Publications

Baddeley, M 2017, Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.
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Berti, M 2017, Elgar Introduction to Organizational Discourse Analysis, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
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© Marco Berti 2017. All rights reserved. Our knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by invisible relationship of power that are embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. The notion of discourse has been used by many authors to describe and study these phenomena, and this volume offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the vast field of critical organizational discourse analysis. Targeted at graduate and doctoral students, and at non-specialist academic who need to familiarize with the academic debate on the subject, the book harnesses the power of metaphors to describe the many faces of discourse.

Clegg, SR, Schweitzer, J, Whittle, A & Pitelis, C 2017, Strategy: Theory and Practice, 2nd, Sage Publishing, London.
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Updated to bring the material in line with the topical and contemporary ideas and debates on or about strategy and catering to students and their diverse learning styles, the second edition is an easy to use tool allowing students to switch from web resources to the print text and back again, opening windows on the world of strategy through cases that are vibrant and engaged, digital links that allow them to explore topics in more detail and video and other media that encourage relating theory to practice.Providing a fresh perspective on strategy from an organizational perspective through a discursive approach featuring key theoretic tenets, this text is also pragmatic and emphasizes the practices of strategy to encourage the reader to be open to a wider set of ideas, with a little more relevance, and with a cooler attitude towards the affordances of the digital world and the possibilities for strategy’s futures. The key areas of Strategy take a critical stance in the new edition, and also include areas less evident in conventional strategy texts such as not-for-profit organizations, process theories, globalization, organizational politics and decision-making as well as the futures of strategy. The new edition comes packed with features that encourage readers to engage and relate theory to practice and is complimented by a free Interactive e-book* featuring videos, cases and other relevant links, allowing access on the go and encouraging learning and retention whatever the reading or learning style. Suitable as core reading for undergraduate and postgraduate business management students of strategy and strategic management.

Di Guilmi, C, Landini, S & Gallegati, M 2017, Interactive macroeconomics: Stochastic aggregate dynamics with heterogeneous and interacting agents.
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One of the major problems of macroeconomic theory is the way in which the people exchange goods in decentralized market economies. There are major disagreements among macroeconomists regarding tools to influence required outcomes. Since the mainstream efficient market theory fails to provide an internal coherent framework, there is a need for an alternative theory. The book provides an innovative approach for the analysis of agent based models, populated by the heterogeneous and interacting agents in the field of financial fragility. The text is divided in two parts; the first presents analytical developments of stochastic aggregation and macro-dynamics inference methods. The second part introduces macroeconomic models of financial fragility for complex systems populated by heterogeneous and interacting agents. The concepts of financial fragility and macroeconomic dynamics are explained in detail in separate chapters. The statistical physics approach is applied to explain theories of macroeconomic modelling and inference. Offers statistical mechanics approach to macroeconomics. Discusses use of statistical mechanics in macroeconomic modeling. Follows a probabilistic approach for the analytical solution of agent based models. Systematic treatment of stochastic dynamic aggregation techniques used for multi-agent models.

Edwards, D, Foley, C & Malone, C 2017, The Power of Conferences: Stories of serendipity, innovation and driving social change, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney.
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A chance encounter at a conference sets up a series of unfolding events. In 1982, immunologist Ian Frazer attended his first international gastroenterology conference in Canberra, Australia. After his presentation on genital warts, a colleague, Dr Gabrielle Medley, discussed with him the potential link between the human papillomavirus and cancer. This meeting proved fateful, as it helped to put him on the path that would ultimately lead to the development of the HPV vaccine. This vaccine is now used across the globe, and may eradicate cervical cancer within a generation. This book seeks to explore and understand these long-term outcomes: what we loosely refer to as the ‘long tail’ of conference impact. By doing so, we hope to add to an increasingly complex picture of the value of conferences. For, despite the costs and effort involved in hosting and attending conferences, despite all the online communication options for the circulation of knowledge and commentary, many thousands of events, involving many thousands of people coming together, take place around the world each year. What makes them so worthwhile? How can we plan and design conferences to allow for the full range of potential benefits and outcomes?

Fleming, P 2017, The Death of Homo Economicus Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation, Pluto Press (UK).
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The story begins with the creation of a fake persona labelled the 'dollar-hunting man', invented by economists Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek.

Onyx, J & Nowland-Foreman, G 2017, A Review of Third Sector Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: 1990-2016, 2017, BRILL, Leiden.
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This is the first comprehensive overview of third sector research in Australasia, prepared by leading researchers, Jenny Onyx in Australia and Garth Nowland-Foreman in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines both the current state of knowledge of the sector and also the research infrastructure behind the sector. Part one documents the size and scope of the sector, as well as the development of the organisation ANZTSR and its journal. Part two examines relations with the state in each country, the rapid growth in funding services, but also effects of neo-liberal ideological and policy constraints. Part Three documents the current state of volunteering and philanthropy (giving) in both countries. Part Four examines the world of citizen action, building social capital within local communities, and also advocacy and political protest. The concluding Part Five examines some of the current developments in civil society, new emerging forms, and challenges for the future.

Ross, SA, Trayler, R, Van de Venter, TW, Bird, R, Westerfield, RW & Jordan, BD 2017, Essentials of Corporate Finance, 4th, McGraw Hill, Sydney, Australia.

Adair, D 2017, 'Anti-doping for Paralympians' in Darcy, S, Frawley, S & Adair, D (eds), Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, USA, pp. 133-153.
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Doping in sport, as with cheating in other realms of life, is disappointing but not surprising. For high-performance athletes, there is arguably a stronger impetus to break the rules than in other domains: this is because some believe that their competitors are doping and—perverse as it might sound—a decision not to dope would put them at a performance disadvantage (Kräkel 2007).

Adair, D & Stronach, M 2017, 'Kwementyaye (Charles) Perkins: Indigenous Soccer Player and Australian Political Activist' in Nauright, J & Wiggins, D (eds), Sport and Revolutionaries Reclaiming the Historical Role of Sport in Social and Political Activism, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 86-102.
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This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists.

Adair, D, Darcy, S & Frawley, S 2017, 'Paralympic Paradigm: A Research Agenda' in Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 289-293.
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Adriaanse, JA 2017, 'Gender diversity in the governance of international sport federations' in Schulenkorf, N & Frawley, S (eds), Critical Issues in Global Sport Management, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 23-37.

Ambrecht, J, Lundberg, E, Andersson, TD & Getz, D 2017, 'The Value of Events' in Lundberg, E, Armbrecht, J, Andersson, TD & Getz, D (eds), The Value of Events, Routledge, pp. 105-123.
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Aubke, F & Hergesell, A 2017, 'Networks for social capital building in tourism higher education' in Benckendorff, P & Zehrer, A (eds), Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 564-574.
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Higher education institutions form a micro-cosmos in which students build social connections both inside and outside of the classroom. Some relations can be considered affective (e.g. friendships), some can be considered functional (e.g. group work). Some relations are formed voluntarily, some are induced. Some relations endure beyond the university context and reach into the private sphere; some relations are of limited duration. At any point in time, students engage in multiple social relationships and the networks these relationships form have, in turn, a significant effect on student academic performance (Baldwin et al. 1997; Cho et al. 2007; Rizzuto et al. 2009). The interdependence of social relationships and academic performance builds on the theory of social capital. The mastery of building and using relationships and thereby social capital has been defined as a key element of (higher) education and thus should find a place in modern curricula (Wilson 1997). Preparing students to become responsible leaders in tourism requires that students get the opportunity 1) to learn how to build social capital and use it to their own and society’s benefit and 2) to develop and capitalize on a range of relations among each other at present and in the future. In order for universities to match this expectation, they need to go beyond a revision of classroom teaching and get a thorough understanding of the characteristics of student networks and the effects these features have on the network members before being able to actively encourage social capital building. The exploratory study presented in this chapter touches on these questions examining an intercultural tourism student setting and the characteristics of selected student networks. It also considers the impacts of those network characteristics on student performance. While the case study is context-specific and exploratory in nature, it can provide indicative insights into the interplay of network features ...

Baddeley, M 2017, 'Investment, Unemployment and the Cyber Revolution' in Economic Policies since the Global Financial Crisis, Springer International Publishing, pp. 173-220.
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Bloom, P & Rhodes, CH 2017, 'The Routledge Companion to Leadership' in Storey, J, Hartley, J, Denis, J-L, 't Hart, P & Ulrich, D (eds), The Routledge Companion to Leadership, Routledge, London, pp. 359-372.
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On Monday May 4, 2015 former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina launched her campaign as a candidate for the United States presidency. While her candidature was path breaking as the rst female to ever run as a Republican for this position, her campaign had focused rst and foremost on her experience as a business leader. The previous February she declared: “HP requires executive decision-making, and the presidency is all about executive decisionmaking” (Lee, 2015). This echoed the abiding theme that she believed would resonate with voters: the message that “what she did for HP, she can do for America” (Carroll & Neate, 2015). Nevertheless, Fiorina’s record as CEO has been severely criticized. Hers was a tenure “marked by layos, outsourcing, conict, and controversy – so much so that several prominent former HP colleagues recoil at the idea of Fiorina managing any enterprise again, let alone the executive branch” (Corn, 2015). While such criticisms are important, they perhaps miss a more fundamental issue. Does being a CEO, even a successful one, serve as a good and proper background for political leadership? What does it reect about the potentially dangerous change in popular attitudes regarding the relation of leadership to democracy in the twenty-rst century?

Chan, THT & Thambiratnam, DP 2017, 'Preface.' in Majumder, P, Mitra, M, Mehta, P & Sankhavara, J (eds), Working notes of FIRE 2017 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Bangalore, India, December 8-10, 2017., CEUR-WS.org, Denmark, pp. 9-12.

Clegg, S 2017, 'The East India Company: The First Modern Multinational?' in Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 43-67.
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© 2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited. The East India Company can lay claim to being the world's first company whose operations involved systematic organization of multiple countries. It was a pioneer and innovator: It was one of the first companies to offer limited liability to its shareholders; it laid the foundations of the British empire; it spawned Company Man; it developed its own 'university'. It was a trader, merchant, mercenary, military force and civil administrator; a pioneer bureaucracy as well as being a lean operation. Using an analytic lens drawn from contemporary discussion on MNCs the article reviews the role of the East India Company over its life and draws parallels with contemporary MNCs.

Clegg, S, Berti, M & Jarvis, WP 2017, 'Future in the Past' in Wilkinson, A, Armstrong, SJ & Lounsbury, M (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Management, Oxford University Press, England, pp. 145-185.
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Management studies has “lost its way” by advancing instrumental research too frequently foreclosing its larger ethical and practical implications. The authors argue for bracketing the excessively technical and scientistic orientation of much management research by re-questioning the purposes, presuppositions and prejudices on which management and organization theories have been based. They explore philosophical approaches capable of grounding a restored public trust. These range from the use of phronesis (practical wisdom) in Business School curricula, rather than either pure techne or pure theoria, to recovering exemplars of codetermination in workplace practices and cultures that affirm in practice a deeper regard for human dignity than mere resource efficiency. These examples offer antidotes to entrenched managerialism in neoliberalism, embedding social and ecological concerns in organizational purposes. Management legitimacy is enhanced when viewed as a process accomplishing ends that support rather than alienate public confidence.

Clegg, S, Ray, T & Carter, C 2017, 'Japan as institutional counterfactual: Knowledge, learning and power' in Hodgson, DE & Carter, C (eds), Management Knowledge and the New Employee, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK, pp. 84-102.

Clegg, SR 2017, 'Ideal Type' in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 1-2.
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Clegg, SR 2017, 'Management' in Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Wiley Blackwell.
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Clegg, SR 2017, 'People, Management, and the Corporation after the Global Financial Crisis' in Bhatt, P, Jaiswal, P, Majumdar, B & Verma, S (eds), Riding the New Tides: Navigating the Future through Effective People Management, Emerald, New Delhi.

Clegg, SR 2017, 'The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology' in Ritzer, G (ed), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Wiley, Oxford, pp. 2201-2202.
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Clegg, SR & Cunha, MPE 2017, 'Organizational Dialectics' in Smith, WK, Lewis, MW, Jarzabkowski, P & Langley, A (eds), Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox., Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 105-124.
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The classical conception of dialectics is introduced and its applicability and applications in management and organization studies considered. Given its provenance in Hegelian and Marxist thought one might not expect managerialist thinkers to have embraced the central notion of contradictions—one would be mistaken. After considering managerialist accounts of contradictions, which it argues are non-dialectical, this chapter considers how the classical trinity of never-ending unfolding thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis, the result of which forms a new thesis for the endless return of the dialectic and, animated by the central elements of contradiction to the dialectic, might be used in management and organization studies. Instances of positive and negative dialectics are considered before moving to a consideration of gaps and future research, concluding, as is customary, with conclusions.

Collins, J 2017, 'Critical Reflections on Migration, ‘Race’ and Multiculturalism' in Boese, M & Marotta, V (eds), Critical Reflections on Migration, 'Race' and Multiculturalism: Australia in a Global Context, Routledge, UK, pp. 71-87.
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In the past two decades Australia, one of the world’s few post-1945 settler immigration nations, has switched to strongly preferring temporary over permanent immigration (Markus et al. 2009). This historical shift in Australian immigration policy away from settlers to guest workers and international students is, according to Mares (2009), the biggest change in migration to Australia since the end of the White Australia Policy. Most other Western and non-Western nations have traditionally viewed immigration as a means of attracting temporary guest workers to fill labour shortages and to return home when the demand for their labour petered out (Castles et al. 2014; Goldin et al. 2011). Around the turn of this century, as part of Australia’s enthusiastic engagement with globalisation, immigration preferences also turned to temporary migration: today the annual intake of temporary immigrants exceeds the permanent immigrant intake by 350 per cent (DIBP 2014a).

Dalton, B & dela Rama, M 2017, 'Business Ethics in Korea' in Oh, I & Park, G (eds), The Political Economy of Business Ethics in East Asia, Elsevier, Cambridge, MA, pp. 79-94.
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For organisations and management the role of business ethics is of key importance, but to what extent business ethics are actually new or fashionable or universally applicable are interesting questions. Asia has been the site of contests between competing economic and ethical views of how economic norms and institutions are organized. This book examines the evolutionary similarities and differences of institutionalizing business ethics in Asia in a historical context and in comparison to better-explored business ethics literature, both empirically and theoretically.

Darcy, S 2017, 'Accessibility as a Key Management Component of the Paralympics' in Darcy, S, Frawley, S & Adair, D (eds), Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, UK, pp. 49-92.
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The Paralympics are undoubtedly the pinnacle sporting event for people with disability where accessibility is both a facilitator and a potential legacy of the event. Accessibility is so ubiquitous to contributing to legacy yet the operationalisation of accessibility has been so poorly understood globally that the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPWD) has placed it central to the preamble in “recognising the importance of accessibility to the physical, social, economic and cultural environment, to health and education and to information and communication” (United Nations 2006, p. np). In doing so, the CRPWD recognises accessibility as the enabler for people with disability enjoying citizenship. Similarly, accessibility at the Paralympic Games has had a history of being considered the best they could do rather than on the cutting edge of accessibility for most of its early years. The informal convergence of the Olympic and Paralympic Games from Barcelona 1992 raised significant issues for disability access in host cities (Gold and Gold 2007). Although the requirement to run the two events together only really became binding with the 2008 Beijing Games, from 1992 potential hosts with an established record of upholding disability rights and legislation had a clear advantage in the bidding process that raised the expectations that the Paralympics would be incorporated with the highest level of accessibility.

Darcy, S, Frawley, S & Adair, D 2017, 'The Paralympic Games: Managerial and Strategic Directions' in Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, UK, pp. 1-19.
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In 2020 it will be 60 years since the first Paralympic Games in Rome (International Paralympic Committee 2015a, b). Over that time the Paralympics have grown into the world’s third largest sporting event behind the Olympic Games and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. Each successive Paralympic Games has made contribution to this growth: introducing new sports, encouraging more countries to attend, increased scope of broadcasting, record ticket sales, and alternative media channels to promote the event and its athletes. From 1960 to 2020 this has led to 11-fold increase in athlete participation, “from less than 400 in 1964 to over 4,250 at London 2012 and a projected 4,350 for Rio 2016” (International Paralympic Committee 2015b). Geographically, those countries represented at the Games have grown from 21 to 164 competing for some 500 medal event 23, evolving from an event for wheelchair athletes to numerous activities involving nine different impairment types (International Paralympic Committee 2015b). The summer Paralympics now has a cumulative TV audience of 3.8 billion people and has an increasing presence on social media: at London 2012, for example, some 1.3 million tweets mentioned “Paralympic” (International Paralympic Committee 2015b). Like the Olympics, the focus of these statistics has often been on the summer Paralympics, but there has also been important growth in the winter Paralympic Games (Legg and Gilbert 2011).

Darcy, SA & Almond, B 2017, 'Case study: Sydney’s 'Cultural Ribbon' (Australia)' in Aragall, F, Neumann, P & Sagramola, S (eds), Design for All in Tourist Destinations ECA 2017, EuCAN – European Concept for Accessibility Network, pp. 78-83.

Dwyer, L, Ateljević, I & Tomljenović, R 2017, 'Tourism Future: Towards Transformational Tourism' in Evolution of Destination Planning and Strategy, Springer International Publishing, pp. 279-294.
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© The Author(s) 2017. This chapter ties together the main proposition of the book grounded in the tourism planning framework to dwell on the future of tourism and tourism research. It emphasises tourism’s power to transform society towards the more healthy state of being and discusses how travellers shape tourism development and what does it mean for the future of tourism in Croatia, Mediterranean and globally.

Dwyer, L, Čorak, S & Tomljenović, R 2017, 'Introduction' in Evolution of Destination Planning and Strategy, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 1-14.
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The book deals broadly with planning and tourism development from the perspective of national tourism policy, development of tools for decision making, and implications of policy decisions on product development. Improving destination competitiveness, crafting a national destination image, responding to destination management challenges, and fashioning a destination image in the context of extreme political changes are just some of the issues addressed in the book. The context is Croatia, a major Adriatic tourism destination. Croatia is experiencing a rapid political and economic transition common to many countries worldwide experiencing significant socio-political and economic shifts.

Dwyer, L, Čorak, S & Tomljenović, R 2017, 'Introduction' in Evolution of Destination Planning and Strategy, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-14.
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© The Author(s) 2017. The book deals broadly with planning and tourism development from the perspective of national tourism policy, development of tools for decision making, and implications of policy decisions on product development. Improving destination competitiveness, crafting a national destination image, responding to destination management challenges, and fashioning a destination image in the context of extreme political changes are just some of the issues addressed in the book. The context is Croatia, a major Adriatic tourism destination. Croatia is experiencing a rapid political and economic transition common to many countries worldwide experiencing significant socio-political and economic shifts.

Dwyer, L, Jago, L & Forsyth, P 2017, 'Economic evaluation of special events: Reconciling economic impact and cost–benefit analysis' in Armbrecht, J & Andersson, T (eds), Event Impact, Routledge, pp. 5-19.
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Fee, A 2017, 'Expatriates in Aidland: Humanitarian aid and development expatriates' in McNulty, Y & Selmer, J (eds), Research Handbook of Expatriates, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 368-390.
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This chapter addresses a group of expatriates often overlooked by business and management researchers, but who comprise a large and growing proportion of the globally mobile workforce. These are expatriates working in humanitarian aid and development cooperation (international aid and development, or IAD). As this chapter makes clear, the sector is far from homogenous and defies easy categorisation. Notwithstanding this, the umbrella term ‘Aidland’ of the chapter’s title is a metaphorical construct coined by a social anthropologist to describe the virtual, cultural and geographic spaces that exist in the provision of aid and development; for expatriates, this is often a third cultural space separate from their home and host cultures, with established vernacular, mores, artefacts and discourses that are distinct and often a source of shared identity to its inhabitants. The chapter contains five sections. First, I demystify some of the bewildering terminology, concepts and actors that populate the sector. Following this, the operating context of Aidland is canvassed, focusing on features that make the expatriate experience distinctive. Next, an overview of the research base that has examined expatriates in this sector is presented and discussed. It combines literature from within aid and development with literature from the business and management sphere. This is followed by a discussion of future research possibilities, and concluding thoughts.

Fee, A 2017, 'Expatriates' safety and security during crisis' in McNulty, Y & Selmer, J (eds), Research Handbook of Expatriates, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 160-183.

Gordon, R & Ciorciari, J 2017, 'Social Marketing Research and Cognitive Neuroscience' in Formative Research in Social Marketing, Springer Singapore, pp. 145-163.
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Green, R, Berti, M & Sutton, N 2017, 'Higher Education in Management: The Case of Australia' in Dameron, S & Durand, T (eds), The Future of Management Education, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 117-137.
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This book discusses the new challenges facing Business Schools around the world with potential scenarios that may be envisioned for 2030 and strategies for stakeholders.

Griffiths, A, Dunphy, D & Benn, S 2017, 'Corporate sustainability: Integrating human and ecological sustainability approaches' in Starik, M, Sharma, S, Egri, C & Bunch, R (eds), New Horizons in Research on Sustainable Organisations: Emerging Ideas, Approaches and Tools for Practitioners and Researchers, Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield, UK, pp. 166-186.

Hassanli, N 2017, 'The Social and Political Dimensions of Visitor Management: Rural Home-based Accommodations' in Albrecht, J (ed), Visitor Management in Tourism Destinations, CABI, UK, pp. 33-42.
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This book is written by leading international researchers and provides an authoritative overview of the current knowledge and insights into conceptual issues of VM.

Küpers, W 2017, 'Wisdom Learning' in Wisdom learning: Perspectives on wising-up business and management education, Gower, UK, pp. 98-116.
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Onyx, J 2017, 'Governance Issues' in Kenny, B, McGrath, B & Phillips, R (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Community Development, Routledge, New York, pp. 40-53.
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Peters, D, Frawley, S & Favaloro, D 2017, 'Leading the Team: The Role of the Chef de Mission at the Paralympic Games' in Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 175-191.
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In this chapter, we argue that the effective leadership of a National Paralympic team is critical for successful participation at the Paralympic Games. Games participation is important since the summer Games only occur every four years and are highly prized by numerous stakeholders, including athletes, coaches, sponsors, the media, and national and international sporting federations (Australian Paralympic Committee 2012). National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), Individual sports, athlete and stakeholder perceptions of the event are influenced by the performance of the national team and the related Games experience. National team success is of course dependent upon the quality of athletic talent and coaching, while the overall Games experience can be affected by many factors, including leadership, planning and access to the appropriate level of information and resources. Involvement in the Paralympic Games can therefore benefit a nation through increasing the level of national pride gained due to medal success by its athletes on the world stage, promoting sport recruitment and succession, generating public and sponsorship support, and by enhancing the reputation of team leadership and organizational capability.

Rhodes, C 2017, 'Academic Freedom in the Corporate University: Squandering Our Inheritance?' in Izak, M, Kostera, M & Zawadzki, M (eds), The Future of University Education, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 19-38.
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This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education.

Rochon, L-P & Rossi, S 2017, 'Advances in Endogenous Money Analysis' in Rochon, L-P & Rossi, S (eds), Advances in Endogenous Money Analysis, Edward Elgar Publishing, England, pp. 287-308.
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Schulenkorf, N & Frawley, S 2017, 'Critical Issues in Global Sport' in Critical Issues in Global Sport Management, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 1-6.
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In this introductory chapter, we provide the background, purpose and context for Critical Issues in Global Sport Management. In the remaining 19 chapters of this book we invite readers to explore, learn, discuss and reflect on the latest concepts, issues and trends in managing sport.

Schulenkorf, N & Frawley, S 2017, 'Current trends and future research challenges in global sport management' in Critical Issues in Global Sport Management, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 278-285.
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In this final chapter of Critical Issues in Global Sport Management, we as editors reflect on a number of the key debates highlighted in the book. Moreover, with the use of practical examples, we critically discuss how current issues, challenges, and emerging trends in global sport are likely to develop in the future.

Schulenkorf, N & Schlenker, K 2017, 'The role of highlight events in sport-for-development' in Dodds, M, Heisey, K & Ahonen, A (eds), Routledge Handbook of International Sport Business, Routledge International Handbooks, USA, pp. 356-363.
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When strategically managed, sport can be an exciting and proactive space for economic, social, cultural, physical and educational development. Consequently, around the world government agencies, aid organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been implementing sport-for-development (SFD) projects in disadvantaged communities for several years. Most of these initiatives also include special events such as cultural festivals, sport tournaments and educational workshops as part of the overall program portfolio. In this chapter, we focus on discussing the opportunities and challenges of using ‘highlight events’ as a leverage strategy to reach – and benefit – participants and the wider community.

Schulenkorf, N & Schlenker, K 2017, 'The Role of Highlight Events in Sport-For-Development' in Routledge Handbook of International Sport Business, Routledge, pp. 356-363.
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Small, J & Wearing, SL 2017, 'Women and Travel' in Khoo-Lattimore, C & Wilson, E (eds), Women and Travel: Trends, Journeys and Experiences, Apple Academic Press, New Jersey.
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Trede, F, Goodyear, P, Macfarlane, S, Markauskaite, L, McEwen, C & Tayebjee, F 2017, 'Learning in Hybrid Spaces: Designing a Mobile Technology Capacity Building Framework for Workplace Learning' in International Perspectives on Education and Society, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 83-97.
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©2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited. In this chapter, we present the Mobile Technology Capacity Building (MTCB) Framework, designed to enhance students' appropriate use of personal mobile devices (PMDs) in workplace learning (WPL). WPL is a concept that denotes students' learning that occurs in workplaces as part of their university curriculum. The workplace provides an environment for university students where learning and working and theory and practice are entwined. As such, WPL is an in-between or hybrid space where traditional roles, identities, and cultures are fluid and in transition. In the 21st century, where PMDs are more and more intricately interwoven into everyday personal, educational, and professional practices, learning with mobile technology offers new opportunities and possibilities to enhance WPL. The MTCB Framework for WPL focuses on cultivating agency and thoughtful consideration for practice contexts. Its development is underpinned by three sets of theoretical ideas: Agentic learning, activity-centered learning design, and the entanglement of technology, learning, and work. Its design also draws on empirical data derived from surveys and interviews from 214 participants, including students, academics, and workplace educators that highlight the importance of considering workplace cultures. We conclude that the MTCB Framework addresses an urgent need for all stakeholders in WPL to build their capacity to use mobile technology effectively to contribute to enhancing WPL. Without a shared understanding of the role of mobile technology in WPL, it will remain difficult for students to make the most of the learning opportunities afforded by the use of PMDs in WPL.

