal and reality, with remoteness, isolation and parochialism being the key features in how the countryside may be misrepresented. The retention of new immigrants in rural places is very strongly related to constructed attractors – the availability and quality of infrastructure, as well as recreational, entertainment and cultural activities.

Krzeminska, A & Eckert, C 2016, 'Complementarity of Internal and External R&D: Is There a Difference between Product Versus Process Innovations?', R and D Management, vol. 46, no. S3, pp. 931-944.
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Previous research on complementarity of research and development (R&D) has generated inconsistent results and focused predominantly on product innovations, neglecting process innovations. Although process innovations are important for firm efficiency, growth, and performance, little is known about complementarity of internal and external R&D activities in process innovations. Because of the different characteristics of knowledge involved in product versus process innovations, firms should benefit less from complementing internal with external R&D for process innovations than product innovations in terms of knowledge creation but should at the same time be less prone to the risks of unwanted knowledge transfer. Our empirical analysis of cross-sectional firm-level data of the German manufacturing sector from 2001, 2005, and 2009 comprises a direct complementarity test for product versus process innovations. The results confirm previous evidence for significant complementarities between internal and external R&D for product innovations but find limited existence of complementarity for process innovations. As implication for R&D management, our study highlights the differences between process and product innovations and how they translate into differences in complementarity of internal and external R&D activities.

Kwak, K, Wang, P & Louviere, JJ 2016, 'A novel approach to detect attribute by covariate interactions in discrete choice models', Journal of Choice Modelling, vol. 21, pp. 42-47.
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© 2016 Elsevier Ltd.This paper introduces a novel and simple method to identify attribute by covariate interactions in discrete choice models. This is important because incorporating such interactions in choice models can be an effective way to account for systematic taste variation or "observable preference heterogeneity" across individuals. Using simulated data sets to mimic a well-known phenomenon of selective attention to design attributes, we tested our proposed approach in a banking service context. Our proposed approach was successful in detecting the attribute by covariate interactions implied by the data generation process and outperformed a model with all covariate interactions. The proposed method contributes to the choice modelling literature by providing one of the "tricks of trade" to model observed preference heterogeneity. The simplicity of this approach has advantages for both academics and practitioners in marketing, transportation, healthcare and other fields that use choice modelling.

Lai, P-H, Hsu, Y-C & Wearing, S 2016, 'A social representation approach to facilitating adaptive co-management in mountain destinations managed for conservation and recreation', JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 227-244.
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Laïfi, A & Josserand, E 2016, 'Legitimation in practice: A new digital publishing business model', Journal of Business Research, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 2343-2352.
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This research studies the legitimation practices at Cyberlibris, a company introducing the innovative business model of a digital library to the field of publishing. The objective is to better understand how innovative actors deploy proactive strategies in order to acquire the legitimacy which is vital to their success. We conducted a longitudinal investigation of the practices of legitimation with particular focus on the sequence of the process and the role played by the dimensions of legitimation at each stage. The results propose an integrative framework of legitimation strategies based on four dimensions: the nature of legitimacy, and three key aspects of practice, namely, the subject of legitimation, the context, and the target audience. The study also captures the iterative and non-linear nature of the bricolage that characterises legitimation in practice, thus furthering our understanding of how the process of legitimation unfolds. Finally, we provide an account of how digitalisation can lead to innovation in the creative industries.

Lam, P & Chan, K 2016, 'Long-run performance of backdoor-listed firms', JASSA, no. 2, pp. 6-17.
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We examine the long-run performance of a sample of firms going public through backdoor listing on the ASX during the 1994−2013 period. When benchmarked with a control sample of IPOs, backdoor-listed firms underperformed in the aftermarket. Over the three years after listing, they raised less equity capital and were less profitable and more financially distressed than their IPO counterparts. They also performed poorly in terms of buy-and-hold returns against the matched IPO firms and broad-based market indices. Our results tend to corroborate findings in the US and Canada but are inconsistent with their assertion that lax regulatory oversight is the major cause of underperformance since Australian backdoor listings have to comply with essentially the same listing requirements as IPOs.

Lee, Y, Roesch, D & Scheule, H 2016, 'Accuracy of mortgage portfolio risk forecasts during financial crises', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, vol. 249, no. 2, pp. 440-456.
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This paper explores whether factor based credit portfolio risk models are able to predict losses in severe economic downturns such as the recent Global Financial Crisis (GFC) within standard confidence levels. The paper analyzes (i) the accuracy of default rate forecasts, and (ii) whether forecast downturn percentiles (Valueat-Risk, VaR) are sufficient to cover default rate outcomes over a quarterly and an annual forecast horizon. Uninformative maximum likelihood and informative Bayesian techniques are compared as they imply different degrees of uncertainty. We find that quarterly VaR estimates are generally sufficient but annual VaR estimates may be insufficient during economic downturns. In addition, the paper develops and analyzes models based on auto-regressive adjustments of scores, which provide a higher forecast accuracy. The consideration of parameter uncertainty and auto-regressive error terms mitigates the shortfall.

Leung, L 2016, 'The Creative Other: Marginalization of and from the Creative Industries', The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 200-211.
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This article revisits, through a review of literature, arguments made about the underrepresentation of Other groups and identities in various industries and how this adversely impacts the creative output of those sectors. The proposition is that lack of diversity in the workforce equates to a lack of different ideas, practices, cultures, and processes entering an organization: the critical ingredients necessary for creativity and innovation. The highlighting of difference as core to creativity poses some difficult questions: how creative can the creative industries be without those that understand Otherness through their lived experiences? How are Other communities speaking to this exclusion?

Li, KK & Suzuki, T 2016, 'Jury voting without objective probability', Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 389-406.
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© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Unlike in the standard jury voting experiment, the voting environment in practice has no explicit signal structure. Voters then need to conceptualize the information structure in order to update their beliefs based on “pivotal reasoning”. This paper investigates whether voters can play a strategic voting under a “detail-free” environment. We obtain non-parametric predictions in terms of the differences in voting behaviors under majority and unanimity rule. Our experimental results suggest that voters can still play the strategic voting as in the existing experiments.

Lindo, JM, Siminski, P & Yerokhin, O 2016, 'Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales', Health Economics (United Kingdom), vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 908-928.
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A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in the United States, particularly because of the resulting effects on motor vehicle accidents. These benefits form the primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement or substitute for one another can improve policy making moving forward.Towards this end, we propose that investigating the causal effects of the minimum legal drinking age in New South Wales, Australia provides a particularly informative case study, because Australian states are among the world leaders in their efforts against drunk driving. Using an age-based regression-discontinuity design applied to restricted-use data from several sources, we find no evidence that legal access to alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on hospitalizations due to alcohol abuse.

Linnenluecke, MK, Chen, X, Ling, X, Smith, T & Zhu, Y 2016, 'Emerging trends in Asia-Pacific finance research: A review of recent influential publications and a research agenda', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 36, pp. 66-76.
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Linnenluecke, MK, Smith, T & McKnight, B 2016, 'Environmental finance: A research agenda for interdisciplinary finance research', Economic Modelling, vol. 59, pp. 124-130.
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Liu, MT, Yan, L, Phau, I, Perez, A & Teah, M 2016, 'Integrating Chinese cultural philosophies on the effects of employee friendliness, helpfulness and respectfulness on customer satisfaction', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 50, no. 3/4, pp. 464-487.
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PurposeThis study aims to investigate the main and interactive effects of three employee attributes, namely, employee friendliness, helpfulness and respectfulness, on customer satisfaction in Mainland China.Design/methodology/approachA 2 × 2 × 2 between-subjects experimental design enabled an eight-scenario study depicting a service experience manipulated by employee friendliness (high/low), helpfulness (high/low) and respectfulness (high/low).FindingsIt is found that the effect of respectfulness has the strongest impact on customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction generated by helpfulness is higher when respectfulness is high rather than low, while the interaction between helpfulness and friendliness is not found, even though helpfulness exerts a stronger effect than friendliness on customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is also maximized when all three positive interpersonal attributes all jointly presented. Interestingly, the absence of respectfulness tends to trigger a negative effect, while the display of friendliness results in a positive effect.Research limitations/implicationsBeyond the joint positive effects on service outcomes, different interaction patterns reveal that the display of friendliness is desirable and beneficial to enhance interpersonal outcome. However, the communication of respect is crucial, and, as such, managers and employees need to strive for a good balance on how to demonstrate these behaviours in critical moments such as service recovery. The findings from relative and interactive effects of three employee attributes are new in the literature and p...

Logue, DM, Clegg, S & Gray, J 2016, 'Social organization, classificatory analogies and institutional logics: Institutional theory revisits Mary Douglas', HUMAN RELATIONS, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 1587-1609.
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As a social theory of organization, it is unsurprising that institutional theory draws upon the profound and ambitious work of the late anthropologist Mary Douglas. One of the foundational concepts of organizational institutionalism, institutional logics, directly draws upon her work. Yet, in recent times, this foundational role has faded from view as institutional theory itself becomes increasingly institutionalized as a vibrant branch of organization studies. This is unfortunate for there is much continuity in current work with that of Douglas, it now being 50 years and 30 years, respectively, since the publication of two of her formative works. The deep analogies that underpin classificatory systems and the processes by which they are sustained remain significant areas under continued investigation by institutional theorists. Thus, in this paper we revisit Douglas’ core arguments and their connections to institutional theorizing. We specifically explore her contribution of ‘naturalizing analogies’ as a way of accounting for the unfolding of change across levels of analysis, extending, modifying and enriching explanations of how institutional change is reified, naturalized and made meaningful. We do this by providing empirical descriptions of meta-organizing analogies and field-level applications. We explain how Douglas’ major theoretical works are of considerable relevance for current institutional theorizing. This aids particularly in informing accounts of institutional logics and the movement between individual cognition and collective signification.

Loyeung, A, Matolcsy, Z, Weber, J & Wells, PA 2016, 'The Cost of Implementing New Accounting Standards: The Case of IFRS Adoption in Australia', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 611-632.
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© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article examines the implementation errors that are made when accounting standards are implemented for the first time. Focusing on the transition to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), we provide evidence on the causes of these errors as well as the economic consequences of disclosing these errors. We find that the quality of both the chief financial officers (CFOs) and the auditors are associated with less implementation errors. We also find that there is a learning process as later adopters of IFRS report less errors compared to early adopters in the financial reporting cycle. In terms of the consequences of disclosing these errors, we find that firms reporting more implementation errors experience an increase in information asymmetry when these errors become known to market participants. Furthermore, we find a positive association between implementation errors and increases in audit fees when the implementation errors are disclosed. Our results are robust with respect to a number of sensitivity tests.

MacFarlane, J, Phelps, S & Schulenkorf, N 2016, 'Discovering Network Legitimacy in the Fitness Industry: A Case Study of REPs NZ', International Journal of Sport Management, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 129-153.
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Fitness industry registers may strategically attempt to enhance their field’s professional legitimacy via self-imposed regulation. Incorporating a conceptual framework of organisational legitimacy, this study identifies how 12 Auckland fitness centre managers perceive register affiliation. Representatives from the New Zealand Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs NZ) and Fitness New Zealand also contributed. Findings suggest participants are aware of the industry regulation concept, but opinions are mixed and member benefits are observed as minimal. Tensions exist between affiliates and non-affiliates regarding observed substantive/symbolic affiliate behaviours and the actual/perceived role of REPs NZ. Organisations act strategically and institutionally to acquire legitimacy through affiliation.

Maclean, M, Harvey, C & Clegg, SR 2016, 'Conceptualizing Historical Organization Studies', Academy of Management Review, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 609-632.
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© 2016 Academy of Management Review. The promise of a closer union between organizational and historical research has long been recognized. However, its potential remains unfulfilled: The authenticity of theory development expected by organization studies and the authenticity of historical veracity required by historical research place exceptional conceptual and empirical demands on researchers. We elaborate the idea of historical organization studies-organizational research that draws extensively on historical data, methods, and knowledge to promote historically informed theoretical narratives attentive to both disciplines. Building on prior research, we propose a typology of four differing conceptions of history in organizational research: History as evaluating, explicating, conceptualizing, and narrating. We identify five principles of historical organization studies-dual integrity, pluralistic understanding, representational truth, context sensitivity, and theoretical fluency-and illustrate our typology holistically from the perspective of institutional entrepreneurship. We explore practical avenues for a creative synthesis, drawing examples from social movement research and microhistory. Historically informed theoretical narratives whose validity derives from both historical veracity and conceptual rigor afford dual integrity that enhances scholarly legitimacy, enriching understanding of historical, contemporary, and future-directed social realities.

McKnight, B & Linnenluecke, MK 2016, 'How Firm Responses to Natural Disasters Strengthen Community Resilience', Organization & Environment, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 290-307.
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Natural disasters challenge a community’s resilience. Prior community resilience research has focused on the responses of public entities, such as emergency services and government agencies. However, for-profit firms are also engaged in responding to natural disasters. This article explores two aspects of how firms participate in building community resilience to natural disasters: First, the article synthesizes research on business continuity management, corporate philanthropy, and emerging evidence that firms engage in the business of disaster response into a coherent typology of for-profit firm responses to natural disasters. Second, the article draws on stakeholder theory to distinguish between firms adopting firm-centric postures (focused inwardly on firm outcomes) versus firms adopting community-centric postures (focused outwardly on stakeholders), with respect to responding to natural disasters. We theorize relationships between firm- versus community-centric postures and different community resilience outcomes. The article concludes by discussing contributions to stakeholder theory and outlines future research directions.

Meath, C, Linnenluecke, M & Griffiths, A 2016, 'Barriers and motivators to the adoption of energy savings measures for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): the case of the ClimateSmart Business Cluster program', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 112, pp. 3597-3604.
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Mena, S, Rintamäki, J, Fleming, P & Spicer, A 2016, 'On the Forgetting of Corporate Irresponsibility', Academy of Management Review, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 720-738.
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Why are some serious cases of corporate irresponsibility collectively forgotten? Drawing on social memory studies, we examine how this collective forgetting process can occur. We propose that a major instance of corporate irresponsibility leads to the emergence of a stakeholder mnemonic community that shares a common recollection of the past incident. This community generates and then draws on mnemonic traces to sustain a collective memory of the past event over time. In addition to the natural entropic tendency to forget, collective memory is also undermined by instrumental 'forgetting work,' which we conceptualize in this article. Forgetting work involves manipulating short-term conditions of the event, silencing vocal 'rememberers,' and undermining collective mnemonic traces that sustain a version of the past. This process can result in a reconfigured collective memory and collective forgetting of corporate irresponsibility events. Collective forgetting can have positive and negative consequences for the firm, stakeholders, and society.

