Adams, RB, Kräussl, R, Navone, M & Verwijmeren, P 2021, 'Gendered Prices', The Review of Financial Studies, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 3789-3839.
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Abstract We provide evidence that culture is a source of pricing bias. In a sample of 1.9 million auction transactions in 49 countries, paintings by female artists sell at an unconditional discount of 42.1%. The gender discount increases with measures of country-level gender inequality—even in artist fixed effects regressions. Our results are robust to accounting for potential gender differences in art characteristics and their liquidity. Evidence from two experiments supports the argument that women’s art may sell for less because it is made by women. However, the gender discount reduces over time as gender equality increases.
Addo, R, Haas, M & Goodall, S 2021, 'The Cost-Effectiveness of Adjuvant Tamoxifen Treatment of Hormone Receptor–Positive Early Breast Cancer Among Premenopausal and Perimenopausal Ghanaian Women', Value in Health Regional Issues, vol. 25, pp. 196-205.
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Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Brown, PJ & Green, R 2021, 'People Management Practices that Underpin Lean Management Outcomes', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 75-94.
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Agarwal, R, Mittal, N, Patterson, E & Giorcelli, M 2021, 'Evolution of the Indian LPG industry: Exploring conditions for public sector business model innovation', Research Policy, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 104196-104196.
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Business model innovation in the public sector is important in creating value for citizens, industry, and government. The differing priorities of these stakeholders, which often require intervention or unification to address a societal need, are at the heart of both supply-side and demand-side strategy research. Moreover, it represents a core element of the business model innovation delivering key commodities, such as liquid petroleum gas (LPG), to large populations in the developing world. In this paper, we examine varying conditions in the public sector that require both supply-side and demand-side business model innovation for value creation, capture, and appropriation through deployment of digital government initiatives and policy interventions. Through observing the Indian LPG industry over a 70-year period, we argue that the supply-side and demand-side perspective, along with the business model concept, promote a better understanding of government industry interventions in the interest of all stakeholders. Specifically, the contribution in the public sector is unique, because (i) research on demand-side strategy can help business model scholars gain a more robust, granular understanding of effective value propositions for citizens, (ii) supply-side strategy business models create a seamless delivery mechanism, and (iii) both with their unique propositions serve as a “bridging concept” that connects the shared ideas of both areas of study to resource-based streams of strategy research.
Agarwal, UA, Dixit, V, Nikolova, N, Jain, K & Sankaran, S 2021, 'A psychological contract perspective of vertical and distributed leadership in project-based organizations', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 249-258.
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Ahmed, F, Evangelista, F & Spanjaard, D 2021, 'The effects of mutuality in exporter-importer relationships', International Marketing Review, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1331-1369.
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PurposeRelationship marketing has been playing an important role in the development of marketing theory and practice. Though the concept has been extensively applied in international marketing in understanding the dynamics of exporter-importer relationships, few studies have looked at dyadic data to investigate the impact of mutuality of relational variables on the exporter-importer relationships. The objective of this study is to understand the impact of mutuality of key relational variables on exporter-importer relationship performance. A dyadic model of mutuality is proposed. The model highlights the impact of balance, level and quality of perceptual bi-directionality of relational variables.Design/methodology/approachThe model was tested using dyadic data collected from exporter-importer relationships involving Australian exporters and their Southeast Asian import partners through a cross-sectional, quantitative survey. Mutuality of relationship constructs was measured using the perceptual bi-directionality (PBD) method.FindingsThe results support the central hypothesis that mutuality of relational constructs has an impact on relationship performance.Originality/valueThe study is the first to apply the perceptual bi-directionality method to measure mutuality of relational constructs in an exporter-importer setting. The study contributes to the general understanding of international business and exporter-importer relationship performance in particular.
Akter, S, Bandara, RJ & Sajib, S 2021, 'How to empower analytics capability to tackle emergency situations?', International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 1469-1494.
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PurposeAnalytics thrives in navigating emergency situations. Emergency operations management needs to develop analytics empowerment capability (ANEC) to prepare for uncertainty, support continuity and tackle any disruptions. However, there is limited knowledge on ANEC and its effects on strategic emergency service agility (SESA) and emergency service adaptation (ESAD) in such contexts. Drawing on the dynamic capability (DC) theory, we address this research gap by developing an ANEC model. We also model the effects of ANEC on SESA and ESAD using SESA as a mediator. We also assess the moderating and quadratic effects of ANEC on two higher-order DCs (i.e. SESA and ESAD).Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the literature on big data, empowerment and DC, we develop and validate an ANEC model using data from 245 service systems managers in Australia. The study uses the partial least squares-based structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to prove the research model. The predictive power of the research model is validated through PLSpredict (k = 10) using a training sample (n = 220) and a holdout sample (n = 25).FindingsThe findings show that analytics climate, technological enablement, information access, knowledge and skills, training and development and decision-making ability are the significant components of ANEC. The findings confirm strategic emergency service agility as a significant partial mediator between ANEC and emergency service adaptation. The findings also discuss the moderating and quadratic effects of ANEC on outcome constructs. We discuss the implications of our findings for emergency situatio...
Akter, S, Dwivedi, YK, Biswas, K, Michael, K, Bandara, RJ & Sajib, S 2021, 'Addressing Algorithmic Bias in AI-Driven Customer Management', Journal of Global Information Management, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1-27.
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Research on AI has gained momentum in recent years. Many scholars and practitioners increasingly highlight the dark sides of AI, particularly related to algorithm bias. This study elucidates situations in which AI-enabled analytics systems make biased decisions against customers based on gender, race, religion, age, nationality or socioeconomic status. Based on a systematic literature review, this research proposes two approaches (i.e., a priori and post-hoc) to overcome such biases in customer management. As part of a priori approach, the findings suggest scientific, application, stakeholder and assurance consistencies. With regard to the post-hoc approach, the findings recommend six steps: bias identification, review of extant findings, selection of the right variables, responsible and ethical model development, data analysis and action on insights. Overall, this study contributes to the ethical and responsible use of AI applications.
Akter, S, McCarthy, G, Sajib, S, Michael, K, Dwivedi, YK, D’Ambra, J & Shen, KN 2021, 'Algorithmic bias in data-driven innovation in the age of AI', International Journal of Information Management, vol. 60, pp. 102387-102387.
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Data-driven innovation (DDI) gains its prominence due to its potential to transform innovation in the age of AI. Digital giants Amazon, Alibaba, Google, Apple, and Facebook, enjoy sustainable competitive advantages from DDI. However, little is known about algorithmic biases that may present in the DDI process, and result in unjust, unfair, or prejudicial data product developments. Thus, this guest editorial aims to explore the sources of algorithmic biases across the DDI process using a systematic literature review, thematic analysis and a case study on the Robo-Debt scheme in Australia. The findings show that there are three major sources of algorithmic bias: data bias, method bias and societal bias. Theoretically, the findings of our study illuminate the role of the dynamic managerial capability to address various biases. Practically, we provide guidelines on addressing algorithmic biases focusing on data, method and managerial capabilities.
Alexeev, V, Ignatieva, K & Liyanage, T 2021, 'Dependence Modelling in Insurance via Copulas with Skewed Generalised Hyperbolic Marginals', Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 1-20.
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Abstract This paper investigates dependence among insurance claims arising from different lines of business (LoBs). Using bivariate and multivariate portfolios of losses from different LoBs, we analyse the ability of various copulas in conjunction with skewed generalised hyperbolic (GH) marginals to capture the dependence structure between individual insurance risks forming an aggregate risk of the loss portfolio. The general form skewed GH distribution is shown to provide the best fit to univariate loss data. When modelling dependency between LoBs using one-parameter and mixture copula models, we favour models that are capable of generating upper tail dependence, that is, when several LoBs have a strong tendency to exhibit extreme losses simultaneously. We compare the selected models in their ability to quantify risks of multivariate portfolios. By performing an extensive investigation of the in- and out-of-sample Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasts by analysing VaR exceptions (i.e. observations of realised portfolio value that are greater than the estimated VaR), we demonstrate that the selected models allow to reliably quantify portfolio risk. Our results provide valuable insights with regards to the nature of dependence and fulfils one of the primary objectives of the general insurance providers aiming at assessing total risk of an aggregate portfolio of losses when LoBs are correlated.
Almaskati, N, Bird, R, Yeung, D & Lu, Y 2021, 'A horse race of models and estimation methods for predicting bankruptcy', Advances in Accounting, vol. 52, pp. 100513-100513.
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Anufriev, M, Borissov, K & Pakhnin, M 2021, 'Dissonance Minimization and Conversation in Social Networks', CESifo Working Paper, vol. 215, no. 9433, pp. 167-191.
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Bachmann, RL & Spiropoulos, H 2021, 'Do females on boards affect acquisition outcomes and target selection: a replication and extension of Levi, Li and Zhang (2014)', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 3427-3441.
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AbstractWe replicate and extend the 2014 study by Levi, Li and Zhang in the Australian setting and examine whether female representation on corporate boards affects acquisition outcomes. Consistent with the original study, we find that bidders with female representation on their boards make fewer acquisitions and pay lower premiums, on average. We also document that bidders with female representation on their boards prefer to select target firms that also have female representation on their boards. These results are robust to propensity score matching and instrumental variable estimation.
Bachmann, RL & Spiropoulos, H 2021, 'Female directors and acquisition outcomes: a reflection on replicating Levi, Li and Zhang (2014)', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 471-474.
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PurposeIn this pitch research letter (PRL), the authors reflect on their research journey in replicating Levi, Li and Zhang (2014) for the AFAANZ Finance SIG 2020 Shark Tank Pitch event.Design/methodology/approachThe authors outline their experience in using the pitch template and discuss some issues and considerations one might encounter when replicating a study using Australian data.FindingsThey found the pitch template useful for planning our replication and for developing a thorough understanding of the different aspects involved in completing the project (such as data and methodology considerations as well as motivation and contribution to existing knowledge).Originality/valueThis PRL highlights the benefits of replicating an existing study using Australian data, and outlines some potential challenges (and solutions) one may encounter along the way. This experience is expected to be useful to early career researchers and those beginning to work with Australian data.
Badejo, FA, Gordon, R & Mayes, R 2021, 'Transforming human trafficking rescue services in Nigeria: towards context-specific intersectionality and trauma-informed perspectives', Journal of Services Marketing, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 878-890.
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PurposeThis study aims to introduce context-specific intersectionality and trauma-informed perspectives for transformative services theory and practice. While transformative service research concerning vulnerable people has focused on well-being and alleviating suffering, there has been less attention paid to how the intersection of scales of social categorisation such as class, gender and cultural norms shapes experiences and outcomes. Likewise, there is a paucity of attention to how lived experiences of trauma among people, such as human trafficking survivors, can and should influence service interactions, delivery and outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw upon insights from a focused ethnographic study featuring narrative interviews with ten human trafficking survivors and seven rescue service industry stakeholders, as well as field observations, in Nigeria. Thus, this work enriches the limited scholarship on transformative services across Africa, where local cultural contexts have a significant influence on shaping service environments.FindingsThe authors identify how the intersections of socio-economic class, gender dynamics, cultural norms and trauma shape the service experience for survivors.Originality/valueThe authors argue for the criticality of intersectionality and trauma-informed perspectives to transformative services to improve the mental and economic well-being of survivors of human trafficking in the long term.
Bajada, C, Singh, S, Jarvis, W & Trayler, R 2021, 'The use of threshold concepts to support student learning through assessment – a case for renewing public trust in business education and qualifications', Higher Education Research & Development, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 676-691.
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Baker, E, Daniel, L, Beer, A, Bentley, R, Rowley, S, Baddeley, M, London, K, Stone, W, Nygaard, C, Hulse, K & Lockwood, A 2021, 'An Australian rental housing conditions research infrastructure', Scientific Data, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 33.
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AbstractEach year the proportion of Australians who rent their home increases and, for the first time in generations, there are now as many renters as outright homeowners. Researchers and policy makers, however, know very little about housing conditions within Australia’s rental housing sector due to a lack of systematic, reliable data. In 2020, a collaboration of Australian universities commissioned a survey of tenant households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian rental sector. This data infrastructure was designed to be national (representative across all Australian States and Territories), and balanced across key population characteristics. The resultant Australian Rental Housing Conditions Dataset (ARHCD) is a publicly available data infrastructure for researchers and policy makers, providing a basis for national and international research.
Balzer, B & Rosato, A 2021, 'Expectations-Based Loss Aversion in Auctions with Interdependent Values: Extensive vs. Intensive Risk', Management Science, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 1056-1074.
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We analyze the bidding behavior of expectations-based loss-averse bidders in auctions with interdependent values. We emphasize the difference between the risk bidders face over whether they win the auction (extensive risk) and the risk they face over the value of the prize conditional on winning (intensive risk). The extensive risk creates an “attachment” effect, whereas the intensive risk operates via a “comparison” effect. How loss-averse bidders react to these different risks depends on whether they incorporate their bid into their reference point. Under “unacclimating personal equilibrium” (UPE), where bidders keep their expectations fixed when choosing their bids, both the extensive and intensive risks induce them to bid more aggressively. Moreover, bidders are exposed to the “winner’s curse” and a seller can attain higher revenue by hiding information in order to leverage the intensive risk. By contrast, under “choice-acclimating personal equilibrium” (CPE), where a bid determines both the reference lottery and the outcome lottery, the intensive risk creates a “precautionary bidding” effect that pushes bidders to behave less aggressively; whether this effect is reinforced or undermined by the extensive risk depends on a bidder’s likelihood of winning the auction. Furthermore, bidders are less aggressive than under UPE and can be subject to a “loser’s curse.” Yet, by committing to bidding less aggressively, such as by engaging in proxy bidding, loss-averse bidders are better off under CPE than UPE. This paper was accepted by Ilia Tsetlin, decision analysis.
Balzer, B & Schneider, J 2021, 'Managing a conflict: optimal alternative dispute resolution', The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 415-445.
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AbstractWe study optimal methods for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), a technique to achieve settlement and avoid costly adversarial hearings. Participation is voluntary. Disputants are privately informed about their marginal cost of evidence provision. If ADR fails to engender settlement, the disputants can use the information obtained during ADR to determine what evidence to provide in an adversarial hearing. Optimal ADR induces an asymmetric information structure but makes the learning report‐independent. It is ex ante fair and decreases the disputants' expenditures, even if they fail to settle. We highlight the importance of real‐world mediation techniques, such as caucusing, for implementing optimal ADR.
Balzer, B & Schneider, J 2021, 'Persuading to participate: Coordination on a standard', International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 78, pp. 102764-102764.
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Banerjee, SB, Jermier, JM, Peredo, AM, Perey, R & Reichel, A 2021, 'Theoretical perspectives on organizations and organizing in a post-growth era', Organization, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 337-357.
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The fundamental assumption we base this Special Issue on is that narrow concepts of growth have become the ruling ideas of this age, entrenched both in everyday life and to a considerable extent in the theoretical thinking and traditions of research conducted by organization and management studies scholars. We explain how tacit (or overt) endorsement of unbridled economic growth (the growth imperative) has pernicious practical effects and how it tends to restrict the intellectual base of the field. We argue that notions of degrowth present scholars with challenges as well as opportunities to reframe core assumptions and develop new directions in theory and research. Envisioning a post-COVID 19 world where societies and organizations can flourish without growth is one of the most difficult tasks facing theorists. We approach this challenge first by discussing the hegemonic properties of growth ideology and second by sketching an alternative political economy as a context for reimagining social and economic relations within planetary capacities in a post-growth era. Drawing on degrowth literature in ecological economics, sociology and political ecology, we identify key principles relevant to processes of organizing for a more just and environmentally sustainable future: frugal abundance, conviviality, care, and open relocalization. We conclude by introducing the three articles we feature in this issue along with some thoughts about theorizing policy and regulatory changes needed to generate transformational change and a future research agenda.
Barton, BL, Burke, PF & Waller, DS 2021, 'Effects of anxiety on preferences for generic medicines in Australia', Health Promotion International, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 187-195.
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Abstract Generic medicines have been available to consumers for ∼40 years, with varying degrees of uptake in different countries. Despite offering equivalent therapeutic qualities, generic medicines still struggle to be accepted by consumers. This study examines the role of a consumer’s affective state and framing effects on the purchase of a branded versus a generic pharmaceutical product. These issues are examined in an experiment, with independent manipulations of consumer anxiety levels and the framing of generic alternatives by the pharmacist. The sample comprised 426 men and women within Australia who completed an online survey with a scenario of purchasing a pharmaceutical after visiting a General Practitioner. Results indicate that those consumers experiencing higher levels of anxiety and where the doctor prescribed the branded medicine are more likely to choose branded medicines over cheaper, generic alternatives. The effect of framing the generic alternative as either ‘generic’ or ‘cheaper’ was not significant.
Baumber, A, Schweinsberg, S, Scerri, M, Kaya, E & Sajib, S 2021, 'Sharing begins at home: A social licence framework for home sharing practices', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 91, pp. 103293-103293.
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Beavan, K, Borgström, B, Helin, J & Rhodes, C 2021, 'Changing writing/writing for change', Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 449-455.
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AbstractThe political potential of unconventional and even transgressive forms of writing in management and organization studies has been invigorated in recent years through an explicit connection with feminist theories, ideas, and practices. The results have been a new wave of scholarship that brings together the personal, the political, and the theoretical as a means to intervene in masculine orthodoxy of organizational writing. This intervention seeks to change what and how we understand organizational phenomena, with an ultimate goal of transforming practice toward a more equal and egalitarian future. We introduce five papers that responded to a call to explore the intersections between change and academic writing, as well as an exploration of alternatives to dominant masculine academic writing styles. Such writing, we aver, might facilitate change not just in the academy, but also in organizations and by extension, society.
Bedford, A, Bugeja, M & Grosse, M 2021, 'The choice of financial advisory and independent expert services in takeovers: evidence in a setting where the services are independent', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 3649-3683.
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AbstractThis study investigates the choice to obtain both financial advisory services and independent expert opinions during takeovers in Australia where these services are provided by independent firms. We find the use of both services increases when the target firm is offered a lower initial premium. We also document that engaging both services benefits target firm shareholders through a higher probability of a price revision and a greater likelihood of deal success. The results are robust to controlling for selection bias and suggest the use of both independent experts and financial advisors only adds value when different firms provide these services.
Bedford, A, Bugeja, M, Ghannam, S & Ma, N 2021, 'The quality of other assurance services supplied by accounting firms: Evidence from independent expert reports', International Journal of Auditing, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 40-58.
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Recent concern has been expressed regarding accounting firms reducing the quality of their assurance services (statutory audit and other assurance services) to gain cross‐selling opportunities. While prior studies have focused on the quality of statutory audits, our study examines the quality of other assurance services, in the form of independent expert opinions provided to target firms in Australian takeovers. Specifically, this setting allows us to observe any dissent or consensus in opinions between the accounting firms and their clients regarding the fairness of a takeover offer price, the quality of the independent expert report (valuation range), and fees charged for their services. Our results are inconsistent with accounting firms providing lower quality independent expert reports. However, non–Big 4 accounting firms charge lower fees for their independent expert reports compared to other providers, consistent with potential incentives to cross‐sell future services.
Bedford, A, Ma, L, Ma, N & Vojvoda, K 2021, 'Future profitability and stock returns of innovative firms in Australia', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 66, pp. 101508-101508.
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Bedford, A, Ma, L, Ma, N & Vojvoda, K 2021, 'Patenting activity or innovative originality?', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 4191-4207.
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AbstractWe re‐examine the cross‐sectional stock return predictability of innovative originality documented in the 2018 paper by Hirshleifer et al. and introduce two measures of patenting activity: patent existence and patent counts. As firms with zero patents have zero innovative originality, we conjecture and find a high correlation between patenting activity measures and innovative originality. The findings of Hirshleifer et al. do not hold when we control for patenting activity. Our results highlight that simple patenting activity measures capture a significant portion of innovative originality, and hence need to be adequately controlled for in future innovation studies.
Bedford, A, Vojvoda, K, Ma, L & Ma, N 2021, 'Future profitability and stock returns of innovative firms: a pitch', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 113-118.
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PurposeThis research letter outlines the “AFAANZ shark pitch 2020” research journey and reflects on the application of the pitch template to the authors’ research topic on innovation, future profitability and stock returns.Design/methodology/approachThis study begins by outlining how the research started, followed by the choice of authors’ replication study. This study then outlines the authors’ interactions with the corresponding author of the original study and the journal editor. The authors also detail their personal journey of using the pitch template.FindingsThe pitch template facilitated the identification of a replication study that has significant impact in informing Australian policy decisions. It allowed the authors to succinctly articulate and refine their research ideas.Originality/valueThis research letter highlights authors’ mistakes in using the pitch template and what they learned from interacting with the original authors and journal editor.
Beggs, PJ, Zhang, Y, McGushin, A, Trueck, S, Linnenluecke, MK, Bambrick, H, Berry, HL, Jay, O, Rychetnik, L, Hanigan, IC, Morgan, GG, Guo, Y, Malik, A, Stevenson, M, Green, D, Johnston, FH, McMichael, C, Hamilton, I & Capon, AG 2021, 'The 2021 report of theMJA–LancetCountdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 215, no. 9, pp. 390-390.
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Belli, A, Carrillat, F, Zlatevska, N & Cowley, E 2021, 'The Wellbeing Implications of Maximizing: A Conceptual Framework and Meta-analysis', Journal of Consumer Psychology.
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Belloque, G, Linnenluecke, MK, Marrone, M, Singh, AK & Xue, R 2021, '55 years of Abacus: Evolution of Research Streams and Future Research Directions', Abacus, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 593-618.
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This article offers a systematic literature review and a bibliometric analysis of articles published over the history of the journal Abacus and marks its 55th anniversary. The article draws on the latest available bibliometric tools to provide a citation map, burstiness analysis, and further visualization using R Bibliometrix, highlighting highly cited articles and their interrelations across different research streams, as well as trending (or ‘hot’) topics over the journal's history. We offer reflections on the journal's past and discuss emerging future research directions.
Berti, M 2021, 'Logic(s) and Paradox', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 73b, pp. 27-47.
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This chapter investigates the mutual relationship between logic and paradox, showing that paradox is indispensable to test logic, as well as logic is necessary to extend our understanding of paradox. Firstly, I consider the lesson that organizational theory can draw from formal logic’s investigation of semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes. Subsequently, I survey the plural interpretations of the concept of “logic” in organizational theory (as logic of theory, logic of practice, and institutional logics). I argue that this plurality of meanings is not a source of confusion but offers an opportunity to illustrate different manifestations of, and ways to cope with, organizational paradoxes.
Berti, M & Simpson, AV 2021, 'On the Practicality of Resisting Pragmatic Paradoxes', Academy of Management Review, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 409-412.
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Berti, M & Simpson, AV 2021, 'The Dark Side of Organizational Paradoxes: The Dynamics of Disempowerment', Academy of Management Review, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 252-274.
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The idea that interdependent and persistent tensions are intrinsic to organizing is now well accepted. Organizational paradox theory has further stressed the importance of accepting such paradoxes, to turn them into generative forces. This recommendation assumes, however, that actors have full agency in responding to paradoxes, overlooking the role of power dynamics. We expand upon paradox theory by drawing attention to organizational pragmatic paradoxes, contradictory demands received within the context of an intense managerial relationship, such as when a subordinate is ordered to ‘take initiative’. Our model highlights how organizational pragmatic paradoxes derive from power relations restricting actors’ capacities for enacting legitimate responses to tensions. Specifically, we link different organizational power dimensions to various manifestations of pragmatic paradoxes. We further outline concrete actions for mitigating the occurrence of these pathological phenomena. Our conceptualization contributes to a critical reading of paradox theory that is sensitive to power inequalities.