Wearing, S, Tarrant, MA, Schweinsberg, S & Lyons, K 2017, 'Cultural and environmental awareness through sustainable tourism education: exploring the role of onsite community tourism-based Work-Integrated Learning projects' in Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism, Edward Elgar Publishing, USA, pp. 402-415.
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This chapter explores the potential of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) in promoting cultural and environmental awareness through sustainable tourism education. The chapter considers how an experiential framework built on an ecological paradigm provides a platform for WIL that not only exposes learners to concrete experiences, but also has the capacity to introduce them to authentic practices through interaction with industry and community leaders and players. Two case studies of WIL are presented from programs being run at the University of Georgia and the University of Technology (Sydney). These descriptive cases provide evidence of the different modes of WIL application, which are then used by the authors as a starting point for a discussion on the contribution of WIL to sustainable tourism education. The chapter concludes by considering the potential for such an approach to be embraced by higher education in less formal education contexts such as the gap year.

Yu, K-H & Noh, SC 2017, 'State and HRM in Asia' in Routledge Handbook of Human Resource Management in Asia, Routledge, UK, pp. 23-45.
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This chapter explores the role of religion, religiosity, and ethics in managing employees in East Asian countries. Ethical behaviors are influenced by a number of factors ranging from individual attributes to organizational and social factors. There are many religions and philosophies that have induced differing levels of religiosity amongst the various nations and societies of East Asia but the most influential ones are Confucianism and Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. The chapter discusses how the key common virtues of religiosity and spirituality might have contributed to the contemporary characteristics of human resource management (HRM) in Asian countries. Human resource development in Asian countries is inspired by a tradition of learning and self-development. Asian employee relations are influenced by the state in power rather than by religion or philosophy because the state is the largest employer, the regulator, the policy-maker, and the decision-maker.

Adair, D 2017, 'Sport Management with Historical Perspective', The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 34, no. 5-6, pp. 309-314.
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Addo, R, Hall, J, Goodall, S & Haas, M 2017, 'OP89 Using Economic Evidence To Set Priorities In Ghana: The Case Of Malaria', International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 33, no. S1, pp. 40-41.
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INTRODUCTION:Malaria remains the number one cause of morbidity and mortality in Ghana. Since 1961, several malaria control strategies have been adopted, some of which were discontinued due to funding. In spite of the numerous malaria control strategies in place, its prevalence continues to rise. Priority setting using economic evidence has been proven to ensure efficient use of resources in a cost-effective manner (1). This study, therefore, sought to examine economic evaluation studies conducted on malaria in Ghana and their influence on malaria control policies.METHODS:A systematic search was conducted in databases including Medline and Embase to identify relevant Malaria economic evaluation studies conducted in Ghana up to December 2016. Malaria control policies formulated in Ghana over the years were also reviewed. The economic studies were examined alongside the policies to establish their influence on them.RESULTS:A total of eight studies were identified, all of which were conducted in response to a global directive on malaria control and funded by international agencies. All studies were cost-effective; five evaluating preventive measures and the remaining evaluating treatment. The studies used different methodological approaches, rendering the comparison between alternatives impossible.Most malaria control initiatives are funded by international agencies, hence its abandonment when funding ceases. Although the majority of economic studies addressed some of these policies, none of them directly influenced their adoption. These policies were rather influenced by global malaria control initiatives. Also, malaria chemoprophylaxis; demonstrated as cost-effective by three studies, is not on the Ghana malaria control policy (2,3).

Adrian, C, Wright, S & Kilgore, A 2017, 'Adaptive conjoint analysis: A new approach to defining corporate governance', Corporate Governance: An International Review, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 428-439.
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AbstractManuscript TypeEmpiricalResearch Question/IssueThe method introduced to the corporate governance literature by this paper captures the construct of corporate governance in a small number of attributes, using responses made by directors and shareholders to an adaptive conjoint analysis questionnaire.Research Findings/InsightsWe demonstrate how to identify the key attributes of corporate governance from directors' and shareholders' relative preferences among a set of corporate governance attributes. The dominance of CEO duality as a relatively more important attribute is a key finding.Theoretical/Academic ImplicationsAdaptive conjoint analysis is a useful technique for research into governance issues characterized by constrained choice. For future researchers seeking to capture governance in a limited number of measures, we have identified four attributes considered by directors and shareholders to comprise effective corporate governance, with the single measure of CEO duality being the most important.Practitioner/Policy ImplicationsThis parsimonious set of attributes can guide the design of future corporate governance regulations, to avoid costly over‐regulation. We do not suggest that restrictions on multiple directorships or an appropriate board size should be added to current requirements, and the surprisingly low perceptions of audit partner tenure and audit committee size as important to good corporate governance suggest that these attributes could be excluded from future regulations.

Agogo, D, Hajjat, F, Milne, GR, Schewe, CD & Perrott, B 2017, 'An empirical examination of subjective age in older adults', Health Marketing Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 62-79.
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It has been observed that subjective age (SA) often trails chronological age, especially in older adults. In a previously published article, we argued that differences in individual's SA is a function of their level of activity on biological, mental, and social dimensions. This article empirically tests this proposition using a newly created Subjective Aging Index (SAI). The SAI is related to SA above the effect of age with differences existing across age groups and sex. The findings contribute to the literature on successful aging strategies with important implications for health care practitioners, marketers, and individuals heading towards older adult years.

Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N & Clegg, S 2017, 'Paradoxical identity: The changing nature of architectural work and its relation to architects’ identity', Journal of Professions and Organization, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. jow013-jow013.
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In this article, we explore what happens in professional formation when the locus of its meaning, as it has been formed, is increasingly contradicted by professional practice. Specifically, we explore the problematic nature of architects’ professional identity that is constituted in terms of the primacy of design aesthetics, in contexts where practice denies this identification. We highlight the tensions between identity and practices and suggest that while architects’ traditional self-identification enables perpetuation of the profession’s identity, it challenges the profession’s standing in its relations with other professions and occupations. We refer to this as a paradox of identity. Although much has been written about the profound changes occurring in professional practices and professional jurisdictions, scant attention has been given to the ways in which professionals shape their identities in the context of changing practices. We conducted a year-long ethnography of contemporary architects engaged in large and complex projects in order to examine both the architects’ and the profession’s identity. Our contributions are threefold. First, we conceptualize misalignments between professional identity and professional practice as identity paradox that has consequences for identity work among professionals. Second, we highlight how professional identity construction is organized around competing and paradoxical identification. Third, the article contributes to sociological studies of architecture by generating insights about the identity work of architects engaged in large multi-organizational projects.

Alaslani, M & Collins, JH 2017, 'The Blocked Mobility Hypothesis and Muslim Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Sydney, Australia', Review of Integrative Business and Economics Research, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 333-357.

Alexeev, V, Dungey, MH & Yao, W 2017, 'Time-Varying Continuous and Jump Betas: The Role of Firm Characteristics and Periods of Stress', Journal of Empirical Finance, vol. 40, pp. 1-19.
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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 over 2003-2011 generally exceed the corresponding continuous betas. Smaller stocks are more sensitive to discontinuities than their larger counterparts, and during periods of financial distress, high leverage stocks are more exposed to systematic risk. Higher credit ratings and lower volatility are each associated with smaller betas. Industry effects are also apparent. We use the estimates to show that discontinuous risk carries a significantly positive premium, but continuous risk does not.

Arnold, B, Bateman, H, Ferguson, A & Raftery, A 2017, 'Partner-Scale Economies, Service Bundling, and Auditor Independence in the Australian Self-Managed Superannuation (Pension) Fund Industry', Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 161-180.
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SUMMARY Using proprietary Australian Taxation Office (ATO) data, this study examines audit pricing, service bundling, and independence issues in the self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) sector, the fastest growing and largest segment of the Australian $2 trillion retirement savings industry. We consider the impact of partner-level scale effects for a large sample of SMSF audits for the three years to June 2010. After controlling for factors known to determine audit fees, we find evidence of fee discounting by partners with large client portfolios. However, when the dependent variable is redefined to the total “bundle” of services (including audit and non-audit fees), the firms of partners with larger client portfolios are shown to earn bundling fee premiums. This finding suggests industry specialists price strategically using audits as a conduit to supply higher margin non-audit services (NAS) to clients with more resources. Last, we find no evidence the supply of NAS impairs auditor independence, alleviating joint supply concerns raised in the Cooper Review.

Askegaard, S, Dubelaar, C, Zlatevska, N & Holden, SS 2017, 'Food portions and marketing: Editorial', Journal of Business Research, vol. 75, pp. 172-175.
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Avkiran, NK, Zhu, Y, Tripe, DWL & Walsh, K 2017, 'Can foreign banks compete in China?', Accounting & Finance, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 961-980.
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AbstractForeign banks in China have faced strict regulatory requirements that were not imposed on domestic banks and as such they have performed poorly in profitability rankings. Recent changes in the Chinese regulatory requirements prompt us to consider whether foreign banks are now on an equal footing with the Chinese domestic banks. Using Cobb–Douglas stochastic frontier analysis with total income as the dependent variable, we find no significant performance difference between foreign and domestic banks. However, robustness testing using the individual components of total income as dependent variables reveals that foreign banks need to improve efficiency of their income generation.

Baddeley, M 2017, 'Keynes’ psychology and behavioural macroeconomics: Theory and policy', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 177-196.
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AbstractUntil recently, modern macroeconomic models have remained solidly grounded on assumptions of rational expectations, efficient markets and representative agents, with policy prescriptions focused on the power of markets, and complex and esoteric financial intermediation instruments justified as solutions to problems of asymmetric information and risk. In modern microeconomics, behavioural economic analysis has flourished, focusing on individual responses and interactions. By contrast, in macroeconomics, humans are assumed to behave as if they are mathematical machines, making decisions in a mechanical, objective way. From this perspective, it is difficult to properly capture the instabilities that characterise modern macroeconomies and financial systems. While some progress has been made in recognising the bounds to rationality, the complexity of the macroeconomy can be captured fully only by embedding psychological and sociological forces more fully into macroeconomic models. Keynes was a pioneer in analysing the impacts of socio-psychological influences on macroeconomic phenomena. This article explores some of Keynes’ fundamental ideas about socio-psychological macroeconomic influences, including insights from A Treatise on Probability (1921) onwards, and links these insights both with modern behavioural economic theory and current macroeconomic policy debates.

Baumann, C, Bretherton, T, Sarina, T & Taksa, L 2017, 'Facing Some ‘Home’ Truths: Brand Backlash and the Case of Qantas'.
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Bedford, D & Spekle, R 2017, 'Construct Validity in Survey‐Based Management Accounting and Control Research', Journal of Management Accounting Research, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 23-58.
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© 2018, American Accounting Association. All rights reserved. The capacity for survey-based research to advance theoretical knowledge is heavily dependent on the degree to which the measures used capture the constructs that they are intended to represent. Despite the importance of construct validity, the management accounting and control (MAC) literature tends to devote less attention to construct validity than other areas of organizational research. In this article, we discuss contemporary thinking about construct validity and examine how this compares to established practice in MAC research through a systematic review of survey studies from 1996 to 2015. Based on this review, we identify four areas where greater attention is warranted: specifying construct dimensionality, justifying the choice of the measurement model, distinguishing between causal indicators and composite indicators in formative measurement models, and being judicious in the use of single item measures. We discuss the implications of each issue and provide suggestions on how they can be addressed.

Bird, R, Gao, X & Yeung, D 2017, 'Time-series and cross-sectional momentum strategies under alternative implementation strategies', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 230-251.
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The study compares the performance of alternative implementations of both time-series and cross-sectional momentum strategies across 24 markets. We find that over our sample period, both types of momentum strategies generate positive returns under the majority of implementations evaluated but that time-series momentum is clearly superior. An important difference between the two momentum strategies is that with time-series momentum, the number of stocks included in the winner and loser portfolios vary with the state of the market. As a consequence, cross-sectional momentum digs deeper to select winning stocks when markets are weak and deeper to select losing stocks when markets are strong. As the information in the momentum signals is concentrated in the tails of the return distribution, it is not that surprising that momentum is best implemented using time-series momentum.

Boersma, M 2017, 'Changing Approaches to Child Labour in Global Supply Chains: Exploring the Influence of Multi-stakeholder Partnerships and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights', University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 1249-1274.

Boersma, M 2017, 'CHANGING APPROACHES TO CHILD LABOUR IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS: EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIPS AND THE UNITED NATIONS GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS', UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES LAW JOURNAL, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 1249-1274.

Bond, D, Czernkowski, R, Lee, Y-S & Loyeung, A 2017, 'Market reaction to non-GAAP earnings around SEC regulation', Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 193-208.
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This study examines the impact of Regulation G in 2003 and the issuance of Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) in 2010 – on the reporting of non-GAAP earnings. The study finds that (i) both Regulation G and C&DIs are associated with an increase in the quality of non-GAAP earnings exclusions (i.e. the exclusions are more transitory and have less predictive power for future operating earnings). (ii) Regulation G led to a decrease in the amount of total positive exclusions used to meet or beat analysts’ forecasts, but C&DIs partially reversed this result. (iii) Regulation G increases, and C&DIs decrease, the earnings response coefficients (ERCs).

Bond, D, Frawley, S & Duffield, R 2017, 'The Effect of Competition Expansion on Volume and Distribution of Travel for Super Rugby Teams', Sporting Traditions, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 77-88.
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This article examines the effect of the expansion of an international sporting competition on the volume and distribution of travel required by competing teams. The Super Rugby competition has involved various incremental iterations, starting with 10 teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In 2016, three new teams were added to the competition, one each from South Africa, Argentina and Japan. Even prior to this expansion, the competition was unique in world sport, comprising teams from three widely dispersed countries competing in weekly, high intensity matches over a playing season lasting up to five months. The article provides evidence of the change in travel demands, both in terms of overall volume of travel for the season, as well as the distribution of travel within season, following this recent expansion. Not unexpectedly, the expansion of the competition has substantially increased the overall volume teams are required to travel, although this increase was not uniform across the competition. Despite some teams travelling more, the distribution of travel has become more even and consistent throughout the season.

Bremer, J & Linnenluecke, MK 2017, 'Determinants of the perceived importance of organisational adaptation to climate change in the Australian energy industry', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 502-521.
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Climate change will pose considerable risk to organisations in the 21st century. However, organisational adaptation to climate change has not yet received much attention in the management literature. Drawing on strategic choice theory, we put forward a model proposing that environmental attitudes and climate change knowledge are antecedents of how important adaptation is perceived to be by organisational decision-makers and that the perceived risk towards climate change acts as a mediator in this relationship. We tested the model with responses from 101 managers in the Australian energy industry. Findings of the study show that both environmental attitudes and climate change knowledge have a significantly positive effect on the perceived importance of climate change adaptation and that this relationship is mediated by risk perception. The study highlights the need to draw climate knowledge to the attention of executives and discusses avenues for future research, including the extension of the findings to other industries and settings.

Breunig, R, Deutscher, N & To, HT 2017, 'The Relationship between Immigration to Australia and the Labour Market Outcomes of Australian‐Born Workers', Economic Record, vol. 93, no. 301, pp. 255-276.
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We examine the relationship between immigration to Australia and the labour market outcomes of Australian‐born workers. We use immigrant supply changes in skill groups, defined by education and experience, to identify the impact of immigration on the labour market. We find that immigration flows into those skill groups that have the highest earnings and lowest unemployment. Once we control for the impact of experience and education on labour market outcomes, we find almost no evidence that immigration harms the labour market outcomes of those born in Australia.

Bugeja, M & Loyeung, A 2017, 'Accounting for Business Combinations and Takeover Premiums: Pre- and Post-IFRS', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 183-204.
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The adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Australia in 2005 resulted in goodwill accounting shifting from systematic annual amortisation to impairment testing. We examine whether IFRS adoption changed the association between takeover premiums and the difference between a target firm’s pre-acquisition market and book values (pre-acquisition step-up). Our results show a negative association between takeover premiums and the pre-acquisition step-up of the target firm. This association reduces however, after Australia adopted IFRS and no longer required goodwill amortisation. Consistent with the incentives arising from contracts written around accounting numbers, our results are strongest for bidding firms which compensate their CEO using an accounting-based bonus plan. These results are robust to a battery of sensitivity tests.

Bugeja, M, Matolcsy, Z & Spiropoulos, H 2017, 'Is Non-Executive Directors' Pay or Industry Expertise Related to Takeover Premiums, Abnormal Returns and Offer Price Revisions?', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 355-375.
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We examine the association between various takeover outcomes and bidding firm non-executive directors’ (NEDs) compensation and expertise in the target firm industry. In our sample of 272 acquisitions by ASX listed firms between 2004 and 2011, we find that NEDs’ relative compensation and industry expertise have a negative association with the bid premium. We also find that NEDs’ relative compensation is positively associated with the bidding firm’s market reaction to the takeover announcement, and NEDs’ industry expertise is associated with a lower likelihood of an increase in the offer price, particularly for M&As viewed negatively by the market. These results are consistent with higher NEDs’ relative compensation and industry expertise leading to more effective board monitoring and advising.

Bugeja, M, Matolcsy, Z & Spiropoulos, H 2017, 'The CEO pay slice: Managerial power or efficient contracting? Some indirect evidence', Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 69-87.
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This paper uses the CEO Pay Slice (CPS) to provide insight into the managerial power versusefficient contracting debate on CEO compensation. Based on a sample of 9978 U.S. listedfirms for the period 2001–2010 our evidence is inconsistent with managerial power. Forinstance, we find that the CPS of a newly appointed CEO does not differ to that of the out-going CEO and also does not increase over time. Furthermore, we find no relation betweenthe CPS and subsequent firm performance, or between a measure of excess CPS and subse-quent firm performance. In addition, we show that most firms are quick to reduce excessCPS levels. However, for a small subsample in which excessive CPS persists, we observe anegative relation between CPS and subsequent firm performance. Overall our evidence islargely consistent with an efficient contracting explanation of CEO compensation asopposed to a managerial power explanation

Burford, MR & Chan, K 2017, 'Refining a strategic marketing course: Is a ‘flip’ a good ‘fit’?', Journal of Strategic Marketing, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 152-163.
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A ‘flipped’ approach to the delivery of higher education is becoming increasingly possible as older style teaching rooms are adapted to seamlessly integrate interactive technologies. This paper describes challenges in refining a capstone strategic marketing course as it transitions to a ‘flipped’ mode. The current course already has many ‘active’ learning elements that encourage student participation. However, in suggesting a move to a ‘flipped classroom’, the increased opportunity for meaningful peer interaction should further reinforce the main course objective–to equip students to cope in an uncertain world. Fine-tuning the course draws on notions of co-creation found in both the marketing and educational literatures. The conclusion of this paper is that the aims of a strategic marketing course, to provide resilient thinking marketing strategists, would sit well with a pedagogy that encourages students to participate in collaborating in their own learning in a dedicated shared learning ‘space’.

Camilleri, AR 2017, 'The Presentation Format of Review Score Information Influences Consumer Preferences through the Attribution of Outlier Reviews', Journal of Interactive Marketing, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
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Review score information can be presented in different formats. In three online experiments, we examined consumers’ behavior in the context of review scores presented in a disaggregated format (individual review scores observed sequentially and individually), an aggregated format (review scores summarized into a frequency distribution chart), or both together. Participants tended to attribute outlier review scores to reviewer rather than product reasons. This tendency was more prevalent when reviews were presented in disaggregated format. Moreover, reviews attributed to reviewer reasons tended to be perceived with low credibility. When presented with a choice between two products with equal average review scores but different variances, participants chose as if outlier review scores were discounted when scores were presented in the disaggregated format. This tendency emerged even when disaggregated and aggregated formats were presented together. The number of review scores moderated the effect of format on choice. We argue that disaggregated information allows consumers to better track the number of outliers and, when the number of outliers is small, prompts them to attribute these outliers to reviewer reasons, and subsequently discount them.

Carabetta, G 2017, ''Alternative Dispute Resolution in Public, Essential and Emergency Services'', Australian Business Law Review, vol. 45, no. 3.

Casavecchia, L & Suh, JY 2017, 'Managerial Incentives for Risk-Taking and Internal Capital Allocation', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 42.
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Chadee, D, Sharma, RR & Roxas, B 2017, 'Linking and leveraging resources for innovation and growth through collaborative value creation: A study of Indian OSPs', Asia Pacific Journal of Management, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 777-797.
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Charki, MH, Josserand, E & Boukef, N 2017, 'The paradoxical effects of legal intervention over unethical information technology use: A rational choice theory perspective', The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 58-76.
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© 2016 Elsevier B.V. While the IS literature offers rich insights into the kinds, causes and consequences of unethical information technology use (UITU), we know little about the degree to which legal intervention may mitigate UITU. Our research aims at understanding how legal intervention could mitigate UITU by influencing the cost-benefit analysis in determining the decision to commit such unethical use of IT. Our contributions are twofold. First, we provide testable propositions on the role of legal intervention. Second, we offer an innovative take on intervention – conceived as a multi-mechanism process that adapts to UITU as well as to the way IT users negotiate the IT artifact.

Chelliah, J 2017, 'Child labor in the supply chain', Human Resource Management International Digest, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 1-2.
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PurposeThis paper aims to highlight the risks faced by companies through the use of child labor in their outsourced global supply chains.Design/methodology/approachThis paper explores recent research and commentary on child labor in global supply chains.FindingsThis paper reveals the risk of brand damage to large organizations as a result of child labor inputs in their supply chains.Practical implicationsThis study guides practitioners of human resources in advising management on strategic and tactical approaches in sanitizing supply chains of child labor.Social implicationsThis paper draws attention to the risks associated with the presence of child labor in the supply chain and need for large companies to practice social responsibility beyond their borders.Originality/valueThe study demonstrates how child labor is not just an ethical issue but a legal one as well and how injustices suffered by children can through public awareness campaigns destroy brand value of the ultimate benefactor companies.

Chelliah, J 2017, 'Will artificial intelligence usurp white collar jobs?', Human Resource Management International Digest, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1-3.
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PurposeThis paper highlights the risks faced by white-collar workers resulting from advances in artificial intelligence (AI).Design/methodology/approachThis paper explores recent research and expert opinion on the evolution of AI and its encroachment on white-collar jobs.FindingsThis paper reveals susceptibility of white-collar jobs to AI.Practical implicationsThis paper guides HR practitioners in advising management on the possible deployment of AI to enhance productivity and the resultant impact in the roles that employees perform.Social implicationsThis study draws attention to the risks associated with the deployment of AI and as a consequence the loss of white-collar jobs.Originality/valueThis study raises the issue of how AI could disrupt the workplace by usurping white-collar jobs and creates awareness of the need for people in vulnerable white-collar jobs to re-think their careers and for HR practitioners to manage the change that this disruption will bring.

Chelliah, J & Prasad, A 2017, 'South Pacific transnational money laundering typologies', Journal of Money Laundering Control, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 345-353.
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PurposeThe paper aims to present typologies of transnational money laundering in South Pacific island countries, thereby filling a gap in the extant literature.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on seven significant transnational money laundering cases involving South Pacific island nations. It provides analyses of the modus operandi of criminals and classifies those according to typologies from anti-money laundering authorities and bodies.FindingsTypologies of money laundering have arrived through a content analysis of seven cases involving transnational money laundering destined for South Pacific island nations. The typologies which have emerged show the predominant forms of transnational money laundering in this region. This knowledge could be useful to government policy-makers and financial institutions pursuing anti-money laundering initiatives.Originality/valueThere is a dearth of academic research into typologies of transnational money laundering involving the South Pacific. This paper makes a useful contribution to the extant literature by providing the most recent typologies in this respect.

Cheng, M, Wong, IA, Wearing, S & McDonald, M 2017, 'Ecotourism social media initiatives in China', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 416-432.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of social media by ecotourism management agencies and how this potentially changes the relationship between the ecotourist and the natural environment. It examines the meaning of ecotourism and the way that social media shapes visitor perceptions and meaning through an examination of the content of 775 Sina microblog postings from five leading ecotourism site management agencies in China. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the social media postings, a series of semi-structured interviews was also conducted with followers and management agencies. The findings provide an enhanced understanding of ecotourism marketing and its impacts on the ecotourist while also creating a framework for the use of social media to market ecotourism. The framework outlines the importance of the meanings associated with this form of communication through its promotional appeal to tourists and the outcomes for both the ecotourist and site management.

Chowdhury, MMH & Quaddus, M 2017, 'Supply chain resilience: Conceptualization and scale development using dynamic capability theory', International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 188, pp. 185-204.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. A growing number of researchers and practitioners have placed supply chain resilience (SCRE) at the forefront of their research agendas due to an increased susceptibility to disruptive events in global supply chains. However, empirical research in this area has been affected by the lack of a validated measurement model. In this context, drawing on dynamic capability theory, this research develops a measurement instrument for SCRE. This research conducts a qualitative field study, followed by a quantitative survey. Content analysis is used to explain various dimensions in the qualitative field study, and partial least squares (PLS)-based structural equation modelling (SEM) is used to analyse the data collected in the quantitative survey. The research is conducted with three rounds of data collection and analyses. The results show that SCRE is a multidimensional and hierarchical construct, which consists of three primary dimensions: proactive capability, reactive capability and supply chain design quality. These three primary dimensions are further operationalized through twelve sub-dimensions. The findings also affirm that the SCRE scale potentially better predicts supply chain operational vulnerability (OV) and supply chain performance (SCP) and conforms to the “technical” and “evolutionary” fitness criteria of dynamic capability theory. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of theory and practice. Limitations and future avenues of research are also discussed.

Clarke, T & Boersma, M 2017, 'The Governance of Global Value Chains: Unresolved Human Rights, Environmental and Ethical Dilemmas in the Apple Supply Chain', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 143, no. 1, pp. 111-131.
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. The continued advance of global value chains as the mode of production for an increasing number of goods and services has impacted considerably on the economies and societies both of the developed world and the emerging economies. Although there have been many efforts at reform there is evidence of unresolved dilemmas of human rights, environmental issues and ethical dilemmas in the operation of the global value chain. This paper focuses on the role and performance of Apple Inc in the global value chain in Asia. Apple is the most successful corporation on earth measured in financial terms and yet has failed to find a solution to recurrent employment and environmental problems occurring in plants manufacturing Apple components. This analysis informs the current theoretical debate on the development of the global value chain and the continuing institutional failure that leaves employees vulnerable and the environment neglected.