Mendolia, S & Siminski, P 2016, 'New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in Australia', Economic Record, vol. 92, no. 298, pp. 361-373.
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We present new estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticity for Australia. We closely follow the methodology used by Leigh (2007), but use considerably more data (twelve waves of HILDA and four waves of PSID). Our adjusted estimates are intended to be comparable to those for other countries in Corak (2013). Our preferred estimate (0.35) is considerably higher than implied by Leigh’s study, and is less subject to sampling variation. In an international context, intergenerational mobility in Australia is not particularly high, and is consistent with its relatively high level of cross-sectional inequality.

Menzies, G, Xiao, SX, Dixon, P, Peng, X & Rimmer, M 2016, 'Rural-led exchange rate appreciation in China', China Economic Review, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 15-30.
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© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The departure of a factor in excess supply in a non-traded rural sector leads to a Rural-led Exchange Rate Real Appreciation (RERA), in a dual economy setup. The RERA highlights for the first time a potential link between intra-national factor movements and real exchange rates. In China, where there is excess labor employed in the production of (largely) non-traded rural goods, we attribute around one third of the recent appreciation of the real exchange rate - defined as the relative price of nontradables - to a RERA effect.

Menzies, GD, Dixon, P & Rimmer, MT 2016, 'In Praise of (Some) Red Tape: A New Approach to Regulation', Economic Record, vol. 92, no. 299, pp. 631-647.
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© 2016 Economic Society of Australia The costs of removing red tape include a lower chance of detecting recession-generating flaws in the financial system. What we call independent dimensions of regulation (IDRs) operate more or less independently from other groupings. If an IDR's optimality is unknown, it may be risky to remove. Uncertainty thus implies that (some) red tape – a small amount of overregulation – is justified, in contrast to the Brainard principle that uncertainty dictates less policy activism. The long-run Gross Domestic Product (GDP) benefit of a 1 per cent improvement in financial services productivity is 0.06 per cent in our computable general equilibrium model. These relatively modest gains reinforce our conclusion.

Misener, L & Schulenkorf, N 2016, 'Rethinking the Social Value of Sport Events Through an Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Perspective', JOURNAL OF SPORT MANAGEMENT, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 329-340.
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© 2016 Human Kinetics, Inc. With an increasing emphasis on the social value of sport and events, there has been a shift in focus regarding the management and development process of event projects as well as their associated outcomes. This shift is about emphasizing a more strategic approach to developing social benefits by recognizing and utilizing leverageable resources related to sport events as a means of fostering lasting social and economic change (Chalip, 2006; O'Brien & Chalip, 2007; Schulenkorf & Edwards, 2012). In this paper, we adapt and apply the asset-based community development (ABCD) approach as a means of developing a more action-oriented, community-based approach to leveraging the social assets of sporting events. In applying the ABCD approach, we aim to shift the focus of event-led projects away from attempts to 'solve' social problems (i.e., deficit perspective) to enhancing the existing strengths of communities (i.e., strengths perspective). We reflect on case study findings that highlight the challenges and opportunities in realizing an ABCD approach for disadvantaged communities through an examination of a healthy lifestyle community event initiative in the Pacific Islands.

Mohiuddin, KGB, Gordon, R, Magee, C & Lee, JK 2016, 'A conceptual framework of cool for social marketing', Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 121-143.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework of cool for social marketing through a comprehensive literature review and integrating extant literature on cool.Design/methodology/approachA comprehensive search and review of extant literature across social marketing, business disciplines, arts, psychology, social sciences and humanities was undertaken to develop an understanding of cool and its relevance to social marketing. The review permitted developing a comprehensive set of characteristics that are associated with cool.FindingsA conceptual framework of cool organised according to the following dimensions is presented and discussed: deviating from norm, self-expressive, indicative of maturity, subversive, pro-social, evasive, and attractive.Originality/valueThis paper advances theoretical knowledge in the social marketing domain by offering a conceptual framework of cool, and by suggesting a set of guidelines to develop cool social marketing programs.

Moreno, D & Wooders, J 2016, 'Dynamic markets for lemons: performance, liquidity, and policy intervention', Theoretical Economics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 601-639.
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We study non-stationary dynamic decentralized markets with adverse selection in which trade is bilateral and prices are determined by bargaining. Examples include labor markets, housing markets, and markets for financial assets. We characterize equilibrium, and identify the dynamics of transaction prices, trading patterns, and the average quality in the market. When the horizon is finite, the surplus in the unique equilibrium exceeds the competitive surplus; as traders become perfectly patient the market becomes completely illiquid at all but the first and last dates, but the surplus remains above the competitive surplus. When the horizon is infinite, the surplus realized equals the static competitive surplus. We study policies aimed at improving market performance, and show that subsidies to low quality or to trades at a low price, taxes on high quality, restrictions on trading opportunities, or government purchases may raise the surplus. In contrast, interventions like the Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets reduce the surplus when traders are patient.

MORETTI, L & SUZUKI, T 2016, 'Strategic Transparency and Electoral Pressure', Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 624-641.
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AbstractThis paper investigates how an office‐motivated incumbent can use transparency enhancement on public spending to signal his budgetary management ability and win re‐election. We show that, when the incumbent faces a popular challenger, transparency policy can be an effective signaling device. It is also shown that electoral pressure can have a nonmonotonic effect on transparency, but a higher electoral pressure always increases the informativeness of signaling and the voter's utility.

Naar, L, Nikolova, N & Forsythe, P 2016, 'Innovative construction and the role of boundary objects: a Gehry case study', Construction Management and Economics, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 688-699.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Physical objects have long been used in addressing the challenges involved in constructing innovative buildings, yet their significance for collaborative problem solving in inter-organizational projects is rarely acknowledged. The aim of this research is to investigate what happens when a project team has to collaboratively innovate to address radical design challenges in a construction setting. We focus on the role of a full-scale mock-up of a façade in transforming the design intent for a building by Frank Gehry into design realization. The concept of boundary objects is used as an analytical lens via a case study methodology utilizing non-participant observation of weekly meetings and workshops over a period of 10 months covering client, consultant and contractor involvement. The research shows the role of mock-ups in radical construction settings is in tension along three delivery dimensions: performance, aesthetic and technical construction. Task completion competed with the requirements for experimentation around innovative problem solving with the how to construct it problem left unresolved. The findings suggest that co-location and synchronicity are critical conditions for collaborative and innovative problem solving in radical construction contexts. Project teams need to create open-ended ‘moments’ for iterating critical objects and the interactions that take place around them.

Navone, M & Nocera, G 2016, 'Unbundling the Expense Ratio: Hidden Distribution Costs in European Mutual Fund Markets', EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 640-666.
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© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Using data on more than 5,000 mutual funds domiciled in four European countries in 2006, we investigate whether distribution costs embedded into the expense ratio can be held responsible for the differences of expense ratios of mutual funds in different countries. We confirm the existence of relevant country effects in the pricing of mutual fund management services. Comparing load and no-load funds and using survey data on fee retrocession to the distribution channel, we provide evidence that these effects are heavily influenced by the cost of the distribution embedded in the expense ratio.

Nelson, A, Signal, T & Wilson, R 2016, 'Equine Assisted Therapy and Learning', Society & Animals, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 337-357.
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This study examines the practices of Equine Assisted Therapy and Learning in Australia. Among Equine Assisted Therapy (eat) and Equine Assisted Learning (eal) centers there is a large degree of variation in practice worldwide. The current study outlines a range of practices in two states in Australia whereeatandealhave arisen and evolved from models developed elsewhere. The philosophical foundations, training and certification processes followed along with the types and training of horses involved are compared across facilities. The findings of the study illustrated the large variation ineatandealin current practice in Australia. The results suggested that if the practices ofeatandealare to move out of the “fringe” of mental health and learning professional practice and into the mainstream, their theoretical underpinnings, certification and licensure procedures, and methodology of practice must become more clearly defined.

Nikiforakis, N & Slonim, R 2016, 'Editors’ preface: reviewing statistics and first evidence of impact', Journal of the Economic Science Association, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 97-100.
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Noguti, V 2016, 'Post language and user engagement in online content communities', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 50, no. 5/6, pp. 695-723.
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PurposeThis study aims to uncover relationships between content communities post language, such as parts of speech, and user engagement.Design/methodology/approachAnalyses of almost 12,000 posts from the content community Reddit are undertaken. First, posts’ titles are subjected to electronic classification and subsequent counting of main parts of speech and other language elements. Then, statistical models are built to examine the relationships between these elements and user engagement, controlling for variables identified in previous research.FindingsThe number of adjectives and nouns, adverbs, pronouns, punctuation (exclamation marks, quotation marks and ellipses), question marks, advisory words (should, shall, must and have to) and complexity indicators that appear in content community posts’ titles relate to post popularity (scores: number of favourable minus unfavourable votes) and number of comments. However, these relationships vary according to the category, for example, text-based categories (e.g. Politics and World News) vs image-based ones (e.g. Pictures).Research limitations/implicationsWhile the relationships uncovered are appealing, this research is correlational, so causality cannot be implied.Practical implicationsAmong other implications, companies may tailor their own content community post titles to match the types of language related to higher user engagement in a particula...

Onyx, J, Cham, L & Dalton, B 2016, 'Current Trends in Australian Nonprofit Policy', Nonprofit Policy Forum, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 171-188.
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AbstractThere has been a large growth in nonprofits in Australia over the past 30 years. This paper will chart some of the key current policy trends that have helped shape the sector. The huge investment in the nonprofit sector by government, particularly since the mid 1990s coincided with a strong ideological shift to a neoliberal economic agenda. There was a concerted effort to bring nonprofits under the control of government policy. This has lead to greater competition among nonprofits, the growth of large charities at the expense of small local organisations, and a greater emphasis on adopting business models. Those nonprofit organisations that provide a community development role have been particularly under threat. However while much of the nonprofit world in Australia is increasingly driven by neoliberal, business oriented demands, another alternative phenomenon is emerging, particularly among young people and largely out of the gaze of public scrutiny. As fast as the state finds a way of controlling the productive energy of the nonprofit sector, the sector itself finds a way of curtailing that control, or of creating new ways of operating that go beyond existing structures and rules of operating.

Paloyo, AR, Rogan, S & Siminski, P 2016, 'The Effect of Supplemental Instruction on Academic Performance: An Encouragement Design Experiment', Economics of Education Review, vol. 55, pp. 57-69.
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While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the 'gold standard' for impact evaluation, they face numerous practical barriers to implementation. In some circumstances, a randomized-encouragement design (RED) is a viable alternative, but applications are surprisingly rare. We discuss the strengths and challenges of RED and apply it to evaluate a mature Supplemental Instruction (SI) or PASS (Peer Assisted Study Session) program at an Australian university.A randomly selected subgroup of students from first-year courses (? = 6954) was offered large incentives (worth AUD 55,000) to attend PASS, which increased attendance by an estimated 0.47 hours each. This first-stage (inducement) effect did not vary with the size of the incentive and was larger (0.89) for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that one hour of PASS improved grades by 0.065 standard deviations, which is consistent with the non-experimental literature. However, this estimate is not statistically significant, reflecting limited statistical power. The estimated effect is largest for students in their first semester at university.

Parvin, S, Wang, P & Uddin, J 2016, 'Using best-worst scaling method to examine consumers’ value preferences: A multidimensional perspective', Cogent Business & Management, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1199110-1199110.
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© 2016 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Unlike most prior studies, this study reconceptualizes the perceived value construct from the multidimensional perspective by incorporating the aesthetic and altruistic values from Holbrook’s value typology with the Theory of Consumption Value. Moreover, this study is a pioneer in measuring the construct of multidimensional perceived value with the Best-Worst Scaling method instead of rating scales to fill methodological deficiency in the literature. This study collected data through web-based survey using online consumer panels. Hierarchical cluster analysis used as the major data analysis technique. Results indicate consumers can be segmented on the basis of their preferences. Therefore, the use of the cluster analysis of the value dimensions would permit practitioners to develop more effective market segmentation strategies in order to attain sustainable competitive advantage in the growing hospitality and tourism industry.

Patel, V & Michayluk, D 2016, 'Return predictability following different drivers of large price changes', International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 45, pp. 202-214.
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© 2016 Elsevier Inc. This study uniquely examines return predictability following different drivers of large price changes. We use several novel features of the Australian information generation environment to overcome identification issues of large price changes inherent in earlier studies. In contrast to prior results, we find that large price changes are permanent when they are driven by public information consistent with the semi-strong efficient markets hypothesis and also when driven by private information. For large price changes which do not correspond with information, we show that investors could profit from the subsequent over-reaction in returns.

Peachey, JW & Cohen, A 2016, 'Research Partnerships in Sport for Development and Peace: Challenges, Barriers, and Strategies', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 282-297.
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Research partnerships between scholars and sport for development and peace (SDP) organizations are common, but firsthand accounts of the challenges and barriers faced by scholars when forming and sustaining partnerships are rare. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine them, and to uncover strategies to overcome these challenges across different partnership contexts. Eight prominent SDP scholars were interviewed. Guided by collaboration theory and the partnership literature, findings revealed challenges included navigating the political and organizational landscape; securing commitments from organizations with limited resources; negotiating divergent goals, objectives, and understandings; and conducting long-term evaluations and research. Strategies to address these issues involved developing strategic partnerships, cultivating mutual understanding, building trust, starting small, finding the cause champion, and developing a track record of success. Key theoretical and practical implications are drawn forth, as well as intriguing future research directions.

Perks, G & Maruyama, S 2016, 'The 'Flock' Phenomenon of the Sydney Lockout Laws: Dual Effects on Rental Prices', Economic Record, vol. 93, no. 303, pp. 517-532.
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Geographically targeted crime control is a controversial attempt to alleviate crime by targeting “hot spots”, which risks the potential displacement of crime into bordering areas. The 2014 Sydney lockout laws have severely decreased the nightlifeeconomy in the once bustling entertainment district of the CBD, and there have been reports of increased violence in displacement, or “flock”, areas. These laws have also displaced attractive nightlife entertainment hubs into neighbouring suburbs, which may contribute to the land value of the displacement areas. To address the paucity of empirical evidence for the displacement effect of geographical alcohol regulations, this paper investigates the effect of the Sydney lockout laws on rental prices in the displacement areas. We find differential “flock effects”: a negative effect on small dwellings and a positive effect on large dwellings. The former effect is relatively weak and short-lived, while the latter is persistent, indicating that the positive effect dominates in the long run. We speculate that the differential effect arises because of difference in the locations of small and large dwellings. Our results suggest that well-designed geographically targeted alcohol control can enhance social welfare not only in targeted areas but also in surrounding areas.