Berti, M, Jarvis, W, Nikolova, N & Pitsis, A 2021, 'Embodied Phronetic Pedagogy: Cultivating Ethical and Moral Capabilities in Postgraduate Business Students', Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 6-29.
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cholars debate the issue of how to improve Business Ethics Education (BEE) such that it has an impact on managerial practice. We contribute to this discussion by proposing a pedagogy that we denominate embodied phronesis. We developed the pedagogy and applied it for over five years at an Australian business school. Embodied phronesis is based on experiential learning and cultivates students’ ethical-moral capabilities by integrating normative aspects (a reflection on ethical principles informing decisions); behavioural factors (the role of emotions and pre-conscious reactions in shaping ethical behaviour); and social determinants (a consideration of power relations enabling and constraining ethical practice in organizations). To understand the impact of this pedagogy, we analyse reflective diaries written by postgraduate business students who completed a course designed according to these principles. We find that embodied phronesis enables students to shift from a technical, values-free conception of managerial action to a view of management as ethical and moral practice. Our pedagogy allows students to deal with the complexities inherent in business ethics while simultaneously illustrating that there are not simple answers to the problem ‘how to be ethical in a business context’.
Bhattacharyya, A, Wright, S & Rahman, ML 2021, 'Is better banking performance associated with financial inclusion and mandated CSR expenditure in a developing country?', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 125-161.
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AbstractMotivated by legislation mandating CSR expenditure to improve social equality and economic development in India, we examine the association of CSR expenditure and financial inclusion with the performance of banking firms in the period after introduction of the legislation. We study whether mandated CSR expenditure and/or financial inclusion measures are associated with better financial performance, using both accounting and stock market measures of performance, for Indian banks during 2015–2017. Our results demonstrate that level of CSR expenditure and degree of financial inclusion is not associated with banks’ financial performance when performance is measured in accounting terms. However, a significant negative association is found when performance is measured by stock market return. These results suggest that the current design of the legislation is unlikely to achieve its purpose. This is the first study to present clear evidence on the associations of mandatory CSR spending and firm‐level financial inclusion with accounting‐based and market‐based bank performance.
Birtch, TA, Chiang, FFT, Cai, Z & Wang, J 2021, 'Am I choosing the right career? The implications of COVID-19 on the occupational attitudes of hospitality management students', International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 95, pp. 102931-102931.
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Biygautane, M, Micelotta, ER & Clegg, SR 2021, 'Policy networks and socio-symbolic work: The failure of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Kuwait', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2021, no. 1, pp. 12495-12495.
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Black, KI, McGeechan, K, Watson, CJ, Lucke, J, Taft, A, McNamee, K, Haas, M, Peipert, JF & Mazza, D 2021, 'Women’s satisfaction with and ongoing use of hormonal long‐acting methods compared to the oral contraceptive pill: Findings from an Australian general practice cluster randomised trial (ACCORd)', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 448-453.
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BackgroundThe Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd) aimed to assess the impact of a complex general practice intervention on the uptake of long‐acting reversible contraceptives (LARC).AimsUsing survey data from enrolled women, we aimed to compare the ongoing use and satisfaction of women who chose one of the hormonal LARC methods including the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG‐IUS) or levonorgestrel implant compared to the oral contraceptive pill (OCP).Materials and MethodsWe used the data from participants’ baseline, six and 12‐month surveys to identify new users of implants, LNG‐IUS or OCP. We included demographic information, ongoing use of the contraceptive method, reasons for dissatisfaction and discontinuation and experience of side‐effects. Proportions were compared using χ2 tests.ResultsOf the 740 women enrolled in ACCORd, 176 started using a hormonal LARC or OCP in the study’s first six months with 76 using the IUS (43%), 60 the implant (34%) and 40 (23%) the OCP. Twelve‐month continuation rates for the LNG‐IUS, implant and OCP were 93, 83 and 65% respectively (P < 0.001). Satisfaction was highest among the LNG‐IUS users; 86% were very/somewhat satisfied compared to 75% of implant users and 61% of OCP users (P < 0.001). Main reasons for method dissatisfaction were irregular bleeding and mood changes which were similar for all methods.ConclusionsThis study provides further evidence that hormonal LARC methods have higher continuation and satisfaction rates compared to the OCP with similar side‐effects. Since hormonal LARC methods have the highest contraceptive ...
Bond, D, Clout, VJ, Czernkowski, RMJ & Wright, A 2021, 'Research productivity of Australian accounting academics', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 1081-1104.
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AbstractIn recent decades, substantial changes have impacted the global academy, such as the increasing use of key performance metrics for academics. This study provides recent evidence of Australian accounting academics’ performance in publishing in A/A* journals during the period 2010–2018. We find that the top 25 percent of Australian academics produce approximately 60 percent of published journal articles through an analysis of the A/A* Australian Business Deans′ Council (ABDC) accounting journal listing. The majority of published Australian co‐authored research output in the sample is in A ranked journals (80 percent), with only 20 percent observed in A* ranked journals.
Borriello, A, Burke, PF & Rose, JM 2021, 'If one goes up, another must come down: A latent class hybrid choice modelling approach for understanding electricity mix preferences among renewables and non-renewables', Energy Policy, vol. 159, no. December, pp. 112611-112611.
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Bottorff, J, Caperchione, C, Impellizzeri, F, Oliffe, J, Rice, S, Schulenkorf, N & Sharp, P 2021, 'Leveraging physical activity to engage men in mental health promotion: Informing future directions for lifestyle interventions', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, vol. 24, pp. S19-S19.
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Branicki, L, Brammer, S, Pullen, A & Rhodes, C 2021, 'The Morality of “new” CEO Activism', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 170, no. 2, pp. 269-285.
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Briscese, G, Feltovich, N & Slonim, RL 2021, 'Who benefits from corporate social responsibility? Reciprocity in the presence of social incentives and self-selection', Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 126, pp. 288-304.
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Brogaard, J, Nguyen, TH, Putniņš, TJ & Wu, E 2021, 'What Moves Stock Prices? The Role of News, Noise, and Information'.
Buchanan, J & Shen, Y 2021, 'Gambling and marketing: a systematic literature review using HistCite', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 2837-2851.
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AbstractThis paper presents a systematic literature review using HistCiteTM in the context of gambling. After several iterations of data cleaning, the final dataset comprised 265 articles. Four key themes are identified: profiling gamblers; gambling markets; gambling motivation and fallacies; and societal effects. Further, this study identifies four key emerging research themes and associated directions for future research: adolescent gambling, health conditions and problem gambling, dark nudging. Gambling is economically and socially significant, both in Australia and globally. Whilst gambling taxes are utilised by governments for the social good, the academic literature largely focuses on the issue of problem gambling.
Buchanan, J & Shen, Y 2021, 'To launder or not to launder: are there positive effects for the economies of countries who launder money?', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 2697-2716.
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AbstractThis paper empirically examines the impact of corporate money laundering/gambling activities on firms’ financial performance. We specifically address whether Australian firms associated with money laundering suffer any short‐ or long‐term financial performance effects following the public announcement of money laundering activities. Our findings suggest that Australian firms that engage in money laundering/gambling activities perform significantly better than firms in other countries after such announcements.
Buchanan, J, Shen, Y & Smith, T 2021, 'Dirty money', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 244-245.
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Bugeja, M, Govendir, B, Matolcsy, Z & Pazmandy, G 2021, 'Is there an association between Vice‐Chancellors’ compensation and external performance measures?', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 689-726.
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AbstractWe provide evidence on the pay for performance relation between Australian university Vice Chancellors’ compensation and independent measures of university teaching, research and other performance indicators provided by external ranking bodies. Our results show limited association between university rankings and Vice Chancellors’ compensation, but confirm that Vice Chancellors’ compensation is predominantly driven by size measures based on the different components of revenue. Further, we find that few universities offer performance‐based bonus payments. Our results are robust with respect to a number of sensitivity tests.
Bugeja, M, Lu, M, Shan, Y & To, TY 2021, 'The Probability of Informed Trading and Mergers and Acquisitions', Accounting and Finance, vol. 61.
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© 2019 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand This paper investigates the role of the probability of informed trading (PIN) in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). We show that acquirers with higher PINs use more cash to finance their deals due to their higher cost of equity, and acquirers use more equity financing when acquiring targets with higher PINs to share the information risk with the target shareholders. We also find that acquirers and targets with higher PINs both experience higher announcement returns when cash financing is used, indicating that PINs are priced in the M&A market.
Bui, T, Ferguson, A & Lam, P 2021, 'CEO compensation in early‐stage firms: Rewards for prospectivity and survival', Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, vol. 48, no. 5-6, pp. 895-928.
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AbstractPrior studies on chief executive officer (CEO) compensation focus mainly on large firms. This paper aims to suggest new factors associated with CEO compensation for small, homogeneous firms, specifically, Australian early‐stage mining exploration entities (MEEs). We document a set of predictors of CEO compensation proxying for economic performance, including geological prospectivity components of the exploration and evaluation (E&E) asset account and proceeds from equity raisings that enhances survival probabilities. We find positive associations between these predictors and CEO remuneration. In terms of CEO pay mix, we find that E&E asset acquisitions and equity proceeds are both positively associated with the proportion of option value in CEO total compensation. This suggests MEEs allocate their cash resources to investment opportunities, rather than CEO compensation. Overall, these findings, coupled with a significant and positive pay‐performance relation, provide evidence supporting efficient compensation practices in the MEE context.
Burke, PF, Masters, D & Massey, G 2021, 'Enablers and barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake: An international study of perceptions and intentions', Vaccine, vol. 39, no. 36, pp. 5116-5128.
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The development of COVID-19 vaccines is occurring at unprecedented speeds, but require high coverage rates to be successful. This research examines individuals' psychological beliefs that may act as enablers and barriers to vaccination intentions. Using the health beliefs model as a guide to our conceptual framework, we explore factors influencing vaccine hesitancy and health beliefs regarding risks and severity of the disease, along with individual variables such as income, age, religion, altruism, and collectivism. A questionnaire using newly created measures for various antecedents provided 4303 usable responses from Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, and the United States. A factor analytic and structural equation model indicates that trust in vaccine approval, the perceived effectiveness of the vaccine for protecting others, and conspiracy beliefs are the most significant drivers of intentions to vaccinate. Older people, those seeking employment, and those who have received a recent influenza vaccine are more likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The findings have implications for improving communication strategies targeting individuals about the merits of vaccination, particularly focusing on younger individuals and expanded message framing to include altruistic considerations, and to improve government transparency regarding the effectiveness and side effects of vaccines.
Camilleri, AR 2021, 'Who doesn't read online consumer reviews, and why?', Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 179, no. September, pp. 110954-110954.
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Camilleri, AR & Sah, S 2021, 'Amplification of the status quo bias among physicians making medical decisions', Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1374-1386.
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SummaryThe status quo bias (SQB) is the tendency to prefer the current state of affairs. We investigated if experts (physicians) fall prey to the SQB when making decisions in their area of expertise and, if so, whether the SQB is reduced or amplified for experts compared to non‐experts. We presented 302 physicians and 733 members of the general population with a medical scenario and two non‐medical scenarios. In each scenario, participants were asked to make a decision between two options. For half of the participants, one of the options was presented as the status quo. All groups displayed a SQB but physicians displayed an amplification of the SQB but only when making decisions in the medical scenario. Experts may be more swayed by status quo options when making decisions in their area of expertise. We discuss why the SQB may be amplified for experts and the implications for practice.
Cao, Y, Feng, Z, Lu, M & Shan, Y 2021, 'Tax avoidance and firm risk in China: a pitch', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 119-124.
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PurposeThis paper aims to provide a critical discussion of the application of the research pitching template developed by Professor Robert Faff to a research topic of tax avoidance and firm risk. This letter provides a brief commentary on using the pitching template and discusses personal reflections on the pitching process.Design/methodology/approachThis pitching research letter applies Faff’s pitching template and provides a critical commentary of the pitching process.FindingsThe team found that Faff’s pitching template is a valuable tool for conceiving research ideas. It helped the authors to identify, develop and articulate key aspects of the project. Further, they believe that completing the template was a beneficial and rewarding exercise, especially for early-career researchers.Originality/valueThis pitching research letter is tied to the team’s research idea that was pitched at the 2020 AFAANZ “Shark Tank” event. It provides original commentary on the use of Faff’s pitching template. It is not meant to retrofit published papers.
Cao, Y, Feng, Z, Lu, M & Shan, Y 2021, 'Tax avoidance and firm risk: evidence from China', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 4967-5000.
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AbstractPrior literature documents puzzling evidence revealing that tax avoidance activities do not affect firm‐specific risk. Using an extended US sample, we find that lower cash effective tax rates (ETRs) are associated with higher future return volatility, supporting the traditional view of tax risk–return trade‐off. In sharp contrast to the US evidence, our analysis of Chinese firms suggests that Chinese state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) with lower cash and GAAP ETRs tend to have lower future risk. In addition, we adopt a difference‐in‐differences approach based on the variations generated by two exogenous, anti‐tax avoidance regulations in China but find no evidence suggesting a causal relationship between tax avoidance and firm risk. Overall, our results suggest that the relationship between tax avoidance and risk varies across countries, sample periods and tax aggressiveness measures, and we highlight the importance of addressing the endogenous nature in future research.
Carabetta, G 2021, 'Employment and the Law under the Religious Discrimination Bill 2019 (Cth) [Forthcoming]', Australian Journal of Labour Law.
Carmody, J, Shringarpure, S & Van de Venter, G 2021, 'AI and privacy concerns: a smart meter case study', Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 492-505.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate privacy concerns arising from the rapidly increasing advancements and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the challenges of existing privacy regimes to ensure the on-going protection of an individual’s sensitive private information. The authors illustrate this through a case study of energy smart meters and suggest a novel combination of four solutions to strengthen privacy protection.Design/methodology/approachThe authors illustrate how, through smart meter obtained energy data, home energy providers can use AI to reveal private consumer information such as households’ electrical appliances, their time and frequency of usage, including number and model of appliance. The authors show how this data can further be combined with other data to infer sensitive personal information such as lifestyle and household income due to advances in AI technologies.FindingsThe authors highlight data protection and privacy concerns which are not immediately obvious to consumers due to the capabilities of advanced AI technology and its ability to extract sensitive personal information when applied to large overlapping granular data sets.Social implicationsThe authors question the adequacy of existing privacy legislation to protect sensitive inferred consumer data from AI-driven technology. To address this, the authors suggest alternative solutions.Originality/valueThe original value of this paper is that it illustrates new priva...
Catlin, JR, Leonhardt, JM, Wang, Y & Manuel, RJ 2021, 'Landfill or Recycle? Pro‐Environmental Receptacle Labeling Increases Recycling Contamination', Journal of Consumer Psychology, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 765-772.
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While aggregate recycling rates in developed countries have plateaued in recent years, the contamination rate of recycling streams due to consumers incorrectly recycling items that cannot be recycled has grown rapidly. We propose that this problem may be partially due to persuasive messages, such as pro‐environmental labeling on bins, that encourage recycling, but may lack guidance on how to do so accurately. For example, a number of public garbage receptacles across the United States are labeled “Landfill” instead of “Trash,” encouraging recycling by making the negative impact of garbage more salient. However, this labeling may also lead consumers to incorrectly “recycle” items that cannot be recycled (i.e., overinclusive recycling). Two field studies suggest that pro‐environmental receptacle labeling can lead to overinclusive recycling, and a controlled experiment provides preliminary process evidence involving anticipated emotion from trashing versus recycling. Research opportunities and public policy implications for pro‐environmental messaging are discussed.
Cerdan Chiscano, M & Darcy, S 2021, 'C2C co-creation of inclusive tourism experiences for customers with disability in a shared heritage context experience', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 24, no. 21, pp. 3072-3089.
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This study explores customer-to-customer (C2C) social co-creation practices in tourism when customers with and without disability share a heritage service environment. Despite a growing prevalence of heritage- and disability-related research in the tourism literature, few scholars have examined the phenomena from the emergent customer-dominant logic (CDL) perspective. This study makes empirical use of the perceptions of customers with disabilities (CwD) in a recent process of co-creation of CDL within the context of heritage sites through qualitative ethnographic techniques, interviews and observation methods. A sample of 125 individuals with and without disabilities participated in the fieldwork. The objective was to identify C2C social practices that occur among CwD and their related value, leading to either inclusion or exclusion. The results reveal the importance of focusing on C2C co-creation opportunities which create a value outcome. This paper provides heritage managers with clear guidance for creating inclusive and enabling servicescapes.
Cetindamar, D, Katic, M, Burdon, S & Gunsel, A 2021, 'The Interplay among Organisational Learning Culture, Agility, Growth, and Big Data Capabilities', Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 23, pp. 13024-13024.
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This paper examines how an organisational learning culture impacts organisational agility by developing a model based on dynamic capabilities. The model treats agility as a dynamic capability and explains how an organisational learning culture (OLC) triggers a chain reaction through its influence on organisational agility (OA) that ultimately results in company growth. This paper also investigates the role of big data capabilities in transferring learning outcomes into dynamic capabilities. The model is tested through data collected from a survey of 138 Australian companies. Partial least squares structural equation modeling is adopted to empirically demonstrate how agility fully mediates the impact of the learning culture on growth. In addition, this paper further sheds light on the moderating role of big data competencies on the effects of OLC on OA. After presenting the results with implications to theory and practice, the paper ends with suggestions for future studies.
Chadee, D, Roxas, B & Kouznetsov, A 2021, 'Corruption, Bribery and Innovation in CEE: Where is the Link?', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 174, no. 4, pp. 747-762.
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Chakrabortty, RK, Rahman, HF, Haque, KMA, Paul, SK & Ryan, MJ 2021, 'An event-based reactive scheduling approach for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with unreliable resources', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 151, pp. 106981-106981.
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Chen, J, Wei, Z, Liu, J & Zheng, X 2021, 'Technology Sharing and Competitiveness in a Stackelberg Model', Journal of Competitiveness, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 5-20.
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The existing literature has made great achievements in technology sharing (licensing patents) contracts, which has defects in the selection of oligopoly models, the setting of innovation subjects, the consideration of product heterogeneity, and production costs. This paper aims to reveal the competitiveness strategies of leaders and followers for innovation, technology sharing, and sharing fees in a Stackelberg market. The three-stage sequential game method is used to achieve the objective. The results are as follows. First, whether an enterprise uses innovation or shares technology is related to the fixed cost of innovation, the return on innovation, and product differentiation. It will hinder innovation activities if the fixed cost of innovation is too high, the return on innovation is too low, or the products are too homogeneous. A relatively low return on innovation makes it possible for the two enterprises to engage in sharing. However, with a relatively high return on innovation, only a high level of product differentiation can ensure technology sharing. Second, the optimal sharing fee is dynamic, showing an upward and then downward trend as the return on innovation grows. Product differentiation has an uncertain impact on the cost. Third, either the leader or the follower is likely to be the optimal bearer of social responsibility depending on the returns on innovation and product differentiation. This study has theoretical significance for optimizing technology-sharing decisions, improving competitiveness for enterprises, and formulating effective industrial policy for the government. And it provides some practical guidance for competition and cooperation between enterprises with technological innovation behavior.
Chen, X, Lu, M & Shan, Y 2021, 'Changes in marginal tax rates over the past three decades in the United States', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. S1, pp. 2601-2624.
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AbstractThis paper investigates changes in corporate marginal tax rates (MTRs) in the United States over the past three decades. Similar to effective tax rate, MTR exhibits a significant but much more modest decline over time, even after accounting for tax‐related firm characteristics and industry variations. In contrast to Dyreng et al., we find that MTR declines more rapidly for purely domestic firms than for multinationals. Our findings highlight the puzzling evidence in Dyreng et al. and call for future research to study possible drivers that explain the sustained and differential decline in corporate tax rate over time between domestic and multinational firms.
Chen, X, Lu, M, Shan, Y & Zhang, Y 2021, 'Australian evidence on analysts' cash flow forecasts: issuance, accuracy and usefulness', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 3-50.
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AbstractThis study examines the factors affecting the issuance, accuracy and usefulness of analysts' cash flow forecasts (CFFs) in Australia. Given the economic importance of the mining industry in Australia, we find that analysts are likely to provide CFFs for mining firms with poor financial health and high default risk. In contrast, analysts' provision of CFFs increases with the degree of financial health for non‐mining firms. The determinants of the issuance and accuracy of analysts' CFFs also differ in pre‐ and post‐IFRS adoption periods. Our results add new evidence on the effect of IFRS adoption on analysts' cash flow forecasting behaviours.
Cheramin, M, Saha, AK, Cheng, J, Paul, SK & Jin, H 2021, 'Resilient NdFeB magnet recycling under the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic: Stochastic programming and Benders decomposition', Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 155, pp. 102505-102505.
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Chowdhury, P, Paul, SK, Kaisar, S & Moktadir, MA 2021, 'COVID-19 pandemic related supply chain studies: A systematic review', Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 148, pp. 102271-102271.
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Clegg, S & Berti, M 2021, 'Tales of power', Journal of Political Power, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 27-50.
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In the form of an interview between two colleagues, this paperexplores 50 years of power theorizing by Stewart Clegg, from hisearly doctoral days to the present day. The origins of his approachto power in a combination of structuralism, Wittgenstein and ethnomethodologyare explored. The background to his early work,whose empirics were based on the analysis of conversational materials,are outlined, as well as how it became a publication. Therationale and context of subsequent significant contributions tothe power debate are engaged. Elsewhere, the power debatehad moved from Lukes’ three dimensions of power to fourdimensions, the provenance of which is critically evaluated. Inorder to exemplify the practical implications of these theoreticalreflections, the conversation goes on to address some currentissues associated with the coronavirus pandemic and the relationsbetween democracy and elites.
Clegg, S, Crevani, L, Uhl-Bien, M & By, RT 2021, 'Changing Leadership in Changing Times', Journal of Change Management, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-13.
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MAD statement: This leading article is setting out to Make a Difference (MAD) through catalysing the further exploration and development of leadership theory and practice by facilitating the reimagining and reframing of challenges and solutions ahead. It does so by integrating the academic concerns of the current literature with the issues raised by recent events marked by the cataclysmic end of the Trump presidency in the United States.
Clegg, S, Cunha, MPE, Rego, A & Santos, F 2021, '‘Open Purpose’: Embracing Organizations as Expressive Systems', Organization Theory, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 263178772110548-263178772110548.
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The concept of purpose gained prominence in organization theory in recent years but there are discrepant views of its meaning, which we review as evolving and different perspectives: economic theories of the firm; stakeholder approaches; integrative social contracts; and social mission. We elaborate these perspectives in terms of the ebb and flow of ideas and eras. Against these instrumental views, we revisit the work of Robert Cooper, namely the ever-open purpose of expressive organizations, and contrast this with fixist views of purpose in instrumental organizations. We engage with the logic of open purpose and sketch a way of rethinking purpose as a general orientation that constantly evolves and changes over time in interaction with its ecosystem.
Clegg, SR & Burdon, S 2021, 'Exploring creativity and innovation in broadcasting', Human Relations, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 791-813.
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We consider the emergence of design innovations in process, emerging around the form of polyarchy. This is done by using a case study of innovation conducted by a production organization’s project that was embedded in and hosted by a bureaucratic public institution, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The research reported here was part of a larger project comparing the BBC and ABC’s use of different modes of organization. It focused mainly on the organization designed to deliver a six-part television series, The Code. The innovative process of Scribe, the organization in question, in producing the story is a good example of idea work being instituted in a polyarchic design process. Scribe represents a new organizational design characterized by a polyarchic structure, which is soft and decentralized, with strict and relatively insuperable social and symbolic boundaries. This results in a project-based organization to coordinate collective innovation that is curated by making the writer also the creative director or showrunner. The research contributes further to exploring organizational idea work, through prioritizing creativity and innovation by an explicit positioning of a product and collaborative generative idea work.
