Adriana, C, Laura, R, Adam, L & Michael, B 2018, 'Cultural Heritage' in Campelo, A, Reynolds, L, Lindgreen, A & Beverland, M (eds), Cultural Heritage, Routledge, pp. 183-194.
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Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Brown, PJ & Green, R 2018, 'Managerial Practices in a High Cost Manufacturing Environment' in Khosrow-Pour, M (ed), Operations and Service Management, IGI Global, USA, pp. 1749-1768.
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This chapter explores the management strategies adopted by manufacturing firms operating in high versus low cost economies and investigates the reasons for differences in the management practice choices. The study reported in this chapter identifies a subset of countries that have either high or low labour costs, with USA, Sweden, and Japan being high, and India, China, and Brazil being low labour cost economies. The high labour cost manufacturing firms are found to have better management practices. In this chapter, the authors find that Australia and New Zealand manufacturing firms face relatively high labour cost but lag behind world best practice in management performance. The chapter concludes by highlighting the need for improvement in management capability for Australian and New Zealand manufacturing firms if they are to experience a reinvigoration of productivity, competitiveness, and long-term growth.
Agarwal, R, Chowdhury, M & Paul, S 2018, 'Editorial - The Future of Manufacturing Global Value Chains, Smart Specialization and Flexibility' in Agarwal, R, Chowdhury, M & Paul, S (eds), The Future of Manufacturing Global Value Chains, Smart Specialization and Flexibility Special Series 1/2018, Springer, pp. 1-2.
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Baddeley, M 2018, 'Financial Instability and Speculative Bubbles: Behavioural Insights and Policy Implications' in Alternative Approaches in Macroeconomics, Springer International Publishing, pp. 209-234.
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© The Author(s) 2018. Michelle Baddeley in this chapter entitled, ‘Financial Instability and Speculative Bubbles: Behavioural Insights and Policy Implications’, draws on themes from Baddeley and McCombie’s (An historical perspective on speculative bubbles and financial crises: Tulipmania and the South Sea bubble. In: Arestis P, Baddeley M, McCombie JSL (eds) What global economic crisis? Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2001) exploration of speculative bubbles, which applied different models of speculation to analysing famous historical speculative episodes, specifically Tulipmania and the South Sea Bubble. This chapter re-assesses these insights in the light of all that has happened during the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and subsequent global financial crises of 2007/2008. It also extends the analysis to include new insights from behavioural finance about the nature and causes of speculative bubbles, blending insights from behavioural finance and post-Keynesian economics. Speculative bubbles throughout history have a number of common, predictable features so why have we not learnt more from these past experiences? In answering these questions, this chapter concludes with an analysis of policy implications-including fiscal and monetary measures that could be implemented to minimise the destabilising real-side impacts from speculative bubbles and the financial shocks and crises which often follow.
Chowdhury, MMH, Quaddus, MA & Nusrat Jusy, U 2018, 'Supply Chain Sustainability in Bangladesh Apparel Industry' in Xiumei & Dora (eds), Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, pp. 221-245.
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Supply chain sustainability is crucial for meeting stakeholder expectations and for the long-term survival of the supply chains. The concern for sustainability in supply chain decision-making is growing, as stakeholders are demanding this from the point of production to the point of consumption (Seuring et al., 2008). High-level industrial accidents such as the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh (Fibre2fashion News Desk, 2013), sweatshop scandals in companies such as Nike (Preuss, 2001; Graafland, 2002), and similar other sustainability risk factors are increasing this concern. Breach of sustainability standards often results in a boycott of products from a particular brand or country (Islam and Deegan, 2008) which threatens the existence of the whole supply chain. To avoid vulnerability, the supply chain decision-makers need to identify sustainability factors and their importance. Aligned with this, grounded on stakeholder theory (Freeman, 1984), Wu and Pagell (2011) posited the importance on balancing the priorities of sustainability criteria to satisfy stakeholder requirements — something that this study also envisages. As a corollary, a multi-criteria supply chain sustainability model is imperative for decision-makers to satisfy the sustainability requirements of stakeholders and ensure long-run viability of the industry.
Clarke, T, Chelliah, J & Pattinson, E 2018, 'National Innovation Systems in the Asia Pacific: A Comparative Analysis' in Clarke, T & Lee, K (eds), Innovation in the Asia Pacific, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 119-143.
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In the final Chapter of Part One Clarke, Chelliah and Pattinson offer a comparative survey of the contrasting innovation systems of the Asia Pacific. While Asian economies have achieved rapid industrial progress, as they reach the global technological frontier they need to develop new institutional capabilities for sustaining international competitiveness. Foundational institutions including education, research, law and finance require coordination around coherent national innovation systems to sustain commitment to innovative products and processes. Technological innovation is more likely to succeed “when the elements of the broader environment surrounding firm’s activities are well articulated into a system, than in situations where each element works largely isolation… The overall innovation performance of an economy depends not so much on how specific formal institutions (firms, research institutes, universities) perform, but on how they interact with each other as elements of a collective system of knowledge creation and use, and on their interplay with social institutions (such as value, norms and legal frameworks)” (Dodgson in Elgar companion to neo-Schumpeterian economics. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, U.K, pp. 193–200, 2007: 592). The national innovation system essentially facilitates how knowledge is generated and accumulated in the economy to serve as the catalyst and fuel for innovation (Yim and Nath in Science Technology Society 10, 2005).
Clegg, S 2018, 'Global and European Polity?: Organisations, Policies, Contexts' in Goverde, H (ed), Global and European Polity?: Organisations, Policies, Contexts, Routledge, London, pp. 41-64.
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© Henri Goverde 2000. Nowadays men and women often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often quite correct: what ordinary men and women are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neigh-bourhood; in other milieux they move vicariously and remain spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
Clegg, S 2018, 'Organizations, Sociology of', Wiley, pp. 203-205.
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Clegg, S & Cunha, MP 2018, 'Post-leadership leadership mastering the new liquidity' in Carroll, B, Firth, J & Wilson, S (eds), After Leadership, Routledge - Taylor and Francis, New York, pp. 175-194.
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This chapter discusses liquid selves, liquid organisations and liquid aesthetics as three facets of a post-canonical theory of leadership relations. Leadership changes in liquid spaces, becoming a form of post-leadership leadership. Bauman distinguishes between solid and liquid modernity. Solid modernity represents the world of conventional organisation and management theory. Liquid selves are valorised as free selves: free to choose, free to take responsible action for their self, free to construct their own biographies and projections of self. These are all self-centred, even as they project synoptically to others. More established liquid organisations will prefer a signature architect, preferably a starchitect. Hancock suggests that liquid organisations will seek to structure fun, novelty and excitement into the experience of being at work. The work itself becomes liquid-it spills over into downtime, occupies the wakeful creative moments of the organisational members and travels with them as they use their portable digital devices.
Clegg, S & Stokes, J 2018, 'Bureaucracy, power, and ethics' in Bishop, P, Connors, C & Sampford, C (eds), Management, Organisation, and Ethics in the Public Sector, Ashgate Publishing Limited, London, UK, pp. 145-159.
Clegg, S & Turcotte, MF 2018, 'Le cas de Magnola: La gestion du risqué versus le principe de précaution' in Turcotte, MF (ed), La responsabilite societale de l'organisation, Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, Paris, France, pp. 105-118.
Dalton, B & Rama, MD 2018, 'Understanding the rise and decline of shareholder activism in South Korea: the explanatory advantages of the theory of Modes of Exchange' in Business Ethics in East Asia, Routledge, pp. 116-134.
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Darcy, S 2018, 'The Paralympic Movement: A Small Number of Behemoths Overwhelming a Large Number of Also-Rans—A Pyramid Built on Quicksand?' in The Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan UK, UK, pp. 221-246.
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018. Despite the extraordinary growth of the Paralympic Games since its inception, the movement is constrained by a series of inherent weaknesses. This chapter examines those structural issues that contribute towards these weaknesses through examining the management information systems of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and analysing these through the critical lenses of disability studies, critical management studies and human rights. These issues include the underrepresentation of some countries, gender bias and a split between the resource-rich and resource-poor regions. The analysis raises questions about equity between nations, the notion of fair competition and access to technical expertise amongst other areas of disparity. This chapter reviews these issues and identifies the role that disability classification and resource access can play in this disparity. The relationship between disability and poverty is clearly identified through the World Health Organisation’s statistics with those in research-rich nations, or the behemoths of the Paralympics, clearly at a distinct advantage for the iconic sporting event. It is suggested that the Paralympic movement needs to acknowledge these disparities and seek to redress them through mechanisms like the millennium development goals. The IPC needs to do more to create a more level international sporting playing field for athletes with disability.
Di Guilmi, C 2018, 'The Agent-Based Approach to Post Keynesian Macro-Modeling' in Analytical Political Economy, John Wiley & Sons.
Duffy, S, Layton, R & Dwyer, L 2018, 'Coral Reefs: Tourism, Conservation and Management' in Prideaux, B & Pabel, A (eds), Coral Reefs: Tourism, Conservation and Management, Routledge, UK, pp. 119-134.
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Ningaloo Reef is world-renowned for its pristine wilderness and it received World Heritage status in 2011. Growing popularity and the presence of oil and gas operations pose challenges to the values that attract visitors. The Ningaloo whale shark industry is heralded for its sustainable management; however, whale sharks are a common pool resource (CPR) and face unique challenges. A comparison of the industry against CPR theory suggests that although many of the conditions are met, there are areas that may require further consideration. This is a noteworthy case study to explore contemporary issues of sustainable natural resource management.
Durick, J & Leung, L 2018, 'Designing Augmented, Domestic Environments to Support Ageing in Place' in Huber, J, Shilkrot, R, Maes, R & Nanayakkara, S (eds), Cognitive Science and Technology, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 117-129.
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Dwyer, L 2018, 'Future Economic Development in Tourism' in Moutinho, L & Sanchez, A (eds), Strategic Management in Tourism, CABI, UK, pp. 30-44.
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This chapter presents projections of tourism growth as well as its drivers. Other topics tackled include economic equality, inter-industry effects of tourism growth, challenges to tourism growth in lesser-developed countries, tourism's economic contribution, domestic tourism, industry consolidation, leakages, the costs of tourism growth, and policies for destination competitiveness.
Dwyer, L 2018, 'Tourism Development in the Blue Economy: challenges for Indian ocean rim economies’' in Atri, VN & Bohler-Muller, N (eds), The Blue Economy Handbook of the Indian Ocean Region, Africa Institute of South Africa, South Africa, pp. 299-321.
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Specific aims of the chapter are: first, to provide an overview of coastal and marine tourism in the Indian Ocean; second, to identify the impact of coastal and marine tourism on IOR countries; third, to identify challenges to sustainable growth of coastal and marine tourism, and the implications for different stakeholders; and fourth, to explore effective governance structures to better realise the potential benefits of development for all countries. It is concluded that the Blue Economy has substantial potential to generate positive economic impacts in all countries of the IOR, and as a catalyst for regional economic growth, but that several challenges must be addressed for development to proceed in a sustainable way
Dwyer, L & Lund-Durlacher, D 2018, 'The responsibility of corporations for Sustainable tourism development' in Liburd, J & Edwards, D (eds), Collaborations for Sustainable Tourism Development., Goodfellow, Oxford, pp. 130-150.
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The purpose of this chapter is to provide an understanding of the principles and practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to discuss how the concept of collaboration can facilitate the implementation of CSR strategies and operations. Increasing numbers of tourism companies are incorporating the concept of CSR in their business models, to improve the environment, the qualityof life of local communities and the welfare of their employees. The chapter first illustrates and discusses the principles of CSR, and identifies the key benefits of incorporating CSR such as efficiencies, improved stakeholder relationships and enhanced profitability. Next, the chapter highlights the necessary changes in organisational attitudes and behaviour needed to underpin the implementation of CSR. Finally, it identifies the roles of internal and external stakeholders and suggests how collaboration among stakeholders can contribute to positive societal change.
Edwards, M, Benn, S, Angus-Leppan, T & Perey, R 2018, 'Enacting sustainable entrepreneurial action for a circular economy' in Lindgreen, A, Vallaster, C, Maon, F, Yousafzai, S & Palacios Florencio, B (eds), Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Routledge, UK, pp. 117-134.
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In recent times, there have been increasing pressures on businesses arising from resource scarcity, commodity insecurities and waste (Lieder and Rashid, 2016). There is evidence that industrial processes have already breached several planetary boundaries (Steffen et al., 2015) and that this poses a challenge for business leaders to consider their impacts through adoption of systems thinking (Whiteman et al., 2013; Perey et al., forthcoming). Simultaneously, a projected further three billion middle-class consumers will enter the market by 2030 (Nguyen et al., 2014). Trends project upward material consumption growth per capita (Fridolin et al., 1989), and even moderate United Nations scenarios indicate that such continued upward population and consumption trends means that the equivalent of two Earths will be needed to support the human resource demand and absorption of its wastes (Footprint, 2014). In addition to these growth trends, as global supply chains become more complex and dispersed, material leakages, whereby materials are wasted in the supply chain, persist. Consequently, waste is being produced at a rate far beyond what can be absorbed or recycled by the Earth’s ecological systems (WWF, 2015).
Fam, D, Neuhauser, L & Gibbs, P 2018, 'Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education' in Fam, D, Neuhauser, L & Gibbs, P (eds), Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education: The Art of Collaborative Research and Collective Learning, Springer International Publishing, Dordrecht, pp. 257-274.
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© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. This exciting new state-of-the art book reviews, explores and advocates ways in which collaborative research endeavours can, through a transdisciplinary lens, enhance student, academic and social experiences. Drawing from a wide range of knowledges, contexts, geographical locations and internationally renowned expertise, the book provides a unique look into the world of transdisciplinary thinking, collaborative learning and action. In doing so, the book is action orientated, reflective, theoretical and intriguing and provides a place for all of these to meet and mingle in the spirit of curiosity and imagination.
Fine, J, Han, H, Yu, K-H & Sparks, A 2018, 'Organizing as a Career: Results from the AFL-CIO OrganizingInstitute National Survey' in Fine, J, Burnham, L, Griffith, K, Ji, M, Narro, V & Pitts, S (eds), No One Size Fits All Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age, Labor and Employment Research Association.
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This volume brings together stories of innovative efforts that are being made to improve working conditions across the country, while acknowledging the structural dynamics that challenge and condition them in twenty-first century America.
Foley, C, Edwards, D & Harrison, B 2018, 'A Case Study in Collaborative Supplier Partnerships' in Liburd, J & Edwards, D (eds), Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development, Goodfellows, Oxford, pp. 206-225.
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Globally there are hundreds of convention centres, which host more than 24,000different association meetings each year (International Congress and ConventionAssociation, 2016). Unlike the hotel sector (Bohdanowicz-Godfrey, 2013) andtourism operations sector (Carlsen & Edwards, 2013a) which have documented“practices towards more sustainable modes of operation” (Carlsen & Edwards,2013a: 33), little has been documented in the research literature about the collaborative potentials of a convention centre to deliver benefits beyond touristvisitation (Edwards et al., 2014; Mair & Jago, 2010).This case study makes a contribution to this research gap by examining aconvention centre, International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney), withsignificant purchasing power to work with and influence suppliers in a backward supply chain. ICC Sydney’s Feeding Your Performance (FYP) initiativeencourages environmentally sustainable behaviour as part of its organisationalpractices and supports and collaborates with a range of suppliers who are working to improve the agricultural ecosystems in their farming areas. Ecosystem isdefined as “the minimum aggregated set of processes (including biochemical,biophysical and biological ones) that ensure the biological productivity, organisational integrity and perpetuation of the ecosystem” (Swift et al., 2004:115).ICC Sydney is the largest integrated convention, exhibition and entertainmentvenue in Australia. It is situated in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in theactive leisure precinct of Darling Harbour, and is flanked by the Sydney CentralBusiness District and a university precinct. Opened for business in December2016, it employs 1,300 staff (300 full time and 1,000 casuals) and replaces theprevious structure of the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Godfrey, J & Wearing, S 2018, '2. Negotiating Machismo as a Female Researcher and Volunteer Tourist in Cusco, Peru' in Porter, BA & Schänzel, HA (eds), Femininities in the Field, Multilingual Matters, pp. 23-36.
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Gordon, R 2018, 'Critical social marketing: Reflections, introspections, and future directions' in The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing, Routledge, pp. 83-97.
Handley, K, Ross-Smith, A & Wright, S 2018, 'The Same or Different: How Women Have Become Included in Corporate Leadership in Australia' in Inclusive Leadership, Springer International Publishing, pp. 93-124.
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Hergesell, A, Edwards, D & Zins, AH 2018, 'Personal Interest (Ir )Responsible Tourists' in Liburd, J & Edwards, D (eds), Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development, Goodfellow Publishers, Oxford, pp. 77-92.
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One of the key factors shaping the future of tourism is climate change (Becken & Hay, 2007; Dwyer et al., 2009; Nordin, 2005). Burns and Bibbings (2009) even predict “the end of tourism” should current consumption patterns prevail. There is an alternative to this future, but to develop “new imaginations for the sustainable development” of tourism we must understand the wicked problem of tourists’ environmental behavior. Tourists’ environmental behavior impacts on sustainable development to varying degrees (Becken et al, 2003; Metz et al., 2007) depending on whether they behave responsibly or irresponsibly. People consider holidays as a break from everyday life (Becken, 2004; Dolnicar & Grün, 2009) which suggests that people may behave differently when they are tour- ists. For this reason, this chapter explores tourists’ uptake of environmental behaviors by examining their propensity to responsible environmental behavior while travelling. A better understanding of tourists’ environmental behavior can lead to strategies that support collaborative actions “towards facilitating tourism development that is inherently sustainable” (Jennings, 2018). Environmental behavior is a very complex field of research (Hergesell, 2017). Such behavior is determined by a range of internal and external factors with the significance of these factors differing dependent on the person, the context and the type of behavior under study. The question is hence how to reduce ‘irresponsible’ behavior.
Liburd, J & Edwards, D 2018, 'Imagining Collaborative Tourism Futures' in Liburd, J & Edwards, D (eds), Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development, Goodfellow Publisher Ltd, 26 Home Close, Wolvercote, Oxford OX2 8PS, pp. 268-276.
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Collaboration does not imply a division of labour, which is often the essence of cooperation, but rests on the hypothesis that the sum of the work is more than its individual parts.
Liburd, J & Edwards, D 2018, 'Introduction' in Liburd, J & Edwards, D (eds), Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development, Goodfellows, Oxford, pp. 1-7.
Liburd, J & Edwards, D 2018, 'Reflections on Research Paradigms' in Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development, Goodfellow Publishers.
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The journey of Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development has aimed high by keeping heads in the clouds and feet on the ground, to visit critical and optimistic possibilities for what sustainable tourism development was, is, and may become. This chapter gives substance to the potential of collaboration for sustainable tourism development by indicating the significance of imagina- tion. Envisaging tourism futures implies that tourism researchers, students, practitioners, policy makers – all stakeholders – engender other kinds of relationships, interactions and conversations to imagine what could be. It is a feasible process of designing with as an ethical, ongoing involvement of others through a respect for their ways of being in the world, their sense of values and aspirations for better tourism futures in a better world. In this chapter, we do so by leveraging the variations of interpretation represented in the making of this book and the previous fourteen chapters. This book encompasses philosophical, conceptual and empirical research to expose conditions, empirical circumstances and underpinning values. The contributions meet in the application of the concept of collaboration to uncover what sustainable tourism development was, and presently is, and signposts how unknown futures can be imagined. Imagining collaborative tourism futures is predicated on epistemological and mutually shared responsibilities. These obligations cannot alone be captured by academics engaged in a persistent quest for knowledge, critical dialogue and thinking tourism into the future. Responsibilities are intimately connected to a holistic understanding of collaborative engagements with the wider world in shaping desirable futures. Imaginations of collaborative tourism futures are a response to current limitations of sustainable tourism development, where we charter the contours of tourism futures to tackle wider societal problems.
McEwen, C 2018, 'Change and Continuity in Applied Theatre: Lessons Learnt from ‘the Longest Night’' in Freebody, K, Balfour, M, Finneran, M & Anderson, M (eds), Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, Springer International Publishing, pp. 95-113.
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This chapter presents an examination of how participation in applied theatre projects can engender change and continuity. Using Bourdieu’s field theory, I discuss the tensions that exist between the rhetoric of social change and outcomes for participants in applied theatre projects. In particular, I draw on findings from a longitudinal study of an exemplary Australian applied theatre project, The Longest Night. This study revealed that, though participants experienced some immediate change, the longer-term outcomes resembled permanence and gave an overwhelming sense of continuity. I argue that this is because this set of practices indirectly limits change as practitioners operate within a system that tends to contain their practice, product and impact, as well as reproduce legitimised social and cultural values and norms.
McKern, B 2018, 'Industrial Strategy and Comparative Advantage: The Case of Australia' in Global Business, Routledge, pp. 123-144.
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Noguti, V, Singh, S & Waller, DS 2018, 'Gender Differences in Motivations to Use Social Networking Sites' in Social Media Marketing, IGI Global, pp. 680-695.
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This chapter investigates gender differences in motivations to use social networking sites (SNS), a subset of social media. The present research focuses on Facebook given its prominence among currently available SNS. Analysing a survey of university students in Australia, the results indicate that female consumers are more likely than male consumers to use Facebook to seek information (to research and learn new things and to discuss products and brands) and for convenience (to obtain things with little effort). Both of these reasons in turn relate positively to their degree of engagement on Facebook, where engagement is operationalized as cognitive absorption which is a state of deep involvement with an activity.
Noguti, V, Singh, S & Waller, DS 2018, 'Gender Differences in Motivations to Use Social Networking Sites' in Gender and Diversity, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 1565-1580.
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This chapter investigates gender differences in motivations to use social networking sites (SNS), a subset of social media. The present research focuses on Facebook given its prominence among currently available SNS. Analysing a survey of university students in Australia, the results indicate that female consumers are more likely than male consumers to use Facebook to seek information (to research and learn new things and to discuss products and brands) and for convenience (to obtain things with little effort). Both of these reasons in turn relate positively to their degree of engagement on Facebook, where engagement is operationalized as cognitive absorption which is a state of deep involvement with an activity.
Pina e Cunha, M & Clegg, SR 2018, 'Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life' in Farjoun, M, Smith, W, Langley, A & Tsoukas, H (eds), Perspectives on Process Organization Studies: Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 14-34.
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Organizational contradictions and process studies offer interwoven and complementary insights. Studies of dialectics, paradox, and dualities depict organizational contradictions that are oppositional as well as interrelated such that they persistently morph and shift over time. Studies of process often examine how contradictions fuel emergent, dynamic systems and stimulate novelty, adaptation, and transformation. Drawing from rich conversations at the Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, the contributors to this volume unpack these relationships in more depth. The chapters explore three main, connected themes through both conceptual and empirical studies, including (1) offering insight into how process theorizing advances understandings of organizational contradictions; (2) shedding light on how dialectics, paradoxes, and dualities fuel organizational processes that affect persistence and transformation; and (3) exploring the convergence and divergence of dialectics, paradox, and dualities lenses. Taken together, this book offers key insights in order to inform persistent, contradictory dynamics in organizations and organizational studies.
Sarina, T 2018, 'Enhancing Knowledge Management (KM) in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era: The Role of Human Resource Systems' in The Palgrave Handbook of Knowledge Management, Springer International Publishing, pp. 411-435.
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Schweitzer, J 2018, 'Network Capitalism and the Role of Strategy, Contracts and Performance Expectations for Asia-Pacific Innovation Partnerships' in Clarke, T & Lee, K (eds), Innovation in the Asia Pacific, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 181-200.
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© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018. With the growth of emerging economies in Asia-Pacific over the last three decades collaboration with the aim of innovation between firms within and with partners outside the region have developed substantially. Not always have such partnerships fulfilled their anticipated strategic objectives. The literature suggests that the nature of market arrangements and the role of government within that system play a role, but also innate contracting practices and governance of innovation partnerships are related. Yet, our understanding about the specific relationships between these factors and the emerging partnership innovation culture that facilitates joint business activities in an Asia-Pacific context remains vague. In this conceptual chapter we suggest how characteristics of so called network capitalism in conjunction with the nature of contractual agreements between partners, the alignment of their innovation objectives and the ambiguity inherent in their mutual contributions to the partnership can be interpreted as indicators of joint innovation culture. However, while innovation partnerships generally may result to be bureaucratic, market, clan, or adhocracy, we discuss how in an Asia Pacific context, innovation partnerships are limited by the extent of codification and diffusion of information and the social embeddedness of economic transactions.
Shearer, C, Clegg, S & Johnston, J 2018, 'The Impact of Contemporary Management Ideas: Their Influence on the Constitution of Public Sector Management Work' in Mitev, N, Morgan-Thomas, A, Lorrino, P, Dde Vaujany, F & Nama, Y (eds), Materiality and Managerial Techniques, Springer International Publishing, London, pp. 103-131.
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Public sector reforms informed by contemporary management ideas that have taken place across Anglo-American polities since the 1980s were focused on economic rationalist concepts and managerialist approaches that prevailed in the private sector. Hence, concepts such as efficiency and effectiveness were advocated for the public sector, often on the assumption that they were relevant and could be applied easily. Private sector management concepts, principles, processes and practices were promoted under the mantra of ‘let the managers manage’ to be followed by ‘make the managers manage’. Critics have deemed public sector reforms, inspired by contemporary management ideas, as unsuitable in application to the public sector, given the unique character of public management (Brunsson, 2006; Gregory, 2003; Moe, 1994; Savoie, 1994; Sundstrom, 2006; Talbot, 2001; Williams, 2000). Nonetheless, these ideas became very fashionable in the English-speaking world.