Peters, MD, Wieder, B, Sutton, SG & Wakefield, J 2016, 'Business intelligence systems use in performance measurement capabilities: Implications for enhanced competitive advantage', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS, vol. 21, pp. 1-17.
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© 2015 Elsevier Inc. The purpose of this study is to better understand how the quality of a Business Intelligence (BI) system improves the diagnostic and interactive dimensions of management control systems (MCS), thereby enhancing performance measurement capabilities, which in turn are positively associated with competitive advantage. Integrating theory from performance measurement, organizational learning and the knowledge-based view of the firm, a theoretical model is developed that considers three concepts of BI quality (infrastructure integration, functionality, and self-service) and the roles they play in enhancing diagnostic and interactive performance measurement capabilities. Data collected via survey from 324 CEOs and CFOs provides support for the theorized effects of BI quality on performance measurement capabilities. These capabilities in turn are positively associated with competitive advantage.

Phillipson, L, Gordon, R, Telenta, J, Magee, C & Janssen, M 2016, 'A review of current practices to increase Chlamydia screening in the community – a consumer‐centred social marketing perspective', Health Expectations, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 5-25.
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AbstractBackgroundChlamydia trachomatis is one of the most frequently reported sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Australia, the UK and Europe. Yet, rates of screening for STIs remain low, especially in younger adults.ObjectiveTo assess effectiveness of Chlamydia screening interventions targeting young adults in community‐based settings, describe strategies utilized and assess them according to social marketing benchmark criteria.Search strategyA systematic review of relevant literature between 2002 and 2012 in Medline, Web of Knowledge, PubMed, Scopus and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health was undertaken.ResultsOf 18 interventions identified, quality of evidence was low. Proportional screening rates varied, ranging from: 30.9 to 62.5% in educational settings (n = 4), 4.8 to 63% in media settings (n = 6) and from 5.7 to 44.5% in other settings (n = 7). Assessment against benchmark criteria found that interventions incorporating social marketing principles were more likely to achieve positive results, yet few did this comprehensively. Most demonstrated customer orientation and addressed barriers to presenting to a clinic for screening. Only one addressed barriers to presenting for treatment after a positive result. Promotional messages typically focused on providing facts and accessing a testing kit. Risk assessment tools appeared to promote screening among higher risk groups. Few evaluated treatment rates following pos...

Piccolo, S, Puopolo, GW & Vasconcelos, L 2016, 'Non-Exclusive Financial Advice', Review of Finance, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 2079-2123.
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© 2016 The Authors 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Finance Association. We propose a simple model of non-exclusive financial advice in which two households rely on a self-interested (common) expert to make their investment choices. There is only one source of risk, and the expert is privately informed about the risky asset's volatility. When monetary transfers are unenforceable, we show that investors may delegate their investment decisions to the expert. When doing so, however, they impose restrictions on her choices which crucially depend on whether the expert perceives investors' asset allocations as complements or as substitutes. Finally, we analyze the implications of non-exclusivity in financial advice on investment behavior and welfare, and highlight a set of novel testable implications.

Presbitero, A, Roxas, B & Chadee, D 2016, 'Looking beyond HRM practices in enhancing employee retention in BPOs: focus on employee–organisation value fit', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 635-652.
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Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & Hohberger, J 2016, 'A Bibliometric Review of Open Innovation: Setting a Research Agenda', Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 750-772.
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Through an objective, systematic, and comprehensive review of the literature on open innovation (OI), this article identifies gaps in existing research, and provides recommendations on how hitherto unused or underused organizational, management, and marketing theories can be applied to advance the field. This study adopts a novel approach by combining two complementary bibliometric methods of co‐citation analysis and text mining of 321 journal articles on OI that enables a robust empirical analysis of the intellectual streams and key concepts underpinning OI. Results reveal that researchers do not sufficiently draw on theoretical perspectives external to the field to examine multiple facets of OI. Research also seems confined to innovation‐specific journals with its focus restricted to a select few OI issues, thereby exerting limited influence on the wider business community. This study reveals three distinct areas within OI research: (1) firm‐centric aspects of OI, (2) management of OI networks, and (3) role of users and communities in OI. Thus far, studies have predominantly investigated the firm‐centric aspects of OI, with a particular focus on the role of knowledge, technology, and R&D from the innovating firm's perspective, while the other two areas remain relatively under‐researched. Further gaps in the literature emerge that present avenues for future research, namely to: (1) develop a more comprehensive understanding of OI by including diverse perspectives (users, networks, and communities), (2) direct increased attention to OI strategy formulation and implementation, and (3) enhance focus on customer co‐creation and conceptualize “open service innovation.” Marketing (e.g., service‐dominant logic), organizational behavior (e.g., communities of practice), and management (e.g., dynamic capabilities) offer suitable theoretical lenses and/or concepts to address these gaps.

Reggers, A, Grabowski, S, Wearing, SL, Chatterton, P & Schweinsberg, S 2016, 'Exploring outcomes of community-based tourism on the Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea: a longitudinal study of Participatory Rural Appraisal techniques', JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM, vol. 24, no. 8-9, pp. 1139-1155.
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Rhodes, C 2016, 'Democratic Business Ethics: Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal and the Disruption of Corporate Sovereignty', Organization Studies, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 1501-1518.
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There is an established body of politically informed scholarly work that offers a sustained critique of how corporate business ethics is a form of organizing that acts as a subterfuge to facilitate the expansion of corporate sovereignty. This paper contributes to that work by using its critique as the basis for theorizing an alternative form of ethics for corporations. Using the case of the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal as an illustrative example, the paper theorizes an ethics that locates corporations in the democratic sphere so as to defy their professed ability to organize ethics in a self-sufficient and autonomous manner. The Volkswagen scandal shows how established organizational practices of corporate business ethics are no barrier to, and can even serve to enable, the rampant pursuit of business self-interest through well-orchestrated and large-scale conspiracies involving lying, cheating, fraud and lawlessness. The case also shows how society, represented by individuals and institutions, is able to effectively resist such corporate malfeasance. The ‘democratic business ethics’ that this epitomizes is one where civil society holds corporations to account for their actions, and in so doing disrupts corporate sovereignty. This ethics finds practical purchase in forms of dissent that redirect power away from centres of organized wealth and capital, returning it to its democratically rightful place with the people, with society.

Rhodes, C & Westwood, R 2016, 'The Limits of Generosity: Lessons on Ethics, Economy, and Reciprocity in Kafka's The Metamorphosis', JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, vol. 133, no. 2, pp. 235-248.
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This paper interrogates the relation between reciprocity and ethics as it concerns participation in the world of work and organizations. Tracing discussions of business and organizational ethics that concern themselves, respectively, with the ethics of self-interest, the ethics of reciprocity, and the ethics of generosity, we explore the possibility of ethical relations with those who are seen as radically different, and who are divested of anything worth exchanging. To address this we provide a reading of Franz Kafka’s famous novella The Metamorphosis and relate to it as a means to extend our understanding of business and organizational ethics. This story, we demonstrate, yields insight into the unbearable demands of ethics as they relate to reciprocity and generosity. On this basis, we draw conclusions concerning the mutually constitutive ethical limitations of reciprocity and generosity as ethical touchstones for organizational life while simultaneously accepting the seemingly insurmountable difficulties of exceeding those limits. In such a condition, we argue, ethics is not best served by adopting idealistic or moralizing positions regarding generosity but rather by working in the indissoluble tensions between self and other.

Richards, J, Sherry, E, Philpott, O, Keane, L, Schulenkorf, N & Bauman, A 2016, 'Evaluation Protocol: Netball to promote physical and mental health in Samoa and Tonga', Journal of sport for development, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1-11.
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The purpose of this evaluation is to address a gap between current practice and existing evidence in the sport-for-development sector. Despite pervasive positive rhetoric about the health implications of sportprograms that continues to attract ongoing international investment, the evidence base remains limited. Therefore, we aim to conduct a process and impact evaluation of the One Netball Pacific program in Samoaand Tonga. Specifically, we aim to assess the organisational objectives of “creating more opportunities for women and girls to take part in physical activity through netball” to “improve health-related behaviours”and “reduce the impact of non-communicable diseases in these communities”

Richardson, G, Taylor, G & Lanis, R 2016, 'Women on the board of directors and corporate tax aggressiveness in Australia: An empirical analysis', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 313-331.
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Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the impact of women on the board of directors on corporate tax avoidance in Australia. Design/methodology/approach - The authors use multivariate regression analysis to test the association between the presence of female directors on the board and tax aggressiveness. They also test for self-selection bias in the regression model by using the two-stage Heckman procedure. Findings - This paper finds that relative to there being one female board member, high (i.e. greater than one member) female presence on the board of directors reduces the likelihood of tax aggressiveness. The results are robust after controlling for self-selection bias and using several alternative measures of tax aggressiveness. Research limitations/implications - This study extends the extant literature on corporate governance and tax aggressiveness. This study is subject to several caveats. First, the sample is restricted to publicly listed Australian firms. Second, this study only examines the issue of women on the board of directors and tax aggressiveness in the context of Australia. Practical implications - This research is timely, as there has been increased pressure by government bodies in Australia and globally to develop policies to increase female representation on the board of directors. Originality/value - This study is the first to provide empirical evidence concerning the association between the presence of women on the board of directors and tax aggressiveness.

Rosaz, J, Slonim, R & Villeval, MC 2016, 'Quitting and peer effects at work', Labour Economics, vol. 39, pp. 55-67.
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Rösch, D & Scheule, H 2016, 'Systematic Credit Risk and Pricing for Fixed Income Instruments', The Journal of Fixed Income, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 42-60.
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© 2015 Institutional Investor LLC. All Rights Reserved. This article analyzes the sensitivity to systematic credit risk and pricing in fixed income instruments and compares corporate bonds and asset securitizations. The article finds crosssectional variation of systematic credit risk given the same credit rating and a market premium for the systematic risk embedded in yield spreads. Therefore, credit ratings do not provide comprehensive information on the degree of systematic risk, and investors are compensated for such differences in systematic risk after controlling for credit ratings and other risk characteristics.

Rösch, D & Scheule, H 2016, 'The role of loan portfolio losses and bank capital for Asian financial system resilience', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 40, pp. 289-305.
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This paper analyses the systemic risk in relation to bank lending for Asian economies. The methodology complements existing market-based systemic risk measures by providing measures based on accounting information that regulators typically collect. Loan loss provisions of banks are decomposed into (i) a prediction component that is based on observable bank characteristics, and (ii) two frailty components: a bank-specific systematic factor based on the assumption that a bank's asset portfolio is diversified and a systemic factor. Systemic risk is measured as the Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall of the financial system based on a simulation model that takes into account the current condition of banks in the financial system, the absolute size and the capitalisation of financial institutions, as well as the sensitivity to systematic and systemic frailty risk.

Roxas, B & Chadee, D 2016, 'Knowledge management view of environmental sustainability in manufacturing SMEs in the Philippines', Knowledge Management Research & Practice, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 514-524.
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Sainty, R 2016, 'Engaging boards of directors at the interface of corporate sustainability and corporate governance', Governance Directions, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 85-89.
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Globalisation, privatisationand deregulation havemeant that corporationshave moved far beyondtheir traditional sphere ofinfluence, thus presentingsignificant governancechallenges.

Sainty, R 2016, 'Reporting statements: A global initiative', Company Director, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 44-45.
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Rosemary Sainty outlines some global initiatives aimed at creating long-term value and explains why Australian directors should jump on board

Sameti, A, Khalili, H & Sheybani, H 2016, 'Analysing motivational factors influencing selection of commercial websites by consumer in the e-commerce (B2C)', International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 39-39.
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This study concentrates on the most important motivational factors which users and customers will deal in commercial websites. This research data has been collected by questionnaire and Delphi method. Besides, the Friedman test and diagnostic analysis were used in order to analyse the data and test the hypotheses. The factors influencing selection of commercial websites can be sorted into the following: visual aesthetics (pleasing appearance), user-friendliness (usability), brand of commercial website, trustworthiness, pricing, products and services' brand (which are offered on the commercial website), online advertising, and security (privacy concern). Furthermore, these factors' interaction has been studied. It should also be considered this study is the first one that has examined the most important factors altogether and comprehensively which influence the selection of commercial websites by consumers (users) to buy (online) from them. Meanwhile, the selection function of consumers (users) has been determined.

Schulenkorf, N 2016, 'The Contributions of Special Events to Sport-for-Development Programs', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 629-642.
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For several years, sport-for-development (SFD) programs have been implemented around the world to make a positive difference for disadvantaged or underprivileged communities. Within this context, special events have been used to complement regular development activities to celebrate social, cultural, and sporting achievements. To date, little managerial work has been conducted on the specific contributions that special events can play in the context of ongoing SFD endeavors. In addressing this issue, this paper presents findings from an empirical investigation of a participatory SFD event in the Pacific Islands. Findings suggest that special events can create new interest and excitement for SFD activities, reengage stakeholders to the wider SFD program, leverage partnerships, and provide opportunities to build and shape local management capacity. In discussing these findings, the paper highlights potential positive and negative impacts of special SFD events and provides practical and theoretical implications for SFD program design, management, and leverage.

Schulenkorf, N, Sherry, E & Rowe, K 2016, 'Sport for Development: An Integrated Literature Review', JOURNAL OF SPORT MANAGEMENT, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 22-39.
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© 2016 Human Kinetics, Inc. Despite the significant increase of published research in sport-for-development (SFD), to date there have been no attempts to rigorously review and synthesize scholarly contributions in this area. To address this issue, we conducted an integrative review of SFD literature to portray an overarching and holistic picture of the field. Through a comprehensive literature analysis following Whittemore and Knafl's (2005) five-step process, we provide evidence of the status quo of current SFD research foci, authorship, geographical contexts, theoretical frameworks, sport activity, level of development, methodologies, methods, and key research findings. Our study shows an increasing trend of journal publications since 2000, with a strong focus on social and educational outcomes related to youth sport and with football (soccer) as the most common activity. A large majority of SFD research has been conducted at the community level, where qualitative approaches are dominant. The geographical contexts of authorship and study location present an interesting paradox: Although the majority of SFD projects are carried out in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 90% of SFD authors are based in North America, Europe, and Australia. We conclude our study by providing new perspectives on key issues in SFD and by outlining current research and theoretical gaps that provide the basis for future scholarly inquiry.

SCHWEITZER, J 2016, 'HOW CONTRACTS AND CULTURE MEDIATE JOINT TRANSACTIONS OF INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS', International Journal of Innovation Management, vol. 20, no. 01, pp. 1-33.
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Although the literature suggests that matters of contracting and governance in strategic innovation partnerships are interrelated and that governance of partnerships generally occurs with contractual heterogeneity, our understanding about the specific relationships between contracting and the partnership culture that facilitates joint transactions is rather vague. In this study, we clarify how the complexity of contractual agreements between partners in conjunction with the alignment of their innovation objectives and the ambiguity inherent in their mutual contributions to the partnership can be used to predict the culture of the partnership. We find that innovation partnerships result to be one of four types: bureaucratic, market, clan, or adhocracy. Our result emphasises the central role of contractual complexity as a suitable and relevant concept to capture the nature of inter-organisational innovation partnerships.