Clinet, S, Dunsmuir, WTM, Peters, GW & Richards, K-A 2021, 'Asymptotic distribution of the score test for detecting marks in hawkes processes', Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 635-668.
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Clout, V, Ghannam, S, Loyeung, A & Yang, JS 2021, 'Eyes on the prize: CEO and director retirement preferences and acquisitions', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. S1, pp. 1345-1361.
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AbstractWe examine whether the age of CEOs and independent directors impacts the likelihood of receiving a successful takeover offer. First, we replicate and confirm the results of Jenter and Lewellen and find that retirement age CEOs (age 64–66) are more likely to receive successful takeover offers. Second, we extend their study by investigating the retirement preferences of independent directors. We find that the likelihood of receiving a successful takeover offer increases when a higher proportion of independent directors are at retirement age. This finding suggests that independent directors have similar retirement preferences to CEOs.
Cobb-Clark, DA & Kettlewell, N 2021, 'Psychological, social and cognitive resources and the mental wellbeing of the poor', PLOS ONE, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. e0258417-e0258417.
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Our study takes advantage of unique data to quantify deficits in the psychosocial and cognitive resources of an extremely vulnerable subpopulation–those experiencing housing vulnerability–in an advanced, high-income country (Australia). Groups such as these are often impossible to study using nationally representative data sources because they make up a small share of the overall population. We show that those experiencing housing vulnerability sleep less well, have more limited cognitive functioning, and less social capital than do those in the general population. They are also less emotionally stable, less conscientious, more external, and more risk tolerant. Collectively, these deficits in psychosocial and cognitive resources account for between 24–42% of their reduced life satisfaction and their increased mental distress and loneliness. These traits also account for a large proportion of the gap in mental wellbeing across different levels of housing vulnerability.
Cotton, D, Hambusch, G & Van de Venter, T 2021, 'Preaching to the Converted – Enrolment Bias in Finance Ethics Subjects', Journal of Financial Education, vol. Winter, pp. 77-97.
Crespo-Gonzalez, C, Benrimoj, SI, Scerri, M & Garcia-Cardenas, V 2021, 'Community pharmacists’ perspectives about the sustainability of professional pharmacy services: A qualitative study', Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 181-190.
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Objective
Pharmacists have been increasing patient-focused care through the implementation and provision of professional services. However, there is a lack of evidence on how to achieve long-term sustainability of the service once it is implemented. A framework identifying the factors affecting the sustainability of professional pharmacy services was developed. The objectives of this study were to explore the experiences of community pharmacists providing professional services to contextualize and assess the applicability in practice of the sustainability framework.
Methods
A qualitative study was undertaken across Australia. Community pharmacists were identified using snowball sampling. Data were collected through semistructured interviews. Eighteen interviews were conducted and analyzed using framework methodology in NVivo 12 (QSR International).
Results
A range of major sustainability factors was identified and organized in social, economic, and environmental domains. In the social domain, most of the interviewees stated the importance of motivating staff to increase service promotion and patients' demand. Most of the participants emphasized that having an adequate number of trained staff is required to enhance and maintain services over time. The perceived reluctance of some patients to spend more time than usual at the community pharmacy was another factor highlighted as affecting service sustainability. In the economic domain, the concern about lack of remuneration for service provision was highlighted by most of the interviewees. Having economic support was seen as essential for achieving sustainable services. In the environmental domain, the necessity of government recognition of the pharmacists' role and value to the health care system was identified as a new key sustainability driver.
Conclusion
The applicability of the framework for the sustainability of professional services was evaluated in practice. The identif...
Crevani, L, Uhl-Bien, M, Clegg, S & By, RT 2021, 'Changing Leadership in Changing Times II', Journal of Change Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 133-143.
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What has changed in our organizational lives in the past year? Everything and nothing. We now book Zoom meetings, check whether the borders are open in the rare case we travel, offices are often empty due to their health risk, and crisis management is an everyday experience, no longer something written in some document. At the same time, we still hold meetings as we always have, still produce strategies and plans, and still receive considerable advice as to how a heroic leader can save the day (see Sergi et al., 2021, in this issue). While the circumstances we currently experience may result in an opening for new practices to emerge (Uhl-Bien, 2021, in this issue) there is also a need for high-quality scholarship that engages with new conventions and their impact on organizations.Following on from the first part of the special issue Changing Leadership in Changing Times (Alvehus, 2021; Beer, 2021; By, 2021; Clegg et al., 2021; Ford et al., 2021; Kempster & Jackson, 2021; Maak et al., 2021), this second part focuses primarily on leadership as a process, answering the call made by Rost (1993) decades ago to re-focus scholarship on leadership and change (see also, for similar early calls, Hosking & Morley, 1988). Articles in this issue help push forward new avenues for leadership scholarship and practice by challenging us to think primarily through the lens of complexity, plurality and relationality. All of the articles recognize leadership as a dispersed, complex, collaborative, collective and multimodal endeavour, including material elements. Taken together, they bring focus to the human element of leadership as a non-coercive relationship seeking mutual beneficial outcomes (see De Sousa & van Dierendonck, 2021, in this issue), something that is more complex and distributed than how leadership practice has traditionally been understood.
Cunha, MPE, Berti, M & Clegg, S 2021, 'European social theory reflecting on a time of contagion: a book review essay', Journal of Political Power, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 372-382.
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Cunha, MPE, Rego, A, Clegg, S & Jarvis, WP 2021, 'Stewardship as process: A paradox perspective', European Management Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 247-259.
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Curtis, K, Sivabalan, P, Bedford, DS, Considine, J, D’Amato, A, Shepherd, N, Fry, M, Munroe, B & Shaban, RZ 2021, 'Implementation of a structured emergency nursing framework results in significant cost benefit', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 21, no. 1.
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Abstract Background Patients are at risk of deterioration on discharge from an emergency department (ED) to a ward, particularly in the first 72 h. The implementation of a structured emergency nursing framework (HIRAID) in regional New South Wales (NSW), Australia, resulted in a 50% reduction of clinical deterioration related to emergency nursing care. To date the cost implications of this are unknown. The aim of this study was to determine any net financial benefits arising from the implementation of the HIRAID emergency nursing framework. Methods This retrospective cohort study was conducted between March 2018 and February 2019 across two hospitals in regional NSW, Australia. Costs associated with the implementation of HIRAID at the study sites were calculated using an estimate of initial HIRAID implementation costs (AUD) ($492,917) and ongoing HIRAID implementation costs ($134,077). Equivalent savings per annum (i.e. in less patient deterioration) were calculated using projected estimates of ED admission and patient deterioration episodes via OLS regression with confidence intervals for incremental additional deterioration costs per episode used as the basis for scenario analysis. Results The HIRAID-equivalent savings per annum exceed the costs of implementation under all scenarios (Conservative, Expected and Optimistic). The estimated preliminary savings to the study sites per annum was $1,914,252 with a payback period of 75 days. Conservative projections estimated a net benefit of $1,813,760 per annum by 2022–23. The state-wide projected equivalent savings benefits of HIRAID equalled $227,585,008 per annum, by 2022–23. ...
Curtis, K, Sivabalan, P, Bedford, DS, Considine, J, D'Amato, A, Shepherd, N, Elphick, T, Shaban, RZ & Fry, M 2021, 'Treatments costs associated with inpatient clinical deterioration', Resuscitation, vol. 166, pp. 49-54.
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AimsThis study aimed to quantify the health economic treatment costs of clinical deterioration of patients within 72 h of admission via the emergency department.MethodsThis study was conducted between March 2018 and February 2019 in two hospitals in regional New South Wales, Australia. All patients admitted via the emergency department were screened for clinical deterioration (defined as initiation of a medical emergency team call, cardiac arrest or unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit) within 72 h through the site clinical deterioration databases. Patient characteristics, including pre-existing conditions, diagnosis and administrative data were collected.Results1600 patients clinically deteriorated within 72 h of hospital admission. Linked treatment cost data were available for 929 (58%) of these patients across 352 Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups. The average (standard deviation) treatment costs for patients who deteriorated within 72 h was $26,778 ($34,007) compared to $7727 ($12,547). The average hospital length of stay of the deterioration group was nearly 8 days longer than patients without deterioration. When controlling for length of stay and Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group codes, the incremental cost per episode of deterioration was $14,134.ConclusionClinical deterioration within 72 h of admission is associated with increased treatment costs irrespective of diagnosis, hospital length of stay and age. Implementation of interventions known to prevent patient deterioration require evaluation.
Daly, D, Harada, T, Tibbs, M, Cooper, P, Waitt, G & Tartarini, F 2021, 'Indoor temperatures and energy use in NSW social housing', Energy and Buildings, vol. 249, pp. 111240-111240.
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Davis, ER, Wilson, R & Evans, JR 2021, 'Media neglect of Indigenous student performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2001–2015', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 136-146.
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AbstractThis research explores media reporting of Indigenous students’ Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results in two national and 11 metropolitan Australian newspapers from 2001 to 2015. Of almost 300 articles on PISA, only 10 focused on reporting of Indigenous PISA results. While general or non-Indigenous PISA results featured in media reports, especially at the time of the publication of PISA results, there was overwhelming neglect of Indigenous results and the performance gap. A thematic analysis of articles showed mainstream PISA reporting had critical commentary which is not found in the Indigenous PISA articles. The three themes identified include: a lack of teacher quality in remote and rural schools; the debate on Gonski funding recommendations and the PISA achievement gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. This study concluded the overwhelming neglect is linked to media bias, which continues to drive mainstream media coverage of Indigenous Australians.
de Zoete, A, de Boer, MR, Rubinstein, SM, van Tulder, MW, Underwood, M, Hayden, JA, Buffart, LM, Ostelo, R & International IPD-SMT group 2021, 'Moderators of the Effect of Spinal Manipulative Therapy on Pain Relief and Function in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis.', Spine (Phila Pa 1976), vol. 46, no. 8, pp. E505-E517.
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STUDY DESIGN: Individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify which participant characteristics moderate the effect of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) on pain and functioning in chronic LBP. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND: The effects of SMT are comparable to other interventions recommended in guidelines for chronic low back pain (LBP); however, it is unclear which patients are more likely to benefit from SMT compared to other therapies. METHODS: IPD were requested from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) examining the effect of SMT in adults with chronic LBP for pain and function compared to various other therapies (stratified by comparison). Potential patient moderators (n = 23) were a priori based on their clinical relevance. We investigated each moderator using a one-stage approach with IPD and investigated this interaction with the intervention for each time point (1, 3, 6, and 12 months). RESULTS: We received IPD from 21 of 46 RCTs (n = 4223). The majority (12 RCTs, n = 2249) compared SMT to recommended interventions. The duration of LBP, baseline pain (confirmatory), smoking, and previous exposure to SMT (exploratory) had a small moderating effect across outcomes and follow-up points; these estimates did not represent minimally relevant differences in effects; for example, patients with <1 year of LBP demonstrated more positive point estimates for SMT versus recommended therapy for the outcome pain (mean differences ranged from 4.97 (95% confidence interval, CI: -3.20 to 13.13) at 3 months, 10.76 (95% CI: 1.06 to 20.47) at 6 months to 5.26 (95% CI: -2.92 to 13.44) at 12 months in patients with over a year LBP. No other moderators demonstrated a consistent pattern across time and outcomes. Few moderator analyses were conducted for the other comparisons because of too few data. CONCLUSION: We did not identify any moderators that enable clinicians to identify which patients are likely to benefit more from S...
Deshpandé, R, Mintz, O & Currim, I 2021, '3 Tactics to Overcome COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy', World Economic Forum.
Dhawan, A & Putniņš, TJ 2021, 'A New Wolf in Town? Pump-and-Dump Manipulation in Cryptocurrency Markets'.
Di Guilmi, C & Galanis, G 2021, 'Convergence and divergence in dynamic voting with inequality', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 187, pp. 137-158.
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Dickson, TJ & Darcy, S 2021, 'A question of time: a brief systematic review and temporal extension of the socioecological framework as applied in sport and physical activity', Translational Sports Medicine, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 163-173.
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Dumuid, D, Wilson, R, Olds, T & Evans, JR 2021, 'Sport and academic performance in Australian Indigenous children', Australian Journal of Education, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 103-116.
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Objective Sport may promote academic performance through physiological and psychosocial mechanisms. We aimed to examine the association between sports participation and academic performance in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Methods Participants were from four successive waves of Australia’s Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children ( n = 303, baseline age 5–6 y). Cumulative sports participation was regressed against academic performance from two standardised tests. Results Children participating in sport at all four waves performed significantly better than children participating in sport in 0, 2 or 3 waves in Progressive Achievement Test (PAT) Maths (110 vs. 103, 105 and 105, p = 0.007, 0.02 and 0.02, respectively), and better than children participating at two waves in National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) numeracy (438 vs. 409, p = 0.006). There were no significant differences in PAT reading or NAPLAN literacy. Conclusion Sports participation appears to be associated with subsequent better numeracy (2–7 months of learning) in a sample of Australian indigenous children. Fostering sports participation among indigenous children may be an avenue for reducing disadvantage.
Dwivedi, A, Agrawal, D, Jha, A, Gastaldi, M, Paul, SK & D’Adamo, I 2021, 'Addressing the Challenges to Sustainable Initiatives in Value Chain Flexibility: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 22, no. S2, pp. 179-197.
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AbstractThe value chain refers to the source of competition to facilitate organizations to maximize and sustain value for their consumers. Value chain flexibility is necessary to build sustainable initiatives in addressing ambiguity. In the literature, there is a lack of framework to highlight the challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility. This study fills this research gap by suggesting a framework for challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility. In this study, thirteen potential challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility are identified and an integrated model is developed. It adopts the modified Total Interpretive Structure Model and the Cross-Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification methodology. The mixed approach is used as the modified Total Interpretive Structure Model organizes the binary interactions among the challenges, while Cross-Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification analysis organizes specific precise assessments of the driving power and dependence of the challenges. The results of the study reflect that (i) lack of supplier commitment to sustainable products and (ii) lack of knowledge toward sustainability in value chains are the challenges that achieved the highest driving power. The challenge ‘inadequate communication among the suppliers in the value chain’ is at the highest level in the analysis. The proposed framework could help government and non-government bodies to formulate policies to efficiently address challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility.
Easley, D, Michayluk, D, O'Hara, M & Putniņš, TJ 2021, 'The Active World of Passive Investing'.
Fee, A 2021, 'The Hidden Contributions of Local Staff When Hosting International Development Volunteers', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1029-1052.
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This exploratory study identifies what additional work-roles local staff take on when their organization hosts a long-term international development volunteer, and explains why they do this. Analyzing interview data from a sample of local employees in Vietnamese organizations, the study identifies five work-roles: two that buttressed “volunteer and organization readiness” (preparing and orienting) and three that facilitated “volunteer performance” (translating, advocating, and mediating). These roles, often outside the formal work-role and expertise of the local employees, added to their cognitive and emotional loads and to a large extent went unrecognized by their employers. They were motivated by a combination of personal benefit (notably, opportunities to learn) and reciprocity norms that appear influenced, in part, by respondents’ cultural conditioning. The implications of this for volunteer-involved organizations, volunteers, and locals are discussed.
Fee, A & Michailova, S 2021, 'Host country nationals' interaction adjustment as a social exchange: A theoretical model', Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 684-698.
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SummaryIn this conceptual paper, we argue that host‐country nationals (HCNs), without crossing geographical and organizational boundaries, experience distinct and complex interaction adjustment processes in response to their social exchange relationships with expatriates. We develop a theoretical model that suggests that the perceived value of the relationships between HCNs and expatriates, the structure of these relationships, and the HCNs' alternative sources of exchange resources predict HCNs' learning‐rich interactions with expatriates and HCNs' extraneous stress, which, in turn, influence HCNs' interaction adjustment. Along with research implications, our theorizing points to features that can improve HCN and expatriate selection, preparation, and management.
Félez‐Viñas, E & Hagströmer, B 2021, 'Do volatility extensions improve the quality of closing call auctions?', Financial Review, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 385-406.
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AbstractTo improve the efficiency of the closing price, many equity exchanges apply volatility extensions to their closing call auctions (CCAs). If an imminent auction execution implies a large price change, the order submission period is extended to let traders reconsider their orders. This paper uses the introduction of closing auction volatility extensions at NASDAQ Nordic to provide the first analysis of the effects of such mechanisms. We find that the volatility extensions reduce transitory volatility and deter price manipulation at the close. Consistent with increased trust in the mechanism, the CCA attracts higher volumes after the change.
Ferguson, A, Hu, CW & Lam, P 2021, '“Know when to fold ʹem”: Policy Uncertainty and Acquisition Abandonment', Accounting & Finance, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 1277-1309.
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AbstractThis study investigates how policy uncertainty affects the acquisition process during the post‐announcement period. Utilising a sample of Australian mining project acquisitions over 1998–2017, we find that rising policy uncertainty after initial acquisition announcements is associated with delays in deal completion. In addition, prolonged high policy uncertainty plays an important role in triggering acquisition abandonment. Further, the stock market reacts less negatively to deal abandonment decisions made amid protracted policy uncertainty, and such reactions are associated with managers' explanations for terminating the deals. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of policy uncertainty as a ‘deal‐breaker’ in acquisitions.
Ferguson, A, Hu, CW & Lam, P 2021, 'Fair Value of Earnouts: Valuation Uncertainty or Managerial Opportunism?', The Accounting Review, vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 141-167.
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the economic consequences of the IFRS 3 (2008) requirement for fair valuing earnouts. Using a hand-collected sample of earnout fair value estimates in acquisitions completed by Australian firms, we find that a significant portion of acquirers overstate initial earnout liabilities and strategically reverse them as operating gains to boost post-M&A earnings. These overstatements are more pronounced when acquirers face investment- and performance-related pressure but attenuated in the presence of high-quality auditors and debt-financed deals. Acquirers also obfuscate earnout-related disclosures, inhibiting investors’ assessment of earnout values. By doing so, managers extend their tenure. Further analysis reveals that IFRS 3 (2008) leads to a significant increase in both the frequency and magnitude of earnouts in public acquirers’ transactions. Overall, we highlight the accounting benefit of earnouts for acquirers under IFRS 3 (2008), with implications for investors, analysts, auditors, and standard setters. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: G34; M41.
Ferguson, A, Hu, CW & Lam, P 2021, 'Political Uncertainty and Deal Structure: Evidence from Australian Mining Project Acquisitions', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 73, pp. 101756-101756.
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Ferguson, A, Kean, S & Pündrich, G 2021, 'Factors Affecting the Value-Relevance of Capitalized Exploration and Evaluation Expenditures Under IFRS 6', Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 802-825.
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This study examines factors affecting the value-relevance of financial and nonfinancial disclosure in the context of the long contentious International Financial Reporting Standard 6 (IFRS 6). Relative to the capitalization of R&D expenditures, IFRS 6 follows a far less restrictive approach, delaying the requirement for probable future economic benefits in settings of high uncertainty. We compare the value-relevance of this asset with that of nonfinancial information commonly reported by mining firms, namely mineral resource estimates. We report evidence that investors utilize nonfinancial information to assess the value-relevance of financial information, initially focusing on whichever information is timelier. We do not find evidence that investors prefer conservative reporting practices in a setting with high uncertainty; rather we provide evidence that investors interpret the capitalization decision as a signal of project viability. This finding is of particular relevance to the ongoing Intangible Assets project being conducted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). JEL classifications: G12, G14
Fettermann, DC, Borriello, A, Pellegrini, A, Cavalcante, CG, Rose, JM & Burke, PF 2021, 'Getting smarter about household energy: the who and what of demand for smart meters', Building Research & Information, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 100-112.
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Fiorini, M & Stevens, K 2021, 'Scrutinizing the Monotonicity Assumption in IV and fuzzy RD designs*', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 1475-1526.
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AbstractWhenever treatment effects are heterogeneous, and there is sorting into treatment based on the gain, monotonicity is a condition that both instrumental variable (IV) and fuzzy regression discontinuity (RD) designs must satisfy for their estimate to be interpretable as a local average treatment effect. However, applied economic work often omits a discussion of this important assumption. A possible explanation for this missing step is the lack of a clear framework to think about monotonicity in practice. In this paper, we use an extended Roy model to provide insights into the interpretation of IV and fuzzy RD estimates under various degrees of treatment effect heterogeneity, sorting on gain and violation of monotonicity. We then extend our analysis to two applied settings to illustrate how monotonicity can be investigated using a mix of economic insights, data patterns and formal tests. For both settings, we use a Roy model to interpret the estimate even in the absence of monotonicity. We conclude with a set of recommendations for the applied researcher.
Gadsden, T, Mabunda, S, Palagyi, A, Maharani, A, Sujarwoto, S, Baddeley, M & Jan, S 2021, 'Performance-based incentives and community health workers’ outputs, a systematic review', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 99, no. 11, pp. 805-818.
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Objective
To review the evidence on the impact on measurable outcomes of performance-based incentives for community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries.
Methods
We conducted a systematic review of intervention studies published before November 2020 that evaluated the impact of financial and non-financial performance-based incentives for CHWs. Outcomes included patient health indicators; quality, utilization or delivery of health-care services; and CHW motivation or satisfaction. We assessed risk of bias for all included studies using the Cochrane tool. We based our narrative synthesis on a framework for measuring the performance of CHW programmes, comprising inputs, processes, performance outputs and health outcomes.
Findings
Two reviewers screened 2811 records; we included 12 studies, 11 of which were randomized controlled trials and one a non-randomized trial. We found that non-financial, publicly displayed recognition of CHWs' efforts was effective in improved service delivery outcomes. While large financial incentives were more effective than small ones in bringing about improved performance, they often resulted in the reallocation of effort away from other, non-incentivized tasks. We found no studies that tested a combined package of financial and non-financial incentives. The rationale for the design of performance-based incentives or explanation of how incentives interacted with contextual factors were rarely reported.
Conclusion
Financial performance-based incentives alone can improve CHW service delivery outcomes, but at the risk of unincentivized tasks being neglected. As calls to professionalize CHW programmes gain momentum, research that explores the interactions among different forms of incentives, context and sustainability is needed.
Gaim, M, Clegg, S & Cunha, MPE 2021, 'Managing Impressions Rather Than Emissions: Volkswagen and the false mastery of paradox', Organization Studies, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 949-970.
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The challenge of dealing with paradoxes has become a central issue in management and organization studies. Present research literature is largely inclined to idealize paradoxical framing in thinking and theorizing. We critically explore the perils paradoxes present when generated by stretch goals whose ‘achievement’ is accomplished through impression management. Using the Volkswagen emissions scandal we show how paradoxical promises, embraced discursively but not substantively, created false transcendence rather than paradoxical mastery. We contribute to paradox theory by discussing how the illusion of paradox embrace can trigger dysfunctional behaviours. In practice, the paper cautions organizations and their members from being overconfident in their ability to embrace paradoxes successfully.
Gavin, M 2021, 'Reframing the narrative: Renewing power resources and capabilities in union campaigns for public education', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 753-776.
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Neoliberal logics have put teacher unions on the defensive, requiring evaluation of the resources and capabilities necessary to improve teachers’ industrial and professional conditions and broader public education issues. This article examines the case of a teachers' union in Australia – the NSW Teachers’ Federation – and their renewal of resources and capabilities in recent public education campaigns. In applying a power resources and capabilities framework to the analysis of two prominent campaigns, this article develops the argument for renewal of power resources and capabilities through mobilising and transforming narrative resources and reframing public education issues in order to challenge ideological narratives around public education, build discursive power and sustain influence within a neoliberal environment.