This chapter discusses the impact of contemporary management ideas couched as public sector reforms from the 1980s onward and specifically addresses the question of how contemporary management ideas have influenced Departmental Secretaries and their work. The role played by the Departmental Secretaries, central agencies and the government of the day, in the acceptance or rejection of contemporary management ideas, as well as the analysis of how such ideas travelled, were translated, trans-ferred and transformed, is also considered.
Stai, P, Schulenkorf, N, Godfrey, J & Phelps, S 2018, 'Sri Lanka' in Sports Economics, Management and Policy, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 249-262.
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While it is recognised that volunteers can have a significant impact on the operations of sport organisations, previous research has not focused on the motivations and experiences of overseas volunteers in sport-for-development (SFD) settings. In addressing this issue, this chapter reflects on an empirical study around motivations and experiences of international SFD volunteers in post-war Sri Lanka.
Umme, NJ & Chowdhury, MMH 2018, 'Resistance to Integrate Information Systems in Healthcare Service: A Study on Developing Country' in Flexible Systems Management, Springer Singapore, pp. 173-186.
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This book provides a conceptual framework of global value chains, flexibility and sustainability, supported by research projects, case applications and models in various related areas organized into three parts.
Wearing, S, Schweinsberg, S & Darcy, S 2018, 'Consuming our national parks' in Cultural Heritage, Routledge, pp. 183-194.
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Wearing, S, Small, J & Foley, C 2018, 'Gender and the Body in Leisure and Tourism' in Mansfield, Caudwell, Wheaton & Watson (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, UK, pp. 95-109.
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This chapter provides a review of research and theory related to gender relations in the fields of leisure and tourism. It examines initial feminist theoretical reactions to the predominantly male theorists of the 1970s and to such theorizing. Within the context of leisure and tourism, it explores poststructuralist ideas of multiple, gendered subjectivities and access to alternative gender discourses which allow for the re-writing of masculine and feminine scripts. It explores sites of leisure and tourism as culturally gendered enclaves which can offer opportunity for struggle and resistance to hegemonic masculinity. Structural constraints on women’s leisure are not ignored; they are placed in tension with women’s leisure and tourism opportunities. The chapter reviews key authors and ideas in the development of our understanding of gender, body and space in the context of gender relations in leisure and tourism, and identifies the possibilities for change that arise from theorizing bodies as “becoming” rather than as “static”.
Wearing, S, Wearing, M & Jobberns, C 2018, 'Animals, Food, and Tourism' in Kline, C (ed), Animals, Food, and Tourism, Routledge, USA, pp. 157-170.
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The culinary relationship between Japan and whale meat is complex and controversial as the recent press stories indicate. There is an ambivalent attitude toward whaling as a political issue among the Japanese as well as indifference toward whale meat as food. This chapter argues that neoliberal models of tourism continue to hold dominance in tourism theory and practice, and hence the ways in which whales are used and valued within tourism. It suggests a need to examine the continuing consumption of whale meat in tourism and examines the frameworks that might be used to generate discussion. The chapter presents the ways in which the commodification of animals in tourism has fostered the unethical treatment and valuing of these animals through the production and consumption process. It also suggests the “Global Code of Ethics for Tourism” as a mechanism to ensure the provision of social equity for local community tourism as a shift away from commodified and neo-liberalist approaches to tourism.
Webb, R & Sarina, T 2018, 'The Role of Exploratory Practice and International Collaboration in the University Classroom: A Guide to Fostering Students’ Democratic Competences' in Developing Language Teachers with Exploratory Practice, Springer International Publishing, pp. 157-180.
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Wilden, R & Randhawa, K 2018, 'Open service innovation for healthcare organizations' in Wilden, R, Garbuio, M, Angeli, F & Mascia, D (eds), Entrepreneurship Healthcare, Routledge, New York, pp. 144-167.
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Agarwal, R, Chowdhury, MMH & Paul, SK 2018, 'The Future of Manufacturing Global Value Chains, Smart Specialization and Flexibility!', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 19, no. S1, pp. 1-2.
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© 2018, Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management. The future manufacturing and global value chain will be highly dominated by technological and business innovations to cope with the accelerating pace of changes in consumer behaviour and global business environment. This editorial for the special issue “The future of manufacturing: global value chains, smart specialization and flexibility” enriches the topic of future of manufacturing operations and supply chain management literature. In the line with the theme, this special issue publishes five articles that clearly articulate the emerging thematic discussions.
Agnew, JR, Bateman, H, Eckert, C, Iskhakov, F, Louviere, J & Thorp, S 2018, 'First Impressions Matter: An Experimental Investigation of Online Financial Advice', Management Science, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 288-307.
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We explore how individuals assess the quality of financial advice they receive and how they form judgments about advisers. Using an incentivized discrete choice experiment, we show that first impressions matter: consumers more often follow advisers who dispense good advice before bad. We demonstrate how clients’ opinions of adviser quality can be manipulated by using an easily replicated confirmation strategy that depends on the quality of the advice and the difficulty and order of the advice topics. Our results also reveal how clients benefit from their own past experience and how they use professional credentials to guide their choices. Data, as supplemental material, are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2590 . This paper was accepted by John List, behavioral economics.
Ahsan, K & Kumar Paul, S 2018, 'Procurement Issues in Donor-Funded International Development Projects', Journal of Management in Engineering, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 04018041-04018041.
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This study investigated the critical procurement challenges faced by international development (ID) projects in Bangladesh. Initially, a framework of challenges was developed via literature review. We then ranked the importance of these challenges and categorized them based on interview data and analytical hierarchy processing analysis. Interviews were conducted with procurement experts from three major ID project stakeholder groups: donor organizations, host country government policymakers, and project implementation units. The most important categories of challenges were those related to project management capacity/capability, and ethics. More specifically, the challenges deemed most important were those related to improper project planning, undue practices in procurement implementation, government bureaucracy and interference in procurement, and inexperienced procurement staff. This paper contributes to the ID project procurement literature by identifying the critical challenges to procurement, which differ from those of other project-related areas. The findings may assist the multibillion-dollar ID project procurement industry in Bangladesh by highlighting the major issues that require effective management by all stakeholders. Ultimately, this may improve procurement outcomes and overall project performance
Ali, SM, Rahman, MH, Tumpa, TJ, Moghul Rifat, AA & Paul, SK 2018, 'Examining price and service competition among retailers in a supply chain under potential demand disruption', Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol. 40, pp. 40-47.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Supply chain disruptions management has attracted significant attention among researchers and practitioners. The paper aims to examine the effect of potential market demand disruptions on price and service level for competing retailers. To investigate the effect of potential demand disruptions, we consider both a centralized and a decentralized supply chain structure. To analyze the decentralized supply chain, the Manufacturing Stackelberg (MS) game theoretical approach was undertaken. The analytical results were tested using several numerical analyses. It was shown that price and service level investment decisions are significantly influenced by demand disruptions to retail markets. For example, decentralized decision makers tend to lower wholesale and retail prices under potential demand disruptions, whereas a proactive retailer needs to increase service level with an increased level of possible disruptions. This research may aid managers to analyze disruptions prone market and to make appropriate decision for price and service level. The manufacturer or the retailers will also be able to better determine when to close a market based on the proposed analysis by considering anticipated disruptions. The benefits and usefulness of the proposed approach are explained through a real-life case adopted from a toy supply chain in Bangladesh.
Angel, P, Jenkins, A & Stephens, A 2018, 'Understanding entrepreneurial success: A phenomenographic approach', International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 611-636.
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Entrepreneurship research has predominately focused on firm-level conceptions of success and the personal factors that help predict them but has stopped short of investigating what it means to entrepreneurs. When entrepreneurial success has been studied at the individual level, the approach has been to identify common success criteria and examine the importance of these to the entrepreneur. However, criteria-based approaches overlook the possibility that entrepreneurs may ascribe different meanings to common success criteria, and this can influence how entrepreneurs develop their firms. In this article, we adopt a phenomenographic approach to explore what success means to entrepreneurs. Our analysis reveals four qualitatively distinct understandings of entrepreneurial success and shows that entrepreneurs interpret common success criteria differently depending on their underlying understanding of success. These findings extend the literature on entrepreneurial success by illustrating that entrepreneurs not only vary in the importance they place on different success criteria but also vary in how they understand these different success criteria.
Anufriev, M & Kopányi, D 2018, 'Oligopoly game: Price makers meet price takers', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 91, pp. 84-103.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The paper studies an oligopoly game, where firms can choose between price-taking and price-making strategies. On a mixed market price takers are always better off than price makers, though the profits of both types decline in the number of price takers. We investigate and confront two possibilities of firms’ decisions about their types: forward-looking equilibrium reasoning and backward-looking individual learning. We find that the Cournot outcome is the only equilibrium prediction and it is learnable if firms are sufficiently sensitive to profit differences. However, with a larger number of firms, a unilateral deviation from Cournot behavior becomes profitable. Under learning this incentive creates a space for permanent oscillations over different markets with a positive but low number of price takers.
Anufriev, M, Bao, T, Sutan, A & Tuinstra, J 2018, 'Fee Structure and Mutual Fund Choice: An Experiment', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 158, pp. 449-474.
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We present a laboratory experiment which is designed to investigate the effect of the fee structure on mutual fund choice. We find that subjects tend to ignore periodic and small operating expenses fees and base their decisions on gross, instead of net, returns. A fee in the form of a, much larger, front-end load leads to lock-in into one of the funds. It is used by some subjects as a commitment device, but exacerbates the decision errors of other subjects. Although past returns do not convey information about future returns, return chasing helps explain subjects' behavior.
Anufriev, M, Chernulich, A & Tuinstra, J 2018, 'A laboratory experiment on the heuristic switching model', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 91, pp. 21-42.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. We present results from the first laboratory experiment on the seminal heuristic switching model introduced by Brock and Hommes (1997, 1998). Subjects choose between two alternatives, a sophisticated and stabilizing, but costly, heuristic, and a destabilizing, but cheap, heuristic, and are paid according to the performance of the chosen heuristic. Aggregate choices determine the evolution of a state variable and, consequently, the performance of both heuristics. Theoretically, an increase in the costs for the stabilizing heuristic generates instability and leads to endogenous fluctuations in both the state variable and the fraction of agents using that heuristic. We vary the costs of the stabilizing heuristic in the experiment and find that the predictions of the heuristic switching model are partially confirmed. For low costs the dynamics are stable. For high costs, the dynamics initially are unstable and exhibit the type of bubbles and crashes emblematic for the heuristic switching model. However, over time the pattern of bubbles and crashes disappears and the dynamics become more stable. We estimate a standard discrete choice model on aggregate choice data and observe that subjects have a tendency to become less sensitive to payoff differences when the environment is less stable, which has important implications for the application of heuristic switching models.
Anufriev, M, Radi, D & Tramontana, F 2018, 'Some reflections on past and future of nonlinear dynamics in economics and finance', Decisions in Economics and Finance, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 91-118.
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© 2018, Associazione per la Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Economiche e Sociali (AMASES). This paper offers an overview of the literature on the economic and financial applications of theory of nonlinear dynamics, especially bifurcation theory. After a short introductory discussion of the first nonlinear dynamic models in social sciences and the economic relevance of the zoo of bifurcations and complicated dynamics that such models can generate, we present an overview of the literature on nonlinear dynamic models in the areas of underdevelopment, environmental poverty traps, the management of common goods, industrial organization and financial markets. The review of the literature is enriched by reflections and ideas for future research.
Armenski, T, Dwyer, L & Pavluković, V 2018, 'Destination Competitiveness: Public and Private Sector Tourism Management in Serbia', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 384-398.
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This study explores the underlying dimensions of destination competitiveness, analyzing the contributions of government and industry stakeholders in enhancing the competitive position of Serbia on the international tourism market. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used to explore latent dimensionality of “destination competitiveness” among 48 competitiveness attributes evaluated by experts from the public and private sectors of Serbia’s tourism industry. Results show that Serbian competitiveness structure comprises five dimensions: risk management and adaptive environmental strategies, innovation and product development, planning for sustainable development, networking and community concern, and education for sustainability. The research identifies challenges and suggests areas where private and public linkages should be strengthened in order to enhance the competitiveness of Serbia’s tourism industry. Generically, the study advances our understanding of destination competitiveness, its multidimensional nature, and the implications for policy making.
Bagley, CE, Donaldson, TJ, Edwards, M, Nelson, JS, Snapp, M & Useem, M 2018, 'Legal Lacunae & Governance Solutions Related to Human Well-Being', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2018, no. 1, pp. 12350-12350.
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Barbera, M, Northey, G, Septianto, F & Spanjaard, D 2018, 'Those prices are HOT! How temperature-related visual cues anchor expectations of price and value', Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol. 44, pp. 178-181.
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Bardon, T & Josserand, E 2018, 'Management innovations from a foucauldian perspective: Time to take action', M@n@gement, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1244-1244.
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© 2019 M@n@gement. Management innovations have attracted considerable attention from both organizational scholars and management practitioners. However, there is a growing disillusionment with managerialist approaches that present management innovations as best practices that should be implemented straightforwardly, for the better. In this context, the Foucauldian perspective on management innovations appears as a valuable critical alternative that (still) deserves to be discussed and extended. In this paper, we offer a rereading of this perspective by rendering the debates raised by Foucauldian studies on management innovations and by providing what appear to us as promising research avenues. Specifically, we propose several directions for further investigating from a Foucauldian lens the new generation of management innovations that are emerging in organizational settings. We also call Foucauldian disciples to adopt a critical performative stance by taking action on the field.
Barlatier, P-J & Josserand, E 2018, 'Delivering open innovation promises through social media', Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 21-28.
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PurposeThis paper aims to explore how social media can be used strategically for delivering the promises of open innovation and examines the types of structure that can foster the integration of these new tools with more classic top-down innovation approaches.Design/methodology/approachA single case study of, ALPHA (pseudonym), a multinational company that combined an integrated strategy and the creation of a lean structure with the full potential of social media.FindingsTo take on the challenges of energy transition, ALPHA has implemented a low-cost approach allowing it to harness the promises of open innovation. This combined the introduction of a lean structure, two social media platforms and processes that ensured the integration of open innovation activities with existing departments.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is based on a single case study. Further research should be conducted to establish the generalization of the results.Practical implicationsThis paper highlights the key success factors in making such a light approach successful, namely, controlling cost and disruption of open innovation; integration matters; leveraging complementarities with existing social media initiatives; and bottom-up adoption.Originality/valueThe research provides a unique approach that can be practically implemented to leverage social media to deliver the promises of open...
Bateman, H, Eckert, C, Iskhakov, F, Louviere, JJ, Satchell, S & Thorp, S 2018, 'Individual Capability and Effort in Retirement Benefit Choice', Journal of Risk and Insurance, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 483-512.
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© 2015 The Journal of Risk and Insurance. We investigate the role of individual capability and effort in the management of retirement ruin. In an experimental setting, we analyze how 854 defined contribution (DC) plan members reallocated wealth between a lifetime annuity and a phased withdrawal account when we increased the risk of exhausting the phased withdrawal account before the end of life. We find that more numerate individuals who put effort into understanding product features chose more longevity insurance at higher ruin risks. Financially literate members were more likely to show understanding of the product features, but general financial literacy did not directly improve ruin risk management. Initiatives aiming to help DC members understand income stream products at the time of the decision are warranted.
Bedford, DS & Ditillo, A 2018, 'From Governing to Managing: Exploring Modes of Control in Private Equity Relationships', The European Accounting Review.
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Bedford, DS & Speklé, RF 2018, 'Constructs in Survey-Based Management Accounting and Control Research: An Inventory from 1996 to 2015', Journal of Management Accounting Research, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 269-322.
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ABSTRACT This article presents an inventory of constructs measured in survey-based management accounting and control (MAC) research from 1996 to 2015. The inventory is intended to serve as a reference source for researchers to identify prior operationalizations of constructs of interest.
Beirman, D, Upadhayaya, PK, Pradhananga, P & Darcy, S 2018, 'Nepal tourism in the aftermath of the April/May 2015 earthquake and aftershocks: repercussions, recovery and the rise of new tourism sectors', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 544-554.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper discusses the application of the Pacific Asia Travel Association’s (PATA) risk and recovery strategy for Nepal following the April/May 2015 earthquake and aftershocks. The impact of the earthquake on tourism to Nepal, the establishment and evolution of PATA’s Nepal Rapid Recovery Taskforce and strategic approaches to tourism recovery contained within the report and its outcomes are discussed. The methodology involved participant observation with three key players in the recovery process, email interviews of key informants, analysis of secondary data sources and reviews of management information systems. Collaborative theory was at the core of PATA’s recovery process and provided a lens through which to understand the intent, direction and actions undertaken. The application of Nepal’s recovery strategy is examined through volunteer tourism, which played a central role in Nepal’s tourism recovery and accessible tourism as an innovative approach to introducing a new market sector in Nepal. Volunteer and accessible tourism enterprises provided opportunities for these organisations to create their own narratives and to include them in the broader media and marketing approach towards stimulating tourism recovery to Nepal between 2015 and 2017.
Berti, M, Simpson, AV & Clegg, SR 2018, 'Making a place out of space: The social imaginaries and realities of a Business School as a designed space', Management Learning, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 168-186.
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We chart the sociomaterial imaginaries and realities of a new Frank Gehry–designed University of Technology Sydney Business School as both a space and a place. We review the broad sociological literature on space, considering its philosophical and conceptual parameters. Lefebvre’s work is central to such discussion, a centrality that we do not so much question as extend by turning attention from a macro-historical conception of space to consider the specificity of place and placemaking, contributing our ‘place in space’ heuristic model. We apply the model empirically through analysis of the design and occupancy of the business school, highlighting elements that concurrently produce the phenomenology of space and place. Our findings suggest that while organizational space ensconces power and the production of relationships, the translation of these into an identity ordering place is not a linear process. ‘Spatial narratives’, characterizing the imagined functions of the building, have been inconsistently materialized, and different actors have re-inscribed alternative functions and meanings in this new place. Theoretically, the article moves debate beyond the frame bequeathed by Lefebvre while building on it, proposing an analysis that affords equal emphasis to material elements (architectural features, furniture, policies) as to discursive elements (symbols, interpretations, narratives).
Biesenthal, C, Clegg, S, Mahalingam, A & Sankaran, S 2018, 'Applying institutional theories to managing megaprojects', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 43-54.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd, APM and IPMA This paper contributes to Rodney Turner's initiative to develop a theory of project management from practice. Organizational scholars studying strategy suggest that more attention needs to be paid to practices involved in organizing, as well as the institutional contexts in which these practices are embedded. Taking a cue from strategy-in-practice approaches, it is proposed that institutional theories can be used to address some questions that have not been answered adequately regarding megaprojects. Institutional theories also seem to be gaining the attention of scholars investigating large, global, infrastructure projects as reported in engineering, management and construction journals. Increasingly, it is evident that the problem areas attached to these projects stretch beyond technical issues: they must be considered as socio-technical endeavours embedded in complex institutional frames. The authors suggest that studying how to deal with institutional differences in the environment of megaprojects has both theoretical and practical implications.
Bird, R, Foster, FD, Gray, J, Raftery, AM, Thorp, S & Yeung, D 2018, 'Who starts a self-managed superannuation fund and why?', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 373-403.
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Self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) – small retirement savings funds with four or fewer members – now manage almost one-third of retirement savings in Australia, and serve over 1 million members. The number of SMSFs has increased to more than half a million in two decades, yet little is known about the reasons people start the funds and how they operate. We use a survey of more than 500 SMSF members and 500 large superannuation fund members to analyse why SMSF members commence and manage their own fund, compared to similar people who stay with a large fund. We find that control over investments and tax minimisation are the most common reasons for starting a SMSF, while satisfaction with large funds and unwillingness to take on the administrative burden of self-management are the most common reasons for not doing so. SMSF members do not show any greater financial skills than non-members, but they do display overconfidence, a higher risk tolerance and a more trusting attitude to financial professionals. Model results show that the majority of SMSF members start their funds at the suggestion of financial professionals. We also show that those who say they are thinking about starting a SMSF are different in significant ways from the eventual SMSF members, further evidence of the influence of the advice industry.
Birtchnell, T, Harada, T & Waitt, G 2018, 'On the verge of change: Maverick innovation with mobility scooters', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, vol. 27, pp. 118-128.
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Boersma, M 2018, 'Between norms and practice: Civil society perspectives on the legitimacy of multistakeholder initiatives to eliminate child labor', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 612-620.
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AbstractChild labor in global supply chains is increasingly addressed through multistakeholder initiatives. However, the participation of stakeholders with distinct views and interests can generate tensions. Based on interviews with civil society actors, this research finds that tensions exist between the normative‐ethical and political‐strategic dimensions of multistakeholder initiatives, which are manifest in the existence of international and national norms and their contextual application, in definitions of child labor, risk and responsibility, and in doubts about corporate incentives to join multistakeholder initiatives. In addition, tensions exist concerning the effectiveness of supply chain auditing, enabling broader labor rights as a means to remediate child labor, and whether standards need to be mandatory or self‐regulation suffices. The success of collaboration depends on the effective navigation of these tensions. Failure to do so can undermine the legitimacy of multistakeholder initiatives from the perspective of civil society actors. The research finds that due diligence, in the shape of human rights risk assessments, is not subject to normative‐ethical/political‐strategic tensions, and can play a key role in the success of multistakeholder initiatives and the fight against child labor.
Brown, PJ & Bajada, C 2018, 'An economic model of circular supply network dynamics: Toward an understanding of performance measurement in the context of multiple stakeholders', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 643-655.
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AbstractThe circular economy (CE) is increasingly being seen as a way in which organizations and economies can become environmentally sustainable. In this context, a key challenge facing multiple‐stakeholder collaborations in circular supply networks (CSNs) is the need to coordinate activities, as well as to monitor and benchmark sustainability performance. The limited formal analysis of CE production dynamics and performance indicators of activities in the CSN has contributed to these challenges. To address this we develop an economic model of material flow in a CSN that incorporates multiple stakeholder effects, and two novel performance indicators that: (i) estimate the joint effects of the speed of recycling, and the effectiveness of collection and conversion of recycled material on production; and (ii) a measure of the upper bound production possibilities for a given recyclable material cycling through a CSN. These indicators will be informative for monitoring, benchmarking and incentivizing performance across CSNs and informing public policy debates and strategies.
Buckley, NJ, Mestelman, S, Muller, RA, Schott, S & Zhang, J 2018, 'The Effects of Communication on the Partnership Solution to the Commons', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 363-380.
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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Organizing individual appropriators into output sharing groups has been found to effectively solve the tragedy of the commons problem. We experimentally investigate the robustness of this solution by introducing different channels of communication that naturally arise from group competitions. In the absence of communication, we confirm that output sharing can introduce sufficient free riding to offset over-harvesting and results in full efficiency. Allowing local communication within output-sharing groups substantially decreases this efficiency enhancement because it reduces free riding and boosts between-group competition. Yet the efficiency level is still significantly higher than that achieved when global communication is allowed among all appropriators in a conventional common pool resource without output sharing. The efficiency-reducing effect of local communication is mitigated when random partners instead of fixed partners are sharing output over time, and is nearly eliminated when random partners are formed with users who belong to different communication groups.
Burke, PF, Dowling, G & Wei, E 2018, 'The relative impact of corporate reputation on consumer choice: beyond a halo effect', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 34, no. 13-14, pp. 1227-1257.
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© 2018, © 2018 Westburn Publishers Ltd. Previous work suggests that corporate reputation generates a ‘halo effect’ where products from companies with better reputations are more likely to be chosen. We argue that corporate reputation plays a more expansive role, proposing that consumers will be less price-sensitive to offerings endorsed by companies with good reputations and that it moderates the marginal utility of product features with high clarity. We also propose that an individual’s knowledge of a company increases the likelihood its products will be purchased. Using a choice model incorporating an individual SEM-based reputation measure, we find support for these hypothesised effects in the context of television choices. The results suggest that corporate reputation warrants more attention by marketing managers to increase preferences for their products through these mechanisms.
Burke, PF, Schuck, S, Aubusson, P, Kearney, M & Frischknecht, B 2018, 'Exploring teacher pedagogy, stages of concern and accessibility as determinants of technology adoption', Technology, Pedagogy and Education, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 149-163.
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© 2017 Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education. This research examines how the pedagogical orientations of teachers affect technology adoption in the classroom. At the same time, the authors account for the stage of concern that teachers are experiencing regarding the use of the technology, their access to the technology and the level of schooling at which they teach.The authors’ investigation of these factors occurs in the context of a contemporary technology, the interactive whiteboard (IWB), in Australian schools. A structural equation model was estimated using a reflective measure of technology usage with antecedents in the form of pedagogical-oriented beliefs and best–worst scaling derived scores for a teacher’s stage of concern regarding IWBs. Teachers with constructivist-oriented pedagogical beliefs were significantly more likely to use IWBs than transmission-oriented teachers. However, the strongest determinant of usage was whether the technology is immediately accessible or not.
Carabetta, G & Hunter, R 2018, ''“Mate, Is Something Up?” Psychological Injury among Frontline Emergency Workers'', Australian Journal of Labour Law, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 243-243.
Carabetta, G, Rowston-Wolcott, K, Fitzpatrick, Z & Plessas, C 2018, ''All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: The Legal Limits to Liability for Participants in Australian Sport'', Australian Business Law Review, vol. 46, no. (5).