Schweitzer, J, Groeger, L & Sobel, L 2016, 'The Design Thinking Mindset: An Assessment of What We Know and What We See in Practice', Journal of Design, Business & Society, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 71-94.
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Abstract We review the design and management literature to identify and define key components of a design thinking mindset and report initial findings from fifteen in-depth interviews with innovation managers, who reflect on their practices while implementing design thinking in their organizations. Our study confirms a set of commonly understood and applied mindsets, but also reveals organizational constraints on translating cognition into behaviour. We argue that further mapping of design thinking mindsets and linking them to leadership theory provides a suitable point of departure for the study of design thinking and its role for innovation.

Seetaram, N, Forsyth, P & Dwyer, L 2016, 'Measuring price elasticities of demand for outbound tourism using competitiveness indices', ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH, vol. 56, no. C, pp. 65-79.
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The real exchange rate (REX) has long been used as the proxy for prices in tourism demand models. However it has limitations, particularly when it comes to models of outbound tourism. As an alternative, a price competitiveness index (PCI) is developed and used as a proxy for prices in a model of outbound tourism from Australia. Results obtained show that while REX is statistically insignificant and yields a price elasticity of −0.002, PCI is significant and generates a price elasticity of −1.07. The results obtained show that PCI outperforms REX as the preferred price variable in modelling outbound demand on both theoretic and empirical grounds. Furthermore, this index can be used to monitor the inter-temporal competitiveness of a destination.

Seremani, TW & Clegg, S 2016, 'Postcolonialism, Organization, and Management Theory', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 171-183.
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This article contributes a critical discussion of postcolonial theory. It opposes the binary nature of much contemporary discussion of the topic in theory and in organization and management theory in particular. We identify the challenges facing postcolonial theory, which we identify in epistemological terms. The dualism of “colonial” and “postcolonial” theory masks considerable diversity that the binary logic occludes. In place of this dualism, we introduce the notion of epistemological third spaces. As a theory of this third space, we introduce the indigenous theory of southern Africa, Ubuntu, discussing its interaction with more conventional Western management and organization theory. We also highlight a case in which the notion of epistemological third spaces would have been valuable had it been applied to the spread of the Nile River virus. We conclude the article with a discussion of the potential links between epistemological third spaces.

Shan, Y & Walter, TS 2016, 'Towards a Set of Design Principles for Executive Compensation Contracts', Abacus, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 619-684.
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Sharma, RR, Chadee, D & Roxas, B 2016, 'Effects of knowledge management on client-vendor relationship quality: the mediating role of global mindset', Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1268-1281.
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PurposeThis study argues that knowledge management (KM) by itself has only limited effects on client–vendor relationship (CVR) of global providers of highly customised services. Rather, it is the ability of top management to properly evaluate and utilise a vast array of complex knowledge which allows global firms to develop and maintain superior CVR. The paper tests the proposition that global mindset (GM) of top management mediates the effects of KM on CVR quality.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses survey data from a sample of 68 international service providers (ISPs) in the information technology sector in India and partial least squares approach to structural equation modelling to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results show that both KM and GM have positive and statistically significant effects on the quality of CVRs. The results also confirm that the GM of top management has significant and substantive mediation effects on the relationship between KM and CVR quality.Research limitations/implicationsThe small size of the sample and the focus on ISPs in a single country constitute the main limitations of the study. Future research should ideally draw from a larger sample of ISPs from multiple countries and sectors in order to allow for greater generalisation of the findings.Practical implicationsISPs will benefit from developing the GM of their top management teams to enhance their CVRs.

Sherry, E & Schulenkorf, N 2016, 'League Bilong Laif: rugby, education and sport-for-development partnerships in Papua New Guinea', SPORT EDUCATION AND SOCIETY, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 513-530.
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© 2016 Taylor & Francis. League Bilong Laif (LBL) is a sport-for-development (SFD) programme that was established in 2013 as a three-way partnership between the Australian Government, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government (Department of Education) and the Australian Rugby League Commission (National Rugby League). As a contribution to addressing low rates of school attendance and significant problems with anti-social behaviour within PNG communities, LBL was designed to contribute to (1) improvements in student engagement with education in and out of the classroom; and (2) communication of positive social messages, with a focus on respect generally, and gender equity in particular. This paper discusses the qualitative review of the pilot phase of the LBL project, and the implications for programme design and delivery for education outcomes through a SFD programme. Data were collected through a combination of 23 interviews and focus groups with 33 individual representatives from relevant organisations and government departments in the areas of sport, education and community development. Preliminary findings indicate that despite a challenging beginning, the LBL programme has made some progress in terms of the initial development of programme aims and stakeholder engagement, largely because of the rigorous design process that kept desired programme outcomes at the forefront.

Spicer, A, Stavrunova, O & Thorp, S 2016, 'How Portfolios Evolve after Retirement: Evidence from Australia', Economic Record, vol. 92, no. 297, pp. 241-267.
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Households in many countries reach retirement with lump sums of financial wealth accumulated in defined contribution retirement plans. Retired households need to manage risks and generate income from their savings. We study the dynamics of retirement wealth and portfolio allocation using the three wealth waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia panel survey. The average retired household maintained or accumulated wealth in 2002–2006 and decumulated in 2006–2010 consistent with trends in financial asset prices. At older ages, households prefer portfolios with less risk and more liquidity, while maintaining ownership of the family home. The probability of households exhausting financial assets increased over the sample, but households who depleted financial wealth did not liquidate their housing wealth at higher rates than other households. In contrast to the USA, the overall effect of health shocks on the wealth of retired Australian households is minimal, but financial shocks have large effects.

Sudhakar, A, Tyler, J & Wakefield, J 2016, 'Enhancing Student Experience and Performance through Peer-Assisted Learning', Issues in Accounting Education, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 321-336.
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ABSTRACT This study examines the effectiveness of an online peer review forum (forum). The study allows comparisons to be made between different forum scenarios. The forum was introduced, over a series of semesters, in a first-year accounting screencast assignment: from no forum, to an optional forum, to a compulsory forum. Students indicated that the compulsory forum, underpinned by more structured guidelines for providing feedback, was more beneficial in facilitating improvement in their assignment quality and learning outcomes. We observed improved student performance where a forum was made available. This result is stronger where the use of the forum was optional relative to where it was compulsory. We surmise that this was caused by a higher proportion of exemplar screencasts being posted by more motivated and confident students in the optional forum, creating higher perceived expectations across the total student population. Our findings suggest that more structured feedback through the forum does not necessarily lead to higher performance, even though students value more structured constructive and critical comments as part of their learning experience. These findings highlight the importance of carefully considering forum design and assessment guidelines when embarking on peer review learning initiatives.

Sutton, NC & Brown, DA 2016, 'The illusion of no control: management control systems facilitating autonomous motivation in university research', ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 577-604.
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© 2016 AFAANZ. Autonomous motivation, a fundamental factor influencing research success, can be undermined when people feel pressured, managed or controlled. So how do universities - which are under increasing external pressure to manage research activities to produce outcomes - exert management control without threatening the autonomous motivation of their researchers? We address this question through an exploratory case study of the management control systems used in two university faculties. Our results confirm the importance of autonomous motivation in driving researchers' activity and show how incentives, performance evaluation and cultural-administrative structures can be designed to not only preserve, but also enhance and leverage this motivation.

Suzuki, T 2016, 'Reminder game: Indirectness in persuasion', Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 100, pp. 240-256.
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van Marrewijk, A, Ybema, S, Smits, K, Clegg, S & Pitsis, T 2016, 'Clash of the Titans: Temporal Organizing and Collaborative Dynamics in the Panama Canal Megaproject', Organization Studies, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1745-1769.
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Recent studies of temporary organizing and project-based work explain how organizational actors establish and maintain clear role structures and harmonious relations in the face of precariousness by engaging in stabilizing work practices. This focus upon ‘order’ undervalues conflict-ridden negotiations and power struggles in temporary organizing. This paper demonstrates that in temporary organizing conflict and order may exist in tandem. Drawing close to the collaborative dynamics in a large-scale global project, we analyse the political struggles over role patterns and hierarchic positioning of client and agent in the temporary organization of the Panama Canal Expansion Program (PCEP). In such projects, the agent typically takes the position of project leader. In this case however, the client was formally in charge, while the agent was assigned the role of coach and mentor. The diffuse hierarchy triggered project partners to engage in both harmony-seeking social and discursive practices and to enter into conflict-ridden negotiations over authority relations in the everyday execution of the PCEP project. Our study contributes to existing literatures on temporal organizing by presenting a case of simultaneous practices of harmonization and contestation over mutual roles and hierarchic positions. We also show that studying collaboration between project partners involves, not merely analysing project governance structures, but also offering a context-sensitive account of everyday social and discursive practices. Finally, we reflect on a view of ‘permanence’ and ‘temporariness’ as themselves contested categories and symbolic sites for struggle.

Veal, AJ 2016, 'Leisure, income inequality and the Veblen effect: cross-national analysis of leisure time and sport and cultural activity', LEISURE STUDIES, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 215-240.
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Waitt, G & Harada, T 2016, 'Parenting, care and the family car', Social & Cultural Geography, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1079-1100.
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Waitt, G, Roggeveen, K, Gordon, R, Butler, K & Cooper, P 2016, 'Tyrannies of thrift: Governmentality and older, low-income people’s energy efficiency narratives in the Illawarra, Australia', Energy Policy, vol. 90, pp. 37-45.
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Wang, Y & Baddeley, M 2016, 'The problem of land value betterment: a simplified agent-based test', The Annals of Regional Science, vol. 57, no. 2-3, pp. 413-436.
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Wearing, SL, McDonald, M & Ankor, J 2016, 'Journeys of creation: experiencing the unknown, the Other and authenticity as an epiphany of the self', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 157-167.
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The purpose of this study is to offer an analysis of the tourist experience through a focus on ‘epiphany’, which is conceptualized as an interactional moment that creates change and transformation in self-identity. We suggest that an epiphany in tourism can be understood by analysing its links with the philosophical concepts of existential authenticity, the Other and the unknown. In the experience of the unknown, the traveller becomes more conscious of authentic modes of existence. This analysis explores the theoretical boundaries of the tourist experience by focusing on the construction of self-identity and subjectivity through the process of travel.

Welty Peachey, J, Cohen, A & Musser, A 2016, '‘A phone call changed my life’: Exploring the motivations of sport for development and peace scholars', Journal of sport for development, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 58-70.

Wilden, R, Devinney, TM & Dowling, GR 2016, 'The Architecture of Dynamic Capability Research Identifying the Building Blocks of a Configurational Approach', The Academy of Management Annals, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 997-1076.
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The dynamic capability view (DCV) of the firm has become one of the leading frameworks aimed at identifying drivers of long-term firm survival and growth. Yet, despite considerable academic interest, there are many questions about what dynamic capabilities (DCs) are, how they relate to other organizational operations, and how they relate to firm performance. In this article, we provide a unique and comprehensive examination of the DCV literature that goes beyond past reviews by combining text-based analysis with surveys of,and interviews with, researchers in the field. With this approach, we are able to examine the evolution of the DCV in written literature and identify missing research themes. Based on this review, we argue that future research will benefit from integrating the DCV with configuration theory and the recent micro foundational thinking. We encapsulate this discussion via an architectural model of the DCV (entitled “House of Dynamic Capabilities”) that combines micro foundations underlying DCs at the varying levels of analysis (individual, business unit, and organizational) while also accounting for important enablers of DCs and firm strategic orientation. We also show how this logic requires a completely different set of methodological approaches to those currently in use

Willmott, HC, Djelic, M-L, Spicer, A, Parker, M, Perrow, C, S. Pugh, D, Spender, J-C, Gond, J-P, ten Bos, R, Beverungen, A, Calas, MB, Thompson, GF, Morgan, G, Clegg, SR, McSweeney, B, Ahonen, P, Hancock, P, Czarniawska, B, Gospel, H, S. Pitsis, T, Taylor, S, Land, C, Shukaitis, S, Simpson, AV, Keenoy, T, Vachhani, S, Taskin, L, Cheney, G, Bencherki, N, Perret, V, Allard-Poesi, F, Palpacuer, F, Espinosa, J, Jacobs, DC, Brewis, J, King, D, Wainwright, T, Thanem, T, Jarvis, W, Hoedemaekers, C, Glynos, J, Towers, I, Mansell, S, Cabantous, L, Cooke, BM, Marens, R, Munro, I, Komlik, O, Weir, K, Lilley, S, Cailluet, L, Chabrak, N, Huzzard, T, Nadir Alakavuklar, O, Mowles, C, Murphy, J, Le Goff, J, Slater, R, Cambre, M-C, Velez-Castrillon, S, Laouisset, DE, Schmidt, SM, Erturk, I, Meyer, AD, Kuhn, T, Huault, I, Tchalian, H, Clarke, T, Cassiers, I, Chanteau, J-P, Malaurent, J, Cooper, DJ, O'Reilly, D, Pirson, M, Srinivas, N, de Souza Rosa Filho, D, Faria, A, Mir, R, Serrano Archimi, C, Cairns, G, Tennent, K, Doherty, D, Wartzman, R, Liew, P, Hlupic, V, Bourguignon, A, O’Mahoney, J, Riaz, S, Al-Amoudi, I, Montiel, O, McKenna, S, Bosch, HVD, Rees, C, Bell, E, Kyriakidou, O, Cathcart, A, Ridley-Duff, RR, Stevenson, L, Kornelakis, A & Veldman, J 2016, 'The Modern Corporation Statement on Management', Humanistic Management Network, Research Paper Series, no. 51, pp. 1-7.

Wright, C 2016, 'The 1920s Viennese Intellectual Community as a Center for Ideas Exchange: A Network Analysis', History of Political Economy, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 593-634.
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This article constructs a social network, based on informal seminar attendance, for intellectuals living and working in Vienna in the 1920s. A range of primary and secondary sources has been used to compile a dataset on the duration, operation, and membership of informal seminars and the movement of individuals through the Viennese intellectual community between 1918 and 1930. This has then been visualized as a social network, highlighting the interrelationships between individuals, seminars, and different fields of study in Vienna in this period. By linking the structure of social relationships to differences in ideas between individuals and groups, this technique complements the qualitative techniques that are traditionally used to analyze communities in the history of economic thought. It is argued that the nature of this intellectual community meant that scholars could easily move between different disciplines and that certain individuals assisted this process by acting as intermediaries between domains of knowledge.