Gillovic, B, McIntosh, A, Cockburn-Wootten, C & Darcy, S 2021, 'Experiences of tourists with intellectual disabilities: A phenomenological approach', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, vol. 48, pp. 155-162.
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This paper aims to explore ways in which adults with intellectual disabilities experience tourism. The study applies phenomenology and draws on in-depth interviews with participants with intellectual disabilities focusing on their lived experiences of tourism. The tourism experience was significant and meaningful to the participants, in that tourism provided a sense of ‘normality,’ encouraged self-efficacy, and strengthened relational connections. This paper advances theory by conceptualising the nature of the tourism experience through the authentic voices and lived experiences of adults with intellectual disabilities. This lens of intellectual disability addresses a scarcity of representation in existing tourism scholarship, augmenting and advancing inclusive understandings of tourism experiences for these individuals with disabilities.
Girgis, A, Candler, HB, Handley, T, Descallar, J, Hansen, V, Haas, M, Viney, R, Haywood, P, Bellamy, D, Proietto, A & Kelly, BJ 2021, 'The PACT Study: results of a time series study investigating the impact, acceptability and cost of an integrated model for psychosocial screening, care and treatment of patients with urological and head and neck cancers', Journal of Psychosocial Oncology Research & Practice, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. e063-e063.
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Abstract Background: The significant psychosocial morbidity experienced by cancer patients is often undetected and untreated. Despite international priority given to psychosocial care for cancer patients, implementation of psychosocial programs into routine cancer care is limited. We developed, implemented, and assessed the impact, acceptability, and cost of an integrated, patient-centered Psychosocial Assessment, Care and Treatment (PACT) model of care for cancer patients within a general hospital setting. Methods: A time series research design was implemented to test the PACT model of care, newly introduced in an Australian tertiary hospital. System-level impact on systematic distress screening and management was assessed through audit of the medical records of three cross-sectional samples of 141 patients, at baseline and at 12 and 24 months post-baseline. The impact of the model on patient experience and health care professionals’ (HCPs) knowledge and confidence was assessed via surveys. The acceptability of the intervention was assessed through HCP interviews at 24 months. The cost of the intervention was assessed by PACT staff recording the time spent on care provision, training, and intervention administration, and associated costs were calculated using staff payment rates adjusted for superannuation and leave. Results: Across the 24 months of implementation, formal distress screening increased from 0% at baseline to 29% of patients at 12 months and 31% of patients at 24 months, with an associated decrease in informal screening as formal screening increased. There was no notable change in distress management (ie, development of car...
Glover, KJ & Hulley, H 2021, 'Financially Constrained Index Futures Arbitrage', Journal of Futures Markets, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1688-1703.
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AbstractWe develop two models for index futures arbitrage that take the financing constraints faced by real‐world arbitrageurs into account. Our models predict that the price of an index futures contract and the value of its underlying index should deviate further from their theoretical cost‐of‐carry relationship when (a) the contract has a long time to go before expiry, and (b) volatility is high. The fact that these predictions enjoy considerable empirical support highlights the importance of financing constraints for explaining index futures mispricing.
Goldbaum, D 2021, 'The origins of influence', Economic Modelling, vol. 97, pp. 380-396.
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Influencers can broadly affect behavior. The developed model identifies a desire to conform as supporting a hierarchical social structure of influencers and followers. I introduce a dynamic model in which choices made are valued based on their popularity. Individuals are modeled as pursuing private interests with only limited information gathered from personal experiences. The analysis reveals that the population develops a network of stable personal relationships relied upon to identify the popular choice. Without explicitly modeling a role for leaders, a leader and followers emerge as ex post behavior types. Environment, behavior, and individuality shape network formation and outcomes. The theoretical equilibrium is not the only stable outcome. Coordination is achieved when adaptive behavior transforms an otherwise transitory local success into a permanent social structure for disseminating information. Despite backward-looking reliance to inform the current decisions, individuals can favorably shape outcomes with forward-looking strategic handling of information.
Gordon, R, Harada, T & Waitt, G 2021, 'Molar and molecular entanglements: Parenting, care and making home in the context of energy capitalism', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 534-552.
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This paper seeks to understand the mutually affecting intensities in family households that occur through the use of energy for parenting, care and making home in the societal context of energy capitalism. Our work draws on sensual energy ethnographies with 13 families in regional New South Wales, Australia. We extend Deleuze and Guattarri’s related concepts of molar and molecular lines and lines of flight into energy geographies to draw attention to the socio-material, subjective and affective dimensions of being and becoming a parent, providing care and making home. In doing so, we open up questions around how families use energy and how this relates to the politics of care. We consider the possibilities for lines of flight to bring about social change to escape energy capitalism and help care for humans, more-than-humans and the planet.
Ground, C 2021, 'Adapting Frame Creation to Address Complex Social Problems', The International Journal of Design in Society, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 15-31.
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Guo, B, Ding, P, Greidanus, FJAM & Li, WH 2021, 'What makes a successful industry-level catch-up? General framework and case study of China’s LED industry', Frontiers of Engineering Management, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 284-309.
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Guo, H, Han, J & Wang, J 2021, 'Population mobility, urban centrality and subnetworks in China revealed by social sensing big data', Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 1855-1858.
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Studying the spatial pattern of population flows is important to gain insights into economic connections, city networks and traffic demand. The dearth of integrative data suggests that the spatial pattern of population migration has still received relatively scant research with modified algorithms despite its vital guidance in epidemic control. To address this gap, we employ unique social sensing data from the Tencent migration platform to investigate the spatial configuration of population migration in China. Based on the identified 2,555,596 aggregated origin-destination records in 2018, we map the spatial pattern of population flow with the algorithm of eigenvector centrality. The geovisualisation illustrates that population flows present an uneven spatial pattern with a clear east/west divide. The geovisualisation depicts that the cities with higher administrative levels show corresponding high centrality to a certain extent. The results also show that subnetworks of migration flow demonstrate that population flows are near movements.
Gurwitz, JA, Smith, DM & Van de Venter, G 2021, 'Municipal Bond Mutual Fund Performance and Active Share', The Journal of Investing, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 23-35.
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Hambusch, G, Michayluk, D, Terhaar, K & Van de Venter, G 2021, 'Differences in Ethical Perceptions of Insider Trading', The Journal of Investing, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 109-123.
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Harada, T 2021, 'Where to now? Modernity and mobilities; driving in West Africa', Postcolonial Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 429-431.
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Harley, B & Fleming, P 2021, 'Not Even Trying to Change the World: Why Do Elite Management Journals Ignore the Major Problems Facing Humanity?', The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 133-152.
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Social scientists have long been concerned with using their research to make the world a better place and there are frequently calls within the management studies community for research which does so. In this essay, we consider the extent to which such concerns and calls are reflected in what is published in elite management journals. We coded approximately 5,500 articles published in “top-tier” management journals between 2008 and 2018 and found that only 2.8% of articles critically addressed global “grand challenges”—such as inequality, climate change, racism, and gender discrimination. This essay explores the possible reasons why. We reject the explanation that management academics are uninterested in major problems facing the world. Our argument instead focuses on the relationship between business school practices and journal norms. We term this the business school/elite journal gridlock. To break the gridlock, a number of changes are recommended.
Hassanli, N, Walters, T & Williamson, J 2021, '‘You feel you’re not alone’: how multicultural festivals foster social sustainability through multiple psychological sense of community', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 29, no. 11-12, pp. 1792-1809.
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© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Recognizing the limited research on social aspects of sustainability in event studies, this paper seeks to understand how multicultural festivals promote and deliver social sustainability through the facilitation of multiple psychological sense of community for attendees. By considering refugees and ethnic minority immigrants, it also addresses the gap at the nexus of events and marginalization for under-researched groups in critical event studies. Focusing on the New Beginnings Festival, an arts and culture festival for migrant communities in Sydney, Australia, we sought to gain a better understanding by addressing this knowledge gap. A qualitative research approach was applied with data collected through participant observation, in-the-moment conversations, and semi-structured interviews. Applying the theoretical framework of Psychological Sense of Community as well as the concept of Multiple Psychological Sense of Community, we present the Festival Multiple Psychological Sense of Community (FMPSOC) model with three interconnected levels of community facilitated by the festival: Ethnic, Migrant and Mainstream. The model enables critical event scholars, event organizers and local governments alike to understand how multicultural festivals contribute to the social sustainability of their communities. It also provides a basis for evaluating this contribution and identifying areas for improvement.
He, L, Wright, S & Evans, E 2021, 'The impact of managerial discretion on fair value information in the Australian agricultural sector', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. S1, pp. 1897-1930.
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AbstractThis study examines the application of fair value measurement for biological assets and how managers exercise their discretion over fair value measurement to achieve desired earnings outcomes. Using Australian data, we find that managers report larger agricultural gains when the earnings target is not met. This phenomenon is more prominent when managers are provided with higher levels of discretion. Boards of directors appear to understand this strategy and distinguish unrealised agricultural earnings from other earnings when compensating managers. However, boards do not appear to intervene in managers’ choices of fair value estimates.
Healey, J & Mintz, O 2021, 'What if your owners also own other firms in your industry? The relationship between institutional common ownership, marketing, and firm performance', International Journal of Research in Marketing, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 838-856.
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Heger, SA, Slonim, R, Tausch, F & Tymula, A 2021, 'Altruism among consumers as donors', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 189, pp. 611-622.
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Heikkurinen, P, Clegg, S, Pinnington, AH, Nicolopoulou, K & Alcaraz, JM 2021, 'Managing the Anthropocene: Relational Agency and Power to Respect Planetary Boundaries', Organization & Environment, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 267-286.
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This article examines how agency should be conceptualized to manage the pressing problems of the Anthropocene in support of sustainable change. The article reviews and analyzes literature on agency in relation to planetary boundaries, advancing the relational view of agency in which no actors are granted a primary ontological status, and agency is not limited to humans but may be attributed to other actors. This understanding of agency can effectively contribute to sustainable organizations; on the one hand, it enables non-anthropocentrism and on the other hand, admits that networks bind actors. We conclude that boundary blurring (between actors) and boundary formation (between actors and networks) are complementary processes. Consequently, relationality is proposed as an applicable means of respecting planetary boundaries, while recognizing that all action flows through circuits of power whose obligatory passage points are the major conduits for intervention. Intervention occurs through regulation and nudging action such as ecotaxation.
Hendy, P, Slonim, R & Atalay, K 2021, 'Unsticking credit card repayments from the minimum: Advice, anchors and financial incentives', Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, vol. 30, pp. 100505-100505.
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Herold, DM, Schulenkorf, N, Breitbarth, T & Bongiovanni, I 2021, 'An application of the sports logistics framework: the case of the Dallas Cowboys', Journal of Convention & Event Tourism, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 155-176.
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Global, national and regional sport organizations heavily rely on logistics management practices in their operations. However, scientific research in sports logistics is in its infancy, with conceptualizations of the sport logistics domain proposed only recently. In response and by using a reoccurring professional sport event as a case, this study applies the Sports Logistics Framework (SLF) to systematically assess logistics activities, organizational structures, resources and components. Based on semi-structured interviews, unstructured participant observation, internal documents and additional secondary data, our findings not only provide insights into the logistics operations behind a matchday of one of the leading and most valuable sport competitions in the world, but also contextualize, illustrate and refine the logistical tasks of the SLF, thereby providing a template which can be used for further comparison and examination of logistics activities at similar sport events.
Hirata, D, Kasuya, Y & Tomoeda, K 2021, 'Stability against robust deviations in the roommate problem', Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 130, pp. 474-498.
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We propose a new solution concept in the roommate problem, based on the “robustness” of deviations (i.e., blocking coalitions). We call a deviation from a matching robust up to depth k, if none of the deviators gets worse off than at the original matching after any sequence of at most k subsequent deviations. We say that a matching is stable against robust deviations (for short, SaRD) up to depth k, if no deviation from it is robust up to depth k. As a smaller k imposes a stronger requirement for a matching to be SaRD, we investigate the existence of a matching that is SaRD with a minimal depth k. We constructively demonstrate that a SaRD matching always exists for k=3 and establish sufficient conditions for k=1 and 2.
Ho, H, Tien, K-MT, Wu, A & Singh, S 2021, 'A sequence analysis approach to segmenting credit card customers', Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol. 59, pp. 102391-102391.
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd This research examines the longitudinal relationships between patterns of customer loyalty behavior and firm financial outcomes in the context of credit card use. By examining credit card users' transactions with a focal bank and its competitors, this study creates a typology of loyalty behavior and employs a sequence analysis to segment customers on the basis of their behavioral patterns exhibited over time. The analysis results in six distinct customer segments: Loyalist, Switching Loyalist, Switching Defector, Defector, Dormant Loyalist, and Dormant Defector. We subsequently estimate the revenue, servicing costs, and profitability associated with each segment, and assess differences across segments. We discuss the implications for managing distinct credit card customer segments and optimizing the bank's marketing resource allocation.
Holden, SS, Zlatevska, N, Parkinson, J, Cadario, R, Dubelaar, C, Lei, J, Moore, E, Sayarh, N, Van Kerckhove, A & Werle, C 2021, 'Unpalatable food for thought: Let marketing research guide effective public obesity interventions', Obesity Reviews, vol. 22, no. 2, p. e13141.
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SummaryThe prevalence of obesity is growing unabatedly despite the considerable efforts directed at the problem. Although abundant research has contributed to our understanding of the multifactorial causes of obesity, there is less attention to research that is relevant for guiding social marketers, public health professionals and policymakers in delivering public health interventions for countering and/or preventing the problem of obesity. This review offers six points for identifying and developing research relevant for guiding community‐wide obesity interventions based on the idea that an applied marketing research perspective offers a better model for identifying effective interventions than more theoretical academic research. Specifically, the research guiding public health and social marketing interventions needs to (1) provide information on ultimate outcomes (weight, health and unintended consequences) more than intermediate outcomes (beliefs, attitudes and behaviour), (2) report on observations collected over the longer term, (3) use natural settings (even at a cost of internal validity), (4) endeavour to overcome observer‐effects, (5) report effect sizes (rather than statistical significance) and (6) use moderator analyses to capture variation in how a population responds to interventions.
Hossan Chowdhury, MM & Quaddus, MA 2021, 'Supply chain sustainability practices and governance for mitigating sustainability risk and improving market performance: A dynamic capability perspective', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 278, pp. 123521-123521.
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There is a genuine lack of a theoretically justified and empirically validated integrative scale for supply chain sustainability (SCS) in the extant literature. Further, literature is also void on the study of the interaction effect of SCS and governance in affecting SC performance through reducing risk. This research addresses these two significant research gaps. Drawing on dynamic capability view (DCV) and taking mixed methods research design approach this study develops and validates an instrument for measuring supply chain sustainability (SCS) in the context of apparel industry of a developing country. It then investigates the conditional direct and indirect effect of supply chain sustainability on performance through reducing sustainability risks at different levels of sustainability governance. Our findings suggest that SCS is a multidimensional construct consisting of four dimensions: social, environmental, economic (financial) and economic (production). The measurement instrument of SCS also satisfactorily correlates to the “technical” and “evolutionary” criteria of DCV. The findings also affirms that the conditional indirect effect of SCS on market performance via reducing sustainability risk is significant at higher levels of sustainability governance. This study contributes significantly to the body of knowledge by developing and validating a multidimensional scale of supply chain sustainability (SCS) and investigating its impact on market performance through a mediated-moderated modelling approach. In practice, the supply chain managers will be able to adopt appropriate SCS practices and governance mechanism to reduce sustainability risks and improve market performance. Implications of the study are highlighted.
Hsu, T & Tam, WYL 2021, 'The Moderating Effects of Typicality And The Mediating Effects of Advertising Message Involvement on Comparative Advertising', Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1-12.
Incekara-Hafalir, E, Kim, E & Stecher, JD 2021, 'Is the Allais paradox due to appeal of certainty or aversion to zero?', Experimental Economics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 751-771.
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AbstractWe provide a novel but intuitive explanation for expected utility violations found in the Allais paradox: individuals are commonly averse to receiving nothing. We call this phenomenon the zero effect. Our laboratory experiments show support for the zero effect. By contrast, the evidence for the certainty effect is weak to nonexistent.
Jeganathan, D, Ghannam, S & Bugeja, M 2021, 'Practice makes perfect? The effect of CEO and director experience on acquisition performance', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 3781-3796.
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AbstractThis study replicates and extends the results of Field and Mkrtchyan, who find that independent directors’ prior acquisition experience improves succeeding acquisition performance. First, using both the original and an extended sample period, we confirm their findings. Second, we extend their study by considering the effect of prior acquisition experience gained by the CEO as an executive or independent director. Similar to the effect documented for independent directors, we find that CEOs’ acquisition experience is positively associated with subsequent acquisition performance. Consistent with CEO learning, we document a greater effect on subsequent takeover performance when acquisition experience is negative.
Joachim, G, Schulenkorf, N, Schlenker, K, Frawley, S & Cohen, A 2021, '“No Idea is a Bad Idea”: Exploring the Nature of Design Thinking Alignment in an Australian Sport Organization', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 381-394.
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As research into sport innovation management continues to evolve, the innovation efforts of both for- and non-profit sport organizations are increasingly revealed to be focused on best serving the sport user. Design thinking—a human-centered approach to innovation—may hold promise for sport organizations attempting to identify and deliver on the unmet needs of their users. As such, we undertook a qualitative exploration of the innovation practices of a commercial sport organization, attempting to balance hybrid for- and non-profit service goals. Alignment with design thinking themes was discovered in the organization’s practice, as were performative components of design thinking practice. Our findings suggest that design thinking is suitable—and indeed desirable—for adoption into sport management practice, particularly as a means of enhancing innovation efforts, designing holistic sport experiences, and/or overcoming competing institutional demands.
Johnston, DW & Stavrunova, O 2021, 'Subjective Wellbeing Dynamics', Australian Economic Review, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 518-529.
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AbstractA large multidisciplinary literature has sought to explain how a person's wellbeing changes over time in response to individual life events (for example, unemployment), and to larger scale interventions and events (for example, natural disasters). The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey has been a key data source for such explorations because of its consistency, longevity and breadth of information. Through a review of past studies, we highlight some important features in the dynamics of subjective wellbeing; particularly focusing on the speed of adaptation to wellbeing shocks, and the presence of heterogeneity in adaptation profiles.
Johnston, DW, Knott, R, Mendolia, S & Siminski, P 2021, 'Upside-Down Down-Under: Cold Temperatures Reduce Learning in Australia', Economics of Education Review, vol. 85, pp. 102172-102172.
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Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of crucial economic importance. Recently, studies have established that high temperatures negatively impact cognition and educational outcomes in several countries around the world. We add to this literature by analysing test scores from a national assessment of Australian children aged between 8 and 15 years. Using comparable methods to previous studies, we find that high temperatures in the year prior to the test do not worsen performance. In fact, we find the opposite: additional cold days significantly reduce test scores. Moreover, the effect appears cumulative, with cold school days 1–2 years prior also having a negative effect. This seemingly contradictory finding is consistent with a literature which finds that people living in warm regions tend to inadequately protect themselves from cold temperatures, meaning they are susceptible to cold weather shocks. These results are also consistent with concerns about potentially harmful effects of unflued gas heaters in schools. More generally, we demonstrate that effects of weather conditions are context specific.
Kallane (McNulty), Y & Fee, A 2021, 'Editorial', Journal of Global Mobility, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 309-310.
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Karuppiah, K, Sankaranarayanan, B, Ali, SM & Paul, SK 2021, 'Key Challenges to Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic', Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 5850-5850.
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COVID-19 has had a major impact on health, economic, social, and industrial activities. It has disrupted supply chain management and affected the movement of essential supplies to a large extent. This study aims to identify and evaluate the challenges hampering sustainable humanitarian supply chain management (SHSCM). Twenty critical challenges to SHSCM are identified using a comprehensive literature review, and three strategies were developed. The challenges and strategies were verified using expert input. The challenges were evaluated using the neutrosophic analytic hierarchical process (AHP) method. The neutrosophic TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for interactive multicriteria decision making) method was then used to select the best strategy. The findings reveal that facility location problems, short lead times for emergency supplies, spread of rumors, rapid emergence of new clusters, and doubt concerning the available remedy are five critical challenges in SHSCM during COVID-19. Public–private partnerships are identified as the best strategy in SHSCM. Finally, this paper discusses the implications to sustainable development goals in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.
Katic, M, Cetindamar, D & Agarwal, R 2021, 'Deploying ambidexterity through better management practices: an investigation based on high-variety, low-volume manufacturing', Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 952-975.
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PurposeWhilst capabilities in exploiting existing assets and simultaneously exploring new opportunities have proven essential in today's organisations, an understanding of how these so-called ambidextrous capabilities are deployed remains elusive. Thus, the authors aim to investigate the role of better management practices (BMP), as organisational routines, in deploying ambidextrous capabilities in practice.Design/methodology/approachHigh-variety, low-volume (HVLV) manufacturers are adopted as exemplar ambidextrous organisations. A conceptual model was developed where BMP, including human resource management (HRM) and production planning and control (PPC), are considered as mediators in the relationship between ambidextrous capabilities and organisational performance outcomes. Partial least squares structural equation modelling was adopted to analyse the results of a survey undertaken by Australian HVLV manufacturers.FindingsThe results suggest that merely holding ambidextrous capabilities is not enough – demonstrating a fully mediating role of BMP between ambidextrous capabilities and HVLV manufacturer performance outcomes. However, the individual effects of PPC and HRM prove varied in their unique impact on HVLV manufacturer performance.Practical implicationsThis study also provides a rare account of how HVLV manufacturers can leverage their inherently ambidextrous design towards greater organisational performance and highlights critical considerations in the selection of organisational capabilities.Originality...
Keh, HT, Wang, D & Yan, L 2021, 'Gimmicky or Effective? The Effects of Imaginative Displays on Customers’ Purchase Behavior', Journal of Marketing, vol. 85, no. 5, pp. 109-127.
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Prior research indicates the strategic importance of the store environment in enhancing customers’ shopping experience and their purchase decisions. This article examines the effects of imaginative displays on customers’ purchase behavior. An imaginative display is constructed using multiple units of the same product in a novel or innovative yet aesthetically appealing form, which could be themed (i.e., having a particular shape mimicking an object) or unthemed. Six studies in both lab and field settings show that, relative to standard displays (i.e., non-novel and neutral aesthetics), imaginative displays can increase customers’ purchase behavior and intentions. Importantly, for themed imaginative displays, these effects work through the dual mechanisms of affect-based arousal and cognition-based inferred benefits, which are contingent on congruence between display form and perceived product benefit. Findings from this research not only contribute to the literature on in-store display and store atmospherics but also have significant practical implications for retailers. Specifically, while imaginative displays may appear gimmicky, they can favorably influence customers’ purchase behavior and increase product sales at relatively low costs.
Kettlewell, N 2021, 'The informational content of subjective expectations for health service use', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 464.
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Abstract Background This study aims to evaluate the informational content of people’s subjective probability expectations for using various health services. Methods Using a sample of 1,528 Australian adults (25-64 years), I compared stated probabilities of visiting various health service providers (hospitals, dentists, optometrists, physiotherapists and related care providers, naturopaths and massage therapists) with past utilization and with predicted utilization estimated out-of-sample. I also estimated whether past utilization and subjective expectations were predicted by the same covariates. Finally, I estimated whether subjective expectations had predictive power for the choice to purchase private health insurance conditional on past utilization and other controls. Results Subjective expectations closely reflect patterns of observed utilization, are predicted by the same covariates as observed utilization, and correlate with objective measures of risk. Subjective expectations also add predictive power to models estimating insurance take-up, even after conditioning on prior health care use and other risk factors. Conclusion The findings are indicative that on average people form quite accurate expectations, and support collecting subjective expectations about health services in household surveys for use in applied research.
Kettlewell, N & Tymula, A 2021, 'The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey', Twin Research and Human Genetics, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 365-370.
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AbstractThis article describes the Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey (ATEPS). The data set comprises a wide variety of preference and behavioral measures (risk aversion, impatience, ambiguity aversion, trust, confidence) elicited using incentivized decision tasks. One-thousand one-hundred twenty Australian adult twins (560 pairs) completed the survey, making it one of the largest data sets containing incentivized preference measures of twins. As the survey was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we also collected information on experiences related to the pandemic, along with a variety of questions on political attitudes and mental wellbeing. We hope that ATEPS can make a valuable contribution to social science and genetics research.
Khomyn, M & Putnins, T 2021, 'Algos Gone Wild: What Drives the Extreme Order Cancellation Rates in Modern Markets?', Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 129, pp. 1-16.
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97% of orders in US stock markets are cancelled before they trade, straining market infrastructure and raising concerns about predatory or manipulative trading. To understand the drivers of these extreme cancellation rates, we develop a simple model of liquidity provision and find that growth in order-to-trade ratios (OTTRs) is driven by fragmentation of trading and technological improvements that lower monitoring costs. High OTTRs occur legitimately in stocks with high volatility, fragmented trading, small tick sizes, and low volume. OTTRs are usually within levels consistent with market making, but occasionally spike to levels that may indicate illegitimate trading such as spoofing.
Kim, M-T & Slonim, R 2021, 'The multi-dimensional effects of reciprocity on worker effort: evidence from a hybrid field-laboratory labour market experiment', Economic and Political Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 37-67.
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Kim, T, Duhachek, A, Briñol, P & Petty, RE 2021, 'How Posting Online Reviews Can Influence the Poster’s Evaluations', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 1401-1413.
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The current research demonstrates that posting online reviews can influence the evaluations of the individual posting the review. Across four studies, we examine the impact of individuals’ naive theories about the meaning of their own posting on subsequent attitudes. In these experiments, individuals were assigned to write either positive or negative reviews about various products and services and then post them. The meaning associated with posting a review was varied to indicate either high validity (e.g., saving, extending, sharing) or low validity (e.g., deleting, hiding, archiving) with respect to their previously written reviews. When posting was associated with a high validity meaning, it increased reliance on those thoughts polarizing attitudes and behavioral intentions compared with when the posting was associated with a low validity meaning. These findings were mediated by the impact of meaning on thought confidence.
Krishnan, R, Yen, P, Agarwal, R, Arshinder, K & Bajada, C 2021, 'Collaborative innovation and sustainability in the food supply chain- evidence from farmer producer organisations', Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 105253-105253.
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© 2020 Firms today are striving to adopt innovations to ensure their survival, value creation and success. Innovation is increasingly seen as an outcome of a collaborative process, involving various stakeholders both within and outside the firms, in supply chain relationships. Collaborative arrangements are gaining traction and the focus of innovation is shifting from firms to their supply chain networks. This leads to the notion of supply chain innovation, which has been widely accepted as an important ingredient for improving the organisational and supply chain performance of firms. Inefficient practices such as improper crop selection, involvement of too many intermediaries, flood irrigation, over-fertilization and food waste necessitate innovative practices that will improve the sustainability of the food supply chain. In this regard, there is a need to investigate how collaboration among food supply chain entities leads to innovative practices and how these innovative practices in turn improve the sustainability of the food supply chain. This study aims to address this gap using the case of the Indian Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). Further, using the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, the supply chain of FPO is divided into five levels - plan, source, make, deliver and return and the case is analysed across these levels. The findings show that the formation of FPO through collaboration facilitates many innovative practices that result in several economic, environmental and social benefits to the FPO.
Lanis, R, Richardson, G, Govendir, B & Pazmandy, G 2021, 'The effect of board of directors’ expertise and tax avoidance on corporate debt', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 4475-4511.
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AbstractThis study examines the effect of board of directors’ expertise and tax avoidance on corporate debt. We find that there is no association between financially expert outside directors on the board and corporate debt, which is contrary to some prior research findings. However, we do find a positive association between the proportion of financially expert inside directors on the board and debt. We also find that the debt substitution effect is significantly intensified by the presence of outside directors on the board with financial expertise, which suggests that the advice offered by these directors better informs managers to make decisions about the trade‐off between the benefits and costs of debt and non‐debt tax shields. We find no such effect for inside directors. Overall, this study extends the literature on corporate governance, tax avoidance and corporate debt.
Lemus, J, Temnyalov, E & Turner, JL 2021, 'Liability Insurance: Equilibrium Contracts under Monopoly and Competition', SSRN Electronic Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 83-115.
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In liability lawsuits (e.g., patent infringement), a plaintiff demands compensation from a defendant, and the parties often negotiate a settlement to avoid a costly trial. Liability insurance creates bargaining leverage for the defendant in this settlement negotiation. We study the characteristics of monopoly and equilibrium contracts in settings where this leverage effect is a substantial source of value for insurance. Our results show that under adverse selection, a monopolist offers at most two contracts, which underinsure low-risk types and may inefficiently induce high-risk types to litigate. In a competitive market, only a pooling equilibrium with underinsurance may exist. (JEL D41, D42, D82, D86, G22, K13, K41)
Leoni, G, Lai, A, Stacchezzini, R, Steccolini, I, Brammer, S, Linnenluecke, M & Demirag, I 2021, 'Accounting, management and accountability in times of crisis: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1305-1319.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the themes emerging from the first studies exploring accounting, accountability and management practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and coming from a diversity of experiences, across countries, organizations and individuals. In so doing, the paper gives an overview of the most recent findings about the role of accounting and accountability in times of crisis that are hosted in this special issue of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ).Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws together and identifies emerging themes related to the current COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on accounting, accountability and management practices and considers how the studies in this issue extend one’s knowledge of accounting and contribute to accounting research.FindingsThree emerging themes are drawn and their contribution to accounting scholarship is discussed. The first theme deals with the role of accounting and numbers in supporting governmental responses to COVID-19. The second theme considers accounting practices used to make exceptional decisions at the organizational level in times of crisis. The third theme addresses a relevant frontier of research into accounting and inequalities.Practical implicationsIn considering the diverse contributions of this special issue, the paper points out how uncertainty and change can impact the design, use and understanding of accounting, management and accountability practices and can be accepted by scholars and practitioners as part of such practices.
Lewandowska, M, De Abreu Lourenco, R, Haas, M, Watson, CJ, Black, KI, Taft, A, Lucke, J, McGeechan, K, McNamee, K, Peipert, JF & Mazza, D 2021, 'Cost-effectiveness of a complex intervention in general practice to increase uptake of long-acting reversible contraceptives in Australia', Australian Health Review, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 728-734.
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Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd) intervention. Methods An economic evaluation compared the costs and outcomes of the ACCORd intervention with usual care (UC). Data from the ACCORd trial were used to estimate costs and efficacy in terms of contraceptive uptake and quality of life. Rates of contraceptive failure and pregnancy were sourced from the literature. Using a Markov model, within-trial results were extrapolated over 10 years and subjected to univariate sensitivity analyses. Model outputs were expressed as the cost per quality-adjusted life years (QALY) gained and cost per unintended pregnancy resulting in birth (UPB) avoided. Results Over 10 years, compared with UC, initiating contraception through the ACCORd intervention resulted in 0.02 fewer UPB and higher total costs (A$2505 vs A$1179) per woman. The incremental cost-effectiveness of the ACCORd intervention versus UC was A$1172 per QALY gained and A$7385 per UPB averted. If the start-up cost of the ACCORd intervention was removed, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was A$81 per QALY gained and A$511 per UPB averted. The results were most sensitive to the probability of contraceptive failure, the probability of pregnancy-related healthcare service utilisation or the inclusion of the costs of implementing the ACCORd intervention. Conclusions From a health system perspective, if implemented appropriately in terms of uptake and reach, and assuming an implicit willingness to pay threshold of A$50 000 the ACCORd intervention is cost-effective. What is known about the topic? The uptake of long-active reversible contraceptives (LARC) in Australia is low. The ACCORd trial assessed the efficacy of providing structured training to general practitioners (GPs) on LARC counselling, together with access to rapid referral to insertion clinics. What does this paper add? This study is the ...
Li, J, Mukherjee, A & Vasconcelos, L 2021, 'Learning to game the system', The Review of Economic Studies, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 2014-2041.
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Abstract An agent may privately learn which aspects of his job are more important by shirking on some of them, and use that information to shirk more effectively in the future. In a model of long-term employment relationship, we characterize the optimal relational contract in the presence of such learning-by-shirking and highlight how the performance measurement system can be managed to sharpen incentives. Two related policies are studied: intermittent replacement of existing measures, and adoption of new ones. In spite of the learning-by-shirking effect, the optimal contract is stationary, and may involve stochastic replacement/adoption policies that dilute the agent’s information rents from learning how to game the system.
Li, M & Koopman, SJ 2021, 'Unobserved components with stochastic volatility: Simulation‐based estimation and signal extraction', Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 614-627.
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SummaryThe unobserved components time series model with stochastic volatility has gained much interest in econometrics, especially for the purpose of modelling and forecasting inflation. We present a feasible simulated maximum likelihood method for parameter estimation from a classical perspective. The method can also be used for evaluating the marginal likelihood function in a Bayesian analysis. We show that our simulation‐based method is computationally feasible, for both univariate and multivariate models. We assess the performance of the method in a Monte Carlo study. In an empirical study, we analyse U.S. headline inflation using different univariate and multivariate model specifications.
Li, WH, Guo, B & De Sisto, M 2021, 'Untangling the commonalities and differences between domestic cross-regional experience and international experience in shaping speed of internationalization', Journal of International Management, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 100852-100852.
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Li, WH, Luo, J, De Sisto, M & Bartram, T 2021, 'Born to rebel? The owner birth order and R&D investments in Chinese family firms', Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 421-446.
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AbstractFamily background has a significant impact on family firms’ strategies such as innovation investments. Going beyond prior studies that exclusively focus on how family governance and management factors determine research and development (R&D) investment decisions, this study investigates a family science factor: family firm owner's birth order, defined as the relative rank of the owner in terms of the age hierarchy among siblings in the family. Joining the family niche model of birth order and socioemotional wealth perspective, we propose that later‐born family firm owners tend to be risk‐takers and invest more in R&D projects compared with their earlier‐born counterparts. We further examine how the two other powerful decision‐makers within family firms (i.e., chairperson of the board and CEO) enable or constrain the owner's birth order–R&D investment relationship. We contend that the positive birth order impact on R&D investment is weaker when a family member is the chairperson of the board, while such a relationship is stronger in the presence of owner–CEO duality. We confirm our hypotheses using a sample of 605 firm‐year observations from Chinese‐listed family firms between 2006 and 2014. This study demonstrates the important impact of family science factors on innovation heterogeneities, which is understudied in the family firm innovation literature.
Liang, Q, Li, Q, Lu, M & Shan, Y 2021, 'Industry and geographic peer effects on corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from China', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 67, pp. 101545-101545.
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This study examines industry and geographic peer effects on tax avoidance as well as their mechanisms and economic consequences in an emerging market, China. Using an instrumental variable approach and after considering a variety of robustness tests, we document causal evidence that a firm's degree of tax avoidance is positively affected by the average degree of tax avoidance of its peer firms in the same industry or province. Further analyses show that both industry and geographic peer effects are driven by the motives of information learning and market competition and depend on the degree of local tax enforcement and executive tax expertise. We also document preliminary evidence that both industry and geographic peer effects benefit firms by improving their investments, dividend payouts, and future performance.
Liu, HJ, Love, PED, Ma, L & Sing, MCP 2021, 'Predicting production-output performance within a complex business environment: from singular to multi-dimensional observations in evaluation', International Journal of Production Research, vol. 59, no. 24, pp. 7390-7399.
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Liu, W, De Sisto, M & Li, WH 2021, 'How does the turnover of local officials make firms more charitable? A comprehensive analysis of corporate philanthropy in China', Emerging Markets Review, vol. 46, pp. 100748-100748.
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Liu, W, Shao, X, De Sisto, M & Li, WH 2021, 'A new approach for addressing endogeneity issues in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance', Finance Research Letters, vol. 39, pp. 101623-101623.
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© 2020 Elsevier Inc. This paper aims to reexamine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP) using a panel dataset of Chinese listed firms. Previous studies obtained divergent empirical evidence on the CSR-CFP relationship due to unclear, incomplete, or inappropriate consideration of endogeneity issues. By introducing a Heckman-2SLS model, we comprehensively address the main endogeneity problems (i.e., sample selection bias, reverse causality, and unobserved heterogeneity) simultaneously within the CSR-CFP relationship. Results not only indicate a robust CSR-CFP relationship after correcting for endogeneity issues but also serve as a strong case for future investigation and correction of endogeneity issues.
Liu, W, Xu, Y & Ma, D 2021, 'Work-Related Mental Health Under COVID-19 Restrictions: A Mini Literature Review', Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 9, p. 788370.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) restrictions, including national lockdown, social distancing, compulsory quarantine, and organizational measures of remote working, are imposed in many countries and organizations to combat the coronavirus. The various restrictions have caused different impacts on the employees' mental health worldwide. The purpose of this mini-review is to investigate the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on employees' mental health across the world. We searched articles in Web of Science and Google Scholar, selecting literature focusing on employees' mental health conditions under COVID-19 restrictions. The findings reveal that the psychological impacts of teleworking are associated with employees' various perceptions of its pros and cons. The national lockdown, quarantine, and resuming to work can cause mild to severe mental health issues, whereas the capability to practice social distancing is positively related to employees' mental health. Generally, employees in developed countries have experienced the same negative and positive impacts on mental health, whereas, in developing countries, employees have reported a more negative effect of the restrictions. One explanation is that the unevenly distributed mental health resources and assistances in developed and developing countries.
Luong, M & Scheule, HH 2021, 'Benchmarking Forecast Approaches for Mortgage Credit Risk for Forward Periods', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 299, no. 2, pp. 750-767.
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Ma, L & Wells, PA 2021, 'Evaluation of fair value relevance and the sensitivity to valuation assumptions'.
Ma, L, Liu, H & Sing, M 2021, 'Responsiveness of residential construction-production progress to house price dynamics', International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 796-814.
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PurposeThis study aims to address the gap by empirically exploring how residential construction-production progress, which includes project commencement, under-construction and project completion, responds dynamically to fluctuations in house prices.Design/methodology/approachA vector autoregressive model and an impulse response function are applied to simulate and analyse the circle of the stage-responsiveness of residential construction to residential property price dynamics in the state of Victoria, Australia. The quarterly numbers of dwelling units commenced, under-construction and completed are used as the proxy for the residential construction activities at three stages over the construction progress.FindingsThe analysis indicates that the dynamics are essentially transmitted throughout the construction process and can substantially impact the pace of production progress. The findings from this study provide an empirical base that should be useful in developing price-elasticity and production theories applicable to the context of residential property construction.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings described above have been generated basically by examining the case of Victoria, Australia at a macro level. The generalisation of the research output needs to be verified further by future researchers using data collected from other regions/countries. Nevertheless, the reliability of the conclusions with particular practical implications can be substantially improved by future researchers by analysing more markets and production proxies at the activity level.
Ma, L, Liu, HJ, Edwards, DJ & Sing, MCP 2021, 'Housing price dynamics on residential construction: A case study of the Australian property sector', Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 59, pp. 525-532.
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Ma, L, Onie, S, Spiropoulos, H & Wells, PA 2021, 'An Evaluation of the Impacts of the Adoption of IFRS 15 Revenue From Contracts With Customers'.
Macniven, R, Wilson, R, Olds, T & Evans, J 2021, 'Footprints in Time: Physical Activity Levels and Sociodemographic and Movement-Related Associations Within the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children', Journal of Physical Activity and Health, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 279-286.
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Background: Emerging evidence suggests that Indigenous children have higher physical activity levels that non-Indigenous children, yet little is known of the factors that influence these levels or how they may be optimized. This study examines correlates of achieving ≥1 hour/day of physical activity among Indigenous Australian children aged 8–13 years. Methods: Data were collected through parental self-report in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. Proportions of children achieving ≥1 hour/day physical activity, approximating the Australian aerobic physical activity recommendations, were calculated, and associations with sociodemographic, family composition, and movement-related factors were quantified using multiple logistic regression analyses. Results: Half of the 1233 children achieved ≥1 hour/day physical activity. Children from families with low parental education and unemployment, remote residence, low socioeconomic status, and without a father in the household were more likely to meet the recommendations. Achieving ≥1 hour/day of physical activity was also associated with low levels of playing electronic games and total screen time. Conclusions: Sociodemographic correlates of physical activity among Indigenous Australian children run counter to those typically found in non-Indigenous Australian children. Further longitudinal examination of the predictors of these associations would provide a greater understanding of Indigenous physical activity determinants, to inform strategies to facilitate participation.
Magee, S, Ng, CM & Wright, S 2021, 'How executive remuneration responds to guidance: evidence from the Australian banking industry', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 5281-5307.
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AbstractThis study investigates whether executive remuneration responds to regulatory guidance. Using an exogenous shock in the form of a regulatory guideline issued by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to the Australian banking industry, we analyse whether remuneration is more aligned to prudent risk‐taking since the guideline was published. We find that remuneration to both chief executive officers and the top five highest paid executives was adjusted to be more consistent with the guideline from its first year of operation. These findings are robust to the introduction of the Two Strikes Rule as an alternative explanation.
Martin, JH, Baddeley, M & Head, R 2021, 'Did our pharmacological strategy for COVID‐19 fail?', Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, vol. 9, no. 6.
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Mashhady, A, Khalili, H & Sameti, A 2021, 'Development and application of a service design-based process for improvement of human resource management service quality', Business Process Management Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 459-485.
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PurposeThis research approaches human resource management (HRM) as a service and aims to develop and test a process for improving perceived HRM service quality.Design/methodology/approachA three-step process was developed by incorporating concepts and tools from service design approach. Based on the literature, it was hypothesized that applying this process could improve perception of HRM service quality, perceived HRM service value, level of leader–member exchanges along with perceived organizational support, role clarity and role ambiguity. A case study was conducted and these variables were measured and compared, before and after testing the process for a test group and a control group within an organization.FindingsThe main findings suggest the effectiveness of the presented process in improving the perceived HRM service quality and social exchanges (in terms of perceived organizational support and leader–member exchanges), while reducing role conflict and role ambiguity in employees and supervisors.Practical implicationsIn a general sense, the obtained result implies that leveraging holistic and collaborative service design tools and concepts in (re)designing internal services, such as HRM, could improve perception of quality in organizational services, which in turn may lead to several important benefits for organizations, particularly in terms of HRM as per the context of this study.Originality/valueThis paper demonstrates development of an employee-centered method by borrowing from se...
McAndrew, R, Mulcahy, R, Gordon, R & Russell-Bennett, R 2021, 'Household energy efficiency interventions: A systematic literature review', Energy Policy, vol. 150, pp. 112136-112136.
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MCEWEN, C, PULLEN, A & RHODES, C 2021, 'SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORK: A LEADERSHIP PROBLEM', Revista de Administração de Empresas, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 1-7.
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Sexual violence against women in the workplace remains rife and poorly addressed. Sexual harassment is often perpetrated by leaders, managers, or supervisors as the result of abusive power relations. Recognising and addressing the cultural tolerance for sexual violence in organizations and society is one of the steps in addressing this issue. In this paper, we argue that violence is normalised through leadership practices. We suggest that leadership against sexual harassment is essential for organizational redress.
Mendolia, S, Stavrunova, O & Yerokhin, O 2021, 'Determinants of the community mobility during the COVID-19 epidemic: The role of government regulations and information', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 184, pp. 199-231.
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This paper studies the dynamics of human mobility during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries around the world. The main goal of the analysis is to empirically separate voluntary reductions in mobility driven by the information about the location-specific pandemic trends from the effects of the government-imposed social distancing mandates. Google human mobility dataset is used to track the dynamics of mobility across a wide range of categories (e.g., workplace, retail and recreational activities, etc.), while information on country-specific counts of COVID-19 cases and deaths is used as a proxy for the information about the spread of the pandemic available to the population. A detailed index of stringency of the government-imposed social distancing policies in around 100 countries is used as a measure of government response. We find that human mobility does respond in a significant way to the information about the spread of the pandemic. This channel can explain about 15 percentage points of the overall reduction in mobility across the affected countries. At the same time, our results imply that government-imposed policies account for the majority of the reduction in the mobility observed during this period.
Meng, S, Pham, T, Dwyer, L & Grant, B 2021, 'Carbon Price Impacts on the Chinese Tourism Industry', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 370-383.
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This study simulates the short-run effects of an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and two auxiliary policies on the Chinese tourism industry. The results show that the ETS alone will increases energy prices and have significant adverse impacts on China’s economy. The adverse impacts are relatively stronger on the energy sectors than they are on tourism. Two auxiliary policies—a tourism subsidy and a reduced goods and services tax (GST)—are examined as policy options to soften the negative impacts of the ETS. Results show that the tourism-subsidy policy is more effective than the GST reduction policy.
Mintz, O, Currim, IS, Steenkamp, J-BEM & de Jong, M 2021, 'Managerial metric use in marketing decisions across 16 countries: A cultural perspective', Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1474-1500.
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© 2019, Academy of International Business. Research on metrics is consistently designated a priority by academics and practitioners. However, less is known about how culture and cross-national differences can potentially impact metric use, which is theoretically and managerially limiting. This work develops a model that examines national and organizational cultural antecedents while controlling for the decision setting. Testing the model on data collected from 4384 managerial decisions from 1637 firms in 16 countries reveals that both levels of culture are associated with metric use but each has varying effects. Our results enable multinational executives to better understand and increase managerial metric use across different cultures and settings.
Mintz, O, Gilbride, TJ, Lenk, P & Currim, IS 2021, 'The right metrics for marketing-mix decisions', International Journal of Research in Marketing, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 32-49.
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This study addresses the following question: For a given managerial, firm, and industry setting, which individual metrics are effective for making marketing-mix decisions that improve perceived performance outcomes? We articulate the key managerial takeaways based on testing a multi-stage behavioral framework that links decision context, metrics selection, and performance outcomes. Our statistical model adjusts for potential endogeneity bias in estimating metric effectiveness due to selection effects and differs from past literature in that managers can strategically choose metrics based on their ex-ante expected effectiveness. The key findings of our analysis of 439 managers making 1,287 decisions are that customer-mindset marketing metrics such as awareness and willingness to recommend are the most effective metrics for managers to employ while financial metrics such as target volume and net present value are the least effective. However, relative to financial metrics, managers are more uncertain about the ex-ante effectiveness of customer-mindset marketing metrics, which attenuates their use. A second study on 142 managers helps provide detailed underlying rationale for these key results. The implications of metric effectiveness for dashboards and automated decision systems based on machine learning systems are discussed.
Mithun Ali, S, Kumar Paul, S, Chowdhury, P, Agarwal, R, Fathollahi-Fard, AM, Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, C & Luthra, S 2021, 'Modelling of supply chain disruption analytics using an integrated approach: An emerging economy example', Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 173, pp. 114690-114690.
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to identify, analyze, and to assess supply chain disruption factors and drivers. Based on an empirical analysis, four disruption factor categories including natural, human-made, system accidents, and financials with a total of sixteen disruption drivers are identified and examined in a real-world industrial setting. This research utilizes an integrated approach comprising both the Delphi method and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP). To test this integrated method, one of the well-known examples in industrial contexts of developing countries, the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh is considered. To evaluate this industrial example, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to ensure the robustness and viability of the framework in practical settings. This study not only expands the literature scope of supply chain disruption risk assessment but through its application in any context or industry will reduce the impact of such disruptions and enhance the overall supply chain resilience. Consequently, these enhanced capabilities arm managers the ability to formulate relevant mitigation strategies that are robust and computationally efficient. These strategies will allow managers to take calculated decisions proactively. Finally, the results reveal that political and regulatory instability, cyclones, labor strikes, flooding, heavy rain, and factory fires are the top six disruption drivers causing disruptions to the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh.
Moktadir, MA, Dwivedi, A, Khan, NS, Paul, SK, Khan, SA, Ahmed, S & Sultana, R 2021, 'Analysis of risk factors in sustainable supply chain management in an emerging economy of leather industry', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 283, pp. 124641-124641.
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd In the present competitive business environment and era of globalized marketing, supply chain (SC) of the leather industry is facing a variety of risks. Hence, one of the fundamental concerns in the leather industry supply chain (LISC) is recognizing and prioritizing the various risk factors for attaining sustainability. The present study is an attempt to determine a comprehensive evaluation of SC risk factors considering the case of the leather industry. Based on the literature search and interviews with the domain experts’, forty-four risk factors in the context of LISC are identified. The identified risk factors are further segregated into five-dimensions to sustainability (social, environmental, economic, technical, and institutional). A Pareto analysis is performed to discover the most pertinent risk factors. Further, the best-worst method (BWM) is embraced for evaluating the importance of each pertinent risk factor for the decision-making purpose. The findings from the study reflect that ‘inefficient effluent treatment’, ‘change in consumer preference’, ‘improper dumping of solid waste’, ‘volatility of price and cost’ and ‘fiscal changes’ are the crucial risk factors that are required to be addressed for the successful execution of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices in an emerging economy context. It is expected that the results and findings will assist the leather industry managers in decision-making for better administration and alleviation of supply chain risks to achieve sustainability.
Morris, RW, Kettlewell, N & Glozier, N 2021, 'The increasing cost of happiness', SSM - Population Health, vol. 16, pp. 100949-100949.
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A fundamental question for society is how much happiness does a dollar buy? The accepted view among economists and psychologists is that income has diminishing marginal returns on happiness: money and happiness increase together up to a point after which there is relatively little further gain. In this paper we estimate the relationship between income and subjective wellbeing over a 19-year period focusing on where the greatest change in the marginal return on income occurs and whether this change point has shifted over time. We formally test for the presence of a change point as well as temporal changes in the relationship between income and affective wellbeing (happiness), and income and cognitive wellbeing (life satisfaction), using household economic data from Australia between 2001 and 2019. The results indicate that the change point between affective wellbeing and income has increased over those 19 years faster than inflation (i.e., cost of living). This suggests that inequalities in income may be driving increasing inequities in happiness between the rich and the poor, with implications for health and recent government policy-goals to monitor and improve wellbeing.
Mwampashi, MM, Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C, Konstandatos, O & Rai, A 2021, 'Large Scale and Rooftop Solar Generation in the NEM: A Tale of Two Renewables Strategies', Energy Economics, vol. 113, pp. 1-32.
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Mwampashi, MM, Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C, Konstandatos, O & Rai, A 2021, 'Wind Generation and the Dynamics of Electricity Prices in Australia', SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) is experiencing one of the world's fastest and marked transitions toward variable renewable energy generation. This transformation poses challenges to system security and reliability and has triggered increased variability and uncertainty in electricity prices. By employing an exponential generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (eGARCH) model, we gauge the effects of wind power generation on the dynamics of electricity prices in the NEM. We find that a 1 GWh increase in wind generation decreases daily prices up to 1.3 AUD/MWh and typically increases price volatility up to 2%. Beyond consumption and gas prices, hydro generation also contributes to an increase in electricity prices and their volatility. The cross-border interconnectors play a significant role in determining price levels and volatility dynamics. This underscores the important role of strategic provisions and investment in the connectivity within the NEM to ensure the reliable and effective delivery of renewable energy generation. Regulatory interventions, such as the carbon pricing mechanism and nationwide lockdown restrictions due to COVID-19 pandemic, also had a measurable impact on electricity price dynamics.
Ninan, J, Clegg, S, Burdon, S & Clay, J 2021, 'Overt obstacles and covert causes: An exploratory study of poor performance in megaprojects', Project Leadership and Society, vol. 2, pp. 100011-100011.
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Niu, Y, Wu, Y & Zou, Z 2021, 'Irreversible investment, asset returns, and time-inconsistent preferences', The European Journal of Finance, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 706-720.
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Niu, Y, Yang, J & Zou, Z 2021, 'Investment decisions under incomplete markets in the presence of wealth effects', Journal of Economics, vol. 133, no. 2, pp. 167-189.
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This paper investigates the impact of market incompleteness on investment decisions. In contrast to previous studies, we assume an entrepreneur has power utility and investment causes an additive increase in her wealth. By using the binomial theorem, we derive the analytical solutions for the option value and investment threshold. First, we show that an increase in wealth alleviates the over-investment problem caused by the market incompleteness. In addition, the marginal value of wealth is always more than one and decreases in the wealth level. Finally, the increase in wealth substantially enhances the value of the investment option and lowers the idiosyncratic risk premium.
Ortmann, A, Ryvkin, D, Wilkening, T & Zhang, J 2021, 'Defaults and Cognitive Effort', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 212, pp. 1-19.
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Page, L, Noussair, CN & Slonim, R 2021, 'The replication crisis, the rise of new research practices and what it means for experimental economics', Journal of the Economic Science Association, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 210-225.
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AbstractThe replication crisis across several disciplines raises challenges for behavioural sciences in general. In this report, we review the lessons for experimental economists of these developments. We present the new research methods and practices which are being proposed to improve the replicability of scientific studies. We discuss how these methods and practices can have a positive impact in experimental economics and the extent to which they should be encouraged.
Paul, A, Shukla, N, Paul, SK & Trianni, A 2021, 'Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods: A Systematic Review', Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 13, pp. 7104-7104.
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Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are smart tools to deal with numerous criteria in decision-making. These methods have been widely applied in the area of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) because of their computational capabilities. This paper conducts a systematic literature review on MCDM methods applied in different areas of SSCM. From the literature search, a total of 106 published journal articles have been selected and analyzed. Both individual and integrated MCDM methods applied in SSCM are reviewed and summarized. In addition, contributions, methodological focuses, and findings of the reviewed articles are discussed. It is observed that MCDM methods are widely used for analyzing barriers, challenges, drivers, enablers, criteria, performances, and practices of SSCM. In recent years, studies have focused on integrating more than one MCDM method to highlight methodological contributions in SSCM; however, in the literature, limited research papers integrate multiple MCDM methods in the area of SSCM. Most of the published articles integrate only two MCDM methods, and integration with other methods, such as optimization and simulation techniques, is missing in the literature. This review paper contributes to the literature by analyzing existing research, identifying research gaps, and proposing new future research opportunities in the area of sustainable supply chain management applying MCDM methods.
Paul, SK & Chowdhury, P 2021, 'A production recovery plan in manufacturing supply chains for a high-demand item during COVID-19', International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 104-125.
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PurposeA recent global pandemic, known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), affects the manufacturing supply chains most significantly. This effect becomes more challenging for the manufacturers of high-demand and most essential items, such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer. In a pandemic situation, the demand of the essential products increases expressively; on the other hand, the supply of the raw materials decreases considerably with a constraint of production capacity. These dual disruptions impact the production process suddenly, and the process can collapse without immediate and necessary actions. To minimize the impacts of these dual disruptions, we aim to develop a recovery model for making a decision on the revised production plan.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors use a mathematical modeling approach to develop a production recovery model for a high-demand and essential item during the COVID-19. The authors also analyze the properties of the recovery plan, and optimize the recovery plan to maximize the profit in the recovery window.FindingsThe authors analyze the results using a numerical example. The result shows that the developed recovery model is capable of revising the production plan in the situations of both demand and supply disruptions, and improves the profit for the manufacturers. The authors also discuss the managerial implications, including the roles of digital technologies in the recovery process.Originality/valueThis model, which is a novel contribution to the literature, will help decision-makers of high-demand and essential items to make ...
Paul, SK, Chowdhury, P, Moktadir, MA & Lau, KH 2021, 'Supply chain recovery challenges in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Business Research, vol. 136, pp. 316-329.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of global supply chains arising from raw material scarcity, production and transportation disruption, and social distancing. Firms need to carefully anticipate the difficulties during recovery and formulate appropriate strategies to ensure the survival of their businesses and supply chains. To enhance awareness of the issues, this research aims to identify and model recovery challenges in the context of the Bangladeshi ready-made garment industry. A Delphi-based grey decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) methodology was used to analyze the data. While the Delphi method helped identify the major supply chain recovery challenges from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the grey DEMATEL approach helped categorize the causal relationships among these challenges. Of the 23 recovery challenges finalized, 12 are causal challenges. The study's findings can assist decision-makers in developing strategic policies to overcome the recovery challenges in the post-COVID-19 era.
Petrik, D, Schüler, F, Springer, V, Fiebich, M, Kretzschmar, K & Herzwurm, G 2021, 'IoT-Plattformökosystemanalyse am Beispiel von Amazon Web Services IoT', Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 100-109.
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Pham, TD, Dwyer, L, Su, J-J & Ngo, T 2021, 'COVID-19 impacts of inbound tourism on Australian economy', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 88, pp. 103179-103179.
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The pandemic COVID-19 has severely impacted upon the world economy, devastating the tourism industry globally. This paper estimates the short-run economic impacts of the inbound tourism industry on the Australian economy during the pandemic. The analysis covers effects both at the macroeconomic as well as at the industry and occupation level, from direct contribution (using tourism satellite accounts) to economy-wide effects (using the computable general equilibrium modelling technique). Findings show that the pandemic affects a range of industries and occupations that are beyond the tourism sector. The paper calls for strong support from the government on tourism as the recovery of tourism can deliver spillover benefits for other sectors and across the whole spectrum of occupations in the labour market.
Pina e Cunha, M, Berti, M & Clegg, S 2021, 'Pandemic! COVID-19 shakes the world', JOURNAL OF POLITICAL POWER, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 372-382.
Pina e Cunha, M, Berti, M & Clegg, S 2021, 'The virus in the age of madness', JOURNAL OF POLITICAL POWER, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 372-382.
Pontes, N & Pontes, V 2021, 'Spillover effects of competitive rivalry on brand extensions', Journal of Brand Management, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 402-412.
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Pontes, N, Pontes, V, Jin, HS & Mahar, C 2021, 'The Role of Team Identification on the Sponsorship Articulation–Fit Relationship', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 117-129.
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Previous literature on sponsorship-linked marketing have shown that articulation messages lead to more favorable attitudes toward the sponsor brand. However, results from some studies do not entirely support this finding, suggesting that important variables affecting the sponsorship articulation–fit relationship may have been overlooked. Addressing this gap in the literature, the authors show that consumer responses to sponsorship articulation are moderated by the fan’s level of identification with a sports team. That is, fans high in team identification respond differently to various types of articulation messages whereas fans with lower team identification levels do not. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate that messages highlighting how fans and sports team benefit from the sponsorship deal elicit thoughts of sincerity which in turn evokes reciprocity and more favorable attitudes from highly identified fans.
Pontes, V, Pontes, N, Greer, DA & Beatson, A 2021, 'Thank you but no thank you: the impact of negative moral emotions on customer responses to preferential treatment', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 3033-3058.
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PurposeAlthough preferential treatment has been considered a positive relationship marketing tactic, this research aims to examine how perceived harm to others as a result of preferential treatment invokes consumers’ negative moral emotions and negative attitudes towards the service provider.Design/methodology/approachFour studies are presented in this research. A pilot study first provides empirical evidence that customers who receive preferential treatment are aware of potential harm caused to other customers. Three experimental studies then test the hypothesis that shame and embarrassment mediate the effect of perceived harm to others on consumers’ responses to earned and unearned preferential treatment, respectively.FindingsThe present studies demonstrate that consumers naturally scan the environment and seek out information about others when judging their own experience; consequently, when preferential treatment is perceived to cause harm to others, it can trigger negative moral emotions. In particular, the authors show that shame mediates the effect of perceived harm to others when preferential treatment is earned, whereas embarrassment mediates this effect when preferential treatment is unearned.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of this research contribute to the literature on earned and unearned preferential treatment and negative moral emotions. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first research to show that negative moral emotions may arise because of perceptions of harm to other customers, particularly in the context of earned preferential treatment. T...
Porykali, B, Cullen, P, Hunter, K, Rogers, K, Kang, M, Young, N, Senserrick, T, Clapham, K & Ivers, R 2021, 'The road beyond licensing: the impact of a driver licensing support program on employment outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians', BMC Public Health, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
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Abstract Background With increasingly tough graduated driver licensing laws in all Australian States and Territories, driver licensing support programs are recognised as being important to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to obtain a driver licence. Such programs appear to improve licensing attainment rates, but few studies have examined the broader impact that these programs can have. This research aims to 1) examine the impact of a New South Wales (NSW) based driver licensing support program (Driving Change) on client employment outcomes; 2) assess the influence of geographical area of program delivery on driver licence attainment. Methods Driving Change was delivered from February 2013 to August 2016 in 4 urban and 7 regional Aboriginal communities of NSW. Clients were followed-up at 6 months or more following contact with the program as part of routine program operations. Descriptive statistics and regression models were used to analyse data. Results From 933 clients contacted 254 agreed to provide feedback, a response rate of 27%. Those that responded were mostly female (57%), aged 24 years and under (72%), unemployed (85%) with secondary education or less (71%) and from a regional area (74%). Adjusted logistic regression indicated that clients who achieved an independent licence were more likely (OR: 2.5, 95% CI: 1.22–5.24, p = 0.011) of reporting a new job or change in job than those who did not attain a licence. Clients from regional areas were more likely (OR: 1.72, 95% CI: 1.27–2.33, p < 0.001) to gain an independent lic...
Porykali, B, Hunter, K, Davies, A, Young, N, Sullivan, E & Ivers, R 2021, 'The effectiveness and impact of driver licensing programs on licensing and employment rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia: A systematic review', Journal of Transport & Health, vol. 21, pp. 101079-101079.
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Introduction: Access to a valid driver licence for most Australians can be essential for employment. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples however are under-represented as driver licence holders. As such driver licensing programs have been established across Australian States and Territories to support them to obtain a driver licence. The aim of this review is to identify these driver licensing programs and examine the effectiveness and impact on licensing and employment rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Methods: Two independent searches were performed. The first, a scoping review of the literature to identify and describe driver licensing programs throughout Australia. The second, a systematic review of electronic databases and relevant grey literature to examine the effectiveness and impact of driver licensing programs on licensing and employment rates. Two independent authors assessed publications for eligibility. Results: The scoping review identified 42 driver licensing programs across all Australian States and Territories between the years 2000–2019. Considerable variations exist between program services and characteristics. The systematic review included eight publications that evaluated four driver licensing programs. Findings suggested end-to-end culturally appropriate driver licensing programs are effective in improving licensing rates. No program evaluated the impact of licence attainment on employment rates although two publication commented on a correlation. Conclusion: Driver licensing programs are effective in increasing licensing rates amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program clients, but despite the significant number of licensing programs operating, few are reporting program outcomes and even fewer have been evaluated. There is considerable variation between program designs, support provision, service delivery and limited consistency amongst evaluation frameworks used. A standardised approach...
Prasad, A, Centeno, A, Rhodes, C, Nisar, MA, Taylor, S, Tienari, J & Alakavuklar, ON 2021, 'What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism?', Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1579-1599.
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AbstractThe #MeToo and the Time's Up movements have captured the urgency to address systemic manifestations of sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny in all aspects of society. Among the myriad discourses that have been catalyzed by these contemporaneous movements includes one related to the role of men in achieving gender egalitarianism. Men are allocated unearned privilege associated with being a man in a culture that is inherently phallogocentric. This fact alone charges men with the responsibility to account for the discursive and the institutional systems that afford them unearned privilege at certain relational costs that must be borne by women and, concomitantly, the feminine. The #MeToo and the Time's Up movements—which have initiated greater cultural recognition of the problems associated with establishing a society that is predicated on androcentric values—mark a pressing need, one that is much overdue, for men to interrogate the inequitable ways in which gender configures contemporary social relations. As a contribution to this effort, this article draws on reflexive accounts from men academics broadly invested in the study of gender and organizations and who are at different stages of their careers and from dispersed geographical areas, to respond to the question: What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism? In answering this question, these academics, individually and collectively, identify paths for allyship moving forward.
Pullen, A, Rhodes, C, McEwen, C & Liu, H 2021, 'Radical politics, intersectionality and leadership for diversity in organizations', Management Decision, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 2553-2566.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore leadership for diversity informed by intersectionality and radical politics. Surfacing the political character of intersectionality, the authors suggest that a leadership for diversity imbued with a commitment to political action is essential for the progress towards equality.Design/methodology/approachDrawing lessons from the grassroots, political organizing of the black and Indigenous activist groups Combahee River Collective and Idle No More, the authors explore how these groups relied on feminist alliances to address social justice issues. Learning from their focus on intersectionality, the authors consider the role of politically engaged leadership in advancing diversity and equality in organizations.FindingsThe paper finds that leadership for diversity can be developed by shifting towards a more radical and transversal politics that challenges social and political structures that enable intersectionality or interlocking oppressions. This challenge relies on critical alliances negotiated across multiple intellectual, social and political positions and enacted through flexible solidarity to foster a collective ethical responsibility and social change. These forms of alliance-based praxis are important for advancing leadership for diversity.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to studies of leadership and critical diversity studies by articulating an alliance-based praxis for leadership underpinned by intersectionality, radical democracy and transversal politics.
Rahman, T, Taghikhah, F, Paul, SK, Shukla, N & Agarwal, R 2021, 'An agent-based model for supply chain recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 158, pp. 107401-107401.
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Randhawa, K, Nikolova, N, Ahuja, S & Schweitzer, J 2021, 'Design thinking implementation for innovation: An organization's journey to ambidexterity', Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 668-700.
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AbstractImplementing design thinking for innovation (DTI) is seen as a way to balance exploration and exploitation, and thus attain an ambidextrous innovation portfolio. Yet, transitioning to ambidexterity is challenging, and is often met with inertia. So how can managers implement DTI as a path toward ambidextrous innovation? In this article, based on an in‐depth longitudinal case study of a leading Australian property development firm and drawing on rich primary and secondary data collected over four years, we examine how middle managers leveraged DTI to respond to inertia generatively, and how this process helped shift the cognitive frame of the organization toward ambidexterity. In our case, the middle manager implemented three DTI practices—(1) creative problem‐solving, (2) sprint execution, and (3) creative confidence— to transition the organization's cognitive frame from an explorative to exploitative, to ultimately an ambidextrous innovation frame. Our argument is that these DTI practices trigger three generative mechanisms—frame flexibility, co‐optation, and collective sensemaking—to support this transition. Drawing on these insights, we develop a process framework of how different DT practices and related generative mechanisms can be deployed flexibly to adapt to the interim (explorative and exploitative) innovation objectives over time. We argue that freezing the innovation frame in each phase can trigger a generative response to inertia, which enables the organization to transition more radically to an ambidextrous innovation portfolio. We thus contribute to the limited design thinking research on the role of cognition in DTI implementation, and more generally to innovation management and ambidexterity research on how leveraging DTI to achieve an ambidextrous innovation portfolio is an emergent and adaptive process.
Randhawa, K, West, J, Skellern, K & Josserand, E 2021, 'Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem: Cognitive Engagement of Stakeholders in Customizing Medical Implants', California Management Review, vol. 63, no. 2.
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While open innovation ecosystems allow a firm to harness external sources of value creation, these external ties can also constrain its ability to adapt its innovation strategy to pursue new opportunities. This article looks at how an incumbent firm approached such constraints, and used cognitive artifacts to transform its value chain into a collaborative ecosystem. It examines the case of a 3D printing-enabled shift to mass customization of orthopedic medical implants. The results demonstrate how firms can use artifacts to build a shared understanding across heterogeneous stakeholders as they explore and develop new open innovation models, and how this process can be managed flexibly to avoid adopting a locally (rather than globally) optimal strategy.
Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & Gudergan, S 2021, 'How to innovate toward an ambidextrous business model? The role of dynamic capabilities and market orientation', Journal of Business Research, vol. 130, pp. 618-634.
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Designing a business model is not a one-off process; adjustments are often required. To create such adjustments and realize business model innovation, firms require the deployment of dynamic capabilities. Yet, we know little about the role of dynamic capabilities in fostering business model innovation, particularly in SMEs. This research, designed as an in-depth longitudinal case study, investigates how an SME's market orientation and its deployment of dynamic capabilities are related to business model innovation. By developing a process framework of an SME's business model innovation from start-up to scale-up, this paper contributes to the literatures on business model (innovation), small business, and dynamic capabilities. It clarifies how an SME's market orientation, through the fitting deployment of its dynamic capabilities, drives its business model innovation. More specifically, this study characterizes market-driving, market-driven, and ambidextrous business models in the SME context, and reveals the exact dynamic capability processes necessary for transforming a business model from market-driving to market-driven, and ultimately to a model reflecting an ambidextrous market orientation. These insights outline how SMEs can deploy dynamic capabilities that align with the SME's market orientation to innovate the design and architecture of their business models.
Rawling, M, Kaine, S, Josserand, E & Boersma, M 2021, 'Multi-Stakeholder Frameworks for Rectification of Non-Compliance in Cleaning Supply Chains: The Case of the Cleaning Accountability Framework', Federal Law Review, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 438-464.
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AbstractThere is now an expanding body of literature on the significant problem of business non-compliance with minimum labour standards including ‘wage theft’. Extended liability regulation beyond the direct employer is seen as one solution to this non-compliance in fragmented but hierarchically organised industries—such as the cleaning industry. This article uses empirical evidence to assess the effectiveness of one such regulatory scheme, the Cleaning Accountability Framework (CAF), in addressing non-compliance with minimum labour standards (including provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and the Cleaning Services Award 2020). We find that CAF has been successful in identifying and rectifying certain non-compliance, improving working conditions for some cleaners involved in the scheme. We synthesise the key success factors of CAF in view of envisioning the adoption of such co-regulation frameworks in other industries. We also propose legal reforms that will support change across the cleaning industry.
Rayhan Sarker, M, Mithun Ali, S, Kumar Paul, S & Haque Munim, Z 2021, 'Measuring sustainability performance using an integrated model', Measurement, vol. 184, pp. 109931-109931.
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Reza, S, Ho, H, Ling, R & Shi, H 2021, 'Experience Effect in the Impact of Free Trial Promotions', Management Science, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 1648-1669.
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Although the use of free samples is extensive across industries, the effects of free samples across individuals with varying levels of usage have yet to be systematically examined. The models discussed in the literature consider targeting only the current nonusers of a product. In this research, we examine the question of targeting the current users both analytically and empirically for an experience good. Our analytical discussions highlight the reasons why some current users may be effective targets for free-sample promotions. We then conduct an empirical analysis using a data set on pre- and post-free-sample promotion mobile data usage provided by a telecom firm. The empirical findings are consistent with our analytical results. Specifically, we find the initial usage level to be a key determinant of both the redemption rate of a free-sample offer and the subsequent change in usage owing to free-sample redemption. In our context, the redemption rate increased from the low-percentile users to the high-percentile users. We also find that the change in usage was (weakly) monotonically increasing up to the [Formula: see text] percentile of usage distribution. Beyond the [Formula: see text] percentile, the effect was generally not significant. We discuss the managerial and policy implications of our findings. This paper was accepted by Juanjuan Zhang, marketing.
