Adaval, R, Saluja, G & Jiang, Y 2019, 'Seeing and thinking in pictures: A review of visual information processing', Consumer Psychology Review, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 50-69.
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Adriaanse, JA 2019, 'The influence of gendered emotional relations on gender equality in sport governance', Journal of Sociology, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 587-603.
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The aim of this article is to investigate the influence of gendered emotional relations on gender equality in the governance of Australian sport organizations. Theoretically the study draws on the concept of a gender regime, a pattern of gender relations characterized by four interwoven dimensions of social life: production, power, emotions, and symbolism. This article reports on two case studies: sport boards C and E. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the two CEOs and nine directors of two Australian national sport organizations, sport C and sport E. Sport board C exhibited a gender regime of masculine hegemony in transition while sport board E had a regime of gender mainstreaming in progress. Supportive emotional relations between directors offered positive prospects for gender equality in the governance of sport organizations; however, they needed to operate in conjunction with other gender dimensions.
Ahuja, S, Heizmann, H & Clegg, S 2019, 'Emotions and identity work: Emotions as discursive resources in the constitution of junior professionals’ identities', Human Relations, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 988-1009.
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For junior professionals, notions of professional identity established during their education are often called into question in the early stages of their professional careers. The workplace gives rise to identity challenges that manifest in significant emotional struggles. However, although extant literature highlights how emotions trigger and accompany identity work, the constitutive role of emotions in identity work is under-researched. In this article, we analyse how junior professionals mobilize emotions as discursive resources for identity work. Drawing on an empirical study of junior architects employed in professional service firms, we examine how professional identities, imbued with varying forms of discipline and agency, are discursively represented. The study makes two contributions to the literature on emotions and identity work. First, we identify three key identity work strategies ( idealizing, reframing and distancing) that are bound up in junior architects’ emotion talk. We suggest that these strategies act simultaneously as a coping mechanism and as a disciplinary force in junior architects’ efforts to constitute themselves as professionals. Second, we argue that identity work may not always lead to the accomplishment of a positive sense of self but can express a sense of disillusionment that leads to the constitution of dejected professional identities.
Alexeev, V, Urga, G & Yao, W 2019, 'Asymmetric Jump Beta Estimation with Implications for Portfolio Risk Management', International Review of Economics & Finance, vol. 62, pp. 20-40.
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Aman, H, Beekes, W, Berkman, H, Bohmann, M, Bradbury, M, Chapple, L, Chang, M, Clout, V, Faff, R, Han, J, Hillier, D, Hodgson, A, Howieson, B, Jona, J, Linnenluecke, M, Loncan, T, McCredie, B, Michayluk, D, Mroczkowski, N, Pan, ZT, Patel, V, Podolski, E, Soderstrom, N, Smith, T, Tanewski, G, Walsh, K, Wee, M & Wright, S 2019, 'Responsible science: Celebrating the 50-year legacy of using a registration-based framework', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 56, pp. 129-150.
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Américo, BL, Carniel, F & Clegg, SR 2019, 'Accounting for the formation of scientific fields in organization studies', European Management Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 18-28.
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There are few qualitative organizational accounts that explore the constitution of scientific fields in management. We developed a methodology for understanding the academic modes of scientific knowledge production in management research from the perspective of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) and actor-network theory (ANT). SSK and ANT offer a way to account for how scientific fields in organization studies are enacted. Key to this process are splitting and inversion of statements; credibility and network formation; and the concepts of credit, trajectory, and position. Specific statements making key knowledge claims (e.g., handbooks, special editions) are situated in academic practices that obscure those rhetorical strategies that enable the production of a network of knowledge that can act, organizationally, as a more or less unified sub-field. We take as a starting point a collection of texts, dated 2011, which sought to systematize the main currents of a disciplinary sub-field during the last decade, focusing on how statements are transformed into scientific certainty and how the question of credibility is established. The sub-field is that of organizational learning (OL). The particular language of OL relies on approaches that make its epistemic assumptions intelligible within a network. It is a language that tends to reify and naturalize specific practices that become accredited as organization learning. The material/textual artifacts that sustain these practices, instead of being reified, can be reframed as enacting a scientific field whose resignification acts upon the network that enabled its existence.
An, J, Do, DKX, Ngo, LV & Quan, THM 2019, 'Turning brand credibility into positive word-of-mouth: integrating the signaling and social identity perspectives', Journal of Brand Management, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 157-175.
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An, J, Ngo, LV, Chylinski, M & Tran, Q 2019, 'Customer advocates with a generous heart', Journal of Services Marketing, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 192-205.
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PurposeDespite the fact that prosocial motivation is related to word of mouth (WOM), few studies have been conducted to investigate the psychological and behavioral processes that mediate the two constructs. This study aims to explore customers’ relational interactions, specifically customer-to-employee interaction (via customer participation), customer-to-customer interaction and customer-to-brand interaction (via brand commitment), as mediators of the prosocial motivation–WOM linkage. Specifically, this paper examines the serial mediation model, in which prosocial motivation increases customer participation and customer-to-customer interaction, which in turn increase brand commitment and WOM sequentially.Design/methodology/approachThis study collected survey data from two different samples, including higher degree research education and fitness gym services (highly interactive, people-processing service contexts), and used partial least square method to analyze the multiple serial mediations.FindingsThe results of this study show two serial mediating processes through which prosocial motivation influences WOM: 1. prosocial motivation → customer participation → brand commitment → WOM; and 2. prosocial motivation → customer-to-customer interaction → brand commitment → WOM.Practical implicationsThe findings provide managerial insights into how marketers can foster a more interactive service environment to encourage prosocial customers to engage in WOM more effectively.Originality/valueThis study contrib...
Andrijasevic, R, Rhodes, C & Yu, K-H 2019, 'Foreign workers: On the other side of gendered, racial, political and ethical borders', Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 313-320.
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While political issues related to migration and work have been explored in great detail from the perspective of, inter alia, industrial relations, international business, economics and of course migration studies itself, they have been notably absent from any real consideration at all in organization studies. This appears as an almost wilful omission of one of the most pressing political issues facing the post-globalized world, as well as one in which work organizations are centrally implicated. This article, and the Special Issue which it introduces, explores how what it means to be a ‘foreign’ worker is deeply influenced by and connected to sexuality, gender, politics and ethics. We consider individual differences, context-specific experiences and dynamic processes through which the sexed, gendered and classed category of the foreign worker is constructed, enacted and resisted. We find that class, race and gender serve to shape a sense of foreignness that is central to the meaning and experience of work. The machinations of power are never far away, as people’s differences come to be used as an axis of actual and potential oppression, coercion and exploitation.
Armanious, A 2019, 'ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES IN THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON TEACHING AND LEARNING ECONOMICS', Australasian Journal of Economics Education, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 43-50.
Aroles, J, Clegg, S & Granter, E 2019, 'Death and the Penguin: modularity, alienation and organising', Culture and Organization, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 104-117.
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The originality of this paper lies in the ways in which it explores how the depiction of organised crime within Andrey Kurkov’s novel Death and the Penguin can inform our understanding of organisational modularity. This non-orthodox approach might open up new avenues of thought in the study of organisational modularity while further illustrating how novelistic worlds can inform accounts of organisational realities. Two main research questions underlie the paper. How can Andrey Kurkov’s novel further our understanding of the complexity of organisational worlds and realities by focusing our attention on different landscapes of organising? How does Kurkov’s novel help us grasp the concept of modularity by drawing attention to new forms of modular organisation? Drawing from our reading of Kurkov’s novel, we primarily explore organisational modularity through Kurkov’s depiction of organised crime and consider the themes of alienation and isolation in the context of modular organising.
Atalay, K, Barrett, GF & Siminski, P 2019, 'Pension incentives and the joint retirement of couples: evidence from two natural experiments', Journal of Population Economics, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 735-767.
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Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spillover effects on the labour force participation of spouses. This paper analyses two complementary Australian natural experiments: (i) the 1993 Age Pension reform that increased the eligibility age for social security benefits for women and (ii) the Vietnam veterans pension and compensation schemes, whereby eligibility was conditional on conscription lotteries. We find important within-family spillover effects that are symmetric by gender and independent of whether pension coverage is expanded or withdrawn. Taking account of such within-family spillover effects is important for understanding the behavioural effects of pension programs and for reform impacts on social welfare.
Atalay, K, Garbarino, E & Slonim, R 2019, 'Prize-linked savings accounts: combining virtue and vice to make savings more enticing', Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 180-190.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether moral licensing – that is, doing something morally dubious after doing the “right” thing – influences the attractiveness of an existing virtue–vice bundle.
Design/methodology/approach
A prize-linked savings (PLS) account that combines a savings (certificate of deposit) and a probabilistic component (lottery) was examined. In two online experiments, the level of moral license offered by the PLS was manipulated through what institution offered the PLS or a lottery alternative.
Findings
When the source of the PLS account was more moral (Study 1) or the source of the lottery was less moral (Study 2), the interest in the PLS increased.
Research limitations/implications
Moral licensing plays a role in making virtue–vice bundles appealing and supports that the need for moral license can be used to increase interest in more morally acceptable behaviour. However, manipulating moral license in the field is complex and requires further research.
Practical implications
Practitioners may increase PLS savings rates via messaging that emphasises how the saving aspect offers the customer the license to indulge in the gamble; similar to how McDonald’s sold the idea of indulging in fast food with “You deserve a break today”.
Originality/value
This paper shows that the attractiveness of the PLS virtue–vice bundle is sensitive to the moral acceptability of...
Bajada, C & Shashnov, M 2019, 'The effects of economic development and the evolution of social institutions on the level of corruption: comparing the Asia-Pacific with other regional blocs', Asia Pacific Business Review, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 470-500.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The variation in the level of economic development across countries has been proposed as an explanation for the disparity in the level of corruption that is observed. As a country evolves from one stage of economic development to another and its social institutions as a result become more refined and sophisticated, their capacity to tackle corruption and poor governance practices becomes increasingly better. Improvements in the overall quality of institutions, including better policing and justice systems, increase their capacity to detect and deter corruption. This evolution of institutional quality improves social and economic well-being of society, which in turn pressures regulators, legislators and politicians to continue in the fight against corruption. The objective of this paper is to examine how economic development mediated by improvements in the quality of social institutions impacts on the level of corruption. Lessons from worldwide trends, including the Asia-Pacific region, provide opportunities for countries to enact strategic measures that can accelerate the fight against corruption.
Bajada, C, Kandlbinder, P & Trayler, R 2019, 'A general framework for cultivating innovations in higher education curriculum', Higher Education Research & Development, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 465-478.
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© 2019, © 2019 HERDSA. Systematic changes to higher education curriculum typically occur within the extended timeframes of formal curriculum review processes. Programmes need to be reviewed periodically for internal and external accountability or to determine whether the curriculum has lost its coherence due to the accumulative effect of continual small-scale changes. These programme reviews often lend themselves to the introduction of innovations in teaching and learning however experiences suggest that these innovations are often short-lived. Even with well-thought-through project plans, adequate funding and staffing, and robust project evaluations, a curriculum innovation may fail to take hold and continue beyond the short-term. In this article we work towards developing a general framework that identifies the various factors and drivers that are essential to sustain important curriculum innovation beyond the short-term. The framework is developed from an analysis of several curriculum innovations related to the embedding of graduate attributes to highlight the important factors necessary to ensure longevity in important developments in teaching and learning.
Bappy, MM, Ali, SM, Kabir, G & Paul, SK 2019, 'Supply chain sustainability assessment with Dempster-Shafer evidence theory: Implications in cleaner production', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 237, pp. 117771-117771.
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Baumber, A, Scerri, M & Schweinsberg, S 2019, 'A social licence for the sharing economy', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 146, pp. 12-23.
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Bedford, DS, Bisbe, J & Sweeney, B 2019, 'Performance measurement systems as generators of cognitive conflict in ambidextrous firms', Accounting, Organizations and Society, vol. 72, no. Jan, pp. 21-37.
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Beggs, PJ, Zhang, Y, Bambrick, H, Berry, HL, Linnenluecke, MK, Trueck, S, Bi, P, Boylan, SM, Green, D, Guo, Y, Hanigan, IC, Johnston, FH, Madden, DL, Malik, A, Morgan, GG, Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, S, Rychetnik, L, Stevenson, M, Watts, N & Capon, AG 2019, 'The 2019 report of theMJA–LancetCountdown on health and climate change: a turbulent year with mixed progress', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 211, no. 11, pp. 490-490.
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Beirman, D 2019, 'Collaborative approaches to government travel advisories in Australia between Australia’s travel industry leadership and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2003–2017', Journal of Vacation Marketing, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 71-87.
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The October 2002 Bali bombing was a catalyst for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to radically alter its approach to the content and dissemination of Australian government travel advisories. Integral to DFAT’s post-Bali strategy was its decision to seek the collaborative support of the Australian outbound travel industry leadership to broaden dissemination of travel advisories to outbound Australian travellers. Although initial contacts between DFAT and the Australian travel industry leaders in early 2003 were contentious, subsequent negotiations resulted in the world’s first signed agreement between a foreign ministry and a national travel industry leadership in June 2003. The initial agreement, the Charter for Safe Travel involved the Australian travel industry’s commitment to disseminate DFAT travel advisories in exchange for a viable consultative role in their content. Australia’s collaborative model was adopted in the UK from 2004, in Canada from 2005 and New Zealand since 2016. Globally, consultation between national travel industry leaders and national foreign ministries is rare, despite the support of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, the World Travel and Tourism Council and the Pacific Asia Travel Association. Through participant observation research, in the context of collaboration and stakeholder theories, this article discusses the evolution of a consultative relationship between DFAT and the Australian outbound travel industry leadership and other relevant stakeholders between 2003 and 2017. The observations made in this study reveal that collaborative consultation has achieved positive changes to travel advisories which feature regionally specific, timely and comprehensible content. These qualitative enhancements have been complemented by enhanced dissemination of Australian government travel advisories. Australia’s Consular Consultative Group serves as a working model for similar collaboration, in ...
Benson, K, Chang, M, Gray, P & Wright, S 2019, 'The enduring and evolving influence of Ball and Brown (1968)', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 153-159.
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Berti, M, Nikolova, N, Jarvis, W & Pitsis, A 2019, 'Embodied Phronetic Pedagogy: Cultivating Ethical Capabilities in Postgraduate Business Students', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2019, no. 1, pp. 12188-12188.
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Bertoni, F, Smales, LA, Trent, B & Van de Venter, G 2019, 'Do Item Writing Best Practices Improve Multiple Choice Questions for University Students?', SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Bhimani, A, Bond, D & Sivabalan, P 2019, 'Does greater user representation lead to more user focused standards? An empirical investigation of IASB’s approach to standard setting', Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 65-88.
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© 2019 Elsevier Inc. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has faced calls to act in the interest of users of financial statements given the perception of the greater influence exerted by preparers and professional accounting firm stakeholders. In response, the IASB has, over more than a decade, sought to increase user centricity, adapting its people and processes to more fully engage the views of users. We report on our empirical analysis from the standard setter's perspective of user engagement which is a research objective not documented in the prior literature. Our results draw on interviews conducted with 31 IASB representatives, comprised of 26 staff and 5 Board members representing approximately 60% of IASB's non-support staff as well as publically available archival data. We deploy the Griffiths (1960) citizenship participation framework in reporting on the procedural rigor directed at user utility, to assess IASB's attempt to enhance its perceived relevance (existential enhancement) as a standard setting body. We explain how a “clash” between new user centric practices and the extant practices led to challenges for the IASB in factoring the views of, and acting in the interest of users, as demanded by regulatory authorities. We discuss some of the tensions this has made evident in IASB's objective to function as an effective standard setter. Conceptually, our paper clarifies how more embedded representation modes per Griffith (1960) elicited greater user feedback, but that tensions arose in relation to the IASB's broader objectives to more directly serve users’ interests. Functionally, we offer a more nuanced appreciation for why the IASB might not unilaterally seek to be “user-focused” in the interests of both users and other stakeholders, and in doing so, serve the longer term objectives of accounting standard setting.
Bochet, O, Nikiforakis, N, Reuben, E, Wooders, J & Wooders, M 2019, 'Introduction to the JPET special issues commemorating works of James Andreoni, Theodore Bergstrom, Larry Blume, and Hal Varian', Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 799-803.
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Bohmann, M, Michayluk, D & Patel, V 2019, 'Price discovery in commodity derivatives: Speculation or hedging?', Journal of Futures Markets, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 1107-1121.
Bohmann, M, Michayluk, D, Patel, V & Walsh, K 2019, 'Liquidity and earnings in event studies: Does data granularity matter?', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 54, pp. 118-131.
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Brammer, S, Branicki, L, Linnenluecke, M & Smith, T 2019, 'Grand challenges in management research: Attributes, achievements, and advancement', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 517-533.
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Management scholarship is increasingly paying attention to “grand challenges” such as climate and demographic changes, sociopolitical uncertainty, poverty alleviation, and global health improvement. Drawing upon a review of grand challenges research, we highlight the lack of a coherent conceptualization of a “grand challenge” and examine the diversity of the conceptual, policy, and empirical research. We problematize the failure in current research to distinguish between qualitatively different types of grand challenges—in our view, the resolution of different challenges calls for distinct research, policy, and practice approaches. We propose a novel framework that encompasses four distinct forms of grand challenge, situate the existing empirical literature within our framework, describe how the contributions to our special issue advance grand challenges research, and explore implications for future management research that responds to the imperatives of grand challenges.JEL Classification: D81, G01, M14, I18, Q54, Q55, Q56, Q57
Bugeja, M, da Silva Rosa, R, Izan, HY & Ngan, S 2019, 'Choice of acquisition form in Australia and the post‐takeover employment of target firm directors on the acquiring firm board', Accounting & Finance, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 2235-2271.
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© 2017 AFAANZ In Australia, a corporate acquisition can be structured as either a scheme of arrangement or a takeover. We investigate the association between deal structure and the retention of target directors on the merged entity board. We find that the odds of a target director subsequently sitting on the merged entity's board are significantly higher in schemes. The results also show that premiums are lower in schemes of arrangement when additional target directors are appointed to the board of the acquiring firm. The findings indicate that target director appointment is unrelated to the merged entity's post-acquisition performance.
Burden, K, Kearney, M, Schuck, S & Burke, P 2019, 'Principles Underpinning Innovative Mobile Learning: Stakeholders’ Priorities', TechTrends, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 659-668.
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© 2019, Association for Educational Communications & Technology. This article discusses the results of a survey that measured school teachers’ and mobile learning (m-learning) experts’ perceptions of the relative importance and effectiveness of various pedagogical principles underpinning m-learning designs. A scan of relevant literature produced a set of articles describing effective innovative m-learning. Principles underpinning the learning activities in these articles were identified. These principles were then provided to respondents so that they could identify the most important ones relative to the others for designing effective and innovative m-learning tasks. A rigorous Best/Worst Scaling (BWS) survey was used to collect these data. This is the first time that a BWS has been conducted with regard to mobile pedagogical principles. Findings showed that principles related to authenticity were rated most important relative to other principles by the m-learning experts and principles related to personalisation and customisation were rated most important by practising teachers. Other principles that have been used in innovative m-learning designs, such as gamification and intergenerational learning, were seen as least important by all respondents. The findings will inform design of professional development activities, in particular, those pertaining to an app being developed in an Erasmus + project, Developing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies (DEIMP).
Cai, CW, Linnenluecke, MK, Marrone, M & Singh, AK 2019, 'Machine Learning and Expert Judgement: Analyzing Emerging Topics in Accounting and Finance Research in the Asia–Pacific', Abacus, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 709-733.
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Camilleri, A, Cam, M-A & Hoffmann, R 2019, 'Nudges and Signposts: The Effect of Smart Defaults and Pictographic Risk Information on Retirement Saving Investment Choices', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 431-449.