Casavecchia, L, Loudon, GF & Wu, E 2018, 'What moves benchmark money market rates? Evidence from the BBSW market', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 51, pp. 137-154.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. In this study we examine the daily movements of a benchmark interest rate using the bank bill swap rate (BBSW) over the period from 2006 to 2016. By decomposing the BBSW into its credit risk and liquidity risk components we reveal that the relative importance of these priced components are conditional on economic uncertainty. Although the compensation required for credit risk increased markedly during the period 2007–2009, the liquidity risk component exerted a disproportionately stronger effect on short-term BBSW spreads relative to credit risk. Our findings show that using a market-based approach to setting credit-based benchmark interest rates introduces both a liquidity and credit risk premia into benchmark interest rates, and both of these risk premia are affected by market forces.
Casswell, S, Morojele, N, Williams, PP, Chaiyasong, S, Gordon, R, Gray‐Phillip, G, Viet Cuong, P, MacKintosh, A, Halliday, S, Railton, R, Randerson, S & Parry, CDH 2018, 'The Alcohol Environment Protocol: A new tool for alcohol policy', Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 37, no. S2.
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AbstractIntroduction and AimTo report data on the implementation of alcohol policies regarding availability and marketing, and drink driving, along with ratings of enforcement from two small high‐income to three high‐middle income countries, and one low‐middle income country.MethodThis study uses the Alcohol Environment Protocol, an International Alcohol Control study research tool, which documents the alcohol policy environment by standardised collection of data from administrative sources, observational studies and interviews with key informants to allow for cross‐country comparison and change over time.ResultsAll countries showed adoption to varying extents of key effective policy approaches outlined in the World Health Organization Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol (2010). High‐income countries were more likely to allocate resources to enforcement. However, where enforcement and implementation were high, policy on availability was fairly liberal. Key Informants judged alcohol to be very available in both high‐ and middle‐income countries, reflecting liberal policy in the former and less implementation and enforcement and informal (unlicensed) sale of alcohol in the latter. Marketing was largely unrestricted in all countries and while drink‐driving legislation was in place, it was less well enforced in middle‐income countries.ConclusionIn countries with fewer resources, alcohol policies are less effective because of lack of implementation and enforcement and, in the case of marketing, lack of regulation. This has implications for the increase in consumption taking place as a result of the expanding distribution and marketing of commercial alcohol and co...
Chan, A, Clegg, S & Warr, M 2018, 'Translating Intervention: When Corporate Culture Meets Chinese Socialism', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 190-203.
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Under socialist development, the contemporary Chinese Communist Party (CCP) refashions thought management with a changed message. The Party increasingly promotes Chinese cultural values, through a policy of designed corporate culture programs within state-owned and private enterprises. The culture is one that inculcates corporate cultural values “imported” from corporate culture discourses in the Western business world. A curious “translation of ideas” has occurred, ideas that have traveled from the Korean Peninsula and War, through the boardrooms of corporate America and into the mundane practices of the CCP, to build corporate culture. At the core of this culture are practices that Schein has termed coercive persuasion. This article discusses the role of coercive persuasion in two sites: (a) China’s state-owned enterprises and (b) private businesses and social organizations. We conclude that as ideas travel, they may change in substance, whereas in form and functionality, they remain surprisingly similar.
Chan, E & Wang, Y 2018, 'Rejecting options from large and small choice sets: the mediating role of confidence', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 52, no. 9/10, pp. 1845-1863.
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PurposeLiterature on choice has predominantly focused on selection decisions rather than rejection decisions. Research on rejection decisions has also only studied rejecting one option from two alternatives. This research aims to study the differences in decision confidence and satisfaction in rejection decisions between choice sets of small and large sizes.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted three behavioral experiments in which they first tested the overall effect (Experiment 1) and then found out whether regulatory focus (Experiment 2) and the attractiveness of options (Experiment 3) moderated it.FindingsThe authors observed that decision satisfaction increased when rejecting larger (vs smaller) choice sets. Decision confidence mediated it (Experiment 1). The effect was strongest when participants had a prevention focus (Experiment 2) and when they were rejecting relatively unattractive options (Experiment 3).Research limitations/implicationsThis research expands the understanding of how individuals make rejection-based decisions and in particular how individuals make choices for one option out of many as in the selection-based choice overload literature.Practical implicationsThe authors show how choice sets of varying sizes affect rejection decisions commonly faced by managers and consumers. This research provides implications for improving confidence and satisfaction, both of which are important elements of everyday decision-making, by suggesting that choice outcomes may dif...
Chan, K & Zhao, R 2018, 'Do the S&P 500 index revisions affect corporate bonds and earnings performance?', Managerial Finance, vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 1237-1249.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the information content in the Standard & Poor (S&P) 500 index revision and its impact on the corporate bonds and earnings of the firms whose stocks are added to or deleted from the index.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses panel regressions on a 13-year sample of the companies added and deleted from the S&P 500 index.FindingsThe regression results on the bond yields and earnings show that analysts and investors draw positive (negative) information from Index additions (deletions) and adjust their expectations of the firm performance as well as the required rates of return on corporate bonds after index revisions.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper suggests that deletions from the Index have significantly negative impacts on corporate bonds and earnings performance of deleted firms while additions to the index do not have significant impacts on the bonds or realized earnings of added firms.Originality/valueThis paper uses corporate bonds and earnings to test competing hypotheses proposed to explain the excess stock returns of index revision, including information content hypothesis and liquidity hypothesis. The results are consistent with the information content hypothesis and do not support the liquidity hypothesis.
Chelliah, J & Swamy, Y 2018, 'Deception and lies in business strategy', Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 36-42.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the use of deceit as a business strategy. There is ample evidence in the mainstream media of deceitful strategies in business, yet there is a lack of discovery of deceit as a strategic tool in the mainstream literature.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conceptual paper that first explains deceit and interprets the use of deceit as strategic tool in business using case vignettes as evidence. The paper puts forth a convincing case that there is enough evidence to substantiate our proposition that deceit is indeed part of the repertoire of tools utilised by some businesses.FindingsThe value of this paper is that it highlights why deceit is used strategically to achieve profit motives of businesses.Originality/valueThis paper attempts to fill a gap that exists in the extant literature and would especially benefit management practitioners and business academics in appreciating the use of deceit as a business strategy.
Chen, NC & Dwyer, L 2018, 'Residents’ Place Satisfaction and Place Attachment on Destination Brand-Building Behaviors: Conceptual and Empirical Differentiation', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 1026-1041.
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Place attachment has become a popular concept in tourism and environmental psychology. However, little research has explored its role in predicting place-related behaviors, compared to alternative place-related constructs such as place satisfaction. This article clarifies the differential impacts of place satisfaction and place attachment on a series of residents’ place-related behaviors (i.e., destination brand-building behaviors), providing empirical evidence from a quantitative survey study. A sample of 358 residents from Sydney, Australia, was included for partial least square (PLS) based structural equation modeling testing. Results of a number of model testing suggest that compared with place satisfaction, dimensions of place attachment affect residents’ destination brand-building behaviors differently in a unique pattern. Place satisfaction strongly predicts residents’ intention to stay or leave, while place attachment more strongly influences residents’ word of mouth, ambassador behavior, and participation in tourism planning for a destination.
Chen, NC, Dwyer, L & Firth, T 2018, 'Residents' place attachment and word-of-mouth behaviours: A tale of two cities', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, vol. 36, pp. 1-11.
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© 2018 Factors that motivate residents to communicate with potential tourists have not received adequate attention from researchers. Based on the environmental psychology and tourism literature, this study focuses on local residents' positive word-of-mouth behaviour about their destination region through two communication channels. Dimensions of place attachment are proposed as determinants of two types (one-to-many and many-to-many) of online word-of-mouth behaviours. A theoretical structural model is tested based on an empirical study in Shanghai, China and Sydney, Australia. The research has implications for destination marketing managers in understanding how to involve local residents in the promotion of their tourism destinations.
Chen, X, Hodgson, A & Linnenluecke, MK 2018, 'Transferring and trading on insider information in the United States and Australia: just a case of happy hour drinks?', Accounting & Finance, vol. 58, no. S1, pp. 83-95.
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AbstractThis study examines and compares insider trading laws across Australia and the United States. Motivation is provided by academic studies that provide a global comparison of insider trading without analysis of divergent interpretations and liabilities. For example, sharing confidential information with friends over Friday night drinks may have completely different legal consequences across different countries. The possibility of higher or lower legal sanction offers research opportunities in the areas of government‐supervised firms, tipping to short sellers and insider trading when firms are cross‐listed in countries with different insider trading regimes.
Chen, X, Wright, S & Wu, H 2018, 'Exploration intensity, analysts’ private information development and their forecast performance', Accounting and Business Research, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 77-107.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study examines whether analysts in the extractive industries in Australia adjust their private information searching and processing in response to the complexity of information about a firm’s exploration and evaluation (E&E) activities. We find that both the proportion of private information in their forecasts and the accuracy of their forecasts increase with the intensity of E&E activities. Additional analyses reveal that this effect is more pronounced for firms with substantial E&E activities but limited production activities, and that analysts’ private information development activities are mainly related to the capitalized E&E expenditures. Our results provide guidance for both investors and future standard setters. They show that investors can benefit from analysts’ expertise in situations of high information asymmetry. They also provide evidence of the advantage of distinguishing successful from unsuccessful investments in resource exploration when accounting for E&E expenditures, which may inform future decisions about accounting for intangible assets.
Cheng, B, Nikitopoulos, CS & Schlögl, E 2018, 'Pricing of long-dated commodity derivatives: Do stochastic interest rates matter?', Journal of Banking & Finance, vol. 95, pp. 148-166.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Does modelling stochastic interest rates, beyond stochastic volatility, improve pricing performance on long-dated commodity derivatives? To answer this question, we consider futures price models for commodity derivatives that allow for stochastic volatility and stochastic interest rates and a correlation structure between the underlying variables. We examine the empirical pricing performance of these models on pricing long-dated crude oil derivatives. Estimating the model parameters from historical crude oil futures prices and option prices, we find that stochastic interest rate models improve pricing performance on long-dated crude oil derivatives, when the interest rate volatility is relatively high. Furthermore, increasing the model dimensionality does not tend to improve the pricing performance on long-dated crude oil option prices, but it matters for long-dated futures prices. We also find empirical evidence for a negative correlation between crude oil futures prices and interest rates that contributes to improving fit to long-dated crude oil option prices.
Cheng, M & Foley, C 2018, 'The sharing economy and digital discrimination: The case of Airbnb', International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 95-98.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Digital discrimination has become a buzz word following the recent reports of racial and other discrimination associated with Airbnb. This issue is perceived to pose serious concerns with the rapid growth of the sharing economy. This research derives insights into digital discrimination through the lens of a series of online newspaper comments made in response to an article reporting Airbnb's new anti-discrimination policy. The data were analysed by using text-mining and co-stakeholder analysis. The visualized network and each stakeholder's surrounding discourse reveal that digital discrimination contains multiple layers and meaning constructions. This paper provides a starting point for tourism and hospitality researchers to contribute to the thinking around the digital discrimination with the rapid growth of the sharing economy.
Cheng, M & Foley, C 2018, 'Understanding the distinctiveness of Chinese Post-80s tourists through an exploration of their formative experiences', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1312-1328.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Chinese Post-80s (the Chinese equivalent of Generation Y) are a distinct generation that emerged during a period of rapid political, social and economic change under Deng Xiaoping’s policy exploration with capitalism. Chinese Post-80s demonstrate higher levels of both complexity and sophistication in their tourist behaviours when compared with earlier generations of Chinese tourists yet their distinctiveness has been largely ignored in tourism research. Underpinned by generational cohort theory, this study explores the formative experiences of Chinese Post-80s and provides insights into the way these experiences have shaped this generation and their outbound travel. These formative experiences include Reform and Open Policy, One Child Policy and Education Reforms. Two discrete groups: “made in China” and transnational Chinese Post-80s tourists have been identified. We argue that while Chinese Post-80s tourists may share many aspects in common with their Western counterparts, this generation presents its distinctiveness due to its emergence from a specific sets of events with China’s rapid change that make Chinese Post-80s different from any generation in the global environment, creating new academic inquiries for established theories of generational studies. This nuanced understanding of Chinese Post-80s tourists has profound implications for theory and practice in the context of Chinese outbound travel.
Cheng, M, Edwards, D, Darcy, S & Redfern, K 2018, 'A Tri-Method Approach to a Review of Adventure Tourism Literature: Bibliometric Analysis, Content Analysis, and a Quantitative Systematic Literature Review', Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 997-1020.
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This article provides an objective, systematic, and integrated review of the Western academic literature on adventure tourism to discover the theoretical foundations and key themes underlying the field by combining three complementary approaches of bibliometric analysis, content analysis, and a quantitative systematic review. A total of 114 publications on adventure tourism were identified that revealed three broad areas of foci with adventure tourism research: (1) adventure tourism experience, (2) destination planning and development, and (3) adventure tourism operators. Adventure tourism has an intellectual tradition from multiple disciplines, such as the social psychology of sport and recreation. There is an underrepresentation of studies examining non-Western tourists in their own geographic contexts or non-Western tourists in Western geographic contexts. Our findings pave ways for developing a more robust framework and holistic understanding of the adventure tourism field.
Chowdhury, MMH, Umme, NJ & Nuruzzaman, M 2018, 'Strategies for Mitigating Supply-Side Barriers in the Apparel Supply Chain: A Study on the Apparel Industry of Bangladesh', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 19, no. S1, pp. 41-52.
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© 2018, Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management. With the increasingly complex business environment, supply chain managers are required to mitigate both upstream (supply-side) and downstream (demand-side) barriers in order to remain competitive. Failure to address both supply- and demand-side barriers carries far reaching consequences which can have a significant impact on the performance of the whole supply chain. While a substantial number of studies have been undertaken on supply chain barriers to performance, research on prioritizing supply-side barriers to select best mitigation strategies is rare, especially in the context of sourcing from low-cost countries. Hence, the objective of this research is to identify the supply-side barriers and the corresponding mitigation strategies in the context of the apparel industry in Bangladesh by applying an analytical hierarchy process and quality function deployment method. This study finds that long lead time, interruption in utility supply as well as on-time supply problems are the most prioritized supply-side barriers. In order to address these barriers, the most important strategies are efficiency in planning, quick response and commitment for meeting on-time delivery. The implications of findings of the research are also discussed.
Christodoulou, D, Lev, B & Ma, L 2018, 'The productivity of Chinese patents: The role of business area and ownership type', International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 199, pp. 107-124.
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China's unrivalled growth in patent filings and grants, enhanced by government policy, reflects a strategic shift in transforming a labour-intensive economy to an innovation-driven incentives system. This study employs a patent dataset from SIPO to examine the productivity of Chinese patents in improving public firm financial performance. Evidence suggest an overall positive performance elasticity to patent production particularly among firms with efficiency-driven and customer-focused operating activities. Patents are found to have no impact or even negative impact on financial performance in other business areas. Patents generally exhibit a constant return to scale and appear as a complementary input to physical assets but a substitute to labour. Non-state owned public firms have performed consistently well throughout, regardless the policy changes. The productivity of granted patents of state owned firms has improved following the introduction of government reforms specifically aimed at promoting innovation.
Christodoulou, D, Ma, L & Vasnev, A 2018, 'Inference‐In‐Residuals as an Estimation Method for Earnings Management', Abacus, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 154-180.
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The paper tests the assumptions underlying the inference‐in‐residuals method as an estimation framework for detecting and classifying suspects of earnings management. We derive several systematic biases that are shown to confound inference‐in‐residuals and, depending on the data, could render the method a futile exercise. This is not a matter of model specification, but a limitation of the statistical method. Also, it is shown that the method of using estimated residuals in a second stage regression on economic determinants of earnings management suffers considerably, especially when residuals are estimated by industry classification in the first stage.
Clegg, S, Geppert, M & Hollinshead, G 2018, 'Politicization and political contests in and around contemporary multinational corporations: An introduction', Human Relations, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 745-765.
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This article looks at core arguments in international business, organization studies and surrounding academic fields that focus on the study of politicization and political contests in and around multinational corporations (MNCs). Two evident streams of debate are identified. Equally evident is that these streams hardly connect. One stream is mainly interested in studying politicization from the outside, whereas the other is mainly interested in politicization from within. As a way of connecting both streams, we introduce the circuits of power framework. Next, we introduce the contributions of our Special Issue, followed by concluding comments which distinguish five emergent themes. First, we show how the application of the circuits of power framework sheds new light on the study of political contests of MNCs. Second, we highlight that the role of nation states has not lost its significance as, for example, political corporate social responsibility (CSR) approaches would have us believe. Third, dominant ideologies play an important role in establishing and controlling circuits of power in and around MNCs. Fourth, it is vital to take labour issues into account in this field of study. Fifth, there is increasing evidence that asymmetric and hierarchical forms of organizing do not disappear in new MNC network forms.
Clegg, S, Killen, CP, Biesenthal, C & Sankaran, S 2018, 'Practices, projects and portfolios: Current research trends and new directions', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 762-772.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd and Association for Project Management and the International Project Management Association Project portfolio management (PPM) bridges strategy and project management. Traditional research in PPM has primarily investigated the rational, top-down and structural aspects of strategizing. By doing so, it has failed to focus on the underlying practices that are triggered by the strategy and how these practices frame strategy implementation. Practice-based research provides a methodological lens to explore the reality of strategic enactment through the project portfolio. Practice-based perspectives are under-represented in PPM research; therefore the aim of this paper is to provide an agenda for further practice-based research in PPM. Central to this agenda is a concern with various aspects of practice, including its discursivity, representation, dynamic capabilities, leadership and materiality.
Clegg, SR 2018, 'Reading Bauman and Retrotopia', Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 354-363.
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The work of Zygmunt Bauman, insofar as it addressed the organizational world, saw it initially as a total institution, one in which the organization, as a specific entity defined by those activities it envelops, was focused on the central task of liquidation (Bauman, 1989). du Gay (2002) critically interrogated the bureaucratic character of this total institution in an influential thesis that ‘praised’ bureaucracy as a normative ideal of modernity. It is not, however, this debate with the ghost of Max Weber that has been of most concern to contemporary management and organization studies. Rather, it a later image of organization as decomposing, fragmenting, opening, reforming and deforming. In a word, organization is becoming more ‘liquid’, such that boundaries, choices and control are shifting in the direction of increasing fluidity and plurality. Key themes that are identified are those of liquid society, composing liquid ethics, liquid dynamics, liquid selves and liquid spaces and aesthetics. There are, however, outer limits to liquid modernity as they are enacted in terms of myths that Bauman refers to as leading to Retrotopia: a sickly nostalgia for an imagined past as a source of inspiration, a mythical utopia, where things were better managed and organized. Thus, the outer limit of a liquid society becomes a retrospective and backward looking utopia: Retrotopia, a myth whose contours are outlined and whose implications for management and organization studies are expounded.
Cohen, A & Ballouli, K 2018, 'Benefits of Writing for Passion, not for Promotion', Sport & Entertainment Review, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 20-23.
Cohen, A & Ballouli, K 2018, 'Exploring the cultural intersection of music, sport and physical activity among at-risk youth', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 350-370.
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Although sport can serve as a valuable mechanism for social change, this does not imply it can single-handedly solve large-scale problems; rather, sport should be utilized with passionate leadership, efficient and innovative program design, and ancillary cultural enrichment activities to achieve optimal results. This research was motivated by developments in some marginalized and at-risk communities where several sport-for-development programs have started to incorporate music to enhance the appeal and impact of sport interventions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of hip-hop and sport by one sport-for-development program to educate and improve the lives of inner-city youth in Harlem. Data were collected by interviewing key stakeholders of the program, including participants, workshop leaders, staff, and upper-level executives along with onsite observations. Results of our investigation highlighted the cultural influence of music and sport within a local demographic and a sport-for-development initiative aimed to appeal to both local at-risk youth and key community stakeholders.
Collins, J 2018, 'Stephen Castles and Australian Immigration Policies, Politics and Possibilities', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 182-194.
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© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Stephen Castles has been a cutting-edge migration scholar and migration theorist since the 1970s. An Australian by birth, Castles’ retirement from the University of Sydney in 2017 provides a moment to reflect on his legacy in the field of global and Australian immigration scholarship. In this paper, I first present some personal reflections on the profound way that Stephen has shaped my own career as an Australian immigration scholar. The paper then situates Stephen Castles within the field of Australian immigration scholarship and situates his legacy of the giants in this field, including Charles Price, WD Borrie, Graeme Hugo and James Jupp. The paper then shifts to assess Stephen Castles’ contributions to the international migration literature.
Collins, J & Norman, H 2018, 'Indigenous entrepreneurship and indigenous employment in Australia', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol. 2018, no. 82, pp. 149-170.
Cortese, C & Wright, C 2018, 'Developing a Community of Practice: Michael Gaffikin and Critical Accounting Research', Abacus, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 247-276.
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This paper demonstrates the role of a community of practice in academic endeavour, focusing on the influence of place and the role of thought leaders in guiding academic development. This is illustrated with reference to the influence of Emeritus Professor Michael Gaffikin in establishing a critical accounting community of practice at the University of Wollongong (UOW) through his PhD supervisions. Social network analysis (SNA) is used to visualize the 43 PhD supervisions undertaken by Gaffikin during his career, and subsequent PhD supervisions of his students, and students of those students. SNA illustrates the structure of relationships, and the paths through which scholars learnt from one another, which we combine with qualitative analysis of recollections, acknowledgments, and doctoral theses. We demonstrate the role of Gaffikin, as the intellectual thought leader, and UOW, as the intellectual place, in the development of the critical accounting community of practice. The development of critical accounting scholarship was a function of Gaffikin's intellectual and professional leadership, which he executed through PhD supervision, the annual Doctoral Consortium, and his direction at UOW. This paper highlights the importance of local communities for the development of research agendas, and the influence of PhD supervisors on the professional development of students.
Coulton, J, Saune, N & Taylor, SL 2018, 'Are Analysts’ Cash Flow Forecasts Associated with Improved Earnings Quality? Australian Evidence'.
Cunha, MPE, Cardona, MJ, Clegg, S, Gomes, JFS, Matallana, M, Rego, A & Sánchez, ID 2018, 'Through the looking glass: leader personhood and the intersubjective construction of institutions', Journal of Political Power, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 378-402.
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Institutions have been mainly understood in a dualistic way: as abstract, macro cultural logics, or as inhabited socio-cultural sites. This form of dualism divided people into cognitive cultural dopes or persons with a heart. Scholars are now trying to overcome dualistic modes of thinking about people in institutions, through the consideration of the persons as whole human beings. In this new theoretical approach, it is crucial to understand how institutions frame individual action and how individuals shape institutions. We study this duality by considering the lived experience of Colombia’s presidential transition period from Uribe to Santos in the decade of the 2010s.
Cunha, MPE, Vieira, DV, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2018, 'Why does performance management not perform?', International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 673-692.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to ask why poor performance management practices persist in Portugal, in the middle of claims to increase productivity.Design/methodology/approachAn inductive micro-practice analysis is used to understand barriers to management practice that do not require massive institutional changes.FindingsThe practice of performance management in Portugal typically displays three weaknesses: (1) insufficient planning (2) process and integrity issues, and (3) a non-meritocratic logic.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper discusses the important topic of persistence of bad practices, showing how institutionalized patterns might be difficult to eradicate even they are suboptimal.Practical implicationsThe authors identity key issues in the functioning of performance management, therefore helping managers in developing remedies to improve the quality of their practice.Originality/valueThe paper explains the persistence of bad management practice whose continuity hinders not only organizations’ effectiveness but also that of their members.
Dang, VA, Michayluk, D & Pham, TP 2018, 'The curious case of changes in trading dynamics: When firms switch from NYSE to NASDAQ', Journal of Financial Markets, vol. 41, pp. 17-35.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Voluntarily switching trading location from the New York Stock Exchange to the NASDAQ is a new phenomenon, with 53 companies making the switch since 2000. We examine the stated reasons for the move and investigate the consistency with the subsequent market dynamics, including effects on liquidity, trading activity, and visibility. We find the move to the NASDAQ increases trading costs, improves visibility, attracts more liquidity providers in the long term, explaining the subsequent increase in trading volume and supporting many of the management statements justifying the move. Our findings suggest multi-dimensional aspects may be important considerations in moves between exchanges.
Darcy, S & Burke, PF 2018, 'On the road again: The barriers and benefits of automobility for people with disability', Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 107, pp. 229-245.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (PWD) has been signed by over 160 nations to achieve greater social participation, with public and private transport clearly identified as an area to improve accessibility. Whilst the majority of scholarly work has focused on public transport needs, less research has examined the barriers or benefits of access to private modified vehicles for PWD. In this exploratory study, a Delphi technique with health experts, researchers, drivers and funding agencies developed an instrument to examine the barriers and benefits of access to private modified vehicles for PWD. An online survey was completed by 287 drivers and carers to report on barriers to private modified vehicles, whilst a sub-set of 190 drivers with access to a private modified vehicle reported on experientially derived benefits. A factor analytic approach identified how financial and informational barriers vary with respect to several characteristics including disability type and level of support needs. Factors relating to independence, social and recreational benefits are perceived as more valued experientially derived benefits relative to benefits relating to employability and ability to enjoy downtime. Benefits in the form of independence are greater among drivers and owners, those with an acquired condition, less complex mobility and everyday support needs, whilst little difference emerged in terms of the social and downtime benefits. The findings inform policy development and funding opportunities to provide insight and evidence into the barriers, but also benefits and variation in private transport needs among PWD.