Cobourn, S & Frawley, S 2017, 'CSR in professional sport: an examination of community models', Managing Sport and Leisure, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 113-126.
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Collins, J, Morrison, M, Basu, PK & Krivokapic-Skoko, B 2017, 'Indigenous culture and entrepreneurship in small businesses in Australia', Small Enterprise Research, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 36-48.
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Cousley, A, Siminski, P & Ville, S 2017, 'The Causal Effects of World War II Military Service', Journal of Economic History, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 838-865.
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The effects of military service have been studied for decades, but surprisingly few studies have estimated the effects of World War II (WW2) service, where the focus has been on the impact of this 'total war' on the broader civilian population. Over 90% of Australian males born in the early 1920s served in the military during WW2. Almost none of those born in the late 1920s served. Treating such cohort differences as exogenous, we conduct one of the first econometric studies of WW2 service. We consider major life outcomes including employment, marital status and home ownership, all measured in 1966, while the economy was strong and male employment was very high. We find a significant negative effect on employment, half of which is accompanied by pensioner status. We find positive effects on home ownership and on separation/divorce. A feature of our analysis is a novel visual depiction of the variation which identifies the estimates, drawing on the Frisch-Waugh theorem.

Craig, AC, Garbarino, E, Heger, SA & Slonim, R 2017, 'Waiting To Give: Stated and Revealed Preferences', Management Science, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 3672-3690.
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We estimate and compare the effect of increased time costs on consumer satisfaction and behavior. We are able to move beyond the existing literature, which focuses on satisfaction and intention, and estimate the effect of waiting time on return behavior. Further, we do so in a prosocial context and our measure of cost is the length of time a blood donor spends waiting. We find that relying on satisfaction data masks important time cost sensitivities; namely, it is not how the donor feels about the wait time that matters for return behavior, but rather the actual duration of the wait. Consistent with theory we develop, our results indicate that waiting has a significant longer-term social cost: we estimate that a 38% increase (equivalent to one standard deviation) in the average wait would result in a 10% decrease in donations per year. This paper was accepted by Uri Gneezy, behavioral economics.

Cunha, MPE, Clegg, SR, Costa, C, Leite, AP, Rego, A, Simpson, AV, Sousa, MOD & Sousa, M 2017, 'Gemeinschaftin the midst ofGesellschaft? Love as an organizational virtue', Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 3-21.
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Love is a powerful human process that has attracted the attention of scholars within the cultural and scientific domains. Thus far, the majority of management scholars have tended to neglect love as a relevant topic of theorizing and research. Given the recent interest in the phenomenon in allied fields such as sociology and psychology, this is surprising. We create, inductively, an archetypical image of how managers make sense of the meaning of love as an organizational phenomenon by means of a sample of Christian managers. The findings indicate that such managers associate love with two core dimensions. First, they describe love as an expression of virtue. Second, they link love with a sense of community-ship. Organizational love can thus be theorized as the exercise of constructing virtuous, other-oriented human communities that transcend the productive functions of work and respond to important human needs, fulfilling normative performativity.

Dahiya, S, Iannotta, G & Navone, M 2017, 'Firm Opacity Lies in the Eye of the Beholder', Financial Management, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 553-592.
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We classify and test empirical measures of firm opacity and document theoretical and empirical inconsistencies across these proxies by testing the relative opacity of banks versus non-banks. We evaluate the effectiveness of these proxies by observing the effect of two cleanly identified shocks to firm-specific information: credit rating initiation and inclusion in the S&P 500 index. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we compare firms that are newly rated and firms that are included in the S&P 500 index with a propensity matched sample of “unchanged” firms. We find that only the number of analysts and Amihud's illiquidity ratio provide consistent patterns across different estimation specifications and different econometric settings. These two proxies show that banks are more opaque than non-banks. Based on our tests, we recommend that these proxies be used as the primary measures of firm opacity.

Dalton, B, Jung, K & Willis, J 2017, 'Fashion and the Social Construction of Femininity in North Korea', Asian Studies Review, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 507-525.
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© 2017 Asian Studies Association of Australia. In this paper we argue that North Korea’s socioeconomic transformation has had a profound and yet under-appreciated impact on the social construction of femininity. Drawing on 45 in-depth interviews with North Korean refugees, interviews with regular visitors to North Korea and NGO workers, and our own field notes from trips to North Korea, we analyse changes over three discernible (yet overlapping) economic periods: the 1960s–90s pre-famine period; the mid-1990s to late 2000s grassroots capitalism era; and the current Kim Jong Un period of quasi-capitalism. As dress is a discursive daily practice of gender, we focus on the practice of femininity as shown through North Korean women’s fashion choices. We argue that images of women in state propaganda have been shaped primarily by male leaders, but norms of femininity have shaped, and also been shaped by, women themselves. That is, the recent trend for North Korean women to dress in hyper-feminine styles can be explained in terms of women remaking themselves and planning their future lives.

Darcy, S, Green, J & Maxwell, H 2017, 'I’ve got a mobile phone too! Hard and soft assistive technology customization and supportive call centres for people with disability', Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 341-351.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine the use of a mobile technology platform, software customization and technical support services by people with disability. The disability experience is framed through the participants’ use of the technology, their social participation. Method: A qualitative and interpretive research design was employed using a three-stage process of observation and semi-structured interviews of people with disability, a significant other and their service provider. Transcripts were analyzed to examine the research questions through the theoretical framework of PHAATE–Policy, Human, Activity, Assistance and Technology and Environment. Results: The analysis revealed three emergent themes: 1. Engagement and activity; 2. Training, support and customization; and 3. Enablers, barriers and attitudes. Conclusions: The findings indicate that for the majority of users, the mobile technology increased the participants’ communication and social participation. However, this was not true for all members of the pilot with variations due to disability type, support needs and availability of support services. Most participants, significant others and service providers identified improvements in confidence, security, safety and independence of those involved. Yet, the actions and attitudes of some of the significant others and service providers acted as a constraint to the adoption of the technology. Implications for Rehabilitation Customized mobile technology can operate as assistive technology providing a distinct benefit in terms of promoting disability citizenship. Mobile technology used in conjunction with a supportive call centre can lead to improvements in confidence, safety and independence for people experiencing disability. Training and support are critical in increasing independent use of mobile technology for people with disability. The enjoyment, development of ski...

Darcy, S, Lock, D & Taylor, T 2017, 'Enabling Inclusive Sport Participation: Effects of Disability and Support Needs on Constraints to Sport Participation', LEISURE SCIENCES, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 20-41.
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© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Framed by a social approach to disability and leisure constraints theory, this paper presents the results of a national study examining the constraints to sport participation for people with disability. Responses were obtained from a multi-platform questionnaire survey capturing data on constraints to participation, dimensions of disability, and level of support needs. The Exploratory Factor Analysis identified five structural together with intrapersonal and interpersonal constraint factors. While intrapersonal and interpersonal considerations were found to constrain sport participation and nonparticipation, the five structural factors had the most significant constraining impact on sport participation. The findings showed that disability type and level of support needs explain significant variations in constraints to participation and nonparticipation. When the 2-Way MANOVA included type of disability and level of support needs as contingent independent variables, the level of support needs was the most significant indicator of the likelihood of having constraints to participation or nonparticipation.

De Abreu Lourenco, R, Haas, M, Hall, J & Viney, R 2017, 'Valuing Meta-Health Effects for Use in Economic Evaluations to Inform Reimbursement Decisions: A Review of the Evidence', PharmacoEconomics, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 347-362.
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© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Objective: This review explores the evidence from the literature regarding how meta-health effects (effects other than health resulting from the consumption of health care) are valued for use in economic evaluations. Methods: A systematic review of the published literature (the EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, EconLit and SocINDEX databases were searched for publications in March 2016, plus manual searching) investigated the associations between study methods and the resulting values for meta-health effects estimated for use in economic evaluations. The review considered which meta-health effects were being valued and how this differed by evaluation approach, intervention investigated, source of funds and year of publication. Detailed reasons for differences observed between values for comparable meta-health effects were explored, accounting for the method of valuation. Results: The search of the literature revealed 71 studies of interest; 35% involved drug interventions, with convenience, information and process of care the three meta-health effects most often investigated. Key associations with the meta-health effects were the evaluation method, the intervention, and the source of funds. Relative values for meta-health effects ranged from 0.9% to 68% of the overall value reported in a study. For a given meta-health effect, the magnitude of the effect evaluated and how the meta-health effect was described and framed relative to overall health explained the differences in relative values. Conclusions: Evidence from the literature shows variability in how meta-health effects are being measured for use in economic evaluations. Understanding the sources of that variability is important if decision makers are to have confidence in how meta-health effects are valued.

Delavande, A & Rohwedder, S 2017, 'Changes in spending and labor supply in response to a Social Security benefit cut: Evidence from stated choice data', The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, vol. 10, pp. 34-50.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. We investigate how individuals in the U.S. expect to adjust their labor force participation and savings if Social Security benefits were cut by 30 percent. Respondents were asked directly what they would do under this scenario. Using the resulting stated choice data we find that respondents would on average reduce spending by 18.2 percent before retirement and 20.4 percent after retirement. About 34.1% of respondents state they would definitely work longer and they would postpone claiming Social Security by 1.1 years. We investigate how working longer and claiming Social Security later would compensate partially for the loss in benefits among the individuals who are currently working, under the assumption that individuals retire and claim at the same time. Individuals would increase their Social Security benefits from the post-reform level due to additional earnings entering the benefit calculation and a smaller early claiming penalty (or higher delayed claiming credit). As a result, the Social Security benefit people would receive would drop on average by 21 rather than 30 percent. Still, the net financial loss, even after accounting for additional earnings, is sizeable for individuals in the lowest wealth tertile.

Delavande, A, Lee, J & Menon, S 2017, 'Eliciting Survival Expectations of the Elderly in Low-Income Countries: Evidence From India', Demography, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 673-699.
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Abstract We examine several methodological considerations when eliciting probabilistic expectations in a developing country context using the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI). We conclude that although, on average, individuals are able to understand the concept of probability, responses are sensitive to framing effects and to own versus hypothetical-person effects. We find that overall, people are pessimistic about their survival probabilities compared with state-specific life tables and that socioeconomic status does influence beliefs about own survival expectations as found in previous literature in other countries. Higher levels of education and income have a positive association with survival expectations, and these associations persist even when conditioning on self-reported health. The results remain robust to several alternative specifications. We then compare the survival measures with objective measures of health. We find that activities of daily life, height, and low hemoglobin levels covary with subjective expectations in expected directions.

Despotakis, S, Hafalir, I, Ravi, R & Sayedi, A 2017, 'Expertise in Online Markets', Management Science, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 3895-3910.
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We examine the effect of the presence of expert buyers on other buyers, the platform, and the sellers in online markets. We model buyer expertise as the ability to accurately predict the quality, or condition, of an item, modeled as its common value. We show that nonexperts may bid more aggressively, even above their expected valuation, to compensate for their lack of information. As a consequence, we obtain two interesting implications. First, auctions with a “hard close” may generate higher revenue than those with a “soft close.” Second, contrary to the linkage principle, an auction platform may obtain a higher revenue by hiding the item’s common-value information from the buyers. We also consider markets where both auctions and posted prices are available and show that the presence of experts allows the sellers of high-quality items to signal their quality by choosing to sell via auctions. This paper was accepted by J. Miguel Villas-Boas, marketing.

Dholakia, U & Tam, L 2017, 'Commentary: Studying Consumer Habits in the Field: Some Suggestions for Conducting Industry-Supported Research', Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 371-374.
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Di Guilmi, C 2017, 'The Agent‐Based Approach to Post Keynesian Macro‐Modeling', Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 31, pp. 1183-1203.
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© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The paper presents a survey of Post Keynesian (PK) agent-based (AB) models and AB models with PK features. It is argued that AB modeling is fully consistent with the PK approach and that the cross-fertilization can benefit both areas of research. The survey focuses on how the various models have faced the issues implied by adopting a bottom–up approach in a traditionally aggregative structure and highlights the additional insights coming from this modeling strategy. Particular attention is devoted to stock-flow consistent AB models for theivvr potential in defining a new benchmark for this type of research.

Di Guilmi, C & Carvalho, L 2017, 'The dynamics of leverage in a demand-driven model with heterogeneous firms', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 140, pp. 70-90.
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This paper introduces heterogeneous microeconomic behavior into a demand-driven macroeconomic model in order to study the joint dynamics of leverage and capital accumulation. By identifying the links between firm level variables and aggregate quantities, the paper contributes toward a reformulation of the Minskyan formal analysis that explicitly considers the role of microeconomic factors in generating macroeconomic instability. The aggregation of heterogeneous agents is not only performed numerically, as in traditional agent-based models, but also by means of an innovative analytical methodology, originally developed in statistical mechanics and recently imported into macroeconomics. The distinctive feature is in that the joint analysis of the numerical and analytical solutions of the model sheds light on the effects of financial fragility at the firm level on the dynamics of the macroeconomy. In particular, the analysis of steady-state and stability properties of the system provide additional insights on the role of behavioral and size heterogeneity of firms for the stocks of aggregate debt and capital.

Dickson, TJ, Darcy, S & Benson, A 2017, 'Volunteers with Disabilities at the London 2012 Olympic And Paralympic Games: Who, Why, and Will They Do It Again?', Event Management, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 301-318.
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People with disabilities are often the recipients of volunteer services but are rarely considered as a potential volunteer resource, such as in sport events where volunteers are an essential component of major sport event operation and legacy potential. For London's 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, there was a determined effort by the Organizing Committee to recruit people with disabilities to be Games Makers (i.e., volunteers). This exploratory research investigated 786 London 2012 volunteers who self-identified as having disability or access needs. The research design involved an online questionnaire examining their motivations for volunteering, their experiences, their likelihood to continue volunteering, and their sociodemographic profile. This article contributes to the literature by examining the motivations of people with disability volunteering at a mega-sport event, as this has not been done previously. The factor analysis identified eight components: transactional; altruistic; it's all about the games; volunteering community; rewards; availability; variety; and application. The solution highlighted the duality of human capital-related transactional components where the individual wanted to improve their skills and the altruistic components of giving back and it's all about the games experience. The discussion examined these components in comparison to other mega-event volunteers to examine commonalities and contrasts.

Dickson, TJ, Misener, L & Darcy, S 2017, 'Enhancing destination competitiveness through disability sport event legacies', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 924-946.
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PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to the event legacy discourse by exploring the nexus between event legacy literature and destination competitiveness by focusing on disability sport events or parasport and addressing an identified gap in the research literature.Design/methodology/approachThis is achieved through conducting a systematic review of disability sport events literature; performing an audit of international disability sport events; developing a typology of disability sport events; and outlining a research agenda drawing upon these previous steps. The typology is then placed in context to the destination competitiveness framework to provide direction for both host organizing committees and tourism destination managers. The research framework reflects the complexity of disability sport events with specific reference to the social impact of disability sport events for destinations.FindingsDespite calls for increased research into accessible tourism and events, the potential social legacy for communities and destinations from disability sport or parasport events remains absent from most sport, event and tourism literature. The findings and resultant typology from this study provide an interdisciplinary approach to value add to the disability sport event and destination management sectors. The combined understanding of both sectors creates an opportunity to leverage further events through marketing accessibility as a competitive advantage, seizing opportunity for international and national disability events, and the subsequent event accessible tourism and general accessible tourism that improved destination accessibility provides a host city or precinct.

Dowling, G 2017, 'The glass ceiling: fact or a misguided metaphor?', Annals in Social Responsibility, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 23-41.
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PurposeThe glass ceiling is a metaphor used to characterize the gender inequality of women at the top in most large western organizations. This situation has prompted many business organizations, NGOs and governments to encourage large organizations to promote more women into the executive suite and onto boards of directors. While there is little controversy about this initiative, this paper argues that there should be because it directly challenges the principle that merit should outweigh diversity. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews research that purports to show that women are unfairly under-represented in the most senior positions in large western organizations. It also reviews the arguments that more senior women would improve the performance of these organizations. This research is then used to develop a model of why there are markedly fewer women than men at the top of large organizations.FindingsThis study finds that most of the research studies purporting to show that there is a bias against promoting women to the top of large western organizations are unsound because they are poorly designed and/or fail to accommodate alternative explanations for this effect. Thus, the current number of women who run these organizations may be a good reflection of their contribution to the management of these organizations. These findings suggest that many of the policies that are promoted to help women break through the glass ceiling are misguided.Practical implicationsLarge organizations should think carefully about following the advice of spec...

Duffy, S, Layton, R & Dwyer, L 2017, 'When the Commons call “Enough”, Does Marketing Have an Answer?', Journal of Macromarketing, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 268-285.
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How we use, or do not use our natural resources is a question that has been debated for millennia. Still an answer remains out of reach. It is a complex issue that often involves a social dilemma known as “the tragedy of the commons”. Many common pool resources, from fish stocks, to forests, to natural tourism destinations have an associated marketing system that may place pressure on the resource. If poorly managed, the resources sustainable future is questionable. This paper explains how commons and strategic action field theory can enhance a macromarketing analysis of marketing systems that involve a common pool resource (CPR) pointing to potential responses and solutions. The unique challenges faced are discussed, particularly in the interdependent areas of: property rights, power and equitable distribution. The findings from an empirical application confirm that CPRs destabilise a marketing system. Solutions may be found in the way the issue is negotiated, how the rules are structured and the perspective from which the issue is considered.

Edwards, D, Cheng, M, Wong, IA, Zhang, J & Wu, Q 2017, 'Ambassadors of knowledge sharing', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 690-708.
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PurposeThe aim of this study is to understand the knowledge-sharing structure and co-production of trip-related knowledge through online travel forums.Design/methodology/approachThe travel forum threads were collected from TripAdvisor’s Sydney travel forum for the period from 2010 to 2014, which contains 115,847 threads from 8,346 conversations. The data analytical technique was based on a novel methodological approach – visual analytics, including semantic pattern generation and network analysis.FindingsFindings indicate that the knowledge structure is created by community residents who camouflage as local experts and serve as ambassadors of a destination. The knowledge structure presents collective intelligence co-produced by community residents and tourists. Further findings reveal how these community residents associate with each other and form a knowledge repertoire with information covering various travel domain areas.Practical implicationsThe study offers valuable insights to help destination-management organizations and tour operators identify existing and emerging tourism issues to achieve a competitive destination advantage.Originality/valueThis study highlights the process of social media mediated travel knowledge co-production. It also discovers how community residents engage in reaching out to tourists by camouflaging as ordinary users.

Ekström, E, Glover, K & Leniec, M 2017, 'Dynkin games with heterogeneous beliefs', Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 236-251.
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AbstractWe study zero-sum optimal stopping games (Dynkin games) between two players who disagree about the underlying model. In a Markovian setting, a verification result is established showing that if a pair of functions can be found that satisfies some natural conditions then a Nash equilibrium of stopping times is obtained, with the given functions as the corresponding value functions. In general, however, there is no uniqueness of Nash equilibria, and different equilibria give rise to different value functions. As an example, we provide a thorough study of the game version of the American call option under heterogeneous beliefs. Finally, we also study equilibria in randomized stopping times.

Ellis, RB & Waller, DS 2017, 'Marketing education at the University of Melbourne', History of Education Review, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 95-106.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the early days of marketing education by observing the first “Marketing” subject in Australia, which was taught at the University of Melbourne, and comparing elements of the early subject to the introductory Marketing subject of today.Design/methodology/approachThe information used for this study was obtained from material in the University of Melbourne Archives, including calendar entries, subject descriptions, and university announcements, as well as from interviews and correspondence with various people including those in academic and administrative positions, and former students.FindingsThe origins of university-level marketing education in Australia can be seen to have been shaped by several influences, including: the external environment of the country at that time; the areas of interest of academic staff; the availability of teaching material – textbooks, academic articles, appropriate case studies, academic research papers, etc.; the academic staff and teaching materials from the USA; and the extent to which the supporting technology of marketing had changed.Practical implicationsBy observing the development in marketing education over the years, from its beginnings in Australia at the University of Melbourne, this paper shows changes in the content which assists in the understanding of what has led to how marketing is taught in Australasian universities and colleges today.Originality/valueMarketing education research us...

Evans, J, Georgakis, S & Wilson, R 2017, 'Indigenous Games and Sports in the Australian National Curriculum: Educational Benefits and Opportunities?', ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 195-213.
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Abstract The introduction of the national Australian Curriculum (AC) has the potential to make a significant impact on Indigenous education (Australian Curriculum 2012). Indigenous perspectives will now feature in all key learning areas in the national curriculum. More specifically, in the Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum, endorsed in 2015, the teaching of Indigenous Games and Sports (IGaS) is “encouraged for all students” (ACARA 2012, 28). However, there has been very little research into its place or a clear rationale for its inclusion. This article outlines the possibilities for the inclusion of IGaS across Australian schools. We provide details on IGaS and suggest an appropriate pedagogy for teaching purposes. We also outline two rationales for the inclusion of IGaS: first, for the contribution they can make to the development of social justice within schools; and second, for the way IGaS can promote fully inclusive classrooms that recognize and welcome Indigenous students.

Fee, A, Heizmann, H & Gray, SJ 2017, 'Towards a theory of effective cross-cultural capacity development: the experiences of Australian international NGO expatriates in Vietnam', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 28, no. 14, pp. 2036-2061.
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© 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Capacity development (CD) partnerships between highly qualified expatriates and host-country counterparts are a commonly used tool by non-government organisations (NGOs) working in international development. This article reports on an empirical investigation of the factors contributing to the effectiveness of these interpersonal cross-cultural CD relationships. Using a variant of the critical incident technique, we explored 40 such relationships (20 effective and 20 ineffective) reported by 20 expatriates from an Australian international NGO who were embedded in international and domestic NGOs and government organisations in Vietnam. From our analysis, we propose a theoretical model that identifies the features of effective cross-cultural CD relationships. The model is intended to lay the foundation for future research as well as strategic action by organisations. It identifies shared trust between expatriate and counterpart as central to effective CD, supported by five enabling conditions relating to the perceptions, abilities and attitudes of participants, the way the work roles are structured, and the way that leaders in the host organisations manage the context of the relationship.

Fiebig, DG, Viney, R, Knox, S, Haas, M, Street, DJ, Hole, AR, Weisberg, E & Bateson, D 2017, 'Consideration Sets and Their Role in Modelling Doctor Recommendations About Contraceptives', HEALTH ECONOMICS, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 54-73.
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Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Decisions about prescribed contraception are typically the result of a consultation between a woman and her doctor. In order to better understand contraceptive choice within this environment, stated preference methods are utilized to ask doctors about what contraceptive options they would discuss with different types of women. The role of doctors is to confine their discussion to a subset of products that best match their patient. This subset of options forms the consideration set from which the ultimate recommendation is made. Given the existence of consideration sets we address the issue of how to model appropriately the ultimate recommendations. The estimated models enable us to characterize doctor recommendations and how they vary with patient attributes and to highlight where recommendations are clear and when they are uncertain. The results also indicate systematic variation in recommendations across different types of doctors, and in particular we observe that some doctors are reluctant to embrace new products and instead recommend those that are more familiar. Such effects are one possible explanation for the relatively low uptake of more cost effective longer acting reversible contraceptives and indicate that further education and training of doctors may be warranted. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Fleming, P 2017, 'The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization', Organization Studies, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 691-709.
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Human capital theory – developed by neoclassical economists like Gary Becker and Theodore Schultz – is widely considered a useful way to explain how employees might enhance their value in organizations, leading to improved skill, autonomy and socio-economic wellbeing. This essay argues the opposite. Human capital theory implies that employees should bear the costs (and benefits) of their investment. Highly individualized training and work practices are an inevitable corollary. Self-employment, portfolio careers, the ‘gig economy’ and on-demand business models (including Uber and Deliveroo) faithfully reflect the assumptions that inform human capital theory. I term this the radical responsibilization of the workforce and link it to growing economic insecurity, low productivity, diminished autonomy and worrying levels of personal debt. The essay concludes by proposing some possible solutions.

Foley, C 2017, 'The art of wasting time: sociability, friendship, community and holidays', Leisure Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 1-20.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Slow tourism is motivated by the desire for personal and communal well-being. It emerged as an antidote to the fast-paced imperatives of global capitalism that urge the entrepreneurial self to speed up and work harder to achieve and demonstrate desired social status. The entrepreneurial self can be understood in the contexts of neoliberalism and the class- and gender-based histories of time-thrift and rational recreation; the entrepreneurial self uses leisure time purposively in the pursuit of status, avoids idle pursuits and has restricted capacity to experience leisurely social relationships. In this article, it is argued that leisurely social relations can be reclaimed by letting go, even temporarily, of time-thrift and the compulsion to use leisure time purposively. Data drawn from in-depth interviews with repeat visitors at two Australian caravan parks revealed that for the period of their holiday the tourists relax, refuse to be driven by schedules, socialise with other tourists and feel no compulsion to use time purposively. The key reasons the tourists return to the parks each year were for the friendships and the sense of community they experience as part of the holiday. Slow tourism by its very nature rejects time-thrift, however, as the movement is harnessed by global capitalism, slow tourism risks becoming a source of conspicuous consumption. The findings of this study suggest that friendship and community thrive more readily in conditions where the need to achieve and demonstrate social status is discarded along with time-thrift.

Freeman, W, Wells, PA & Wyatt, A 2017, 'Measurement Model or Asset Type: Evidence from an Evaluation of the Relevance of Financial Assets', Abacus, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 180-210.
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© 2017 Accounting Foundation, The University of Sydney This study focuses on the operation of the Level 1, 2, and 3 measurement uncertainty hierarchy embedded in the SFAS 157 accounting for financial assets. Prior studies conclude the SFAS 157 fair value measurement model and prevailing financial market conditions are causal factors for the lower value relevance of the Level 3 financial assets. The contribution of our paper is to provide evidence on an additional, hitherto undocumented source of measurement uncertainty impacting the relevance of SFAS 157 financial assets to investors: the type of asset appearing in Level 3 financial assets as a result of asset securitizations and SFAS 140 securitization accounting. The paper also presents evidence that suggests the SFAS 166 amendments were unable to fully address informational transparency for financial assets arising from securitizations. The key contribution is evidentiary insights suggesting the prescribed measurement model has a relatively lower impact on measurement uncertainty and relevance of financial assets compared to the effects of the asset type.

Fujak, H, Frawley, S & Bush, S 2017, 'Quantifying the value of sport broadcast rights', Media International Australia, vol. 164, no. 1, pp. 104-116.
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Although sport broadcasting has received a considerable amount of academic attention, how sport content is valued and monetised from a broadcaster perspective remains relatively underdeveloped. This article adopts multisided market theory to test the broadcast value of Australia’s two most valuable sport broadcasting properties, the Australian Football League and the National Rugby League. To do so, a content and ratings analysis was performed to quantify the interaction between content and viewership within broadcasts. The article concludes that innate game dynamics have a significant bearing on the value generated for broadcasters from sport content. Advertising aired during intermissions generated audiences 23% lesser than advertising within the match itself. Notably, the National Rugby League’s most valuable timeslot was a delayed telecast, which although potentially reducing the audience size, allowed for an increase in the concentration of advertising within the telecast.

Gavin, M & McGrath‐Champ, S 2017, 'Devolving authority: the impact of giving public schools power to hire staff', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 255-274.
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Governments in the western world are increasingly experimenting with education policies that devolve responsibility for hiring and staffing to the local school level. Driven by forces of neoliberalism, marketisation and decentralisation, such reforms differentially affect schools as a result of various geographic and socio‐spatial factors. This article presents the findings of a recent study of public schools in the Australian state of New South Wales, and the impact that the government's Local schools, local decisions policy has had on staffing and hiring decisions within schools considered ‘hard‐to‐staff’. Drawing on interviews conducted with school principals and representatives of industrial bodies, this article reveals the differential and geographically diverse impact of devolutionary reform on ‘hard‐to‐staff’ schools. It posits that while the reforms facilitate the augmentation of staffing composition and enhanced decision‐making flexibility, the interaction of the policy with existing staffing processes undermines the reform's potential.

Georgina Russell, C, Burke, PF, Waller, DS & Wei, E 2017, 'The impact of front-of-pack marketing attributes versus nutrition and health information on parents' food choices', Appetite, vol. 116, pp. 323-338.
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© 2017 Front-of-pack attributes have the potential to affect parents’ food choices on behalf of their children and form one avenue through which strategies to address the obesogenic environment can be developed. Previous work has focused on the isolated effects of nutrition and health information (e.g. labeling systems, health claims), and how parents trade off this information against co-occurring marketing features (e.g. product imagery, cartoons) is unclear. A Discrete Choice Experiment was utilized to understand how front-of-pack nutrition, health and marketing attributes, as well as pricing, influenced parents’ choices of cereal for their child. Packages varied with respect to the two elements of the Australian Health Star Rating system (stars and nutrient facts panel), along with written claims, product visuals, additional visuals, and price. A total of 520 parents (53% male) with a child aged between five and eleven years were recruited via an online panel company and completed the survey. Product visuals, followed by star ratings, were found to be the most significant attributes in driving choice, while written claims and other visuals were the least significant. Use of the Health Star Rating (HSR) system and other features were related to the child's fussiness level and parents’ concerns about their child's weight with parents of fussy children, in particular, being less influenced by the HSR star information and price. The findings suggest that front-of-pack health labeling systems can affect choice when parents trade this information off against marketing attributes, yet some marketing attributes can be more influential, and not all parents utilize this information in the same way.

Ghobadi, S, Campbell, J & Clegg, S 2017, 'Pair programming teams and high-quality knowledge sharing: A comparative study of coopetitive reward structures', Information Systems Frontiers, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 397-409.
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© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York There has been a growing research interest in understanding knowledge sharing in agile development. Yet, empirical research that sheds light on its underlying practices, such as pair programming, is evolving. This study uses insights from coopetition and software literature to focus inquiry on the relation between coopetitive rewards and high-quality knowledge sharing in pair programming teams. Theoretical hypotheses are developed and validated, suggesting that: ‘coopetitive rewards influence high-quality knowledge sharing both directly and over time through their impact on the level of knowledge sharing satisfaction’, and, ‘the impact of coopetitive rewards on high-quality knowledge sharing is dependent upon task complexity and the history of working under similar reward structure’. This study generates new understanding related to the use of rewards in pair programming teams, and offers a rigorous and replicable seven-step experimental process for simulating coopetitive structures and investigating their role in pair programming and in similar collaborative contexts.

Gilfillan, B & Fee, A 2017, 'Shaping participation: an international NGO implementing a government participation policy', Development in Practice, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 1035-1049.
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This article reports on a case study of how one NGO utilised a government participation policy to establish ostensibly participatory spaces in the Cambodian health sector. The ethnographic field study revealed how the NGO exerted influence in establishing and facilitating participative committees by controlling membership, resources, and meeting agendas. This resulted in limited citizen participation, with committees used to educate, lobby, and mobilise community leaders to work towards the NGO’s priorities rather than community identified needs. This case contributes to our understanding of insisted spaces and the role of third parties implementing government participation policies.

Goeree, JK & Zhang, J 2017, 'One man, one bid', Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 101, pp. 151-171.
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© 2016 Elsevier Inc. We compare two mechanisms to implement a simple binary choice, e.g. adopt one of two proposals. We show that when neither alternative is ex ante preferred, simple majority voting cannot implement the first best outcome. We introduce a simple bidding mechanism where votes can be bought at a quadratic cost and voters receive rebates equal to the average of others' payments. This mechanism is budget-balanced, individually rational, and fully efficient in the limit. Moreover, the mechanism redistributes from those that gain from the outcome to those that lose and everyone is better off under bidding compared to voting. We test the two mechanisms in the lab using an environment with “moderate” and “extremist” voters. The observed efficiency losses under voting are close to theoretical predictions and significantly larger than under bidding. Because of redistribution, the efficiency gain from bidding benefits mostly the moderate voters.

Goldbaum, D 2017, 'Divergent Behavior in Markets with Idiosyncratic Private Information', Review of Behavioral Economics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 181-213.
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A state of perpetually evolving divergent trading strategies is the natural consequence of a market with idiosyncratic private information. In the face of intrinsic uncertainty about other traders’ strategies, participants resort to learning and adaptation to identify and exploit profitable trading opportunities. Model-consistent use of market-based information generally improves price performance but can inadvertently produce episodes of sudden mispricing. The paper examines the impact of trader’s use of information and bounded rationality on price efficiency.

Gordon, R, Waitt, G & Cooper, P 2017, 'A social marketer, a geographer, and an engineer walk into a bar', Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 366-386.
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PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to contemporary debates about interdisciplinarity and social marketing by presenting the critical reflections of a social marketer, a human geographer and an engineer on working across disciplines in an Australian community energy efficiency intervention – Energy + Illawarra. The paper also aims to identify challenges, practicalities and learning that emerge from collaborating on interdisciplinary projects. It also aims to provide some suggestions and guidelines for researchers in the interdisciplinary space.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses a case study approach and presents the critical reflections of a social marketer, a human geographer and an engineer on working together on the Energy + Illawarra project – a community energy efficiency social marketing intervention.FindingsChallenges in interdisciplinary projects that are presented by differences in ontology, methodology, language and discourse are identified. The importance of being critically reflexive and openness to alternative perspectives are examined. Concerns over publishing interdisciplinary research are considered. The value of experimenting and developing partnerships through pilot projects is discussed. The potential of leveraging existing synergies and the opportunity to learn from clashes in ontology are also highlighted.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the discussion about being interdisciplinary in social marketing by identifying subjectivities, practicalities and opportunities from collaborating on cross-disciplinary projects. Guidance for researche...

Grabowski, S, Wearing, S, Lyons, K, Tarrant, M & Landon, A 2017, 'A rite of passage? Exploring youth transformation and global citizenry in the study abroad experience', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 139-149.
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Travel, long recognised as a rite of passage, is often also touted as a transformative experience which facilitates cross-cultural understanding, fosters an embrace of diversity and promotes global awareness. This process is aligned with youth development and has a rich history in the tourism literature. The importance of transformational travel, however, has now spread to programmes across the higher education landscape, with the recognition that travel has the potential to nurture a global citizenry. Additionally, for many young people, the motivation for studying abroad is to assist in the transition to adulthood. In this way, educational travel is similar to an ‘overseas experience’ or a ‘gap year’. It is often taken at an important time of transition in emerging adulthood, for example, from school to work. We argue that this period of identity formation for youth can be likened to a rite of passage much like the Grand Tour of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was for young European men and women. Our paper examines the role of the study abroad experience in promoting youth transformation and global citizenry.

Greenwood, VA & Dwyer, L 2017, 'Reinventing Macau tourism: gambling on creativity?', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 580-602.
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Greve, J, Ax, C, Bedford, D, Bednarek, P, Brühl, R, Dergard, J, Ditillo, A, Dossi, A, Gosselin, M, Hoozée, S, Israelsen, P, Janscheck, O, Johanson, D, Johansson, T, Madsen, D, Malmi, T, Rohde, C, Sandelin, M, Strömsten, T, Toldbod, T & Willert, J 2017, 'The Impact of Society on Management Control Systems', Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 253-266.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The aim of this study is to investigate whether certain configurations of management controls dominate in certain societies (socio-cultural contexts) and whether the effectiveness of a given archetype of management control systems (MCSs) varies depending on the socio-cultural setting—the society—in which it operates. The study focuses on three socio-cultural groups and the corresponding institutional contexts (an Anglo-Saxon group, a Central European group, and a Northern European group) and three MCS archetypes (delegated bureaucratic control, delegated output control, and programmable output control). We use unique data from a cross-national, interview-based survey encompassing 610 strategic business units from nine countries (seven European countries plus Canada and Australia). The idea that firms tend to adapt MCSs to the socio-cultural context does not gain empirical support in this study. No significant differences in the distribution of MCSs between the three socio-cultural groups are noted. However, we do find that programmable output control has a more positive impact on effectiveness in Anglo-Saxon cultures, while delegated output control has a more positive impact on effectiveness in Northern Europe. Taken together these findings indicate that distinct differences between societies make a particular MCS design more appropriate in a given society, but where such differences are not dramatic (as in the present case), multiple MCS designs can be found in the same society.

Grosse, M, Kean, S & Scott, T 2017, 'Shareholder say on pay and CEO compensation: three strikes and the board is out', Accounting & Finance, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 701-725.
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AbstractFrom 2011 in Australia, if over 25% of shareholders vote against a non‐binding remuneration resolution, firms are awarded a ‘strike’. We examine 237 firms that receive a strike relative to matched firms, and find no association with any measure of CEO pay. However, we do find that strike firms have higher book‐to‐market and leverage ratios, suggesting that the remuneration vote is not used to target excessive pay. We also find that firms respond to a strike by decreasing the discretionary bonus component of CEO pay by 57.10% more than non‐strike firms and increasing their remuneration disclosure by 10.95%.

Guo, B, Xu, G & Li, W 2017, 'Seeking legitimacy: Chinese OFDI and domestic isomorphic pressures', Asian Business & Management, vol. 16, no. 1-2, pp. 1-24.
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© 2017 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Drawing on institutional theory, we argue that the likelihood of a Chinese firm adopting an isomorphic strategy in outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) depends on the influence of external isomorphic pressures-specifically, domestic regional and domestic industrial isomorphic pressures-and the firm's internal legitimacy-seeking motivation. Quantitative analysis of a sample of 107 Chinese listed firms and their OFDI projects in the 2008-2012 period offers supportive evidence for our arguments. Our study offers further insights into Chinese MNEs by providing a better understanding of the impact of China's regional and industrial diversity on their OFDI.

Harvey, G, Rhodes, C, Vachhani, SJ & Williams, K 2017, 'Neo-villeiny and the service sector: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work in fitness centres', Work, Employment and Society, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 19-35.
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This article presents data from a comprehensive study of hyper flexible and precarious work in the service sector. A series of interviews were conducted with self-employed personal trainers along with more than 200 hours of participant observation within fitness centres in the UK. Analysis of the data reveals a new form of hyper flexible and precarious work that is labelled neo-villeiny in this article. Neo-villeiny is characterized by four features: bondage to the organization; payment of rent to the organization; no guarantee of any income; and extensive unpaid and speculative work that is highly beneficial to the organization. The neo-villeiny of the self-employed personal trainer offers the fitness centre all of the benefits associated with hyper flexible work, but also mitigates the detrimental outcomes associated with precarious work. The article considers the potential for adoption of this new form of hyper flexible and precarious work across the broader service sector.

Head, L & Harada, T 2017, 'Keeping the heart a long way from the brain: The emotional labour of climate scientists', Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 24, pp. 34-41.
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Hergesell, A 2017, 'Environmental commitment in holiday transport mode choice', International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 67-80.
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PurposeThis study aims to contribute to a better understanding of environmentally friendly consumers. It examines differences in holiday transport mode choices by persons’ general level of environmental commitment across lifestyle domains. Adopting a marketing perspective, the study also explores transport mode perceptions and underlying product attribute preferences that may shape holiday transport mode choices.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted Kaiser’s (1998) General Ecological Behaviour scale to measure commitment to environmentally friendly behaviour. ANOVAs were run to examine differences in actual holiday travel behaviour and transport mode perceptions by level of environmental commitment. Pattern models were calculated to estimate differences in the relative importance of selected transport mode attributes (price, travel time, punctuality, accessibility, flexibility, comfort and environmental impact).FindingsThe study findings suggest that differences exist in transport mode choices for train and car use, but not for plane use, namely, train users tend to be more environmentally committed and car users less so. Differences were also noted in transport mode perceptions, with more environmentally friendly consumers holding more favourable views of the train. Those who are more environmentally committed also placed greater importance on environmental impact and less importance on comfort and time in mode choice.Originality/valueThe study applied an environmental scale thus far not used within tourism research. It also adopted a marketing perspective focused on...

Hingorani, AG, Freeman, L & Agudera, M 2017, 'Impact of Immigration on Native and Ethnic Consumer Identity via Body Image', International Journal of Marketing Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 27-27.
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This research focuses on consumer identity of two under-researched but growing immigrant communities in Australia via the lens of the body image construct. Consistent with an emerging stream of research, body image is viewed as a part of identity. Given the variety of goods and services that have an impact on consumers’ perceptions of their body, and because consumers use products to create and convey desired identities, body image is also viewed as a part of consumer identity. Considering literature on identity, body image, and acculturation, exploratory research was undertaken to determine the impact of immigration on the identities of both immigrants and natives. Specifically, focus groups were conducted on two generations of Filipino- and Indian-Australian women as well as Anglo-Australian women. It was found that second generation immigrants have dual consumer identities where they balance the values, attitudes and lifestyles of both their home (i.e., native or heritage) and host cultures whereas first generation immigrants tend to retain their native consumer identity even if they appear to adopt values, attitudes, and lifestyles of the host culture. The impact of immigrants on consumer identities of native residents who are typically in the majority (i.e., the Anglo group) was not evident. Theoretical and practical implications including recommendations for marketing practitioners are then discussed followed by suggestions for future research.

Huo, WW, Yi, H, Men, C, Luo, J, Li, X & Tam, KL 2017, 'Territoriality, motivational climate, and idea implementation: We reap what we sow', Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 1919-1932.
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Drawing on the integrated perspectives of territoriality and motivational climate, we explored the relationship between employees' territoriality and idea implementation. We tested our model with 46 research and development teams in China, comprising 359 employees and their supervisors, who completed measures of territoriality, social alienation, motivational climate (specifically, performance climate and mastery climate), and idea implementation. The results showed that social alienation mediated the relationship between territoriality and idea implementation, and that mastery climate and performance climate moderated the positive relationship between territoriality and social alienation. Our findings not only provide insight into the relationship between territoriality and idea implementation, but also clarify the effect of motivational climate on this relationship. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Incekara-Hafalir, E & Linardi, S 2017, 'Awareness of low self-control: Theory and evidence from a homeless shelter', Journal of Economic Psychology, vol. 61, pp. 39-54.
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© 2017 Survey measures of self-control provide a potential low-cost alternative to incentivized elicitation. However, asking respondents to introspect on their self-control problems may instead measure their awareness of them, especially in populations with low self-control. We illustrate this with the Ameriks, Caplin, Leahy, and Tyler (2007) survey, which captures self-control problems through the deviation between self-reported ideal and predicted behavior (Expected Deviation, ED). Previous empirical evidence from high income or highly educated populations correlates larger ED with worse outcomes. We theoretically show that the reverse will be true in settings where awareness can play a large role: when self-control is low and costly commitment devices are available. We empirically show that, for residents of a homeless shelter, ED is positively correlated to savings in shelter lockboxes, a costly commitment device. This correlation is stronger for those likely to experience more self-control problems: individuals with past addiction problems.

Johar, M, Maruyama, S & Truong, J 2017, 'The contribution of Western fast food to fast-growing body mass in China', Applied Economics, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 797-811.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The westernization of Asian countries has led to the rapid expansion of Western-style fast-food restaurants, which are believed to be fueling an unprecedented rise in body mass in these countries. This study tests this belief using longitudinal data from China. Exploiting the opening of a Western-style fast-food restaurant in a particular community, we conduct a transition analysis to make a more convincing causal interpretation than the standard cross-sectional or fixed-effects approach. Considering several measures of fatness, we find no robust evidence of Western fast food having a substantial effect overall, but there is some indication of effect heterogeneity.

Josserand, E, Schmitt, A & Borzillo, S 2017, 'Balancing present needs and future options: how employees leverage social networks with clients', Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 14-21.
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PurposeThis paper aims to analyze how business units can use their employees’ external social capital to explore and exploit the resources available in their environment. Based on multiple interviews with the employees of the global commodity firm Gamma Chemical (around 50,000 employees), the research aims at gaining an understanding of the contextual conditions required to successfully build and leverage individuals’ external social client network ties for business unit ambidexterity.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a single-case study at Gamma Chemical that entailed 33 semi-directive interviews, each of which lasted 1-4 h, at different organizational levels (ranging from top-level management to production workers). We had access to three regional business units. The interviews addressed the links between the individuals in the business units and external actors. The authors also collected information about the company’s strategic objectives, the local competitive environment and work organization. Open-ended questions were used to allow the interviewees to freely relate anecdotes about their own network development. In particular, the authors asked the respondents to identify business contacts with whom they interacted privately and to describe the relationships.FindingsThe research findings are two-fold. First, and contrary to prior studies, the authors find that individuals’ social capital contributes to both exploration and exploitation at the business unit level. Second, developing and leveraging individuals’ external social capital requires a specific organizational context at the business unit level that allows employees to develop and nurture their personal bu...

Jung, K, Dalton, B & Willis, J 2017, 'The onward migration of North Korean refugees to Australia: in search of cosmopolitan habitus', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1-20.
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Based on assumed common ethnicity, language and culture, South Korea is believed to be the best country for North Korean defectors to restart their lives. This is, however, not necessarily the case. Since the mid-2000s, 2000 to 3000 North Koreans have allegedly settled in the UK, Canada, the US, Australia and EU countries. Despite this trend and its broader implications, the onward migration process of North Korean refugees, together with their motivations and lived experiences, remain poorly addressed in academic research. Drawing from the unique experience of North Korean refugees’ onward movement to Australia, the paper suggests that discarding a North Korean identity and habitus and gaining cosmopolitan habitus are the main reasons behind North Korean defectors’ onward migration. The paper is the first empirical study on North Korean refugees resettled in Australia to adopt habitus as a theoretical framework, and thus provides new insight into migration studies.  

Keller, LR & Wang, Y 2017, 'Information Presentation in Decision and Risk Analysis: Answered, Partly Answered, and Unanswered Questions', Risk Analysis, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1132-1145.
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For the last 30 years, researchers in risk analysis, decision analysis, and economics have consistently proven that decisionmakers employ different processes for evaluating and combining anticipated and actual losses, gains, delays, and surprises. Although rational models generally prescribe a consistent response, people's heuristic processes will sometimes lead them to be inconsistent in the way they respond to information presented in theoretically equivalent ways. We point out several promising future research directions by listing and detailing a series of answered, partly answered, and unanswered questions.

Khalili, H & Sameti, A 2017, 'Healthcare quality and medicine reimbursement criteria in Iran', International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 455-470.
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PurposeThis study aims to measure the quality of services provided to elderly people at the most crowded governmental ambulatory clinics of Tehran Province using the SERVQUAL scale (Study 1). Moreover, the research indicates the medicine reimbursement criteria to inform the decision-makers of public health insurance organizations using the Borda method (Study 2).Design/methodology/approachThis study was done as a cross-sectional research on 425 elderly patients who came to the clinics during 2014 and 2015. Finally, using the paired t-test, Friedman test, Borda method, SPSS, Matlab software and Delphi method, the collected data were analysed.FindingsRegarding the perceived quality, the services assurance dimension was ranked as having the highest quality (4.48) and the accessibility dimension as the lowest one (3.22). Based on the Borda method, the most important criterion for the Iranian health insurance companies to accept a medicine in their reimbursement list is the “life-threatening conditions” factor. On the other hand, “evidence quality” is accounted as the fifth important factor.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation was the senility of participants that makes it difficult for understanding and completing the questionnaires.Practical implicationsThe results can be useful for healthcare policy makers and related authorities. Besides, public health insurers can use the findings for decision-making about the elderly diseases and t...

Klettner, AL 2017, 'The Impact of Stewardship Codes on Corporate Governance and Sustainability', New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, vol. 23, pp. 1-18.
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Stewardship codes are a relatively new phenomenon in corporate governance, designed to encourage institutional investors to become more active and responsible shareholders. In the years since the United Kingdom introduced its stewardship code in 2010, many other jurisdictions have followed suit. It is highly likely that stewardship codes will continue to proliferate across the globe in much the same way that corporate governance codes have since the 1990s. This paper examines the nature, purpose and likely effectiveness of stewardship codes and considers whether New Zealand could benefit from such a code. The concept of investor stewardship raises many questions, both practical and theoretical, which are explored through an analysis of existing codes. Is stewardship likely to be a cost-effective method for improving corporate governance; is it feasible in practice; and what does it mean for the role of boards of directors of listed companies? Lastly, the article considers the potential for stewardship codes to promote corporate sustainability.

Koo, TTR, Lau, P-L & Dwyer, L 2017, 'The Geographic Dispersal of Visitors', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 108-121.
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This article aims to examine the conjecture that geographic dispersal of visitors follows the power law using data on international visitors’ spatial distribution in Australia. Our finding suggests that as tourism market matures, the pattern of tourist dispersal tends to converge toward a specific power law distribution. The article provides estimates of this unique power exponent for each country and tracks its temporal evolution using a novel method. One of the key implications for sustainable destination management is that for continued tourism growth, large destinations need a large number of small peripheral destinations. Our findings also shed light on the rich research literature that is fundamental in developing a power law–based theory to guide our understanding of the mechanics underpinning the spatial evolution of tourism.

Kyriazis, E, Massey, G, Couchman, P & Johnson, L 2017, 'Friend or foe? The effects of managerial politics on NPD team communication, collaboration and project success', R&D Management, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 61-74.
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Much existing work on new product development (NPD) team integration takes an economically rational perspective, specifying appropriate systems, structures and interactions. Few studies however have explored the effects of politics on working relationships between technically trained managers (TTMs; e.g., research and development managers) and marketing managers (MMs) during NPD. Our results reveal that intra‐team politics has positive and negative effects on TTM/MM communication. This is important because communication positively influences collaboration and NPD success. Moreover, the effects of communication variables on these two outcome variables differ depending on whether one is a TTM or MM.

Lanis, R, Richardson, G & Taylor, G 2017, 'Board of Director Gender and Corporate Tax Aggressiveness: An Empirical Analysis', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 144, no. 3, pp. 577-596.
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© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht This study examines the impact of board of director gender diversity on corporate tax aggressiveness. Based on a sample of 418 U.S. firms covering the 2006–2009 period (1672 firm-year observations), our ordinary least squares regression results show a negative and statistically significant association between female representation on the board and tax aggressiveness after controlling for endogeneity. Our results are consistent across several measures of tax aggressiveness and additional robustness checks.

Lau, P-L, Koo, TTR & Dwyer, L 2017, 'Metrics to measure the geographic characteristics of tourism markets: An integrated approach based on Gini index decomposition', TOURISM MANAGEMENT, vol. 59, no. C, pp. 171-181.
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Compared to the metrics of tourism seasonality or tourism income distribution, metrics of tourism spatiality remains under-explored. Our principal aim is to enhance the way we measure the geographic dispersal of visitors by developing a Gini index–inspired dispersal metric. We discuss the theoretical criteria for an ideal spatial metric and use these criteria to highlight the important links and differences between Gini and the common ratio approach. Applying the methods to inbound Australian tourism data, we find that considering only one method in isolation not only increases the risk of incorrectly measuring the spatial performance of markets but also ignores interesting, and often offsetting, heterogeneous influences in the data. We expect the outcomes to aid tourism researchers and managers wanting to widen their repertoire in spatial measurement methods, and aid the choice of most appropriate method based on criteria firmly grounded in theory.

Lee, W, Greenwood, PE, Heckman, N & Wefelmeyer, W 2017, 'Pre-averaged kernel estimators for the drift function of a diffusion process in the presence of microstructure noise', Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 237-252.
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Lemus, J & Temnyalov, E 2017, 'Patent privateering, litigation, and R&D incentives', The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 1004-1026.
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AbstractWe model “patent privateering”—whereby producing firms sell patents to Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), which then license them under the threat of litigation—in a bargaining game. PAEs can negotiate higher licensing fees than producing firms because they cannot be countersued for infringement. Privateering produces two countervailing effects: it increases the offensive value of patents, whereas it decreases their defensive value and lowers the aggregate surplus of producing firms. Embedding the bargaining game into a Research and Development (R&D) contest for multiple complementary technologies, we find that privateering may increase R&D investments, even as it induces more litigation threats and reduces industry profits.

Leung, L & Bentley, N 2017, 'Producing Leisured Laborers: Developing Higher Education Courses for the Digital Creative Industries', The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 148-160.
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© 2017 Taylor & Francis. This article attempts to detail the range of assumptions and challenges in designing an undergraduate university degree in digital creative industries. Leaders in digital industries, who bemoan the general skills shortage and lack of “industry-ready” graduates, have identified the need for post-secondary education in this area. But in developing these new courses, how do we reconcile the traditional reflective, critical modes of academic practice with the fast and dynamic pace of the dot.com industries? How can slower-paced higher education and lifelong learning be meaningful to the current and future generations of digital natives who thrive on “just-in-time” knowledge? These important issues are analyzed and built upon to showcase the unique qualities and opportunities associated with tertiary education in this area. Overall, the article develops these high-level considerations practically by applying them to a pioneering undergraduate course in Australia that was launched in 2014.

Li, W, Guo, B & Xu, G 2017, 'How do linking, leveraging and learning capabilities influence the entry mode choice for multinational firms from emerging markets?', Baltic Journal of Management, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 171-193.
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PurposeBased on the linkage-leverage-learning (LLL) framework developed by Mathews (2006), the purpose of this paper is to examine how linking, leveraging and learning capabilities influence the choice of foreign-entry mode, and the way such influences are contingent on context factors in the emerging markets.Design/methodology/approachContrary to a prior literature applying the LLL framework, which mainly used case studies, this paper adopts a quantitative approach and is based on a sample of 321 Chinese listed companies to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results show that multinational firms from emerging markets (EMFs) with stronger LLL capabilities are more likely to choose the wholly owned mode in foreign entries. In addition, the relationship between linking capability and wholly owned entry mode choice is weaker at higher levels of cultural distance between home and host country. At the same time, the relationship between learning capability and wholly owned entry mode choice is weaker at higher levels of cultural distance between home and host country, and of institutional distance between prior entries and the focal entry.Research limitations/implicationsAn entry mode strategy for firms without ownership advantages and the identification of boundary conditions for applying different LLL capabilities are recommended. The generalizability of the findings from a single-country setting still needs further validation with other emerging economies.Originality/valueThis paper treats interna...

Li, W, Guo, B & Xu, G 2017, 'Making the next move: When does the newness of experience matter in overseas sequential entries of multinational companies?', International Business Review, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 908-926.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Traditional internationalization models suggest multinational companies (MNCs) can exploit their accumulative experience to facilitate their sequential entries. However, experience may depreciate over time. Thus, obtaining benefits from prior experience for MNCs is based on two critical premises, i.e., interpreting and applying experience correctly. We argue that there is a need to study the newness dimension of experiential learning. In doing so, we aim to explore to what extent the newness of experience matters in overseas sequential entries for MNCs. Moreover, we expect that the benefits from recent experience in guiding sequential entries are contingent on the extent of context similarity between the most recent entry location and sequential entry location and the outcome expectancy of focal entry. With a sample of 112 Chinese listed firms and 410 observations during the period of 2000–2012, we find that else being equal, the newness of experience of MNCs is positively associated with sequential entry and such a relationship is positively moderated both by context similarity in institutional environment and the outcome expectancy of the focal entry. We also compare the effects of the newness of different types of experience and find that the newness of the most recent experience has a larger influence on sequential entry than location-specific experience and general experience.

Linnenluecke, MK 2017, 'Resilience in Business and Management Research: A Review of Influential Publications and a Research Agenda', International Journal of Management Reviews, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 4-30.
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This paper identifies the development of and gaps in knowledge in business and management research on resilience, based on a systematic review of influential publications among 339 papers, books and book chapters published between 1977 and 2014. Analyzing these records shows that resilience research has developed into five research streams, or lines of enquiry, which view resilience as (1) organizational responses to external threats, (2) organizational reliability, (3) employee strengths, (4) the adaptability of business models or (5) design principles that reduce supply chain vulnerabilities and disruptions. A review of the five streams suggests three key findings: First, resilience has been conceptualized quite differently across studies, meaning that the different research streams have developed their own definitions, theories and understandings of resilience. Second, conceptual similarities and differences among these streams have not yet been explored, nor have insights been gleaned about any possible generalizable principles for developing resilience. Third, resilience has been operationalized quite differently, with few insights into the empirics for detecting resilience to future adversity (or the absence thereof). This paper outlines emerging research trends and pathways for future research, highlighting opportunities to integrate and expand on existing knowledge, as well as avenues for further investigation of resilience in business and management studies.

Linnenluecke, MK & McKnight, B 2017, 'Community resilience to natural disasters: the role of disaster entrepreneurship', Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 166-185.
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PurposeThe paper aims to examine the conditions under which disaster entrepreneurship contributes to community-level resilience. The authors define disaster entrepreneurship as attempts by the private sector to create or maintain value during and in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster by taking advantage of business opportunities and providing goods and services required by community stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachThis paper builds a typology of disaster entrepreneurial responses by drawing on the dimensions of structural expansion and role change. The authors use illustrative case examples to conceptualize how these responses improve community resilience by filling critical resource voids in the aftermath of natural disasters.FindingsThe typology identifies four different disaster entrepreneurship approaches: entrepreneurial business continuity, scaling of organizational response through activating latent structures, improvising and emergence. The authors formulate proposition regarding how each of the approaches is related to community-level resilience.Practical implicationsWhile disaster entrepreneurship can offer for-profit opportunities for engaging in community-wide disaster response and recovery efforts, firms should carefully consider the financial, legal, reputational and organizational implications of disaster entrepreneurship.Social implicationsCommunities should consider how best to harness disaster entrepreneurship in designing their disaster response strategie...

Linnenluecke, MK, Birt, J, Chen, X, Ling, X & Smith, T 2017, 'Accounting Research in Abacus, A&F, AAR, and AJM from 2008–2015: A Review and Research Agenda', Abacus, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 159-179.
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This paper uses bibliographic mapping techniques to map the research conversation in four Pacific Basin accounting journals listed on the Social Sciences Citation Index (Abacus, Accounting and Finance, Australian Accounting Review, and the Australian Journal of Management). We identify the main research streams in these journals as Accounting Standards, Environmental Accounting, Earnings Management, Disclosure, Conservatism, Auditing, Impairment, Cost of Capital, and Corporate Governance. We critically review each research stream, identify emerging research trends, and suggest an agenda for future research on accounting in the Pacific Basin.

Linnenluecke, MK, Chen, X, Ling, X, Smith, T & Zhu, Y 2017, 'Research in finance: A review of influential publications and a research agenda', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 43, pp. 188-199.
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Linnenluecke, MK, Verreynne, M-L, de Villiers Scheepers, MJ & Venter, C 2017, 'A review of collaborative planning approaches for transformative change towards a sustainable future', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 142, pp. 3212-3224.
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Maclean, M, Harvey, C & Clegg, SR 2017, 'Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects', Business History Review, vol. 91, no. 3, pp. 457-481.
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A common lament is that business history has been marginalized within mainstream business and management research. We propose that the remedy lies in part with more extensive engagement with organization theory. We illustrate our argument by exploring the potentialities for business history of three cognitive frameworks: institutional entrepreneurship, evolutionary theory, and Bourdieusian social theory. Exhibiting a higher level of theoretical fluency might enable business historians to accrue scholarly capital within the business and management field by producing theoretically informed historical discourse, demonstrating the potential of business history to extend theory, generate constructs, and elucidate complexities in unfolding relationships, situations, and events.

Magee, C, Gordon, R, Robinson, L, Caputi, P & Oades, L 2017, 'Workplace bullying and absenteeism: The mediating roles of poor health and work engagement', Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 319-334.
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AbstractWorkplace bullying is a major problem that affects the well‐being and productivity of employees. Some previous studies have found that workplace bullying is associated with absenteeism, which is a major contributor to lost workplace productivity. However, a comprehensive understanding of how different workplace bullying experiences are associated with absenteeism is currently lacking. In particular no previous studies have examined potential mediators of these relationships. The present article aimed to provide new insights into the relationship between workplace bullying and absenteeism. In a 12‐month prospective study of 500 Australian employees, we identified 5 distinct subtypes of workplace bullying experiences using a person‐centred approach. These bullying subtypes were found to be associated with absenteeism via health impairment and lower work engagement. The findings can be used to inform HR strategies to prevent and manage workplace bullying.

Maruyama, S & Johar, M 2017, 'Do Siblings Free-Ride in 'being There' for Parents?', Quantitative Economics, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 277-316.
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There is a potential free-rider problem when several siblings consider future provision ofcare for their elderly parents. Siblings can commit to not providing long-term support byliving far away. If location decisions are made by birth order, older siblings may enjoy a Örstmoveradvantage. We study siblingsílocation decisions relative to their parents by estimating asequential participation game for US data. We Önd: (1) limited strategic behavior: in two-childfamilies, more than 92% of children have a dominant strategy; and (2) a non-negligible publicgood problem: in families with multiple children, 18.3% more parents would have had at leastone child living nearby had location decisions been made cooperatively

Matolcsy, Z & Wakefield, J 2017, 'Multinational headquarter control of wholly owned foreign subsidiaries', The British Accounting Review, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 275-293.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd This paper examines how contingent factors, important for wholly owned foreign subsidiary operation, affect the management control system exercised by multinational corporation headquarters. We focus on two sets of contingent factors: first, strategic factors relating to corporate and competitive strategy; and second, factors related to integration internal and external to a multinational corporation. We apply a control archetype approach to more comprehensively consider the controls exercised, relative to extant literature. Our evidence is based on data from a cross-sectional survey completed by 159 Australian multinational corporation headquarters. Our findings indicate activity sharing corporate strategies, low cost competitive strategies, and higher internal integration, lead to greater degrees of control of wholly owned foreign subsidiaries. Differentiation based competitive strategies and external integration have less substantial and narrower implications on the degree of control exercised. These findings are robust to sensitivity tests and are consistent with our expectations that headquarters exercise a higher degree of control in contexts perceived as less problematic.

Maxwell, H, Stronach, M, Adair, D & Pearce, S 2017, 'Indigenous Australian women and sport: findings and recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry', Sport in Society, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 1500-1529.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Researchers have consistently pointed to positive links between sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing amongst marginalized population groups. This paper concentrates on a group about which little is presently known in terms of these links–Indigenous women in Australia. The catalyst for this focus is twofold: demographic data that, while sparse, suggests that this group has very low levels of participation in sport and associated physical activity; and second, a recent parliamentary inquiry into Indigenous sport in which the participation of women featured in several submissions. Both data sets confirm that Indigenous women are significantly underrepresented in the Australian sporting landscape. There is no systematic knowledge about why this is so. The present study contributes to that small body of literature by considering (a) evidence about participation rates of Indigenous women in sport; and (b) the aspirations of sport organizations to attract Indigenous women into their programs.

McDonald, M, Bridger, AJ, Wearing, S & Ponting, J 2017, 'Consumer spaces as political spaces: A critical review of social, environmental, and psychogeographical research', Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. e12325-e12325.
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AbstractThe purpose of this review is to critique the social and environmental psychology literature on spaces and places with a focus on consumer culture and neoliberalism. By drawing on social theory and the Continental philosophical literature, the review argues that an alternative approach to knowledge production is required. To this end, recommendations are provided for what a psychogeographical approach in social and environmental psychology could look like. It argues that such work could be of benefit to academic and local communities by exposing the social costs and consequences associated with consumer culture and neoliberalism.

McDonald, M, Gough, B, Wearing, S & Deville, A 2017, 'Social Psychology, Consumer Culture and Neoliberal Political Economy', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 363-379.
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AbstractConsumer culture and neoliberal political economy are often viewed by social psychologists as topics reserved for anthropologists, economists, political scientists and sociologists. This paper takes an alternative view arguing that social psychology needs to better understand these two intertwined institutions as they can both challenge and provide a number of important insights into social psychological theories of self‐identity and their related concepts. These include personality traits, self‐esteem, social comparisons, self‐enhancement, impression management, self‐regulation and social identity. To illustrate, we examine how elements of consumer culture and neoliberal political economy intersect with social psychological concepts of self‐identity through three main topics: ‘the commodification of self‐identity’, ‘social categories, culture and power relations’ and the ‘governing of self‐regulating consumers’. In conclusion, we recommend a decommodified approach to research with the aim of producing social psychological knowledge that avoids becoming enmeshed with consumer culture and neoliberalism.

Mendolia, S & Siminski, P 2017, 'Is education the mechanism through which family background affects economic outcomes? A generalised approach to mediation analysis', Economics of Education Review, vol. 59, pp. 1-12.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects economic outcomes. To this end, we generalise mediation analysis to allow for multidimensional treatments. This improves the validity of mediation analysis for our application, in which family background is exogenous and multidimensional. Our approach allows the mediating role of education to vary across background characteristics, whilst also estimating its overall mediating effect. We estimate that educational attainment explains 21%–37% of the family background effect on hourly earnings in Australia, and only 13%–19% of the effect on wealth. We argue that these estimates are likely upward-biased. Therefore the link between family background and economic outcomes operates mostly through other mechanisms.

Moreno, D & Wooders, J 2017, 'Reserve prices in auctions with entry when the seller is risk-averse', Economics Letters, vol. 154, pp. 6-9.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. We show that risk aversion raises the public reserve price rP above the seller's cost c, but lowers the secret reserve price rS below the revenue maximizing reserve price r0. Further, rP

Morrison, M, Greig, J, Waller, D, McCulloch, R & Read, D 2017, 'Effective communication with difficult to reach landholders', Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 133-145.
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© 2017 Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand Inc. While considerable research has been undertaken to understand which communication channels are most effective at reaching landholders, much less research has examined which communication channels are most effective for reaching those landholder segments characterised by low program participation (i.e. ‘lifestylers’, traditional and absentee segments). Even less research has examined what messages most effectively engage these landholders, or landholders in general. In this study, eight communications campaigns were developed with specific messages and appeals that allowed us to examine the perceptions of difficult-to-reach landholders towards rational versus emotional, inform versus persuade and individual versus community-based appeals, using a qualitative methodology. The findings indicate that landholder’s perceptions of both rational and emotional messages depended on the congruence with segment values. Inform messages were found often to be well regarded, especially when they clarified eligibility and program benefits. Persuade messages could be effective, but this also depended on the consistency of the message with segment values. Community-based messages were often not well received, but they could be effective at reaching lifestylers.

Nguyen, P, Miloud, T & Zhao, R 2017, 'CEO tenure and firm growth: A conditional analysis', Economics Bulletin, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 2301-2308.
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This paper investigates the influence that CEO tenure may have on firm growth. We hypothesize that the effect of CEO tenure is conditional on the firm's growth rate. The empirical analysis reveals that the effect on growth is negative in high-growth firms and positive in low-growth firms. These findings are consistent with the view that long CEO tenure is beneficial in a more stable environment, but detrimental under rapidly-changing circumstances.

Nikitopoulos, CS, Squires, M, Thorp, S & Yeung, D 2017, 'Determinants of the crude oil futures curve: Inventory, consumption and volatility', Journal of Banking & Finance, vol. 84, pp. 53-67.
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Nikolova, N & Andersen, L 2017, 'Creating Shared Value Through Service-Learning in Management Education', Journal of Management Education, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 750-780.
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Service-learning has gained strong interest among educators as a model of experiential education through community engagement. Its potential to contribute to multiple stakeholders, including students, community partners, faculty, and university, is well recognized. While research has focused on elements of this teaching model that contribute to the realization of student-related benefits, there has been less emphasis on what aspects enable the creation of shared value to other stakeholders. We describe a postgraduate, elective management consulting course based on service-learning pedagogy, which has been running for 10 years at the University of Technology Sydney Business School leading to the completion of 75 community projects to date, and evaluate how it creates shared value to multiple stakeholders. We identify four main elements of the course that enable it to deliver value to multiple stakeholders: a dedicated role of client engagement coordinator, a coaching program involving industry experts, student autonomy, and authentic assessments. The main challenges in continuously providing value to all involved parties are developing focused and realistic project briefs, managing students’ commitment and differences in students’ skills, and recruiting industry coaches.

Palmer, T-A, Burke, PF & Aubusson, P 2017, 'Why school students choose and reject science: a study of the factors that students consider when selecting subjects', International Journal of Science Education, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 645-662.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Student study of science at school has been linked to the need to provide a scientifically capable workforce and a scientifically literate society. Educators, scientists, and policymakers are concerned that too few students are choosing science for study in their final years of school. How and why students choose and reject certain subjects, including science, at this time is unclear. A Best–Worst Scaling (BWS) survey was completed by 333 Year 10 (age 14–17) students to investigate the relative importance of 21 factors thought to impact students’ subject-selection decisions. Students ranked enjoyment, interest and ability in a subject, and its perceived need in their future study or career plans as the most important factors in both choosing and rejecting subjects. They considered advice from teachers, parents or peers as relatively less important. These findings indicate that enhancing students’ enjoyment, interest, and perceptions of their ability in science, as well as increasing student perceptions of its value in a future career, may result in more students studying science at school.

Parlapiano, F, Alexeev, V & Dungey, M 2017, 'Exchange rate risk exposure and the value of European firms', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FINANCE, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 111-129.
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© 2015 Taylor & FrancisThis paper presents a new assessment of the exposure of European firms to exchange rate fluctuations which takes into account the potential common drivers of exchange rates and equity market conditions. Using monthly data for European firms from 1999 to 2011, we assess the impact of unexpected fluctuations in the USD, JPY, GBP and CHF against the Euro, and show that the proportion of firms subject to exchange rate risk is considerably larger when estimation accounts for potential common drivers and firm-specific factors than otherwise. Firm exposure to exchange rate risk is affected by the level of international involvement, industry, firm size and country of origin. European firms with largely domestic operations reveal the greatest vulnerability to unexpected exchange rate movements, suggesting an opportunity to improve risk management for these companies.

Parvin, S, Wang, PZ & Uddin, J 2017, 'Assessing two consumer behavioural intention models in a service environment', Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 653-668.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine two alternative consumer behavioural intention models that have been developed from the marketing and information systems disciplines in a service environment. Specifically, it reports an empirical assessment of the two non-nested structural models in the context of Australian restaurant industry.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a web-based survey by an online research organization and structural equation modelling with AMOS was used to compare the two non-nested behavioural intention models.FindingsThis study found that the second model that incorporates expectation-confirmation theory outperformed the first model in terms of model fit with the empirical data.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study provide service managers with important insights into the appropriate design of service delivery systems to increase consumer satisfaction which, in turn, leads to more positive behavioural intentions. Moreover, the restaurant research setting means that marketing managers in the growing tourism and hospitality industry should benefit from the study findings.Originality/valueThis study synthesized two consumer behavioural intention models from different disciplines and provided an approach to the empirical comparison of the non-nested structural models.

Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2017, 'A quantitative model for disruption mitigation in a supply chain', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 257, no. 3, pp. 881-895.
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© 2016 Elsevier B.V. In this paper, a three-stage supply chain network, with multiple manufacturing plants, distribution centers and retailers, is considered. For this supply chain system we develop three different approaches, (i) an ideal plan for an infinite planning horizon and an updated plan if there are any changes in the data, (ii) a predictive mitigation planning approach for managing predictive demand changes, which can be predicted in advance by using an appropriate tool, and (iii) a reactive mitigation plan, on a real-time basis, for managing sudden production disruptions, which cannot be predicted in advance. In predictive mitigation planning, we develop a fuzzy inference system (FIS) tool to predict the changes in future demand over the base forecast and the supply chain plan is revised accordingly well in advance. In reactive mitigation planning, we formulate a quantitative model for revising production and distribution plans, over a finite future planning period, while minimizing the total supply chain cost. We also consider a series of sudden disruptions, where a new disruption may or may not affect the recovery plans of earlier disruptions and which consequently require plans to be revised after the occurrence of each disruption on a real-time basis. An efficient heuristic, capable of dealing with sudden production disruptions on a real-time basis, is developed. We compare the heuristic results with those obtained from the LINGO optimization software for a good number of randomly generated test problems. Also, some numerical examples are presented to explain both the usefulness and advantages of the proposed approaches.

Pham, TD, Nghiem, S & Dwyer, L 2017, 'The determinants of Chinese visitors to Australia: A dynamic demand analysis', Tourism Management: research, policies, practice, vol. 63, no. C, pp. 268-276.
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Although China has progressively become an important inbound tourism market for Australia, its demand elasticities have been little studied to date. This study examines the determinants of Chinese visitors to Australia using a dynamic time-series estimator. Interesting findings include a high income elasticity as a source of the continuous doubledigit growth rates in Chinese arrivals that Australia has experienced over the past two decades, together with relatively high total trip price elasticities for both short run and long run. A trend of Chinese outbound to Australia is also identified. From a policy perspective, the results confirm that keeping a low cost of visiting Australia, both ground and travel costs, is a good strategy to secure greater numbers of Chinese tourists.

Pina e Cunha, M, Giustiniano, L, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2017, 'Mission impossible? The paradoxes of stretch goal setting', Management Learning, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 140-157.
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Stretch goal setting is a process involving multiple and nested paradoxes. The paradoxical side of stretch is attractive because it holds great promise yet dangerous because it triggers processes that are hard to control. Paradoxes are not readily managed by assuming a linear relation between the here and now and the intended future perfect. Before adopting stretch goal setting, managers should thus be prepared for the tensions and contradictions created by nested or interwoven paradoxes. Achieving stretch goals can be as difficult for the managers seeking to direct the process as for designated delegates. While the increasing popularity of stretch goal setting is understandable, its unexpected consequences must be taken into account. The inadequate use of stretch goals can jeopardize the social sustainability of organizations as well as their societal support systems.

Powell, AE, Camilleri, AR, Dobele, AR & Stavros, C 2017, 'Developing a scale for the perceived social benefits of sharing', Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 496-504.
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PurposeThe purpose of this research was to create a brief scale to measure perceived social benefit that would be appropriate for use in future research aiming to explore the role of this variable in determining word-of-mouth (WOM) behaviour. There is evidence that perceived social risk negatively impacts the willingness to share, but the role of perceived social benefit has not yet been explored. Understanding how perceived social risk and benefit interact to determine WOM will inform social marketing campaign design.Design/methodology/approachThis paper outlines two studies: Study 1 was concerned with the development of the perceived social benefit of sharing scale (PSBSS), including the construction of preliminary items and the reliability and discriminant validity of the final scale. Study 2 involved an investigation of the concurrent validity of the PSBSS in relation to the likelihood to share.FindingsStudy 1 demonstrated that the perceived social benefit associated with WOM was related to social approval, impression management and social bonding. The results of Study 2 established that scores on the PSBSS predicted self-reported likelihood to engage in both face-to-face WOM and electronic WOM.Originality/valueThe PSBSS can be used to examine the role of perceived social benefit, including how the interaction between perceived social risk and benefit determines where, when and with whom people will share WOM.

Presbitero, A, Roxas, B & Chadee, D 2017, 'Effects of intra- and inter-team dynamics on organisational learning: role of knowledge-sharing capability', Knowledge Management Research & Practice, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 146-154.
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Presbitero, A, Roxas, B & Chadee, D 2017, 'Sustaining innovation of information technology service providers', International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, vol. 47, no. 2/3, pp. 156-174.
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PurposeHow do knowledge-intensive technology-based offshore information technology service providers (ITSPs) in developing countries sustain their innovation and remain competitive? The purpose of this paper is to answer this question by drawing from the knowledge-based view of firm innovation to argue that organisational collectivism (COLL) plays a crucial role in influencing the effects of knowledge-based capabilities on innovation of ITSPs.Design/methodology/approachThe study develops a model which shows that learning mediates the effects of knowledge sharing on innovation and that COLL moderates the effects of knowledge sharing on both innovation and learning. A moderated-mediation model is tested using structural equation modelling techniques and data (n=388) from a survey of ITSPs in the Philippines.FindingsThe results show that knowledge sharing capability is positively related to innovation and that organisational learning capability fully mediates the effects of knowledge sharing on innovation. Moreover, COLL is found to significantly and positively moderate the effects of knowledge sharing on both organisational learning and innovation. The results indicate that organisational learning serves as the mechanism that transforms knowledge into innovation, but this effect is contingent on COLL of ITSPs.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that ITSPs from developing countries can look beyond costly investments in research and development activities to invigorate their innovative capabilities. ITSPs can focus on the development of their in...

Pullen, A, Rhodes, C & Thanem, T 2017, 'Affective politics in gendered organizations: Affirmative notes on becoming-woman', Organization, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 105-123.
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Current approaches to the study of affective relations are over-determined in a way that ignores their radicality, yet abstracted to such an extent that the corporeality and differentially lived experience of power and resistance is neglected. To radicalize the potential of everyday affects, this article calls for an intensification of corporeality in affect research. We do this by exploring the affective trajectory of ‘becoming-woman’ introduced by Deleuze and Guattari. Becoming-woman is a process of gendered deterritorialization and a specific variation on becoming-minoritarian. Rather than a reference to empirical women, becoming-woman is a necessary force of critique against the phallogocentric powers that shape and constrain working lives in gendered organizations. While extant research on gendered organizations tends to focus on the overwhelming power of oppressive gender structures, engaging with becoming-woman releases affective flows and possibilities that contest and transgress the increasingly subtle and confusing ways in which gendered organization affects people at work. Through becoming-woman, an affective and affirmative politics capable of resisting the effects of gendered organization becomes possible. This serves to further challenge gendered oppression in organizations and to affirm a life beyond the harsh limits that gender can impose.

Randhawa, K, Josserand, E, Schweitzer, J & Logue, D 2017, 'Knowledge collaboration between organizations and online communities: the role of open innovation intermediaries.', J. Knowl. Manag., vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1293-1318.
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Purpose This research paper aims to examine how open innovation (OI) intermediaries facilitate knowledge collaboration between organizations and online user communities. Drawing on a Community of Practice (CoP) perspective on knowledge, the study lays out a framework of the knowledge boundary management mechanisms (and associated practices) that intermediaries deploy in enabling client organizations to engage in online community-based OI. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on an exploratory case study of an OI intermediary and 18 client organizations that engage with online user communities on the intermediary’s platform. Results incorporate both the intermediary and clients’ perspective, based on analysis of intermediary and client interviews, clients’ online community projects and other archival data. Findings Results reveal that OI intermediaries deploy three knowledge boundary management mechanisms – syntactic, semantic and pragmatic – each underpinned by a set of practices. Together, these mechanisms enable knowledge transfer, translation and transformation, respectively, and thus lead to cumulatively richer knowledge collaboration outcomes at the organization–community boundary. The findings show that the pragmatic mechanism reinforces both semantic and syntactic mechanisms, and is hence the most critical to achieving effective knowledge collaboration in community-based OI settings. Practical implications The findings suggest that OI intermediaries have to implement all three boundary management mechanisms to successfully enable knowledge collaboration for community-bas...

Reis, AC, Frawley, S, Hodgetts, D, Thomson, A & Hughes, K 2017, 'Sport Participation Legacy and the Olympic Games: The Case of Sydney 2000, London 2012, and Rio 2016', Event Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 139-158.
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Sport participation as a legacy of the Olympic Games (OG) has frequently featured as a component of the 'legacy package' that government bodies and organizing committees promote to the local communities to gain support for the hosting of these mega-events. However, only recently increased sport participation has been explicitly included as part of a legacy plan in OG candidature files. This article examines the changes and development of sport legacy planning and implementation from Sydney 2000, London 2012, and Rio 2016. The three case studies confirm that sport participation legacies are only achieved if host governments engage the community, develop long-term strategies, and coordinate efforts between different government portfolios and with a range of relevant stakeholders. So far, there is limited evidence available to demonstrate that relevant government bodies have attempted to strategically leverage the Games with the purpose of developing a sport participation legacy for the wider population.

Rhodes, C 2017, 'Ethical Praxis and the Business Case for LGBT Diversity: Political Insights from Judith Butler and Emmanuel Levinas', Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 533-546.
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This paper critically reconsiders debates about the business case for workplace diversity as exemplified in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activism. These debates have long suggested that there is an oppositional distinction between justifying diversity on self‐interested business grounds and justifying it on the grounds of ethics, equality and social justice. This has led to an impasse between ethically driven diversity theory and activism, and the dominant business case approach commonly deferred to in managerial practice. As a way of mediating this impasse the contribution of this paper is to demonstrate how ‘ethical praxis’ can be deployed both despite and because of non‐ethically motivated approaches to ethics in business. Drawing on Judith Butler's and Emmanuel Levinas's considerations of the relationship between ethics and the practice of justice, it is argued that critiques of the business case for diversity rely on a pure ethics that does not adequately recognize its connection to lived politics. Conversely, support for the business case evinces a politics that has failed to remember its origin in ethics. The paper positions ethical praxis as a political intervention undertaken in the name of ethics and uses this to suggest that the business case, despite its ethical poverty, holds potential to create real opportunities for justice in organizations.

Riboldi, M 2017, 'Controlled immersion', Overland, vol. 2017-Spring, no. 228, pp. 47-53.

Roxas, B, Ashill, N & Chadee, D 2017, 'Effects of Entrepreneurial and Environmental Sustainability Orientations on Firm Performance: A Study of Small Businesses in the Philippines', Journal of Small Business Management, vol. 55, pp. 163-178.
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Roxas, B, Chadee, D, de Jesus, RMC & Cosape, A 2017, 'Human and social capital and environmental management in small firms: a developing country perspective', Asian Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-20.
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Saluja, G, Adaval, R & Wyer, RS 2017, 'Hesitant to label, yet quick to judge: How cultural mindsets affect the accessibility of stereotypic knowledge when concepts of the elderly are primed', Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 143, no. November, pp. 23-38.
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The processing strategies that are activated by cultural mindsets can influence the type of stereotypic knowledge that people draw upon when they encounter a member of a social category. Five experiments show that participants with a collectivist mindset are less likely to use trait descriptions and respond more slowly to traits when they are primed with a concept of the elderly than when they are not. However, they are more likely to use trait-related behaviors and respond more quickly to behaviors in the former condition. These differences suggest that cultural mindsets do not simply affect the likelihood of applying stereotypes. In addition, they influence the type of stereotypic knowledge that comes to mind when people encounter a member of a stereotyped group. This has important implications for how elderly employees are judged and treated in an organizational setting.

Sameti, A & Khalili, H 2017, 'Influence of in-store and out-of-store creative advertising strategies on consumer attitude and purchase intention', Intangible Capital, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 523-523.
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Purpose: With regard to the fact that people usually try to avoid repetitive and boring advertisements, creativity as the heart of advertising effectiveness has a significant role in drawing their attention. On this basis, the present study attempts to evaluate the influence of creative advertising strategies by comparing “in-store” and “out-of-store” creative advertisements.Design/methodology/approach: This research has been conducted in Tehran (capital of Iran) and 588 volunteers randomly participated in the survey so as to examine the consumers’ attitude/behaviour towards the advertised brand, advertised product, and purchases intention exposing creative in-store and out-of-store advertisements. In the current study, creative “end-of-aisle display stands” in grocery stores/supermarkets represent in-store advertising media, and creative “TV commercials” represent out-of-store advertising. Furthermore to examine the hypotheses, one-sample t-test and paired sample t-test were used.Findings: The results show that creative out-of-store advertising has influence primarily on attitude towards the advertised brand, then on attitude towards the advertised product, and finally on the purchases intention. On the other hand, creative in-store advertising, firstly has influence on the purchase intention, then on attitude towards the advertised brand, and lastly on attitude towards the advertised product. The findings provide important insights to the formulation of strategic marketing/advertising and would pave the related innovative ways to capitalize on strategic opportunities.Originality/value: The study is the first survey comparing the effectiveness of in-store and out-of-store creative advertising in order to find out a strategic marketing/advertising solution.

Schulenkorf, N 2017, 'Managing sport-for-development: Reflections and outlook', Sport Management Review, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 243-251.
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© 2016 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand The field of sport-for-development (SFD) has experienced significant growth and increased academic rigor over the past 15 years. As sport management scholars have started to critically investigate and evaluate SFD programs, they have in turn contributed to the future design and improvement of SFD initiatives that today are more strategically planned and pedagogically sound than ever before. As part of the 20th anniversary series of Sport Management Review, the author looks back at some of the key achievements of sport management scholarship and proposes new and exciting areas for future enquiry. In particular, while past research can be classified under the four headings of SFD programming and design; sustainable management and capacity building; creating and leveraging impacts and outcomes; and conceptual/theoretical advancements, the author suggests that future studies may attend to the managerial concepts of leadership, entrepreneurship and Design Thinking to maximise the potential of sport (management) to contribute to desired, innovative and sustained community development outcomes.

Schulenkorf, N & Schlenker, K 2017, 'Leveraging Sport Events to Maximize Community Benefits in Low- and Middle-Income Countries', Event Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 217-231.
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For many years, special events have played an important role as strategic elements within community development. However, to date little work has been conducted on how to maximize the social potential of special events in low- and middle-income countries. In addressing this issue, we reflect on event management processes and leverage mechanisms that have underpinned a community sport event in the Pacific Island nation of Sāmoa, and identify strategies for maximizing beneficial event outcomes. We present findings related to previously identified leverage areas, including sociocultural and participatory leverage, and also suggest new areas that seem particularly relevant in the context of community development, including educational, health-related, and reputational leverage. Finally, key challenges and opportunities for event managers and local communities are discussed, implications for event leverage are provided, and areas for future research are outlined.

Schultz, E, Tan, CK & Walsh, KD 2017, 'Corporate Governance and the Probability of Default', Accounting & Finance, vol. 57, no. S1, pp. 235-253.
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AbstractWe employ Merton's probability of default as a continuous ex‐ante measure of the likelihood of firm failure and dynamic panel generalised method of moments to better characterise the relationship between corporate governance and the chance of default. In doing so, we overcome limitations of discrete proxies widely used in previous studies and more completely account for endogeneity issues permeating this area of research. While initial testing designed to facilitate comparison with previous studies suggests a significant relationship between the probability of default and executive pay, board structure and ownership structure, once endogeneity concerns are accounted for, no such relationship remains.

Schweinsberg, S, Darcy, S & Cheng, M 2017, 'The agenda setting power of news media in framing the future role of tourism in protected areas', Tourism Management, vol. 62, pp. 241-252.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd This exploratory paper examines the agenda-setting and framing role of news media in the ongoing development of the Draft Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Master Plan. The paper will argue that the publication of the Masterplan and ensuing public commentary has drawn into stark focus future challenges in juxtaposing the frames of public use, commercial tourism and scientific/cultural values in the sustainable management of protected areas. Agenda setting and framing theory provides the theoretical foundation for the paper. Guided by critical discourse analysis, the analysis of the paper is supported through the use of Leximancer and Gephi software for visually illustrating the relationship between different framing perspectives. This paper contributes to a fresh understanding of the complex nature of the sustainable management of protected areas in urban spaces.

Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N, Seal, E, Nicholson, M & Hoye, R 2017, 'Sport-for-Development in the South Pacific Region: Macro-, Meso-, and Micro-Perspectives', Sociology of Sport Journal, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 303-316.
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As the field of sport-for-development (SFD) has developed, there has been increasing debate over the ability of SFD programs to effect lasting structural change on target communities. Highlighting the barriers to SFD program delivery in five Pacific Island nations, in this paper we argue that numerous challenges emerging at macro-, meso-, and microlevels must be explored, understood, and accounted for to enact structural change. Building on thematic findings from our empirical cross-nation research project, we discuss the importance of addressing SFD challenges at all levels of society to ensure that interventions are appropriately tailored for the specific and often divergent sociocultural contexts in the Pacific Islands region. We argue for a more holistic approach to planning, management, and evaluation when attempting to deliver structural change through sport.

Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N, Seal, E, Nicholson, M & Hoye, R 2017, 'Sport-for-development: Inclusive, reflexive, and meaningful research in low- and middle-income settings', Sport Management Review, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 69-80.
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© 2016 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Research in and around sport-for-development (SFD) has increased steadily since the first scholarly work in the field was conducted in the 1990s. As SFD has grown into an established and respected area of study, it has also diversified in its research approaches and methodologies. In this article, we reflect on our experiences as researchers in low- and middle-income countries and specifically discuss the combination of traditional research methods and innovative approaches to qualitative inquiry within two distinct projects that were funded under a single SFD program. We highlight the efficacy of a flexible, innovative, and locally-relevant research design, and advocate for inclusive, reflexive, and participatory research approaches during the monitoring and evaluation processes. Finally, we identify likely success factors and challenges for current SFD research, and offer recommendations for future qualitative inquiries in and around sport-based development programs.

Singh, S & Swait, J 2017, 'Channels for search and purchase: Does mobile Internet matter?', Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol. 39, pp. 123-134.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Recent industry reports indicate that consumers own four digital devices on an average, and switching devices during shopping is the “new normal.” The addition of mobile Internet as a new channel of search and purchase has spurred the adoption of the digital medium, and easy accessibility of the Internet on multiple devices is influencing shopping patterns. A consumer may prefer some channels for search and others for purchase or use a combination of channels to search and purchase simultaneously. As a new channel, it is unclear 1) whether mobile Internet offers greater search or purchase benefits and 2) what type of products are more suitable for mobile Internet search and purchase. In this study, we develop a framework that describes the factors that drive the use of mobile Internet in a multi-channel environment. We test the framework using survey data from a sample of U.S consumers. The main findings from our study indicate that 1) the choice of channel combinations that include mobile relative to other channel combinations increases with an increase in perceived search convenience of mobile channel. 2) in the digital channel, mobile and desktop differ in their utility along search dimensions. The probability of choosing channel combinations that include mobile increases due to search convenience whereas desktop is attractive due to perceived gains of price comparison search; and 3) mobile Internet search increases for consumers searching for utilitarian products. The insights from this study deepen our understanding of how digital media is used in the search-purchase process and have important managerial implications.

Skellern, K, Markey, R & Thornthwaite, L 2017, 'Identifying attributes of sustainable transitions for traditional regional manufacturing industry sectors – A conceptual framework', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 140, pp. 1782-1793.
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Traditional manufacturing industry is facing significant transformation. Fundamental to this transformation, are the challenges of a changing social, economic, political and environmental future in response to climate change, global competition and limits to finite resources. These challenges have motivated a transition towards a new sustainable trajectory. Within a range of disciplinary fields, scholars have studied and developed conceptual frameworks to explain the processes, outcomes and effectiveness of particular transitions, yet, there remains limited evidence drawing together these conceptual approaches to identify the elements and attributes essential to holistic, practical and long lasting transitions within established manufacturing regions. To address this gap, this paper introduces an interdisciplinary framework, ‘Attributes of Sustainable Transitions’, by reviewing and integrating four existing conceptual approaches (Advanced Manufacturing, Sustainability Transitions, Spatiality of Regions and Transition Regions) to identify attributes of sustainable transitions within the manufacturing industry sector. In the process, this article also focuses on regions as important spaces for transitions, an emphasis currently missing from traditional economic approaches. Examples from international and Australian case studies are used to support the conceptual analysis, paving the way for future empirical research based on Australian firms.

Small, J 2017, 'Women’s “beach body” in Australian women’s magazines', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 63, no. March, pp. 23-33.
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Representations of tourism subjects, both people and places, extend beyond specifically tourism media. This paper explores the presummer images of swimwear and beach bodies in Australian women's lifestyle magazines. A content analysis of swimwear images confirmed British findings that there was a general uniformity in the characteristics of the women modelling the swimsuits: young, slim, white ethnicity (but tanned) and able-bodied. Critical Discourse Analysis highlighted that the beach body discourse is in many ways contested. On the one hand the beach is a place of abandonment, but women need to work hard to achieve the required normative image. Women's agency and choice is questioned due to the narrow normative image and the neo-liberal, consumerist systems underlying the discourse.

Small, J, Harris, C & Wilson, E 2017, 'Gender on the agenda? The position of gender in tourism's high ranking journals', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, vol. 31, no. June, pp. 114-117.
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Sundin, H & Brown, DA 2017, 'Greening the black box: integrating the environment and management control systems', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 620-642.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to adopt an agency theory approach to investigate the integration of environmental issues into management control systems (MCS). Prior environmental accounting research has focussed on increasing organisations’ environmental accountability by “monitoring” through external reporting to stakeholders. However, this overlooks the alignment of agents’ interests within the firm.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative case study is undertaken in a large Australian listed property trust to investigate how agents’ interests may be integrated with environmental objectives through the use of MCS.FindingsFrom the case an analytical framework is developed to illustrate how environmental issues are incorporated into organisational behaviour through MCS. The findings include, single objective environmental MCS; multiple objective MCS, which include priorities that specify environmental and economic trade-offs; and balancing MCS, which provide overarching decision-making principles without priorities.Practical implicationsThe findings provide examples of how an organisation may integrate environmental issues across a range of MCS and the things to consider in doing so.Originality/valueThis paper draws on an agency perspective as an approach to incorporate environmental issues into MCS and to align behaviour. It explains a new way in which tensions can be managed. This study is one of the first to adopt the control package approach in investigating the in...

Suzuki, T 2017, 'Directives, expressives, and motivation', Theoretical Economics, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 175-210.
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When an agent's motivation is sensitive to how his supervisor thinks about the agent's competence, the supervisor has to take into account both informational and expressive contents of her message to the agent. This paper shows that the supervisor can credibly express her trust in the agent's ability only by being unclear about what to do. Suggesting what to do, i.e., 'directives,' could reveal the supervisor's 'distrust' and reduce the agent's equilibrium effort level even though it provides useful information about the decision environment. There is also an equilibrium in which directives are neutral in expressive content. However, it is shown that neologism proofness favors equilibria in which directives are double-edged swords.

Tan, D, Chapple, L & Walsh, KD 2017, 'Corporate Fraud Culture: Re‐Examining the Corporate Governance and Performance Relation', Accounting & Finance, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 597-620.
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AbstractWe analyse the corporate governance and performance relation, when conditioning on corporate fraud, for fraud firms during 2000 – 2007. Fraud firms are identified as either self‐ reported fraud events, or subject to regulatory investigation. We use the inverse Mills ratio procedure to account for firms' (unobservable) fraud culture in the dynamic system GMM model of the performance‐ governance relation. We find that corporate governance is an endogenously determined characteristic that has no causal impact on firm performance when conditioning on fraud. Fraud is a significant regulatory event but its overall economic impact at the firm level is highly variable.

Thirathon, U, Wieder, B, Matolcsy, Z & Ossimitz, M-L 2017, 'Big Data, Analytic Culture and Analytic-Based Decision Making Evidence from Australia', Procedia Computer Science, vol. 121, pp. 775-783.
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This study investigates how managerial decision making is influenced by Big Data, analytics and analytic culture. The results of a cross-sectional survey (n = 163) of senior IT managers reveal that Big Data Analytics creates an incentive for managers to base more of their decisions on the analytic insights. However, we also find that the main driver of analytic-based decision making is analytic culture. Considering that culture – in contrast to Big Data Analytics tools and skills – is a resource which cannot be change easily or quickly, we conclude that firms with a highly analytic culture can use this resource as a competitive weapon. Finally, our analysis reveals that managers in smaller organizations are significantly more likely to base their decisions on analytic results than managers in large organizations, which suggests the former use analytics to remain competitive against their larger counterparts.

Tomoeda, K 2017, 'First-price auction implements efficient investments', Economics Letters, vol. 159, pp. 198-200.
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This note shows that the first-price auction fully implements efficient investments when agents make not only ex ante but also ex post investments. The essential assumptions of our model are that (i) each agent can invest before and after participating in the auction under the same cost function and (ii) the cost functions are common knowledge among agents. In any equilibrium of our model, the most efficient agent always wins and makes the efficient level of investment.

Tse, H & Tam, KL 2017, 'Getting the basics right: Factors shaping student performance in intermediate economics', Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 53, no. March 2017, pp. 1-8.
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This article examines the determinants of student performance in a second-year undergraduate economics course at a major Australian university - the University of Technology, Sydney. This article contributes to the literature by focusing on economics teaching in second-year, which is an area that has received little scholarly interest. The ultimately providing a usable sample group of 122 students. Out of a wide range of variables, two strong determinants of performance emerged: namely, students' pre-course aptitude and hours spent in paid employment. Based on these findings suggestions for increasing student performance in second-year economics are provided.

Ungemach, C, Camilleri, AR, Johnson, EJ, Larrick, RP & Weber, EU 2017, 'Translated Attributes as Choice Architecture: Aligning Objectives and Choices Through Decision Signposts', Management Science, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 2445-2459.
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© 2017 INFORMS. Every attribute can be expressed in multiple ways. For example, car fuel economy can be expressed as fuel efficiency ("miles per gallon"), fuel cost in dollars, or tons of greenhouse gases emitted. Each expression, or "translation," highlights a different aspect of the same attribute. We describe a new mechanism whereby translated attributes can serve as decision "signposts" because they (1) activate otherwise dormant objectives, such as proenvironmental values and goals, and (2) direct the person toward the option that best achieves the activated objective. Across three experiments, we provide evidence for the occurrence of such signpost effects as well as the underlying psychological mechanism. We demonstrate that expressing an attribute such as fuel economy in terms of multiple translations can increase preference for the option that is better aligned with objectives congruent with this attribute (e.g., the more fuel-efficient car for those with proenvironmental attitudes), even when the new information is derivable from other known attributes. We discuss how using translated attributes appropriately can help align a person's choices with their personal objectives.

van Breeschoten, J, De Abreu Lourenco, R, Signorelli, C, Haas, M, Cohn, RJ, Wakefield, CE & Fardell, JE 2017, 'Patterns and drivers of health care use in long-term childhood cancer survivors: A systematic review', Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, vol. 120, pp. 60-76.
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© 2017 The Authors Background Childhood cancer survival is increasing. But cancer and treatment late-effects can lead to ongoing health care use. We summarised the literature on the patterns and drivers of health care use among childhood cancer survivors. Method Pubmed, Embase and Medline were searched for studies reporting health care use in childhood cancer survivors. Results We included 22 studies, covering 88787 experiences of health care use. The proportion of survivors using follow-up care, physician visits, specialist visits, hospitalisations, dental care and screening services varied (36.4%–88.8%). Participation in screening was below recommendations (11.5%–81%). Drivers of increased health care use included higher income, private health insurance, attending follow-up care, chronic health conditions, prior radiotherapy, being female and older age. Conclusion Sociodemographic and clinical factors result in differences in health care use. Future research could investigate whether such use is appropriate and how survivors might be engaged to receive care appropriate to manage their needs.

Van Essen, M & Wooders, J 2017, 'Dissolving a Partnership Securely', Economic Theory, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 415-434.
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© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. We characterize security strategies and payoffs for three mechanisms for dissolving partnerships: the Texas Shoot-Out, the K+ 1 auction, and the compensation auction. A security strategy maximizes a participant’s minimum payoff, and represents a natural starting point for analysis when a participant is either uncertain of the environment or uncertain of whether his rivals will play equilibrium. For the compensation auction, a dynamic dissolution mechanism, we introduce the notion of a perfect security strategy. Such a strategy maximizes a participant’s minimum payoff along every path of play. We show that while a player has many security strategies in the compensation auction, he has a unique perfect security strategy.

van Iterson, A, Clegg, S & Carlsen, A 2017, 'Ideas are feelings first: epiphanies in everyday workplace creativity', M@n@gement, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 221-221.
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This paper contributes to the literature on workplace creativity by combining insights on epiphanies with theory on the embodied and relational nature of understanding. We explore and develop the concept of epiphany, defined as a sudden and transient manifestation of insight. Primarily, we are interested in the implications of the concept’s artistic and philosophical origins for organizational creativity. We start from a consideration of the importance of epiphany in the literary works of Joyce, who underlined the crucial aspect of the conjunction of different human senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching). Next, we draw up upon the theory of insights as embodied, experientially felt qualities, as described by Mark Johnson (2007) and predecessors in pragmatism. Using three sets of empirical snippets as aids to reasoning, we arrive at renewed understanding of epiphany as a phenomenon in creativity that is experientially multi-sensuous and collective rather than merely cognitive and individual. Epiphanies are typically manifest as a series of felt occurrences arising within collective practice, follow from a history of preparation, and do not solely involve breakthrough ideas but can also include feelings of doubt, movement, opening up or disconfirmation. Understanding epiphanies in this way extends research on organizational creativity as collective practice. The article suggests further attention be paid to the transient and noetic qualities of work on ideas in organizations, such as visual and material stimuli in sensorial preparations of creativity and the use of openness in marking felt insights. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)

Vasconcelos, L 2017, 'A signaling-based theory of contractual commitment to relationships', European Economic Review, vol. 93, pp. 123-138.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. In this paper I present signaling as an explanation for how and why parties commit to relationships when they initially contract about the terms of those relationships. Two forms of contractual commitment to a relationship are considered: a promise to trade in the future (contracted quantity); and a promise not to trade with anyone else (contracted exclusivity). A party is said to commit more to a relationship if it commits initially to trade a higher quantity and/or to a higher level of exclusivity. I characterize equilibrium contracts and therefore commitment. Both the ability to signal information through an exclusivity commitment and whether the informed party commits more to the relationship when the relationship is more likely to succeed depend on the source of the asymmetry of information.

Veal, AJ 2017, 'The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure', Leisure Sciences, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 205-223.
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The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct forms, serious, casual and project-based, has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the last 40 years. This paper evaluates the perspective as theory and as a typology. The theory associated with the SLP, concerning social worlds, identification and optimal leisure lifestyles, is found to be generally untested because it has been largely developed in relation to the serious leisure form only. The validity of the typology is questioned on the grounds that ‘seriousness’ is a continuum, rather than discrete categories, and that most leisure activities can be engaged in with varying degrees of seriousness. It is proposed that the SLP be replaced by a more flexible, open research approach, the Leisure Experience Perspective, which consolidates features of the SLP and other research traditions and a number of other theoretical perspectives.

Ville, S & Wright, C 2017, 'Neither a Discipline nor a Colony: Renaissance and Re-imagination in Economic History', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 152-168.
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Villesèche, F & Josserand, E 2017, 'Formal women-only networks: literature review and propositions', Personnel Review, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 1004-1018.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the emerging literature on formal women-only business networks and outline propositions to develop this under-theorised area of knowledge and stimulate future research.Design/methodology/approachThe authors review the existing literature on formal internal and external women-only networks and use the broader social capital and network literature to frame their arguments and develop propositions.FindingsPropositions are developed regarding how both internal and external formal women-only business networks can be of value for members, firms/organisations and the wider social group of women in business.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors focus on the distinction between external and internal formal women-only networks while also acknowledging the broader diversity that can characterise such networks. Their review provides the reader with an insight into the state of the art and a set of propositions that present opportunities for future research.Practical implicationsThe paper provides insights into how women in business, organisations and wider society can leverage value from both internal and external formal women-only business networks.Social implicationsThe paper contributes to research showing that the social structure of interactions and context can impact women’s standing in the workplace.

Wang, J, Lv, K, Bian, Y & Cheng, Y 2017, 'Energy efficiency and marginal carbon dioxide emission abatement cost in urban China', Energy Policy, vol. 105, pp. 246-255.
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Energy efficiency improvement and carbon emission reduction are two important ways to mitigate energy consumptions and global warming. This paper aims to examine energy efficiency and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions abatement costs of city urban areas in China. To this end, an improved slacks-based measure approach is introduced, which considers the linkage between desirable and undesirable outputs. Then, measures of energy efficiency, CO2emission abatement cost and comprehensive state index of CO2emissions abatement cost and CO2emissions reduction potential are defined. The proposed model is then applied to the dataset of 285 cities in China during 2008–2012. The results show that most city urban areas in China have relatively low energy efficiencies. Surprisingly, there are gradually narrowing gaps regarding mean energy efficiencies between areas during 2008–2012. Nevertheless, there are great disparities in energy efficiencies between cities within a typical area, and even a provincial region. It is found that CO2emissions abatement cost in urban China exhibits an increasing trend during the study period. Also, significantly geographic disparities in abatement costs between areas, regions and cites are found. Specifically, energy efficiency has significantly positive correlation with the comprehensive state index in China. Some important findings and useful policy implications are achieved.

Wearing, S, Young, T & Everingham, P 2017, 'Evaluating volunteer tourism: has it made a difference?', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 512-521.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This paper examines the challenges of evaluating volunteer tourism and looks towards possibilities for rethinking the ways in which the phenomenon is conceptualised. We reflect on the debates and practices that have emerged since the first theoretical exploration introduced over 15 years ago in a book titled Volunteer tourism: Experiences that make a difference. This review paper commences with a discussion of the criticisms that have been targeted at both research and practice, and reflects on the need to rethink how volunteer tourism is evaluated. We argue that the volunteer tourism industry must respond to criticisms from academics and the media and move towards conscious choices that reframe volunteer tourism away from development aid towards intercultural mutuality and decommodification.

Wearing, SL & Foley, C 2017, 'Understanding the Tourist Experience of Cities', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 65, pp. 97-107.
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Economic, environmental and social forces have changed the way we are developing our cities. A range of theoretical constructs have been explored to provide direction for contemporary analyses of urban tourism experience. This paper engages with a feminist perspective in our understanding of the way tourists explore and experience cities. It achieves this by expanding current sociological frameworks that assume the tourist is simply a wanderer in the urban environment. Drawing on interactionist and post-structural critique and Wearing and Wearing’s (1996) theoretical framework of the flâneur and choraster, this paper demonstrates how a more feminized conceptualisation of the tourist experience as a creative and interactive process could have a transformative effect on our understanding of tourists’ experiences of cities.

Welch, P & Wright, S 2017, 'Editorial', Learning and Teaching, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. x-xi.
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This tenth anniversary issue of Learning and Teaching: The InternationalJournal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences (LATISS) focuses on arange of learning and teaching innovations in our core disciplines of anthropology,politics and sociology.

Westberg, K, Stavros, C, Smith, ACT, Newton, J, Lindsay, S, Kelly, S, Beus, S & Adair, D 2017, 'Exploring the wicked problem of athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport', Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 94-112.
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PurposeThis paper aims to extend the literature on wicked problems in consumer research by exploring athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport and the potential role that social marketing can play in addressing this problem.Design/methodology/approachThis paper conceptualises the wicked problem of athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport, proposing a multi-theoretical approach to social marketing, incorporating insights from stakeholder theory, systems theory and cocreation to tackle this complex problem.FindingsSport provides a rich context for exploring a social marketing approach to a wicked problem, as it operates in a complex ecosystem with multiple stakeholders with differing, and sometimes conflicting, objectives. It is proposed that consumers, particularly those that are highly identified fans, are key stakeholders that have both facilitated the problematic nature of the sport system and been rendered vulnerable as a result. Further, a form of consumer vulnerability also extends to athletes as the evolution of the sport system has led them to engage in harmful consumption behaviours. Social marketing, with its strategic and multi-faceted focus on facilitating social good, is an apt approach to tackle behavioural change at multiple levels within the sport system.Practical implicationsSport managers, public health practitioners and policymakers are given insight into the key drivers of a growing wicked problem as well as the potential for social marketing to mitigate harm.Originality/v...

Wright, C 2017, 'Book review: Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible', Accounting History, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 252-253.
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Wright, C & Ville, S 2017, 'The Evolution of an Intellectual Community Through the Words of Its Founders: Recollections of Australia's Economic History Field', Australian Economic History Review, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 345-367.
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Analysing the dynamic evolution of a scholarly field requires an understanding of the social interactions within its community as well as the impact of the written word. Influence might diffuse through mentoring, graduate supervision, seminar discussion, and management roles. To date, our knowledge of the growth of economic history in Australia after 1945 draws heavily upon the impact of a number of key publications. We interview a broad selection of academics who worked in the field of Australian economic history, approximately 1950–90, to provide a fuller understanding of the evolution of this interdisciplinary field. Our results confirm, complement and, in some cases, challenge conventional views. © 2016 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd

Wright, C & Ville, S 2017, 'Visualising the Interdisciplinary Research Field: The Life Cycle of Economic History in Australia', Minerva, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 321-340.
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Wright, S & Greenwood, DJ 2017, 'Recreating universities for the public good: Pathways to a better world', Learning and Teaching, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-4.
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This special issue focuses on universities run by and for the benefit of students,academics and the public. Three contributions cover existing initiativesfrom ‘free’ universities and other long-established institutions that arefee-free and where students and faculty are central to their operations andgovernance.1 Other contributions focus on using tried and tested participatoryorganisational structures to create alternatives to the deteriorating stateof universities: one sets out ways universities could be run by ‘beneficialowners’; the other reports on a project to design cooperative universities.

Xiao, J, Zhou, X & Hu, W 2017, 'WELFARE ANALYSIS OF THE VEHICLE QUOTA SYSTEM IN CHINA', International Economic Review, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 617-650.
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This article presents a welfare analysis of the vehicle quota system of Shanghai, China. The empirical findings suggest that the quota system leads to both welfare loss as a result of reduction in vehicle transactions and welfare gain because of less externality of auto consumption. The net effect depends on the shadow price of the marginal externality, the assumption of vehicle lifetime, and market conditions such as consumers' intrinsic preference for vehicles. Compared to a progressive tax system, the quota system is less effective in vehicle control but more efficient in improving social welfare.

Zainuddin, N, Dent, K & Tam, L 2017, 'Seek or destroy? Examining value creation and destruction in behaviour maintenance in social marketing', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 33, no. 5-6, pp. 1-27.
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© 2017 Westburn Publishers Ltd. This article presents an empirical investigation of how behaviour maintenance is supported or hindered through value creation and destruction in social marketing. Using a longitudinal, netnographic approach, we identify and examine the key facilitators and barriers encountered during the maintenance of physical and mental health behaviours. Data were collected over a 12-week observation period via Twitter from a sample of 242 participants. A total of 5212 tweets were analysed using content and thematic analysis facilitated by NVivo software program. The findings identify key barriers to and facilitators of behaviour maintenance at the individual level (downstream), meso level (midstream), and policy level (upstream) that have an influence on value creation and destruction in social marketing. These findings demonstrate the importance of employing a strategic and integrated approach to social change management.

Zhuang, L, Taylor, T, Beirman, D & Darcy, S 2017, 'Socially sustainable ethnic tourism: a comparative study of two Hakka communities in China', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 467-483.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Ethnic tourism is a catalyst for economic and sociocultural development in many countries. However, ethnic tourism development has given rise to many challenges associated with the sustainable development of ethnic regions within different cultural contexts. This paper addresses the social aspect of sustainable ethnic tourism through comparative case studies of two ethnic Hakka tourism destinations, Nanyuan and Sujiawei villages in Heyuan, Guangdong Province, China. The comparative case-study research design included in-depth interviews, document analysis and a household study in each case-study village. The comparative case study provides insights into factors contributing to socially sustainable ethnic tourism in China, including levels of community involvement, control of the tourism ‘product’, the benefits accruing to the ethnic community, perceived inconveniences/externalities and authenticity considerations. This study contributes to a better understanding of socially sustainable ethnic tourism in a Chinese context, and has practical implications for ethnic tourism destination marketing, management and policy-making.

Addo, R, Hall, J, Goodall, S & Haas, M 1970, 'The knowledge and perception of Ghanaian decision makers and researchers towards the use of health technology assessment for health decision making [Conference Presentation]', iHEA Boston World Congress, Boston, USA.

Agarwal, UA, Dixit, V, Jain, K, Sankaran, S, Nikolova, N, Müller, R & Drouin, N 1970, 'Exploring vertical and horizontal leadership in projects: A comparison of Indian and Australian contexts', Accelerating Development: Harnessing the Power of Project Management, PMI India Research & Academic Conference, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, pp. 165-177.
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Project-based organisational forms are becoming more and more prevalent in many industries, and leadership influences projects' success ultimately impacting the organisational performance. Two types of leadership styles have been explored: vertical and horizontal. This study aims to identify the nature and balance of vertical and horizontal leadership in projects to allow project managers to consciously poly these approaches in different situations. A case study-based approach is adopted wherein, two case studies from India and three case studies from Australia are included . A comparative study of leadership styles is performed to find the best contextual fit for leadership styles.The findings reveal that that national cultural is not a major factor in influencing project leadership. Rather, organisational culture and a shared understanding on leadership practices is what influences whether vertical or horizontal leadership will be more prevalent. Senior leaders' initiatives to create and support a culture of sharing ideasand decisions, backed by project manager's approach enable effective balance between horizontal and vertical leadership. Horizontal leadership is further by regular meetings and social interactions. Prevalence of horizontal leaderships is demonstrated in technical decisions, as team members have the best expertise to address technical issues. In contrast, strategic decisions are normally discussed with the project manager and often escalated to senior leaders for decisions.

Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N & Clegg, SR 1970, 'Expertise and professional identity in client-professional interactions: A case of architectural firms', Professional Service Firms Annual Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N, Heizmann, H & Clegg, SR 1970, 'Professional Client Interactions: Co-constructing Professional Identity', European Group for Organisational Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Armanious, A 1970, 'Financial Dependence Patterns among Arab Banking Sectors in the Aftermath of the 2007 Global Financial Crisis', United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Lebanon.

Armanious, A 1970, 'Systemic Risk Contribution of Banks, Diversified Financials, Insurance and Real-estate in the Eurozone', 22nd Euroasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, Rome, Italy.

Ashwell, J & Hassanli, N 1970, 'The role of small accommodation providers in creating mindful tourists', Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies, Hobart.

Ax, C, Bedford, DS, Bednarek, P, Brühl, R, Dossi, A, Dergard, J, Ditillo, A, Gosselin, M, Greve, J, Hoozée, S, Israelsen, P, Janscheck, O, Johanson, D, Johansson, T, Madsen, DØ, Malmi, T, Rohde, C, Sandelin, M, Strömsten, T, Toldbod, T & Willert, J 1970, 'The Impact of Participation in Strategic Planning and Action Planning on Management Control Effectiveness: An Analysis of Independent and Joint Effects'.

Bedford, DS, Bisbe, J & Sweeney, B 1970, 'How Performance Measurement Systems help firms achieve Intended Ambidexterity: The role of Cognitive Conflict', Quantitative Empirical Research on Management Accounting, Shanghai.

Berti, M & Simpson, AV 1970, 'Compassion as sociomaterial practice imbued with power: insights from the Buthanese Buddhist tradition', Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Rome, Italy.

Biggemann, S, Fam, K-S, Waller, D, Sheah, S & Liu, W 1970, 'Guns, Politics and Religion: Attitudes Toward Advertising of Controversial Products in Columbia', PROCEEDINGS OF 2017 CHINA MARKETING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 5th Annual China Marketing International Conference of Chinese-Scholar-Marketing-Association (CMIC) - Marketing Strategy in the Sharing Economy - Localization and Globalization, ASIAN BUSINESS ASSOC, PEOPLES R CHINA, Beijing, pp. 364-370.

Bond, D, Czernkowski, RMJ, Lee, Y-S & Loyeung, A 1970, 'Market Reaction to Non-GAAP Earnings Around SEC Regulation', Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)- annual conference, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 193-208.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd This study examines the impact of Regulation G in 2003 and the issuance of Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) in 2010 – on the reporting of non-GAAP earnings. The study finds that (i) both Regulation G and C&DIs are associated with an increase in the quality of non-GAAP earnings exclusions (i.e. the exclusions are more transitory and have less predictive power for future operating earnings). (ii) Regulation G led to a decrease in the amount of total positive exclusions used to meet or beat analysts’ forecasts, but C&DIs partially reversed this result. (iii) Regulation G increases, and C&DIs decrease, the earnings response coefficients (ERCs).

Chen, X & Ma, L 1970, 'Herding behavior in equity crowdfunding', The 2017 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Adelaide, Australia.

Chi, S & Xu, J 1970, 'Why Do Underperforming CEOs Retain Their Jobs? Evidence from Executive Turnover', 2017 FMA Asia/Pacific Conference, Tapei, Taiwan.

Christodoulou, D, Ma, L & Vasnev, A 1970, 'Estimation Bias in Residuals: An Analysis in the Context of Earnings Management Literature', The 2017 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Adelaide, Australia.

Clegg, SR 1970, 'Power Relations and Temporality in Megaprojects', Keynote Presentation to Temporary Organizing Workshop, Free University of Berlin.

Clegg, SR 1970, 'What has happened and what is to be done', Critical Management Studies Conference, Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool UK.

Dahiya, S, Iannotta, G & Navone, M 1970, 'Firm Opacity Lies in the Eye of the Beholder', Financial Management, 2012 FMA Annual Meeting, Wiley, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp. 553-592.
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We classify and test empirical measures of firm opacity and document theoretical and empirical inconsistencies across these proxies by testing the relative opacity of banks versus non‐banks. We evaluate the effectiveness of these proxies by observing the effect of two cleanly identified shocks to firm‐specific information: credit rating initiation and inclusion in the S&P 500 index. Using a difference‐in‐difference approach, we compare firms that are newly rated and firms that are included in the S&P 500 index with a propensity matched sample of “unchanged” firms. We find that only the number of analysts and Amihud's illiquidity ratio provide consistent patterns across different estimation specifications and different econometric settings. These two proxies show that banks are more opaque than non‐banks. Based on our tests, we recommend that these proxies be used as the primary measures of firm opacity.

Darcy, S 1970, 'Ableism and Disableism in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A Thematic a Analysis', Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Annual Conference, Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.
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A plethora of studies have conducted empirical research into disability discrimination in tourism and hospitality. However, no research has synthesised this research into a consolidated understanding of the nature of the empirical research. This research gap provides an unnecessary restriction to operationalize this research area within the best contemporary practice. This paper serves to close this research gap through examining key literature that has been historically associated with disability – ableism and disablism. A thematic analysis of disability and hospitality research was conducted using a combination of keywords involving disability and hospitality across 13 major academic databases. This study also purposefully explored how business managers and service staff in the tourism and hospitality sectors are responding to accommodate the needs of people with disability.

Di Guilmi, CORRADO, Chiarella, C & Zhi, T 1970, 'Credit Bubble and ``Monetary Famine'' - a disequilibrium dynamic model of interbank market', Computing in Economics an Finance, New York.

Dong, K 1970, 'Learning from failures of entering European markets by Asian SMEs', the European Union Studies Association Asia Pacific (EUSAAP) Conference and Postgraduate workshop, Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan.

Edwards, M, Williams, T, Angus-Leppan, T & Benn, S 1970, 'Navigating Sustainability: Morphing the Role of the Sustainability Officer', 31st Annual Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, 31st Annual Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, Melbourne, Australia.

Farr-Wharton, B, Xerri, M, Brunetto, Y, Harrison, B & Hermens, A 1970, 'Qualifying beliefs about informality and hard HRM in small, medium and large firms: an employee’s perspective', Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Melbourne.

Faulkner, S 1970, 'The Cyclic Volunteer Tourism Experience', Proceedings of the 27th CAUTHE conference, CAUTHE 2017: Time for big ideas? Re-thinking the field for tomorrow, CAUTHE, University of Otago, Dunedin.
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This paper presents a model of volunteer tourism acculturation as a cyclic process. In this process volunteer tourists engage with volunteer tourism through their relationships with others and three different cultures at several stages; pre-departure, in-country and re-entry.

Ferguson, A, Lam, H & Ma, N 1970, 'Market Reactions to Auditor Switches under a Regulatory Consent Regime: Evidence from Australia', 2017 UTS Australian Summer Accounting Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Fiorini, M 1970, 'When Situational Crime Prevention Measures Result in the Displacement of Crime', Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics, Canberra.

Gavin, M 1970, '‘Building capacity to respond strategically – How teacher unions in Australia can look internally in order to respond to global education reform’', ‘Building capacity to respond strategically – How teacher unions in Australia can look internally in order to respond to global education reform’.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Can teacher unions successfully influence neoliberal government policy in New South Wales to shape teachers’ work and conditions?', Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2017, Canberra, Australia.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Evolving campaign tactics and strategies used to defend teacher salaries and staffing conditions in neoliberal times: a case of the NSW Teachers’ Federation', 9th Annual Conference of the Association of Academic Historians in Australia and New Zealand Business Schools, Sydney, Australia.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Passive unions won’t cut it.’ (How) can female teacher unionists strategically respond to neoliberal educational reform affecting their work and conditions?’', 31st Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Canberra, Australia.

Ghannam, S, Grosse, MJ, Loyeung, AL & Ma, N 1970, 'The Role of Powerful CEOs in the Appointment of Accounting Financial Experts to the Audit Committee', Accounting Theory and Practice Conference & Asian Accounting Associations conference.

Ghannam, S, Grosse, MJ, Loyeung, AL & Ma, N 1970, 'The Role of Powerful CEOs in the Appointment of Accounting Financial Experts to the Audit Committee', Paris Financial Management Conference.

Ghannam, S, Matolcsy, ZP, Spiropoulos, H & Thai, NJ 1970, 'The Role of Powerful Chairman in Mergers and Acquisitions', American Accounting Association Annual Meeting.

Ghannam, S, Matolcsy, ZP, Spiropoulos, H & Thai, NJ 1970, 'The Role of Powerful Chairman in Mergers and Acquisitions', British Accounting & Finance Association Annual Conference.

Ghannam, S, Matolcsy, ZP, Spiropoulos, H & Thai, NJ 1970, 'The Role of Powerful Chairman in Mergers and Acquisitions', 40h European Accounting Association Annual Congress.

Gillovic, B, McIntosh, A, Cockburn-Wootten, C & Darcy, S 1970, 'The ethical entanglements of involving people with intellectual disabilities in accessible tourism research: A reflective paper', Critical Tourism Studies Conference, ‘Understand Tourism – Change Tourism: Understand Ourselves – Change Ourselves’, Critical Tourism Studies Conference, ‘Understand Tourism – Change Tourism: Understand Ourselves – Change Ourselves’, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Grosse, M, Ma, N & Scott, T 1970, 'Comparative Advantage and Audit Fees', 15th Australian National Centre for Audit & Assurance Research Audit Research Forum, Canberra.

Grosse, M, Ma, N & Scott, T 1970, 'Evidence on compensation consultant fees and CEO pay in a mandatory disclosure setting', Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Conference 2017, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Conference 2017, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Grosse, M, Ma, N & Scott, T 1970, 'Evidence on compensation consultant fees and CEO pay in a mandatory disclosure setting', 2017 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Adelaide.

Grosse, MJ, Ma, N & Scott, T 1970, 'Evidence on compensation consultant fees and CEO pay in amandatory disclosure setting', Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics Annual Symposium 2017, Taiwan.

Hassanli, N & Ashwell, J 1970, '“We’re All In This Together”: Improving The Sustainability Practices Of Holiday Homes Through Clustering', CAUTHE 2017 Conference Papers - Working Papers, The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education, Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 840-844.
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This working paper aims to examine how clustering may be utilized as a means of achieving sustainability in holiday homes. This is in line with the gap identified in the literature on how sustainability could be achieved in small accommodation establishments. To achieve the study’s objective, the research will focus on holiday homes in the Alexandrina region in South Australia. In the initial stage, in-depth interviews with holiday home owners will be conducted to identify their perceptions about their responsibility in contributing to a sustainable tourism industry. The findings will inform the next stage of data collection on how clustering could be used by holiday home owners to achieve sustainable tourism. Considering the continued growth of holiday home ownership and their significance to tourism development, it is hoped the findings of this research would support Local Government Agencies (LGAs) in their agenda for local tourism strategies.

Hutcheson, TJ & Newell, G 1970, 'Property Investment Decision-Making by Superannuation Funds', Pacific Rim Real Estate Society 23rd Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Jasovska, P, Rammal, H, Rhodes, C & Logue, D 1970, 'Intra-industry competition and power in the beer industry: How small players delegitimise large multinationals (Paper received The Lazaridis Institute SMEs & International Entrepreneurship Best Paper Prize)', EIBA Annual Conference (Milan, Italy), Milan, Italy.

Jasovska, P, Rammal, H, Rhodes, C & Logue, D 1970, 'Power, competition and strategic responses in the beer industry: How small firms delegitimise large multinational companies', EGOS Colloquium (Copenhagen, Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Johns, R, Darcy, S & Dickson, T 1970, 'Transformative service and co-creation for more accessibility'.
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To add to the understanding of the service experiences of vulnerable, stigmatized, and marginalized consumers, this research focuses upon the service experiences and co-creation of service recovery of people with disabilities over more than 20 years as evidenced by complaints cases to the Australian Human Rights Commission (2015). People with disabilities, permanent or temporary, account for nearly one in five people worldwide (World Health Organization and World Bank, 2011). By sheer population size this accounts for some 1 billion potential consumers, which is expected to rise to 1.5 billion by 2050. As a consumer group, this equates to between 10 to 20% of a population, depending upon the country. As such, organizations cannot afford to ignore these customers if they are interested in expanding their consumer and/or employee base. In the service context, it is not just the person with a disability that are recipients of service, but those who are also in their family, social or employment groups (Darcy, 2010). Hence, as organizations seek to transform service offerings to ALL consumers and community members, it is essential to understand how effectively this is operationalized within an organization and for particular customer segments, to provide service delivery and recovery that meets and, sometimes, exceeds customer expectations (O'Reilly, 2007).

Katic, M, Agarwal, R & Al-Kilidar, H 1970, 'The Interplay Between Flexibility and Innovation within High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing', Production and Operations Management Society 2017 International Conference, Sydney, Australia.
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Innovation and flexibility have long been understood as key elements in the competitive repertoire of todays’ manufacturing SME (Small to Medium Sized Enterprise). For SME’s that produce a high variety of customised products at low volumes (HVLV), the necessity to innovate and simultaneously maintain flexibility poses a significant organisational challenge.HVLV manufacturers are typically designed in such a manner to enable the manufacture of a wide range of highly customised products. The organisational success of the HVLV manufacturer, then, largely depends on its’ ability to reconfigure resources and adapt to new circumstances (in other words, the ability to be flexible). In fact, it is in the pursuit of flexibility that HVLV manufacturers choose to adopt the job-shop style of production and “project-based” organisational structure. There is evidence which suggests flexibility and innovation are complementary in the realm of mass-customisation. Yet, authors investigating the adoption of “project-based” organisational forms (as observed in HVLV manufacturing) warn the quest for “fast, flat and flexible” organisational designs often result in environments which hinder innovation. Indeed, the applicability of organisational practices designed to foster flexibility and its effects on the ability of a HVLV manufacturer to innovate requires further investigation – thus, a core objective of this paper.In order to achieve this objective, this paper provides two outcomes. Firstly, a comparative analysis based on a literature review is undertaken between HVLV manufacturers and those adopting lesser, more standardised, forms of customisation. This will determine key differences in both flexibility dimensions and the organisational practices designed to facilitate this flexibility. Secondly, a conceptual model is developed (based on the comparative analysis) to demonstrate the relationship between key flexibility dimensions and the likelihood of developing suc...

Katic, M, Al-Kilidar, H & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Exploring the Effect of Customisation on Management Practices in High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing', 24th International Annual EUROMA Conference, EUROMA International Conference, Edinburgh.

Kwak, K, Russell, GJ & Duvvuri, SD 1970, 'Reference Price Spill-Over Effects at SKU Level', INFORMS Marketing Science, Los Angeles, CA.

Kwak, K, Waller, D & Wang, P 1970, 'Building A Choice Model of Consumer Decision States', INFORMS Marketing Science, Los Angeles, CA.

Matolcsy, Z, Ghannam, S, Spiropoulos, H & Thai, N 1970, 'The Role of Powerful Non-Executive Chairman in Mergers and Acquisitions', World Finance Conference, Sardinia, Italy.

Matolcsy, ZP, Ghannam, S, Spiropoulos, H & Thai, N 1970, 'The Role of Powerful Non-Executive Chairman in Mergers and Acquisitions', Paris Financial Management Conference, Paris, France.

Menictas, C & Fine, B 1970, 'The Missing Link Extracting Meaning and Emotion from Text to Improve Surveys', ESOMAR Asia Pacific 2017, ESOMAR, Shanghai, pp. 1-21.

Menictas, C, Gessner, M & Fine, B 1970, 'Machine Learning: Breaking the Secret Code', Australian Market and Social Research Society Conference, Sydney.

Noh, S & Yu, K-H 1970, 'Of Conquests and Exodus: Settlements and the Institutionalization Process', Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management annual meeting, Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, pp. 13255-13255.
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Noh, SC & Yu, K 1970, 'The role of emotions in degenerative political processes in pluralistic organizations', European Group for Organization Studies annual colloquium, Copenhagen.

O, E & Choi, I 1970, 'Subjective Ratings for Meaningful and Pleasant Experiences.', Korean Psychological Association, Seoul, Korea.

Ossimitz, M, Wieder, B, Chapman, P & Thirathon, U 1970, 'Management Accounting in the Big Data Era – Opportunities or Threats?', ERMAC 2017, Vienna, Austria.
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Over the past two decades, the digital revolution has brought along (a) ‘Big Data’, i.e. data which have rapidly become too big in volume, too diverse in nature and too rapidly changing to be handled in conventional databases and analysed using conventional tools, and (b) ‘data science’, “the study of the generalizable extraction of knowledge from data” (Dhar 2013), which develops and applies tools to manage and analyse (Big) Data. Data scientists are seen as new breed of managerial decision supporters, and insofar cross traditional management accounting territory.The aim of this study is to investigate the current and predict the future relationships between management accounting and the emerging data science discipline, based on a systematic analysis of the academic and practitioner literatures. While there is very little empirical evidence of an actual impact of data science on the management accounting profession, such impacts are predicted for the near future.Management accountants are expected to break with their traditions and collaborate with data scientists for mutual benefits. On the one hand, management accountants can be ‘data businesspeople’ or ‘horizontal data scientists’, who contribute essential business knowledge and data understanding to data science/Big Data projects. To succeed in such efforts, established and graduating management accountants face a need for up-skilling in technology, statistics, data mining, etc. and move into deeper analysis. Data scientists, on the other hand, can use their technical expertise to enrich established management accounting techniques and practices (e.g. the Balanced Scorecard, forecasting, etc.) with more advanced statistical or machine learning techniques.

Patel, VG & Michayluk, D 1970, 'Do divestitures create value? Evidence from options markets', Financial Management Association Conference, Boston.

Patterson, E, Agarwal, R, Bajada, C & Green, R 1970, 'The Role of Digital Standards in Managing Australian Public Service Innovation'.
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Digital services are a disruptive innovation helping the Australian government deliver public services to a greater number of citizens faster and more efficiently than ever before (United Nations, 2016). Over the last 20 years, the Australian federal government has been able to achieve nearly full availability of digital government services through public sector innovation. A recent commitment to such innovation occurred with the May 2015 release of a Digital Service Standard (DSS). Two years has passed since Australia introduced its DSS and this research reviews the role of this standard in fostering public service innovation. To perform this analysis, this research evaluates the alignment between the DSS and the commonly adopted approaches for managing organisational innovation of Innovation Process Management (Cooper, 1990) and Innovation Portfolio Management (Tuff & Nadji, 2012) in the public sector context. The analysis draws on publicly available data on 19 Digital Service Standard assessments from July 2015 to June 2017 and case studies of three assessments including: Digital Marketplace, MyGov and BloodNet. This evaluation found that the DSS exemplifies innovation process and innovation portfolio management in its use of gates, assessment criteria and reach across eight different agencies. The analysis also identified design limitations in the DSS as a whole of government innovation management approach due to its limited uptake in the majority of large government agencies and lack of specific standards to encourage different types of innovation. The paper proposes a framework to realign the DSS to better practices of innovation process and portfolio management, including tailoring the standard for new and existing services across a greater proportion of government agencies, and adjusting the DSS to encourage both incremental and disruptive innovations.