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The authors tested two interventions to improve retirement savings investment decisions. In an incentive‐compatible experiment, 459 participants engaged in a task simulating their working life. Periodically during the simulation, participants chose between different investment options. The authors examined the effectiveness of a “nudge” by manipulating the default option and the effectiveness of a “signpost” by manipulating the display of a pictograph summarizing the expected return of each option. Participants often followed the default option, particularly when it was “smart” (i.e., became more conservative as retirement approached) and when presented together with dynamic pictographs (i.e., updated each year assuming the investment was held until retirement). Those most likely to make optimal choices (i.e., consistent with the life cycle model) were presented with a smart default or dynamic pictographs. These findings reveal how different choice architecture interventions can be used to positively influence behavior. Retirement funds and regulators can support retirement savings decisions by the provision of smart defaults and better risk information in the form of pictographs.
Camilleri, A, Larrick, RP, Hossain, S & Echeverri, D 2019, 'Consumers Underestimate the Emissions Associated with Food but are Aided by Labels', Nature Climate Change, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 53-58.
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Camilleri, AR & Larrick, RP 2019, 'The collective aggregation effect: Aggregating potential collective action increases prosocial behavior.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 148, no. 3, pp. 550-569.
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Camilleri, AR & Newell, BR 2019, 'Better calibration when predicting from experience (rather than description)', Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 150, no. January, pp. 62-82.
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Carabetta, G 2019, ''Final Offer as a First Choice? Police Arbitration: A New Zealand Case Study'', Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 251-251.
Carabetta, G 2019, 'Regulating Labour Disputes in the Police Services: Legal and Practical Perspectives from Ontario and British Columbia, Canada', International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, vol. 35, no. Issue 4, pp. 427-453.
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Ontario and British Columbia, Canada, have not seen a police strike in living memory. The reason for this is the mandatory interest arbitration model adopted in the two provinces, which sees disputes that cannot be resolved by mutual bargaining referred to a panel of arbitrators who assess submissions in light of statutory criteria. Police officers, and the unions who represent them, have utilized this model to increase pay and improve working conditions often, employers say, without regard to ‘ability to pay.’ This article assesses that claim against the results that the model produces and how insiders understand the system as operating. Its conclusion is that interest arbitration has produced good results, especially for police and emergency workers and the community they serve, but the means of getting there have soured relations and may need reform to remain sustainable into the future.
Casavecchia, L & Ge, C 2019, 'Jack of all trades versus specialists: Fund family specialization and mutual fund performance', International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 63, pp. 69-85.
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Chan, EY & Wang, Y 2019, 'Mindfulness changes construal level: An experimental investigation.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 148, no. 9, pp. 1656-1664.
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Mindfulness involves paying attention to the present moment and accepting any thoughts or feelings that might arise without judgment. Mindfulness can influence a number of outcomes. Currently, we are interested if it influences people's level of mental construal. Two central dimensions of mindfulness (focusing on the present, and Openness to Experience) can lead to diverging predictions. While focusing on the present may produce a concrete construal level, openness to experience may facilitate an abstract construal level instead. We conducted 2 experiments to test the effect of a brief mindfulness induction on construal level. Mindfulness prompted participants to think more abstractly (Experiment 1), which was mediated by Openness to Experience (Experiment 2). Thus, mindfulness may prompt how people process information more broadly. We situate our research in the broader literature on mindfulness and reconcile our findings with previous work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Chan, EY & Zlatevska, N 2019, 'Is meat sexy? Meat preference as a function of the sexual motivation system', Food Quality and Preference, vol. 74, pp. 78-87.
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When their sexual motivation system is activated, men behave in ways that would increase their desirability as a mating partner to women. For example, they take greater risks and become more altruistic. We examine the possibility that men’s sexual motivation, when elicited, can influence their preference for meat because meat signals status to others, including women—and signalling status is one way to help men achieve their mating goals. We find support for this hypothesis in three studies involving consumption (Study 1) and preference (Studies 2 and 3) for meat. Men’s desire for status mediates their liking for meat. In contrast, when their sexual motivation system is activated, women like meat less, possibly since they pursue other strategies such as beauty and health to make themselves desirable to men. Thus, we suggest that evolutionary processes shape food preferences. We discuss the contributions and limitations of our results as well as practical implications for reducing meat consumption—to not only improve one’s physical health but food sustainability.
Chan, EY & Zlatevska, N 2019, 'Jerkies, tacos, and burgers: Subjective socioeconomic status and meat preference', Appetite, vol. 132, pp. 257-266.
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Chen, C & Ho, H 2019, 'Who pays you to be green? How customers' environmental practices affect the sales benefits of suppliers' environmental practices', Journal of Operations Management, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 333-352.
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Cheng, B, Nikitopoulos, CS & Schlögl, E 2019, 'Interest rate risk in long‐dated commodity options positions: To hedge or not to hedge?', Journal of Futures Markets, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 109-127.
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Cheng, M & Edwards, D 2019, 'A comparative automated content analysis approach on the review of the sharing economy discourse in tourism and hospitality', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 35-49.
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Using the sharing economy (SE) as the context, this article provides a coherent and nuanced methodological understanding of automated content analysis (ACA) in tourism and hospitality (TH) field. By adopting a comparative ACA approach, the paper compares the current TH Western academic literature of the SE with news media discourse in TH from the period 2011–2016 (August) (inclusive). The emerging issues from the news media discourse, such as mobility, SE companies and the role of government, are absent in current tourism academic research. Findings reveal that ACA can facilitate a more systematic comparison between different sources of data. This paper offers a starting point for tourism scholars to methodologically engage with ACA that can draw useful insights on a particular context.
Cheng, M & Foley, C 2019, 'Algorithmic management: The case of Airbnb', International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 83, pp. 33-36.
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Chowdhury, MMH, Agarwal, R & Quaddus, M 2019, 'Dynamic capabilities for meeting stakeholders' sustainability requirements in supply chain', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 215, pp. 34-45.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd In todays’ dynamically changing environment and competitive landscape, organisations are adopting sustainable practices for attaining long-term economic viability. However, there is a misalignment between sustainable practices and organisations’ strategies and capabilities, especially when sustainability requirements of the stakeholders changes over time. Grounded in dynamic capability view (DCV), this paper addresses the changes in supply chain sustainability requirements of stakeholders in the context of sourcing products from apparel manufacturers in a low cost country Bangladesh. To this end, this study develops a decision support (DS) framework for supply chain sustainability (SCS) that identifies and prioritises optimal strategies for SCS in a dynamic environment. This study adopts a mixed method approach, with the qualitative approach being a field study, and the quantitative approach using fuzzy Quality Function Deployment (QFD) integrated optimisation technique. Our DS framework addresses the stakeholders’ sustainability requirements over time in the context of a case company. The findings show that concomitant with the changes in the stakeholders’ priorities of the sustainability requirements, the organisational sustainability practices, strategies and capabilities also change over time. The SCS DS framework brings a richer conceptual understanding of the dynamic changes in stakeholder requirements and allow managers to choose and select optimal strategies and make astute decisions whilst balancing the economic, social and environmental viability simultaneously.
Chowdhury, MMH, Quaddus, M & Agarwal, R 2019, 'Supply chain resilience for performance: role of relational practices and network complexities', Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 659-676.
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PurposeFollowing a contingent resource-based view (CRBV) perspective, this paper aims to explore the operating context in which supply chain resilience (SCRE) is likely to enhance the supply chain performance (SCP) of organizations. More specifically, the authors developed the ‘Supply Chain Resilience’ model wherein we considered two important exogenous context variables (supply chain relational practices [SCRPs] and network complexities [NCs]) and studied their moderating roles on the relationship between SCRE and SCP. The authors also investigated the conditional effect of SCRE on SCP at different levels of SCRPs and NCs.Design/methodology/approachThis study used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. For the qualitative approach, a field study was undertaken, while the quantitative study was conducted via the use of a survey questionnaire of 274 apparel manufacturers and their suppliers in Bangladesh. The authors applied Hayes PROCESS enabled multiple regression analysis and structural equation modelling to statistically test the proposed research models.FindingsThe research findings revealed that SCRP and NC individually moderated the link between SCRE and SCP. The link between SCRE and SCP was strengthened via the interaction effect of SCRP and NC, even if the NC value was high.Practical implicationsThe findings will assist supply chain managers in managing supply chain performance during uncertainties by strengthening resilience capability at different levels of NCs and SCRPs.Originality/value
Chowdhury, NA, Ali, SM, Mahtab, Z, Rahman, T, Kabir, G & Paul, SK 2019, 'A structural model for investigating the driving and dependence power of supply chain risks in the readymade garment industry', Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol. 51, pp. 102-113.
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Clarke, T, Jarvis, W & Gholamshahi, S 2019, 'The impact of corporate governance on compounding inequality: Maximising shareholder value and inflating executive pay', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 63, pp. 102049-102049.
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This analysis considers the dimensions of financialisation of the international economy and how this has produced a more intensive and integrated mode of accumulation. With the increasing translation of Anglo-American listed corporations into financial entities, how the dominant shareholder primacy mode of corporate governance has served to compound inequality is examined. The damaging impact of maximising shareholder value is investigated, both in terms of the long term prospects of corporations, but also in aggressively producing increased inequality in the economy and society. Finally the ultimate paradoxical outcome of agency theory and shareholder value is highlighted as the explosion of executive reward in the last two decades in the Anglo-American countries. Finally the possibilities for reform and change towards more responsible and equitable approaches are considered.
Clegg, S 2019, 'Governmentality', Project Management Journal, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 266-270.
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Cohen, A & Nite, C 2019, 'Assessing Experiential Learning With a Critical Lens', Sport Management Education Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
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While previous studies in sport management have focused on the positive impacts of experiential learning, few have highlighted the difficulties or negative occurrences in an experiential learning–based course. Thus, the purpose of this study was to critically assess an experiential learning class in an effort to highlight strategies to enhance future classroom efforts. Three overarching themes emerged from the data that were deemed influential to student perceptions of the class: course structure, student investment, and classroom environment. Within each of these themes, the authors highlight the positive and negative experiences of students. Finally, they highlight strategies aimed to increase effectiveness and minimize negative outcomes in an experiential classroom setting.
Cohen, SN, Henckel, T, Menzies, GD, Muhle-Karbe, J & Zizzo, DJ 2019, 'Switching cost models as hypothesis tests', Economics Letters, vol. 175, pp. 32-35.
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We relate models based on costs of switching beliefs (e.g., due to inattention) to hypothesis tests. Specifically, for an inference problem with a penalty for mistakes and for switching the inferred value, a band of inaction is optimal. We show this band is equivalent to a confidence interval, and therefore to a two-sided hypothesis test.
Collins, J & Page, L 2019, 'The heritability of fertility makes world population stabilization unlikely in the foreseeable future', Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 105-111.
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© 2018 Elsevier Inc. The forecasting of the future growth of world population is of critical importance to anticipate and address a wide range of global challenges. The United Nations produces forecasts of fertility and world population every two years. As part of these forecasts, they model fertility levels in post-demographic transition countries as tending toward a long-term mean, leading to forecasts of flat or declining population in these countries. We substitute this assumption of constant long-term fertility with a dynamic model, theoretically founded in evolutionary biology, with heritable fertility. Rather than stabilizing around a long-term level for post-demographic transition countries, fertility tends to increase as children from larger families represent a larger share of the population and partly share their parents’ trait of having more offspring. Our results suggest that world population will grow larger in the future than currently anticipated.
Cunha, MPE & Clegg, S 2019, 'Improvisation in the learning organization: a defense of the infra-ordinary', The Learning Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 238-251.
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Purpose
This paper aims to describe the hidden presence of improvisation in organizations. The authors explore this presence through George Perec’s notion of the infra-ordinary applied to the study of the learning organization and its paradoxes.
Design/methodology/approach
Most studies of paradox and improvisation are qualitative and inductive. In this conceptual paper, the authors offer a conceptual debate aiming to redirect conceptual attention on studies belonging to the domains of learning, improvisation and paradox.
Findings
The authors defend the thesis that improvisation is an example of a paradoxical practice that belongs to the domain of infra-ordinary rather than, as has been habitually assumed in extant research, the extraordinary.
Research limitations/implications
The study draws research attention to the potential of the infra-ordinary in the domains of paradox, improvisation and learning.
Practical implications
For practice, the study shows that improvisation can be a relatively trivial organizational practice as people try to solve problems in their everyday lives.
Social implications
Most organizations depend upon the capacity of their members to solve problems as these emerge. Yet, organization theory has failed to consider this dimension. As a result, organizations may be unintentionally harming their capacity to learn and adapt to environments by assuming that improvisation is...
Cunha, MPE, Neves, P, Clegg, SR, Costa, S & Rego, A 2019, 'Paradoxes of organizational change in a merger context', Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 217-240.
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PurposeThe reorganization of the Portuguese national healthcare system around networks of hospital centers was advanced for reasons promoted as those of effectiveness and efficiency and initially presented as an opportunity for organizational transcendence through synergy. The purpose of this paper is to study transcendence as felt by the authors’ participants to create knowledge about the process.Design/methodology/approachThe paper consists of an inductive approach aimed at exploring the lived experience of transcendence. The authors collected data via interviews, observations, informal conversations and archival data, in order and followed the logic of grounded theory to build theory on transcendence as process.FindingsTranscendence, however, failed to deliver its promise; consequently, the positive vision inscribed in it was subsequently re-inscribed in the system as another lost opportunity, contributing to an already unfolding vicious circle of mistrust and cynicism. The study contributes to the literature on organizational paradoxes and its effects on the reproduction of vicious circles.Practical implicationsThe search for efficiency and effectiveness through strategies of transcendence often entails managing paradoxical tensions.Social implicationsThe case was researched during the global financial crisis, which as austerity gripped the southern Eurozone gave rise to governmental decisions aimed at improving the efficiency of organizational healthcare resources. There was a sequence of advances...
Cunha, MPE, Simpson, AV, Clegg, SR & Rego, A 2019, 'Speak! Paradoxical Effects of a Managerial Culture of ‘Speaking Up’', British Journal of Management, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 829-846.
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We explore the intrinsic ambiguity of speaking up in a multinational healthcare subsidiary. A culture change initiative, emphasising learning and agility through encouraging employees to speak up, gave rise to paradoxical effects. Some employees interpreted a managerial tool for improving effectiveness as an invitation to raise challenging points of difference rather than as something 'beneficial for the organization'. We show that the process of introducing a culture that aims to encourage employees to speak up can produce tensions and contradictions that make various types of organizational paradoxes salient. Telling people to "Speak up!" may render paradoxical tensions salient and even foster a sense of low PsySafe.
Czernkowski, R & Lim, S 2019, 'Community Asset Valuations by Non‐profit Government Entities', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 556-579.
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© 2018 CPA Australia Ltd (CPA Australia). This paper examines an implication of applying International Financial Reporting Standards to the government sector in Australia. We posit both a self-interest and a transparency motivation for local governments effecting revaluations of both infrastructure assets and community land. The self-interest motivation was expected to manifest as a relationship between the amount of revaluation and CEO (or management team) remuneration. The transparency motivation was expected to result in a relationship between revaluation and the extent of spending on these assets, measured as both the quantum of materials and contracts expense, and as the quantum of contracts awarded by the entity above the disclosure threshold. We also speculated that revaluations may be used to signal to state governments a need for additional funds through capital and/or operating grants. At conventional levels of significance, we find no support for these relationships, suggesting that agency motivations at the local government level are either more subtle or non-existent. As local government authorities in our study follow a reporting framework and standardised accounting procedures prescribed by the state government (in compliance with applicable AASB/IFRS standards), financial and public accountabilities are also likely to be a driver for the valuation of local infrastructure assets at fair value, and this is not likely to be undermined by the opportunistic incentives we have considered.
Czernkowski, R, Kean, S & Lim, S 2019, 'Impact of ASX corporate governance guidelines on sustainability reporting', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 692-724.
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Purpose
This paper aims to examine the impact of the Australian Securities Exchange Corporate Governance recommendations on the breadth (amount of items covered) of (environmental and social) sustainability reporting by the firms in the Top 100, around the change from G3.1 to G4 disclosure regimes.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper undertakes comparisons of means and regression models to investigate the changes between disclosure scores of 98 listed entities from the 2013 G3.1 to the 2015 G4 disclosure regimes.
Findings
This paper finds that average disclosure levels did not change. Nonetheless, disclosure practices did vary by entity size and performance. Analysis of 2015 disclosures contingent on 2013 disclosure practice indicates that disclosure changes are consistent with a pattern of mean reversion.
Practical implications
Evidence that low disclosers increased disclosure and high disclosers reduced disclosers is consistent with the idea that sustainability disclosure is not so much driven by any ethical considerations, but rather by a desire to not be a disclosure outlier. Reliance on voluntary disclosure to achieve a socially desired level of disclosure is unlikely to bear fruit.
Originality/value
This paper contributes to the literature on sustainability by examining firm responses to change in disclosure regimes, and concluding that size and peer relativities drive the disclosure process.
Dalton, B & Jung, K 2019, 'Becoming cosmopolitan women while negotiating structurally limited choices: The case of Korean migrant sex workers in Australia', Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 355-370.
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International labor mobility holds the promise that one can become a cosmopolitan citizen of the world. But this interpretation of mobility rarely features in research and media focused on Asian women who travel and engage in sex work. In both arenas, the dominant narrative is that migrant sex workers are poor, the victims of sex trafficking, and pose a risk to public health. This narrative is laced with Orientalist overtones of the Asian sex worker as the alluringly exotic ‘other’, passive and particularly vulnerable, and in need of rescue. However, the interviews of 11 Korean women sex workers based in Sydney, Australia, challenge this narrative. These women engaged in a transnational quest to become cosmopolitan citizens of the world, albeit making logical choices from structurally limited options shaped by their multiple identities as women, sex workers, and Korean, and their relative precarious position in the Australian labor market. Their stories highlight how migration and work can be an agentic process of self-expression and self-actualization of identity. This identity has emerged against the backdrop of shifting meanings and practices of social reproduction in Korea, a country that has experienced a highly compressed transition from developing, to modern capitalist state. Theoretically, the article draws on post-colonial feminist theory to shed light into the conflicting views on migrant sex workers in existing research, by focusing on the women’s voices, which have been neglected or silenced.
Dang, QT, Jasovska, P, Rammal, HG & Schlenker, K 2019, 'Formal-informal channels of university-industry knowledge transfer: the case of Australian business schools', Knowledge Management Research & Practice, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 384-395.
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The transfer of knowledge between university and industry is a significant activity that is facilitated by government policy and incentives. Australian universities have a global reputation for excellence in research and training. However, the country’s low score in innovation ranking has prompted the government and industry bodies to emphasise the importance of and provide support to high-quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. We study the knowledge transfer practices of 10 Australian universities and provide insights into how these universities, and in particular the Business Schools, respond to the funding cuts faced by the university sector. We find that the universities use both formal (research centres, incubators, and contract-research and commercialisation) and informal channels (internships, mentoring, industry talks, transdisciplinary research platforms, collaborative Ph.D. programs, and industry training programs) to transfer knowledge with industry partners.
Darcy, S 2019, 'Leisure with impact: research, human rights, and advocacy in a reflective review of a research career', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 273-285.