Xiao, J & Ju, H 2016, 'The determinants of dealership structure: Empirical analysis of the Chinese auto market', Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 961-981.
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Yan, L, Liu, MT, Chen, X & Shi, G 2016, 'An arousal-based explanation of affect dynamics', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 50, no. 7/8, pp. 1159-1184.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of pre-existing mood valence, mood arousal and ad-evoked arousal on response to television and print advertising. It combined the arousal-as-information and arousal regulation approaches into a single arousal congruence theory. It sought an extended application of arousal congruence theory in the persuasion domain with several novel findings.Design/methodology/approachFour experiments were conducted to test the hypotheses. Analysis of variance, multivariate analysis of variance and pairwise comparison were used for data analysis.FindingsConsumer judgment is a joint function of mood valence, mood arousal and ad-evoked arousal. Positive mood does not always generate more positive evaluations and vice versa. Ad-evoked arousal can more strongly influence consumers’ judgments when they are in a negative rather than a positive mood. Furthermore, consumers in a positive mood rate a target more favorably when the ad-evoked arousal level is congruent with their current arousal state, while those in a negative mood rate a target more favorably when the ad-evoked arousal level is incongruent with their current state of arousal. Arousal polarization intensifies such congruence (and incongruence) effects.Practical implicationsThe findings reveal a mood-lifting opportunity based on ad-evoked arousal. This has implications for the design of advertisements, promotional materials, marketing campaigns and retailing environments.Originality/value

Yu, K-H 2016, 'Immigrant workers’ responses to stigmatized work: Constructing dignity through moral reasoning', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 571-588.
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In the past few decades, scholarship on immigrant workers has produced two contrasting images that remain theoretically unresolved. In the 1970s and 1980s, low-wage immigrant workers were viewed as target earners whose attachment to jobs in the US was seen as temporary. By contrast, recent scholarship has depicted immigrant workers as a potent social force whose quest for dignity and full societal membership is seen as having galvanized a moribund labour movement. This study draws from the lived experience of low-wage immigrant workers to examine how they relate to their socio-economic circumstances, and what, if anything, motivates their resistance to the status quo. Analysing interview data from immigrant workers in janitorial and nursing assistant occupations in the US, I delineate how workers construct dignity by reframing the meaning of work, transferring aspirations for social mobility to their children, and resisting stereotypes of immigrant workers to generate dignified collective identities. I conclude with a discussion that aims to shed light on the contrasting and contentious views of immigrant workers and their position in the American labour movement.

Zainuddin, N, Tam, L & McCosker, A 2016, 'Serving yourself: value self-creation in health care service', Journal of Services Marketing, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 586-600.
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PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the concept of value self-creation and provides a formal definition for this concept. The paper suggests that it sits within an overall continuum of value creation that includes value delivery and value co-creation.Design/methodology/approachA proposed model of value self-creation was developed and empirically tested in a health care self-service, bowel screening. An online, self-completion survey was administered to Australian men and women aged 50 years and above, as this represents the primary target population for bowel screening.FindingsThe results of the structural equation modelling in AMOS suggest that consumers can self-create value, leading to desired outcomes of satisfaction with the consumption experience and behavioural intentions to engage with the self-service again in the future. The findings provide empirical evidence to suggest that consumers’ behavioural contributions represent the most important consumer contributions in self-service, followed by cognitive contributions.Originality/valueThe study provides an empirically validated model of value self-creation in health care self-service. Much of the existing research on value co-creation has concentrated on traditional service types and is ill-placed to explain the value creation processes in self-services. This study offers originality by addressing this gap and demonstrating to service managers how they can manage consumer contributions towards a self-service and facilitate value-self creation, even though they are not present during the consumption stage of the consumption proces...

Zhang, J & Zhou, J 2016, 'Information Disclosure in Contests: A Bayesian Persuasion Approach', The Economic Journal, vol. 126, no. 597, pp. 2197-2217.
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© 2015 Royal Economic Society We examine optimal information disclosure through Bayesian persuasion in a two-player contest. One contestant's valuation is commonly known and the other's is his private information. The contest organiser can precommit to a signal to influence the uninformed contestant's belief about the informed contestant. We show that to search for the optimal signal when the informed contestant's valuation follows a binary distribution, it is without loss of generality to compare no disclosure with full disclosure; otherwise, such a restriction causes loss of generality. We propose a simple method to compute the optimal signal, which yields explicit solutions in some situations.

Zhao, RL 2016, 'Dividend signaling: What can we learn from corporate bond responses?', Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-16.
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The literature has reported significant abnormal returns associated with the announcements of dividend changes. Various hypotheses such as information signaling hypothesis, agency theory and wealth transfer hypothesis, have been suggested to explain the abnormal returns and volumes following the corporate stock dividend changes. The response of corporate bond, as a related security not subject to the immediate capitalization changes are used to provide evidence to help distinguish between the signaling and wealth transfer hypothesis. Corporate bonds have a significant decline in bond yields following dividend increase and a significant increase in bond yields following dividend decrease, supporting signaling hypothesis rather than wealth transfer effect.

Zlatevska, N & Spence, MT 2016, 'Parsing out the effects of personal consumption norms and industry influences on food consumption volume', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING, vol. 50, no. 3-4, pp. 377-396.
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Agarwal, R & Scerri, M 1970, 'Service Complexity: A Determinant of Service Productivity', 14th ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium titled “Making a difference in a changing world through collaboration, creativity and innovation, ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium, Sydney.
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Australia is a service – knowledge basedeconomy. The intangible nature of servicesmakes them difficult to quantify and thereforemeasure. Customers are heterogeneous andintegral to the service delivery process. Firmsmake decisions on whether to reduce oraccommodate customer variability and as indoing so increase service complexity. The aimof this research is to determine the effects ofservice complexity on the efficiency of thefirm. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) isused to measure the effects of servicecomplexity. The results show servicecomplexity can be mathematically derived andused as a proxy to value co-ordination.

Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Brown, P & Green, R 1970, 'The interactions between people management and performance of lean manufacturing firms – evidence from Australian and New Zealand manufacturing firms', 16th Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management titled “The Future of Manufacturing: Global Value Chains, Smart Specialisation and Flexibility”, Annual Conference of Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, Sydney.

Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N & Clegg, SR 1970, 'Self-identification as a resistance strategy: The changing nature of architectural work and its relation to architects' identity', European Group for Organization Studies, Naples, Italy.

Bairstow, N 1970, 'How to create 1000 technopreneurs in Indonesia', Indonesia E-Commerce Summit & Expo, Indonesia.

Bhimani, A, Sivabalan, P, Soonawalla, K & Wakefield, J 1970, 'Beyond Budgeting adoption challenges - an analysis of operating and strategic tensions through the rolling budget', Monforma Conference, Sofitel, Melbourne.

Bisbe, J, Bedford, DS & Sweeney, B 1970, 'How Performance Measurement Systems help firms achieve Intended Ambidexterity: The role of Cognitive Conflict', 39th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Boersma, M 1970, 'Exploring the Role of Strategic Management and Stakeholding Ethics in Effective Approaches to Child Labour in Global Supply Chains', 19th IESE International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society, Barcelona.

Bugeja, M, Ghannam, S, Matolcsy, ZP & Spiropoulos, H 1970, 'Who joins a sinking ship and why? Some evidence on independent directors who join fraudulent firms.', AAA - Annual Meeting and Conference, American Accounting Association, New York.

Bugeja, M, Govendir, B, Matolcsy, Z & Pazmandy, GP 1970, 'Is There an Association between Vice Chancellors' (University Presidents') Compensation and University Rankings in Australia?', AAA - Annual Meeting and Conference, American Accounting Association, New York.

Burke, PF, Zlatevska, N & Wei, X 1970, 'How Health Claims in Food Choices Are Evaluated: What Consumers Nominate as Essential versus Intended Behaviour', Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference Proceedings, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 839-839.

Carabetta, G 1970, '‘Legal Limits to Liability for Participants in Australian Sport’ ♦ Conference Paper, Bond University, Queensland, Australia Colloquium on Sport', Bond University, Queensland, Australia Colloquium on Sport.

Chelliah, J, Boersma, M & Klettner, A 1970, 'Governance Challenges for Not-for-Profit Organisations: Empirical Evidence in Support of A Contingency Approach', Contemporary Management Research, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research, Sydney, pp. 3-24.
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ABSTRACT: This article presents evidence of the governance challenges faced by Australian not-for-profit (NFP) organisations. We find a key challenge for NFPs is recruiting individuals with appropriate skills, as directors are volunteers often elected by the membership and frequently lack relevant experience. Another issue is balancing the needs of a diverse constituency with competing demands. We find that the often proposed solution to this challenge – stakeholder representation on boards – can further hinder the recruitment of suitable directors and create tensions detrimental to board effectiveness. We argue to shift focus away from normative governance models towards a contingency approach and posit a role for a national NFP sector regulator in assisting to develop appropriate governance systems according to contextual factors.

Cheng, B, Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C & Schlogl, E 1970, 'Empirical Hedging Performance on Long-Dated Crude Oil Derivatives', Quantitative Methods in Finance 2016, Sydney, Australia.

Christodoulou, D, Lev, B & Ma, L 1970, 'Innovation-driven Performance in China: Truth or Fiction', China Studies Centre Seminar Series, University of Sydney China Studies Centre, Sydney, Australia.

Christodoulou, D, Lev, B & Ma, L 1970, 'Innovation-driven Performance in China: Truth or Fiction', The 9th Methodological and Empirical Advances in Financial Analysis (MEAFA) Research Meeting, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Christodoulou, D, Lev, B & Ma, L 1970, 'Innovation-driven Performance in China: Truth or Fiction', The 28th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, Hawaii, US.

Christodoulou, D, Lev, B & Ma, L 1970, ''The Effectiveness of Innovation-Oriented Government Policy: the Case of China', The 28th Annual Conference of Chinese Economics Society of Australia, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.

Christodoulou, D, Lev, B & Ma, L 1970, 'The Effectiveness of Innovation-Oriented Government Policy: the Case of China', The 9th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Sydney, Australia.

Christodoulou, D, Ma, L & Mostafavi, H 1970, 'Getpatent: Web Scraping Patent Data into Stata', 2016 Oceania Stata Users Group Meeting, Sydney, Australia.

Christodoulou, D, Ma, L & Vasnev, A 1970, 'Estimation Bias in Residuals: An Analysis in the Context of Earnings Management literature', UTS/SMU/UNSW Accounting Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Christodoulou, D, Ma, L & Vasnev, A 1970, 'Estimation Bias in Residuals: An Analysis in the Context of Earnings Management literature', Newcastle University Business School Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Clegg, S, Logue, D, McCabe, A, Mol, JM, Phillips, N, Pierides, D & Sewell, G 1970, 'How Institutions Really Think: Mary Douglas and Meaningful Organizations', Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, Academy of Management, USA, pp. 12912-12912.
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Cohen, A & Baloulli, K 1970, 'Music, Sport and Physical Activity: Intersecting to Yield Positive Impact.', North American Society for Sport Management Annual Conference, Orlando.

Darcy, S, Onyx, J, Faulkner, S, Green, J & Maxwell, H 1970, 'Quantifying and qualifying the individual and collective social impact of the arts: Disability arts partnership projects', Arts Activated, Arts Activated, Arts Activated, Sydney, pp. 1-2.
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This paper examines a study that investigated the social impact of creative participation in NSW Arts and Disability Partnership Projects (ADDP). The primary aim of the study was to research the social impact of creative participation in ADDP. The 12 projects each comprised different art mediums, organisational partnerships, levels of involvement, and types of artists with disability. Additionally, the research study sought to determine the broad social impact that funded projects have on: artists and/or other participants with disability; organisations within the funded programs; and audiences that attend such public programs. The overall conceptualisation of social impact in this project has been guided by the Conceptual Model of Social Impact as Active Citizenship framework(Darcy, Maxwell, Edwards, Onyx, & Sherker, 2014; Edwards, Onyx, Maxwell, & Darcy, 2012; Edwards et al., 2015; Onyx, 2014a, 2014b), which was used by the research team in a previous study. The research design adopted an abductive, mixed method, collective case study methodology, in order to allow for detailed analysis of the ADPP within their particular contexts and across various settings. The collective case study methodology provided the opportunity to engage in detail through a mixture of methodologies and data sources. These methodologies included: in-depth interviews with project managers, facilitators, participants, artists, audience members and participating organisations’ employees; focus groups with stakeholders; project observations, and content analyses of related audio-visual materials, media reports, Facebook pages, websites, internal organisational and project documents, and project acquittals. Developing the social impact instrument was an iterative process, that is, it was continuously modified as more data was gathered, and the instrument was (re)tested and refined. As a consequence, 10 resultant factors and 33 indicators were identified, and each was modified to r...

Darcy, SA 1970, 'Beyond the Front Gate - Keynote address: Universal Mobilities and the Travel Chain', Universal Design Conference, Sydney Town Hall.
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Mobility and mobilities are terms with multiple meanings across different disciplinary divides. This keynote presentation will examine the concepts of universal design and mobilities across the travel chain. The presentation will be founded in the articles of the United Nations (2006) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and examine the implications of “universal mobilities” across personal, local, regional, national and international travel, the intersections of disability, support needs, life-cycle and lifespan. In doing so, the presentation will draw on examples of considerations for independent, dignified and equitable approaches to designing local, regional, national and international movement of people encompassed by the UN Convention.

Darcy, SA & Legg, D 1970, 'Symposium: Determinants of Paralympic Success', Vista 2015 'Securing the future for young para-athletes', Vista 2015 'Securing the future for young para-athletes', Girona, Spain.
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The Paralympic Summer Games since the creation of the IPC in 1989 has grown from 83 participating nations in 1992 in Barcelona to 164 in 2012 in London. In the Paralympic Winter Games a similar growth has occurred with 24 nations participating in 1992 in Albertville to 45 in 2014 in Sochi. With this growth of nations has been a corresponding interest and challenge in determining what contributes to Paralympic success. In this presentation the two speakers will review the current research pertaining to Paralympic participation and success and facilitate a discussion that will hopefully lead to new understanding of how athletes, administrators, coaches, and sport scientists can encourage even greater participation and performance. This will include the use of the SPLISS model as a potential way to understand how Paralympic nations can assess their policies that lead to sporting success. This presentation will also build upon discussions from October’s International Paralympic Committee’s VISTA Conference where a similar discussion was also led by the two authors.

Di Guilmi, C & Henckel, T 1970, 'A Boom-Bust Business Cycle Model with Heterogeneous Expectations in the Bond Market', Worskshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Agents, Castello' (Spain).

Edwards, Benn & Angus-Leppan 1970, 'Improvising in Pursuit of a Circular Economy', Under New Management ANZAM, Under New Management ANZAM, QUT.