Pham, H, Sutton, B, Brown, P & Brown, D 1970, 'Design of environmental performance measurement systems to support decision making in environmental and economic sustainability', 9th Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control, Nice, France.

Pham, H, Sutton, B, Brown, P & Brown, D 1970, 'Overcoming Validity Problems with the Design of EPMS in an Agricultural Setting', 40th European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Valencia, Spain.

Randhawa, K, Josserand, E & Logue, D 1970, 'Routines of knowledge collaboration at the organization-community boundary: An exploratory study of community-based open innovation', European Group of Organization Studies, Copenhagen.

Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & West, J 1970, 'Crowdsourcing without profit: The role of seeker motivation and strategies', Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 14684-14684.
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Rathore, A, Agarwal, R, Bajada, C & Paul, S 1970, 'Japan’s technology management legacy impacting its IoT leadership', Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) 2017 International Conference, MGSm Sydney.
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Abstract: The objective of this study is to identify the factors in traditional Japanese corporate management style which are impacting Japan’s leadership in IoT on global platform. To-date, Japan has 18% of worldwide share of IoT patents assigned. Fujitsu is the only Japanese company at 8th place in world’s top ten patents assignee ranking. Top places are filled by US, Chinese, Korean and European companies (Trappey, A. 2016). Japan envisioned the concept of an “Intelligent Object Network” TRON (The Real-time Operating system Nucleus), an open real-time operating system kernel - similar to IoT - as one of the Tokyo University’s objectives as far as back in 1987 (Sakamura J, 2015). However, Japan simply let Germany initiate ‘Industry 4.0’ policy and standards while allowing the United States to lead the IIC (Industrial Internet Consortium) despite years of experience and lead in embedded systems and high level proficiency in ubiquitous computing. Exploratory research revealed that management-related factors such as catch-up and mass production roll out policies were the largest inhibitors to setting international software standards whereas local focus related policies were considered major hindrances for Japanese gadgets to succeed worldwide. Local focus of gadgets and unwillingness of management into development of open source IoT software were found to be interlinked that Japan is not leading Industry 4.0. Institutional arrange¬ments of Japan’s catch-up system in most key industries are the primary cause of Japan’s software firms’ competitive weak¬ness. The very arrangements that help explain Japan’s success in steel, machine tools, semiconductors, and computer hardware are found to be the source of its weakness in computer software (Anchordoguy, M 1999). Insularity is a long-standing problem in Japan, often referred to as the 'Galapagos Syndrome.' Products are highly evolved but don't survive well beyond the water's edge (Pesek, W 2013). Many Japanes...

Saluja, G & Adaval, R 1970, 'Seeing More in Less: How cultural mindsets influence the process and outcome of product customisation', European Marketing Academy 2017, University of Groningen.

Schulenkorf, N, Schlenker, K & Frawley, SM 1970, 'Leveraging Sport Events to Maximise Community Benefits in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experiences from Samoa', ”, 22nd European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress, Essen.

Sepehr, S 1970, 'A Foucauldian approach to Iranian immigrant consumer acculturation in the context of Australia', Consumer Culture Theory Conference, University of California, Irvine, Anaheim, California.

Small, J 1970, 'Midlife women on holiday: Does physical appearance matter?', Critical Tourism Studies Proceedings, Critical Tourism Studies Conference, Majorca, Spain.

Small, J & Darcy, S 1970, 'Attractions for visitors with vision impairment', Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education, Dunedin.

Stein, JA, Simpson, AV, Berti, M & Hermens, A 1970, '‘Keeping the axe workshop going’: Australian manufacturing and the hidden maintenance of historical practices', The Maintainers II: Labor, Technology and Social Order, The Maintainers II: Labor, Technology and Social Order, Stevens Institute of Technology.

Thirathon, U, Wieder, B, Matolcsy, Z & Ossimitz, ML 1970, 'Impact of Big Data Analytics on Decision Making and Performance', http://icesal.org/proceedings.html (2017 nya), International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting and Logistics, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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‘Big Data’ has become a major topic of interest and discussion for both academics and professionals in the IT and business disciplines, and case evidence suggests that companies engaging in Big Data outperform others. It has to be noted though that ‘Bigger’ Data as such does not provide any benefits, but it is rather how organisations make sense of data and gain insights from analysing the data. Analytic capabilities and practices are required to convert Big Data (BD) into insights which arguably improve decision-making and thereby organisational performance. While protagonists of such Big Data Analytics (BDA) imply that those effects exist, so far they have not been confirmed by rigorous empirical research.Data was obtained using a cross-sectional online survey which targeted Chief Information Officers and senior IT managers of medium-to-large Australian for-profit organisations and yielded 163 complete responses, which met the standard criteria for measurement reliability and validity. PLS-SEM and multiple bootstrapping methods were used to test the hypotheses, while controlling for firm size. The present study empirically confirms claims made in the literature that BD and related analytics lead to better performance. It also reveals that such benefits are achieved primarily because BDA creates additional incentives for managers to base their decisions on analytics, and that more analytic-based decision making actually leads to superior performance. Finally, the results of our study suggest that managers in organisations which engage in BD are generally more analytics-minded in their decision making, even if the analytic tools and methods used in support of their decisions are not particularly sophisticated.The results provide evidence that neither Big Data nor Big Data Analytics are just ‘hypes’, but they do actually lead to superior performance, partly directly and partly indirectly by creating an incentive for managers to rely on analytics when ...

Vesal, M, Siahtiri, V & O'Cass, A 1970, 'Improving business sustainability through innovation ambidexterity', Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (2017), Melbourne, Australia.
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Sustainability is increasingly becoming the main objective of businesses. While previous studies have acknowledged that innovation is a significant driver of business sustainability, little is known about how innovation ambidexterity understood as the simultaneous achievement of radical and incremental innovation leads to business sustainability. Hence, this study investigates the relationship between innovation ambidexterity and business sustainability. We further propose that managers’ attitude towards sustainability positively moderates this relationship. Hierarchical regression analysis is used to analyze the hypotheses. Our findings from a survey of 370 SBUs operating in the heavy manufacturing sector in Iran indicate that innovation ambidexterity has a greater impact on business sustainability than radical or incremental innovation individually. In addition, managers’ attitude towards the environment can be considered as a complementary asset to innovation ambidexterity. Our findings provide insights for managers in heavy manufacturing firms to improve economic or/and environmental performance in their journey toward greater sustainability.

West, A 1970, 'Integrating Development of Personal Presentation Skills With Business Strategic Simulation Gaming', Australasian Simulation Congress, Sydney, Australia.

Wilson, R & Agius, M 1970, 'IS THERE GOOD EVIDENCE THAT THE TWO QUESTIONS IN PHQ-2 ARE USEFUL QUESTIONS TO USE IN ORDER TO SCREEN FOR DEPRESSION?', PSYCHIATRIA DANUBINA, 6th Biennial Cambridge International Conference on Mental Health, MEDICINSKA NAKLADA, ENGLAND, Univ Cambridge, Clare Coll, Cambridge, pp. S232-S235.

Woods, MC 1970, 'Competition, Regulatory Reform, Productivity Review', Launch of Australia’s ASU4Reform Program, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Woods, MC 1970, 'Lessons from Australia’s Growth Path and Policies', Vietnam Development Forum, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Woods, MC 1970, 'The Future of Aged Care Funding', The Next Phase of Aged Care Reform, Melbourne.

Woods, MC & Yu, S 1970, 'Aged care reform in Australia: Lessons from the policy process [conference presentation]', International Health Policy Conference, London School of Economics.

Xu, J 1970, 'The Gender Gap in Executive Promotions', 2017 FIRN Annual Conference, Uluru, Australia.

Zlatevska, N 1970, 'The Impact of Own and Other's Food Choices: Understanding the Effects of Portion Size and Food Type', Society for Consumer Psychology: APA Annual Convention.

Zlatevska, N, Vandenbroele, J, Van Kerckhove, A & Holden, S 1970, 'On Consuming Too Many or Too Much Food(s): The Numerosity Heuristic Explains Food Partitioning Effects', The La Londe Conference, pp. 22-22.

Zlatevska, N, Vandenbroele, J, Van Kerckhove, A & Holden, S 1970, 'On Consuming Too Many or Too Much Food: The Numerosity Heuristic Explains Food Partitioning Effects', European Marketing Academy Conference.

Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Green, R, Rammal, HG & Scerri, M ECA 2017, Australia’s International Business Survey 2017, Sydney, Australia.

Boersma, M Elsevier BV 2017, Do No Harm? Procurement of Medical Goods by Australian Companies and Government.
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Burke, P, Aubusson, P, Schuck, SR, Palmer, T, Pressick-Kilborn, K & Ng, W Association of Independent Schools 2017, Barriers to the effective teaching of primary science and technology..

Burke, P, Schuck, SR, Aubusson, P, Ng, W, Pressick-Kilborn, K & Palmer, T-A 2017, Supporting the Effective Teaching of Primary Science and Technology: A discrete choice experiment approach, Australia.

Du Cros, H, Foley, C, Edwards, D & Hergesell, A JMIC 2017, JMIC Case Study Program CONFERENCES: CATALYSTS FOR THRIVING ECONOMIES, Belgium.

Farr-Wharton, B & Shearman, P 2017, Caring for the Carers: Aged Care Industry Benchmark Report, no. 1, pp. 1-30, Sydney.

Foley, C, Edwards, D, Harrison, B & Hergesell, A JMIC 2017, ICC SYDNEY: FEEDING YOUR PERFORMANCE, Belgium.

Green, R, Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Chowdhury, M, Paul, S & Soco, S DAE 2017, Imagine Sydney Create, Imagine Sydney Create, Sydney.

Haywood, P, Goodall, S, Chinchen, E, Haas, M, Manipis, K, Meshcheriakova, O, Saing, S & van der Linden, N COAG Health Council 2017, The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mandatory folic acid and iodine fortification. A report for the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council, Adelaide.

Logue, D, McAllister, G & Schweitzer, J University of Technology Sydney 2017, Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing Report, pp. 1-48, Sydney.
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This report investigates the viability of a range of portfolio interventions designed to leverage new sources of investment finance and to support the growth and investability of new businesses in the Indo-Pacific region, with a particular focus on the development of social enterprises. While some of these interventions are relatively new within the aid sector, others are designed to take a fresh perspective on an existing activity. The report sets out the findings for each of the interventions and while interventions were wide ranging, they all form key components of an entrepreneur’s journey and their ultimate participation in an impact investing marketplace. The study focused on the development of new businesses in the region and considers how early stage enterprises could be funded; how entrepreneurs (and particularly social entrepreneurs) could be incubated and supported to develop their business skills; how new financing structures could be deployed by government to attract more private investment into the sector; and the role of platforms in connecting enterprises and sources of capital in brokering deals.

Sangster, J, Furber, S, Allman-Farinelli, M, Phongsavan, P, Redfern, J, Haas, MR, Church, J, Mark, A & Bauman, A NSW Ministry of Health 2017, A population-based lifestyle intervention to promote healthy weight and physical activity in people with cardiac disease: The PANACHE trial, Sydney.

Woods, MC COAG Health Council 2017, Independent Review of Accreditation Systems within the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for health professions: Final report, Adelaide.

Addo, R, Hall, J, Goodall, S & Haas, M 2017, 'VP66 Perception Of Decision Makers And Researchers Towards Health Technology Assessment In Ghana', Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 179-180.
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INTRODUCTION:In recent years, the Ghana health system has been faced with the challenge of financial sustainability. New ways of making decisions in a cost-effective manner that ensure efficient use of available resources is being explored. Consequently, Ghana has been pursuing the formal introduction of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for decision making in the health system.However, the limited use and impact of HTA on health systems has been associated with reasons including, and not restricted to, the knowledge and perception of decision makers towards it (1-3). Therefore as Ghana gears towards using HTA formally, it is important to assess the knowledge and attitude of potential users and producers of HTA. This will provide useful information for the setting up of an HTA agency.METHODS:A qualitative research approach using in-depth interviews was utilized. Twenty-three decision makers both at the national and district levels, and four researchers were interviewed. Thematic analysis was conducted using NVivo software.RESULTS:Only seven respondents had knowledge about HTA. Respondents perceived HTA differently, and the word ‘technology’, was often misconstrued as a device for communication such as mobile phone. Two main barriers to the use of HTA emerged; lack of resources (human, data, and finance) and politico-cultural issues. To address these barriers respondents recommended that stakeholders be involved in decisions concerning the guidelines for its conduct, composition of the appraisal team, and the focus of HTA. Generating of human, data and financial resources were also indicated.CONCLUSIONS:There is paucity of knowledge about HTA in Ghana. For Ghana to successfully introduce HTA for health decisi...

Addo, R, Hall, JP, Haas, M & Goodall, S 2017, 'Using Economic Evidence to Set Priorities in Ghana: The Case of Malaria'.

Agarwal, R 2017, 'Improving management and productivity in regional Australian businesses', ABC Radio Talk.

Agarwal, R 2017, 'Peer-learning enables growth in hard-to-reach places'.

Agarwal, R 2017, 'What’s in a supply chain?', UTS.

Agarwal, R & Brown, P 2017, 'UTS researchers recognised at AMCS data launch event'.

Agarwal, R, Green, R, Bajada, C & Brown, P 2017, 'Major study paints picture of who's managing our businesses', UTS.

Aliyev, N & He, X 2017, 'Ambiguous market making', SSRN.

Buckley, N, Mestelman, S, Muller, RA, Schott, S & Zhang, J 2017, 'Do the Number of Appropriators from the Commons Matter in Controlled Laboratory Environments?'.

Carabetta, G 2017, '‘Collective Bargaining Disputes in the Emergency Services: The New Zealand Experience’, Seminar Presentation, The University of Sydney Law School, 18 September 2017.'.
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Seminar Presentation, The University of Sydney Law School

Clegg, SR 2017, 'Comments on White Paper: A Vision of Responsible Research in Business and Management: Striving for Credible and Useful Knowledge'.

Clegg, SR 2017, 'Fatal Leadership Approaches', Manage Magazine.

Clegg, SR 2017, 'Power and efficiency narratives in strategic organization and management'.

Clegg, SR 2017, 'The East India Company'.

Darcy, S, Frawley, S & Adair, D 2017, 'Managing the Paralympics', Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 1-302.
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers and connected stakeholders effectively organize and deliver the Paralympics, taking into account what has been learned from previous events. Including emergent models of best practice from event management, project management and sport management literature, the book gives an insight into the planning of one of the world's biggest sporting events that encompasses ten impairment types and multiple sport classes within sports.

De Abreu Lourenco, R, Kenny, P, Haas, MR & Hall, JP 2017, 'Factors affecting general practitioner charges and Medicare bulk‐billing: results of a survey of Australians — erratum', AMPCo, pp. 326-326.
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Di Guilmi, C & Carvalho, L 2017, 'The dynamics of leverage in a demand-driven model with heterogeneous firms'.

Dwyer, L, Tomljenović, R & Čorak, S 2017, 'Evolution of Destination Planning and Strategy', Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-302.
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book deals broadly with tourism planning and development from the perspective of Croatia, a major Adriatic tourism destination which is fast becoming one of the most popular vacation spots in the European Union. With the recent accession of Croatia to the EU, Croatia is undergoing a rapid political and economic transition and generating scholarly interest in the country’s primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. This book examines the country’s long history and thriving success in the tourism industry through issues of destination image and identity, management challenges, economic impact, and how to attract tourists in the midst of extreme political changes. The book explores the implications of policy decisions on product development and takes a theoretically sound approach to destination planning and problem-solving in Croatia. Its timely view of Croatian national tourism policy and the broader Adriatic/Mediterranean region makes this book of interest to all scholars, students, and practitioners engaged in various aspects of destination development planning and management.

Eakin, E, Hayes, S, Reeves, M, Goode, A, Vardy, J, Boyle, F, Haas, M, Hiller, J, Mishra, G, Jefford, M, Koczwara, B, Saunders, C, Chapman, K, Boltong, A, Lane, K, Baldwin, P, Robertson, A, Millar, L, McKiernan, S, Demark‐Wahnefried, W, Courneya, K & Robson, E 2017, 'Translating Research into Community Practice: The Healthy Living after Cancer Partnership Project', Wiley, p. S31.
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Feng, Z, Shan, Y & Taylor, SL 2017, 'How Test Power Impacts Research Relevance: The Case of Earnings Management Research'.

Gavin, M 2017, 'How has the NSW Teachers’ Federation responded to education reform to protect and advance teachers’ working conditions? An analysis of teacher salaries and staffing entitlements'.

Girsberger, EM 2017, 'Migration, Education and Work Opportunities', IZA Discussion Paper No. 11028 (September 2017).
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I study individual location, education and work decisions in a dynamic life-cycle model in a developing country. I estimate the model exploiting panel data on migrants and stayers in Burkina Faso, and cross-sectional data on permanent emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and locations based on education. Migration to urban centres increases with education, while migrants at the extremes of the education distribution tend to move abroad. Local unemployment rates, skilled work opportunities and returns to education result in differential expected income gains across locations and hereby explain the complex migration pattern observed. Large income gains from migration are partially offset by direct and indirect migration costs, as well as by higher investment in education (for rural migrants). Migration prospects to urban centres drive education choices of rural individuals. Hence, migration policies can be used to stimulate educational attainment in rural regions.

Green, R & Agarwal, R 2017, 'Three theories for what’s causing the global productivity slowdown', The Conversation.

Green, R, Agarwal, R & Bajada, C 2017, 'Study identifies Sydney’s innovation hotspots', UTS News room.

Harmer, W & Darcy, S 2017, 'Wendy Harmer Mornings institute - How can we make travel and tourism more accessible?', ABC Mornings Radio.
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The format of the program is that an invited 'expert' on the topic on the topic of accessible tourism to start a discussion and present key research findings and then also listeners are invited to contribute their ideas as part of the discussion. DATE: Thursday 6th JulyTIME: 10:05am live to airTOPIC: Mornings Institute - How can we make travel and tourism more accessible?

Harris, C, Small, J & Wilson, E 2017, 'Editorial introduction: A critical lens on hospitality and tourism work', Elsevier BV, pp. 123-125.
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Harvey, C, Maclean, KM & Clegg, SR 2017, 'Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects'.

Haywood, P, Chin, M, Haas, M & Viney, R 2017, 'Modelling the impact of increasing numbers of oncology therapies on the cost-effectiveness of currently reimbursed treatments'.

Haywood, P, Viney & Haas, M 2017, 'A model of adaptive reimbursement for sequences of pharmaceuticals in oncology treatment'.

Henckel, T, Menzies, GD, Moffatt, PG & Zizzo, DJ 2017, 'Sticky Belief Adjustment: A Double Hurdle Model and Experimental Evidence'.
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Given a lack of perfect knowledge about the future, agents need to form expectations about variables a?ecting their decisions. We present an experiment where subjects sequentially receive signals about the true state of the world and need to form beliefs about which one is true, with payo?s related to reported beliefs. We control for risk aversion using the O?erman et al. (2009) technique. Against the baseline of Bayesian updating, we test for belief adjustment under-reaction and over-reaction and model the decision making process of the agent as a double hurdle model where agents ?rst decide whether to adjust their beliefs and, if so, then decide by how much. We ?nd evidence for sticky belief adjustment. This is due to a combination of: random belief adjustment; state-dependent belief adjustment, with many subjects requiring considerable evidence to change their beliefs; and Quasi-Bayesian belief adjustment, with insu?cient belief adjustment when a belief change does occur.

Joachim, JG, Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, SM & Schlenker, K 2017, 'Adaptable Design Thinking (aDT) for Sport Management'.

Joachim, JG, Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, SM & Schlenker, K 2017, 'Empowering Change Agents Through Adaptable Design Thinking (aDT)'.

Kaine, S, Josserand, E & Boersma, M 2017, 'How to stop businesses stealing from their employees', The Conversation.

Katic, M, Agarwal, R & Al-kilidar, H 2017, 'High Performance Management Practices for High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing: A Theoretical Framework'.

Kaur, A & Agarwal, R 2017, 'Digitising the farm – UTS and IIT Madras tackle food waste with technology', UTS research and teaching.

Kaur, A & Agarwal, R 2017, 'Fresh produce supply chains', UTS Research and teaching.

McDonald, M, Wearing, SL & Wearing, SL 2017, 'Normalising ‘Staged Authenticity’ in Tourism: neoliberal governmentality and tourist encounters'.

Okumu, CO 2017, 'Impact of Chinese Corporations' Investments in Sub Saharan Africa: Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability'.
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This thesis investigated the social and economic impact of Chinese corporations investments in Sub Saharan Africa. The extent of technology transfer and local skill development is assessed. Related infrastructure developments are considered, and the question examined of whether this represents a balanced approach to sustainable development.

Porter, D, wearing, S, McCauley, B, Wearing, M & Foley, CT 2017, 'Exploring Male Adolescent Video Gaming as Leisure Consumption: It’s not as simple as ‘Bang Bang: You’re dead!’', Routledge.

Rhodes, C 2017, 'Approaching the precipice? A review of Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction', SAGE Publications, pp. 570-572.
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Scerri, M & Agarwal, R 2017, 'Crypto-currency and supply chains – Is there a fit?'.
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Participating in global supply chains is becoming an imperative, yet remains a challenging endeavour for many businesses. In 2015 World Trade Organisations members exported merchandise to the value of US$16.2 trillion and commercial services US$4.68 trillion. Monetary policies in developed countries and exchange rate volatility impact the price of goods, firm performance and growth of international trade. One of the many risks for participating businesses in international business, especially for small to medium sized business, is foreign exchange risk generally managed through hedging and invoicing risks. In this context, invoicing currency strategy is an important factor for supply chains and is indicative of the level of economic risk and which parties bear risks in global supply chains. This research explores and compares management techniques for exchange rate exposure in the currency payment processes and though the use of different currencies when deploying block chain technology and crypto-currency. This draws on data on the invoicing practices of buyers and sellers in Australia which is analysed to determine exporters invoicing currency at an aggregate level by industry. Values of buyer currency, seller currency and vehicle currency are then compared with the potential for cryptocurrency to enable a single currency global trading environment, where monetary policy is not in the control of any one countries central governing body. The paper finds that Australian exporters will have new and optimal instruments at hand to limit the adverse impact of exchange rate volatility embedded in current payment processes which can be eliminated or more easily managed through the deployment of emerging solutions.

Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C, Squires, M, Thorp, S & Yeung, D 2017, 'Determinants of the Crude Oil Futures Curve: Inventory, Consumption and Volatility', SSRN.
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Since 2008, the WTI oil futures curve has been positively sloped for extended periods. We test whether changes in inventory alone can explain this atypically long contango. To do this, we estimate monthly VARs of the CME WTI oil futures spread and OECD and U.S. inventory in line with standard theory, and add petroleum consumption and implied volatility to the vector of endogenous variables. When we model the futures spread as one continuous series, results confirm two-way causation between inventory and the futures curve, as predicted by the theory of storage. However when we separate negative and positive futures spreads we find that: two-way causation between the futures spread and U.S. inventory breaks down; shocks to OECD petroleum consumption cause more negative spreads and shocks to U.S. consumption cause more positive spreads in addition to inventory-driven changes; and increases in volatility directly raise positive spreads. These new causal channels have become significant since 2008 and can be related to higher inventory, inelastic supply of oil and uncertainty about global economic conditions.

Su, F & Wang, J 2017, 'Conditional Volatility Persistence in the Foreign Exchange Market: Meteor Shower and Heat Wave Revisited'.

Sugden, JT, Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, SM, Edwards, D & Adair, D 2017, 'Brief Immersion, Rich Engagement: Researching Sport and Intergroup Relations in Fiji'.

van Rijmenam, M, Erekhinskaya, T, Schweitzer, J & Williams, MA 2017, 'How Big Data Analytics Changes the Practice of Strategy When Navigating Times of Disruptive Innovation'.

Van Rijmenam, M, Schweitzer, J & Williams, M-A 2017, 'A Distributed Future:How Blockchain Affects Strategic Management, Organisation Design & Governance', Academy of Management, USA, pp. 14807-14807.
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Blockchain is a new technology that transforms strategic management, organisational design and governance due to its decentralised and distributed characteristics. It is a database technology, a distributed ledger, that records and maintains indefinitely an ever-growing list of data records, which cannot be altered or tampered with. The usage of smart contracts on blockchains, affects strategic management as the process of developing, executing and evaluating decisions will become automated and irreversible. This will result in new, disruptive, organisation design, including that of a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO). These are organisations that establish governance without managers or employees, run completely by autonomous computer software, where trust among actors is established cryptographically. However, organisations that want to move to the Blockchain face numerous business and technical challenges. In this conceptual paper, we provide an overview of the Blockchain, how it affects strategic management, changes organisational design and requires a new form of corporate governance

Waller, DS 2017, 'Adman: Andy Warhol’s origins as a commercial artist and illustrator', Sydney.
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Andy Warhol’s connection with brands began more than a decade before his iconic pop art images of Campbell’s soup and Coca-Cola. David Waller tells the story of Warhol’s beginnings in the advertising industry.

Waller, DS 2017, 'An adman’s perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop'.

Wearing, SL & Foley, C 2017, 'Understanding the tourist experience of cities', Elsevier BV, pp. 97-107.
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Economic, environmental and social forces have changed the way we are developing our cities. A range of theoretical constructs have been explored to provide direction for contemporary analyses of urban tourism experience. This paper engages with a feminist perspective in our understanding of the way tourists explore and experience cities. It achieves this by expanding current sociological frameworks that assume the tourist is simply a wanderer in the urban environment. Drawing on interactionist and post-structural critique and Wearing and Wearing’s (1996) theoretical framework of the flâneur and choraster, this paper demonstrates how a more feminized conceptualisation of the tourist experience as a creative and interactive process could have a transformative effect on our understanding of tourists’ experiences of cities.

Wearing, SL, Law, A, Wearing, M, Deville, A & McDonald, M 2017, 'From Longboards and veggie patches to Couch surfing and community gardens: living beyond the neoliberal fan club,'.