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© 2019, © 2019 Australia and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies. This paper presents the key messages from a keynote address I delivered to the 2017 Australia and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies conference held in Hobart Tasmania, December 2017. In this paper, I reflect on the heuristic learnings from the role of research in addressing critical social issues in leisure and ‘cultural life’. I do so by examining my very deliberate choice to undertake industry-linked research addressing issues involving human rights, social inclusion and giving voice to marginalized groups. As an insider to these voices, I know that research itself does little to address social inequality unless there is a deliberate action by academics to translate research into outcomes through political engagement, challenging organizational practice and communicating the results publicly beyond the paywall of refereed journals. Yet, this type of academic research advocate does not fit easily within neoliberal performance-based metrics that are narrowly defined within disciplinary boundaries of contemporary higher education. As I will explain there are other rich rewards in stepping outside of these boundaries while still doing trustworthy, rigorous, theoretical investigations with high-quality traditional academic outputs. The paper presents a case study of research examining the participation and non-participation of people with disability in sport and active recreation.
Darcy, S, Yerbury, H & Maxwell, H 2019, 'Disability citizenship and digital capital: the case of engagement with a social enterprise telco', Information, Communication & Society, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 538-553.
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper explores a major initiative where a not-for-profit organisation (NPO), government seed funding and a major private sector telecommunications company developed a smart phone technology platform people with disability and established a social enterprise directly connected to the not-for-profit. The paper’s purpose is to answer questions about the ways in which the mobile technology, seen here as assistive technologies, supported the development of disability citizenship and active citizenship. Data were collected through in-depth interviews conducted at three points in the 13-week programme during which participants with disability received customised support for their phone and training in its use, at no cost. Fifteen participants volunteered to take part in the research project, along with their significant other and service provider. Key themes were identified in the preliminary analysis. Exploring these using Ragnedda’s ([2017]. The third digital divide: A Weberian approach to digital inequalities. Abingdon: Routledge) three levels of digital divide, Wilson’s ([2006]. The information revolution and developing countries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) categories of access and Kahn’s ([1966]. Neighborhood Information Centers: A study and some proposals. New York: Columbia University School of Social Work) citizenship-oriented typology of information service provision allowed a series of philosophical, ethical and human services management questions to emerge, challenging the optimism with which the digital economy is presented as a solution to issues of inequality. Although the mobile technologies were very successful as assistive technologies for some participants, the findings reinforced the potential for such technologies to further entrench aspects of social exclusion. They also identified ways in which the shift in the role of the NPO to social entrepreneurship, and its relationshi...
Das, SK, Rahman, M, Paul, SK, Armin, M, Roy, PN & Paul, N 2019, 'High-Performance Robust Controller Design of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle for Frequency Regulation of Smart Grid Using Linear Matrix Inequality Approach', IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 116911-116924.
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Davis, ER & Wilson, R 2019, '“Not so globalised”: contrasting media discourses on education and competitiveness in four countries', Journal of Asia Business Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 155-176.
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PurposeThis paper aims to analyse contrasting discourses on education and competitiveness from four countries to show the different national values that are a key driver in economic development.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses content analysis to compare and contrast the newspaper discourse surrounding the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in four countries with above OECD average performance: Japan and South Korea (improving performance) and Australia and Finland (declining performance). PISA has attracted much government and public attention because it reflects education and the economic value of that education.FindingsThere are key contrasts in the discourses of the four countries. Despite shifts to globalised perspectives on education, strong national and cultural differences remain. Educational competitiveness and economic competitiveness are strong discourses in Japan and South Korea, while in Australia and Finland, the focus is on educational competitiveness. The media in Finland has few references to economic competitiveness and it does not feature in Australia. The discourse themes on PISA from 2001 to 2015 are presented with trends in educational attainment and shifting national perspectives on education.Research limitations/implicationsAnalysis is limited to the top two circulation newspapers in English language in each country over 2001 to 2015. These newspapers in Finland, Japan and South Korea include translated content from local language papers.Originality/value<...
Delavande, A & Zafar, B 2019, 'Gender Discrimination and Social Identity: Evidence from Urban Pakistan', Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 1-40.
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This paper uses economic experiments to investigate how gender discrimination depends on the social identities of interacting parties. We randomly matched students pursuing bachelor-equivalent degrees in different institution types that represent distinct identities within Pakistani society. Our main finding is that gender discrimination is not uniform and varies as a function of the social identity of the matched individuals. While men of higher socioeconomic status (SES) exhibit no gender discrimination, men of lower SES and higher religiosity discriminate against women but only women with lower SES who are closest to them in social distance. This discrimination is largely taste based.
Delavande, A & Zafar, B 2019, 'University Choice: The Role of Expected Earnings, Nonpecuniary Outcomes, and Financial Constraints', Journal of Political Economy, vol. 127, no. 5, pp. 2343-2393.
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We investigate the determinants of students’ university choice in Pakistan, with a focus on monetary returns, nonpecuniary factors enjoyed at school, and financial constraints. To mitigate the identification problem concerning the separation of preferences, expectations, and market constraints, we use rich data on subjective expectations, with direct measures of financial constraints, to estimate a life-cycle model of school choice jointly with school-specific expectations of dropping out. We find that labor market prospects play a small role. Instead, nonpecuniary outcomes, such as the school’s ideology, are the major determinants. Policy simulations suggest that relaxing financial constraints would have large welfare gains.
Domínguez Vila, T, Alén González, E & Darcy, S 2019, 'Accessible tourism online resources: a Northern European perspective', Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 140-156.
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© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Increasing market opportunities have been identified for accessible tourism as a result of improved quality of life. Disabled tourists tend to be loyal, spend more and enjoy longer stays in their destinations, although their behaviour obviously differs from one country to another. This situation is strongly influenced by the welfare policies that determine the disability model implemented and affect the extent to which disabled people are integrated into day-to-day. Northern European countries are regarded as champions in this respect. When disabled people travel, access to information is important. Information is present throughout the tourism process, not only as a communication and marketing channel, but also as a transmitter of experiences. This study seeks to establish whether the policies and regulations that govern disabled people’s access to online tourist information are applied correctly. The official tourism websites of northern European countries were analysed to this end; whereby different patterns were identified regarding their compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The atypical features of Norway’s official tourism website were found to be particularly noteworthy, as were the official tourism websites for Germany and the United Kingdom, two of the countries with the largest market share of accessible tourism.
Dwyer, L 2019, 'Economic assessment of special events: a perspective article', Tourism Review, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 191-193.
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Purpose
This paper aims to provide a perspective on the economic assessment of special events.
Design/methodology/approach
Three main approaches to the economic evaluation of special events are distinguished. These are: standard economic impact analysis, computable general equilibrium modelling, and cost benefit analysis. An historical account of the use of these approaches is given together with a discussion of the advantages and limitations of each.
Findings
An important conclusion is that the evaluation of special events should go beyond economic impact analysis in favour of a more comprehensive “hybrid” assessment.
Originality/value
The paper puts event evaluation into perspective and points to a promising future direction of study. An expected outcome of the use of hybrid models is a narrowing of the divide between practitioners and theorists regarding best practice event evaluation to the benefit of all stakeholders.
Dwyer, L & Forsyth, P 2019, 'Evaluating Special Events: Merging Two Essential Approaches', Event Management, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 897-911.
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In special event evaluation, given the shift away from standard economic impact analysis based on input–output modeling, increased attention is being paid to the roles that computable general equilibrium modeling (CGE) and cost–benefit analysis (CBA) can play in event evaluation.
This article analyzes the strengths and limitations of CGE and CBA in the context of event assessment. A 'hybrid' approach is outlined which includes a role for the advantages of both techniques to be included in the evaluation process. The issues addressed are theoretically important for
both impact and benefit estimation, while having significant practical implications for event assessment.
Dwyer, L & Gill, EA 2019, 'COASTAL AND MARINE TOURISM: ADDRESSING SOME WICKED PROBLEMS', Acta turistica, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 213-242.
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Dwyer, L, Chen, NC & Lee, JJ 2019, 'The role of place attachment in tourism research', Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 645-652.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Place attachment has become an important concept in tourism-related research, with substantial relevance for the nature of the human-place relationship and behavioural intentions and outcomes. Following a review of the place attachment literature in tourism, this article reviews the studies on the conceptualisation of place attachment, its antecedents and influencing outcomes, and explores its potential in the areas of sustainable tourism, destination resilience, and destination competitiveness.
Fahad, N, Ma, N & Scott, T 2019, 'The Consequences of Discount Rate Selection for Defined Benefit Liabilities', Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 100184-100184.
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© 2020 This paper provides evidence on the use of discount rates for calculating defined benefit liabilities (DBL), and their impact on value relevance and audit fees for Australian listed companies between 2011 and 2016. We document that the average discount rate is 3.96% but the yearly range across companies is 4.03% (2.76% excluding multinationals with multiple plans), despite the fact that AASB 119 provides guidance to use the yield of high quality corporate bonds or, if there is not a deep market, government bonds. We then find that the DBL or unfunded component (DBL less the fair value of the plan's assets) is value relevant, but is less so when a higher discount rate is used. Furthermore, we document that audit fees are higher when the DBL is larger, or the discount rate is higher, consistent with greater audit effort and risk. Overall, this paper contributes to the accounting literature by documenting both the discretion available in discount rate selection and its consequences.
Fee, A, McGrath-Champ, S & Berti, M 2019, 'Protecting expatriates in hostile environments: institutional forces influencing the safety and security practices of internationally active organisations', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 1709-1736.
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Ferguson, A, Lam, P & Ma, N 2019, 'Further Evidence on Mandatory Partner Rotation and Audit Pricing: A Supply‐Side Perspective', Accounting & Finance, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1055-1100.
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Fitzgerald, S, McGrath-Champ, S, Stacey, M, Wilson, R & Gavin, M 2019, 'Intensification of teachers’ work under devolution: A ‘tsunami’ of paperwork', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 613-636.
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Australian public school teachers work some of the longest weekly hours among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, particularly in the state of New South Wales where average hours are officially in, or near, the statistical category of ‘very long working hours’. These reports of a high workload have occurred alongside recent policy moves that seek to devolve responsibility for schooling, augmenting teacher and school-level accountability. This article explores changes in work demands experienced by New South Wales teachers. As part of a larger project on schools as workplaces, we examine teaching professionals’ views through interviews with teacher union representatives. Consistent with a model of work intensification, workload increases were almost universally reported, primarily in relation to ‘paperwork’ requirements. However, differences in the nature of intensification were evident when data were disaggregated according to socio-educational advantage, level of schooling (primary or secondary) and location. The distinct patterns of work intensification that emerge reflect each school’s relative advantage or disadvantage within the school marketplace, influenced by broader neoliberal reforms occurring within the state and nation.
Fleming, P 2019, 'Robots and Organization Studies: Why Robots Might Not Want to Steal Your Job', Organization Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 23-38.
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A number of recent high-profile studies of robotics and artificial intelligence (or AI) in economics and sociology have predicted that many jobs will soon disappear due to automation, with few new ones replacing them. While techno-optimists and techno-pessimists contest whether a jobless future is a positive development or not, this paper points to the elephant in the room. Despite successive waves of computerization (including advanced machine learning), jobs have not disappeared. And probably won’t in the near future. To explain why, some basic insights from organization studies can make a contribution. I propose the concept of ‘bounded automation’ to demonstrate how organizational forces mould the application of technology in the employment sector. If work does not vanish in the age of AI, then poorly paid jobs will most certainly proliferate, I argue. Finally, a case is made for the scholarly community to engage with wider social justice concerns. This I term public organization studies.
Fleming, P, Rhodes, C & Yu, K-H 2019, 'On why Uber has not taken over the world', Economy and Society, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 488-509.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Today it is common to see news headlines decrying the wildfire spread of the ‘gig economy’. We ask the exact opposite question: why aren’t more jobs now conducted via labour-based digital platforms, the primary method used in the gig economy? Surveys in the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere indicate that gig work remains a very minor component of the labour market, and certainly isn’t overshadowing either regular employment or the contingent workforce (e.g. on-demand, part-time, contract, seasonal). The size of the gig economy is probably exaggerated because it is conflated with casual work per se (which has indeed grown) and non-labour platforms. Our paper argues that a central reason why labour-based digital platforms produce so few jobs is because it is inspired by a purist version of neoliberal capitalism, reductio ad absurdum, including strict market individualism and anti-unionism. This renders the gig economy unsustainable on its own terms, revealing its basic internal limits. The gig economy is a potent and dangerous pro-market fantasy, yet one whose imagined perfection is unsuitable to the realities of work on a large scale, hence why it has not proliferated more widely, thriving on the fringes instead.
Forseth, U, Clegg, S & Røyrvik, EA 2019, 'Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices', Valuation Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 31-61.
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This paper explores the trajectory of a novel evaluation device for customer satisfaction with service encounters and the performance of financial advisors. Drawing on literature on quantification and commensuration, boundary objects and bipartite collaboration, we explore the set-up and collaboration between employer and trade union in the design phase and the actual use and translation of the valuation system. The data stems from a multi-year, multi-site study of banking in two Nordic countries. The analysis illustrates how, when some operational managers started using the device to suit their own purposes, the process morphed from an initial agreement into a dispute. The paper shows how quantitative systems of evaluation easily diverge from their initially proposed purposes when in use, producing reactivity and resistance among organizational members. Some financial advisors were positive about the evaluation device and the opportunity it afforded to improve performance, whereas others regarded it as another surveillance attempt for enhancing management control. We also contribute to the literature by elaborating on the relationship between reactivity and resistance on individual and collective levels.
Gaim, M, Clegg, SR & Cunha, MP 2019, 'The False Mastery of Paradox: The Case of Volkswagen Emissions Scandal', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2019, no. 1, pp. 13355-13355.
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Garbarino, E, Slonim, R & Villeval, MC 2019, 'Loss aversion and lying behavior', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 158, pp. 379-393.
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Gavin, M 2019, 'Working industrially or professionally? What strategies should teacher unions use to improve teacher salaries in neoliberal times?', Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 19-33.
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Ghannam, S, Bugeja, M, Matolcsy, ZP & Spiropoulos, H 2019, 'Are Qualified and Experienced Outside Directors Willing to Join Fraudulent Firms and If So, Why?', The Accounting Review, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 205-227.
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We investigate whether qualified and experienced directors are willing to join firms following the revelation of financial fraud. Specifically, we focus on directors with prior board experience and accounting and legal experts. We find that, notwithstanding the tarnished reputation of fraudulent firms and a higher workload, qualified and experienced directors join the boards of such firms. Subsequent to joining fraudulent firms, directors are rewarded with additional future board seats and benefit from higher compensation. We rule out alternative explanations and verify the robustness of the results by performing a variety of tests, including propensity score matching and difference-in-differences analysis.
JEL Classifications: G30; G34.
Ghannam, S, Matolcsy, ZP, Spiropoulos, H & Thai, N 2019, 'The influence of powerful non-executive Chairs in Mergers and acquisitions', Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 87-104.
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Gorgi, P, Koopman, SJ & Li, M 2019, 'Forecasting economic time series using score-driven dynamic models with mixed-data sampling', International Journal of Forecasting, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1735-1747.
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We introduce a mixed-frequency score-driven dynamic model for multiple time series where the score contributions from high-frequency variables are transformed by means of a mixed-data sampling weighting scheme. The resulting dynamic model delivers a flexible and easy-to-implement framework for the forecasting of low-frequency time series variables through the use of timely information from high-frequency variables.
We verify in-sample and out-of-sample performances of the model in an empirical study on the forecasting of U.S. headline inflation and GDP growth. In particular, we forecast monthly headline inflation using daily oil prices and quarterly GDP growth using a measure of financial risk. The forecasting results and other findings are promising. Our
proposed score-driven dynamic model with mixed-data sampling weighting outperforms competing models in terms of point and density forecasts.
Hafalir, I & Kurnaz, M 2019, 'Discriminatory auctions with resale', Economic Theory Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 173-189.
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We consider multi-unit discriminatory auctions where ex ante symmetric bidders have single-unit demands and resale is allowed after the bidding stage. When bidders use the optimal auction to sell items in the resale stage, the equilibrium in the auction without resale is no longer an equilibrium in an auction with resale. We find a symmetric and monotone equilibrium when there are two units for sale, and, interestingly, we show that there may not be a symmetric and monotone equilibrium if there are more than two units.
Håkonsen Coldevin, G, Carlsen, A, Clegg, S, Pitsis, TS & Antonacopoulou, EP 2019, 'Organizational creativity as idea work: Intertextual placing and legitimating imaginings in media development and oil exploration', Human Relations, vol. 72, no. 8, pp. 1369-1397.
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How do we understand the nature of organizational creativity when dealing with complex, composite ideas rather than singular ones? In response to this question, we problematize assumptions of the linearity of creative processes and the singularity of ideas in mainstream creativity theory. We draw on the work of Bakhtin and longitudinal research in two contrasting cases: developing hydrocarbon prospects and concepts for films and TV series. From these two cases, we highlight two forms of work on ideas: (i) intertextual placing, whereby focal ideas are constituted by being connected to other elements in a larger idea field; and (ii) legitimating imaginings, where ideas of what to do are linked to ideas of what is worth doing and becoming. This ongoing constitution and legitimating is not confined to particular stages but takes place in practices of generating, connecting, communicating, evaluating and reshaping ideas, which we call idea work. The article contributes to a better understanding of the processual character of creativity and the deeply intertextual nature of ideas, including the multiplicity of idea content and shifting parts–whole relationships. Idea work also serves to explore the neglected role of co-optative power in creativity.
Han, J, Linnenluecke, MK, Pan, ZT & Smith, T 2019, 'The wealth effects of the announcement of the Australian carbon pricing scheme', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 53, pp. 399-409.
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Harper, E & Wilson, R 2019, 'Gendered Differences in Australian Toddlers’ Clothing', The International Journal of Diverse Identities, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 15-30.
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Harrison, B, Foley, C, Edwards, D & Donaghy, G 2019, 'Outcomes and challenges of an international convention centre's local procurement strategy', Tourism Management, vol. 75, pp. 328-339.
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Opportunities exist for organisations in urban environments to adopt strategies to support struggling rural communities. In the food sector, organisations can engage small local suppliers via a targeted short food supply chain procurement program. We report on an Australian case study in which a large international convention centre has committed to support small local suppliers by engaging them to provide their fresh produce requirements. This article contributes to the literature on the benefits and challenges of a short food supply chain approach to procurement. We argue that despite an incongruent and novel relationship between a large consumer and small local suppliers that there are several reasons to encourage such a collaboration including reduction of market volatility, increased direct expenditure, employment opportunities, and improved environmental sustainability practices. We identify potential opportunities and issues for both parties to consider in relation to risk, collaboration and trust.
He, W, Sidhu, B & Taylor, SL 2019, 'Audit Quality and Properties of Analysts’ Information Environment', Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, vol. 46, no. 3-4, pp. 400-419.
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd We consider how audit quality impacts sell-side analysts’ information environment. Using the method outlined by Barron et al., we examine whether higher audit quality is associated with differences in the weight analysts place on common information relative to private information, as well as the extent to which audit quality separately impacts the precision of analysts’ private and common information. Our results show that, in instances where analysts revise their earnings forecasts for year t+1 shortly after the release of year t earnings, higher audit quality results in analysts placing more weight on public information. The precision of private (as well as public) information is improved. These results extend our understanding of how audit quality impacts on attributes of analysts’ forecasts and provides support for the argument that audit quality has important capital market implications.
Henckel, T, Menzies, GD, Moffatt, P & Zizzo, DJ 2019, 'Three dimensions of central bank credibility and inferential expectations: The Euro zone', Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 60, pp. 294-308.
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We use the behavior of inflation among Eurozone countries to provide information about the degree of credibility of the European Central Bank (ECB) since 2008. We define credibility along three dimensions–official target credibility, cohesion credibility and anchoring credibility–and show in a new econometric framework that the latter has deteriorated in recent history; that is, price setters are less likely to rely on the ECB target when forming inflation expectations.
Hepworth, K 2019, 'A Panopticon on My Wrist: The Biopower of Big Data Visualization for Wearables', Design and Culture, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 323-344.