Riboldi, M, Fennis, L, Fishwick, E, Goodwin, S & Stears, M 2021, 'Making commissioning work: The relational gap between intent and implementation in the transition to ‘commissioning’ community services in New South Wales', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 80, no. 3, pp. 565-576.
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AbstractThe question of impact is at the heart of human service design, with governments searching perennially for the right approach to meeting citizen need while responsibly acquitting public funds. In this area, ‘commissioning’ has become a popularised approach, most recently in Australia. Although in theory commissioning is a strategic and relational practice offering to put communities at the heart of decision‐making, commissioning in practice has proved less transformational. This paper explores the gulf between intent and implementation in the transition to commissioning human services in New South Wales (NSW) in the context of the Commissioning Project, a collaborative project facilitated by the Sydney Policy Lab at the University of Sydney to enable peak organisations in the community sector build a collective approach to commissioning. The collaboration resulted in the articulation of four guiding principles to facilitate better commissioning in NSW: putting relationships first, letting communities lead, investing in people, and embedding learning.
Richards, J, O’Shea, M, Spanjaard, D & Garlin, F 2021, '‘You can rent it for a while, but it is our house’: Sports fans’ experience of returning ‘home’ to a new multipurpose stadium', International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 981-996.
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Understanding how stadium landscapes are constructed and used, how their elements relate to the broader local fan community is to understand a good deal about the culture, values and concerns of the people who use it. Yet, despite the unique role sports stadiums have in facilitating a memorable match-day experience, theorising this space remains underdeveloped. This research investigates contemporary stadium design and use from a fan perspective by examining the factors that enhance and inhibit the experience in a newly built multipurpose and shared stadium space. The research illustrates how transitioning to a new stadium involves a complex paradox between old traditions and new spaces. This paper has two objectives. First, it explores how the fans of an Australian rugby league team reimagine the concept of ‘home’ in a newly built multipurpose and multi-tenanted stadium. Second, the paper explores how this sense of home and, by extension, belonging was amplified by the club’s ‘dressing’ of the stadium. We argue that in the resettlement of fans, the use of symbols and rituals provides a scaffold for supporters to build an emotional connection to a new stadium, whilst also understanding that they, too, are active in the process of reimaging the stadium space.
Roxas, B 2021, 'Environmental sustainability engagement of firms: The roles of social capital, resources, and managerial entrepreneurial orientation of small and medium enterprises in Vietnam', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 2194-2208.
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AbstractHow firms in transition economies demonstrate their strategic engagement in sustainable environmental management given their limited resources and capabilities is less understood in the literature. This study explores how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam, an exemplar of a country in transition from a closed and socialist economy to an open and liberal market, draw on their external social capital to access critical resources that are leveraged by the entrepreneurial orientation or capabilities of the firms' top management towards engagement in business‐wide environmentally sustainable practices. Drawing on a database of more than 2000 firms from a large‐scale survey of firms in Vietnam, this study tests the relationships between two facets of social capital, environmental management resources and environmental sustainability engagement. This study further contends that managerial entrepreneurial orientation moderates by enhancing the strategic utilisation of resources to enable firms in Vietnam to engage in environmental sustainability. The results offer novel theoretical insights and timely managerial or practical implications as well as promising directions for future research on the resources, strategies and capabilities of firms in transition economies.
Ryan, P, Odhiambo, G & Wilson, R 2021, 'Destructive leadership in education: a transdisciplinary critical analysis of contemporary literature', International Journal of Leadership in Education, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 57-83.
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Sabuj, SU, Ali, SM, Hasan, KW & Paul, SK 2021, 'Contextual relationships among key factors related to environmental sustainability: Evidence from an emerging economy', Sustainable Production and Consumption, vol. 27, pp. 86-99.
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Saha, R, Azeem, A, Hasan, KW, Ali, SM & Paul, SK 2021, 'Integrated economic design of quality control and maintenance management: Implications for managing manufacturing process', International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 263-280.
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Sankaran, S, Freeder, D, Pitsis, A, Clegg, S, Drouin, N & Caron, M-A 2021, 'Megaprojects', Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies. Ed. Richardson Dilworth.
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“Megaprojects” is a term used to refer to projects and events that encompass large-scale projects in size, cost, space, time, energy, and influence. They are synonymous with large engineering projects, complex projects, large transport or energy projects, and large infrastructure projects, and are often composed of multilayered discrete projects forming a larger scale complex project. Some of the complexity deals with difficulty in quantifying the long-terms costs or benefits or fully realising the whole life cycle of the megaproject prior to commencement. Megaprojects are often shaped by contextual factors. Where complexity is related to technical aspects of the project it also includes organizational aspects and the scope of the project. Some of these projects are multifaceted and relate to science research, engineering infrastructure, or private and public construction of buildings and/or other venues. Megaprojects affect societies that undertake them, urban planning aspects, and social relationships between stakeholders engaged in executing all the elements involved in creating them. They have an impact on a number of areas both locally and globally. This includes extending notions of urban planning to accommodate large-scale construction. These projects can be significant in terms of social and/or economic factors in a positive or negative sense. There have been debates and criticism on the need and function of megaprojects and whether they are beneficial constructs or detrimental to society.
Sarkar, S & Clegg, SR 2021, 'Resilience in a time of contagion: Lessons from small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Change Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 242-267.
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The abrupt outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic sent unprecedented shockwaves across the globe, creating an unparalleled crisis in terms of our health, severely impacting the way we live and work. Measures such as social distancing and travel restrictions, have disrupted production and supply chains, reinforcing a demand shock. In the midst of this pandemic, however, there are leaders of resilient firms that are effectively responding to these changing times. Using a multiple-case inductive enquiry, the paper analyses how leaders activate resilience in small businesses. Employing a process framework, which focuses on sequences of activities and their interrelations which we analyse to uncover how these leaders activated this resilience and explicitly integrated the literature of resilience with that of sensemaking. Resilience emerges when cognition and behaviour work in conjunction, with businesses adapting to combat the crisis. When it comes to global disruptive crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, extant literature provides us with little guidance. The study not only makes a number of contributions to extant literatures but also provides valuable insights and tools to help leaders effectively navigate and respond to this crisis. By doing fast research in real time the paper provides novel and original insights.
Schulenkorf, N & Sherry, E 2021, 'Applying intergroup contact theory to sport-for-development', Sport Management Review, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 250-270.
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© 2020 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Despite evidence of its effectiveness in the area of conflict studies, intergroup contact theory (ICT) has rarely been applied to specifically designed sport-for-development (SFD) interventions. As such, the purpose of this study is to demonstrate the suitability and applicability of ICT as a framework analyzing SFD interventions that aim to foster integrative social transformation. In this paper, we first situate ICT within the broader sport and SFD contexts before demonstrating the utility of ICT through a reflective analysis of League Bilong Laif (LBL), an education-focused SFD intervention in Papua New Guinea. Our examination of LBL demonstrates that ICT may well be a useful framework to design and deliver SFD interventions, particularly in the context of existing intergroup tensions. To maximize opportunities for positive social impact, we propose the aspect of ‘cultural relevance and excitement potential’ as an additional critical condition for achieving meaningful intergroup development.
Schweinsberg, S, Fennell, D & Hassanli, N 2021, 'Academic dissent in a post COVID-19 world', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 91, pp. 103289-103289.
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Schweinsberg, S, Wearing, S & Lai, P-H 2021, 'Host communities and last chance tourism', Tourism Geographies, vol. 23, no. 5-6, pp. 945-962.
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Last Chance Tourism (LCT) has emerged in recent years as an adaptive response of the global tourism industry to the threats and opportunities of climate change. Referring to the act of travellers explicitly seeking out natural and/or cultural attractions that they deem to be at threat, LCT occurs in many of the World’s most iconic and fragile tourism destination regions. While academic scholarship around LCT grows, authors are beginning to question the lack of attention paid to LCT’s theoretical underpinnings. One potential contribution is Lefebvre’s notion of a Three-Fold view of space, encompassing the interrelated forces of: spatial practice, representations of space, and spaces of representation as a conceptual framing for understanding the spatial dimensions of LCT in Churchill (Canada). Demonstrating both the totality of space and the interrelated nature of its constituent parts, Lefebvre’s view of space offers a foundation for future empirical work looking to explore the host community perspective on LCT.
Shen, C, Wang, Y, Xiao, J & Zhou, X 2021, 'Comparison Between Uniform Tariff and Progressive Consumption Tax in the Chinese Automobile Industry*', The Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 169-213.
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This paper studies the protectionist effect of a non‐trade policy — a consumption tax — compared to that of a tariff on the Chinese automobile market. Our empirical findings suggest that both the consumption tax and the tariff can protect domestic automakers’ market shares, but they can only shift a small portion of demand from imported cars to domestic cars. This demand exclusion is caused by the weak substitution between imported cars and domestic cars, and it is the underlying reason for the welfare loss caused by both the tariff and the consumption tax. A change in the consumption tax favorable to domestic manufacturers is equivalent to an additional 28% tariff, beyond the explicit 25% tariff, in terms of its protective effect on domestic manufacturers’ market shares.
Shen, Y 2021, 'CEO characteristics: a review of influential publications and a research agenda', Accounting & Finance, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 361-385.
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AbstractThis paper provides a systematic review of literature pertaining to CEO characteristics and firm performance. The CEO of a firm provides critical leadership, social capital, and legitimacy, and as such exerts significant influence on firm performance. By using a bibliographic mapping approach, we identify the fifty‐one most influential publications on CEO characteristics. This field has developed from a few Upper Echelon Theory publications into four distinct categories. We review each of these to identify the main contributions to this research area and to outline research gaps and future research trends.
Siminski, P & Evans, S 2021, 'The Effect of Outside Temperatures on Criminal Court Sentencing Decisions', SURE Journal, vol. 21/01, no. 2021 - 1, pp. 1-23.
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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature oncognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of theimpact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated byHeyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics), who found strong effects oftemperature on judges’ decisions in immigration cases, drawing on 207,000 cases.We apply similar models to analyse 2.8 million criminal court cases in theAustralian state of New South Wales from 1994 to 2019. Most of the estimates areprecise zeros. We conclude that outcomes of criminal court cases (which are farmore prevalent globally than immigration cases) are not influenced by fluctuationsin temperature, an unsurprising but reassuring result.
Simpson, AV, Berti, M, Cunha, MPE & Clegg, S 2021, 'Art, culture and paradox pedagogy in management learning: The case of Portuguese fado', Management Learning, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 630-651.
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We propose a reawakening of interest in the role of artistic knowing for managerial education, presenting a pedagogy that is sensitive to cultural context and aimed at enabling the phronetic management of paradox. Inspired by fado, the iconic Portuguese popular music, especially the ways in which it embodies the stresses of society, we develop strategies for management learning based on engagement with art that fosters sensitivity to paradox. We contribute to management learning by inviting practitioners to be sensitive to the complexity of competing tensions in the cultures and language in and through which everyday lives are lived by bringing attention to the potential of artistic knowing for highlighting and navigating management paradoxes, to develop phronesis.
Simpson, B, Harding, N, Fleming, P, Sergi, V & Hussenot, A 2021, 'The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process', Organization Studies, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 1775-1794.
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This editorial essay introduces a special issue that tackles the seemingly intractable challenge of re-conceptualizing power and performativity as continuously interweaving and co-emergent dynamics in the processes of organizing. It is in these processes, we argue, that new futures may be visibly made through the academic activism of our scholarly communities. We position our argument, and the six papers that comprise this special issue, in relation to Rosi Braidotti’s framing of Humanism, anti-humanism and the posthuman. We also suggest some future lines of inquiry to move studies of organizing forward into a posthuman world.
Sivan, A & Veal, AJ 2021, 'Leisure and human rights: the World Leisure Organization Charter for Leisure: past, present and future', World Leisure Journal, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 133-140.
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Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C, Thomas, A & Wang, J-X 2021, 'The Economic Impact of Volatility Persistence on Energy Markets', Journal of Commodity Markets, vol. 30, pp. 1-24.
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This study examines the role of daily volatility persistence in transmitting information from macro-economy in the volatility of energy markets. In crude oil and natural gas markets, macro-economic factors, such as the VIX, the credit spread and the Baltic exchange dirty index, impact volatility, and this impact is channeled via the volatility persistence. Further, the impact of returns and variances is primarily transmitted to volatility via the daily volatility persistence. The dependence of volatility persistence on market and macro-economic conditions is termed conditional volatility persistence (CVP). The variation in daily CVP is economically significant, contributing up to 18% of future volatility and accounting for 29% of the model's explanatory power. Inclusion of the CVP in the model significantly improves volatility forecasts. Based on the utility benefits of volatility forecasts, the CVP adjusted volatility models provide up to 160 bps benefit to investors compared to the HAR models, even after accounting for transaction costs and varying trading speeds.
Smith, EK & Kaya, E 2021, 'Online University Teaching at the time of COVID-19 (2020): An Australian Perspective', IAFOR Journal of Education, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 183-200.
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The impacts of COVID-19 have been widespread, and the education sector has not been immune to its effects. In March 2020 Australian universities were forced into a shutdown, which prompted an unanticipated, sudden shift in education, from on-campus and face-to-face to an off-campus and online mode of teaching and learning. This paper describes the experiences of two Sydney-based university unit coordinators, from two different institutions, who rapidly shifted their units online as a result of COVID-19. In particular, it applies reflection as a research method, to share what the authors’ encountered as successful, and what was challenging about teaching online. Motivating and retaining students was a key challenge identified by the authors. Therefore, the paper discusses the authors’ application of various digital programs and tools in their response to this challenge of motivation and engagement. It is hoped that our experiences might benefit those looking to integrate programs and tools in the online teaching and learning space. Although Australia is currently one of the most successful countries in their handling of COVID-19, there is still great uncertainty about the future. Globally the pandemic shows no signs of abating, as many countries struggle to manage high levels of transmission and infection rates, which in turn have an impact on the education sector more broadly. Consequently, online learning may be the ‘new normal’ for many institutions in the near future. Therefore, it is important for educators to share their online teaching experiences that can contribute to greater understandings of this space.
Smith-Merry, J, O'Donovan, M-A, Dew, A, Hemsley, B, Imms, C, Carey, G, Darcy, S, Ellem, K, Gallego, G, Gilroy, J, Guastella, A, Marella, M, McVilly, K & Plumb, J 2021, 'The Future of Disability Research in Australia: Protocol for a Multiphase Research Agenda–Setting Study', JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. e31126-e31126.
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Background For people with disabilities to live a good life, it is essential that funded research in health and social care addresses their interests, meets their needs, and fills gaps in our understanding of the impact that services, systems, and policies may have on them. Decisions about research funding should be based on an understanding of the research priorities of people with disabilities, their supporters and allies, disability researchers, service providers, and policy makers working in the field. Objective The aim of this protocol is to describe the research design and methods of a large-scale, disability research agenda–setting exercise conducted in 2021 in Australia. Methods The research agenda–setting exercise involves 3 integrated phases of work. In the first phase, a previous audit of disability research in Australia is updated to understand previous research and continuing gaps in the research. Building on this, the second phase involves consultation with stakeholders—people with disabilities and their supporters and family members, the disability workforce, and people working within services and connected sectors (eg, aging, employment, education, and housing), academia, and public policy. Data for the second phase will be gathered as follows: a national web-based survey; a consultation process undertaken through the government and nongovernment sector; and targeted consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, children with disabilities and their families, people with cognitive disability, and people with complex communication needs. The third phase involves a web-based survey to develop a research agenda based on the outcomes of all pha...
Subasinghe, AK, Watson, CJ, Black, KI, Taft, A, Luck, J, McGeechan, K, Haas, M, McNamee, K, Peipert, JF & Mazza, D 2021, 'Current contraceptive use in women with a history of unintended pregnancies: Insights from the Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd) trial', Australian Journal of General Practice, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 422-425.
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Sutton, N & Brown, DA 2021, 'Beyond the decision to ally: Constraints on adapting to emergent control risks', Management Accounting Research, vol. 52, pp. 100756-100756.
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Sutton, N, Ma, N, Yang, JS, Rawlings-Way, O, Brown, D, McAllister, G, Parker, D & Lewis, R 2021, 'Considering the new minimum staffing standards for Australian residential aged care', Australian Health Review, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 391-397.
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Objective To compare the historical staffing patterns and organisational characteristics of Australian residential aged care facilities (RACFs) against the new minimum staffing standards recommended by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (RCACQS). Method Retrospective data analysis was used to compare the staffing levels and characteristics of 1705 RACFs (for 4 years, 2016–19) with the three new mandatory staffing requirements. De-identified datasets were provided by the RCACQS, obtained under its legal authority. Results Only 3.8% of RACFs have staffing levels at or above all three requirements. Although many (79.7%) already meet the requirement to have a registered nurse (RN) on-site for morning and afternoon shifts, few have staffing levels above requirements for total direct care per resident per day (10.4%) or care provided by an RN per resident per day (11.1%). Historical levels of on-site RNs, total direct care, and RN care vary significantly across facilities of different size, location and provider scale. Conclusion The new staffing standards, to be mandatory by 2023, prescribe minimum requirements significantly higher than existing levels, particularly in care per resident per day. Each of the three requirements will likely have a differential effect for different types of RACFs. What is known about the topic? International evidence suggests that introducing mandatory minimum staffing standards tends to increase the amount of care provided by staff in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). However, the impact of staffing standards is influenced by the stringency of the minimum threshold relative to existing staffing levels, the capacity of organisations to increase their staffing levels, and the specific way the regulation is formulated. What does this paper add? This paper explores the potential implications of the three national minimum staffing standards, to be in force by October 2023, specifyi...
Taghikhah, F, Voinov, A, Shukla, N, Filatova, T & Anufriev, M 2021, 'Integrated modeling of extended agro-food supply chains: A systems approach', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 288, no. 3, pp. 852-868.
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Taylor, E, Huml, M, Cohen, A & Lopez, C 2021, 'The Impacts of Work–Family Interface and Coping Strategy on the Relationship between Workaholism and Burnout in Campus Recreation and Leisure Employees', Leisure Studies, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 714-729.
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There is a lack of research on the work experiences of employees working within the recreation and leisure industry. The current study used a structural model approach to examine key concepts of workaholism, burnout, work–family interface, and coping strategies within the context of recreational employees. The study’s sample consisted of 466 campus recreation employees. Results show a positive, direct relationship between respondents’ workaholism and burnout. Results also show that the positive relationship between workaholism and burnout was significantly, partially (serial) mediated by work–family/family–work conflict and emotion-based coping strategies, but was non-significant by work–family/family–work conflict and task-focused strategies. This suggests our participants became dependent on emotion-focused coping strategies due to their work obligations and dedication to the job. Findings also suggest that employees within the recreation field are less likely to feel the negative associations of burnout from family–work conflict as compared to work–family conflict. This study advances previous findings by illustrating specific coping strategies and their impact on the relationship between workaholism and burnout. Results from the current study illustrate those employees who engage in emotion-coping strategies may experience higher levels of burnout as compared to those who utilize task-based coping strategies.
Taylor, SL & Tong, A 2021, 'How Important Are Semi-Annual Earnings Announcements? An Information Event Perspective'.
Thomson, A, Toohey, K & Darcy, S 2021, 'The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 352-363.
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Sport event studies have demonstrated that relevant stakeholders must share objectives and coordinate efforts to leverage a large-scale sport event to secure positive legacies. However, the challenging and complex task of collaboration between networks of diverse organizational stakeholders to secure legacies has received little scholarly attention. In this conceptual paper, the authors explore, through a political economy lens, differences between the political economies of sports and sport events pertaining to mass sport participation legacies. The authors focus on the mesolevel and consider how divergences in political economy elements—structure and context, stakeholders and ideas/incentives, and bargaining processes—influence the likelihood of mass sport participation legacies from large-scale sport events. The authors suggest a need for event legacy stakeholders to engage more meaningfully with the complexities surrounding securing mass sport participation legacies. In addition, they provide pragmatic, actionable implications for policy and practice to assist stakeholders in addressing the challenges they face to maximize legacy outcomes.
Tse, H 2021, '“Plugged in But Disconnected: Challenges in the 2020 Online Transition”', UBSS Publication Series, vol. Vol. 1, no. (1), pp. 71-74.
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While universities and colleges are celebrating their successful transition to online learning and citing “highest-ever student feedback”, the abrupt shift has left many in the education industry feeling disconnected. Students are limited in their connections with each other and with their teachers, and staff are often left feeling isolated without the daily support of their peers. Confusion around policy within the workplace, as well as high demand for IT support and training, has led to a feeling of being overwhelmed and under supported. This chapter highlights the main challenges faced by the author as coordinator of a large postgraduate introductory economics course during the transition to online delivery and how (successfully or not) these challenges were met.
Tse, H 2021, 'Using Vodcasts to Enhance Learning in a Postgraduate Economics Subject', UBSS Publication Series, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 85-92.
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For many years educators have sought to integrate videos into their pedagogical practices. Tosupport ‘blended learning - a thoughtful fusion of face-to-face and online learning experiences’(Garrison & Vaughn, 2008), the author developed a package of five-minute videos (called‘vodcasts’) and used them in a postgraduate economics subject. The vodcasts were designedto introduce key economic concepts to students as a precursor and complement to face-to-faceteaching. They were intended to be a flexible resource that addressed student diversity andhelped students transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study. This article discusses theevolution of the project and the effects on student learning. Surveys and focus groups indicatedthat student perceptions of the vodcasts were resoundingly positive.
Tureta, C, Américo, BL & Clegg, S 2021, 'Controversies as method for ANTi-history: An inquiry into public administration practices', Organization, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1018-1035.
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Drawing on Actor-Network Theory and the cartography of controversies, we present a method for ANTi-History research to investigate the implementation of a contract between a labour services company and a public university hospital in Brazil. The research question focuses on how the past is enacted in the present. The method is a general guideline based on five focal points used to organize the fieldwork: identifying controversies; mapping the actor-network; drawing out the translation process; politics of actor-networks and multiple reality/power relations. The proposed method makes two contributions to ANTi-History literature. First, although these focal points have been discussed by ANTi-History scholars, they are scattered throughout the literature. We unite them to offer a guide to doing historically embedded research. Second, we show how controversy analysis can be helpful for mapping the politics of actor-networks and describing multiple realities in the construction of history.
Van Essen, M & Wooders, J 2021, 'Allocating positions fairly: Auctions and Shapley value', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 196, pp. 105315-105315.
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We study the problem of fairly allocating heterogenous items, priorities, positions, or property rights to participants with equal claims from three perspectives: cooperative, decision theoretic, and non-cooperative. We characterize the Shapley value of the cooperative game and then introduce a class of auctions for non-cooperatively allocating positions. We show that for any auction in this class, each bidder obtains his Shapley value when every bidder follows the auction's unique maxmin perfect bidding strategy. When information is incomplete we characterize the Bayesian equilibrium of these auctions, and show that equilibrium play converges to maxmin perfect play as bidders become infinitely risk averse. The equilibrium allocations thus converges to the Shapley value allocation as bidders become risk averse. Together these results provide both decision theoretic and non-cooperative equilibrium foundations for the Shapley value in the position allocation problem.
Veal, AJ 2021, 'A critique of serious leisure as theory', Leisure Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 575-589.
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Veal, AJ 2021, 'Book notes', World Leisure Journal, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 443-444.
