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.