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Herold, DM, Breitbarth, T, Schulenkorf, N & Kummer, S 2019, 'Sport logistics research: reviewing and line marking of a new field', The International Journal of Logistics Management, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 357-379.
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Purpose
Although logistics management is a crucial part of local and global sports events, there is no research-driven characterization of “sports logistics management”. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a framework that allows for a more structured recognition of logistics in sports, in general, and sport event management, in particular. In addition, we conduct a systematic literature review of sports logistics management and locate opportunities for future research both for sports management and logistics management scholars.
Design/methodology/approach
Guided by Durach et al.’s (2017) systematic literature review approach, we identify key attributes and characteristics of sports logistics management. These are based on studies featuring at least partial aspects of logistics management in sports and sport events, and that were published between 2000 and mid-2019.
Findings
The study reveals that sports logistics management – meaning logistics activities in sports and sport event management – is a heavily under-researched area that provides an abundance of scientific opportunities. Based on the three sport event types of local/regional sport events, major sport events and mega sport events, the authors propose four sports logistics management pillars that are central to the proposed Sport Logistics Framework: venue logistics management, sports equipment logistics management, athletes logistics management, and fan and spectators logistics management.
Practical implications
By providing a conceptual framework for sports logistics, the authors progress tow...
Ho, H & Ito, K 2019, 'Consumption-oriented engagement in social network sites', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1355-1377.
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Purpose
Mounting empirical evidence shows that engagement in social network sites (SNSs) could have a negative impact on users’ personal well-being. However, studies of the undesirable effects of SNS use have not examined SNSs as a channel for users to share consumption information and experiences. To extend prior research, this study aims to examine the impact of consumption-oriented engagement (COE) in SNSs on young adult consumers’ personal well-being in terms of anxiety and self-esteem, as well as excessive spending.
Design/methodology/approach
Surveys were the primary means of data collection from a sample of young college students (N = 900). Moderated hierarchical regression was used to test the hypotheses.
Findings
COE is positively associated with anxiety and excessive spending and negatively associated with self-esteem. Social comparison mediates these relationships, and individuals’ materialistic values moderate the mediation.
Research limitations/implications
This study demonstrates the psychological and behavioral outcomes of consumer socialization via digital media among young adult consumers. It introduces and empirically validates social comparison as a theoretical explanation for the effects of COE. In addition, it validates materialistic values as a personal trait that moderates the effects of COE.
Practical implications
The study validates COE as a key precursor to the well-being of young adult users of SNSs and social comparison as the mediator. Wi...
Ho, H, Shin, W & Lwin, MO 2019, 'Social Networking Site Use and Materialistic Values Among Youth: The Safeguarding Role of the Parent-Child Relationship and Self-Regulation', Communication Research, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1119-1144.
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Social networking sites (SNSs) have become common avenues for young people to share their life experience with peers, including their consumption experience. Although prior research on the media effects of SNSs has shown how online communication on SNSs promotes various volitional behaviors, current understanding is limited with respect to how young people’s use of SNSs is associated with their consumption experience and materialistic values. This study examines how SNS use related to consumption experience is associated with materialistic values among young adults and how their social perceptions mediate such association. This investigation also proposes that young adults’ self-regulation and close relationships with parents would buffer the impact of SNS use. Survey data gathered from 903 youths in Singapore lend strong empirical support to the hypotheses proposed. Implications are discussed.
Hoek, J, Gendall, P, Eckert, C, Louviere, J, Blank, M-L & Thrasher, JF 2019, 'Young adult susceptible non-smokers’ and smokers’ responses to capsule cigarettes', Tobacco Control, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 498-505.
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BackgroundFlavour capsule cigarette variants (FCVs), which allow users to customise their smoking experience and reduce the harshness of smoking, have captured an increasing share of many markets. We examined tobacco companies’ argument that such product innovations aim simply to shift market share, by estimating smokers’ and susceptible non-smokers’ responses to FCVs.MethodsWe conducted an online survey of 425 smokers (daily and non-daily), susceptible non-smokers (n=224) and former smokers (n=166) aged between 18 and 25. Restrpondents completed a choice experiment, a behavioural probability measure and a perception task. We analysed the choice data using a conditional logistic regression and a rank-ordered logistic regression, and the probability and perception data using t-tests and descriptive statistics.ResultsNon-smokers preferred an FCV relative to an unflavoured cigarette, whereas the opposite was the case for smokers. Susceptible non-smokers and former smokers were more likely to try a fruit flavoured FCV than an unflavoured stick, while daily smokers were more likely than non-daily smokers to do the same. Susceptible non-smokers, former smokers and non-daily smokers also had more positive perceptions of FCVs relative to unflavoured sticks than did daily smokers.ConclusionsFCVs appeal more to non-smokers than to smokers, and more to non-daily smokers than to daily smokers. They thus appear likely to recruit non-smokers and potentially increase overall smoking prevalence. Policy responses include ensuring standardised packaging legislation disallows FCVs by specifically regulating the appearance and design of tobacco products, or introducing bespoke regulation that addresses the threat posed by FCVs.
Hoekman, MJ, Schulenkorf, N & Welty Peachey, J 2019, 'Re-engaging local youth for sustainable sport-for-development', Sport Management Review, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 613-625.
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Despite increasing evidence that sport-for-development (SFD) programs can contribute to community development, there remains a lack of empirical inquiry into different socio-managerial aspects of SFD. For example, in attempts to achieve locally sustained SFD programs, the roles, responsibilities and potential impact of re-engaged youth need further investigation. The authors define re-engaged youth as previous program participants who have maintained strong links with the organization and who return to the program at a later stage as volunteers or staff members. In this paper, the authors examine ways in which Re-engaged youth of the Blue Dragon Children Foundation's SFD program contribute to sustainable management and indirectly to community development within a disadvantaged community setting in Hanoi, Vietnam. Following an interpretive mode of inquiry, the authors conducted and analyzed two focus groups (six participants each) and 12 in-depth interviews with re-engaged youth (n = 7) and key program stakeholders (n = 5). Overall, re-engaged youth represented key drivers for organizational success; they served as program culture experts, role models, leaders and mentors, and creators of a family feel in SFD and beyond. The authors argue that re-engaged youth are demonstrating a number of important change agent capabilities that enable them to uniquely gauge and best respond to the needs of program participants and local communities in complex sociocultural environments.
Hoffmann, R, Cam, M-A & Camilleri, AR 2019, 'Deciding to invest responsibly: Choice architecture and demographics in an incentivised retirement savings experiment', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, vol. 80, pp. 219-230.
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Josserand, E & Kaine, S 2019, 'Different directions or the same route? The varied identities of ride-share drivers', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 549-573.
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In this article we draw on personal narratives to study the identity work conducted by ride-share drivers to make sense of their occupational identity that is made problematic by the ambiguity of their legal classification and the precarious nature of their material conditions. Our contribution is twofold. First, we reveal the specificity of the identity work conducted by gig workers in comparison to other groups of workers such as employees and independent workers. We uncover the narratives that gig workers use to construct a coherent discourse that accommodates the trade-offs that their occupation involves. Second, we provide an understanding of the experience of gig workers. We adopt the term ‘sub-entrepreneur’ to refer to a type of independent contractor who experiences less freedom than those with true entrepreneurial scope and autonomy in their work. This definition assists in our reflection on our findings in relation to the future of gig workers, gig work and gig platforms.
Kaine, S & Josserand, E 2019, 'The organisation and experience of work in the gig economy', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 479-501.
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The gig economy has captured public and policy interest and is growing as an area of academic inquiry, prompting debate about the future of work, labour regulation, and the impact of technology and job quality. This special issue provides a timely intervention into that debate with this article providing an introductory overview, positioning the articles within a comprehensive literature review of existing scholarship on the gig economy. These articles add to our understanding of the organisation and experience of work in the digitally enabled gig economy in a variety of national settings. They explore aspects such as job quality, forms of collectivity, identity development, and algorithmic management and control. This article also delineates avenues for further research regarding conditions for gig workers, the impact of gig work and information, technology and gig work.
Kearney, M, Burke, PF & Schuck, S 2019, 'The iPAC Scale: A Survey to Measure Distinctive Mobile Pedagogies', TechTrends, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 751-764.
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This paper develops and examines a scale to capture teachers’ views of the mobile pedagogies they are adopting. Mobile pedagogies refer to the practices and approaches teachers use that involve mobile technologies to support learning. A mobile technology is any portable, handheld technology that potentially supports learning and includes laptops, tablets and smartphones. This study develops a rigorous scale to capture mobile pedagogies adopted in mobile learning tasks designed by teachers. In particular, the scale focuses on measuring pedagogies related to the iPAC framework which comprises three overarching dimensions of m-learning: personalisation, authenticity and collaboration (PAC). Each dimension has a pair of sub-components associated with it (for personalisation: agency and customisation; for authenticity: context and task; for collaboration: conversation and co-creation). The reliability and validity of a 20-item scale is assessed. A measure of overall m-learning experiences was also established and found to be significantly predicted by m-learning pedagogy. We also report on differences between teachers in m-learning practice with respect to subject area and year of schooling.
Kettlewell, N 2019, 'Risk preference dynamics around life events', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 162, pp. 66-84.
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Using a panel of Australians I estimate the dynamic relationship between common life events and risk preferences. Changes in financial circumstances, parenthood and family loss predict changes in risk preferences. Importantly the effects are largest closer to the event date and disappear over time. This supports a model of preference formation where risk preferences are (trend)stable but fluctuations are at least partly deterministic. The linkages between life events and risk preferences are explored. There is little evidence that changes in consumption, state dependence, or changes in mental health and mood explain the results. However, emotional stability is an influential moderator suggesting that emotions play an important role.
Kettlewell, N 2019, 'Utilization and Selection in an Ancillaries Health Insurance Market', Journal of Risk and Insurance, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 989-1017.
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Kettlewell, N & Yerokhin, O 2019, 'Area-specific subsidies and population dynamics: Evidence from the Australian zone tax offset', Papers in Regional Science, vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 451-476.
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Kidd, LR, Garrard, GE, Bekessy, SA, Mills, M, Camilleri, AR, Fidler, F, Fielding, KS, Gordon, A, Gregg, EA, Kusmanoff, AM, Louis, W, Moon, K, Robinson, JA, Selinske, MJ, Shanahan, D & Adams, VM 2019, 'Messaging matters: A systematic review of the conservation messaging literature', Biological Conservation, vol. 236, pp. 92-99.
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Kidson, P, Odhiambo, G & Wilson, R 2019, 'The International Baccalaureate in Australia: trends and issues', Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 393-412.
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Klettner, A 2019, 'Challenges for Regulatory Reform in the Finance Sector: Learnings from the Last Decade', Journal of Banking and Finance: Law and Practice, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 151-168.
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Over the last decade the finance sector has undergone significant scrutiny both globally and locally. Following the Global Financial Crisis, the G20 led a process of regulatory reform that had an impact internationally, however, the effectiveness of many of these reforms remains debatable. Scholarly experts have reviewed, assessed and critiqued the reform efforts yet this work is rarely used to inform new policy regimes. This article presents a systematic review of the academic literature on post-financial crisis regulatory reform with the aim of drawing out lessons for the future. It finds that financial regulation faces challenges at three levels: (1) at a structural or architectural level in terms of who regulates what; (2) at a processual level in terms of the style and mechanism of regulation; and (3) at the level of regulatory content, that is, the details of the rules or standards. In addition, regulatory effectiveness can be facilitated or hindered by: power and politics; blurred boundaries; and incorrect assumptions about behaviour. The article discusses these findings in the context of recent evidence of misbehaviour in the Australian finance sector.
Klettner, A, Kelly, S, Edwards, M & Brown, P 2019, 'Australia's sustainable finance agenda: Implications for corporate governance', Governance Directions, vol. 71, no. 10.
Kuščer, K & Dwyer, L 2019, 'Determinants of sustainability of ski resorts: do size and altitude matter?', European Sport Management Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 539-559.
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© 2018, © 2018 European Association for Sport Management. Research question: The research questions are aimed at increasing knowledge about ski resorts’ sustainability. Achieving and maintaining sustainable operations and meeting sustainability requirements may be more important for some resorts than others. RQ1: Which sustainability indicators are part of pillars and requirements of ski resort sustainability? RQ2: Which types of ski resorts are more effective in managing sustainability? Research methods: A survey of ski resort managers from Europe and North America was undertaken. Principal component analysis was conducted on each of the pillars and requirements of sustainability of ski resorts. Identified factors were then inputted into Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U tests to search for differences between resorts with different lengths of pistes and altitudes. Finally, clustering was used to further define which types of ski resorts exhibit more sustainable behavior. Results and findings: This study shows that larger ski resorts are capable of producing lesser environmental effect per visitor. Higher altitude forces ski resorts to behave more sustainably. There is a clear indication that resorts with longer pistes and higher altitudes are more inclined to implement sustainability management practices and enjoy higher quality environments. Implications: The results advance our knowledge of ski tourism and recreation as a special interest market segment as well as its potential for policy to support sustainable mountain tourism development. Identified advantages and situational conditions to be taken into account for efficient ski resort operations are discussed. A major policy implication of the present study is that big is not always bad when managing a ski resort.
Lakisa, D, Teaiwa, K, Adair, D & Taylor, T 2019, 'Empowering Voices from the Past: The Playing Experiences of Retired Pasifika Rugby League Athletes in Australia', The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 1096-1114.
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Lanis, R, Richardson, G, Liu, C & McClure, R 2019, 'The Impact of Corporate Tax Avoidance on Board of Directors and CEO Reputation', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 160, no. 2, pp. 463-498.
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© 2018 Springer Nature B.V. This study examines the impact of corporate tax avoidance on board of directors and chief executive officer (CEO) reputation. Our regression results show that when firms engage in tax avoidance, both directors and CEOs, on average, are rewarded by improvements in their reputations as proxied by an increased number of outside board seats. In particular, both independent directors and non-CEO executive directors undergo positive changes in reputation. We also find that CEOs of tax-aggressive firms experience enhanced reputations by gaining extra board seats. Our main regression results hold based on additional analyses. Overall, this study provides important empirical evidence confirming an association between tax avoidance and the individual reputations of directors and CEOs.
Laurenceson, J, Bretherton, H, Burke, PF & Wei, E 2019, 'Chinese investment in Australian infrastructure assets: accounting for local public preferences', China Economic Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 77-92.
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Le Meunier-Fitzhugh, K & Massey, GR 2019, 'Improving relationships between sales and marketing: the relative effectiveness of cross-functional coordination mechanisms', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 35, no. 13-14, pp. 1267-1290.
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Lewis, RL, Brown, DA & Sutton, NC 2019, 'Control and empowerment as an organising paradox: implications for management control systems', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 483-507.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to reframe the debate about the tension between management control and employee empowerment by drawing on a theory of paradox. Reframing the problem in this way draws attention to the variety of ways in which organisations can attend to both control and empowerment simultaneously.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors undertake a conceptual examination of the relationship between empowerment and control using a paradox theory lens. First, the authors bring together two dimensions of empowerment – structural empowerment and psychological empowerment – and combine them to produce three new empowerment “scenarios”: illusory empowerment, obstructed empowerment and authentic empowerment. For each of these three scenarios, the central tenets of paradox theory are applied in order to explain the nature of the paradoxical tension, anticipated behavioural responses and the resulting challenges for ongoing management control.
Findings
The authors find that neither structural nor psychological empowerment alone can account for variation in behavioural responses to management control. The conceptual analysis highlights the interplay of socio-ideological control and systems of accountability in generating psychological empowerment and demonstrates that this does not come at a cost to management control but instead results in a reduction in the scale and scope of ongoing challenges.
Originality/value
This paper contributes a new theoretical perspective on the classic problem of tension between management control and employee empowerment. Rather than positioning contr...
Linnenluecke, MK & Smith, T 2019, 'A Primer on Global Environmental Change', Abacus, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 810-824.
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Linnenluecke, MK, Han, J, Pan, Z & Smith, T 2019, 'How markets will drive the transition to a low carbon economy', Economic Modelling, vol. 77, pp. 42-54.
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Loyeung, A 2019, 'The role of boutique financial advisors in mergers and acquisitions', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 212-247.
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This study examines the choice of boutique financial advisors in mergers and acquisitions, and the consequences of this choice on deal outcomes and post-acquisition performance. Boutique advisors often specialize in a particular industry and focus exclusively on providing advice in mergers and acquisitions. The results suggest that boutique financial advisors are preferred when the deal is considered complex and when information asymmetry is high. The study finds that the benefits of hiring a boutique advisor flow to both the acquirers and the target firms. Acquiring firms benefit in terms of improved post-merger performance, while target firms benefit in terms of higher completion of value-enhancing deals and positive cumulative abnormal returns. Overall, these results provide support for the growing popularity of boutique financial advisors in the Australian market. JEL classification: G24, G34
MacFarlane, JD, Phelps, S & Schulenkorf, N 2019, 'Fitness industry self-regulation: institutional or by choice?', Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 506-524.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to document and explore the perceptual motivations for voluntary and continued affiliation with a fitness industry register by its affiliates (“members”) and non-affiliates (“non-members”). The formation of fitness industry registers to impart self-regulation is a common global occurrence. Their sustainment, however, is reliant on the motivations and voluntary support of industry members. Limited work has been done in this area.
Design/methodology/approach
This qualitative study uses the interpretive research paradigm, involving semi-structured interviews with 12 Auckland, New Zealand, fitness centre managers, industry associations, New Zealand Register of Exercise Professionals (Reps NZ) and Fitness New Zealand. Lenox’s (2006) participation-contingent benefits framework provides the necessary lens to explore the perceptual motivations behind participation/non-participation by fitness centres with an industry self-regulatory system (i.e. Reps NZ).
Findings
Whereas participation-contingent benefits are perceived minimal, and exceeded by affiliation limitations, there is institutional congruence for industry regulation to exist, thus creating institutional pressures that encourage affiliation and retention. Whereas affiliates choose to absorb the associated inconveniences of affiliation to “support” Reps NZ, non-affiliates question the register’s regulatory form, choosing to avoid the affiliation costs and limitations.
Originality/value
This study lends further support that institutional development is crucial for inclusive, substantive and sustainable self...
Macniven, R, Canuto, K, Wilson, R, Bauman, A & Evans, J 2019, 'Impact of physical activity and sport on social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people', JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1305-1311.
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OBJECTIVE:The objective of this scoping review is to identify and describe existing research on the impact of sport and physical activity programs on social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. INTRODUCTION:Physical activity can be particularly beneficial for groups such as Indigenous populations, who have increased rates of chronic disease. Systematic reviews have demonstrated the positive impact of physical activity on a range of health indicators, and there is also support for the positive impact of physical activity on wider social outcomes. However, there is a lack of evidence for the benefits of physical activity for broader social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. INCLUSION CRITERIA:This scoping review will consider studies that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of any age from any setting or region of Australia. Studies will be considered if they report on programs or activities that use physical activity and sport participation as a component or tool to improve one or more of six social and community outcomes: education, employment, culture, social wellbeing, life skills and crime prevention. METHODS:Nine databases will be searched, as well as a selection of websites containing resources related to physical activity, sport and social outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Studies published in English will be included. No date limits will be set. After screening the titles and abstracts of identified citations, potentially relevant studies will be retrieved in full. Data extraction will be presented in a table with accompanying narrative.
Macniven, R, Canuto, K, Wilson, R, Bauman, A & Evans, J 2019, 'The impact of physical activity and sport on social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: A systematic scoping review', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 1232-1242.
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© 2019 Objectives: To identify and describe existing evidence of the impact of sport and physical activity programs on social outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Design: Systematic scoping review. Methods: Nine scientific databases (MEDLINE, Scopus, SPORTSDiscus, PsycINFO, Informit, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), The Cochrane Library, The Campbell Library, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses) and grey literature were systematically searched for programs or activities that target Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and use physical activity and sport participation to improve one or more of six social and community outcomes of: (i) education; (ii) employment; (iii) culture; (iv) social and emotional wellbeing; (v) life skills; (vi) crime reduction. Results: Of the 1160 studies identified, 20 met the inclusion criteria and were published between 2003 and 2018. Most studies reported positive findings across multiple, broad outcomes of education (N = 11), employment (N = 1), culture (N = 9), social and emotional wellbeing (N = 12), life skills (N = 5) and crime reduction (N = 5). Some evidence was found for increased school attendance and improved self-esteem resulting from physical activity and sport participation as well as enhanced aspects of culture, such as cultural connections, connectedness, values and identity. Conclusions: There is some evidence of benefit across the six social outcomes from physical activity and sport programs. This promotes their continuation and development, although critical appraisal of their methods is needed to better quantify benefits, as well as the generation of new evidence across indicators where gaps currently exist, particularly for employment and crime reduction outcomes.
Massey, GR, Wang, PZ & Kyngdon, AS 2019, 'Conceptualizing and modeling interpersonal trust in exchange relationships: The effects of incomplete model specification', Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 76, pp. 60-71.
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The importance of interpersonal trust in exchange relationships is well-established, and trust is known to have two important and distinct underlying forms, one cognitive, the other affective. Despite this, trust studies often model only the cognitive task-related form and omit the affective form. This article achieves two main objectives. First it demonstrates that interpersonal trust is best considered a bidimensional construct consisting of both cognitive and affective components, and that omitting either form of trust from empirical studies is a conceptual and specification error. Second, we reveal that both forms explain a large amount of variance in the quality of exchange relationships. Also, studies omitting affective trust ignore the more potent of the two trust dimensions. In addition, models examining only one form of trust strongly inflate the apparent effects of that form, and are diagnostically unsound. Our results have important theoretical and managerial implications regarding the conceptualization and measurement of interpersonal trust, and its role in improving the effectiveness of exchange relationships.
Matthews, LR, Johnstone, R, Quinlan, M, Rawlings-Way, O & Bohle, P 2019, 'Work fatalities, bereaved families and the enforcement of OHS legislation', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 637-656.
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There has been considerable research and policy debate over the enforcement and decriminalization of occupational health and safety legislation, particularly regarding its capacity to deal with serious harm. Reference has been made to community attitudes to work fatalities, but the perspectives of those most directly affected, the bereaved families, have received little attention. Drawing on evidence from detailed interviews with 44 Australian family members, this article seeks to rectify this omission. Findings highlight the importance of investigative and prosecutorial processes to bereaved families who seek justice, some assurance that culpable behaviours are not condoned, and the implementation of measures to prevent a recurrence. However, reinforcing previous research critical of the degree of enforcement and advocating for a more readily implementable offence of industrial manslaughter, the vast majority of those interviewed were critical of the processes that occurred. Far from assisting, these processes generally left families very dissatisfied with their experiences.
McDonald, M, Gough, B & Wearing, S 2019, 'Social psychology, consumer culture and neoliberalism: A response to Phelps and White (2018)', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 394-400.
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© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The following essay responds to three main issues raised by Phelps and White (2018) in their critical commentary on our article (McDonald, Gough, Wearing & Deville, 2017). The first concerns the lack of precision in the conceptualisation of neoliberalism and the recent threats to it as we enter a potentially new phase of capitalism. While we share Phelps and White's concern, we argue that there is value in continuing to use neoliberalism as a concept for understanding some aspects of social behaviour. As to recent threats to neoliberalism, evidence indicates that it will continue to persist in the immediate future. To deal with neoliberalism's conceptual problems in social psychology, Phelps and White advance the potential theory of a ‘market-derived logics’. We commend the authors for pursuing this endeavor, however, we caution that care needs to be taken in its conceptualisation. Lastly, we discuss Phelps and White's disciplinary reflections on social psychology.
McEwen, C, Liu, H, Pullen, A & Rhodes, C 2019, 'Relational Intersectionality: Addressing Institutionalized Inequality in Leadership Practice', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2019, no. 1, pp. 14050-14050.
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McGrath-Champ, S, Stacey, M, Wilson, R, Fitzgerald, S, Rainnie, A & Parding, K 2019, 'Principals’ support for teachers’ working conditions in devolved school settings: Insights from two Australian States', Educational Management Administration & Leadership, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 590-605.
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McKnight, B & Linnenluecke, MK 2019, 'Patterns of Firm Responses to Different Types of Natural Disasters', Business & Society, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 813-840.
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This article examines the relationships between disaster type and firms’ disaster responses. We draw on a unique dataset of 2,164 press releases related to the occurrence of 206 natural disasters (hurricanes, flooding, tornadoes, and wildfires) over a 10-year period (2005-2014) to analyze how firm responses are shaped by the type of disaster it faces. Firms play an increasingly important role in disaster response. We find that firms engage in more anticipatory responses when the type of disaster a firm faces exhibits even impact dispersion and high expected recurrence, and provides substantial warning. Our study draws a relationship between physical geography, disaster type, and more anticipatory firm responses which can improve how firms and communities respond to the risks posed by different types of natural disasters. The article concludes by outlining an agenda for future research on firm responses to natural disasters.
Mention, A-L, Barlatier, P-J & Josserand, E 2019, 'Using social media to leverage and develop dynamic capabilities for innovation', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 144, pp. 242-250.
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Michayluk, D, Neuhauser, K & Walker, S 2019, 'Are All Dividends Created Equal? Australian Evidence Using Dividend‐Increase Track Records', Accounting & Finance, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 2621-2643.
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Michayluk, D, Walker, S & Neuhauser, K 2019, 'Dividend Consistency: Rewards, Learning, and Expectations', Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 118-128.
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Mikkelsen, EN & Clegg, S 2019, 'Conceptions of Conflict in Organizational Conflict Research: Toward Critical Reflexivity', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 166-179.
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Diverse and often unacknowledged assumptions underlie organizational conflict research. In this essay, we identify distinct ways of conceptualizing conflict in the theoretical domain of organizational conflict with the aim of setting a new critical agenda for reflexivity in conflict research. In doing so, we first apply a genealogical approach to study conceptions of conflict, and we find that three distinct and essentially contested conceptions frame studies of conflict at work. Second, we employ two empirical examples of conflict to illustrate how organizational conflict research can benefit from a more reflexive approach and advance our understanding of conflict. In this essay, we emphasize how philosophical and political assumptions about conflict frame knowledge production within the field and we encourage future theory development to build on different notions of conflict to become better at coping with the complex and dynamic nature of conflict.
Moktadir, MA, Ali, SM, Paul, SK & Shukla, N 2019, 'Barriers to big data analytics in manufacturing supply chains: A case study from Bangladesh', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 128, pp. 1063-1075.
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Recently, big data (BD) has attracted researchers and practitioners due to its potential usefulness in decision-making processes. Big data analytics (BDA) is becoming increasingly popular among manufacturing companies as it helps gain insights and make decisions based on BD. However, there many barriers to the adoption of BDA in manufacturing supply chains. It is therefore necessary for manufacturing companies to identify and examine the nature of each barrier. Previous studies have mostly built conceptual frameworks for BDA in a given situation and have ignored examining the nature of the barriers to BDA. Due to the significance of both BD and BDA, this research aims to identify and examine the critical barriers to the adoption of BDA in manufacturing supply chains in the context of Bangladesh. This research explores the existing body of knowledge by examining these barriers using a Delphi-based analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Data were obtained from five Bangladeshi manufacturing companies. The findings of this research are as follows: (i) data-related barriers are most important, (ii) technology-related barriers are second, and (iii) the five most important components of these barriers are (a) lack of infrastructure, (b) complexity of data integration, (c) data privacy, (d) lack of availability of BDA tools and (e) high cost of investment. The findings can assist industrial managers to understand the actual nature of the barriers and potential benefits of using BDA and to make policy regarding BDA adoption in manufacturing supply chains. A sensitivity analysis was carried out to justify the robustness of the barrier rankings.
Moktadir, MA, Dwivedi, A, Ali, SM, Paul, SK, Kabir, G & Madaan, J 2019, 'Antecedents for greening the workforce: implications for green human resource management', International Journal of Manpower, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 1135-1153.
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Purpose
Green human resource management (GHRM) is an arising issue for the tannery industry in the context of developing economies. As the tannery industry can be seen as one of the highest polluting industries on earth, it becomes imperative for the industry to implement GHRM practices for greening the workforce. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to focus on antecedents that will support the implementation of GHRM practices in the tannery industry supply chain.
Design/methodology/approach
In this study, an expanded literature review was organized to establish antecedents for implementing GHRM practices. The total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) technique is employed to explore interactions among the identified antecedents. Furthermore, Matriced Impact Croises Multiplication Applique analysis was conducted for determining the driving-dependence power of each antecedent.
Findings
The results revealed that “green selection facility,” “green recruiting facility,” “green organizational culture,” “green purchasing,” “green strategy towards ES,” “regulatory forces towards ES” and “top management commitment towards greening the workforce” are the key antecedents for the exercise of GHRM practices in the tannery industry.
Practical implications
The proposed model might support decision makers to understand the interactions among the antecedents of GHRM practices. This model will help managers to understand the impact of one antecedent on another prior to the implementation of GHRM practices in the tannery industry.
IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 161975-161995.
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Naar, L, Feduzi, A, Nikolova, N & Clegg, SR 2019, 'A novel approach to managing uncertainty for innovation', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2019, no. 1, pp. 13602-13602.
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Natalia, P, Clara, RA, Simon, D, Noelia, G & Barbara, A 2019, 'Critical elements in accessible tourism for destination competitiveness and comparison: Principal component analysis from Oceania and South America', Tourism Management, vol. 75, pp. 169-185.
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© 2019 This paper seeks to construct an exploratory nationally comparative tourism accessibility measure (TAI)through developing an objective set of metrics in the spirit and intent of the international treaties and missions regarding the rights of persons with disabilities. Applied to Australia and New Zealand (Oceania)and Argentina and Brazil (South-America), the TAI draws upon data collected cross-country, cross-continent and for a period of 25 years (1990–2015)based on factor and principal component analysis. Considering accessibility as the conditions that a destination must have in order to be enjoyed by all individuals with access requirements and as a key factor of destination competitiveness, the TAI is developed based on: socio-demographic data; legal framework, political will and policy actions; and access conditions in tourism attractions. This measure is a useful tool to provide information about the critical elements, stages of development, evolution and understanding of the accessible tourism approaches in each of the studied countries.
Nguyen, TQT, Young, T, Johnson, P & Wearing, S 2019, 'Conceptualising networks in sustainable tourism development', Tourism Management Perspectives, vol. 32, pp. 100575-100575.
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Nikiforakis, N & Slonim, R 2019, 'Editors’ Preface: Trends in experimental economics (1975–2018)', Journal of the Economic Science Association, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 143-148.
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Ninan, J, Clegg, S & Mahalingam, A 2019, 'Branding and governmentality for infrastructure megaprojects: The role of social media', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 59-72.
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This paper explores subtle strategies that megaproject teams develop in practice to manage stakeholders external to the project team. A governmentality approach is used to account for these strategies. A metro rail megaproject in India provides the case for the study. The strategies were identified through a content analysis of 640 project and non-project based Tweets posted by the metro rail organization. We augmented this dataset with the community's response through social media, as well as through semi-structured interviews that captured the project teams' responses. The findings indicate that the megaproject used various strategies: promoting the organization, giving progress updates, appealing to the community, as well as targeting of specific sections of the population. The effect of these attempts at governmentality through branding were observed in community discourses on social media platforms that echoed the strategic discourses projected by the megaproject while interviews enabled us to access the project team's responses. For the project community, the effects included a positive brand image, creating community brand advocates and building support for the project during contentious episodes. For the project team, the effects included job attraction, enhanced job perception as well as the creation of project team brand advocates. The relation between the governmentality instruments and their corresponding effects are theorized in six propositions.
Ninan, J, Mahalingam, A & Clegg, S 2019, 'External Stakeholder Management Strategies and Resources in Megaprojects: An Organizational Power Perspective', Project Management Journal, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 625-640.
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Megaprojects involve managing external stakeholders with diverse interests. Using an Indian megaproject case study, we discuss how the project managed external stakeholders through strategies such as: persuasion, deputation, give and take, extra work for stakeholders, and flexibility. Drawing from theories and frameworks of power, we explain how these strategies emerge through a process of tactical clustering. We also analyze the resources available to the project team—such as recruitment discretion, government backing, and fund discretion—that influence these power dynamics and enable these strategies. We posit that changes in the resource base can significantly affect strategic action and, in turn, megaproject outcomes.
Okumu, CO & Fee, A 2019, 'Understanding the impacts of Chinese business activity in Kenya from the perspective of locals', critical perspectives on international business, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 361-389.
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Purpose
The authors report a field study examining the perceptions of Kenyan host-country stakeholders toward activities of Chinese businesses in their country, and the consequences of this on the legitimacy that they bestow on pertinent entities.
Design/methodology/approach
Interviews and observations across an eight-week period of field research revealed generally negative attitudes toward Chinese businesses, with issues pertinent to moral legitimacy prominent, notably, perceptions of corrupt practices, environmental neglect and profit expatriation.
Findings
The authors also find evidence that these negative attitudes spilled over to contaminate Kenyans’ perceptions of their own government, which respondents associated closely with the activities of Chinese entities.
Originality/value
The authors extend understanding of legitimacy theory and the implications of foreign business activity by highlighting that businesses may be mistaken to believe that their international business activities are politically neutral, and while host governments may believe that the economic benefits arising from attracting foreign business activity can buttress their legitimacy, the perceived activities of these businesses, in the absence of supporting institutional frameworks, may render this counterproductive.
Park, RJ, Xu, S, In, F & Ji, PI 2019, 'The long-term impact of sovereign wealth fund investments', Journal of Financial Markets, vol. 45, pp. 115-138.
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Paul, SK, Asian, S, Goh, M & Torabi, SA 2019, 'Managing sudden transportation disruptions in supply chains under delivery delay and quantity loss', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 273, no. 1-2, pp. 783-814.
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Paul, SK, Sarker, R, Essam, D & Lee, PT-W 2019, 'A mathematical modelling approach for managing sudden disturbances in a three-tier manufacturing supply chain', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 280, no. 1-2, pp. 299-335.
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Pina e Cunha, M, Giustiniano, L, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2019, '“Heaven or Las Vegas”: Competing institutional logics and individual experience', European Management Review, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 781-798.
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Significant research has been dedicated to the study of the dual constitutive core at the field and organizational levels but less attention has been paid to the micro-dimensions of the collision of competing logics, namely in terms of how individuals experience and navigate through them and how that influences organizational ethos and strategy. We study how one individual, founder of the organization behind the independent music label 4AD, made sense and lived through the fundamental clash of two logics: 'music as art' and 'music as business'. We analyse how the personal struggles of the founder allowed the construction and maintenance of a strong, solid and continued organizational identity for 4AD. We uncover four factors accounting for the protection of 4AD's sustained artistic integrity in face of a transforming industry.
Potter, B, Pinnuck, M, Tanewski, G & Wright, S 2019, 'Keeping it private: financial reporting by large proprietary companies in Australia', Accounting & Finance, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 87-113.
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© 2019 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Since 2010, proprietary companies have had a choice of preparing three types of financial reports that vary in scope. We find that between 2010 and 2015, most proprietary companies in our random sample chose the lowest scope option, with very low quality financial reports. Few adopted the new option provided by AASB 1053 Application of Tiers of Australian Accounting Standards. The characteristics of the firms that adopted each type of report are consistent with the regulator's intention. Our findings should provide a better understanding of how accounting standards impact practice, and should assist regulators to reform private company financial reporting.
Putniņš, TJ & Sauka, A 2019, 'Why Does Entrepreneurial Orientation Affect Company Performance?', Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 711-735.
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Pysarenko, S, Alexeev, V & Tapon, F 2019, 'Predictive Blends: Fundamental Indexing Meets Markowitz', Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 100, pp. 28-42.
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Rahman, MH, Tumpa, TJ, Ali, SM & Paul, SK 2019, 'A grey approach to predicting healthcare performance', Measurement, vol. 134, pp. 307-325.
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Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & West, J 2019, 'Crowdsourcing Without Profit: The Role of the Seeker in Open Social Innovation', R&D Management, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 298-317.
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Raw, K, Sherry, E & Rowe, K 2019, 'Sport-For-Development Organizational Hybridity: From Differentiated to Dysfunctional', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 467-480.
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Despite recent advances in sport-for-development (SFD) literature, few scholars have empirically examined organizational hybridity in SFD contexts. This is despite hybrid organizational approaches becoming increasingly common in the delivery of SFD initiatives. Opportunities exist for researchers to build knowledge regarding SFD hybrids, particularly those which operate in professional sport contexts. In this research, we examine an SFD organization, delivered by a professional sport team, which operates under a hybrid structure. A longitudinal qualitative case study design was employed, and findings demonstrate how the SFD organization, which presents a practical example of organizational hybridity, evolved over time. Drawing upon Svensson typologies of SFD hybrids, results illustrate how the organization transformed from a differentiated hybrid into a dysfunctional hybrid, under the influence of funding opportunities and institutional logics. Through the present study, we build upon theoretical understandings of SFD hybrids and offer practical insight into the nuances of SFD hybrids delivered in professional sport contexts.
Rhodes, C 2019, 'Sense-ational organization theory! Practices of democratic scriptology', Management Learning, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 24-37.
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This article critically reviews the use of non-conventional writing in organization studies from the 1980s to the present day as it relates to the relationship between freedom, politics and theory. Just as research justifies itself through an elaboration of methodology, it is suggested that we can consider ‘scriptology’ – the reflexively aware articulation of the relationship between writing and knowledge – as a means to liberate knowledge production in organization studies from its self-imposed conservatism. While there are numerous actual examples of non-conventional scriptologies in use, it is argued the most politically radical and emancipatory of them can be found in contemporary feminine and feminist writing. Such writing provides a new textual aesthetic for organization studies that promises a democratic and egalitarian practice where expression seeks to defy the rules that would inhibit it rather than adhere to the ones that would authorize it. Such scriptologies can provide a way that knowledge can try, in its way, to be free.
Ribeiro, A, Shan, Y & Taylor, SL 2019, 'Non‐GAAP Earnings and the Earnings Quality Trade‐Off', Abacus, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 6-41.
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© 2019 Accounting Foundation, The University of Sydney Using a large sample of earnings press releases by Australian firms, we compare multiple attributes of non-GAAP earnings measures with their closest GAAP equivalent. We find that, on average, non-GAAP earnings are more persistent, smoother, more value relevant, and have higher predictive power than their closest GAAP equivalent. However, the same set of non-GAAP earnings disclosures are also less conservative and less timely than their closest GAAP equivalent. The results are consistent with non-GAAP earnings measures reflecting a reversal of the trade-off between the valuation and stewardship roles of accounting inherent in accounting standards and the way they are applied. We also find that differences in several of these attributes between GAAP and non-GAAP earnings are more evident in larger firms, firms with lower market-to-book ratios, firms with a higher proportion of independent directors, and firms that report profits rather than losses. Our evidence is consistent with the argument that accounting standards impose significant amounts of conditional conservatism at some cost to the valuation role of accounting information. Non-GAAP earnings measures can therefore be seen as a response to the challenges faced by a single GAAP performance measure in satisfying the competing demands of value relevance and stewardship.
Rocha, M, Baddeley, M, Pollitt, M & Weeks, M 2019, 'Addressing self-disconnection among prepayment energy consumers: A behavioural approach', Energy Economics, vol. 81, pp. 273-286.
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Santistevan, D & Josserand, E 2019, 'Meta-Teams: Getting Global Work Done in MNEs', Journal of Management, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 510-539.
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To allow for flexibility and global integration in multinationals, global teams are becoming more fluid, forming and dispersing quickly to address organizational needs. The coordination that takes place in these temporary agile teams is critical for global work. However, current conceptualizations of teams and methodological approaches do not provide a clear understanding of dynamic global teams and how they get global work done in multinational enterprises (MNEs). To address this, we mobilize the teaming perspective to explore global work in the complex matrix structure of Computer (a pseudonym), a large technology MNE. Our study includes interviews and observations from 40 global account teams. The findings suggest that an intermediate structure, which we call a meta-team, provides a referential space that supports teaming. Within the meta-team, operational practices and a common mind-set provide guidelines for member behavior and expectations. Additionally, teaming substructures form and change to adapt to activities. This study contributes to the literature by (1) demonstrating how dynamic global work gets done in MNEs through meta-teams and teaming; (2) showing how meta-teams address some of the challenges of global work, such as fluid collaboration and multiple-team participation; and (3) providing new insights for teaming in context and temporary work.
Scerri, M, Edwards, D & Foley, C 2019, 'Design, architecture and the value to tourism', Tourism Economics, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 695-710.
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Architecture has been recognized for its supporting role in the enhancement of the physical assets of destinations, which play a leading role in drawing tourists who identify and associate destinations with these architectural landmarks. While generating tourist expenditure is not the aim of most architects, many are increasingly aware that articulated and functional buildings become visitor attractions in their own right – an externality that requires valuing. However, the value assigned to iconic architecture is often restricted to the bricks and mortar construction, and the broader contributions a building can deliver to its stakeholders are largely ignored. This article explores the capacity for architecture to attract tourists and effect direct tourism spend through the examination of five cases, each of which has attempted to estimate their economic value to tourism. This article proposes a model for estimating the future value of iconic buildings and tests its application to the University of Technology Sydney, Gehry-designed, Dr Chau Chak Wing building. The implications of the framework and future research are discussed.
Schulenkorf, N & Siefken, K 2019, 'Managing sport-for-development and healthy lifestyles: The sport-for-health model', Sport Management Review, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 96-107.
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With increased globalization and modernization of people's lives, lifestyle behavior has changed substantially in many countries around the world. This change has brought two key behavior modifications: a reduction in physical activity and an increase in unhealthy eating patterns. Consequently, non-communicable diseases have overtaken communicable diseases as a key health risk area. In response to this issue, healthy lifestyle initiatives and sport-for-development (SFD) programs are now implemented across the world, including projects in the heavily affected Pacific Islands region. In this paper, the authors critically reflect on their lived experiences and the underpinning management processes of the Wokabaot Jalens, a health-focused SFD initiative in Vanuatu. The authors propose the sport-for-health model as a flexible conceptual tool that establishes the nexus between sport management, health promotion, sociocultural development, policy, and sustainability. The authors provide practical and theoretical implications and suggest that the model can underpin and conceptually support other SFD initiatives—and specifically health-related development projects—in the Pacific region and beyond.
Schulenkorf, N, Giannoulakis, C & Blom, L 2019, 'Sustaining commercial viability and community benefits: management and leverage of a sport-for-development event', European Sport Management Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 502-519.
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When managed strategically, sport events have the capacity to generate economic, sociocultural, and health-related benefits for host communities. To date, the majority of academic research has focused on the impact components of large-scale and mega-sport events, such as the Olympic Games. In an attempt to provide empirical evidence of management strategies and tactics related to small-scale events, the purpose of this study was to examine how an event business strategically manages and leverages an event to sustain its commercial viability, while focusing on generating social benefits for the community. Through the lens of sport-for-development theory and event leverage concepts, we explore the case of an annual, mass participation sporting event on the island of Spetses, Greece. Against the background of financial hardship and subsequent social disparity in the country, our qualitative investigation includes 19 semi-structured interviews with various stakeholders of the Spetses Mini Marathon. Outcomes of the qualitative analysis indicated three main thematic categories: (a) managing context, (b) engaged change agent, and (c) involved community. In the midst of an economic crisis, the change agent managed to secure the commercial sustainability of the event, while generating several social, cultural, economic, and sporting benefits for the local community through a participatory community approach. In discussing our findings, we provide implications for strategic management and leverage of local sport events, and we highlight opportunities and challenges for maximizing the reputational capital for organizers as well as social benefits for communities.
Schweinsberg, S 2019, 'Comments/rejoinders and the formation of knowledge', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 76, pp. 331-333.
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Septianto, F, An, J & Soegianto, B 2019, 'Personalized giving: Configurational approach in examining demographics, morality, and prosocial intentions', Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 330-342.
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Septianto, F, An, J, Chiew, TM, Paramita, W & Tanudharma, I 2019, 'The similar versus divergent effects of pride and happiness on the effectiveness of loyalty programs', Journal of Business Research, vol. 99, pp. 12-22.
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Sinha, A, Gu, H, Kim, N & Emile, R 2019, 'Signaling effects and the role of culture: movies in international auxiliary channels', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 2146-2172.
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Purpose
Given the high uncertainty in the quality perception of experiential products, manufacturers use signals to influence consumers’ decisions. In the movie industry, literature shows that performance of the main channel (e.g. cinema) strongly influences the performance of auxiliary channels (e.g. DVDs). The success of a movie in the home country is also to be resonated by its good performance in host countries. However, the cultural contingency of these success-breeds-success (SBS) effects has not been examined. This paper aims to test the influence of cultural values on the SBS effects across channels and countries.
Design/methodology/approach
Borrowing concepts from the signaling literature and analyzing DVD sales data from six international markets using a multilevel mixed-effects model, the study finds that culture plays a significant role to influence both SBS effects.
Findings
In countries with low power distance, short-term orientation and high indulgence, consumers who purchase from auxiliary channels are more likely to be influenced by the box office performance of movies. Meanwhile, cultural distance between the home and host nations significantly decreases the cross-national SBS effect.
Research limitations/implications
The findings are likely to be generalized to online auxiliary channels of movies, but empirical testing is required to ensure that no major adaptation is required in the process. Future research can also extend the framework of this paper to include more countries into the analysis and investigate cultural variables beyond Hofstede’s dimensions.
Stronach, M, Adair, D & Maxwell, H 2019, '‘Djabooly-djabooly: why don’t they swim?’: the ebb and flow of water in the lives of Australian Aboriginal women', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 286-304.
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Aquatic activities have been pivotal to the lifestyle of Australian Indigenous peoples for millennia. That historical connection with rivers, streams and beaches is a largely untold story. This paper considers one aspect of the story: the significance swimming for Aboriginal women. Aquatic activities were, for many Aboriginal communities, crucial for food, movement and leisure.
Even a cursory trawl through newspapers and memoirs provides observations about the prowess of Aboriginal women as swimmers. But this skill-set dissipated in the wake of territorial conflict, resulting in the displacement or erosion of Aboriginal communities in coastal areas.
The paper then moves to the contemporary era, starting with an assumption that the passion for, swimming has been lost for Aboriginal women. Stories about female Indigenous swimmers, alongside the recollections of two mature-age women, present a story of limited opportunity, discrimination and challenges by way of access to water and safety therein.
Stronach, M, Maxwell, H & Pearce, S 2019, 'Indigenous Australian women promoting health through sport', Sport Management Review, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 5-20.
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© 2018 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand The authors explore the sporting experiences and community strengths of Indigenous Australian women. The intention is to inform both health promotion and contemporary sport management strategies, and policies and practices, leading to better health outcomes for this cohort. The authors employ an interpretative qualitative methodology, which involves the combination of data from a range of sources, including interviews and focus groups with 22 Indigenous women living in urban and rural areas, narratives from elite Indigenous athletes and coaches, as well as findings from a recent Australian Parliamentary inquiry into Indigenous health and wellbeing. Drawing from an agency/empowerment theoretical framework, the authors posit that, given support and opportunities, Indigenous women can become empowered to improve their mental and physical health through participation in sport. Sport managers can facilitate Indigenous women's agency in the effects of colonisation, which continues to be the basis of health issues for this cohort. Listening to Indigenous women and facilitating opportunities for them to take control of their own participation can help facilitate this process. Indigenous-women's only opportunities, partnerships with health agencies and sports organisations, culturally safe spaces and Indigenous women acting as role models are some factors that may augment Indigenous women's agency, and thus empowerment. Government, sports, community organisations and health agencies which provide these conditions in their program design can help to overcome entrenched social, historical and health inequalities that Indigenous women may experience.
Sugden, JT, Adair, D, Schulenkorf, N & Frawley, S 2019, 'Exploring Sport and Intergroup Relations in Fiji: Guidance for Researchers Undertaking Short-Term Ethnography', Sociology of Sport Journal, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 277-288.
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There is a key tension associated with ethnographic explorations into the lives of people in the Global South – ‘outsider’ researchers from the Global North who lack experience of the environments they are seeking to understand. A considered response, therefore, is for scholars to seek physical immersion in a field—to live among those they are trying to understand. Such ethnographic inquiries are optimal when researchers have the capacity to engage over long periods of time. However, in some circumstances, this may not feasible. Thus, questions arise about the veracity of field work investigations that are not only temporally brief but undertaken by scholars who lack local experience. This paper reflects on the experiences of a researcher who was faced with those challenges. It provides guidance as to how scholars might prepare for short-term ethnography (STE) in field work, along with the limitations and constraints of such an approach. The research centered on a sport for development and peace study into intergroup relations and ethnic separatism in Fijian sport.
Suhi, SA, Enayet, R, Haque, T, Ali, SM, Moktadir, MA & Paul, SK 2019, 'Environmental sustainability assessment in supply chain: An emerging economy context', Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 79, pp. 106306-106306.
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Suzuki, T 2019, 'Choice set dependent performance and post-decision dissonance', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 163, pp. 24-42.
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A decision maker (DM) selects a project from a set of alternatives with uncertain productivity. After the choice, she observes a signal about productivity and decides how much effort to put in. This paper analyzes the optimal decision problem of the DM who rationally filters information to deal with her post-decision cognitive dissonance. It is shown that the optimal effort level for a project can be affected by unchosen projects in her choice set, and the nature of the choice set-dependence is determined by the signal structure. Some comparative statics of choice set-dependence is also provided. Finally, based on the results, the optimal choice set design is also explored. This paper offers a simple framework to explain the experimental finding in psychology that people's effort level for a project can be enhanced when the project is chosen by themselves rather than by others.
Tan, J, Xiao, J & Zhou, X 2019, 'Market equilibrium and welfare effects of a fuel tax in China: The impact of consumers' response through driving patterns', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 93, pp. 20-43.
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We investigate the market equilibrium and welfare effects of a fuel tax in China relative to an alternative policy instrument that rations the number of new automobile sales through auctioned quotas. Unlike those of previous studies, our modeling approach incorporates both household car purchase and utilization decisions, the latter of which have been ignored in previous studies on China's fuel tax. Ignoring this margin of choice will underestimate the fuel tax's ability to mitigate externalities. Using detailed household-level panel data and a fixed effects econometric specification, we estimate the fuel price elasticity of vehicle miles traveled is −0.59 on average. The results of the counterfactual analysis suggest that a 51% increase in tax-inclusive gasoline prices will reduce car sales by 24.9% but increase social welfare to a degree that depends on vehicles' lifetime. We find that compared to auctioned quotas, the fuel tax results in greater car sales but higher social welfare.
Taylor, SL & Tong, A 2019, 'How Efficient Is the Market for Australian Firms’ Earnings Information?', Accounting and Finance.
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© 2019 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand We construct a measure of the speed with which forecasts issued by sell-side analysts accurately forecast future annual earnings. Following Marshall, we label this measure earnings information flow timeliness (EIFT). This measure avoids the aggregation problem inherent in price-based measures of information efficiency. We document large variation in EIFT across firm-years, and show that EIFT is positively associated with the extent of analyst following, consistent with increased analyst coverage improving the speed with which earnings-related information is recognised. We also find that EIFT is higher for firm-years classified as ‘bad news’ (i.e., where analysts’ forecasts at the start of the financial period exceed the reported outcome). However, when we separately consider instances where analysts appear to forecast non-GAAP (or ‘street’) earnings rather than GAAP earnings, we find that the greater timeliness of bad news is concentrated among observations where analysts forecast non-GAAP earnings, where unusual items are typically excluded. We conclude that the market for accounting information is more efficient for negative operating outcomes than for negative outcomes reflecting unusual items.
Temnyalov, E 2019, 'Points mechanisms and rewards programs', Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 436-457.
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I study points programs, such as frequent flyer and other rewards programs, as a revenue management tool. I develop a two-period contracting model where a capacity-constrained firm faces consumers who privately learn their valuations over time. The firm cannot commit to long-term contracts, but it can commit to allocate any unsold capacity through a points program. This points scheme creates an endogenous and type-dependent outside option for consumers, which generates novel incentives in the firm's pricing problem. It induces the firm to screen less ex interim, and to offer lower equilibrium prices, reversing the intuition of demand cannibalization.
Thambar, PJ, Brown, DA & Sivabalan, P 2019, 'Managing systemic uncertainty: The role of industry-level management controls and hybrids', Accounting, Organizations and Society, vol. 77, pp. 101049-101049.
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We study how multiple firms voluntarily design inter-firm mechanisms to manage industry-level systemic uncertainty. Facing a threat of systemic uncertainty that cannot be addressed by any one firm, we explain how the Australian cotton industry mobilised hybrids and boundary spanners to develop an industry-level solution at the inter-firm level. We apply resource dependence theory to extend Miller, Kurunm€aki and O'Leary (2008), and identify a broader range of hybrid characteristics (novel, inter-firm,
public/private and open source) than currently acknowledged in accounting studies. We use these characteristics to explain how hybrid organisational forms and hybrid control processes operate at the
inter-firm level to develop and share a solution to systemic uncertainty, which are subsequently applied at the firm-level. Our findings also show how boundary spanners can operate with less tension in larger
industry-level collaborations, explained using our resource dependence conceptualisation. This responds to Dekker's (2016) calls for more inter-firm research clarifying how controls operate beyond the firm.
Tomoeda, K 2019, 'Efficient investments in the implementation problem', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 182, pp. 247-278.
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© 2019 Elsevier Inc. This paper identifies a condition for an efficient social choice rule to be fully implementable when we take into account investment efficiency. To do so, we extend the standard implementation problem to include endogenous ex ante and ex post investments. In our problem, the social planner aims to achieve efficiency in every equilibrium of a dynamic game in which agents strategically make investments before and after playing the mechanism. Our main theorem shows that a novel condition commitment-proofness is sufficient and necessary for an efficient social choice rule to be implementable in subgame-perfect equilibria. The availability of ex post investments is crucial in our model: there is no social choice rule that is efficient and implementable in subgame-perfect equilibria without ex post investments. We also show that our positive result continues to hold in the incomplete information setting.
Tse, H 2019, 'There must be another way: Non-traditional Teaching Methods in the International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics', Australasian Journal of Economics Education, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 32-37.
Tumpa, TJ, Ali, SM, Rahman, MH, Paul, SK, Chowdhury, P & Rehman Khan, SA 2019, 'Barriers to green supply chain management: An emerging economy context', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 236, pp. 117617-117617.
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Tweedie, D, wild, D, Rhodes, C & Martinov‐Bennie, N 2019, 'How Does Performance Management Affect Workers? Beyond Human Resource Management and its Critique', International Journal of Management Reviews, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 76-96.
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© 2018 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. While performance management (PM) is pervasive across contemporary workplaces, extant research into how performance management affects workers is often indirect or scattered across disciplinary silos. This paper reviews and synthesizes this research, identifies key gaps and explores 'recognition theory' as a nascent framework that can further develop this important body of knowledge. The paper develops in three main stages. The first stage reviews 'mainstream' human resource management (HRM) research. While this research analyses workers' reactions to performance management in some depth, its focus on serving organizational goals marginalizes extra-organizational impacts. The second stage reviews more critical HRM research, which interprets performance management as a disciplinary, coercive or inequitable management device. While this literature adds an important focus on organizational power, there is scope to analyse further how PM affects workers' well-being. To develop this strand of PM research, the third stage turns to the emerging field of recognition theory independently developed by Axel Honneth and Christophe Dejours. The authors focus especially on recognition theory's exploration of how (in)adequate acknowledgement of workers' contributions can significantly affect their well-being at the level of self-conception. Although recognition theory is inherently critical, the paper argues that it can advance both mainstream and critical performance management research, and also inform broader inquiry into recognition and identity at work.
Vandenbroele, J, Van Kerckhove, A & Zlatevska, N 2019, 'Portion size effects vary: The size of food units is a bigger problem than the number', Appetite, vol. 140, pp. 27-40.
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While it is well-known that larger food portions lead to increased consumption (i.e., the portion size effect), previous studies confound the effect of the size and the number of food units making up the larger portion. Moreover, empirical tests of the mechanism underlying the portions size effect are scarce. In response to these shortcomings, we present three experiments that test the impact of food unit-size and unit-number on consumption of increasingly large portion sizes, and assess whether perceptions of quantity (driven by unit size or number) mediate the portion size effect. Study 1 (n = 185), tracking actual consumption, shows that the portion size effect is determined more by unit-size than unit-number. Relative consumption ratios are higher when participants were served portions made up of enlarged food units compared to more food units. Since perceived quantity and consumption are thought to be negatively related, Study 2 (n = 193) reveals that consumers’ quantity perceptions of portions are lower for unit-size (vs. unit-number) increases. Study 3 (n = 189) considers both perceived quantity and consumption and demonstrates that perceived quantity indeed mediates the effect of food portion size on consumption. Finally, this study also shows that encouraging consumers to focus perceptually on size when portion size increases are in terms of unit-size, or focus on number when portion size increases are in terms of unit-number, supports them in increasing quantity perceptions and decreasing actual consumption. Hence, manipulating the perceptual focus of consumers helps to mitigate the portion size effect. The findings contribute to literature on the portion size effect and numerosity heuristic, and provide practical insights on food packaging so to tackle the obesity crisis.
Veal, AJ 2019, 'Joffre Dumazedier and the definition of leisure', Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 187-200.
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© 2019, © 2019 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. One of the most widely cited definitions of leisure is that presented by Joffre Dumazedier, originally published in 1962 and based on three functions of leisure identified in his empirical research in France. Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, aspects of the English translation of the definition, published in the USA in 1967, are found to be inappropriate and misleading. Second, attention is drawn to the unexplained omission of experiential features of leisure, also identified in Dumazedier’s research. Third, it is observed that, in the 1970s, Dumazedier disavowed his original definition and replaced it with a more exclusive perspective identifying him with the ‘Leisure Aristotelians’. Possible reasons for the original omission of experiential dimensions and for Dumazedier’s decision to replace his definition with a very different one are discussed, together with consideration of the lack of attention given to these matters by leisure studies scholars.
Veal, AJ, Toohey, K & Frawley, S 2019, 'Sport participation, international sports events and the ‘trickle-down effect’', Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, vol. 11, no. sup1, pp. s3-s7.
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Ville, S & Wright, C 2019, 'Buzz and Pipelines: Knowledge and Decision-Making in a Global Business Services Precinct', Journal of Urban History, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 191-210.
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This paper provides a historical analysis of an urban services district through its examination of the Melbourne wool trade precinct in the 1920s. It is a study of both a local and global community whose social and spatial interaction facilitated large-scale trade of a complex commodity that has rarely been examined. Geographic mapping of the local and global connections of the precinct has been combined with archival evidence. It reveals the “buzz” of the Melbourne precinct, created by local social and professional connections among wool brokers and buyers. “Pipelines” to wool growing and textile regions were developed through overseas branches of firms, with global knowledge exchanged through correspondence, telegraph, and migration. These features shaped the progress of the trade, facilitating improvements in its infrastructure and in the ability of Melbourne’s wool brokers and buyers to fulfill their role as intermediaries in the global supply chain for this complex commodity.
Wakefield, J & Thambar, P 2019, 'Applying Target Costing to the Service Sector: Sunline Auto Insurance Case', Issues in Accounting Education, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 1-19.
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ABSTRACT
The application of target costing in a service firm is rarely taught in managerial accounting courses, in contrast to the focus on manufacturing-related cost topics (e.g., Everaert and Swenson 2014). Educating future managers in the use of service-sector target costing is important because it provides knowledge on how profitability can be improved through a considered approach to cost management. The case study objectives are to improve students' ability to analyze and explain important areas of cost, assess and apply target costing, and strategically consider costs. Our testing indicates support for case efficacy in the context of these objectives. The case uses an auto insurance firm to illustrate how target costing can be applied in the service sector. Students are provided with information on cost data and the target-costing technique, allowing them to assess costs, apply the target-costing techniques, and develop strategic cost management focus and recommendations.
JEL Classifications: A22.
Wakefield, J, Tyler, J, Dyson, LE & Frawley, JK 2019, 'Implications of Student‐Generated Screencasts on Final Examination Performance', Accounting & Finance, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1415-1446.
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© 2017 AFAANZ. While educational technologies can play a vital role in students' active participation in introductory accounting subjects, learning outcome implications are less clear. We believe this is the first accounting education study examining the implications of student-generated screencast assignments. We find benefits in developing the graduate attributes of communication, creativity and multimedia skills, consistent with calls by the profession. Additionally, we find improvement in final examination performance related to the assignment topic, notably in lower performing students. The screencast assignment was optional, and the findings suggest a tailored approach to assignment design related to students' developmental needs is appropriate.
Waller, DS & Waller, HJ 2019, 'An analysis of negative reviews in top art museums’ Facebook sites', Museum Management and Curatorship, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 323-338.
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Social media has had a profound effect on cultural-based institutional practice. The relationship between social media and these institutions is reflected in the services they provide, such as the way they communicate, the accessibility of collections, and customer engagement; however, social media is also used as a public channel for negative comments, criticism and complaints. This qualitative study aims to identify the key areas of negative comments made on Facebook review sites against the main art museums by members of the public, and determine how these institutions are monitoring this criticism. This is achieved by a thematic analysis of Facebook posts on review pages to identify what the negative issues are, plus an online survey of the Marketing/Communications Managers at the art museums. The main findings identify issues that can improve museum practice and avoid complaints in the future, which can have implications for other cultural-based institutions
Wang, Y, Zhu, M, Liu, W & Li, W 2019, 'Does International Diversity Increase Innovation Performance of New Ventures from Emerging Markets?', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2019, no. 1, pp. 11414-11414.
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Wearing, S, Schweinsberg, S & Johnson, P 2019, 'Flâneur or Choraster: A Review of the Travel Narrator In the Formation of the Tourist Experience', Tourism Analysis, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 551-562.
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Media representations of destinations play a powerful role in tourism appeal. The narrator assumes a role infused with knowledge and power, employing discourse to describe and interpret places and people to entice armchair audiences to not only travel vicariously alongside them, but
to follow in their footsteps. This review article uses the English actor and writer Michael Palin to examine this phenomenon through the lens of the flâneur and choraster. Palin's travels have traditionally been viewed based on their ability to create space from the perspective of a
representational voice of authority. In the present article, we wish to ask whether the power of the travel narrator for tourism is perhaps better expressed in their ability to develop a counter (or chora discourse), one where we are able to see space as locally contested. Palin's narrator
expresses appreciation of his reliance on the people (chora) that inhabit the spaces he visits. His narrations of travel evidence how the flâneur perspective is influenced (and/or disrupted) by a chora in two ways—that which influences the perspective before travel and directs
the gaze, and those that occupy and inscribe meaning on the spaces that are traveled to, that influences and/or forms experience.
Wechsler, J & Schweitzer, J 2019, 'Creating Customer-Centric Organizations: The Value of Design Artefacts', The Design Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 505-527.
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More organizations are adopting customer-centric innovation practices to increase business value; however, very little is known about the factors driving customer-centric innovation or the conditions under which innovation succeeds. Similarly, very little is known about the role of design artefacts as inputs in customer-centric innovation processes or as instruments that support the organizational change required for successful change. A practice-led case study was conducted to examine the role of design artefacts and to demonstrate how they are flexible and persuasive tools that mediate the social and intertwined demands of customer-centric innovation strategies. Five distinct roles of design artefacts are proposed and their value in contributing to innovation and organizational change are considered.
Welty Peachey, J, Schulenkorf, N & Spaaij, R 2019, 'Sport for Social Change: Bridging the Theory–Practice Divide', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 361-365.
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Theory development around sport for social change agendas has received greater attention from scholars over the past 10 years. Yet, it remains underdeveloped when compared with theoretical advancements and innovations in other aspects of the sport industry. In this special issue, we bring to light some of the most recent conceptual and empirical work exploring the theory–practice connection in the field of sport for social change.
WRIGHT, C, VILLE, S & MERRETT, D 2019, 'Quotidian Routines: The Cooperative Practices of a Business Elite', Enterprise & Society, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 826-860.
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Cooperative corporate behavior has often been explained through the social anatomy of business leaders and structural ties among firms. Our alternative approach investigates how quotidian interactions built trust and routines among a group of major firms in the Australian wool trade—a sector that required regular interaction to be effective. Deploying extensive archives of their meetings, we use social network analysis to examine interactions among the key group of firms and individuals. Through content analysis we infer the behavior and atmosphere of meetings. Finally, an evaluation of meeting agendas and outcomes demonstrates cooperation and a shared commitment to improving the operation of the wool trade in the 1920s.
Wright, CEF 2019, 'The Boarding Pass: Pathways to Corporate Networks in Early Twentieth-century Australia', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 441-462.
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Yerbury, H, Darcy, S & Burridge, N 2019, 'Accessing learning resources: experiences of students with disability', Information Research: an international electronic journal, vol. 24, no. 4.
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Introduction. This study investigates the experiences of students with disability in an Australian university as they engage in their online learning activities and asks the question: How can the experiences of these students help us to re-conceptualise what it means to access learning resources?
Method. Students who had identified themselves as having a disability were invited to complete a questionnaire using the Qualtrics survey platform and usable responses were received from 200 students, of whom 26 agreed to take part in a semi-structured interview.
Analysis. Descriptive statistics were derived through Qualtrics; qualitative data were analysed using Leximancer to identify key concepts supplemented by a discourse analytic approach to content analysis providing access to the language of the students.
Results. Some barriers to accessing learning resources arose from incompatibilities in assistive technologies and from decisions made by staff, but a significant barrier was a lack of social capital.
Conclusions. While policies are important in facilitating access to learning resources for students with disability and the skills and expertise of those involved are also significant, the strength of social relationships and the inequities resulting from unbalanced engagement in these relationships must be considered in any discussion of access and barriers to information.
Yu, K-H 2019, 'Inclusive unionism: Strategies for retaining idealism in the Service Employees International Union', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 33-56.
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Despite the vast amount of scholarship covering the progressive turn in unions in the US and in Europe and a widespread recognition that it has been driven by the staff working for reformed unions there has been no examination of the causes, beliefs, and identities that new generations of staff bring into the labor movement. The question asked in this article is how personal projects – defined as a motivational narrative for social action – held by progressively minded union staff can impact inclusiveness in unions. A key focus is how staff's personal projects interact with organizational structures and practices. The study finds that personal projects vary in terms of the way that staff construct role boundaries in their jobs to invest more in certain roles than, others which also affected their investment in skills development. These strategies have theoretical implications for understanding the nexus between staff careers and organizational outcomes in unions in particular and in ‘social movement organizations’ more generally. Results also have practical implications for skills development and knowledge transfers within and across organizations, as well as for union capacities to deal with competing goals.
Yu, K-H 2019, 'Negotiating ‘otherness’ as skilled migrants', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 198-224.
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While culture is beginning to be understood as a mechanism of stratification in the labor market alongside attribute-based discrimination, we lack a corresponding understanding of how skilled migrants deal with their otherness in the labor market. This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of the lived experiences of skilled migrants by identifying the material and social consequences of performing extra work to obtain cultural legitimacy. In contrast to the recent focus on understanding cultural others’ responses to pressures for conformity in terms of identity conflict, this study identifies the context in which cultural legitimacy is required and constructed, both in terms of macro-societal and institutional influences on identity regulation within organizations as well as interactional dynamics and power relations. Based on interviews with migrants in the field of accounting and finance in Australia, I draw out the main features of ‘cultural work’ and show the potential consequences of not performing cultural work as well as the means of migrants’ resistance against pressures for conformity.
Zhang, T, Shi, X, Zhang, D & Xiao, J 2019, 'Socio-economic development and electricity access in developing economies: A long-run model averaging approach', Energy Policy, vol. 132, pp. 223-231.
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Access to electricity continues to be a popular subject in empirical studies. However, the choice of key factors related to electricity access in the literature to date has been ad hoc due to the lack of a theoretical framework. This paper adopts a Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) approach to selects important factors related to electricity access from 26 socioeconomic indicators using a sample of 48 developing countries, and reveal their long-term relationship with electricity access. The BMA approach allows us to identify the optimal empirical model when a theoretical foundation is not available. Moreover, it allows us to address the relative importance of variables using posterior inclusion probabilities and thus has clear policy relevance. Our results show that access to finance, education, economic development, infrastructure, and industrialisation are positively related to electricity access in the long-run. Although the long-run relationship does not indicate causality, it shows that to maintain this relationship, policy adjustments against any deviations from the relationship are needed. Our study suggests that electrification needs not only economic, educational and infrastructural development, but also private sector participation, governments’ commitment and political will, and integration with poverty reduction and other development schemes.
Zlatevska, N, Chowdhury, RMMI, Tam, L & Holden, S 2019, 'Facts-up-front: should food companies follow the FDA or industry label format? The effects of combining virtue and vice information on consumer evaluations', Marketing Letters, vol. 30, no. 3-4, pp. 321-334.
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Abou Maroun, E, Zowghi, D & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Challenges in forecasting uncertain product demand in supply chain: A systematic literature review', Managing the many faces of sustainable work, Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, ANZAM, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Forecasting for uncertain product demand in supply chain is challenging and statistical models alone cannot overcome the challenges faced. Our overall objective is to explore the challenges faced in forecasting uncertain product demand and examine extant literature by synthesizing the results of studies that have empirically investigated this complex phenomenon. We performed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) following the well-known guidelines of the evidence-based paradigm which resulted in selecting 66 empirical studies. Our results are presented into two categories of internal and external challenges: 24 of the 66 studies express internal challenges, whilst 13 studies report external challenges, and 8 studies cover both internal and external challenges. We also present significant gaps identified in the research literature
Ahuja, S & Nikolova, N 1970, '‘This boys club world is finally getting to me’: Gendered professional identity in elite architecture firms.', European Group for Organization Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ashwell, J & Hassanli, N 1970, 'A cluster approach to sustainability for small tourism accommodations', The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education, Cairns.
Bedford, A, Matolcsy, Z, Spiropoulos, H & Vojvoda, K 1970, 'Powerful Chief Executive Officers of Target Firms and Merger and Acquisition Outcomes', American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
Bedford, A, Matolcsy, Z, Spiropoulos, H & Vojvoda, K 1970, 'Powerful Chief Executive Officers of Target Firms and Merger and Acquisition Outcomes', Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, Brisbane.
Bedford, D, Bisbe, J & Sweeney, B 1970, 'The implications of comprehensive performance measurement system design for managing the effects of TMT conflict', American Accounting Association Mid-Year Management Accounting Section Conference, Florida, USA.
Bedford, D, Pham, H, Sivabalan, P & Sivapalan, T 1970, 'Tight budgetary controls in early stage organisations facing high uncertainty and under-resourced environments: causes and effects', 10th Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control, Nice, France.
Bickett, D, Schweitzer, J & Mastio, E 1970, 'Curiosity in leadership: A strategic paradox', 2019 European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, 35th European Group for Organisational Studies Colloquium, Edinburgh, UK.
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In this conceptual paper, we use a paradoxical lens to explore the strategic contradictions of leaders who are required to make balanced paradoxical choices, for example, when decision-making requires the identification of novel and creative solutions to difficult problems. We develop our perspective based on two recent large scale studies that delve into how curiosity is viewed and applied in contemporary firms. The results from these studies suggest a limited level of leader support for curious and enquiring minds; instead, they posit a position of top down decision-making as a means of managing risk. We also review the impact of cognitive bias when leaders consider their choice of decision-making approaches, either to provide exploratory support for curious enquiring minds or to maintain an exploitation position conducive to risk mitigation. We then move on to discuss the importance and relevance of contextual questioning in support of “playfulness,” as a means of enhancing curiosity and encouraging exploration. With curiosity and exploration being essential to the identification of novel solutions, we suggest that contextual questions are integral to paradoxical frames associated with curiosity and risk. Our aim is to contribute to paradox theory by expanding theoretical insights supportive of an integrative approach to contextual questioning enhanced by serious play. In this way, enriching outcomes that are associated with curiosity; most notably when there are paradoxical tensions between curiosity and risk. Finally, we provide three questions as stimuli for further empirical research.
Bliemel, M, Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Subhadrammal, D, Pugalia, S & Francis, J 1970, 'Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Dynamics and Metrics', University-Industry Engagement Conference, Sydney, NSW.
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This paper presents our review of the literature and industry reports in relation to attempts to quantify and measure entrepreneurial ecosystems. Public interest and research on entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) has exploded in recent years, with many different conceptualisations of EEs. How they are opera-tionalised and quantified remains a challenge. However, having a reliable metric for the state or health of an EE remains of great interest to policy makers and researchers alike. In this study, we review the emerg-ing literature on EEs with a focus on attempts to quantify what they are and how they work. While there is an emerging concesus or synthesis of what EEs are, the literature and reports on their quantification remain scattered. Many quantitative studies are based on the practicality of using data with very limited availability. Others use macro-level or aggregated individual level data to make inferences about what occurs at the level of the firm, their immediate network, or how these interactions play out across the ecosystem across a very diverse set of actors. While startups are the primary outcome and primary stakeholder in EEs, the broader literature recognises that startups do not operate in isolation, and that their emergence depends on the actions and interaction with other stakeholders, such as larger corpora-tions, universities, government and other incumbents. A single-minded obsession about the number of startups and their fundings deprives policy makers and researchers the ability to study the whole system or context in which they exist and create jobs, wealth and innovations.
Bohmann, MJM, Michayluk, D & Patel, V 1970, 'Price discovery in commodity derivatives: Speculation or hedging?', Journal of Futures Markets, Vietnam International Conference in Finance, Wiley, Ho Chi Minh City, pp. 1107-1121.
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Borriello, A, Burke, PF & Rose, JM 1970, 'Consumers’ preferences for different energy mixes in Australia', International Choice Modelling Conference, Kobe, Japan.
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Policy makers worldwide face several challenges in addressing climate change, including an understanding of how to successfully introduce initiatives reliant on renewable energy sources (RES). A key component in this is understanding citizen preferences in terms of willingness to pay (WTP). This research focuses on utilising a discrete choice experiment and associated hybrid choice model to model individual WTP for four different RES types (biomass, hydro, solar and wind) against four current and potential non-RES types (gas, oil, nuclear and coal). The model accounts for latent segments in relation to WTP based on pro-environmental attitudes and various socio-demographics. The research examines the case of Australia, but reports on WTP at each state and territory level rather than at the national level. The findings indicate that respondents from different states and territories have heterogeneous preferences in terms of energy mix composition, which led to different WTP values. A large dissonance emerges also comparing preferences at national and state/territory level, which may potentially act as hindrance to the achievement of the goal set for the Paris agreement.
Buck, A, Clifton-Cunningham, A, Golja, T, Kutay, C, Melvold, J, Regmi, A, Vincent, N, Walsh, SP, Yap, E-H & Co-Creating Collective 1970, 'Transdisciplinary learning: Transformative collaborations between students, industry, academia and communities', Next Practice Book: Challenges and Solutions for Fostering Entrepreneurial Universities and Collaborative Innovation, University-Industry Engagement 02/2019, University Industry Innovation Network, University of Technology Sydney, pp. 12-12.
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An analogy: Imagine you are invited to a dinner party, but instead of a stuffy sit-down affair,
your host asks you to bring your favourite ingredient, and together you prepare a delicious feast of unique and distinct flavours.
UTS’s transdisciplinary initiatives are changing the shape of higher education and forging
innovative partnerships by bringing together diverse professional fields. With a focus on practice-based and problem-focused learning, UTS educational programs combine the strengths of multiple disciplines, industries, public sector organisations, and the community to turn real-world problems into rewarding opportunities for education and also “learning for a lifetime”.
In place of the limitations of artificial disciplinary boundaries, transdisciplinary learning practices create synergistic and innovative approaches to grappling with complex applied challenges. Students, researchers, practitioners, community members and other stakeholders combine their knowledge, tools, techniques, methods, theories, concepts, as well as cultural and personal perspectives. By understanding problems holistically, the solutions that emerge are bold, innovative, and creative, as well as mutually beneficial. We view this as the future of education: good to work with, and good to think with — problem solving for (and with) industry and society.
The Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation is re-imagining how education, research, and professional practice can work together to navigate today’s complex problems, and create commercially attractive and socially responsible futures. We also practice what we preach: for example, staff professional development to enact these models in our own teaching; educational programs to provide experiential learning around problem solving within a rapidly changing environment involving students from across different disciplines and cultural backgrounds; as well as policy development and research on today’s pressing “wicked problems” with i...
Bugeja, M, da Silva Rosa, R, Izan, HY & Ngan, S 1970, 'Choice of Acquisition Form in Australia and the Post‐Takeover Employment of Target Firm Directors on the Acquiring Firm Board', Accounting & Finance, Twenty-Thrird Annual Conference Multinational Finance Society, Stockholm, SWEDEN, pp. 2235-2271.
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Clegg, S, Cunha, MPE, Berti, M & Simpson, A 1970, 'Symposium on Paradoxes of facts, fashion, and Fado in the future of management', Business for Society, Lisbon, Portugal.
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The facts about the future of management have yet to be socially constructed but the fashion trends are clear and they may well be an occasion for Fado on the part of certain management scholars, those for whom a humanistic appreciation of management as a discipline and a practice was always foremost. Humanism is on the retreat and the present cycle of managerial innovation sees a favouring of machine over human imagery (Abrhamsson and Eisenman, 2008) that has the potential of paradoxically being both as liberating for humanity as it is dehumanizing.
Clegg, S, Rijmenam, MV & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'The politics of openness', 2017 European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 307-325.
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The concern with openness is well established in organization theory providing a common language for observing, understanding and predicting system behaviours. Beside more conventional views of systems, which favour an objectivised view of relations between organizations and, therefore, recommendations for setting the conditions of their mutual openness, Luhmann’s theoretical framework shows that openness is problematic per se for social systems as organizations. Systems endogenously construct their differentiation from other systems through closure. Any systemic society is based on closure and specific cognitive rules, not on openness and objectivised communication. In the language of systems theory, openness is a lure as a systemic analysis of the fragmentation of power shows. We use Clegg’s (1989) ‘circuits’ approach to a systems theory of power to make connections with Luhmann (1979): there are many points of comparison between them, including the key role of events, the centrality of social constructions and the autopoietic nature of the circuits of power.
Dhillon, R & Andon, P 1970, 'OPEN GOVERNMENT AND CITIZEN ACCOUNTABILITY: A CASE STUDY OF THE AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION SECTOR', Nice, France.