Delavande, A & Zafar, B 2018, 'Information and anti-American attitudes', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 149, pp. 1-31.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. This paper investigates how attitudes towards the United States are affected by provision of information. We generate a “panel” of attitudes in urban Pakistan, in which respondents are randomly exposed to fact-based statements describing the US in either a positive or negative light. Anti-American sentiment is high and heterogenous in our sample at the baseline, and systematically correlated with intended behavior (such as intended migration to the US). We find that revised attitudes are significantly different from baseline attitudes: attitudes are, on average, revised upward (downward) upon receipt of positive (negative) information, indicating that providing information had a meaningful effect on US favorability. The within-subject design and data on respondents’ priors allows us to investigate the underlying mechanisms. We find that revisions are largely a result of salience-based updating. We reject unbiased information-based updating as the only source of revisions. In addition, a substantial proportion of individuals do not respond to the information. This heterogeneity in revision processes means that there is no convergence in attitudes following the provision of information.
Dille, T, Söderlund, J & Clegg, S 2018, 'Temporal conditioning and the dynamics of inter-institutional projects', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 673-686.
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This paper presents an in-depth and processual case study of a major infrastructural innovation project involving diverse private and public-sector organizations. The case study shows how organizing developed recursively in response to diverging temporal requirements, induced by the temporal institutional complexity facing the project. We introduce the idea of temporal conditioning to demonstrate how large-scale temporary organizations dynamically cope with conflicting temporal institutional requirements by making use of three strategies: (1) temporal avoidance, (2) temporal splitting, and (3) temporal matching. With its focus on the emergence of the project, this paper adds to our understanding of the dynamics of organizing in temporary and institutionally pluralistic settings – settings that put greater pressures on our ability to deal with conflicting institutional requirements pertaining to time and timing. Accordingly, we offer a new perspective on the dynamics of large-scale projects and how they respond to a particular kind of institutional complexity.
Do, HX, Rösch, D & Scheule, H 2018, 'Predicting loss severities for residential mortgage loans: A three-step selection approach', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 270, no. 1, pp. 246-259.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. This paper develops a novel framework to model the loss given default (LGD) of residential mortgage loans which is the dominant consumer loan category for many commercial banks. LGDs in mortgage lending are subject to two selection processes: default and cure, where the collateral value exceeds the outstanding loan amount. We propose a three-step selection approach with a joint probability framework for default, cure (i.e., zero-LGD) and non-zero loss severity information. The proposed methodology demonstrates improved performance in out-of-time predictions compared to widely used OLS regressions.
Docherty, P 2018, 'The Increasing Importance of Non-Standard Employment Relations: A Biblical Evaluation', Zadok Papers, no. 231, pp. 2-7.
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A long-standing indicator of the health of an economic system, and an important focus of government policy, has been the proportion of a country's workforce that cannot find paid employment. A high rate of unemployment has been taken by economists to imply either that economic activity is not growing quickly enough or that labour markets are not functioning as they should. But a more recent and growing concern has been that employment itself is becoming less secure for an increasing proportion of the workforce. Non-standard forms of employment such as work on casual contracts, dubbed by some as precarious work, is argued to represent an unreasonable deterioration in working conditions since it carries with it fewer non-wage benefits and a lack of certainty about future work availability. This paper reflects on the nature and possible causes of this trend, and offers a brief evaluation of it from a biblical perspective. The paper concludes that, while the precise causes of the trend are important, it is not, in general, an acceptable development from the perspective of Old Testament and New Testament ethics, and thus warrants a response by thoughtful Christians involved in business and government.
Doiron, D & Kettlewell, N 2018, 'The Effect of Health Insurance on the Substitution between Public and Private Hospital Care', Economic Record, vol. 94, no. 305, pp. 135-154.
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Researchers have long been interested in estimating the causal effect of health insurance on health‐care utilisation. Less attention has been given to measuring the impact of insurance on the substitution between private and public sector care. We estimate this effect for hospital admissions in Australia. To identify causal effects we use household variables as instruments, namely, information on partner's health and family aspirations. We find that having private health insurance increases the probability of a hospital admission by 5–6 percentage points. This net effect is the result of a considerable substitution from public to private care, which has important policy implications.
Domínguez Vila, T, Alén González, E & Darcy, S 2018, 'Website accessibility in the tourism industry: an analysis of official national tourism organization websites around the world', Disability and Rehabilitation, vol. 40, no. 24, pp. 2895-2906.
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© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Purpose: To analyze the accessibility of official national tourism organization websites of countries around the world, in order to establish possible common patterns and rankings of those with exemplary practice through to those with the highest number of issues. The purpose for undertaking such an analysis is to provide a quasi-indicator of inclusive organizational practice for online accessibility for both destination managers and their accessible tourism consumers–domestic and overseas people with disability visiting the websites. Method: The official tourism websites of 210 countries included in the latest World Tourism Organization report were analyzed. A website accessibility evaluation tool (website accessible test) was used in the analysis, according to AA and AAA levels of conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 requirements. Results: Different patterns compliance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 were established for the clusters, which were rather similar for both AA and AAA conformance levels. The main issues in the least accessible websites were also identified, mainly focused on the following guidelines: navigable, compatible, adaptability, text alternatives and also referred to other assistive technologies. Conclusions: Once the main issues were established several alternatives are suggested to address them, such as implementing more prescriptive laws and regulations, complying with mandatory benchmark standards and/or having external agencies audit website designs. However, in addition to using benchmark standards, efforts to improve this situation should also be made by programmers, who should also rely on preexistent experiences and develop more dynamic knowledge. This knowledge may include text alternatives for any nontext content; creation of content that can be presented in different ways without losing information; provide ways to help ...
Dwyer, L 2018, 'Emerging Ocean Industries: Implications for Sustainable Tourism Development', Tourism in Marine Environments, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 25-40.
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Pressures on the ocean's natural assets inevitably will increase in the coming years as world population growth, economic growth, and increased international trade generate increasing demands for marine sources of food, energy, minerals, and leisure pursuits. This article explores the consequences for coastal and marine tourism resulting both from its own growth and from the growth in the other established and emerging ocean industries. It estimates the present and future economic value of the world's ocean industries and the contribution of the tourism industry in particular, identifying the drivers of growth in ocean industries including tourism. Several types of challenges to the sustainable development of coastal and marine tourism, shared in common with other ocean industries, are identified. The article concludes with a discussion of strategies to minimize the adverse impacts of growth so that tourism and other ocean industries can develop in more sustainable ways.
Dwyer, L 2018, 'Saluting while the ship sinks: the necessity for tourism paradigm change', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 29-48.
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Edwards, M, Stubbs, W & Starik, M 2018, 'How do B Corps interact with their stakeholders to scale up their B-impact?', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2018, no. 1, pp. 10476-10476.
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Edwards, M, Yerbury, H & Burridge, N 2018, 'Manifestations of Social Impact in Civil Society', Third Sector Review, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 98-117.
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'Social impact' has become a buzzword as new public management and corporatisation approaches have dominated in attempts to account for non-government organisations' performance. However, social change is enabled through other manifestations of civil society, which are not effectively conceptualised or accounted for through these dominant approaches. This paper uses Anheier's manifestations of civil society as a framework to analyse actions directed towards the issue of homelessness and housing, demonstrating distinctions to be observed in how social change is enacted and impacts are conceptualised. This framework provides practitioners and policy-makers a means to understand the ideological perspectives framing different social services and programs, and establishes a potential research agenda for activists and scholars in developing understandings of the complexities of social impact.
Evans, JR, Wilson, R, Coleman, C, Man, WYN & Olds, T 2018, 'Physical activity among indigenous Australian children and youth in remote and non-remote areas', Social Science & Medicine, vol. 206, pp. 93-99.
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© 2018 Sport and physical activity (PA) hold particular significance in Australian Indigenous communities, and have the potential to address many of the health and education challenges faced by Indigenous communities. Optimal levels of PA are an important foundation in efforts to build healthy communities and reduce social disadvantage experienced to date. Yet little evidence relating to the current levels of PA within these communities, or the relationship between PA and outcomes, has been available. Drawing on national survey data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, we examine levels of PA in the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey 2012-13. These data describe PA levels among Indigenous Australians, aged 5–17 years, in remote and non-remote communities. We also examine the relationship between PA and participation in education and self-reported health among 15–17 year olds. Overall, participation rates appear to be high, with 64–84% of youth reporting at least 60 min of PA on the previous day. A gender gap was also evident, with lower levels of activity among girls. PA decreased with age, particularly at or around the age of puberty. There were no significant associations between PA and either self-reported health or engagement in study. There was a relationship between high PA and low area-level socio-economic status in remote areas, but no association in non-remote areas. The differences between remote and non-remote areas highlight the importance of disaggregated analysis of Indigenous populations and are consistent with qualitative studies identifying locally contextualised factors influential in promoting PA.
Ferguson, A, Lam, P & Ma, N 2018, 'Market reactions to auditor switches under regulatory consent and market driven regimes', Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 197-215.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd We examine market reactions to announcements of auditor switches by Australian-listed companies during the ‘regulatory consent’ period (2000–2011) under which auditor resignations require consent by the corporate regulator before taking effect at annual general meetings. Overall, we find no clear evidence of significant market responses to firms announcing auditor switches, consistent with a lack of information content or potential information leakage argument. However, examination of a more recent sample in the ‘partial deregulation’ period (2015–2017), whereby timing and consent provisions have been relaxed under a more market-driven regime, uncovers univariate evidence of market reactions directionally consistent with the audit quality interpretation. Overall, these results provide support for the regulator's recent initiative to deregulate the auditor resignation process in Australia to become more disclosure driven as in other jurisdictions.
Foley, C, Grabowski, S, Small, J & Wearing, S 2018, 'Women of the Kokoda: From Poverty to Empowerment in Sustainable Tourism Development', Tourism Culture & Communication, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 21-34.
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The purpose of this article is to explore the power dynamics negotiated by women in local communities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) as they stake a claim in the development of sustainable tourism that is emerging along the Kokoda Track. The traditional understanding of power dynamics has been the 'power as domination' perception, which attributes authority to dominant actors who exercise control over others. To comprehend the women's role in the development of ecotrekking along the Kokoda Track, we offer an alternative understanding of power struggle by invoking Foucault's notions of power and Gidden's structuration perspective. By applying these two philosophies, we illustrate how strategies of dominance, negotiation, and resistance are interwoven into day-to-day social interactions between women, men, tourism operators, and local communities. The particular focus of this article is on microbusiness projects along the track, a strategy pursued by the Kokoda Development Program. Women in the communities were generally happy to be supported to establish their own tourism businesses. This is particularly significant as women have traditionally had fewer opportunities than men to make money from trekkers: the main income from tourists into the villages has been through portering services, a predominately male activity. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of this analysis for the empowerment of women in rural and remote communities through sustainable tourism development.
Foley, S, Karlsen, JR & Putniņš, TJ 2018, 'Sex, Drugs, and Bitcoin: How Much Illegal Activity Is Financed Through Cryptocurrencies?', Review of Financial Studies, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1798-1853.
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© The Author(s) 2019. Cryptocurrencies are among the largest unregulated markets in the world. We find that approximately one-quarter of bitcoin users are involved in illegal activity.We estimate that around 76 billion of illegal activity per year involve bitcoin (46% of bitcoin transactions), which is close to the scale of the U.S. and European markets for illegal drugs. The illegal share of bitcoin activity declines with mainstream interest in bitcoin and with the emergence of more opaque cryptocurrencies. The techniques developed in this paper have applications in cryptocurrency surveillance. Our findings suggest that cryptocurrencies are transforming the black markets by enabling black e-commerce. (JEL G18, O31, O32, O33).
Frawley, S, Favaloro, D & Schulenkorf, N 2018, 'Experience-Based Leadership Development and Professional Sport Organizations', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 123-134.
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In recent years, there has been a significant interest around leadership development practices within the field of management. Leadership development is particularly important within the highly competitive sport industry, where leadership performance is under constant and ever-increasing scrutiny. For sport organizations, strong leadership can be a source of significant competitive advantage, and hence, increased focus on leadership and investment into the development of talent has occurred. However, there has been a surprising lack of scholarly research into leadership and the associated processes within the sport management field, particularly from an Australian perspective. This paper addresses this gap as it examines the nature of experience-based leadership development practices within three of Australia’s leading professional sport organizations. Following a qualitative multicase study approach, the thematic analysis of 15 in-depth semistructured interviews with members of the senior executive of each case organization suggested that the national sport organizations placed significant emphasis on experience-based opportunities as a way of developing their workforce. Via the adoption of McCall’s experience-based leadership development framework, four main themes emerged: the importance of experience-based opportunities for leadership development; leadership development through involvement and exposure to experiences; networking opportunities gained from experienced-based exposure; and the relationship between on-the-job experience and formal leadership education. These findings extend our knowledge of current leadership development and practices implemented in national sport organizations and highlight the importance of effective leadership within highly competitive sport markets. Based on these findings, implications are provided for current practice illustrating the benefits that an experience-based approach to leadership development with...
Fujak, H, Frawley, S, McDonald, H & Bush, S 2018, 'Are Sport Consumers Unique? Consumer Behavior Within Crowded Sport Markets', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 362-375.
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Sport consumers and markets have traditionally been thought to exhibit unique behaviors from traditional consumer products, particularly in respect to perceptions of loyalty. Yet, despite sport landscapes becoming increasingly crowded, there has been scant research measuring consumers’ repeat behavior in the context of the dense sports market. Through this research, we address this gap by applying Dirichlet modeling against the behaviors of 1,500 Australian sport consumers. Two questions are explored: First, do sport attendance markets exhibit purchase characteristics distinct from typical consumer markets? Second, do consumers treat sport leagues as complimentary or substitutable goods? The results provide evidence that consumer patterns within the sport attendance market are consistent to other repeat-purchase consumer markets. This finding further diminishes the long-held notion that sport requires unique methods of management. Furthermore, it was found that fans consume sport teams as complimentary products. As sport teams largely share their fans with other teams, practitioners must reorient their expectations around fan loyalty.
Gaim, M, Wåhlin, N, e Cunha, MP & Clegg, S 2018, 'Analyzing competing demands in organizations: a systematic comparison', Journal of Organization Design, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-16.
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Organizational scholars have shown increasing interest in the ways in which managers enact and respond to competing demands and the tensions they prompt as constitutive elements of their organizations. There is now a proliferation of conceptualizations of such competing demands that can be somewhat confusing. We will enhance conceptual clarity by identifying seven constitutive empirical characteristics of competing demands: these consist of the existence of dyadic relations, contradiction, interrelatedness, complementarity, compatibility, simultaneity, and the existence of push-pull forces. We construct a comparative classification of competing demands using these characteristics as our distinguishing features. The result is a more nuanced understanding of how managers approach competing demands that can help scholars to minimize arbitrariness, interpret results, and compare contributions in the area in a much-needed step toward understanding and designing organizations.
Gainsbury, SM, Tobias-Webb, J & Slonim, R 2018, 'BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND GAMBLING: A NEW PARADIGM FOR APPROACHING HARM-MINIMIZATION', Gaming Law Review, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 608-617.
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Garbarino, E, Slonim, R & Villeval, MC 2018, 'A method to estimate mean lying rates and their full distribution', Journal of the Economic Science Association, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 136-150.
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AbstractStudying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy empirical method to measure and compare lying behavior within and across studies to correct for sampling errors. This method estimates the full distribution of lying when agents privately observe the outcome of a random process (e.g., die roll) and can misreport what they observed. It provides a precise estimate of the mean and confidence interval (offering lower and upper bounds on the proportion of people lying) over the full distribution, allowing for a vast range of statistical inferences not generally available with the existing methods.
Gendall, P, Eckert, C, Hoek, J & Louviere, J 2018, 'Estimating the effects of novel on-pack warnings on young adult smokers and susceptible non-smokers', Tobacco Control, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 519-525.
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BackgroundOn-pack tobacco warnings can deter smoking initiation and provide powerful cessation cues. However, these warnings typically feature graphic health images, which many young adults dismiss as irrelevant. We estimated responses to more diverse warnings and examined how these performed relative to each other.MethodsWe conducted a behavioural likelihood experiment and a choice modelling experiment in which 474 smokers and 476 susceptible non-smokers aged between 16 and 30 years evaluated 12 warnings featuring health, social, financial and cosmetic themes. The choice data were analysed by estimating Sequential-Best-Worst Choice and Scale-Adjusted Latent Class Models.ResultsSmokers found all test warnings aversive, particularly warnings featuring the effect of smoking on vulnerable third parties, including babies and animals, and showing a dying smoker. Susceptible non-smokers found graphic health warnings and a warning that combined graphic health with loss of physical attractiveness, significantly more aversive than other images tested.ConclusionsIllustrating the harms smoking causes to vulnerable groups may reduce the temporal distance and perceived control over smoking that young adults use to rationalise health warnings. Introducing more diverse warnings could recognise heterogeneity within smoker and susceptible non-smoker populations, and complement warnings featuring long-term health harms.
Gepp, A, Linnenluecke, MK, O’Neill, TJ & Smith, T 2018, 'Big data techniques in auditing research and practice: Current trends and future opportunities', Journal of Accounting Literature, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 102-115.
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This paper analyses the use of big data techniques in auditing, and finds that the practice is not as widespread as it is in other related fields. We first introduce contemporary big data techniques to promote understanding of their potential application. Next, we review existing research on big data in accounting and finance. In addition to auditing, our analysis shows that existing research extends across three other genealogies: financial distress modelling, financial fraud modelling, and stock market prediction and quantitative modelling. Auditing is lagging behind the other research streams in the use of valuable big data techniques. A possible explanation is that auditors are reluctant to use techniques that are far ahead of those adopted by their clients, but we refute this argument. We call for more research and a greater alignment to practice. We also outline future opportunities for auditing in the context of real-time information and in collaborative platforms and peer-to-peer marketplaces.
Gillovic, B, McIntosh, A, Darcy, S & Cockburn-Wootten, C 2018, 'Enabling the language of accessible tourism', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 615-630.
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© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The growing body of literature on “accessible tourism” lacks a critical scholarly debate around its specific language use and nomenclatures. To fill this gap, this paper provides a first examination of language. Language provides a unique capability to resist, strengthen and reframe identities of individuals and groups, yet can also reinforce, weaken and perpetuate dominant worldviews of disability. A content analysis examined previous accessible tourism literature with results illustrating that diversity exists amongst the varying terminologies adopted by scholars. Terms were employed loosely, inconsistently and interchangeably, euphemistically with erroneous understandings and nuances. The paper concludes with critical discussion about the power of researchers to (re) produce oppression through language that maligns and misrepresents, or to (re) conceptualise and (re) construct the world we live in with liberating language that facilitates positive social change.
Goeree, JK, Louis, P & Zhang, J 2018, 'Noisy Introspection in the 11–20 Game', The Economic Journal, vol. 128, no. 611, pp. 1509-1530.
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© 2017 Royal Economic Society Previous experiments based on the 11–20 game have produced evidence for the level-k model with observed levels of strategic thinking consistently ranging from 0 to 3. Our baseline treatment uses the 11–20 game and replicates previous results. We apply four models of strategic thinking to the baseline-treatment data and use these to predict behaviour and beliefs in five other treatments that employ games with a very similar structure. The best predictive performance is achieved by models that incorporate ‘common knowledge of noise’. A model of noisy introspection, which does so, predicts behaviour remarkably well.
Goldbaum, D 2018, 'Conformity and Influence', B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, vol. 19, no. 1.
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I model the behavior of decision-makers seeking conformity and influence in a connected population. The model allows for one-sided linking, with information flowing from the target to the link’s originator. Conformity is achieved only with a social order, necessitating differentiated rewards despite ex ante homogeneity. The leader holds a strategic social location ex post, exerting influence independent of any leadership traits. A strong desire to influence produces non-conforming autonomous decision-makers. Socially detrimental multiple leaders can be sustained as well.
Gordon, R, Butler, K, Cooper, P, Waitt, G & Magee, C 2018, 'Look before you LIEEP', Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 99-119.
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PurposeThis paper aims to present a discursive and evaluative analysis of Energy + Illawarra, an Australian Government Low Income Energy Efficiency Program (LIEEP) funded interdisciplinary social marketing energy efficiency programme. Energy + Illawarra was a community programme working with low-income older people in Australia and involving social marketers, human geographers and engineers. The paper aims to identify how ecological systems theory can inform social marketing, and what practicalities there may be in doing so. The paper also aims to assess whether a social marketing programme that draws on ecological systems theory can have a positive impact on people’s thermal comfort.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the paper uses critical discursive analysis to examine the use of various elements of a social marketing energy efficiency programme in relation to the different levels of ecological systems theory. Second, a longitudinal cohort survey study design is used to evaluate the programme’s influence on people’s perceptions of thermal comfort and satisfaction with thermal comfort in their homes.FindingsThe study found that ecological systems theory could be an effective framework for social marketing programmes. The evaluation study found that the intervention had a positive impact on participant’s perceptions of thermal comfort, satisfaction with thermal comfort and attitudes towards energy efficiency. However, the paper identifies some potential tensions in using ecological systems theory and suggests that issues of power, representation, agenda setting, the need for reflexive practice and consideration of unintended consequences are important considerations in socia...
Gordon, R, Ciorciari, J & van Laer, T 2018, 'Using EEG to examine the role of attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination in narrative transportation', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 52, no. 1/2, pp. 92-117.
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PurposeThis paper aims to present a study using encephalography (EEG) to investigate consumer responses to narrative videos in energy efficiency social marketing. The purpose is to assess the role of attention, working memory, emotion and imagination in narrative transportation, and how these stages of narrative transportation are ordered temporally.Design/methodology/approachConsumers took part in an EEG experiment during which they were shown four different narrative videos to identify brain response during specific video segments.FindingsThe study found that during the opening segment of the videos, attention, working memory and emotion were high before attenuating with some introspection at the end of this segment. During the story segment of the videos attention, working memory and emotion were also high, with attention decreasing later on but working memory, emotion and imagination being evident. Consumer responses to each of the four videos differed.Practical implicationsThe study suggests that narratives can be a useful approach in energy efficiency social marketing. Specifically, marketers should attempt to gain focused attention and invoke emotional responses, working memory and imagination to help consumers become narratively transported. The fit between story object and story-receiver should also be considered when creating consumer narratives.Social implicationsPolicymakers and organisations that wish to promote pro-social behaviours such as using energy efficie...
Gordon, R, Dibb, S, Magee, C, Cooper, P & Waitt, G 2018, 'Empirically testing the concept of value-in-behavior and its relevance for social marketing', Journal of Business Research, vol. 82, pp. 56-67.
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Grosse, M, Ma, N & Scott, T 2018, 'Interim reviews and the association between partner rotations and audit fees', International Journal of Auditing, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 214-229.
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This paper considers whether the association between partner rotation and audit fees varies based on whether the partner is rotated before the interim review or annual report audit. Consistent with prior literature, there is some evidence of higher fees in the year of rotation, but we find this effect is driven by partner rotations that occur before the interim review, which are 7.14% higher on average. We argue that rotations before the annual report audit are less likely to be planned, and thus audit firms cannot pass on increased costs due to a weaker bargaining position. Supporting evidence is provided, as results only persist when client bargaining power is low, and in contrast there are lower fees for rotations that occur before the annual report audit when client bargaining power is high.
Guo, B, Pang, X & Li, W 2018, 'The role of top management team diversity in shaping the performance of business model innovation: a threshold effect', Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 241-253.
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Gurrieri, L, Gordon, R, Barraket, J, Joyce, A & Green, C 2018, 'Social marketing and social movements: creating inclusive social change coalitions', Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 354-377.
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PurposeThis paper contributes to emerging discourse about social movements in social marketing by examining how tensions, issues and challenges may arise in areas of social change that have attracted social movements and the ways actors can come together to drive inclusive social change agendas.Design/methodology/approachThrough the lens of new social movement theory, a case study of the interactions and dynamics between fat activists and obesity prevention public health actors is examined. This is undertaken through a multi-method qualitative analysis of interview and archival blog data of fat activists located in Australia, which was compared with the campaign materials and formative and evaluative research related to two high profile Australian Government funded anti-obesity campaigns.FindingsThe case analysis highlights the disconnect between public health actors and the marginalized voices of those they are meant to be representing. Whilst public health actors characterise obesity as a social issue of individual responsibility, disease and rational-decision making; fat activists frame a competing collective identity of well-being, support and self-acceptance that characterise their social change efforts.Research limitations/implicationsThis research highlights how complexities arise but can potentially be overcome in creating inclusive social change coalitions that incorporate the voices of citizen groups whom have mobilised into social movements. Specifically, we highlight the importance of generating a common language around obesity, the significance of collaborative ...
Hafalir, IE, Hakimov, R, Kübler, D & Kurino, M 2018, 'College admissions with entrance exams: Centralized versus decentralized', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 176, pp. 886-934.
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Handley, K, Wright, S & Evans, E 2018, 'SME Reporting in Australia: Where to Now for Decision‐usefulness?', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 251-265.
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AbstractThis paper develops recommendations for simplified decision‐useful SME financial reporting in Australia – a country that has traditionally allowed a wide range of reporting standards to be used by these entities. Drawing on interviews and comment letters from a number of stakeholders, and data from a survey of users of financial statements of non‐publicly accountable unlisted entities, we analyse stakeholder arguments for and against SMEs providing less detailed reports, and identify the line items that might be most useful to users for decision making.