Edwards, D & Foley, C 1970, 'A WHITE KNUCKLE RIDE: EMBEDDING LEARNING ANALYTICS IN POST GRADUATE EDUCATION', EDULEARN proceedings, International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, IATED, Barcelona, SPAIN, pp. 8045-8045.
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Ferguson, A, Lam, H & Ma, N 1970, 'Is Mandatory Partner Rotation Associated With Increased Audit Fees?', 2016 AFAANZ Conference, Jupiters Hotel, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia:.

Fiorini, M 1970, 'Assessing the monotonicity assumption in IV and fuzzy RD designs', International Association for Applied Econometrics, Milan.

Fiorini, M 1970, 'When Situational Crime Prevention Measures Result in the Displacement of Crime', Labour Econometrics Workshop, Canberra.

Frawley, S & Schulenkorf, N 1970, 'The Nexus of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sponsorship at the Olympic Games', 7th International Conference on Sport and Society, Honolulu.

Fujak, H, Frawley, SM & Schulenkorf, N 1970, 'Ethnicity and Sport Preference: Implications for Future Australian Sport Consumption', Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) Conference, Auckland.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Advancing the role of teacher unions in shaping forces of neoliberalism that surround teachers’ work and conditions', Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference 2016, Melbourne, Australia.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Demystifying practices and behaviours: How do teacher unions respond to neoliberalism?', 21st International Employment Relations Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Gavin, M 1970, 'New understandings of renewal: a literature review of the strategic response of teacher unions in times of neoliberal educational reform', Proceedings of the 20th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Resistance against neoliberalism(?) What are teacher unions doing for teachers?', 6th International Conference on Critical Education, London, United Kingdom.

Ghannam, S, Bugeja, M, Matolcsy, ZP & Spiropoulos, H 1970, 'Who joins a sinking ship and why? Some evidence on independent directors who join fraudulent firms', •28th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC).

Ghannam, S, Bugeja, M, Matolcsy, ZP & Spiropoulos, H 1970, 'Who joins a sinking ship and why? Some evidence on independent directors who join fraudulent firms', British Accounting & Finance Association Annual Conference.

Gillovic, B, Cockburn-Wootten, C, McIntosh, A & Darcy, S 1970, 'Exploring an ‘Ethic of Care’ in Accessible Tourism', Critical Tourism Studies Conference VI 2015, Critical Tourism Studies Conference VI 2015, Opatija, Croatia.
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Gilligan’s classic book, ‘In a Different Voice’ (1982), saw the establishment of an ‘ethic of care’ as an alternative approach to moral reasoning. In adopting this ethical stance: relational experiences between the ‘self’ and ‘other’ are humanized; cognizance of the giving and receipt of care is favoured; and, the embedded, interconnected and interdependent nature of individual lives is emphasized. This paper presents an argument in support of the preceding model, as a distinctive methodological approach to tourism scholarship, particularly in exploring relational constructions of travel in the moral domain.

Godfrey, J, Wearing, S, Schulenkorf, N & Faulkner, S 1970, 'Constructing Identity through the ‘Moral Consumption' of Volunteer Tourism', CAUTHE 2016: The Changing Landscape of Tourism and Hospitality: The Impact of Emerging Markets and Emerging Destinations, Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Annual Conference, Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education, Sydney, pp. 1281-1287.
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Identity is associated with both travel experiences and consumption behaviours in contemporary consumer culture. Tourism experiences can be used to shape and reinforce identity; alternative tourism (e.g. volunteer tourism) in particular is closely associated with self-development. The volunteer tourism sector has been increasingly criticised in both academia and the mass media for creating a commercial product which potentially attracts more tourism-focussed volunteers who may be more likely to negatively impact the host community. Nonetheless, volunteer tourism is still widely associated with authenticity and altruism and arguably carries connotations of moral superiority compared to mainstream tourism. In this paper we argue that through the ‘moral consumption’ of volunteer tourism, Generation Y are able to access new forms of personal identity (e.g. altruistic, professional experience) and social identity (e.g. ‘moral’ tourist, global citizen). This paper is based on a case study of commercial volunteer tourists in Cusco, Peru.

Godfrey, J, Wearing, S, Schulenkorf, N & Faulkner, S 1970, 'Constructing Identity through the ‘Moral Consumption’ of Volunteer Tourism', 26th Annual CAUTHE Conference: The Changing Landscape: The Impact of Emerging Markets and Destinations, 26th Annual CAUTHE Conference: The Changing Landscape: The Impact of Emerging Markets and Destinations, Blue Mountains International Hotel School, Sydney, pp. 1281-1287.
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Identity is associated with both travel experiences and consumption behaviours in contemporary consumer culture. Tourism experiences can be used to shape and reinforce identity; alternative tourism (e.g. volunteer tourism) in particular is closely associated with self-development. The volunteer tourism sector has been increasingly criticised in both academia and the mass media for creating a commercial product which potentially attracts more tourism-focussed volunteers who may be more likely to negatively impact the host community. Nonetheless, volunteer tourism is still widely associated with authenticity and altruism and arguably carries connotations of moral superiority compared to mainstream tourism. In this paper we argue that through the ‘moral consumption’ of volunteer tourism, Generation Y are able to access new forms of personal identity (e.g. altruistic, professional experience) and social identity (e.g. ‘moral’ tourist, global citizen). This paper is based on a case study of commercial volunteer tourists in Cusco, Peru.

Govendir, B, Bond, D & Wells, P 1970, 'An evaluation of asset impairments by Australian firms and whether they were impacted by AASB 136', Accounting and Finance with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) joint Research Forum, Accounting and Finance, Hong Kong, pp. 259-288.

Govendir, B, Lanis, R, McClure, R & Wells, P 1970, 'The Effect of Dividend Imputation on Corporate Tax Aggressiveness', AAA - Annual Meeting and Conference, AAA - Annual Meeting and Conference, American Accounting Association, New York.

Govendir, B, Matolcsy, Z, Bugeja, M & Pazmandy, G 1970, 'Is There an Association between Vice Chancellors' (University Presidents') Compensation and University Rankings in Australia?', European Accounting Association, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Grosse, MJ & Scott, T 1970, 'Pricing Initial Engagements and Interim Reviews', 14th Annual ANCAAR Audit Research Forum, Australian National University.

Grosse, MJ & Scott, T 1970, 'The Information Content of Interim Reviews: Do Interim Going Concern Opinions Provide an Early Warning?', Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Gold Coast.

Grosse, MJ, Ma, N & Scott, T 1970, 'Evidence on compensation consultant fees and CEO pay in a mandatory disclosure setting', UTS/SMU/UNSW Accounting Research Conference, University of Technology Sydney.

Hassanli, N 1970, 'Local hosted accommodation Community of Practice: Challenges and issues', 978-0-9870507-9-3, The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education, Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School, Sydney, Australia, pp. 828-835.
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This is working paper which explores a group of home-based accommodation operators in rural Iran. With the aim of linking those operators who use local cultures in hosting guests, these operators have in recent years formed a Group amongst themselves; the Local Hosted Accommodation Group.This paper discusses how the Group can be seen as a community of practice. Issues and challenges faced by the Group members are presented and discussed using the literature on community of practice. Issues include conflicts and disagreements, membership, power, collective/individual identities, and legitimacy. Statements made by the Group members are presented throughout the paper in support of the discussions.

Hingorani, A & Wang, P 1970, 'Testing the Phillips and McQuarrie (2004) Typology of Visual Rhetoric: Some Preliminary Findings.', Marketing in a Post-Disciplinary Era, Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC)., University of Canterbury, for the ANZMAC 2016 Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 548-548.

Howard, J, Williams, T & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Governance Models and Frameworks for Smart Specialisation', First SMARTER Conference on Smart Specialisation and Territorial Development titled “Changing Patterns of Territorial Policy: Smart Specialisation and Innovation in Europe”, Seville, Spain.
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Governance models and frameworks become increasingly important as the flow of resources for regional purposes increases. Loosely aligned networked arrangements must give way to more formally established corporate arrangements to ensure responsibility and accountability by funding agencies, auditors and national scrutiny bodies. Governance arrangements move from network arrangements through association models and strategic alliances to more formalised corporate arrangements. The Australian RDA model, as it has evolved in the Hunter, provides a basis not only for the development and implementation of regional strategies, but also for assigning responsibility and delivering accountability.

Jasovska, P, Rammal, H, Rhodes, C & Logue, D 1970, 'Internationalisation of the craft beer industry: Strategic responses to institutional change', AIB-ANZ Annual Symposium (Sydney, Australia), Sydney, Australia.

Joshi, RG, Chelliah, J, Sood, S & Burdon, S 1970, 'Nature and spirit of exchange and interpersonal relationships fostering grassroots innovations', Journal of Developing Areas, Asia Pacific Conference on Business and Social Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 399-409.
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Exchange and interpersonal relationships are central to the functioning and sustainability of socio-economic activities, including innovation. Grassroots innovations (GI) are dynamic and relational phenomena that evolve with grassroots innovators’ beliefs, expectations and obligatory relationships for varied resources, and the actualization of their desire to make novel and beneficial products. In this paper, the dynamics of exchange and interpersonal relationships that underpin the GI phenomenon are explored through the lens of exchange theory and the consideration of the psychological contract. While exchange theory provides an explanation for the interdependent and dyadic socio-economic relations present in GI, the psychological contract provides a view on the perceptions and expectations that are embedded in exchange and innovation activities. These two theoretical lenses serve as a foundation for the research to engage with the subjective reality of the grassroots innovators’ experiences. In examining the subjective reality of the innovation experiences of the grassroots innovators; the research thereby discerns the dominant form of exchange and socio-economic structure that fosters GI from ideation to commercial scaling. Through the use of phenomenological exploration and detailed thematic analysis of the innovation experiences of the thirteen Indian grassroots innovators, the research determined the nature and spirit of the relational commercial exchanges that both entail and foster GI. The paper starts off with the discussion of the theoretical foundations of the research. Thereafter, the paper briefly discusses the research methodology and the exchange dynamics present in GI. In assimilating the research findings, the paper enlists the features of exchanges embedded in GI phenomenon and highlights the capacity of relational commercial exchanges in fostering GI. The paper further proposes, through this discussion, an interpretive framework for u...

Kaya, E 1970, 'Old Industrial Waterfront is the New Space of Consumption: The Rocks of Sydney', The Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, 14-17 December 2016, Sydney.

Kwak, K & Wang, P 1970, 'Assessing Unintended Consequences of Optimal Designs in Stated Choice Models', INFORMS Marketing Science, Shanghai, China.

Li, W, Lu, J, Wu, A & Huang, X 1970, 'How political hazards influence entry mode choice in Africa: The contingent role of host country experience and foreign aid', Academy of International Business Conference, New Orleans, the United States.

Logue, DM & Boersma, M 1970, 'Social Innovation in Interstitial Spaces: The Case and Unintended Consequences of Civic Crowd Funding', Latin America and European Meeting on Organization Studies (LAEMOS), Santiago, Chile.

Loyeung, AL, bond & czernkowski 1970, 'Market reaction to Non-GAAP Earnings around SEC regulation', European Accounting Association (EAA), Maastritcht, Netherlands.

Luff, S & Agarwal, R 1970, 'The Co-Creation of Value in Destination Networks: A Dual-Layered Business Model', 16th Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management titled “The Future of Manufacturing: Global Value Chains, Smart Specialisation and Flexibility, Sydney.

Memary, R, Giurco, D & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Life Cycle Assessment: Environmental Sustainability or Only Environmental Impacts in Case of Resources?', 14th ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium titled “Making a difference in a changing world through collaboration, creativity and innovation”, Sydney.

Menictas, C & Fine, B 1970, 'Digital disruption and the future of data collection', Australian Market & Social Research Society National Conference, Melbourne.

Misener, L, Dickson, T & Darcy, S 1970, 'Disability Sport Event Research: Moving beyond the Emperor’s new clothes', Vista 2015 'Securing the future for young para-athletes', Vista 2015 'Securing the future for young para-athletes', Girona, Spain.
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Previous research has highlighted that within the sport and event management literature there is an underrepresentation of disability or parasport research. This has occurred both in the general sport and event management literature as well as the more specific Olympic legacy discourse. The framing of Paralympic legacy is driven by the IPC’s agenda to increase accessibility, develop sporting structures, improve perceptions of disability, and increase opportunities for participation in society. While there have been numerous scholars who have framed the evaluation of Olympic legacies, none have specifically addressed the evaluation of Paralympic legacies. While the IPC closely guard the agenda, other critical disability studies and sport sociology researchers have questioned the legitimacy of legacy beyond the short-term effects.

Morgan, A, Frawley, SM & Schulenkorf, N 1970, 'A Critical Review of Coca-Cola’s Olympic Games Sponsorship and Corporate Social Responsibility', European Association for Sport Management (EASM) Conference, Warsaw.

Muller, R, Nikolova, N, Sankaran, S, Hase, S, Zhu, F, Xu, X, Vaagaasar, AL & Drouin, N 1970, 'Leading projects by balancing vertical and horizontal leadership – International case studies', Manageable Cooperation?, EURAM, Paris.
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Leadership has become a central theme in the project management literature. Two majorstreams of research have emerged in studies on project leadership: the person-centered orvertical leadership stream, which focuses on the leadership role and skills of project managers;and the team-centered or horizontal leadership stream, which recognizes the distributed form ofleadership in projects. Previous research in project leadership has focused mostly on verticalleadership while in recent studies horizontal leadership has begun to emerge as an importantarea. While some view these two forms of leadership as separate, in reality, projects have toinclude both forms of leadership simultaneously. Studies on new product development teamshave shown that horizontal leadership supplements, but does not replace, vertical leadership.We investigate the interrelationship between vertical and horizontal leadership in projects andargue that projects are characterized by vertical leadership which provides a socio-cognitivespace in form of structures, processes and shared frameworks that enable the team to engage inhorizontal leadership. Based on a study of projects in different organizational contexts inAustralia and China, we provide insights about the characteristics of these socio-cognitive spacesand how they contribute to a balance between vertical and horizontal leadership in projectmanagement.