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Veal, AJ 2021, 'Capitalism, fascism, communism, social democracy and the study of leisure: comments prompted by Ken Roberts’ “Still speaking to ourselves”', World Leisure Journal, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 423-440.
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Veal, AJ 2021, 'International assessment of the right to leisure time', World Leisure Journal, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 141-151.
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Vesal, M, Siahtiri, V & O'Cass, A 2021, 'Strengthening B2B brands by signalling environmental sustainability and managing customer relationships', Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 92, pp. 321-331.
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Resource depletion and environmental pollution concerns are forcing manufacturers to pay greater attention to environmental sustainability. This is especially so for business-to-business (B2B) manufacturing firms who intensively use natural resources in their operations and are blamed for observable impacts on the environment. Despite investments in environmental sustainability practices by B2B manufacturers, studies provide little explanation about the extent B2B manufacturers obtain a positive brand image and superior market performance through environmental sustainability. Furthermore, research has not identified organisational practices that strengthen the path from environmental sustainability to market performance. Drawing on signalling theory, the customer relationship management (CRM) literature, attitude theory, and data collected from B2B manufacturers and their customers, we show that environmental sustainability practices provide positive benefits to B2B manufacturers' brand image, which, in turn, impacts market performance. Further, effective CRM and working with business customers with positive environmental attitudes are essential boundary conditions that strengthen the path from environmental sustainability practices to market performance.
Walker, M, Fleming, P & Berti, M 2021, '‘You can’t pick up a phone and talk to someone’: How algorithms function as biopower in the gig economy', Organization, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 26-43.
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This paper asks why there is so little collective dissent and mobilised resistance in the gig economy, especially when labour-based digital platforms are used. We suggest part of the answer lies with ‘management by algorithm’. Drawing on an empirical study of Uber drivers in Australia, we found that algorithms function as a form of biopower, a concept introduced by Michel Foucault. As Uber drivers ‘life processes’ are put to work, fragmentation, isolation and resignation ensue. We explore the implications that our findings have for appreciating how biopower operates within platform capitalism and beyond.
Walker, S 2021, 'Post-split underreaction: The importance of prior split history', International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 78, pp. 101945-101945.
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Waller, DS & Casidy, R 2021, 'Religion, Spirituality, and Advertising', Journal of Advertising, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 349-353.
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This article introduces the special section on Religion, Spirituality, and Advertising. A person’s belief in a religion or their spiritual identity can have a direct influence on the way they live and their attitudes and values. This can also impact an individual’s perception toward an advertiser’s message and images or advertising in general. While studies on the topic of religion and spirituality in the marketing literature are on the rise, there is still a substantive research gap on this topic, particularly on the theoretical and empirical developments pertaining to the influence of religion on various aspects of advertising topics. For this special section, the Call for Papers resulted in 37 submissions, which finally resulted in five articles that present a different focus on the topic and aim to encourage new discourse into the area of religion, spirituality, and advertising.
Waller, DS & Waller, HJ 2021, 'Heritagisation of pop culture by museums and an analysis of visitor feedback', Arts and the Market, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 258-274.
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PurposeIn recent years, there has been a “heritagisation” of pop culture, including music, whereby cultural institutions, such as galleries and museums in primarily Western countries, have run exhibitions based on pop culture to successfully market to a new audience of visitors. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the issue of the “heritagisation” of pop culture by museums and observe visitor response to a specific music-related exhibition, linking intangible and tangible elements of the exhibition to provide a framework to understand the visitor experience.Design/methodology/approachThe purpose will be achieved by observing the “heritagisation” of pop culture in the literature and past exhibitions, proposing how cultural institutions have linked the intangible and tangible elements of music in pop culture for an exhibition and observe visitors' feedback from online comments posted on Tripadvisor undertaken during the original “David Bowie is” exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London.FindingsFrom the Leximancer analysis, a new conceptual framework for visitor experience at an exhibition was developed, which contains three visitor-related categories: pre-exhibition, exhibition space and exhibition experience, with five themes (tickets, exhibition, displayed objects, David Bowie and visitors) and 41 text concepts.Practical implicationsFor cultural institutions the implications are that there can be opportunities to curate exhibitions on pop culture or music-related themes, which can include intangible and tangible elements, such as songs, videos, ticket...
Wan, D, Xue, R, Linnenluecke, M, Tian, J & Shan, Y 2021, 'The impact of investor attention during COVID-19 on investment in clean energy versus fossil fuel firms', Finance Research Letters, vol. 43, pp. 101955-101955.
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Wang, J, Chai, Y, Shao, Y & Qian, X 2021, 'Techno-economic Assessment of Biogas Project: a Longitudinal Case Study from Japan', Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 164, pp. 105174-105174.
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The development of biomass for energy production is largely encouraged on a large scale in local cities and developing nations, in addition to traditional domestic utilization. As a matter of fact, many biomass projects still operate, while experiencing low efficiency and operation challenges. This longitudinal study investigates the operation performance of a specific biogas project from Japan, with a focus on benefit and cost analysis. It is concluded that the financial imbalance of project operation in Hita, Japan stems from the narrow revenues and high expenditures. Apart from revenues from electricity generation and disposal fees, few revenues come from sales of industrial waste. Meanwhile, the depreciation of equipment presents a rising cost, which accounts for the large share of running costs. Moreover, scenario analysis indicated that the aging issue put the highest burden onto the project. Changing the feedstock of biomass wastes, promoting the consumption of fertilizer byproducts, and integrated waste management could be effective from a technical perspective, while flexible institutional and management adjustment could contribute to further improvement. The optimal scenario concluded with an internal rate of return of 1.31% and a simple payback period of 26.9 years. The profound investigation on a specific project helps scrutinize the potential drawbacks and challenges during operation.
Wang, J, Wang, L & Qian, X 2021, 'Revisiting firm innovation and environmental performance: New evidence from Japanese firm-level data', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 281, pp. 124446-124446.
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There is uncertainty in recent research regarding the relationship between business innovation and environmental performance. Employing matched panel data for 589 publicly listed companies from 2006 to 2014, this study investigated the relationship between innovation and CO2 emission reduction for companies in Japan. The mechanisms driving emissions reduction were also explored using multiple regression models. Results showed that investment in innovation increased labor productivity which in turn reduced energy intensity and carbon emission reductions. A heterogeneous analysis showed that the impact of research and development investment was the most pronounced for well-established businesses. Furthermore, the manufacturing sector was found to enjoy more environmental benefits from innovation due to its high energy intensity. Findings of this study highlight the importance of investment in innovation for its environmental and sustainability benefits.
Watson, C, McGeechan, K, McNamee, K, Black, KI, Lucke, J, Taft, A, Haas, M, Peipert, JE & Mazza, D 2021, 'Influences on condom use: A secondary analysis of women’s perceptions from the Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd) trial', Australian Journal of General Practice, vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 581-587.
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Wearring, A, Dalton, B & Bertram, R 2021, 'Pivoting post-pandemic: Not-for-profit arts and culture organisations and a new focus on social impact', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 44-59.
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While the Australian arts and cultural sector has been adept at shaping the national conversation around its economic significance, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought multiple and serious challenges. Weakened by years of government defunding, the sector now faces the shocks of shutdowns and social distancing on their bottom line. Post-COVID we propose that arts and culture organisations in the Not-for-profit sector express their contribution to society as social impact, in order to access more diverse sources of funding. This paper looks first at established ways of assessing economic value, then discusses the broader social value of arts and culture organisations. It then explores methods by which this can be measured and reported. Lastly, a review of relevant literature and best practice approaches to social impact measurement is provided, outlining a framework to produce evaluations that both strengthen their programs and enhance their ability to communicate their value to funders.
Weatherall, R & Ahuja, S 2021, 'Learning as moments of friction and opportunity: an autoethnography of ECR identities in queer time', Management Learning, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 404-423.
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In this article, we explore how time and temporality shape the identities of early career researchers as they learn to become academics. We engage in a collaborative autoethnography to reflect on how our shared identities as middle-class women and our divergences in age, ethnicity, familial status and sexuality shaped our embodied experiences of becoming academics. Drawing on the concept of queer time, we reconceptualise the becoming of newcomers as they learn (or do not learn) to belong to academia. We illustrate how queer time interrupts normative ideas of newcomer learning as progress, development and reproduction. We suggest that learning may alternatively be understood as ‘moments of friction’ and ‘moments of opportunity’ in which newcomers to the academy feel out of step, out of place and out of time. We conceptualise these moments as simultaneously painful yet productive of possibilities for learning to become an academic, differently.
Weatherall, R, Gavin, M & Thorburn, N 2021, 'Safeguarding women at work? Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand on effectively implementing domestic violence policies', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 568-590.
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Although domestic violence is increasingly acknowledged as a workplace issue and a gender equality issue, a gap remains in the effective implementation of domestic violence policies in workplaces. The Domestic Violence – Victims Protection Act passed in 2018 in Aotearoa New Zealand was a global landmark for holding workplaces accountable for safeguarding victims through a codification of employer responsibility. While the legislation is a milestone, such moves are nascent compared with other workplace gender equality initiatives. In this article, we assess ‘where we are now’ in relation to domestic violence policy initiatives, arguing that knowledge necessary for successful policy implementation is limited by the historical ‘gender blindness’ of industrial relations scholarship. For successful implementation, scholars and practitioners must understand domestic violence as a public issue embedded in broader patterns of gender inequality, reinforced by a gendered labour market. Drawing upon vignettes of victims’ experiences from empirical data on intimate partner stalking in Aotearoa New Zealand, a research and practice agenda is proposed to consider ‘where to next’ for implementing domestic violence policies. Our agenda proposes recognising domestic violence as a gendered, public issue which blurs boundaries between work, home and society in order to truly safeguard women at work.
White, A 2021, 'May you live in interesting times: a reflection on academic integrity and accounting assessment during COVID19 and online learning', Accounting Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 304-312.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to reflect on the shift of assessments online and the potential impact on academic integrity and misconduct. The rapid pivot to online teaching as a result of COVID19 and our experiences in the accounting academy is the embodiment of the phrase “may you live in interesting times”. As teaching and learning activities shifted online, so did assessment of student learning. A topic of great discussion amongst faculty is whether accounting exams should be invigilated online and whether exams should be used at all to assess student learning.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses personal reflections and experiences to analyse the tensions between the risk of academic misconduct, maintaining assessment security and accreditation requirements of professional accounting bodies during the shift of assessment tasks online in 2020. These tensions are analysed using the fraud triangle framework (Cressey, 1973).FindingsStudents face incentives and pressures to engage in misconduct, opportunities that arise from online learning and assessment, and hold complex perceptions around their attitudes towards academic integrity and rationalisations of misconduct behaviour.Originality/valueSuggestions are made as to how the accounting academy can move forward, taking advantages of online assessment, while still ensuring that our graduates are meeting the competencies required to join the accounting profession.
Wiedemann, NJB, Pina e Cunha, M & Clegg, SR 2021, 'Rethinking Resistance as an Act of Improvisation: Lessons from the 1914 Christmas Truce', Organization Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 615-635.
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We examine the historical phenomenon of truces, as these occurred during a period of intense warfare during World War I, around Christmas 1914. These were processes of resistance that could not have been planned (otherwise they would obviously have been thwarted by authority) and that occurred in a setting with continuously changing conditions. Our purpose in making this analysis is to identify the micro-foundations and behaviours of enacting resistance and forming a truce under conditions where planning and executing cannot be assumed to be orderly and linear. We discuss the battlefield context of intense competition and mutual suffering as an organizational setting in order to provide a more precise explanation of how rules and structures can be (at least) temporarily suspended in the workplace. We rethink the construct of resistance as an act of improvisation; we do so by developing a framework that explains how resistance can emerge and be quashed in workplace settings that might appear at first sight to be immune. Therefore, we combine two themes that have largely been separated in theory: resistance and improvisation. Doing so opens new ground in three ways. First, we contribute to literature about resistance by explaining how it was constructed as action suspending rules and structures in hostile contexts. Second, we show the political-motivational dimension of improvisation. Third, we extend the notion of truce as not an end in itself (a temporary settlement) but as an avenue to achieve a real objective (e.g. to change the course of history for the better).
Williams, T, Edwards, M, Angus-Leppan, T & Benn, S 2021, 'Making sense of sustainability work: A narrative approach', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 740-760.
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Corporate sustainability is a priority for organisations, but the nature of the enabling intra-organisational activities, processes and managerial agency is not well understood. In this study, we examine the activity and agency of corporate sustainability managers through a narrative approach and the novel theoretical lens of ‘sustainability work’: purposeful and strategic activities to shape the social-symbolic context such that social and environmental outcomes are prioritised. Analysing how individuals across a range of diverse organisations and industries frame their activity, we identify three overlapping and co-occurring broad subsets of sustainability work: goal-directed, other-directed and self-directed. Through our notion of sustainability work, we contribute by recasting managerial agency in the enabling of sustainability as occurring in the social-symbolic realm and highlighting the implications in both theory and practice for the professionalisation of sustainability. JEL Classification: M10, M14
Williamson, J, Hassanli, N, Rodrigues, C, Akbar, S & Wedathanthirige, H 2021, 'BUILDING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: SUPPORTING ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIA POST-COVID-19', Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 221-236.
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To examine the realities of COVID-19 on enterprise development in regional Australia, this paper discusses the findings of a study which examined the capacity of a remote community to exploit changes occurring in the marketplace. The study identified that barriers to entrepreneurship which existed pre-COVID-19 remain, with COVID-19 acting as a driver and barrier. To exploit changes in the marketplace, experienced entrepreneurs have higher levels of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) connected to innovating and adapting. However, nascent and experienced entrepreneurs require support to develop other areas of ESE. A conceptual framework is developed to support enterprise development.
Woods, M & Corderoy, G 2021, 'Improving Consumer‐Centred Aged Care: Addressing Issues of Sustainability, Service Integration and Market Incentives', Australian Economic Review, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 266-274.
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AbstractThe Australian Government is preparing to implement its next tranche of reforms to publicly subsidised aged care services. While prompted by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, this is also the next step in an ongoing program of improvement. System sustainability should remain a core concern, shared alike by consumers, providers, regulators and taxpayers. Some unfinished business should also be addressed. First, creating an integrated range of client‐centred services; second introducing market‐based incentives that empower residential care consumers to exercise choice and control and encourage competing providers to improve quality, safety and efficiency.
Wright, C & Forsyth, H 2021, 'Managerial Capitalism and White-Collar Professions: Social Mobility in Australia’s Corporate Elite', Labour History, vol. 121, no. 1, pp. 99-127.
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This article considers the interdependence of managerial capitalism with the historical constitution of professional work in Australia. Using data on the composition of the boards of Australia’s largest companies between 1910 and 2018, we show a deep connection between the managerial class and the top layers of professional hierarchies. Professionals in Australia forged a managerial-capitalist elite within large corporations, relying on a combination of professional expertise and signals of legitimacy that were enabled through higher education and accreditation structures. Relatively low levels of professional enclosure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries created opportunities for Australians from middle- and working-class backgrounds to move into the capitalist elite. These opportunities were reduced significantly from the 1980s onwards as pathways to managerial roles themselves enclosed and as managerialism - as a mode of production - increasingly dominated global capitalism. The result was that by the end of the twentieth century, Australia’s corporate elite more closely resembled the rest of the world’s in its homogeneity and inaccessibility. This demonstrates the central role of professions in the reproduction of Australian capitalism over time, and the influence of professional enclosure on social mobility and inequality.
Wright, C, Cortese, C, Al Mamun, A & Ali, S 2021, 'Capturing cohesion: Integrating network and life history approaches for Australia’s corporate elite', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2021, no. 1, pp. 13957-13957.
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Yan, L, Keh, HT & Chen, J 2021, 'Assimilating and Differentiating: The Curvilinear Effect of Social Class on Green Consumption', Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 914-936.
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AbstractBuilding on optimal distinctiveness theory, this research examines the effects of social class on green consumption. Across six studies, we find a curvilinear effect of social class on green consumption, with the middle class having greater propensity for green consumption compared to the lower and upper classes. This effect can be explained by tension between need for assimilation (NFA) and need for differentiation (NFD) that varies among the three social classes in establishing their optimally distinctive identities. The lower class has a dominant NFA, the upper class has a dominant NFD, and the middle class has dual motivation for assimilation and differentiation. Concomitantly, green consumption has the dual function of assimilation and differentiation. The middle class perceives green consumption as simultaneously assimilating and differentiating, which satisfies their dual motivation and enhances their propensity for green consumption. By contrast, the lower class perceives the differentiation function of green consumption as contradicting their dominant NFA, and the upper class perceives the assimilation function as contradicting their dominant NFD, which lower both their propensities for green consumption. Furthermore, these effects are moderated by consumers’ power distance belief. These novel findings have significant theoretical and practical implications on building a more sustainable society.
Yan, L, Keh, HT & Wang, X 2021, 'Powering Sustainable Consumption: The Roles of Green Consumption Values and Power Distance Belief', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 169, no. 3, pp. 499-516.
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© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. As human consumption is one of the key contributors to environmental problems, it is increasingly urgent to promote sustainable consumption. Drawing on the agentic-communal model of power, this research explores how the psychological feeling of power influences consumers’ preference for green products. We show that low power increases consumers’ preference for green (vs. conventional) products compared to high power (Studies 1a and 1b). Importantly, we identify two factors moderating the main effect of power on green consumption. Specifically, we find that the effect of power on green consumption is more salient among those with high green consumption values (Study 2). In addition, the effects of power are dynamic as a function of power distance belief (PDB), such that low power (vs. high power) promotes green consumption in the low-PDB context while high power (vs. low power) promotes green consumption in the high-PDB context (Study 3). Taken together, these findings provide novel insights into understanding green consumption from the perspectives of social power, green values, and PDB. Besides contributing to the literature, the findings have significant implications for marketers and policy-makers in promoting green campaigns, bridging the attitude-behavior gap, and building a more sustainable society.
Yates, M, Perry, L, Onyx, J & Levett-Jones, T 2021, 'Exploring the ‘grey nomad’ travelling population of Australia and its health: an integrative literature review', Australian Journal of Primary Health, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 163-177.
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With increasing numbers of baby boomers retiring and taking to the road in rural and remote Australia, often for extended periods, this review aimed to identify the characteristics of these ‘grey nomads’ travelling across Australia, their experiences in relation to their health and social needs and their access to health care. To this end, an integrative literature review with narrative analysis was conducted. Studies of Australian grey nomad travellers published from 1999 to January 2020 were sourced from Ovid Emcare, Medline/PreMedline, Embase, PsychINFO, Academic Search Complete and Google Scholar. Fourteen records based on 11 studies described grey nomads as predominantly older heterosexual couples who defied the conventional view of aging by seeking adventure and new experiences. Many planned for their health needs while travelling, and their health was overwhelmingly reported to improve with the nomadic lifestyle. This review demonstrates the paucity of data about grey nomads. Information on travellers’ health care needs and service usage is a significant gap, undermining regional and rural service planning and the provision of healthcare services, and represents a considerable challenge for healthcare providers such as GPs, pharmacies and emergency departments.
Yu, A, Street, D, Viney, R, Goodall, S, Pearce, A, Haywood, P, Haas, M, Battaglini, E, Goldstein, D, Timmins, H & Park, SB 2021, 'Clinical assessment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: a discrete choice experiment of patient preferences', Supportive Care in Cancer, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 6379-6387.
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PURPOSE: Up to 40% of cancer patients treated with neurotoxic chemotherapies experience chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). Currently, there is no gold standard assessment tool for CIPN and there is little information in the literature on patient preferences for such assessments. This study aims to address this gap by identifying the features of a CIPN assessment tool that cancer patients value. METHODS: An online discrete choice experiment (DCE) survey of neurotoxic chemotherapy-treated patients was implemented. Respondents completed 8 choice questions each. In each choice question, they chose between two hypothetical CIPN assessment tools, each described by six attributes: impact on quality of life; level of nerve damage detected; questionnaire length; physical tests involved; impact on clinic time; impact on care. RESULTS: The survey was completed by 117 respondents who had a range of cancers of which breast cancer was the most common. Respondents favoured an assessment tool that includes a physical test and that asks about impact on quality of life. Respondents were strongly opposed to clinicians, alone, deciding how the results of a CIPN assessment might influence their care especially their chemotherapy treatment. They were concerned about small changes in their CIPN, independent of clinical relevance. Respondents were willing to add half an hour to the usual clinic time to accommodate the CIPN assessment. CONCLUSION: The findings of this DCE will assist clinicians in choosing an assessment tool for CIPN that is satisfactory to both clinician and patient.
Zhai, H, Lu, M, Shan, Y, Liu, Q & Zhao, Y 2021, 'Key audit matters and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China', International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 75, pp. 101747-101747.
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The recent requirement to disclose key audit matters (KAMs) in audit reports aims to improve audit quality and provide extra information to external users. Using a quasi-natural experiment in China and the difference-in-differences approach, we document causal evidence that KAM disclosures provide incremental firm-specific information and reduce stock price synchronicity. The effect of KAM disclosures is more pronounced in firms with controlling shareholders and fewer institutional shareholders. Overall, the findings suggest that KAM disclosures reduce information acquisition costs and facilitate firm-specific information impounded in price, especially when such information is less accessible to outside shareholders.
Zhang, Y, Pourroostaei Ardakani, S & Han, W 2021, 'Smart ledger: The blockchain‐based accounting information recording protocol', Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 147-157.
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AbstractBlockchain technology has the potential to reduce transaction errors and enhance the quality of reporting significantly. This article proposes a conceptual blockchain‐based protocol, labelled Smart Ledger, as a replacement for the traditional accounting information recording system. A smart ledger is a computerized algorithm that utilizes blockchain technology to perform accounting ledger functions. Its validity is based on two mechanisms within the blockchain architecture: Fractional Accounting Transactions (FAT) and Hierarchical Accounting Transaction Execution (HATE). As such, the smart ledger is a hybrid protocol that combines accounting information recording principles with the immutability of blockchain technology. If widely implemented, it could have a significant impact on accounting practices and the accounting profession.
Zorina, A, Bélanger, F, Kumar, N & Clegg, S 2021, 'Watchers, Watched, and Watching in the Digital Age: Reconceptualization of Information Technology Monitoring as Complex Action Nets', Organization Science, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1571-1596.
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Despite increasing studies of information technology (IT) monitoring, our understanding of how IT-mediates relations between the watcher and watched remains limited in two areas. First, either traditional actor-centric frameworks assuming predefined watcher-watched relationships (e.g., panopticon or synopticon) are adopted or monitoring actors are removed to focus on data flows (e.g., dataveillance, assemblages, panspectron). Second, IT monitoring research predominantly assumes IT artifacts to be stable, bounded, designed objects, with prescribed uses which provides an oversimplified view of actor relationships. To redress these limitations, a conceptual framework of veillance applicable to a variety of possible IT or non-IT-mediated relationships between watcher and watched is developed. Using the framework, we conduct a conceptual review of the literature, identifying IT-enabled monitoring and transformations of actors, goals, mechanisms and foci and develop an action net model of IT veillance where IT artifacts are theorized as equivocal, distributable and open for diverse use, open to edits and contributions by unbounded sets of heterogenous actors characterized by diverse goals and capabilities. The action net of IT veillance is defined as a flexible decentralized interconnected web shaped by multidirectional watcher-watched relationships, enabling multiple dynamic goals and foci. Cumulative contributions by heterogenous participants organize and manipulate the net, having an impact through influencing dispositions, visibilities and the inclusion/exclusion of self and others. The model makes three important theoretical contributions to our understanding of IT monitoring of watchers and watched and their relationships. We discuss implications and avenues for future studies on IT veillance.