Dong, K 1970, 'Learning and the Fear of Failure: The Context of Decisions about New Market Entry by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Owners in China', the Academy of international Business (AIB) Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dong, K 1970, 'The Fear of Failure in the SME’s Internationalisation', Academy of Management Proceedings, the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management, the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston, pp. 16335-16335.
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Fee, A 1970, 'Demands and coping strategies of host-country nationals when hosting expatriates', Academy of Management, Boston, MA.
Felez Vinas, E 1970, 'Effects of market fragmentation on resiliency', New Zealand Finance Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand.
Felez Vinas, E 1970, 'Short selling bans and resiliency', 2019 FIRN Annual Meeting, Byron Bay, Australia..
Fleming, P, Rhodes, C & Yu, K-H 1970, 'On Why Uber Has Not Taken Over the World', Annual Colloquium of the European Group for Organization Studies, Edinburgh.
Frawley, JK, Wakefield, J, Dyson, LE & Tyler, J 1970, 'Building graduate attributes using student-generated screencasts', ASCILITE 2015 - Australasian Society for Computers in Learning and Tertiary Education, Conference Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE, Perth, Australia, pp. 100-111.
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There has been an increasing emphasis in recent years on developing the “soft” skills, or graduate attributes, that students need once they finish their university studies in addition to the specific domain knowledge of their discipline. This paper describes an innovative approach to developing graduate attributes through the introduction of an optional assignment in which first-year accounting students designed and developed screencasts explaining key concepts to their peers. Screencasts have been used in recent years for teaching but the approach of students, rather than teachers, making screencasts is far less common. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of student surveys showed that, in addition to improving their accounting knowledge and providing a fun and different way of learning accounting, the assignment contributed to the development and expression of a number of graduate attributes. These included the students' ability to communicate ideas to others and skills in multimedia, creativity, teamwork and self-directed learning.
Gavin, M 1970, '‘Workload and wellbeing: (In-)compatible demands in education?’', 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Melbourne Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'Advancing a model of teacher union effectiveness in response to neoliberal education reform', 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'Occupational and Organisational Professionalisation: Teaching, work and the case of an Australian Teachers’ Union', 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Gavin, M 1970, 'The work and workload experiences of fixed contract teachers: New casualisation of staff in schools?', 32nd Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference.
Grosse, M, Ma, N & Scott, T 1970, 'Is comparative advantage within an industry associated with audit fees?', American Accounting Association Annual Meeting 2020, San Francisco.
Haque, M, Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 1970, 'Modeling decentralized supply chain with centralized and decentralized approaches', Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CIE, The 49th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China.
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In this paper, a multistage decentralized supply chain (SC) with different independent entities is modeled with the combination of centralized and decentralized decision-making processes. To do so, mathematical models are developed, based on the concepts of bilevel programming and the weighted goal programming approach. Here, a strategy of centralized SC control is proposed as an upper level (leader) optimization problem, whereas the individual profit maximization problems of each of the independent SC stages are considered as lower level (follower) problems under decentralized control. To implement the bilevel programming concept, an optimization model is developed as a leader problem to coordinate different independent entities of a decentralized SC and a few independent optimization models for different SC stages are considered for the follower problems. We have introduced a solution approach to solve the proposed multiperiod model using a goal programming approach, where a target/goal value is set for each lower level optimization problem to obtain feasible solutions of the proposed bilevel model. A numerical analysis is conducted to validate our model. Moreover, our proposed model is compared with a single-level approach, where total SC profit maximization is considered, instead of optimizing each individual entities’ problems. The comparison shows that modeling a complete decentralized SC network with independent entities having individual objectives with our proposed model is more realistic and effective than single-level modeling.
Hassanli, N, Walter, T & Freidmann, R 1970, 'How Festivals Mitigate the Adverse Effects of Oppression for Attendees: The Case of the New Beginnings Festival', Critical Tourism Studies, Ibiza, Spain.
Josserand, E & Kaine, S 1970, 'Long-term non-market strategies: how business is attempting to change society', 10th International Research Meeting in Business and Management, Nice.
Kang, B, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C & Prokopczuk, M 1970, 'An anatomy of the volatility term structure in crude oil futures markets', 3rd Australasian Commodity Markets Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Katic, M, Cetindamar, D, Agarwal, R & Sick, N 1970, 'Operationalising Ambidexterity: The Role of 'Better' Management Practices in High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing', 2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), IEEE, Portland, Oregon, pp. 1-10.
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Klettner, A, Clarke, T & Boersma, M 1970, 'Corporate responsibility and financialisation in the international banking sector: the limits of current governance systems', European Academy of Management, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kwak, K, Kim, J & Kim, J-E 1970, 'The Influence Of Variety-of-options On Consumers’ Attitudes Toward The Store And Its Sub-category', INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Rome, Italy.
Lewis, R, Sutton, N & Brown, D 1970, 'Strategic management system engagement and strategic cognition', 14th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making 2019, San Francisco.
Li, W, Wang, Y & Liu, W 1970, 'Does International Diversity Increase Innovation Performance of New Ventures from Emerging Markets?', Academy of Management Conference, Boston, the United States.
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Li, W, Wei, Q, De Sisto, M & Gu, J 1970, 'Loss or Gain? The Moderating Role of Top Manager Team in the Relationship between Political Hazards and Foreign Subsidiary Performance', Academy of International Business Conference.
Michailova, S & Fee, A 1970, 'Host country nationals’ cross-cultural adjustment: Their exchange relationship with expatriates and its spillovers', Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Cairns, Queensland.
Patel, V, Putniņš, TJ, Michayluk, D & Foley, S 1970, 'Price Discovery in Stock and Options Markets', 1st Paris Financial Management Conference, Paris, France.
Pham, H, Brown, P & Soco, S 1970, 'The Role of Environmental Management Accounting for the Control of Energy in Agriculture', European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Paphos.
Pugalia, S & Cetindamar Kozanoglu, D 1970, 'Tearing down the double glass ceiling for the women immigrant entrepreneurs in high-tech industry', Cairns, Australia, pp. 1-14.
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Although the number of women-owned firms is growing, there still remains the gap in the technology sector. The purpose of the present study is to explore the barriers faced by women-entrepreneurs due to their immigrant and ethnicity status. The paper presents a literature review in order to shed light on the possible causes of the lower number of women immigrant entrepreneurs particularly in high-tech sectors. Given the human, financial and network disadvantages faced by women vis-a-vis men, the immigrant status escalates the barriers further and create additional layer of 'glass ceiling' to pass for women who want to start a technology-based venture. In other words, immigrant women face a set of invisible barriers to advancement in their entrepreneurial career in high-technology sectors. The paper points out the existence of barriers and calls for researchers to find out ways to tear down these glass ceilings in order to empower woman and support their contribution to society as UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development argues.
Randhawa, K, West, J, Skellern, K & Josserand, E 1970, 'Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem:The Cognitive Influence of Stakeholders in Customizing Medical Implants', World Open Innovation Conference, Rome.
Saluja, G & Adaval, R 1970, 'Seeing more in less: How connecting and separating mindsets affect the process and outcome of product customization', Asia-Pacific Conference of the Association for Consumer Research, Asia Pacific ACR Conference, Ahmedabad, pp. 41-42.
Saluja, G, Hong, J & Mukhopadhyay, A 1970, 'Silver Linings on Darkened Endorsers: The Ironic Effect of Culpability in Celebrity Scandals', European Marketing Academy, Hamburg.
Saluja, G, Hong, J & Mukhopadhyay, A 1970, 'The effect of culpability in celebrity scandals', Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy, Wellington.
Schweitzer, J, Bliemel, M & Marchand, J 1970, 'Redefining the Honours degree to create a pan-university pathway to Entrepreneurship: Integrating modularized learning with blended and work integrated approaches', ACERE 2019 Conference Handbook, ACERE Entrepreneurship Educator’s Forum, Sydney, Australia.
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More than 40 per cent of students at the University of Technology Sydney want to create their own jobs or start their own companies. A greater percentage are interested in developing entrepreneurial capabilities for the future of work. EY’s Global Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation found similar aspirations globally. With a growing interest in entrepreneurship and a thriving ecosystem in Australia, UTS explored the option of introducing a bespoke degree to help graduates from any discipline fulfil their entrepreneurial potential. Instigated in 2017 and commencing in 2019, UTS will be offering Australia’s first one-year full-time university-wide Bachelor of Entrepreneurship (Honours). The new program complements undergraduate entrepreneurship subjects and extra-curricular activities and also serves as a bridge into more extensive postgraduate qualifications. The primary objective of the degree is to support students towards developing their entrepreneurial venture and learn the skills, knowledge and mindset required to build a successful enterprise. It is open to all students with an undergraduate degree from any discipline and was developed in collaboration with multiple UTS faculties and the wider startup community.
Sepehr, S 1970, 'Vulnerability Beyond Market-Mediated Power Relations: An Investigation of the Discourses of Anti-Immigration and Immigrant Consumer Vulnerability', AMA Winter Academic Conference, American Marketing Association, Austin, TX.
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A growing body of literature in consumer research has been dealing with the issue of consumer vulnerability. However, these studies have developed a narrow account of consumer vulnerability by regarding it as only a market condition. Addressing this gap, this paper aims to provide a broader conception of consumer vulnerability by investigating how power relations associated with anti-immigration and xenophobic discourses place immigrant consumers in vulnerable situation and how they appropriate consumption and market-mediate resources in order to resist. Interviews were conducted with 15 first-generation Iranian immigrants residing in Dortmund, Germany. The findings indicate that participants mostly experience vulnerability in their everyday interactions when they are subjected to the exercise of a very subtle form of power/knowledge that I conceptualised as a new form of orientalism in the post-9/11 world. The findings indicated that participants rely on the positive, productive aspects of market power relations to resist these undermining sociocultural processes. More specifically, it is found that they use symbolic resources attached to the collective consumption practices related to city and city spaces in order to cross the boundaries created as the result of functioning of the anti-immigration and xenophobic discourses. The findings of this paper suggest a broader conception of consumer vulnerability helps both researchers and practitioners in their endeavours to enhance consumer wellbeing.
Sick, N, Katic, M, Agarwal, R & Cetindamar Kozanoglu, D 1970, 'Operationalising ambidexterity: The role of better management practices in high-variety, low volume manufacturing', PICMET ’19 Conference: Technology Management in the World of Intelligent Systems, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Simpson, AV & Berti, M 1970, 'Exploring the Potential of AI-Assisted Organizational Compassion', Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 16780-16780.
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Singh, S, Sinha, A, Lie, D & Govind, R 1970, 'Price Promotion Models for EDLP Retailers', 41st Annual ISMS Marketing Science Conference, Rome.
Smithers, J, Burdon, S & Clay, J 1970, 'Setting Up Project's For Success-Research Insights WSP/UTS 2019', World Engineers Convention 2019, Melbourne.
Sombatruang, N, Onwuzurike, L, Sasse, MA & Baddeley, M 1970, 'Factors influencing users to use unsecured wi-fi networks', Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, WiSec '19: 12th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, ACM, Miami, USA, pp. 203-213.
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© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. Security experts often question why some users take actions that could expose them to security and privacy risks. Using unsecured Wi-Fi networks is one common example. Even though mobile data is now a more secure means to connect to the Internet, and is becoming faster and more affordable, many users continue to use unsecured Wi-Fi. To identify risk mitigating strategies, the research community first needs to understand the underlying factors driving users' decisions. Previous studies examined stated preferences - what people said they have done or think they would do - but that may not truly reflect real-life behavior. This study is the first to examine revealed preferences - what people actually do in naturalistic settings. Specifically, we investigated how users' desire to save mobile data and battery power influenced their decisions at the time when they connected to open unsecured Wi-Fi in the wild. We also examined whether the decision to use unsecured Wi-Fi networks could be driven by demographic factors and the user's perception of the risk associated with using these networks. We recruited 71 participants in the UK to install My Wi-Fi Choices, our own Android app, on their mobile device, and run it for three months in the background. The app captured details of mobile data allowance and battery power on participants' devices whenever they used open unsecured Wi-Fi networks.We found that depleting mobile data significantly drove participants to use these networks, especially when their remaining allowance reached approximately 30%. Battery level, however, did not play a significant role. The perceived risks of unsecured Wi-Fi did not affect the decision-making either. Age, education, and income level were also correlated with increased use of unsecured Wi-Fi.
Thirathon, U, Wieder, B & Ossimitz, ML 1970, 'Antecedents and Performance Impacts of Analytics-Based Managerial Decision-Making', Pacific Asian Conference on Information Systems 2019 - MISQ Editor Workshop, Xi'an China.
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This study investigates how organizations can achieve competitive advantage with data analytics. Two dimensions of the value creation process are investigated: (1) the input or antecedents of Big Data analytics (BDA) and (2) the mechanisms required to translate BDA investments into increased organizational performance. The results of survey responses from senior finance managers across a broad range of industries in Australia reveal that analytics-based decision-making (ABDM) is the main mechanism for converting analytic capabilities into competitive advantage. The technical, interaction and business skills of analysts are important antecedents of both BDA sophistication and ABDM, but the strongest driver of the latter business managers’ quantitative skills. We conclude that competing with analytics does not just require investments into analysts’ skills and related tools and IT architectures, but also into quantitative skills of business managers. Finally, our analysis reveals that managers of smaller organizations are more likely to base their decisions on analytics than those in large organizations.
Trede, F, Markauskaite, L, Goodyear, P, Macfarlane, S, Tayebjee, F & McEwen, C 1970, 'Enhancing workplace learning through mobile technology: Designing the GPS for WPL', ASCILITE 2015 - Australasian Society for Computers in Learning and Tertiary Education, Conference Proceedings, [Office for Learning and Teaching], Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, pp. 645-647.
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Technology-mediated learning (TML) and workplace learning (WPL) are major priorities for universities. TML is core to the dynamic growth and modernization of university education, and WPL is an essential strategy used by universities to prepare students for future work. In Australia, both are rapidly changing practices, providing new possibilities and challenges. Though these two areas have largely remained separate in educational literature and practice, the integration of TML and WPL can provide important opportunities to bridge university and the workplace as well as build students' digital capacities and online professional identities. This poster presents a mobile resource for students, named the “GPS for WPL”, aimed at helping students, academics and workplace educators to improve professional learning experiences by making better use of mobile technology. This resource was designed as part of a project funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching, entitled “Enhancing Workplace Learning through Mobile Technology”.
Vesal, M, Siahtiri, V & O'Cass, A 1970, 'Uncovering the bright and dark sides of innovation on firm- and customer-related performance', Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand.
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Innovation must create value for two key stakeholders: shareholders and customers. However, while shareholders are concerned about the extent to which innovation activities impact the production cost, customers are focused on the potential of innovation activities to satisfy their needs. This problem has confounded managers about the benefits of innovation to firm- and customer-related performance outcomes. We attempt to highlight the bright-side of innovation and those that demonstrate a dark-side (less bright) on manufacturing firms’ production costs, and customer satisfaction. Following previous research, we differentiate between radical and incremental innovation. Drawing on a multi-informant dataset collected from B2B manufacturing firms and their customers, we show that while radical innovation significantly drives down production cost, it negatively affects customer satisfaction. The results also show that while the effect of incremental innovation on production cost is not significant, manufacturing firms with a higher level of incremental innovation have higher levels of customer satisfaction.
Wakefield, J, Reynolds, M, Wight, R & Tyler, J 1970, 'Undersold and underused: Tailored feedback technology in a large university classroom', RMIT Accounting Educators Conference, RMIT University.
Wechsler, J & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Design artefacts as flexible and persuasive tools for customer-centric innovation', Academy of Design Innovation Management Conference 2019, Academy of Design Innovation Management Conference 2019, London, UK, pp. 505-527.
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More organisations are adopting customer-centric innovation practices to increase business value; however, very little is known about the factors driving customer-centric innovation or the conditions under which innovation succeeds. Similarly, very little is known about the role of design artefacts as inputs in customer-centric innovation processes or as instruments that support the organisational change required for successful change. A practice-led case study was conducted to examine the role of design artefacts and to demonstrate how they are flexible and persuasive tools that mediate the social and intertwined demands of customer-centric innovation strategies. Five distinct roles of design artefacts are proposed and their value in contributing to innovation and organisational change are considered.
Wieder, B & Ossimitz, ML 1970, 'Management Accounting Information Quality and Firm Performance – the Enabling Role of Business Intelligence and Analytics Systems', 10TH EIASM CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL, Nice, France.
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Our research investigates the impact of management accounting (MA) information quality on organisational performance by considering the role of business intelligence and analytics (BI/A) systems and environmental uncertainty. By drawing on the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities theory and information and systems quality frameworks, we develop a model which establishes the scope and frequency of MA decision support methods used in an organisation and MA information service levels as performance enhancing aspects of MA information quality.
Using survey data collected from accounting and finance executives, the results of our PLS-SEM path model confirm that both of these aspects of MA information quality are positively associated with organisational performance and that such effects are – at least partly – moderated by environmental uncertainty. We also find strong support for the predicted impact of BI/A systems quality on both MA information quality constructs. Finally, the results for our path model analysis also reveal that the effects between BI/A systems quality and MA information quality characteristics also ‘translate’ into a significant indirect effect of BI/A systems quality on performance.
Wieder, B & Ossimitz, ML 1970, 'Performance Impacts of Business Intelligence and Analytics Systems – the Mediating Role of Management Accounting Information Quality', Proceedings of the 16th ICESALM 2019, International Conference on Enterprises, Systems, Accounting, Logistics & Management, International Hellenic University, Chania, Greece, pp. 112-138.
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Our research investigates the impact of management accounting (MA) information quality on organisational performance by considering the role of business intelligence and analytics (BI/A) systems and environmental uncertainty. By drawing on the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities theory and information and systems quality frameworks, we develop a model which establishes the scope and frequency of MA decision support methods used in an organisation and MA information service levels as performance enhancing aspects of MA information quality.
Using survey data collected from accounting and finance executives, the results of our PLS-SEM path model confirm that both of these aspects of MA information quality are positively associated with organisational performance and that such effects are – at least partly – moderated by environmental uncertainty. We also find strong support for the predicted impact of BI/A systems quality on both MA information quality constructs. Finally, the results for our path model analysis also reveal that the effects between BI/A systems quality and MA information quality characteristics also ‘translate’ into a significant indirect effect of BI/A systems quality on performance.
Wieder, B & Ossimitz, ML 1970, 'The role of business intelligence/analytics systems quality in translating 'finance transformation' efforts into higher management accounting information service levels', Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Secure ICT Platform for the 4th Industrial Revolution, PACIS 2019, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2019, Xi'an, China.
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Our research investigates the trending topic 'finance transformation' (FT), how FT projects impact on the quality of business intelligence and analytics (BI/A) systems and to what extent such impacts result in higher internal accounting information service levels. Using survey data collected from accounting and finance executives, the results of our SEM-PLS path model indicate that IT and efficiency centric FT projects lead to higher BI/A systems quality via two mediators: system/data integration and adoption of BA tools in management accounting. We also find that the use of ERP systems in management accounting has a complimentary effect in some of those relationships. Finally, we find that FTP projects actually lead to higher internal accounting information service levels via the above-mentioned indirect relationships, thereby providing first systematic evidence of managerial benefits associated with FT projects.
Williams, T, Edwards, M & Angus-Leppan, T 1970, 'Making Sense of Sustainability Work', Academy of Management Proceedings, 32nd Annual Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, Academy of Management, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 13985-13985.
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Williams, T, Edwards, M & Angus-Leppan, T 1970, 'Making Sense of Sustainability Work', 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, US.
Xu, J 1970, 'The Gender Gap in Executive Promotions', 2019 China International Finance Conference, Guangzhou, China.
Xu, J & Choi, S 1970, 'Why Do Underperforming CEOs Retain Their Jobs? Evidence from Executive Turnover', FIRN Women 2019 Conference, Brisbane, Australia.