Noguti, V & Waller, DS 1970, 'Do Effects of Social Media Advertising Change at Different Times of the Day? The Impact of Seeking Information and Entertainment', International Conference on Research in Advertising, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Noguti, V & Waller, DS 1970, 'Understanding Consumers’ Use of Social Media at Different Times of the Day: Implications for Advertising Recall', Australia and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, Newcastle.
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Social media plays a central role in many people’s lives, not only for communications with family and friends, but also to get connected with new people and to learn news from individuals as well as from mainstream sources. Conversations about brands and products between consumers, and between consumers and companies, contribute a significant part within this rich informational online environment. Advertising also has a role to play in these conversations as it can both inform and entertain the audience. While the advertising industry evolves and adapts to rapidly changing technological possibilities, finding ways to optimise advertising impact and not annoy the potential customer are important goals. A better understanding of how people use social media provides factors that can help with this optimisation. One such factor is how different people use social media differently throughout the day, i.e., during morning, day, and evening times. This paper investigates interest in news distributed via social media at different times of the day and compares this with the recall of advertised brands. This situation is likely to be important in the context of adverting as ads provide information and those interested in news tend to be eager to get information. Specifically this study explores how consumers who are most active on Facebook either early in the morning, during the day, or in the evening differ in their ad recall through their interest in getting daily news from Facebook. To discover this, a total of 408 participants living in Australia who use Facebook on their mobile phones completed an online study. The results are moderated by gender, age, and psychological reactance (degree to which people react against threats to their freedom of choice such as unsolicited advertising intrusion). The study found that high reactance, older females most intensely using Facebook during the day get more of their daily news from Facebook, and tend to recall mo...

Okumu, CO & Dela Rama, M 1970, 'Survival of the Fittest: A study of the Effects of Chinese Entrepreneurship in Kenya', Proceedings of the 30th Annual Australian New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference : Under New Management: Innovating for Sustainable and Just Futures, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM, Brisbane - Australia, pp. 1-15.
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The increasing presence of Chinese players in the Kenyan market is indisputable. Theirmotivations, business acumen and how that impact on the market has raised debate invarious pockets of international business scholars, observers and students (citationsrequired). This paper applies the internationalisation of firm theory, to locate the realand actual effects of the burgeoning Chinese entrepreneurs in Kenya. Usingethnographic interviews of a significant number of Kenyan entrepreneurs the Kenyanplayers overwhelmingly contend that as a result of hyper competition imposed on theirbusinesses by cheap and low quality alternatives (mainly from China), they are facingbusiness extinction and a case of survival for the fittest.

Patel, VG & Michayluk, D 1970, 'Disentangling the different sources of value creation for US divestitures', Financial Management Association Asia-Pacific Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Patel, VG, Putnins, T, Michayluk, D & Foley, S 1970, 'Price discovery in stock and options markets', Society for Financial Studies Finance Cavalcade, Toronto, Canada.

Pinchen, S & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Organising for Design-led Innovation: Reframing tensions in innovation practices', Organizing in the Shadow of Power, 2016 European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Naples, Itally.

Pradhan, S, Hawryszkiewycz & Agarwal, R 1970, 'A collaborative tool for enhancing Design Thinking', UTS Business Faculty L & T grant recipients presentation, Sydney.

Randhawa, K, Josserand, E & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Knowledge dynamics at the firm-user community boundary: A Community of Practice view', Academy of Management Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA, pp. 18312-18312.
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In this paper, we address the need for newer approaches to engage with the interactive nature of knowledge exchange that occurs when firms engage in open innovation with user communities. Drawing on the Community of Practice perspective, we develop a relational framework that forms the basis for examining the social dynamics underpinning knowledge collaboration between the firm and the community. This framework integrates the perspective of community (and its users) with the host firm to enable a comprehensive investigation of social tensions associated with the dynamics at the firm- community boundary, and how these tensions can be managed generatively to enable seamless co-creation of knowledge and innovation. We discuss how researchers can use the framework for future studies that seek to better understand the complex, relational dynamics of firm-community knowledge collaboration. These insights are valuable for firms to support knowledge collaboration by focusing on effective boundary management practices for negotiating tensions that emanate at the firm-community boundary.

Randhawa, K, Josserand, EL & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Knowledge collaboration at the firm-user community boundary: Is Community of Practice an answer?', 14th International Open and User Innovation Conference, 14th International Open and User Innovation Conference, Boston, USA.
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In this paper, we respond to calls for newer avenues to address the dynamics of knowledge collaboration involved in open innovation that occurs through firm-hosted user communities. We adopt a Community of Practice lens to develop a framework that integrates the perspective of the community (and its users) with the host firm to enable a holistic examination of the social dynamics of firm-community knowledge collaboration. This framework can be used to examine how tensions underpinning the dynamics emanate at the firm-community boundary, and how these tensions can be managed generatively to enable the co-creation of knowledge and innovation. We suggest how future empirical research can apply our framework to study facets of knowledge dynamics at the interface between firms and user communities. These insights are useful for firms to negotiate tensions at the firm-community boundary and aid seamless knowledge collaboration so as to capture value from user community-based open innovation.

Sajib, S & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Exploring linkage between dynamic capabilities and firm performance: Evidences from case studies of ICT companies', 16th Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management titled “The Future of Manufacturing: Global Value Chains, Smart Specialisation and Flexibility”, Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management, Sydney.

Sandberg, J, Dall'Alba, G & Stephens, A 1970, 'Enacting skill in work performance', 8th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Corfu, Greece.

Scerri, M & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Changing Payment Processes: Impact on Supply Chains', The Future of Manufacturing: Global Value Chains, Smart Specialisation and Flexibility, Sydney.

Scerri, M, Edwards, D & Foley, C 1970, 'The Economic Impact of Architecture to Tourism', The Chaning Landscapre of Tourism and Hospitality: The impact of emerging markets and emerging destinations, Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Annual Conference, Blue Mountains Hotel Management School, Sydney, pp. 436-457.
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Iconic architecture assists in the identification of a place, city or precinct. Structural, functional and aesthetic aspects of architecture, particularly those that represent unique features, attract tourists. The aim of this study is to explore the value of iconic buildings to tourism with particular focus on the recently opened University of Technology Sydney Business School’s Gehry designed Dr Chau Chak Wing (CCW) building. Five case studies which estimate the economic and social value of buildings to tourism are examined and the benefits transfer method is used to estimate the value of the CCW to tourism.

Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, S, Sugden, J, Fujak, H & Siefken, K 1970, 'Sport-for-Development: Are we Crossing Borders in Research?', 21st European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress, Vienna.

Scott, T & Grosse, MJ 1970, 'Pricing Initial Engagements and Interim Reviews', AFAANZ Conference, Gold Coast.

Sivaprakasam, S & Agarwal, R 1970, 'The Role and Importance of ASEAN SMEs and Their Integration into Global Value Chains', 14th ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium titled “Making a difference in a changing world through collaboration, creativity and innovation”, ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium, Sydney.

Small, J & Darcy, S 1970, 'The accessibility of Sydney attractions for visitors with vision impairment', School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Conference: Making an impact: creating constructive conversations, Guildford, Surrey.

Sombatruang, N, Sasse, MA & Baddeley, M 1970, 'Why do people use unsecure public wi-fi?', Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust, STAST '16: Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust, ACM, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 61-72.
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Spiropoulos, H, Bugeja, M & Matolcsy, Z 1970, 'Alternative Explanations of the CEO Pay Slice and Some of Its Economic Consequences', JCAE Symposium, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Spiropoulos, H, Bugeja, M, Matolcsy, Z & Ghannam, S 1970, 'Who joins a sinking ship and why? Some evidence on independent directors who join fraudulent firms', EAA - European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Spiropoulos, H, Bugeja, M, Matolcsy, Z & Ghannam, S 1970, 'Who joins a sinking ship and why? Some evidence on independent directors who join fraudulent firms', World Finance Conference, New York, US.

Sugden, J, Schulenkorf, N, Adair, D, Edwards, D & Frawley, S 1970, 'Sport for Peace or Sport for Development: Uncoupling two distinct genres', ISSA’s World Congress of Sociology of Sport: Sport, Global Development and Social Change, Budapest.

Sugden, J, Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, S, Edwards, D & Adair, D 1970, 'Sport, Stereotypes and Racial Formation in Fiji', Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) Conference, Auckland.

Sukura, B, Agarwal, R & Giurco, D 1970, 'Interdisciplinary telehealth care collaboration – a literature review', 16th Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management titled “The Future of Manufacturing: Global Value Chains, Smart Specialisation and Flexibility”, Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management, Sydney.

Sutton, NC & Brown, DA 1970, 'Extending the decision to ‘ally’: the inter-dependencies between hybrid governance structure and inter-firm management control systems', British Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, British Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, Bath, U.K..

Sutton, NC & Brown, DA 1970, 'Studying MCS package design through managers’ incremental control choices', MONFORMA, MONFORMA, Melbourne, Australia.

Trede, F, Goodyear, P, Macfarlane, S, Markauskaite, L, McEwen, C & Tayebjee, F 1970, 'Enhancing Workplace Learning through Mobile Technology: Barriers and Opportunities to the Use of Mobile Devices on Placement in the Healthcare and Education Fields', Mobile Learning Futures–Sustaining Quality Research and Practice in Mobile Learning, World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 250-250.

Trede, F, Goodyear, P, Macfarlane, S, McEwen, C, Markauskaite, L & Tayebjee, F 1970, 'Using mobile technology for workplace learning: Fostering students’ agency', ASCILITE 2016 - Conference Proceedings - 33rd International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education: Show Me the Learning, ascilite, pp. 583-588.
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Students’ agency is an important enabler of productive learning in complex, unpredictable workplace environments. In the study presented here, we explored how mobile technology can help students enhance their workplace learning experiences and develop their capacity to act as learners and future practitioners. We collected survey and interview data from 312 participants, which informed the development of Mobile Technology Capacity Building Framework that comprises thematic resources for students, academics and workplace educators. Its development draws on two sets of theoretical ideas: the importance of agentic learning that enables students to develop their practice capabilities; and the use of activity-centred learning design to distinguish between what can be designed ahead of time and what should be left to students’ agency. This study and Framework contribute to understanding how the productive use of technologies can foster students’ agency and development of deliberate professionals with a high sense of adaptive expertise.

Wakefield, J, Tyler, J, Dyson, L & Frawley, J 1970, 'Implications of Tablet Computing Annotation and Sharing Technology on Student Learning', American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, New York.

Wakefield, JA, Tyler, J, Dyson, L & Frawley, J 1970, 'Implications of tablet computing enabled sharing and annotation technology on introductory accounting student performance', AFAANZ, Gold Coast.

Waller, DS & Waller, HJ 1970, 'Social Media by Art Galleries: An Analysis of Negative Facebook Comments', Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

White, AW & Ma, N 1970, 'Work integrated learning: preparing students for graduate recruitment using a video interview assessment task', RMIT Accounting Educators Conference 2016, Swanston Academic Building, Level 11, Melbourne.

Xu, J & Choi, S 1970, 'Why Do Underperforming CEOs Retain Their Jobs? Evidence from Executive Turnover', 2016 Auckland Finance Meeting, Ackland, New Zealand.

Yu, K & Noh, S 1970, 'Inter-Linkages Between Organizational Politics and Collective Action in Institutional Fields', European Group for Organizational Studies, Naples, Italy.

Zlatevska, N & Holden, S 1970, 'Nudging the Weight off. Small Portions Big Effects', Theory and Practice in Marketing Conference,, Texas.

Agarwal, R, Scott-kemmis, D, Green, R, Josserand, E & Heizmann, H UTS Sydney 2016, The Regional High Performance Network Abridged Final Report, Regional High Performance Network Main Report, UTS sydney.

Aubusson, P, Schuck, SR, Ng, W, Burke, P, Pressick-Kilborn, K & Palmer, T 2016, Case Study Report: Quality Learning and Teaching in Primary Science and Technology, Australia.

Burke, AJ, Reinmuth, G, Horton, T, Edwards, D, Foley, C, Scerri, M & Horn, Z 2016, Measuring Up: Innovation and the Value-Add of Architecture.

Edwards, D, Foley, CT & Hergesell, A 2016, Conferences: catalysts for thriving economies, Sydney.

Leung, L, Nikolova, N, Schweitzer, J, Goldsby-Smith, T, Whybrow, T & Jurd, K 2016, The View From The Top – 2016 Innovation Report: A conversation with Chairs & CEOs of 20+ major corporations on the state of innovation in Australia, pp. 1-40.
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The study investigates the practices and strategies of boards and executive teams for fostering innovation as well as what barriers hinder innovations. More specifically, the study focuses on how boards and executive teams manage the paradox of investing in exploration vs exploitation of resources. The report demonstrates that most Australian big businesses focus on exploitation of existing resources and solutions, and there is insufficient exploration of new ideas. The report further focuses on how boards support or hinder innovation.

O'Brien, B & Boersma, M Catalyst Australia & The Australia Institute 2016, Human Rights in the Supply Chains of Australian Businesses: Opportunities for Legislative Reform, Sydney, Australia.
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Peters, M, Wieder, B, Booth, P & Wakefield, J CIMA and UTS 2016, How Management Accounting Teams can Effectively Support Superior Performance Measurement Practices, Sydney Australia.

Pham, H Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC). 2016, Integrated Sustainable Management System: Environmental Performance Measurement Systems for Cotton Growers Australian Cotton., Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)..

Pham, H, Brown, P, Bajada, C, Ghannam, S & Chia, C UTS 2016, The value of an Algae based bio-economy in NSW: Preliminary findings., UTS Report.

Wearing, SL, Lyons, K & Lyons, K NSW Business Chamber 2016, The Sharing Economy: Issues, Impacts, And Regulatory Responses In The Context Of The NSW Visitor Economy, http://www.nswbusinesschamber.com.au/NSWBCWebsite/media/Policy/Tourism/Sharing-Economy-Issues-Impacts-and-Regulatory-Responses-COMBINED-POLICY-9-11-15.pdf, no. http://www.nswbusinesschamber.com.au/NSWBCWebsite/media/Policy/Tourism/Sharing-Economy-Issues-Impacts-and-Regulatory-Responses-COMBINED-POLICY-9-11-15.pdf, pp. 1-46, NSW.

Wearing, SL, Small, J & Grabowski, S UNWTO 2016, Volunteer tourism: Transforming youth for a sustainable future, UNWTO Report, Transformative Tourism for Our Sustainable Future, pp. 48-51, Madrid, Spain.

Agarwal, R 2016, 'How to strengthen business in regional Australia', http://leadershipmatters.com.au/new-in-leadership/2016/march/how-to-strengthen-business-in-regional-australia.

Agarwal, R 2016, 'Lighting the Fuse – How to drive Cultural Change', Create Magazine, pp. 27-29.
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Create Magazine published by Engineering Australia – Story by Louis White; pages 27-29 Nov 16, 2016.

Agarwal, R 2016, 'Strategic supply chain management more important than ever'.

Beaumont, S, Ratiu, R, Reeb, D, Boyle, G, Brown, P, Szimayer, A, da Silva Rosa, R, Hillier, D, McColgan, P, Tsekeris, A, Howieson, B, Matolcsy, Z, Spiropoulos, H, Roberts, J, Smith, T, Zhou, Q, Swan, PL, Taylor, S, Wright, S & Yermack, D 2016, 'Comments on Shan and Walter: ‘Towards a Set of Design Principles for Executive Compensation Contracts’', Wiley, pp. 685-771.
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Boersma, M 2016, 'Australian government slow to respond to supply chain labour exploitation', Sydney Morning Herald.