Harris, R & Schlenker, K 2018, 'An Exploratory Study of 'Best Practice' in Environmentally Sustainable Event Management in Australian Public Events', Event Management, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1057-1071.
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This study seeks to provide insights into 'best practice' in the area of environmentally sustainable event management in Australian public events. In performing this role, it aims to: determine forces acting to drive engagement with environmental management practices; identify the key challenges event owners and managers face in seeking to adopt such practices; determine types of environmentally sustainable practices currently in use; establish how events are measuring their environmental performance; and identify those factors serving to facilitate or inhibit engagement by events with an environmental agenda. The article begins with a literature review of research germane to the study, along with an overview of the methodology employed. Key findings emerging from the application of this methodology suggest that actions in this area: have increasingly become an aspect of overall event planning; target multiple areas with the potential to generate environmental impacts; are driven primarily by organizer values and attendee and community expectations; and face constraints linked largely to the availability of resources, expertise, and time. This article acknowledges that the planning and delivery of environmentally sustainable events has become one of the critical challenges facing public event management, and as such it seeks to make a meaningful contribution to both the growing academic literature in this area, and equally importantly, to industry practice.
He, LYC, Wright, S & Evans, E 2018, 'Is fair value information relevant to investment decision-making: Evidence from the Australian agricultural sector?', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 555-574.
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Despite major accounting standards boards worldwide continuing to use fair value extensively, academic evidence on the relevance of fair value accounting has focused on financial assets. This study breaks new ground to provide the first empirical evidence for the agricultural sector on the relevance of fair value accounting. It examines the forecasting power of the fair value of biological assets for future operating cash flows. Using all agribusinesses listed in Australia, where fair value accounting was first implemented in the agricultural sector, we find that fair value of biological assets does not provide incremental forecasting power for future operating cash flows, whether market-determined prices or managerially estimated value is used. The findings of this study provide empirical support for the call by Elad and Herbohn in 2011 for the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to revisit the implementation of fair value accounting in the agricultural sector. JEL Classification: G14, G38, M41, Q18
Heinesen, E, Imai, S & Maruyama, S 2018, 'Employment, job skills and occupational mobility of cancer survivors', Journal of Health Economics, vol. 58, pp. 151-175.
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© 2018 The Authors Previous studies find significant negative effects of cancer on employment, with stronger effects for less-educated workers. We investigate whether the effect of cancer varies by skill requirement in the pre-cancer occupation, whether such heterogeneity can explain educational gradients, and whether cancer is associated with changes in job characteristics for cancer survivors who remain employed four years after the diagnosis. We combine Danish administrative registers with detailed skill requirement data and use individuals without cancer as a control group. Our main findings are the following: the negative effect of cancer on employment is stronger if the pre-cancer occupation requires high levels of manual skills or low levels of cognitive skills; the educational gradient diminishes substantially if we allow the effects of cancer to also depend on pre-cancer skill requirements; and cancer is not associated with occupational mobility, indicating potential for policies that reduce labour market frictions for cancer survivors.
Heizmann, H, Fee, A & Gray, SJ 2018, 'Intercultural Knowledge Sharing Between Expatriates and Host-country Nationals in Vietnam: A Practice-based Study of Communicative Relations and Power Dynamics', Journal of International Management, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 16-32.
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. We examine the communicative enabling practices and power dynamics of intercultural knowledge sharing relationships between Australian expatriates and host-country nationals from a practice-based theoretical perspective. Drawing on the results of an empirical field study, including interviews with 20 Australian expatriates and 23 Vietnamese host-country nationals, we identify three discrete phases of the relationships: (1) relationship building, (2) reciprocal learning and (3) knowledge co-construction. These stages provide the basis for a theoretical model and propositions that articulate specific communicative practices of both expatriates and host country nationals in developing and maintaining productive knowledge sharing relationships. Central to this is a dynamic process of power renegotiation between expatriates and host-country nationals that goes beyond prescriptive notions of 'power distance'. Our findings extend current (expatriate-centred) research by showing how effective (two-way) KS relations are constituted through the discursive practices of both HCNs and expatriates in ways that are complementary, mutually reinforcing, and transformational.
Hutcheson, T & Newell, G 2018, 'Decision-making in the management of property investment by Australian superannuation funds', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 404-420.
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Decision-making in property investment by superannuation funds is an important investment decision, but it is different to their decision-making on other asset classes included in their asset portfolios. The large value and heterogeneous nature of individual pieces of real estate make the market for real estate relatively illiquid and subject to larger transaction costs than other asset classes. Based on interview surveys of Australian superannuation funds, using the analytical hierarchical process (AHP), we identified strategic decision-making as being the most important factor used by the superannuation funds when making decisions on the management of their property investment portfolio. Comments during the interviews indicated that their decisions were influenced by restrictions in their fund’s investment mandate and the level of funds that they had to invest. The AHP technique has allowed this research to provide a more in-depth understanding of the management of decision-making factors than previous surveys.
Josserand, E, Kaine, S & Nikolova, N 2018, 'Delivering sustainability in supply networks: Achieving networked multi‐stakeholder collaborations', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 605-611.
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Jung, K, Dalton, B & Willis, J 2018, 'From patriarchal socialism to grassroots capitalism: The role of female entrepreneurs in the transition of North Korea', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 68, no. May -June, pp. 19-27.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Since the collapse of North Korea's command economy in the 1990s, a large number of women have become entrepreneurs. This remarkable feature of North Korean marketisation cannot be adequately explained by female entrepreneur (FE) deficit premises, which highlight women's supposed shortcomings in what is considered a male enterprise. Based on in-depth interviews with female North Korean defectors, and viewing entrepreneurship as a catalyst for socio-cultural change, this paper questions how FEs emerged in North Korea and whether women's market participation influences gender relations, or attitudes toward the North Korean regime. There have been noticeable changes in gender roles, son preference and choice of marriage partners. Our findings suggest that female entrepreneurship has the potential to both challenge and support the North Korean system. This research significantly advances scholarship on gender and entrepreneurship by adopting a constructionist approach to gender and transcending the prevalence of descriptive analysis of gendered entrepreneurial practices.
Kaine, S & Boersma, M 2018, 'Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2017', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 317-336.
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Throughout 2017, public interest, parliamentary debate and academic research about women, work and industrial relations centred around a few key themes: pay and income inequality, health and well-being at work and the intersection of paid and unpaid work. These themes were identified in three related yet distinct mediums: the media, parliamentary debate and academic literature. Automated content analysis software was used to assist in the thematic analysis of media articles and the House of Representatives Hansard, supplemented by a manual analysis of relevant academic publications. A thematic overlap was evident across the three datasets, despite the time lag associated with academic research and publication. This is a significant finding, emphasising that the inequalities experienced by women in the labour market are long term and entrenched.
Kaine, SJ & Josserand, E 2018, 'Mind the gap: Grass roots ‘brokering’ to improve labour standards in global supply chains', Human Relations, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 584-609.
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While governance and regulation are a first step in addressing worsening working conditions in global supply chains, improving implementation is also key to reversing this trend. In this article, after examining the nature of the existing governance and implementation gaps in labour standards in global supply chains, we explore how Viet Labor, an emerging grass-roots organization, has developed practices to help close them. This involves playing brokering roles between different workers and between workers and existing governance mechanisms. We identify an initial typology of six such roles: educating, organizing, supporting, collective action, whistle-blowing and documenting. This marks a significant shift in the way action to improve labour standards along the supply chain is analysed. Our case explores how predominantly top-down approaches can be supplemented by bottom-up ones centred on workers’ agency.
Katic, M & Agarwal, R 2018, 'The Flexibility Paradox: Achieving Ambidexterity in High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 19, no. S1, pp. 69-86.
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The ability to simultaneously increase operational efficiency and undertake organisational innovation has become a cornerstone for the long-term prosperity of organisations. For manufacturing small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that produce a high variety of customised products at low volumes (HVLV), achieving this so-called organisational ambidexterity poses significant challenges. HVLV manufacturers are designed to facilitate maximum flexibility in the manufacturing system; however, it is this same flexibility that can hinder the ability of a HVLV manufacturer to achieve organisational ambidexterity—bringing to light an apparent trade-off between two seemingly contradictory objectives. Hence, in this paper, we investigate the relationship between flexibility and ambidexterity in the context of HVLV manufacturing as well as the use of different management practices to manage this relationship. We construct a conceptual model by adopting a paradox-based view of tensions using insights from an extensive literature review. Building off the contributions of paradox and organisation theory, this conceptual model demonstrates the multi-dimensional and dynamic nature of tensions between flexibility and ambidexterity as they manifest as much from salient factors (regarding social phenomena and individual cognition) as they are from latent factors (through the complex interactions of organisational elements). By moving beyond the dominant paradigm of efficiency-driven research in HVLV manufacturing, we provide managers with unique insights into the role flexibility plays in achieving ambidexterity to help facilitate better informed decisions taken by them. Further theoretical and practical implications are discussed as well as potential areas for further research.
Kaya, E 2018, 'Touristification of industrial waterfronts: The Rocks and Darling Harbour', International Journal of Social and Business Sciences, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 237-243.
Kearney, M, Schuck, S, Aubusson, P & Burke, PF 2018, 'Teachers’ technology adoption and practices: lessons learned from the IWB phenomenon', Teacher Development, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 481-496.
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© 2017, © 2017 Teacher Development. The twenty-first century has seen unprecedented investment from governments around the world in educational technologies in schools. This paper investigates Australian teachers’ adoption and use of a popular technology that has been extensively supported by governments and school systems: the interactive whiteboard (IWB). The study suggests that a number of the barriers identified in the early days of adoption and use of this technology, such as professional support and access, still remain for many teachers, thereby impeding effective practices. The research also found that primary school teachers were using the technology in diverse ways, in contrast to secondary teachers who were using the IWB mainly for instructionist, presentational purposes. We conclude by considering various ways of reducing the effect of the identified barriers to support implementation of educational technologies in the classroom, especially the next generation of technologies promoted by governments and systems.
Kettlewell, N, Stavrunova, O & Yerokhin, O 2018, 'Premium subsidies and demand for private health insurance: results from a regression discontinuity design', Applied Economics Letters, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 96-101.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article investigates the impact of a private health insurance (PHI) subsidy on the demand for PHI in the context of the Australian health care system. In particular, we focus on the subpopulation of elderly Australians and exploit discontinuous increases to the universal ‘PHI rebate’ that occur when people turn 65 and 70 years. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find the policy has little effect on take-up of PHI and is best interpreted as a wealth transfer to elderly Australians who already have insurance.
Klettner, AL 2018, 'Stewardship codes and shareholder participation in governance', Governance Directions, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 227-234.
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The first stewardship code was introduced in the United Kingdom in 2010 and around twenty other countries have now followed suit (see Table 1). In Australia, the Financial Services Council (FSC) published a stewardship standard for asset managers in July 2017 and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) launched its stewardship code for asset owners this May. The ultimate purpose of these codes is to improve corporate governance and sustainable value creation. They encourage institutional investors to implement a more long-term approach to investing which involves actively monitoring investee companies and exercising shareholder rights in a responsible and transparent way. For listed companies and their directors this is likely to mean more attention from shareholders including increased participation at AGMs and heightened communication around performance, both financial performance and environmental and social performance.
Krivokapic-Skoko, B, Reid, C & Collins, J 2018, 'Rural cosmopolitism in Australia', Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 64, pp. 153-163.
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Krüger, S, Oehme, T, Rösch, D & Scheule, H 2018, 'A copula sample selection model for predicting multi-year LGDs and Lifetime Expected Losses', Journal of Empirical Finance, vol. 47, pp. 246-262.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Recent credit risk literature has proposed (i) sample selection models for dependencies between the one-year Probability of Default (PD) and Loss Given Default (LGD), and (ii) multi-year approaches which are limited to default risk. This paper provides a model for the simultaneous prediction of continuous default times and multi-year LGDs. These measures are paramount to predict term structures of LGDs and Lifetime Expected Losses for the revised loan loss provisioning framework of IFRS 9 and US GAAP (current expected credit loss, CECL). The model includes a variation of copulas and corrects for sample selection bias of LGDs, which are only observed given a default event. We find empirical evidence that bonds which default closer to origination tend to generate higher LGDs. The model enables more precise estimates of Lifetime Expected Losses and prevents a severe underestimation in contrast to more restricted credit risk models.
Krüger, S, Rösch, D & Scheule, H 2018, 'The impact of loan loss provisioning on bank capital requirements', Journal of Financial Stability, vol. 36, pp. 114-129.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. This paper shows that the revised loan loss provisioning based on the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) implies a reduction of Tier 1 capital. The paper finds in a counterfactual analysis that these changes are more severe (i) during economic downturns, (ii) for credit portfolios of low quality, (iii) for banks that do not tighten capital standards during downturns, and (iv) under a more comprehensive definition of significant increase in credit risk (SICR) under IFRS. The provisioning rules further increase the procyclicality of bank capital requirements. Adjustments of the SICR threshold or capital buffers are suggested as ways to mitigate a regulatory pressure that may emerges due to the reduction of regulatory capital.
Lanis, R & Richardson, G 2018, 'Outside Directors, Corporate Social Responsibility Performance, and Corporate Tax Aggressiveness: An Empirical Analysis', Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 228-251.
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This study examines the impact of outside directors on the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and tax aggressiveness. Based on a sample of 5,007 firm-year observations over the 2003-2009 period, we find that there is a negative association between the interaction effect of the proportion of outside directors on the board and CSR performance, and tax aggressiveness. Our additional tests confirm the reliability of our main regression results. Overall, our results indicate that the presence of outside directors on the board magnifies the negative association between CSR performance and tax aggressiveness.
Lee, JC, Kim, J & Kwak, K 2018, 'A Multi-Attribute Examination of Consumer Conformity in Group-Level Ordering', Australasian Marketing Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 41-48.
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Using real data acquired from transaction receipts at a cafe, the present research examined individuals’ menu choices made in a group setting. Building on previous research, the present research proposed and examined what we call the group referencing effect, and found that individuals’ menu choices were more likely to conform to the precedent menu choices made by the others in their group. A unique empirical contribution of the present research is that conformity was assessed and emerged at two levels: end-choice level (whether the choices are the same) and attribute-level (whether the attribute(s) of the choices are the same, independent of whether the end-choice is the same; i.e., similarity). Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Lewis, C & Wilson, R 2018, '“Globally adept citizens?”: Varying conceptions of generic graduate attributes by high school career advisers', Australian Journal of Career Development, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 9-19.
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Research on the conceptions of generic graduate attributes has focused on employers and higher education institutions and finds inconsistent conceptions and differing values attributed to them. Little work exists surrounding those charged with advising prospective students. Adopting phenomenographic methodology, this research establishes conceptions of generic graduate attributes held by Australian career advisers in NSW secondary schools: defining and describing two outcome spaces by which generic graduate attributes are understood. Advisers see generic graduate attributes as close to personal qualities, strongly related to employment, or important for self-development. Advisers value generic graduate attributes as “minimal” or “valid”. The hierarchical nature of the categories, and dichotomy of views on valuing generic graduate attributes, demonstrate varying conceptions, ranging from simplistic to an advanced understanding surpassing those found in the policies of employers and universities. The variation suggests those charged with advising future generations do not share a common understanding of generic graduate attributes and raises critical implications for research, policy, and practice.
Li, M & Scharth, M 2018, 'Leverage, asymmetry and heavy tails in the high-dimensional factor stochastic volatility model', Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 285-301.
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We develop a flexible modeling and estimation framework for a high-dimensional factor stochastic volatility (SV) model. Our specification allows for leverage effects, asymmetry and heavy tails across all systematic and idiosyncratic components of the model. This framework accounts for well-documented features of univariate financial time series, while introducing a flexible dependence structure that incorporates tail dependence and asymmetries such as stronger correlations following downturns. We develop an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for posterior simulation based on the particle Gibbs, ancestor sampling, and particle efficient importance sampling methods. We build computationally efficient model selection into our estimation framework to obtain parsimonious specifications in practice. We validate the performance of our proposed estimation method via extensive simulation studies for univariate and multivariate simulated datasets. An empirical study shows that the model outperforms other multivariate models in terms of value-at-risk evaluation and portfolio selection performance for a sample of US and Australian stocks.
Lindo, JM, Siminski, P & Swensen, ID 2018, 'College Party Culture and Sexual Assault', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 236-265.
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This paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law-enforcement agencies and an identification strategy that exploits plausibly random variation in the timing of Division 1 football games. The estimates indicate that these events increase daily reports of rape with 17-24 year old victims by 28 percent. The effects are driven largely by 17-24 year old offenders and by offenders unknown to the victim, but we also find significant effects on incidents involving offenders of other ages and on incidents involving offenders known to the victim.
Linnenluecke, M, Jacobs, K & Smith, T 2018, 'Otherwise', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 373-373.
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Linnenluecke, M, Smith, T & Whaley, RE 2018, 'The unpaid social cost of carbon', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 122-134.
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PurposeThis paper aims to examine the complex issue of the social cost of carbon. The authors review the existing literature and the strengths and deficiencies of existing approaches. They introduce a simple methodology that estimates the amount of “legal looting” in the fossil fuel industry as an alternative approach to calculate an unpaid social cost of carbon. The “looting amount” can be defined as society’s failure to charge fossil fuel firms for the damage that their activities cause represents an implied subsidy.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology used in this paper combines decisions in the form of policymakers setting carbon taxes and rational investors investing in carbon emission markets.FindingsThe authors show that the unpaid social cost of carbon in the fossil fuel industry was US$12.7tn over 1995-2013, but may be as high as US$115.5tn.Originality/valueOver the same period, the sum of industry profits, emission trading scheme carbon permit and carbon tax revenue totalled US$7tn, indicating the industry would not be viable if it was made to pay for damages to society.
Linnenluecke, MK, Nucifora, N & Thompson, N 2018, 'Implications of climate change for the sugarcane industry', WIREs Climate Change, vol. 9, no. 1.
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This review was undertaken to draw together research on how climate change impacts sugarcane production, and to assess the implications of climate change for the sugarcane industry, as well as possible response options. Much of the extant research examines how changes in climate lead to changes in primary production; however, few studies consider how climate change translates into industry‐wide impacts and economic consequences across the sugarcane value chain. Of the 90 studies we reviewed (published as journal articles, proceedings, and book chapters), 61 assess observed and/or projected impacts of climate change on sugarcane production. These studies reach largely different conclusions regarding how increases in air temperature or atmospheric carbon dioxide levels impact sugarcane production. These mixed results can be attributed to differences between the studies in terms of methods, time frames, and growing regions, which all limit cross‐study comparability. A total of 17 studies focus on the adaptation to observed and/or projected impacts of climate change, such as changed management procedures or farming practices, but there is limited evidence regarding successful adaptation outcomes. In addition, a separate stream of papers discusses mitigating energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the sugarcane production process, often with a view to reducing environmental impacts. Our review concludes by outlining the pathways for future research, highlighting that further insights are needed in particular regarding the economic consequences of climate change for the sugarcane industry. WIREs Clim Change 2018, 9:e498. doi: 10.1002/wcc.498This article is categorized under:Future of Global Energy > Evaluating Future Impacts of Climate Change
Liu, B, Lu, J, Wang, R & Zhang, J 2018, 'Optimal prize allocation in contests: The role of negative prizes', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 175, pp. 291-317.
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© 2018 In this paper, we analyze the role of negative prizes in contest design with a fixed budget, risk-neutral contestants, and independent private abilities. The effort-maximizing prize allocation rule features a threshold. When the highest effort is above the threshold, all contestants with lower efforts receive negative prizes. These negative prizes are used to augment the prize to the contestant with the highest effort, which better incentivizes contestants with higher abilities. When no contestant's effort exceeds the threshold, all contestants equally split the initial budget (or a portion of it) to ensure their participation. We find that allowing negative prizes can increase the expected total effort dramatically. In particular, if no bound is imposed on negative prizes, the expected total effort can be arbitrarily close to the highest possible effort inducible when all contestants have the maximum ability with certainty. The above contest is shown to be the optimal mechanism for a more general class of mechanisms.
Logue, D, Pitsis, A, Pearce, S & Chelliah, J 2018, 'Social enterprise to social value chain: Indigenous entrepreneurship transforming the native food industry in Australia', Journal of Management & Organization, vol. 24, no. 02, pp. 312-328.
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2017. Sharon Winsor was not intent on becoming one of Australia's leading female Indigenous entrepreneurs, it was rather unexpected. In seeking to escape from an abusive relationship and provide for her family, she turned to her knowledge of native foods and love of 'wild harvesting' from her childhood, to develop a thriving business. Her traditional knowledge of harvesting native foods has now led to the creation of products such as lemon myrtle sweet chilli sauce, Davidson plum syrup and cosmetics using ingredients such as Kakadu plum, emu oil, lemon myrtle and wild berry. Sharon now finds herself in a position where increased opportunities for international expansion are demanding increased volume and scale from her rural operations, where she works with Indigenous communities. She faces three key challenges about the future of Indigiearth: 1. How can Indigiearth achieve scale while maintaining profitability and social mission?2. How can Indigiearth protect its competitive advantage in the face of increased local agricultural competition, as Indigenous crops increase in value?3. How can traditional knowledge be both shared and protected for community development (jobs and wealth creation) and for future generations? The New Year is close and Sharon already has received large orders coming in from Europe and there is much interest from China and Japan. These decisions will determine how Indigiearth is structured, with whom it needs to partner to develop the Indigenous food industry, and how it will need to work with stakeholders on the issue of traditional knowledge while meeting the growing needs of the company. Sharon has a passion for her native products and wants to preserve the knowledge and respect that goes into her products - the dilemmas she is facing are putting her under immense pressure. She may choose to expand while maintaining the integrity of he...
Lu, D, Ding, Y, Asian, S & Paul, SK 2018, 'From Supply Chain Integration to Operational Performance: The Moderating Effect of Market Uncertainty', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 19, no. S1, pp. 3-20.
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This research examines the moderating effect of market uncertainty on the causal effects from supply chain integration to operational performance of a typical supply chain. Based on an extensive and critical literature review, two exploratory conceptual hypotheses have been developed for the nonlinear relationship between the supply chain integration and operational performance of the original equipment manufacturer, and how may that relationship be moderated by a specific construct of market uncertainty. Empirical survey instrument has been designed and applied to gather the data from a wide spectrum of automotive industry in China. Confirmative factor analysis and threshold regression analysis were used as the primary research methodology to test the hypotheses. We find strong support to the hypotheses from the empirical evidence, which leads to the finding that the relationship between the supply chain integration and operational performance is ‘nonlinear’, and the ‘nonlinearity’ can be significantly moderated by the market uncertainty as one of the key environmental factors for the supply chain. This study extends the current literature by contributing for the first time the discussion of an analytical model that represents the causal effects from supply chain integration to its operational performance with respect to the market uncertainty as a moderating factor.
Lu, JW, Li, W, Wu, A & Huang, X 2018, 'Political hazards and entry modes of Chinese investments in Africa', Asia Pacific Journal of Management, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 39-61.
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Lu, QS, Pattnaik, C, Xiao, J & Voola, R 2018, 'Cross-national variation in consumers' retail channel selection in a multichannel environment: Evidence from Asia-Pacific countries', Journal of Business Research, vol. 86, pp. 321-332.
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. This study examines the impact of cross-national variation in culture on the selection of retail channels in a multichannel environment in eight Asia-Pacific countries. In contrast to the prior literature, which examined the intention to purchase through online channels, we study the actual purchase decisions made by consumers by comparing online and telephone channels. We adopt Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov's (2010) six cultural dimensions (power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/femininity, long vs. short-term orientation, and indulgence vs. restraint) to examine the impact of cross-national variation in culture on online vs. telephone retail channel selection. The empirical findings suggest that countries with high uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation are less likely to adopt online channels rather than telephone channels, whereas countries with high individualism, high masculinity, and high indulgence are more likely to adopt online channels. These findings highlight the importance of cross-nation al variation of culture on retail channel selection.
Mack, M, Schulenkorf, N, Adair, D & Bennie, A 2018, 'Factors influencing the development of elite-level sports officials in Australia: the AFL, ABA and FFA', Sport in Society, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1240-1257.
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© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Previous research into sports officiating at the elite level has primarily focused on factors that impact negatively on sports officials, including experiences of abuse, time pressures and fear of failure. However, factors that have positively influenced the development of elite officials have largely been neglected. This is problematic, as a better knowledge about how elite officials progress to top-tier competitions may improve officiating performance and role satisfaction. This study therefore, aims to identify factors that work positively for individuals who seek to reach elite levels of sport officiating. This is important because it can assist our understanding of how to create a positive environment for the development of young officials, thereby helping with role satisfaction, improved chances of retention and, where appropriate, pathways into career development at the elite level of sport. The context for this study is Australia, with a focus on national competitions in basketball, football (soccer) and Australian Rules football as representative samples for referees and umpires.
Major, M, Conceição, A & Clegg, S 2018, 'When institutional entrepreneurship failed', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 1199-1229.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the role of power relations in initiating and blocking accounting change that involves increased “responsibilisation” and “incentivisation”, and to understand how institutional entrepreneurship is steered by power strategies.Design/methodology/approachAn in-depth case study was carried out between 2010 and 2015 in a cardiothoracic surgery service (CSS) where a responsibility centre was introduced.FindingsIntroducing a responsibility centre within a CSS led to a change process, despite pressures for stability. The institutionalisation of change was conditioned by entrepreneurship that flowed through three circuits of power. Strategies were adapted according to changes in exogenous environmental contingencies and alterations in the actors’ relationships.Originality/valueThe contributions of the paper are several: first, it demonstrates that the existing literature discussing the implementation of responsibility centres cannot be isolated from power issues; second, it expands understanding of the power dynamics and processes of institutional entrepreneurship when implementing accounting change; third, it shows how change introduced by exogenous political economic events structured organisational circuits of power and blocked the introduction of the change initiative.
Malceniece, L, Malcenieks, K & Putniņš, TJ 2018, 'High Frequency Trading and Co-Movement in Financial Markets', Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 134, no. 2, pp. 381-399.
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Using the staggered entry of Chi-X in 12 European equity markets as a source of exogenous variation in high frequency trading (HFT), we find that HFT causes significant increases in comovement in returns and in liquidity. About one-third of the increase in return comovement is due to faster diffusion of market-wide information. We attribute the remaining two-thirds to correlated trading strategies of HFTs. The increase in liquidity comovement is consistent with HFT liquidity providers being better able to monitor other stocks and adjust their liquidity provision accordingly. Our findings suggest a channel by which HFT impacts the cost of capital.
Maruyama, S & Nakamura, S 2018, 'Why are women slimmer than men in developed countries?', Economics & Human Biology, vol. 30, pp. 1-13.
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Women have a lower BMI than men in developed countries, yet the opposite is true in developing countries. We call this the gender BMI puzzle and investigate its underlying cause. We begin by studying time trends in Japan, where, consistent with the cross-country puzzle, the BMI of adult women has steadily decreased since the 1950s, whereas the BMI of adult men has steadily increased. We study how changes in energy intake and energy expenditure account for the over-time gender BMI puzzle using the Japanese National Nutrition Survey from 1975 to 2010, which provides nurse-measured height and weight and nutritionist-assisted food records. Because long-term data on energy expenditure do not exist, we calculate energy expenditure using a steady-state body weight model. We then conduct cross-country regression analysis to corroborate what we learn from the Japanese data. We find that both energy intake and energy expenditure have significantly decreased for Japanese adult men and women and that a larger reduction in energy expenditure among men than women accounts for the increasing male-to-female BMI gap. Trends in BMI and energy expenditure vary greatly by occupation, suggesting that a relatively large decrease in physical activity in the workplace among men underlies the gender BMI puzzle. The cross-country analysis supports the generalizability of the findings beyond the Japanese data. Furthermore, the analysis suggests the increasing male-to-female BMI gap is driven not only by a reduction in the energy requirements of physically demanding work but also by weakening occupational gender segregation. No support is found for other explanations, such as increasing female labor force participation, greater female susceptibility to malnutrition in utero, and gender inequality in nutrition in early life.
McClure, R, Lanis, R, Wells, P & Govendir, B 2018, 'The impact of dividend imputation on corporate tax avoidance: The case of shareholder value', Journal of Corporate Finance, vol. 48, no. C, pp. 492-514.
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The objective of this paper is to evaluate whether dividend imputation, whereby tax credits may be passed on to shareholders for corporate tax paid, impacts corporate tax avoidance. This is undertaken with a pooled cross-sectional research design evaluating differences in tax avoidance across firms where there are significant differences in corporate tax avoidance incentives. Specifically, potential differences arise between firms paying dividends with tax credits, paying dividends without tax credits, and not paying dividends. Results suggest that firms paying dividends with tax credits attached are less likely to engage in tax avoidance with an average cash effective tax rate up to 16.9 percentage points higher than firms that pay dividends without tax credits, and up to 14.7 percentage points higher than firms that do not pay dividends at all. Accordingly, this provides insights into the effectiveness of dividend imputation in mitigating corporate tax avoidance, as well as providing support for the continuance of dividend imputation in Australia. Additionally, a positive association is found to exist between outside directors and corporate tax avoidance, extending to firms paying dividends with tax credits where dividend imputation is expected to mitigate such a relation. In combination, these results suggest heterogeneity of costs and benefits of tax avoidance and this is a challenge in evaluating corporate tax aggressiveness generally, and the impact of corporate governance on corporate tax avoidance in particular.
McKercher, B & Darcy, S 2018, 'Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities', Tourism Management Perspectives, vol. 26, pp. 59-66.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper proposes a four-tiered hierarchy to understand better the nature and effects of barriers, constraints and obstacles to travel faced by people with disabilities. Previous studies tended to aggregate barriers into a single group and further, some research associated barriers faced by all tourists as being unique to people with disabilities. The failure to recognise the complex, yet subtle interplay between tourism and different types of barriers results in the tendency to see people with disabilities as a homogeneous group where a one size fits all solution applies. In reality, they are a heterogeneous cohort who face the same types of barriers as everyone, some barriers that are common to all people with disabilities, those that are unique to each disability dimension and specific impairment effects that are individualistic.
Menzies, G, Simpson, T, Hay, D & Vines, D 2018, 'Restoring Trust in Finance: From Principal-Agent to Principled Agent', The Economic Record, vol. 95, no. 311, pp. 497-509.
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Bonuses in finance represents a bad equilbrium among multiple equilibria. Motivating agents with bonuses can promote untruthfulness, via motivation crowding out, justifying the decision to pay them bonuses. In the equilibrium that works in other professions, moral norms are upheld enough to not require bonuses. Escaping the bad equilibrium is difficult if banks engage in an ‘optimal’ amount of deceit (moral optimization). Restoring trust instead requires that untruthfulness be ruled out a priori (moral prioritization). Reinstating truth telling in finance must contend with a tendency for ethics to be confined to the private domain and motivation crowding out in finance.
Mikkelsen, EN & Clegg, S 2018, 'Unpacking the Meaning of Conflict in Organizational Conflict Research', Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 185-203.
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AbstractIn this conceptual essay, we review the field of organizational conflict to unpack how it has been constructed genealogically and with what consequences by investigating three major shifts in theorization that have occurred over the past six decades. First, a move away from viewing conflict as dysfunctional to viewing it as constructive. Second, a shift from normative prescriptions to descriptions of what disputants do in conflict. Third, a shift from psychological functional analyses to studying conflict as an organizational phenomenon. We find that three distinct and essentially contested conceptions frame studies of conflict at work: conflict as a distinct behavioral phenomenon, conflict as an instrumental means of achieving something else, and conflict as a social construction contingent on how reality is perceived. This conceptual essay adds to current thinking in organizational conflict research by emphasizing how philosophical and political assumptions about conflict can be seen to have framed knowledge production within the field when it is viewed historically.
Mittal, N, Agarwal, R & Selen, W 2018, 'Value creation and the impact of policy interventions: Indian LPG supply chain case study', The International Journal of Logistics Management, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 64-89.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the development of key supply chain capabilities in the Indian public sector-run liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supply chain. This case study has relevance to emerging markets grappling with problems caused by monopolies and subsidies. Furthermore, this case study not only aims to improve operations of the LPG supply chain, but also re-designs its supply network to meet customers’ expectations. It illustrates value creation through growth in non-domestic sales, a reduction in consumption of subsidized LPG as a consequence of better understanding of customer needs and customer diversity, process re-engineering and deployment of ICT systems, and change management and capability building across various LPG stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachAn interpretive research methodology is applied, using an illustrative single case study of the Indian public sector-run LPG supply chain. The research methodology is iterative and exploratory in nature, consisting of a back and forth process between extant literature and the field, as well as in-depth discussions/interviews with senior management, distributors, and consumers.FindingsKey supply chain capabilities of an integrated and seamless ICT system, detection and blocking of duplicate/ghost connections, the capping of entitlements, and coordination and collaboration across various stakeholders result in value creation for all stakeholders. When such collaboration across stakeholders’ spans both vertically and horizontally through the supply chain, change management and capability building drive value creation through policy interventions and initiatives.
Moktadir, MA, Ali, SM, Rajesh, R & Paul, SK 2018, 'Modeling the interrelationships among barriers to sustainable supply chain management in leather industry', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 181, pp. 631-651.
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The leather industry of Bangladesh is facing considerable amounts of pressure to adopt sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). While there are some studies that have examined barriers to SSCM practices in developed and developing countries in various domains, these are not necessarily applicable to the Bangladeshi leather industry. To bridge this gap, it is crucial to identify most influential barriers to SSCM practices, particularly in the context of developing economies. Therefore, this study identifies such barriers and examines the causal relationships between them with an aim to facilitate the effective implementation of SSCM in the Bangladeshi leather processing industry. Thirty-five barriers to SSCM implementation were identified through a detailed literature review and a survey of leather processing industry experts. Among them, the most common 20 barriers were selected with the help of industry experts. Then, a blended, grey-based Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach was utilized to examine their interrelationships. The results demonstrate that nine barriers could be classified as “causal” and eleven as “influenced”. ‘Lack of awareness of local customers in green products’ and ‘lack of commitment from top management’ took high priority in the causal group. ‘Lack of reverse logistics practices’ and ‘Outdated machineries’ were the most influenced barriers. This research uses a leather processing company as a case study for demonstrating the proposed model. The findings aim to support the leather processing industry in a structural way, so that industrial managers can identify the most influential barriers and work to eliminate them. This study may be useful to stakeholders to achieve sustainable development.
Moktadir, MA, Rahman, T, Rahman, MH, Ali, SM & Paul, SK 2018, 'Drivers to sustainable manufacturing practices and circular economy: A perspective of leather industries in Bangladesh', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 174, pp. 1366-1380.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Sustainable manufacturing practices and the circular economy have recently received significant attention in academia and within industries to improve supply chain practices. Manufacturing industries have started adopting sustainable manufacturing practices and a circular economy in their supply chain to mitigate environmental concerns, as sustainable manufacturing practices and a circular economy result in the reduction of waste generation and energy and material usage. The leather industry, in spite of it contributing remarkably to a country's economic growth and stability, does not bear a good image because of its role in polluting the environment. Therefore, the leather industries of Bangladesh are trying to implement sustainable manufacturing practices as a part of undertaking green supply chain initiatives to remedy their image with the buyer and to comply with government rules and regulations. The main contribution of this study is to assess, prioritize and rank the drivers of sustainable manufacturing practices in the leather industries of Bangladesh. We have used graph theory and a matrix approach to examine the drivers. The results show that knowledge of the circular economy is paramount to implementing sustainable manufacturing practices in the leather industry of Bangladesh. This study will assist managers of leather companies to formulate strategies for the optimum utilization of available resources, as well as for the reduction of waste in the context of the circular economy.
Mukherjee, A & Vasconcelos, LS 2018, 'On the Trade-off between Efficiency in Job Assignment and Turnover: The Role of Breakup Fees', The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 230-271.
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Murray, C, Clark, R, Mendolia, S & Siminski, P 2018, 'Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia', Economic Record, vol. 94, no. 307, pp. 445-468.
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We present the first Australian estimates of intergenerational mobility that draw on direct observations of income from two generations. Using panel data for three birth cohorts of young adults from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Australia survey, the estimated intergenerational income elasticity is 0.28. Correcting for attenuation bias raises this to 0.41. We estimate the rank correlation to be 0.27.We show that Australia has greater mobility than the US and this is not sensitive to methodological choices. We also show that spousal selection and family structure may be important determinants of income persistence across generations.
Naar, L & Clegg, S 2018, 'Models as Strategic Actants in Innovative Architecture', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 26-39.
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This article outlines a novel approach to the role of models in innovation processes: showing how innovative architectural outcomes result from the strategic management of multiple physical models in a design process. Drawing on actor-network theory, we explore architect Frank Gehry’s designing in action to trace the work done in translating design ideas with architectural models. We observe how certain practices constituted around material models are Gehry’s means for unsettling and resetting the clients’ receptiveness and willingness to embark upon a particular architectural path. We find that the physical models, as actants in these activity flows, are rendered strategic in ways currently overlooked. When approval for an innovative design is secured, through the unfolding of models, their strategic role is realized. Our approach goes beyond current accounts of the role and nature of architectural models to reveal how architectural models as strategic actants are mobilized in an innovation process.
Nguyen, P, Rahman, N & Zhao, R 2018, 'CEO characteristics and firm valuation: a quantile regression analysis', Journal of Management & Governance, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 133-151.
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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. This study investigates the effects of three highly-visible CEO characteristics on firm valuation. Using a sample of 2702 observations for Australian firms over the period 2001–2011, we find that CEO age is uniformly associated with lower firm valuation. CEO tenure is also associated with lower valuation, but more significantly so in the higher quantiles of firm valuation, that is for firms with high-growth opportunities. In contrast, CEO duality is found to be beneficial only for firms with high-growth opportunities. Overall, the study highlights the contingent relationship between CEO characteristics and firm valuation.
Onyx, J, Darcy, S, Grabowski, S, Green, J & Maxwell, H 2018, 'Researching the Social Impact of Arts and Disability: Applying a New Empirical Tool and Method', VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 574-589.
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© 2018, International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University. This paper has a twofold focus: to establish a method of assessing the potential social impact of arts and disability projects and to apply this method to ten such projects. It does so by using a newly developed ‘ripple’ model that conceptualises social impact in terms of the development of active citizenship on the part of all participants over time. The model identifies ten factors (programme activity, welcoming, belonging, programme social values, individual social values, programme networks, individual networks, skills and creativity, programme wider social impact, and individual wider social impact) which evolve through four progressive stages. The original model is empirically adapted for application to arts and disability projects. Qualitative data were collected in the form of interviews, surveys and media reports across ten case studies, each representing a major arts and disability project offering a professional outcome for an external audience. The qualitative data were coded to provide a simple scoring tool for each case. The results support the application of the model in this context. Furthermore, findings indicate three critical conditions which enable projects to generate considerable positive social impact beyond the individual; ensemble in nature; project embeddedness; and networks and partnerships.
Paul, SK & Rahman, S 2018, 'A quantitative and simulation model for managing sudden supply delay with fuzzy demand and safety stock', International Journal of Production Research, vol. 56, no. 13, pp. 4377-4395.
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In this paper, a recovery model is developed for managing sudden supply delays that affect retailers’ economic order quantity model. For this, a mathematical model is developed that considers fuzzy demand and safety stock, and generates a recovery plan for a finite future period immediately after a sudden supply delay. An efficient heuristic solution is developed that generates the recovery plan after a sudden supply delay. An experiment with scenario-based analysis is conducted to test our heuristic and to analyse the results. To assess the quality and consistency of solutions, the performance of the proposed heuristic is compared with the performance of the generalised reduced gradient method, which is widely applied in constrained mathematical programming. A simulation model is also designed to bring the recovery model closer to real-world processes. Several numerical examples are presented and a sensitivity analysis is performed to demonstrate the effects of various parameters on the performance of the heuristic method. The results show that safety stock plays an important role in recovery from sudden supply delays, and there is a trade-off between backorder and lost sales costs in the recovery plan. With the help of the proposed model, supply chain decision-makers can make accurate and prompt decision regarding recovery plans in case of sudden supply delay.
Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2018, 'A reactive mitigation approach for managing supply disruption in a three-tier supply chain', Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1581-1597.
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© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In this paper, we develop a quantitative reactive mitigation approach for managing supply disruption for a supply chain. We consider a three-tier supply chain system with multiple raw material suppliers, a single manufacturer and multiple retailers, where the system may face sudden disruption in its raw material supply. First, we develop a mathematical model that generates a recovery plan after the occurrence of a single disruption. Here, the objective is to minimize the total cost during the recovery time window while being subject to supply, capacity, demand, and delivery constraints. We develop an efficient heuristic to solve the model for a single disruption. Second, we also consider multiple disruptions, where a new disruption may or may not affect the recovery plans of earlier disruptions. We also develop a new dynamic mathematical and heuristic approach that is capable of dealing with multiple disruptions, after the occurrence of each disruption as a series, on a real-time basis. We compare the heuristic solutions with those obtained by a standard search algorithm for a set of randomly generated disruption test problems, which shows the consistent performance of our heuristic. Finally, a simulation model is developed to analyze the effect of randomly generated disruption events that are not known in advance. The numerical results and many random experiments are presented to explain the usefulness of the developed models and methodologies.
Perey, R, Benn, S, Agarwal, R & Edwards, M 2018, 'The place of waste: Changing business value for the circular economy', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 631-642.
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AbstractTraditionally, wasted resources are considered a burden that imposes a cost on organizations. However, ecological sustainability principles underpinning the linked discourses of industrial ecology and the Circular Economy conceptualize waste as intrinsically valuable. Our research identified exemplar business organizations that had each changed their business models to resolve the tension of waste as a burden and/or resource. Synthesizing these cases, we found these organizations applied systems thinking to reframe their product and service offerings and developed material circular flows in their business models. Analysis of how our exemplar organizations changed their business models to tackle pressing sustainability issues and to resolve the burden–resource tension show that the focus of change is on reconceptualizing their understanding of the role of waste in the value chain of their products and services. This altered understanding of waste as a resource across their value networks initiated negotiations with their existing suppliers to also modify their supply chain practices.
Peters, M, Wieder, B & Sutton, SG 2018, 'Organizational Improvisation and the Reduced Usefulness of Performance Measurement Bi Functionalities', International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, vol. 29, pp. 1-15.
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© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Firms are increasingly turning to business intelligence (BI) systems to support their management control activities, while management accounting researchers are increasingly focused on studying beneficial roles of such systems. The extant research focusses on how performance-enhancing effects of BI systems occur via enhanced managerial learning and knowledge creation. The research has however failed to consider how managerial learning and knowledge creation processes can be shaped by fundamental organizational contingencies. This paper ventures into this unexplored space to consider how organizational improvisation may moderate beneficial roles played by BI. We derive the concept of “semi-structuring heuristics” and apply it to theorize that the impact of BI functionalities on performance measurement capabilities is negatively moderated by organizational improvisation. Our hypotheses include two BI constructs (BI-planning functionality and BI-reporting functionality) and two organizational improvisation competences (strategic momentum and organizational flexibility). We test our hypotheses with partial least squares procedures using survey data from 324 top-level managers. We find that BI-planning functionality has a positive effect on performance measurement capabilities that is negatively moderated by both organizational improvisation competences. The only significant effect of BI-reporting functionality is as a positive moderator of the effect of BI-planning functionality. Organizational improvisation competences are quite common and entail managers using only “minimal forms” of performance measurement information. By implication, if the term BI “functionality” connotes usefulness and fitness-for-purpose, then this term appears a misnomer in contexts reliant on organizational improvisation.
Pham, TD, Nghiem, S & Dwyer, L 2018, 'The economic impacts of a changing visa fee for Chinese tourists to Australia', Tourism Economics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 109-126.
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Chinese tourism demands in Australia have increased exponentially in recent time, driven largely by increases in the number of visitors. The hidden important fact of this market is its high price sensitivity, which is vital to the growth of the dominant Chinese tourism segment in the total inbound sector of the country. This article addresses a concern of the tourism industry regarding a possible policy change on a tourist visa fee for Chinese nationals that potentially has adverse impacts on the economy. The article demonstrates that the revenue objective of an increase in the visa fee for Chinese visitors is unlikely to be a successful policy, as it will take a long time for the visa revenue to compensate for the losses of gross domestic product. In the extreme, the GDP losses may never be compensated adequately by the increased visa revenue.
Phua, K, Tham, TM & Wei, C 2018, 'Are overconfident CEOs better leaders? Evidence from stakeholder commitments', Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 519-545.
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We find evidence that the leadership of overconfident chief executive officers (CEOs) induces stakeholders to take actions that contribute to the leader's vision. By being intentionally overexposed to the idiosyncratic risk of their firms, overconfident CEOs exhibit a strong belief in their firms’ prospects. This belief attracts suppliers beyond the firm's observable expansionary corporate activities. Overconfident CEOs induce more supplier commitments including greater relationship-specific investment and longer relationship duration. Overconfident CEOs also induce stronger labor commitments as employees exhibit lower turnover rates and greater ownership of company stock in benefit plans.
Pitsis, A, Clegg, S, Freeder, D, Sankaran, S & Burdon, S 2018, 'Megaprojects redefined – complexity vs cost and social imperatives', International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 7-34.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview from the literature on how best to define megaprojects in contemporary contexts. There is a need for a definition that encompasses a complex matrix of characteristics, inclusive of positive and negative aspects, which are not necessarily industry or sector specific. Whilst megaprojects have often been described and defined in terms of cost, they are more accurately delineated by their convolutions. Intricacies arise from political intrigues surrounding funding of such projects and managing and governing complex social and organizational relations. Points for future research are also identified.Design/methodology/approachAn analysis of international megaproject literature over the past five years combined with seminal works was undertaken, drawing on the broad literature of project and program management combined with elements of organizational theory. Whilst some examples are cited, in-depth case analysis has not been covered.FindingsAlbeit that the scale of some megaprojects is comparable to national GDPs, seven more characteristics beyond size have been identified, which distinguish megaprojects from large projects. These include: reach; duration; risks and uncertainties; widely disparate actors; areas of controversy such as dispute resolution; and legal and regulatory issues.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper takes a broad overview and whilst some examples are cited, in-depth case analysis has not been covered. The overview does however provide a good synopsis of the future research areas that warrant...
Pollack, J, Biesenthal, C, Sankaran, S & Clegg, S 2018, 'Classics in megaproject management: A structured analysis of three major works', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 372-384.
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The paper explores three texts in the field of megaproject management that intersubjectively, in terms of community sentiment, might be
considered ‘classics’. We deploy four criteria for a structured analysis that determines if the status of the works in question may be considered
classic. The works examined are Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Flyvbjerg, Bruzelius and Rothengatter; (2003) The Anatomy
of Major Projects by Morris and Hough (1987) and Industrial Megaprojects by Merrow (2011). Based on these works we conclude with aprospectus for future research that will serve to develop the field of research into megaproject management.
Pullen, A & Rhodes, C 2018, 'Anxiety and organization', Culture and Organization, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 95-99.
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Rajaguru, R & Hassanli, N 2018, 'The role of trip purpose and hotel star rating on guests’ satisfaction and WOM', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 2268-2286.
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PurposeThis paper aims to understand how guests’ trip purpose and hotel star rating influence the effects of the value for money perceived at hotels and service quality on guest satisfaction and word of mouth (WOM) recommendation.Design/methodology/approachUsing TripAdvisor, 25 Singaporean hotels were randomly selected for the study, which yielded hotel reviews from 2,040 respondents. Hierarchical and logistic regression analysis was conducted to investigate the relationships proposed in the study.FindingsResults indicate significant differences between leisure and business guests’ perception of value for money and service quality at hotels with various star ratings. While perceived value for money and service quality were found as significant predictors for both leisure and business guests’ satisfaction and WOM, the effects were moderated by the hotel star rating. Despite the significant effect of hotel star rating on guest satisfaction, the study found no significant relationships between hotel star rating and WOM for leisure and business guests.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that managers in the hotel industry should understand the purpose of guests’ trip and offer services based on their expectations. As the star rating of a hotel creates certain expectations for both leisure and business guests, providing an appropriate level of services and assuring value for money in accordance with the hotel rating contributes to guest satisfaction and WOM recommendation.Originality/valueT...
Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & Gudergan, S 2018, 'Open Service Innovation: The Role of Intermediary Capabilities', Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 808-838.
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This study examines how intermediaries, in general, and those with digital service platforms specifically, engage with clients to help them innovate their services within their service ecosystem. Based on an embedded, longitudinal case study, the results reveal the cumulative development and deployment of technological, marketing, and co‐creation capabilities by intermediaries, and how these capabilities allow intermediaries to engage with clients, so as to enable clients’ open service innovation despite their internal challenges. In turn, this article extends theory on service innovation by clarifying the role and function of intermediaries in service ecosystems in enabling clients to leverage open service innovation. Second, this study contributes to resource‐based scholarship by clarifying how these three sets of capabilities and their micro‐foundations relate to each other. Despite the obvious importance of technological capabilities, online intermediaries are more than just “virtual” service platform providers. The intermediary’s technological and marketing capabilities assist clients in dealing with project‐related and organizational challenges to open service innovation. Acting as a higher‐order capability, co‐creation capabilities—through shaping marketing and technological capabilities over time and also through conditioning their deployment—improve the proficiency of these capabilities. The findings advance insights on the agential role of the intermediary’s co‐creation capabilities, purposefully developed and deployed to foster client engagement, and thus support service organizations in leveraging open service innovation.
Reichel, A & Perey, R 2018, 'Moving beyond growth in the Anthropocene', The Anthropocene Review, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 242-249.
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From a sociological and political perspective, a key contribution of the discourse on the Anthropocene is its ability to act as a boundary object, to bring natural scientists and social scientists into conversation with each other and with the wider public. The Anthropocene then shifts scientific debate from the technical to the political, thus forcing science to change its mode of inquiry from normal to post-normal science, where political stakes as well as uncertainty of decision outcomes are high, and pressuring science to become a political actor. The current understanding of the Anthropocene, both stratigraphically and metaphorically, is based on the detrimental ecological impact of humanity and this leads us to propose that the Anthropocene commences with a new age we have called the ‘Auxocene’, after the ancient Greek Horae of growth. We argue that the social imaginary constituting the Auxocene rests on an unchallenged basic driver: expansionist differentiation and unchecked growth. We explore the notion of ‘Degrowth’ as a powerful discursive tool to facilitate the emergence of new social imaginaries and creating new socio-economic models that will provide beneficial ecological consequences for living in the Anthropocene.
Rhodes, C 2018, 'I have tried, in my way, to be free…sense-ational feminine scriptologies in organization studies', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2018, no. 1, pp. 15082-15082.
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Rhodes, C & Badham, R 2018, 'Ethical Irony and the Relational Leader: Grappling with the Infinity of Ethics and the Finitude of Practice', Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 71-98.
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ABSTRACT:Relational leadership invokes an ethics involving a leader’s affective engagement and genuine concern with the interests of others. This ethics faces practical difficulties given it implies a seemingly limitless responsibility to a set of incommensurable ethical demands. This article contributes to addressing the impasse this creates in three ways. First, it clarifies the nature of the tensions involved by theorising relational leadership as caught in an irreconcilable bind between an infinitely demanding ethics and the finite possibilities of a response to those demands. Second, it examines this ethical challenge in acknowledgement of the hierarchical discourses and power dynamics in which leadership relationships are constrained and enacted. Third, it proposes “ethical irony” as a way leaders can respond to the demand for ethics without resulting in either an escape from ethics, or being crushed by its burden. Three dimensions of ethical irony are examined: ironic perspective, ironic performance, and ironic predilection.
Rhodes, C & Carlsen, A 2018, 'The teaching of the other: Ethical vulnerability and generous reciprocity in the research process', Human Relations, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 1295-1318.
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How is it that researchers can engage with those they research ethically? In response to the challenge of this question, we articulate an ethics of research engagement based on vulnerability and generosity. This is explored with a special focus on the practicalities of organization studies research. Building on developments in reflexive methodology, we draw on Emmanuel Levinas’ relational ethics to consider how research can be approached as receiving a ‘teaching of the other’. Such teaching involves a radical openness to other people’s difference such that knowledge arises from being affected by those others rather than claiming to know them in any categorical sense. The possibility that emerges is that of a reflexively ethical position from which to conduct research premised on letting go of the egotistical comforts of one’s own epistemic authority. Self-reflexivity becomes rendered subservient to other-vulnerability in embodied research encounters that are open and generous. The promise for research is a deepening of our corporeal, affective and aesthetic engagement with others and an enlarged sense of the ethical meaning of research.
Rhodes, C & Pullen, A 2018, 'Critical Business Ethics: From Corporate Self‐Interest to the Glorification of the Sovereign Pater', International Journal of Management Reviews, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 483-499.
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Research in critical business ethics has demonstrated how economic self‐interest is the primary reason that businesses adopt nominally ethical practices. After reviewing this body of research, the authors propose that it can be further developed by questioning its conception of self‐interest, by exploring its non‐economic dimensions and by reconsidering the meaning of the ‘self’ that is said to have such interests. Drawing insights from feminist theory and political theology, the paper interrogates corporate business ethics as a public glorification of corporate power based on a patriarchal conception of the corporation. Genealogically rooted in early Christian ceremonial practices used to glorify God the Father, this is a glorification for the sake of glory rather than just for the sake of commercial ends. The authors further argue that corporate business ethics is rendered as the feminized servant of the sovereign corporate patriarch, always at hand to glorify the master. The meaning of corporate business ethics is hence one where the feminine is not absent, but rather is servile to a masculinity conceived in relation to domination, greatness and sovereignty. Collectively, this shows how the power wielded and desired by corporate business ethics far exceeds the pursuit of financial self‐interest; it is also related to modelling the corporation on a male God. The paper concludes by considering how research in critical business ethics can be extended through forms of inquiry that destabilize the ethical glorification of the corporation, and displace its masculinist privilege
Rhodes, C, Wright, C & Pullen, A 2018, 'Changing the World? The Politics of Activism and Impact in the Neoliberal University', Organization, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 139-147.
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This article explores the political differences between academic activism and the recently emerged research impact agenda. While both claim that academic work can and should engage with and influence the world beyond the academic ‘ivory tower’, their political meaning and practice are radically different. Following the distinction made by Jacques Rancière, we argue that research impact performs a policing function which, despite its own rhetoric, is arranged as an attempt to ensure that academic work maintains a neoliberal status quo by actually having no real political impact. Academic activism, in contrast, serves to politicize scholarly work by democratically disrupting political consensus in the name of equality. Being an academic activist in an era of research impact rests in a twofold movement: that of both acting in the name of equality in an effort (using Marx’s terms) to ‘change the world’ and resisting and contesting an academic administration whose police actions have attempted to eliminate such forms of democratic practice from the political consensus. The argument is illustrated with examples from the Australia Research Council’s statements on research impact and the practice of climate change activism.
Sainty, R 2018, 'Boards in Transition: Re-establishing Corporate Legitimacy', Global Governance Voice, no. 12, pp. 30-36.
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This article reports on research exploring how directors describe the tensions as they navigate emerging social and environmental issues, and broadening stakeholder responsibilities. Underpinning these tensions is the importance of maintaining corporate legitimacy. Corporations need both pragmatic and moral legitimacy strategies to navigate an increasingly contested operating environment.
Sarkar, S, Osiyevskyy, O & Clegg, SR 2018, 'Incumbent capability enhancement in response to radical innovations', European Management Journal, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 353-365.
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Schumpeterian market disequilibrium marked by entrepreneurial entry and incumbent exit has long held an important place in management literature. The extant literature has overwhelmingly championed the newcomer, despite incumbents' obvious advantages in resources, experience and market knowledge. The current research provides evidence for the effectiveness of the incumbent's strategy of capability enhancement (along an established technological trajectory) while responding to radical technological innovations. We develop a cognitive process model that integrates managerial cognition with capability development and deployment views, depicting the dynamics of the incumbent's capability enhancement process. We analyze the cognitive drivers of organizational actions in all stages (rigidity, triggering event, and capability renewal) and elucidate the role of top management cognition in
the processes of detecting and correcting errors in a strategic course of action. We ground our model in the case of a cork-stopper industry veteran's decline as corks ceded ground to screw tops and other
stoppers in the wine industry. How a major company fought back in response to the emergence of these, in the industry context, radical technological innovations, provides the basis for our narrative. The
proposed theoretical model contributes to literature on technology management (with regard to incumbent strategies in response to radical innovation threats) as well as the role of cognition in strategy (providing an explanation of the cognitive underpinnings of capability development).
Scerri, M & Agarwal, R 2018, 'Service enterprise productivity in action: measuring service productivity', Journal of Service Theory and Practice, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 524-551.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to measure service productivity using the Service Enterprise Productivity in Action (SEPIA) model. The research operationalises only one of the five stakeholder groups, the customer interface which incorporates service complexity (SC), customer interactions, customer channel, customer loyalty (CL) (new) as inputs, and CL (referred and repeat) and willingness to pay as output measures.Design/methodology/approachThe research extends our understanding of existing service productivity models with the development of the SEPIA model. Data were collected from 14 organisations operating in the Australian travel and tourism industry, which was analysed using a data envelopment analysis input oriented variable return to scale method as applied to the SEPIA model customer interface.FindingsFour key findings from the research include: customer choice and their ability to pay is a determinant of service productivity; service productivity is a two stage process when measured; SC is not categorical; and quality business systems do impact service productivity.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation of this research is that only one (customer) of the five key stakeholders, customer, employee, manager, supplier and shareholder, was operationalised in this research paper.Practical implicationsThe operationalisation of the SEPIA customer interface using transactional data and measuring non-financial, intangible factors of productivity provide managers with insights on wh...
Schuck, S, Aubusson, P, Buchanan, J, Varadharajan, M & Burke, PF 2018, 'The experiences of early career teachers: new initiatives and old problems', Professional Development in Education, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 209-221.
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The task of supporting beginning teachers has received considerable attention in recent years, and numerous initiatives have been implemented. In this article we investigate the experiences of early career teachers (ECTs) in New South Wales, Australia, at a time when their employing authority mandated the provision of mentors and a reduction in face-to-face teaching for ECTs. The article draws on ECTs’ responses to survey items asking about their experiences as an ECT. It emerged that many of the issues of the early years that have caused problems for ECTs remain intractable, or at least unresolved for some. The research indicates that despite support that has been mandated by some employers, we cannot be complacent about the transition of ECTs into the profession. There remains a need to address the elements of school environments that impact on ECTs’ experiences.
Schulenkorf, N, Sherry, E & Richards, J 2018, 'JSFD in times of change: A reflection on milestones met and challenges ahead', JOURNAL OF SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 38-39.
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Five years from its inauguration, we look back and reflect on the Journal of Sport for Development's organizational developments, key achievements, and future opportunities. In this contribution, the outgoing editors exercise their editorial license one last time to issue the new leadership team with a few challenges going forward…
Schweinsberg, S, Darcy, S & Wearing, SL 2018, 'Repertory grids and the measurement of levels of community support for rural ecotourism development', Journal of Ecotourism, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 239-251.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Many of the world’s iconic ecotourism attractions reside in heterogeneous rural localities (or places). Over time the nature of these settings evolve, which can lead to tourism and other industry sectors (e.g. forestry, mining, agriculture etc.) at different times coming to hold positions of legitimacy in the eyes of local people. Local people will form opinions on the merits of ecotourism development on the basis of an evolving interplay of economic, environmental and social forces. These forces are framed on the basis of a locality’s history, as well as on the basis of current conditions. In the present paper the authors will explore the merits of employing Personal Construct Theory based repertory grids as a methodological tool to understand the subjective realities of local people. Drawing on the results an expanding body of scholarship that has used repertory grid methodologies in destination image studies; the authors will offer comment on the merits whereby repertory grids can be taken out of an academic led research setting and used within communities themselves to shed light on the individual perceptions that variously cause support or opposition to ecotourism development.
Schweinsberg, S, Heizmann, H, Darcy, S, Wearing, S & Djolic, M 2018, 'Establishing academic leadership praxis in sustainable tourism: lessons from the past and bridges to the future', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 1577-1586.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the potential contribution of academics working in the sustainable tourism arena from a relational, practice-based leadership perspective. It argues that these leadership perspectives require a shift in thinking from narrowly defined, instrumental measures of academic impact imposed by performance management and the somewhat heroic ideals of leadership. Instead it outlines how everyday practice that directly influences collaborative agency among multiple tourism stakeholders is able to provide a more useful direction. To illustrate this perspective, it engages in retrospective reflection, drawing on a number of pioneers in tourism scholarship. It specifically examines their praxis of dialogue, stewardship, and critical reflexivity and the ways in which these may serve to inspire future sustainable tourism education and scholarship.
Spaaij, R, Schulenkorf, N, Jeanes, R & Oxford, S 2018, 'Participatory research in sport-for-development: Complexities, experiences and (missed) opportunities', Sport Management Review, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 25-37.
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© 2017 The Author(s) In this paper, the authors examine how participatory research can be conceptualized and fostered in sport-for-development (SfD). The authors offer a conceptualization of participatory research that centers on the interplay between three dimensions: participation, power, and reflexivity. Drawing on variegated experiences with SfD research across different geographical locations, the authors scrutinize the conceptual and empirical linkages between these dimensions, and how these linkages are influenced by structures of authority. Findings suggest that most SfD research falls short with regard to the critical challenge of embracing and delivering high degrees of participation, power shifting, and reflexivity. More specifically, SfD researchers typically fail to relinquish power and control over the research process. The SfD research community would likely benefit from greater inclusivity and collaboration when designing creative ways to improve this state of affairs. The authors conclude by reflecting on the implications and by suggesting ways to promote participatory and activist research in SfD contexts.
Spanjaard, D, Hall, T & Stegemann, N 2018, 'Experiential Learning: Helping Students to Become ‘Career-Ready’', Australasian Marketing Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 163-171.
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Today's graduates face a competitive entry-level job market whilst at the same time employers from all areas of business plea for alumni who are ‘work-ready’. There is an underlying expectation that throughout their studies, graduates have opportunities where they are actively engaged in other areas of their education apart from just achieving final grades. Whilst ‘work ready’ remains an important goal, higher education institutions should consider the longer term alternate: the ‘career-ready’ graduate. This conceptual paper considers this principle and proposes a range of alternative experiential learning activities to equip marketing students with ‘real world’ experiences. It aims to show that by offering students opportunities that incorporate not only the ‘organisational’ perspective, but also those of the customer, and the living context in which the interaction is experienced, they will have a far more holistic viewpoint to make informed decisions about the direction in which to develop their career.
Sulkowski, AJ, Edwards, M & Freeman, RE 2018, 'Shake Your Stakeholder: Firms Leading Engagement to Cocreate Sustainable Value', Organization & Environment, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 223-241.
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While most extant scholarship has focused on how stakeholders influence firms, we propose that firms play a critical role in “shaking” stakeholders. Shaking stakeholders means to proactively initiate cooperation with those affected by a firm to alter awareness, behavior, and networks so as to catalyze change in society and the marketplace to reward cocreated innovations in core operations of the firm that improve social and environmental impacts. Two previously underappreciated aspects of stakeholder relations are highlighted. First, the firm can be the entity that leads engagement that shakes stakeholders out of complacency. Second, firms can catalyze collaborative relationships to cocreate sustainable value that is shared with stakeholders. We offer several cases to illustrate this strategy. While stakeholder shaking may be useful in any business environment, global ecological crises, societal problems, and governance failures heighten the need for firms to take action to bring about profound and systemic changes.
Thirathon, U, Wieder, B & Ossimitz, M-L 2018, 'Determinants of analytics-based managerial decisionmaking', International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 27-40.
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This study investigates how managerial decision-making is influenced by Big Data analytics, analysts’ interaction skills and quantitative skills of senior and middle managers. The results of a cross-sectional survey of senior IT managers reveal that Big Data analytics (BDA) creates an incentive for managers to base more of their decisions on analytic insights. However, we also find that interaction skills of analysts and – even more so – managers’ quantitative skills are stronger drivers of analytics-based decision-making. Finally, our analysis reveals that, contrary to mainstream perceptions, managers in smaller organizations are more capable in terms of quantitative skills, and they are significantly more likely to base their decisions on analytics than managers in large organizations. Considering the important role of managers’ quantitative skills in leveraging analytic decision support, our findings suggest that smaller firms may owe some of their analytic advantages to the fact that they have managers who are closer to their analysts – and analytics more generally.
To, TY, Navone, M & Wu, E 2018, 'Analyst coverage and the quality of corporate investment decisions', Journal of Corporate Finance, vol. 51, pp. 164-181.
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© 2018 In this paper, we examine the effect of financial analysts on the quality of corporate investment decisions. We show that greater analyst coverage leads to higher total factor productivity within firms, a finding that is robust after using both an instrumental variable approach and an experimental design that exploits exogenous reductions in analyst coverage due to broker mergers and closures. We further identify that the positive effect of analysts on firm-level productivity emanates from their critical role in information distribution and external monitoring within more opaque and financially constrained firms and also firms with weaker investor protection.
Tomoeda, K 2018, 'Finding a stable matching under type-specific minimum quotas', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 176, pp. 81-117.
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Tower, J, McGrath, R, Sibson, R, Adair, D, Bevan, N, Brown, G, Foley, C, Fullagar, S, Gray, L, Hawkins, C, Jeanes, R, Kerr, R, Martin, K, Maxwell, H, McDonald, K, Peel, N, Reis, A, Xing, T, Yerbury, R & Zimmerman, JA 2018, 'State of leisure studies in Australia and New Zealand', World Leisure Journal, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 58-66.
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© 2017 World Leisure Organization. A recurring theme has emerged from past ANZALS (Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies) Conferences' keynote presentations concerning the status of leisure studies from a teaching and research perspective. While this broad discussion has been raised, little is formally known about the current status of leisure studies in Australian and New Zealand universities. The ANZALS Board initiated a project in 2015 to gain insights into this topic. The purpose of the project was to document issues about leisure studies in Australian and New Zealand universities and to explore strategies that could assist ANZALS to promote leisure studies across various sectors. This initiative sought feedback from the ANZALS Patron organisations as well as members via a workshop conducted at the 2015 ANZALS Conference. Outcomes from the project have identified leisure studies as a diverse and disparate field of study. Leisure studies is no longer a centralised field within Australian and New Zealand universities. Instead, leisure studies have become divergent and focused on the elements within leisure such as recreation, sport, tourism and events, as well as across domains such as management and health. The project outcomes indicate the need for organisations such as ANZALS to develop and maintain collaborative networks with a variety of stakeholders, both within the tertiary sector as well as amongst practitioners in various industry sectors. There is also a need for ANZALS and kindred organisations to recognise and acknowledge the past and ensure its future by examining how leisure studies can be defined for application in a realm of related fields of study.
Tse, H & Kane, L 2018, 'Keeping Up-to-date: Regular Online Multiple-choice Quizzes and Post-graduate Students’ Performance', Australian Academy of Business and Economics Review, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 201-213.
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This article argues that, while not without their limitations, multiple choice quizzes (MCQs) have a place in innovative pedagogical practice. It evaluates how the introduction of a series of online MCQs affected students’ performance in a post-graduate introductory economics subject in 2016. The authors also explore students’ engagement with and attitudes toward MCQs through surveys and focus groups. Drawing on an econometric analysis, the authors demonstrate that regular practice multiple choice questions that provide high-quality feedback can have a significant positive effect on students’ performance. This analysis also revealed that some demographic characteristics – namely, ability, mathematics skills, and region of origin – had a strong effect on students’ outcomes. While focus groups indicated that MCQs helped students to self-regulate their learning, there was some negative feedback, especially about perceived prevalence of cheating. The paper concludes by providing suggestions for how some of the limitations of MCQs can be overcome.
Twu, M & Wang, J 2018, 'Call auction frequency and market quality: Evidence from the Taiwan Stock Exchange', Journal of Asian Economics, vol. 57, pp. 53-62.
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© 2018 Financial market quality is generally assessed with respect to efficiency, liquidity, and stability. The frequency of trading contributes to these attributes. The Taiwan Stock Exchange uses a periodic call auction as its main trading mechanism. From 2010 to 2014 the call auction interval was reduced four times, from 25 to 5 s, providing a natural experiment to test the impact on market quality. Using multiple measures of efficiency, liquidity, and stability we provide evidence that the reductions in call auction interval have improved overall market quality. We find that higher auction frequencies are associated with a lower trade-to-auction ratio and less aggressive trading behaviour. The evidence suggests that there are more gains to be made through further reduction in the call auction interval to around 2 s.
van de Leur, M & Anufriev, M 2018, 'Timing under individual evolutionary learning in a continuous double auction', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 609-631.
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© 2017, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany. The moment of order submission plays an important role for the trading outcome in a Continuous Double Auction; submitting an offer at the beginning of the trading period may yield a lower profit, as the trade is likely to be settled at the own offered price, whereas late offers result in a lower probability of trading. This timing problem makes the order submission strategy more difficult. We extend the behavioral model of Individual Evolutionary Learning to incorporate the timing problem and study the limiting distribution of submission moments and the resulting offer function that maps submission moments to offers. We find that traders submit different offers at different submission moments the distribution of which uni-modal with a peak moving from late to early as the market size increases. This behavior exacerbates efficiency loss from learning. If traders evaluate profitability of their strategies over longer history, orders are submitted later with the same effect of market size.
Verreynne, M-L, Ho, M & Linnenluecke, M 2018, 'Editorial for the special issue on: organizational resilience and the entrepreneurial firm', International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1122-1128.
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Wakefield, J, Frawley, JK, Tyler, J & Dyson, LE 2018, 'The impact of an iPad-supported annotation and sharing technology on university students' learning', Computers & Education, vol. 122, pp. 243-259.
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Waller, HJ & Waller, DS 2018, 'Opera costumes and the value of object biographies', Journal of Documentation, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 1162-1174.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to observe the nature of documentation and the description used in object biographies by an auction house catalogue and an online museum collection database in relation opera costumes. This research aims to discuss the issues of cultural and economic value in relation to objects in the art world, and examine examples of object biographies for opera costumes that are sold at an auction and exhibited in a museum.Design/methodology/approachThe object biographies are compared from an auction house catalogue and the online museum collection database, based on two factors: costumes worn by a famous singer and costumes designed by a famous designer.FindingsThis study identified the valuation methods of auction houses and museums, including accounting for the market value and fair value, as well as social and cultural values. The nature of the documentation also clearly shows the different purpose of the object biographies. For auction houses the biography needs to be short and specific as it provides sufficient information and is read out at the auction, while art catalogues can also be used by experts as part of the conversation to understanding heritage value, and will also be viewed and used by researchers, investors, other auction house specialists and art world professionals.Research limitations/implicationsBy comparing two institutions, auction houses and museums, this study has shown that the information that is documented and how it is presented in object biographies is determined by the goals of the institutions. These goals may vary or ...
Wang, KY & Clegg, SR 2018, 'SME resource acquisition in transition economies: power dependence and induced bribery', Business and Politics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 331-359.
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AbstractResearchers have extensively studied how large firms and SMEs use business and political ties to obtain tangible and intangible resources in transition economies. However, how SMEs establish these ties in the context of power-imbalanced dependence by using unethical and illegal “strategic practice” such as bribery remains underexplored. Furthermore, how SMEs deploy strategies to mitigate such risky actions in the process of resource acquisition is also given limited attention in the literature. Lack of exploration of these issues leaves significant gaps in our understanding of how SMEs are able to initiate and operate their ties for survival and growth despite enormous institutional constraints. We analyze the negative and positive effects of power dependence on business resource acquisition via regression analysis using survey data drawn from 232 Chinese SMEs. The findings indicate that power-imbalanced dependence among SMEs is associated with their use of bribery to establish political ties with officials for access to resources. The moderating effect of power-mutual dependence on this relationship is also examined. Theoretical significance and managerial implications of these findings for SMEs in transition economies are discussed.
Wang, Z, Deshpande, S, Waller, DS & Erdogan, BZ 2018, 'Religion and Perceptions of the Regulation of Controversial Advertising', Journal of International Consumer Marketing, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 29-44.
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© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The objectives of this study are (a) to examine the impact of religion on consumers' perceptions of controversial advertising, on their perceptions of the protective and restrictive social effects of controversial advertising regulations, and on their perceptions of the restrictiveness of the regulations; and (b) to determine the moderating effect of religion on the influence of independent variables (consumers' perceptions of controversial advertising, and of the protective and restrictive social effects of regulations on controversial advertising) on a dependent variable (consumers' perceptions of regulations governing controversial advertising). According to cross-sectional survey data collected from 1,402 university students in 11 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, Islamic followers were most easily offended by controversial advertising and generally found the current regulations not strict enough to address their sensitivities; Christians' and Hindus' found the regulations to fit with their more liberal attitudes toward controversial advertising, while Buddhists/Taoists and nonbelievers perceived the current regulations to be overly strict. These findings suggest that regulatory bodies should institute regulations consistent with the sensibilities of the religious profile of the population in the locale in which they operate.
Wearing, S, Mostafanezhad, M, Nguyen, N, Nguyen, THT & McDonald, M 2018, '‘Poor children on Tinder’ and their Barbie Saviours: towards a feminist political economy of volunteer tourism', Leisure Studies, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 500-514.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Barbie Saviours is a satirical Instagram account and linked Facebook page that depict white western Barbies volunteering in Africa with the bio, ‘Jesus. Adventures. Africa. Two worlds. One love. Babies. Beauty. Not qualified. Called. 20 years old. It’s not about me… but it kind of is’. Drawing on emerging theories of feminist political economy, we address the growing backlash against volunteer tourism in the popular media and argue that critiques against these images reflect an anti-hegemonic project that highlights the role of sentimental colonialism in contemporary forms of international popular humanitarianism. Widely described as a critique against the ‘White Saviour Complex’, Barbie Saviour is used to popularise a negative image of western female volunteer tourists which currently comprise more than 75% of the industry. These critiques question the morality and legitimacy of female volunteer tourists as well as related spaces of western forms of development in the global south. These satires shine a spotlight on the neocolonial aura of the practice. However, we argue that while this critique is a productive reminder of the symbolic violence of racialised inequality, the critique itself also, albeit inadvertently, perpetuates the ahistorical and apolitical racial, ethnic, gender and class-based binary thinking that it seeks to condemn.
Welty Peachey, J, Cohen, A, Shin, N & Fusaro, B 2018, 'Challenges and strategies of building and sustaining inter-organizational partnerships in sport for development and peace', Sport Management Review, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 160-175.
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© 2017 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. While sport management scholars have explored inter-organizational partnerships and their associated challenges, they have devoted less attention to inter-organizational partnership development and sustainability in sport for development and peace (SDP), particularly across a wide range of organizations with varied missions and foci. Hence, the purpose of this qualitative study was to examine challenges faced by SDP organizations when forming and sustaining inter-organizational partnerships across contexts and partnership types, and to uncover strategies they have employed to overcome these challenges. Common challenges encountered across 29 SDP organizations included competition for resources, skepticism of sport as a development tool, unequal power relations, misaligned goals and mission drift, and implementation issues. Strategies included focusing on building relationships and networks, demonstrating benefits to partner, starting small then diversifying, keeping focused on mission and goals, involving partner, and treating the partnership as a business relationship. Theoretical extensions and practical implications are discussed, along with directions for future research.
Welty Peachey, J, Musser, A, Shin, NR & Cohen, A 2018, 'Interrogating the motivations of sport for development and peace practitioners', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 767-787.
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The purpose of this study was to interrogate the motivations of sport for development and peace (SDP) practitioners for initially becoming involved in the field and to better understand their involvement over time. Specifically, this study aimed to identify key characteristics and motives of practitioners to gain further understanding of the implementation, execution, and approach of SDP programs and whether or not evangelical rhetoric and neocolonialism were reflected in these approaches. Findings revealed that practitioners were initially motivated by love of sport, the desire to make a difference in the world, and to seek out new experiences. Practitioners stayed involved over time due to fulfillment and satisfaction with their work and the continued desire to make a difference. While many practitioners had moved past evangelical rhetoric and neocolonialism, evangelical rhetoric was still reflective in just less than half of the motivations of practitioners from higher-income countries (HIC) and lower to middle income countries, while 40 percent of participants primarily from HIC reflected a neocolonial approach in their motives. Implications for theory and SDP policy are illuminated.
Wright, C & Ville, S 2018, 'The university tea room: informal public spaces as ideas incubators', History Australia, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 236-254.
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Wright, S, Sheedy, E & Magee, S 2018, 'International compliance with new Basel Accord principles for risk governance', Accounting & Finance, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 279-311.
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AbstractWe assess international compliance with the Basel Committee's 2010 guidance on governance of banking organisations. Based on an extensive examination of regulatory documents in selected advanced economies, we find that reform is incomplete in jurisdictions most affected by the financial crisis, and with the largest financial centres. In contrast, other countries less affected by the financial crisis have enacted risk governance reforms as protection against potential future contagion. We provide insights for policy‐makers charged with improving governance at banks, and a richer understanding for international regulators as they revise the guidelines and aim for greater compliance at the national level.
Xu, G, Guo, B, Li, W & Wang, X 2018, 'Foreign sequential entry mode choice', Baltic Journal of Management, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 544-563.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to use the theoretical perspective of structural inertia as a unique lens to study foreign sequential entry mode choices of multinational firms.Design/methodology/approachIt adopts quantitative analysis of a sample of 121 Chinese publicly listed firms with 564 foreign entry incidents in the 2001-2012 period to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe empirical results show that multinational firms have a tendency to adopt the same mode in the subsequent entry as the number of prior entry mode choice of a given type (joint venture (JV) in this study) increases. The results support the theoretical prediction that organizations repeat their past activities due to structural inertia. Moreover, such an inertia effect in foreign sequential entry mode choices becomes stronger for older multinational firms, larger multinational firms and state-owned multinational firms.Research limitations/implicationsConsistent with existing research, this study focuses on the entry mode choice between JV and wholly owned subsidiaries. However, it is better to examine the relationship identified in the study for different types of entry mode choices to assess result generalizability.Practical implicationsIt reminds managers of multinational firms that they should be cautious to the influence of structural inertia that can be a barrier to strategic flexibility when they make entry mode choices.Originality/value
Zhang, Y, Beggs, PJ, Bambrick, H, Berry, HL, Linnenluecke, MK, Trueck, S, Alders, R, Bi, P, Boylan, SM, Green, D, Guo, Y, Hanigan, IC, Hanna, EG, Malik, A, Morgan, GG, Stevenson, M, Tong, S, Watts, N & Capon, AG 2018, 'The MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australian policy inaction threatens lives', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 209, no. 11, pp. 474-474.
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Zhao, Y, Yan, L & Keh, HT 2018, 'The effects of employee behaviours on customer participation in the service encounter', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 52, no. 5/6, pp. 1203-1222.
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PurposeThere is considerable research examining the consequences and contingency factors of customer participation in the service encounter. In comparison, there is disproportionately less research examining the antecedents of customer participation. This paper aims to propose and test an appraisal-emotive framework of the effects of front-line employees’ in-role and extra-role behaviours on customer participation.Design/methodology/approachA survey on 583 customers of retail banks in China has been conducted to test the framework. Structural equation modelling and dominance analysis have been used for hypotheses testing.FindingsEmployees’ extra-role behaviour (i.e. organisational citizenship behaviour or OCB) has a stronger effect than their in-role behaviour (i.e. role-prescribed behaviour) in inducing customer participation. These effects are mediated by customer emotions. Specifically, the effect of employees’ in-role behaviour on customer participation was mediated by customers’ positive and negative emotions, whereas the effect of employees’ OCB was mediated by customers’ positive emotions but not by their negative emotions.Practical implicationsThe findings reveal that strategic management of employee behaviours can influence customer participation. While organisations often provide training to enhance employees’ in-role behaviour to deliver service performance, they should also recognise and encourage employees’ OCB as a means of increasing customer participation. In particular, employees who display positive emotions tend to evoke positive emotions in customers, which increase cu...
Zlatevska, N, Neumann, N & Dubelaar, C 2018, 'Mandatory Calorie Disclosure: A Comprehensive Analysis of Its Effect on Consumers and Retailers', Journal of Retailing, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 89-101.
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In 2018 restaurants in the United States will need to provide calorie information on their menus as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In the present research, we examine the efficacy of this legislation in reducing restaurant based food calorie consumption. Specifically, we explore the likely effect of the new policy on both the supply and demand side, that is, consumer and retailer behaviors. To achieve this, two studies are included in this research: a meta-analysis of 186 studies investigating the effect of calorie disclosure on calories selected, and a meta-analysis of 41 studies examining the effect of calorie disclosure on calories offered by retailers. Across these two studies we reveal a significant and unequivocal calorie disclosure effect for menu labels; disclosure results in both fewer calories selected (−27 Calories) and fewer calories offered by retailers(−15 Calories).
Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N & Clegg, SR 1970, 'Identities in Liquid Modernity', European Group for Organization Studies, Tallin, Estonia.
Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N & Clegg, SR 1970, 'Re-imagining professional identity', Professional Service Firms Annual Conference, Oxford, UK.
Armanious, A 1970, 'Financial Dependence, Fragility and Interconnectedness among Eurozone Financial Sectors: Evidence from Copulas', British Accounting and Finance Association Conference, London.
Bachmann, RL, Spiropoulos, H, Bedford, A & Matolcsy, Z 1970, 'Powerful CEOs, Cash Bonuses and Firm Performance', British Accounting and Finance Association, London.
Bedford, D, Bisbe, J & Sweeney, B 1970, 'The paradoxical implications of comprehensive performance measurement systems for the generation and management of TMT conflict', Manufacturing & Service Accounting Research Conference, Manufacturing & Service Accounting Research Conference, Oslo, Norway.
Bedford, D, Sweeney, B & Bisbe, J 1970, 'The implications of comprehensive performance measurement system design for managing the effects of TMT conflict', New Directions in Management Accounting, New Directions in Management Accounting, Brussels, Belgium.
Boersma, M & Ortiz, M 1970, 'Ten Challenges for the Effective Use of Blockchains in Global Supply Chains', 20th IESE International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society, Barcelona.
Bohmann, M & Patel, V 1970, 'Informed Options Trading Around U.S. FDA Announcements', SSRN Electronic Journal, Financial Management Conference, Elsevier BV, San Diego.
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Brown, P, Ly, T, Pham, H & Sivabalan, P 1970, 'Exploring the role of automation and its relation to management controls in dynamic environments: energy efficiency management in service sectors', Journal of International Accounting Research Conference, Venice, Italy.
Bugeja, M, Govendir, B, Matolcsy, Z & Pazmandy, G 1970, 'Is there an association between Vice Chancellors' compensation and University performance', European Accounting Associatoion (EAA) 41st Annual Congress, Milan, Italy.
Chen, X & Ma, L 1970, 'Herding behavior in equity crowdfunding', The 30th Annual Conference of Chinese Economics Society Australia Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Chen, X & Ma, L 1970, 'Herding behavior in equity crowdfunding', The 16th International Open and User Innovation Conference, New York University, US.
Cheng, B, Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C & Schlögl, E 1970, 'Pricing of Long-Dated Commodity Derivatives: Do Stochastic Interest Rates Matter?', Journal of Banking and Finance, Energy and Commodity Finance Conference, Paris, France.
Chia, Q, Brown, P, Labeeuw, L, Bajada, C, Ghannam, S, Pham, H, Wright, A & Ralph, P 1970, 'Comparing alternative algal cultivation systems for biodiesel production by utilizing an integrated model of sustainability', 17th Australasian - Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Conference, Melbourne.
Christodoulou, D, Ma, L, Matsypura, D & Zhang, Y 1970, 'Measuring the depth and breadth of technological impact with patent citations', The 30th Annual Conference of Chinese Economics Society Australia Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Cunha, MPE, Rego, A, Simpson, AV & Clegg, S 1970, 'Practicing virtues through deliberation: A paradoxical lens', Society of Business Ethics, Chicago.
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The field of management and organizational studies has developed to include Positive Organizational Scholarship, in which the notion of virtue is a central concern. Organizational virtues have been variously portrayed as linearities, balances, and curvilinearities. In this paper we explore another possibility: framing virtues under the lens of paradox. When viewed as paradoxes, virtues are seen as characteristics embedded in processes fraught with the tensions of a democratic ethos, expressing potential for synergy and trade-off. The virtue resides in the processes of democracy dealing with the paradoxes that the virtues entail, in a process without finitude. We discuss the organizational implications resulting from perceiving positivity as paradox.
Dalton, B & Boersma, M 1970, 'Inhabiting parallel universes: the differing world views of impact investors and nonprofits and implications for building impact investment markets', 47th ARNOVA Conference, Austin, Texas.
Deo, K, Chimhundu, R & Hafeez-Baig, A 1970, 'Consumer engagement with social media marketing in Australia', International Congress on Banking, Economics, Finance and Business, Sydney, Australia.
Dong, K 1970, 'Conceptualising Fear of Failure in the Process of Internationalisation of a Firm', the Academy of International Business (AIB) Annual Conference, Minneapolis, the US.
Dong, K 1970, 'Emotion and International Opportunity Evaluation', the 32nd Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Fee, A & Gray, SJ 1970, 'Organizational Support Factors Underpinning Successful Development Volunteer Placements', International Society for Third Sector Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Gavin, M 1970, 'A woman’s place is in her union? Challenges facing women teacher activists and officers in the new ‘union heartland', Gender, Work & Organization Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'How can teacher unions strategically build political capital to resist neoliberalism? Insights from a teacher union in Australia', 18th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) World Congress, Seoul, South Korea.
Gavin, M 1970, 'Reconciling teachers’ workload and wellbeing – System demands around workload affecting women’s roles as teachers and union activists', Gender, Work & Organization Conference, Sydney Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'The New Casualisation of Staff in Schools: Temporary Teachers’ Experiences of Work and Workload', Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2018, Sydney, Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'Working industrially or professionally? What strategies should teacher unions use to improve teacher salaries in neoliberal times?', Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference,, Adelaide, Australia.
Ghannam, S, Bugeja, M & Jeganathan, D 1970, 'Does Co-option Affect Merger and Acquisition Outcomes for Bidding Firms', 2018 Paris Financial Management Conference, Paris.
Ghannam, S, Bugeja, M & Jeganathan, D 1970, 'Does Co-option Affect Merger and Acquisition Outcomes for Bidding Firms', 2018 Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance, Vietnam.
Ghannam, S, Bugeja, M & Jeganathan, D 1970, 'Does Co-option Affect Merger and Acquisition Outcomes for Bidding Firms', 15th Workshop on Corporate Governance, Brussels.
Ghannam, S, Bugeja, M & Jeganathan, D 1970, 'Does Co-option Affect Merger and Acquisition Outcomes for Bidding Firms?', European Accounting Association Annual Congress.
Ghannam, S, Grosse, M, Loyeung, A & Ma, N 1970, 'The Role of Powerful CEOs in the Appointment of Accounting Financial Experts to the Audit Committee', European Accounting Association Annual Congress., Milan.
Ghannam, S, Matolcsy, Z, Spiropoulos, H & Thai, N 1970, 'The Role of Powerful Chairman in Mergers and Acquisitions', Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics Conference.
Godsell, J, Ignatius, J, Agarwal, R, Sohal, A & Agca, AO 1970, 'Harnessing the potential of the cyber-physical age: A readiness assessment', Industry 4.0 Summit, Manchester UK.
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Harnessing the potential of the cyber-physical age reaches beyond technology and the factory, to consider new technologically enabled ways to do business and connect up and down the supply chain. The purpose of this study was 2-fold. Firstly, to help companies to understand the broader scope and opportunities that Industry 4 offers business, and secondly to provide an understanding of the current degree of industrial readiness.A three-stage research design was used to develop, validate and deploy an industry 4 readiness assessment tool that reflected the broader scope. A systematic literature review was at the core of the tool development. The initial version was validated through testing in a global steel company (14 participants) and an industrial workshop (40 participants). The readiness assessment tool was then deployed as an on-line survey in 2 phases, firstly by a UK based University, and then in Australia. The readiness assessment has 6 dimensions (products and services, manufacturing and operations, strategy and organisation, supply chain, business model and legal considerations) and 37 sub-dimensions. Responses from 124 companies (across 16 industries and 23 countries) found that companies are at a beginner or intermediate level of readiness. Computer networks and databases were the most commonly adopted forms of technology (>70%), whilst the adoption of AI (17%) and machine learning (4%) were still nascent. Across the dimensions it was found that companies were beginning to harness the opportunities that data provided, to improve their current performance at machine, factory and supply chain levels. Furthermore, this could be harnessed to shift the focus from the selling products to services and create new business models with more direct connection to the user. The study suggests that companies are yet to develop the strategic vision, finance and investment in new technologies that a more radical Industry 4 transformation may require.
Govendir, B, Lanis, R, McClure, R & Wells, PA 1970, 'Dividend Imputation and Optimal Tax Rates', Forthcoming: American Accounting Association, 2018 Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD (Washington, DC).
Govendir, B, Sivapalan, T & Wells, P 1970, 'Tax avoidance in superannuation', European Accounting Association (EAA) 41st Annual Congress, Milan, Italy.
Grosse, M, Ma, N & Scott, T 1970, 'Interim Reviews and the Association between Partner Rotations and Audit Fees', International Journal of Auditing, Auckland Region Accounting Conference, Wiley, Auckland University of Technology, pp. 214-229.
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Hassanli, N & Abooali, G 1970, 'Cultural intelligence as an antecedent of tourist behaviour', The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education, Newcastle.
Hingorani, A & Wang, P 1970, 'Assessing the Effects of Visual Structure of Metaphor.', 2018 ANZMAC Conference Proceedings, Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 417-417.
Ho, H, Osiyevskyy, O, Agarwal, J & Reza, S 1970, 'Does Ambidexterity in Marketing Pay Off?', ANZMAC, ANZMAC 2017 Conference, ANZMAC, Melbourne, pp. 906-909.
Kaye, N, Schweitzer, J, Bliemel, MJ & Miles, M 1970, 'The Sydney School of Entrepreneurship: Building entrepreneurial capacity in NSW', http://acereconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/FINAL-ACERE-Program.pdf, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Brisbane, QLD.
Khrenova, E, Ma, L, Matolcsy, Z & Spiropoulos, H 1970, 'Market implied earnings: a new approach to examine the information content of GAAP and non-GAAP earnings', The 41th European Accounting Association Conference, Bocconi University, Italy.
Klettner, A & Boersma, M 1970, 'Women in Corporate Leadership: An International Comparison of Regulatory Strategies', Gender Work and Organisation Conference 2018, Sydney, Australia.
Lam, P, Li, L, Law, J & Tong, W 1970, 'Performance Informativeness and CEO Turnover upon Differing Industry Conditions', Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Auckland.
Lee, R, Ma, L & Miihkinen, A 1970, 'Measuring customer awareness from rm disclosures: what determines customer orientation and what are the impacts on investments, innovation and performance?', The 14th Interdisciplinary Conference on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital, University of Munich, Germany.
Lewis, R, Brown, D & Sutton, N 1970, 'The role of meetings in the control of managerial attention', Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, Auckland.
Malmi, T, Bedford, D, Bruhl, R, Dergard, J, Hoozee, S, Janschek, O & Willert, J 1970, 'The use of management controls in different cultural regions: An empirical study of Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and Nordic practices', Accounting, Organizations and Society Conference on Management Control as System or Package, Accounting, Organizations and Society Conference on Management Control as System or Package, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C, Squires, M, Thorp, S & Yeung, D 1970, 'Determinants of the Crude Oil Futures Curve: Inventory, Consumption and Volatility', 2nd Australasian Commodity Markets Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Okumu, C & Fee, A 1970, 'Understanding the Impacts of Chinese Investment in Kenya from the Perspective of Locals: An Ethnographic Field Study', Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA.
Ossimitz, Wieder, B, Chapman, P & Thirathon, U 1970, 'Management Accounting in the Big Data Era – Opportunities or Threats?', http://icesal.org/proceedings.html (nya), International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting and Logistics, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Over the past two decades, the digital revolution has brought along (a) ‘Big Data’, i.e. data which have rapidly become too big in volume, too diverse in nature and too rapidly changing to be handled in conventional databases and analysed using conventional tools, and (b) ‘data science’, “the study of the generalizable extraction of knowledge from data” (Dhar 2013), which develops and applies tools to manage and analyse (Big) Data. Data scientists are seen as new breed of managerial decision supporters, and insofar cross traditional management accounting territory.The aim of this study is to investigate the current and predict the future relationships between management accounting and the emerging data science discipline, based on a systematic analysis of the academic and practitioner literatures. While there is very little empirical evidence of an actual impact of data science on the management accounting profession, such impacts are predicted for the near future.Management accountants are expected to break with their traditions and collaborate with data scientists for mutual benefits. On the one hand, management accountants can be ‘data businesspeople’ or ‘horizontal data scientists’, who contribute essential business knowledge and data understanding to data science/Big Data projects. To succeed in such efforts, established and graduating management accountants face a need for up-skilling in technology, statistics, data mining, etc. and move into deeper analysis. Data scientists, on the other hand, can use their technical expertise to enrich established management accounting techniques and practices (e.g. the Balanced Scorecard, forecasting, etc.) with more advanced statistical or machine learning techniques.
Patel, V, Bohmann, M & Michayluk, D 1970, 'Price discovery in commodity derivatives: Speculation or hedging?', Auckland Derivative Markets Conference, Auckland.
Patel, V, Easley, D, Michayluk, D, O'Hara, M & Putnins, T 1970, 'Information flows and systematic risk', UBS Equity Markets Conference, Hong Kong.
Patel, V, Easley, D, Michayluk, D, O'Hara, M & Putnins, T 1970, 'Information flows and systematic risk', Quantitative Investing Conference, New York, USA.
Patel, V, Easley, D, Michayluk, D, O'Hara, M & Putnins, T 1970, 'Information flows and systematic risk', J.P.Morgan Quantference, Sydney, Australia.
Patel, V, Michayluk, D, Putnins, T, Easley, D & O'Hara, M 1970, 'Information Flows and Systematic Risk', UBS Future of Active Management Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Patel, V, Michayluk, D, Walsh, K & Bohmann, M 1970, 'Liquidity and earnings in event studies: Does data granularity matter?', Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Special Interest Group Conference, Auckland.
Paul, SK & Rahman, S 1970, 'A Recovery Model for Sudden Supply Delay with Demand Uncertainty and Safety Stock', Proceedings of the Australian Society for Operations Research Conference, Australian Society for Operations Research Conference, Springer International Publishing, Canberra, Australia, pp. 243-257.
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In this paper, a recovery model is developed for managing sudden supply delays that affect retailers’ Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model. For this, a mathematical model is developed that considers demand uncertainty and safety stock, and generates a recovery plan for a finite future period immediately after a sudden supply delay. Solving recovery problems involve high commercial software costs, and their solutions are complex. Therefore, an efficient heuristic solution is developed that generates the recovery plan after a sudden supply delay. An experiment is conducted to test the proposed approach. To assess the quality and consistency of solutions, the performance of the proposed heuristic is compared with the performance of the Generalized Reduced Gradient (GRG) method, which is widely applied in constrained mathematical programming. Several numerical examples are presented and a sensitivity analysis is performed to demonstrate the effects of various parameters on the performance of the heuristic method. The results show that safety stock plays an important role in recovery from sudden supply delays, and there is a trade-off between backorder and lost sales costs in the recovery plan.
Pazmandy, G, Bugeja, M & Matolcsy, Z 1970, 'Is there a governance failure in corporatised Australian Government Business Enterprises? Evidence from their Chief Executive Officers’ compensation.', Australia.
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Over the last three decades, governments have commercialised and corporatised many of their government business enterprises (GBEs) without privatising them under New Public Management (NPM) policy, which requires them to act as a corporate sector entity. These GBEs have independent boards that are responsible for the corporate governance of these entities, including the hiring of chief executive officers (CEOs) and determining their compensation. We examine the association between pay and performance for CEOs of GBEs and find that the levels and changes in CEO compensation are not associated with GBE performance despite being the explicit intent of NPM and regulatory policy. We suggest that this corporate governance failure could be due to the composition of the GBE boards. Our evidence shows that only 11.29% of directors appointed have public listed company experience with the balance of director appointments, being either senior public servants or political appointments who may lack the motivation or have any incentive to closely monitor CEO compensation. Accordingly, we suggest some possible policy changes to both the determination of CEO compensation and the composition of GBE boards.
Pazmandy, GP, Bugeja, M & Matolcsy, Z 1970, 'Is there a governance failure in Australian government business enterprises? Evidence from their CEO compensation', European Accounting Association EAA 2018, Milan, Italy.
Saluja, G & Adaval, R 1970, 'Seeing more in less: How connecting and separating mindsets affect the process and outcome of product customization', Society of Consumer Psychology 2018 Winter Conference, Dallas TX USA.
Saluja, G & Adaval, R 1970, 'The Moral Imperative: How malleability of moral standards affects judgment and behavior', 47th European Marketing Academy Conference, Glasgow UK.
Singh, S, Sinha, A, Lie, D & Govind, R 1970, 'Price Promotion Models for EDLP Retailers', Adelaide.
Soco, S, Brown, P & Pham, H 1970, 'The Role of Environmental Management Accounting for the Control of Energy in an Agricultural Setting', 17th Australasian - Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Conference, 17th Australasian - Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Conference, Melbourne.
Sombatruang, N, Kadobayashi, Y, Sasse, MA, Baddeley, M & Miyamoto, D 1970, 'The continued risks of unsecured public Wi-Fi and why users keep using it: Evidence from Japan', 2018 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2018 16th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), IEEE, Belfast, NORTH IRELAND, pp. 1-11.
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Stephens, A & MacAulay, S 1970, 'The doubtful process of business model innovation', 14th IRNOP Conference, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
van Rijmenam, M & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'How to build responsible AI? Lessons for governance from a conversation with Tay', Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy, AOM Specialized Conference: Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy, Surrey, UK.
Vesal, M, Siahtiri, V & O'Cass, A 1970, 'Driving B2B brands through signaling sustainability practices', Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC 2018), Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC), Adelaide, Australia.
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Despite the mounting pressure on the environment and the growing importance of sustainability, little emphasis has been placed on capturing the value from pursuing sustainability to enhance a manufacturer’s brand image and market performance in business-to-business (B2B) markets. Using signalling theory, we examine the extent to which a firm’s pursuit of sustainability promotes brandimage and market performance. In addition, we examine the roles of customer relationship management (CRM) and customers’ attitudes toward sustainability in fostering the relationship between sustainability practices and brand image. Drawing on a multi-informant dataset collected from B2B manufacturing firms and their customers, we show that sustainability practices significantly drive brand image and this relationship is contingent on CRM and customers’ attitudestoward sustainability. The results also show that manufacturing firms with a positive brand image have higher levels of market performance by reducing information costs for customers and lowering their perceived risk of purchase.
Wakefield, J & Frawley, J 1970, 'What impact does social media disruption have on introductory accounting student performance?', European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Milan, Italy.
Wakefield, J & Tyler, J 1970, 'Large lectures in the technological interactivity era: Value added or time waster', AFAANZ Annual Conference, Auckland.
Wakefield, J & Tyler, J 1970, 'Technologically interactive lectures in Accounting 101: Gain or gimmick', RMIT Accounting Educators Conference, Melbourne.
Waller, DS & Waller, H 1970, 'Cultural Institutions' Use of Social Media: Physical Space Vs Cyberspace', Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, Auckland, New Zealand.
Wang, K, Chang, L & Cheng, M 1970, 'Facilitating innovation: The role of enabling strategic performance measurement systems', Monforma, Monash University.
Wang, K, Chang, L & Cheng, M 1970, 'Reducing strategy surrogation: The effects of flexibility of strategic performance measurement systems, environmental dynamism and strategy engagement', European Accounting Association 41st Annual Congress, Bocconi University.
Wang, K, Chang, L & Cheng, M 1970, 'Reducing strategy surrogation: The effects of flexible strategic performance measurement systems', 2018 Accounting Behavior and Organizations Sectopm Research Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S..
West, A 1970, 'Improving International Student Academic Data Capture and Analysis', TEQSA Conference and Higher Education Quality Forum, Melbourne, Australia.
White, A & Ma, N 1970, 'Exploring the use of video interviews to prepare students for the transition to employment', Students Transition Achievement Retention and Success, Auckland, NZ.
White, A & Ma, N 1970, 'Work integrated learning: preparing students for graduate recruitment using a video interview assessment task', CPA Australia – 2018 Emerging Academics Forum, Melbourne.
Wilden, R & Randhawa, K 1970, 'Open Service Innovation for Healthcare Organizations', Open and User Innovation Conference, Routledge, New York, pp. 144-167.
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Xu, J 1970, 'The Gender Gap in Executive Promotions', Asian Finance Association 2018 Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
Xu, J 1970, 'The Gender Gap in Executive Promotions', Showcasing Women in Finance 2018 Meeting, Miami, USA.
Yu, K-H & Noh, S-C 1970, 'Negotiating the crisis of meaning: Professional careers and the legitimation of commercial organizations', EGOS Colloquium, Tallinn, Estonia.