Boersma, M 2016, 'Companies prefer ticking boxes to breaking the glass ceiling', The Conversation.

Boersma, M 2016, 'Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi and Jennifer Noveck, Labor Standards in International Supply Chains – Aligning Rights and Incentives', SAGE Publications, pp. 699-700.
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Boersma, M & O'Brien, B 2016, 'Australian Government Must Protect Vulnerable Workers in Supply Chains', Pro Bono Australia.

Carabetta, G 2016, '‘Fair Work’ Bargaining for Police: A Proposal for Reform’, Seminar Presentation, University of Toronto, Canada, Centre for Industrial Relations Research, 7 November 2016.'.
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Seminar Presentation, University of Toronto, Canada, Centre for Industrial Relations Research.

Cheng, B, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C & Schlogl, E 2016, 'Empirical Hedging Performance of Long dated Commodity Derivatives', Research Paper: 376, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney.

Cheng, B, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C & Schlogl, E 2016, 'Empirical Pricing Performance on Long Dated Crude Oil Derivatives: Do Models with Stochastic Interest Rates Matter?', Research Paper: 367, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney.

Cheng, B, Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C & Schlogl, E 2016, 'Hedging Futures Options with Stochastic Interest Rates', Research Paper: 375, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney.

Cheng, B, Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C & Schlogl, E 2016, 'Pricing of Long-Dated Commodity Derivatives with Stochastic Volatility and Stochastic Interest Rates'.
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Aiming to study pricing of long-dated commodity derivatives, this paper presents a class of models within the Heath, Jarrow, and Morton (1992) framework for commodity futures prices that incorporates stochastic volatility and stochastic interest rate and allows a correlation structure between the futures price process, the futures volatility process and the interest rate process. The functional form of the futures price volatility is specified so that the model admits finite dimensional realisations and retains affine representations, henceforth quasi-analytical European futures option pricing formulae can be obtained. A sensitivity analysis reveals that the correlation between the interest rate process and the futures price process has noticeable impact on the prices of long-dated futures options, while the correlation between the interest rate process and the futures price volatility process does not impact option prices. Furthermore, when interest rates are negatively correlated with futures prices then option prices are more sensitive to the volatility of interest rates, an effect that is more pronounced with longer maturity options.

Christodoulou, D, Ma, L & Vasnev, A 2016, 'Quarterly Earnings Management'.

Clarke, T & Boersma, M 2016, 'Analysis of the Regulation, Policies, Strategies, Implementation and Reporting on Sustainability in International Finance', UNEP Inquiry: Design of a Sustainable Financial System.

Coulton, J, Livne, G, Pettinicchio, AK & Taylor, SL 2016, 'Abnormal Audit Fees and Accounting Quality'.

Darcy, SA & Jonson, P 2016, 'No other recourse but to sue? The implications of Alex McKinnon’s lawsuit against the NRL', The Conversation.
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The article examines the legal, insurance, compensation and impact of spinal cord injury perspectives on the Alex McKinnon case. Alex McKinnon had a spinal cord injury caused by a tackle in the National Rugby League in 2014. The cases brought into sharp focus in series of workplace, sport insurance and

Darcy, SA & Legg, D 2016, 'A brief history of the Paralympic Games: from post-WWII rehabilitation to mega sport event'.

Dickson, TJ, Knijnik, J & Darcy, SA 2016, '‘Grotesque spectacle’? Rio has a long way to go to become more accessible'.

Frawley, S, Billings, AC & Hardin, MC 2016, 'The Global Impact of Olympic Media at London 2012', Informa UK Limited, pp. 253-254.
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Frawley, S, Hoye, R, Smith, A, Nicholson, M & Stewart, B 2016, 'Sport Management: Principles and Applications', Informa UK Limited, pp. 475-476.
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Gavin, M 2016, 'How do Teacher Unions Respond to Neoliberal Education Reform? Preliminary Insights from an Analysis of Union Documents'.
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The University of Sydney Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies HDR Symposium

Gavin, M 2016, 'The Strategic Response of the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation in Times of Neoliberalism: The Case of Teachers’ Work and Conditions'.

Gibson, A, Knight, S, Aitken, A, Buckingham Shum, S, Ryan, P, Jarvis, W, Nikolova, N, Tsingos-Lucas, C, Parr, A, White, A & Sutton, N 2016, 'Using Writing Analytics For Formative Feedback'.

Gibson, A, Knight, S, Aitken, A, Buckingham Shum, S, Ryan, P, Jarvis, W, Nikolova, N, Tsingos-Lucas, C, Parr, A, White, A, Sutton, N & Tsingos-Lucas, C 2016, 'Using Writing Analytics For Formative Feedback'.

Girsberger, EM & Meango, R 2016, 'Educated unemployment in urban West Africa: Why do educated workers not grade down?'.

Glover, KJ & Hambusch, G 2016, 'Leveraged Investments and Agency Conflicts When Cash Flows are Mean Reverting'.
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We analyse the effect of differing uncertainty assumptions on the costs of shareholder-bondholder conflicts arising from partially debt-financed investments. A partial equilibrium model, valid for a large class of diffusion processes, is developed and then applied to the specific cases of a geometric Brownian motion (GBM) and a mean-reverting (MR) process. This allows for the comparison of the two scenarios and contributes to the ongoing discussion on the effects of mean reversion on investment and financing behaviour. We find that agency costs are much lower under MR dynamics and, through the application of a novel agency cost decomposition, we show that for a high expected growth in future profits (high growth GBM) agency costs are driven mainly by suboptimal financing decisions, as opposed to suboptimal (default and investment) timing decisions. The situation is reversed for lower growth assumptions and for an increase in the speed of mean reversion. Our results on the components and drivers of agency costs are valuable to both policy makers and regulators alike.

Goldbaum, D 2016, 'Networks Formation to Assist Decision Making', SSRN.

Ingram, T 2016, 'Andrew Forrest calls on government to lead regional response against slavery', Australian Financial Review.

Jarvis, W, Nikolova, N & Johns, R 2016, 'We need to change more than pay for executives to do better', The Conversation.
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Critiques entrenched practices of incentivizing executives through financial bonuses. Advances alternatives (eg Stewardship of public trust) to promote understanding of organizations embedded in and serving societies globally.

Jin, M, Li, Y, Wang, J-X & Yang, YC 2016, 'Price Discovery in the Chinese Gold Market'.

Joachim, JG, Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, SM & Schlenker, K 2016, 'Design Thinking and Sport [for] Development'.

Josserand, EL 2016, 'Axel Marx, Jan Wouters, Glenn Rayp and Laura Beke (eds), Global Governance of Labour Rights:', SAGE Publications, pp. 563-564.
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Lanis, R & Richardson, G 2016, 'A Reply to Corporate Social Responsibility and Tax Aggressiveness: A Test of Legitimacy Theory', pp. 90-92.
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Leung, L, Schweitzer, J & Nikolova, N 2016, 'Executives’ short-term outlooks the real killer of Australian innovation', The Conversation.
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Malcolm Turnbull’s Innovation Agenda focused attention on startups and technology-driven innovation, but this is not enough to overcome the broader problems inhibiting innovation in Australia. Businesses may be looking to the government to ease red tape as a means to increase innovation but what’s really blocking innovation is the short-term view of senior executives, our research finds. We interviewed 12 board Chairs and nine CEOs of top ASX-listed companies, one-on-one in wide-ranging interviews to try and find out what the leaders of large Australian businesses are thinking and doing in the innovation space.

Logue, DM & Boersma, M 2016, 'Social Innovation in Interstitial Spaces: The Case and Unintended Consequences of Civic Crowd Funding'.

Ossimitz, M, Wieder, B & Chapman, P 2016, 'Management Accounting Functionality in SAP Solutions – Implications for Research and Practise'.
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Since the start of the new millennium, management accounting researchers have investigated how Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPS) or the implementation of such systems influences management accounting (practises) and/or firm performance. More recently, the empirical focus of such studies has shifted towards the SAP ERPS, the world-market leading enterprise system (Columbus, 2014). Despite this focus, none of these studies has ever described the management accounting functionalities of SAP ERP, let alone acknowledging that, over the past decade, SAP has substantially expanded its solution range for management accounting, in particular with the acquisition of BusinessObjects in 2007. Today, management accounting functionalities are dispersed across a wide range of SAP ‘solutions’ beyond the core SAP ERP, including cloud solutions, and even for SAP customers it is difficult to reconcile which software component contributes the various ‘solution for management accounting’. We argue that research on the impacts of such systems on management accounting practises and performance requires a detailed understanding of the management accounting functionality provided by such systems – across all modules and add-on components.Our archival and expert-interview based study aims to provide such insights by systematically analysing the current SAP software solutions range to locate management accounting tools and to map those tools with the broader body of knowledge of management accounting practises. Key findings of our study are that the SAP software range provides support for almost all common management accounting practises and that for some of these practises SAP users are provided with a range of tools providing similar functionality (e.g. SAP SEM, SAP Strategy Management, and SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management). Further to that, the SAP software range provides management accounting functionalities such as “Grenzplankostenrechnung” (GPK), which...

Patel, VG & Michayluk, D 2016, 'Disentangling the different sources of value creation for US divestitures'.
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Reyes, A 2016, 'Legislation to Combat Slavery and Trafficking in Supply Chains', 2SER.

Rhodes, C 2016, 'Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried and Edward Granter (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment', SAGE Publications, pp. 697-698.
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Riordan, P 2016, 'Best and worst companies for women on boards revealed', Australian Financial Review.

Riordan, P 2016, 'Minister accused of killing supply chain abuse findings', Australian Financial Review.

Scerri, M & Agarwal, R 2016, 'Changing Payment Processes: Impact on Supply Chains'.

Schulenkorf, N, Sherry, E & Rowe, K 2016, 'Critical Issues in Global Sport Management', Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 176-191.
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Critical Issues in Global Sport Management will provide researchers, students and practitioners with a collection of chapters that examine the latest concepts and challenges faced by the global sport industry. The book identifies and evaluates current issues and complexities faced by those charged with the responsibility of managing sport in compound business contexts as well as intricate social environments.

Schwabenland, C, Lange, C, Onyx, J & Nakagawa, S 2016, 'Women’s emancipation and civil society organisations: Challenging or maintaining the status quo?', Policy Press, University of Bristol, pp. 1-369.
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Women are at the heart of civil society organisations. Through them they have achieved many successes, challenged oppressive practices at a local and global level and have developed outstanding entrepreneurial activities. Yet Civil Service Organisation (CSO) research tends to ignore considerations of gender and the rich history of activist feminist organisations is rarely examined. This collection examines the nexus between the emancipation of women, and their role(s) in these organisations. Featuring contrasting studies from a wide range of contributors from different parts of the world, it covers emerging issues such as the role of social media in organising, the significance of religion in many cultural contexts, activism in Eastern Europe and the impact of environmental degradation on women’s lives. Asking whether involvement in CSOs offers a potential source of emancipation for women or maintains the status quo, this anthology will also have an impact on policy and practice in relation to equal opportunities.

Schweitzer, J 2016, 'Leadership, Innovation, and Alliance Questionnaire'.
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Shan, Y & Walter, T 2016, 'Responses and Rejoinders to Commentaries', Wiley, pp. 772-780.
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Shibib, W & Josserand, E 2016, 'Social Media-driven advocacy and collective actions of stakeholders', Academy of Management, pp. 17411-17411.
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How does Social Media (SM) impact the Stakeholder Theory (ST) and the stakeholder environment of organizations? We witness with the rise in importance of the digital sphere in the past few years and in particular Social Media a new and more accessible space for stakeholders to be active and engaged. This enables frequent and intensive interactions between advocators, stakeholders, and with the focal organization. In the following the potential of organized resistance and mounted pressure by SM-driven activities increase, which disrupt corporations� operations and enforce the pressure to change - a growing challenge to the stakeholder management literature. This paper presents a conceptual framework of the forthcoming research in the stakeholder theory literature as well as a research agenda for the stakeholder management theory to capture these phenomena in a more accurate way. Increasing number of SM- driven resistance to multinationals in the past few years, among others boycotts justifies our focus on stakeholder collective actions and SM-driven advocacy. The proposed research will discuss how and why advocacy activism harness public interest to mount pressure on a large, transnational scale in the digital sphere.

Spanjol, J & Tam, L 2016, 'It’s the Thoughts that Count: Substitution for Goal Striving Actions', Springer International Publishing, pp. 11-11.
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Spanjol, J, Tam, L & Tam, V 2016, 'Fit to be Creative: Organization-Employee Congruence on Environmental Values', Springer International Publishing, pp. 529-529.
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Spicer, A, Stavrunova, O & Thorp, S 2016, 'How Portfolios Evolve after Retirement: Evidence from Australia', pp. 241-267.
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Households in many developed economies now reach retirement with lump sums of financial wealth accumulated through defined contribution retirement plans. Managing wealth from individual accumulations and public provision is critical to retirement welfare. We study the dynamics of retirement wealth and asset allocation using the three wealth waves of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) panel survey. We find significant influences of ageing on asset holdings with older households preferring less risk and more liquidity, while maintaining ownership of the family home. In terms of absolute changes in wealth the average retired household accumulated in 2002-06 and decumulated 2006-10 in line with financial market trends. More diversified households did better. The probability of retired households depleting non-housing wealth to less than one month’s Age Pension payment increased over the sample. Finally, in contrast to the US, the overall effect of health shocks on the wealth of retired Australian households is minimal.

Trede, F & McEwen, C 2016, 'Educating the Deliberate Professional Preparing for future practices', Springer.
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This book takes a fresh look at professional practice and professional education. In times of increased managerialism of academic teaching and a focus on graduate learning outcomes, it discusses possibilities to teach and learn otherwise.

Turton, P 2016, 'Gender Equality at Work', ABC Newcastle.

Waller, DS 2016, 'Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race'.

Waller, DS 2016, 'And the Oscars winner is…branding'.

Waller, DS 2016, 'Behold the power of negative political advertising'.

Waller, DS 2016, 'Dastyari dilemma – the attraction of strangers bearing gifts'.

Waller, DS 2016, 'Why the marketing watchdogs won’t touch false or misleading political advertising'.

Waller, HJ & Waller, DS 2016, 'Turning Music Culture into Museum Programs', Museums Australia, Acton, ACT, Australia, pp. 52-57.

Walsh, KD 2016, 'China’s currency plan still on track, despite global market volatility', The Conversation.

Wearing, SL 2016, 'Volunteer tourism: popular humanitarianism in neo-liberal times', Informa UK Limited, pp. 92-93.
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Wearing, SL, McDonald, M, Wearing, M & Porter, D 2016, 'Computer Games as Consumptive Leisure: Isn’t it all just bang bang your dead?', Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles.