Publications

Awati, K & Scriven, A 2023, Data Science and Analytics Strategy An Emergent Design Approach, CRC Press.
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This book describes how to establish data science and analytics capabilities in organisations using Emergent Design, an evolutionary approach that increases the chances of successful outcomes while minimising upfront investment.

Bowdin, GAJ, McDonnell, I, Harris, R, O'Toole, W, Allen, J & Jago, L 2023, Events Management, Routledge.
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A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events. The book offers a systematic guide to organising successful events, examining areas such as event design, logistics, marketing, human resource management, financial planning, risk management, impacts, evaluation and reporting. The fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to include content covering technology, including virtual and hybrid events, concepts such as social capital, soft power and events, social inclusion, equality, accessibility and diversity, and the latest industry reports, research and legal frameworks. The book is logically structured and features new case studies, showing real-life applications and highlighting issues with planning events of all types and scales in a range of geographical locations. This book has been dubbed ‘the events management bible’ and fosters an interactive learning experience amongst scholars of events management, tourism and hospitality.

Clegg, S, Schweitzer, J, Pitelis, C & Whittle, A 2023, Strategy: Theory and Practice, 4th, Sage Publishing, London.
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Written by an expert team and praised for its refreshing approach, this essential text offers a critical, holistic understanding of strategy theory and practice. The fourth edition has been fully updated to include: • Coverage of contemporary issues including the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and digitalization, • Topical and engaging case studies such as Disney’s Strategy and Covid-19, Netflix Versus Amazon: Dynamic Capabilities for Global Success, and PS5, Xbox and BMW: Chips and Supply Chains; • A wealth of new examples of strategy in practice from world-renowned organisations such as Google, Uniqlo, Tesla, IKEA, and Airbnb. Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate study, Strategy: Theory and Practice encourages readers to engage critically with the internal and external factors that shape strategy in the real world.A selection of tried and tested online resources, including a teaching guide, PowerPoints, an online case study bank and test bank of questions have been developed to support lecturers using the book in their teaching.

KYUNGJA, BJD & Jung, K 2023, North Korea's Women-Led Grassroots Capitalism, Routledge, London.
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North Korea is in the throes of economic and social, if not political, transition. This book examines the complex relationship between gender roles and economic and social changes in North Korea.

Adair, D 2023, 'Sport Sanctions Against Invasive Russia' in The Geopolitical Economy of Sport, Routledge, pp. 20-28.
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Ahuja, S, Gavin, M, Grabowski, S, Hassanli, N, Hergesell, A, Jarvis, W, Jasovska, P, Kaya, E, Klettner, A, Liu, H, Small, J, Walker, CN & Weatherall, R 2023, 'Collectively creating conditions that nurture' in Robinson, S, Bristow, A & Ratle, O (eds), Doing Academic Careers Differently, Routledge, London, pp. 75-90.
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This chapter uses the metaphor of the Bushland and arts-based methods to unpack how diverse academics make sense of their individual identity and the conditions necessary for them to flourish. Like the Bushland, academia offers both possibility and beauty, as well as increasing threats from overuse and an unpredictable climate. Although these challenges and opportunities are universal, individual academics require unique conditions to thrive. This chapter explores how 13 Australian academics make sense of their individual identity and bring together soil, water, air, and light in their own way to support both self and the collective. Importantly, this chapter steps away from a focus on understanding academic identity and careers through the written word. By contrast, this chapter makes use of a mixture of drawing, poetry, creative writing, painting, photography, and reflective writing. The arts-based methods work in parallel with the metaphor of the Bushland to create intimate and insightful portraits of academic identity and career. Ultimately, the chapter poses questions for the reader to examine their own Bushland of academia and how they might nurture supportive conditions with others.

Aliyev, N & He, X-Z 2023, 'Toward a General Model of Financial Markets' in Understanding Complex Systems, Springer International Publishing, pp. 71-100.
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By, RT, Clegg, S & Burnes, B 2023, 'Taking the lead on leadership: reimagining the responsible business school of the future' in Practicing Responsibility in Business Schools, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 56-77.
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Clegg, S, Loosemore, M, Walker, D, van Marrewijk, A & Sankaran, S 2023, 'Construction Cultures: Sources, Signs, and Solutions of Toxicity', Wiley, pp. 3-16.
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Clegg, S, Simpson, AV, Cunha, MPE & Rego, A 2023, 'From ‘Leadership’ to ‘Leading': Power Relations, Polyarchy and Projects' in The SAGE Handbook of Leadership, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 395-405.
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Darcy, S, Small, J & Almond, B 2023, '5 Flying into Uncertainty: Part 1 – Flying with Mobility Disability' in The Passenger Experience of Air Travel, Multilingual Matters, pp. 118-138.
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Edwards, M, Benn, S & Dunphy, D 2023, 'Leadership for Sustainable Futures' in Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics, Routledge, pp. 215-232.
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This chapter explores the challenges that achieving corporate sustainability poses for the nature of organizational leadership and the selection and development of present and future leaders. We identify the following key challenges in moving to a sustainable society: The urgency and scale of the environmental crisis demands enacting leadership processes that serve widespread transformational change. The exponential growth in complexity of organizational purpose sets the ‘new wave’ leadership challenge to achieve the sometimes conflicting SDGs. Governmental requirements for sustainability and climate disclosure and other sustainability risks (laws, regulations, incentives, and penalties) vary widely across political units (nations, states, and municipalities). Some organizations may have reached different stages along the path to corporate sustainability in different divisions, departments, and units. Within one enterprise, employee awareness and knowledge of sustainability issues vary widely.

Joachim, G 2023, 'Design thinking - Human-centred design in sport for development' in Schulenkorf, N, Welty Peachey, J, Spaaij, R & Collison-Randall, H (eds), Handbook of Sport and International Development, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 386-396.
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With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, this comprehensive Handbook provides a contemporary, multi-disciplinary overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in this critical ...

Killen, C, Sankaran, S, Clegg, S & Smyth, H 2023, 'Aligning Construction Projects with Strategy' in Construction Project Organising, Wiley, pp. 119-134.
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Kim, T & Duhachek, A 2023, 'Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Psychology' in Rucker, D, Lamberton, C & Spiller, S (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 247-270.
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Documenting how technological change impacts consumer behavior has been an important area of researcher interest dating to the early days of consumer and marketing research. In fact, a 1942 Journal of Marketing article authored by market research industry pioneer Arthur C. Nielsen describes initial attempts to record consumer responses to radio advertising using a panel approach. The first mention of technological innovation and consumer behavior in the Journal of Consumer Research dates to its second issue (Ostlund, 1974). So, whereas each generation of consumer researchers has grappled with how new technologies implicate contemporary practice and theory, it is becoming increasingly clear that the task for the next generation of scholars will be to better understand how humans interact with increasingly autonomous artificial agents that demonstrate high levels of market intelligence. The emergence of AI technology over the past several years has impacted consumers in nearly every industry. This chapter provides a brief historical overview of AI, describes the current state of the art in consumer research in AI and concludes with forecasts of key issues of research importance in the years to come.

Nikolova, N, Schweitzer, J & Gilroy, C 2023, 'The making of a design-led innovation strategy-How Mirvac launched the hatch program' in Schweitzer, J, BenMahmoud-Jouini, S & Fixson, S (eds), Transform with Design: Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking, Rotman-UTP Publishing, Toronto, Canada, pp. 147-172.
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Mirvac is an example of how a company, which was lacking a formal structure and process for innovation, successfully built its internal innovation capability, within a short period of four years. The journey started with a change in the top leadership of the firm. A new CEO set the innovation agenda, brought along the top leadership team, and resourced an initiative, initially supported by external consultants. To achieve both incremental innovation and disruptive innovation outcomes, the small corporate innovation team started to engage with key business units and central departments. However, balancing the need for tangible outcomes and successes that would satisfy the business unit managers and secure further buy-in with achieving long-term strategic and possibly disruptive innovation outcomes proved difficult - if not impossible. The team leveraged design thinking, tried out different and clever ways of engaging with various stakeholder groups, introduced new methods including openinnovation, agile management, and design sprints, to ultimately succeed. Overall, a design-driven approach to innovation played a key role in making innovation a priority. Whether Mirvac will succeed in managing the tension between incremental and radical innovations in the long term remains to be seen. However, the implementation of Design Thinking in many aspects of what Mirvac does already represents a significant shift in the culture of the company. Further, design thinking has had positive effects on various aspects of the company’s life.

Paul, SK, Karuppiah, K, Sankaranarayanan, B & Ali, SM 2023, 'Barriers for Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Their Overcoming Strategies in Context of the Indian Automobile Industry' in Greening of Industry Networks Studies, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 129-165.
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Sustaining in the present competitive business arena remains a challenge for global companies. The success of an organization and the final price of a product largely depend on the supply chain activities. Eliminating unproductive activities in SCM may bring down the product cost and improve efficiency. Recently, the integration of sustainability principles with SCM has gained significance and proven to be effective. However, several barriers remain as challenges in the integration. This study aims to collect and evaluate the barriers and strategies that will assist in integrating sustainability principles with SCM. For this, the study identified 15 barriers and 10 strategies related to sustainable SCM (SSCM) through literature review and experts’ interview. Then, the fuzzy TOPSIS technique analyzes the strategies. The barriers and strategies considered in this study are evaluated using the inputs from the experts who are associated with the Indian automobile industry. Findings revealed robust supplier relationships, enhanced social fairness, ensuring economic opportunities, enhanced quality, and customer participation as the top five strategies that could assist in adopting SSCM practices. It is anticipated that the study’s findings will equip the industries in SSCM adoption.

Rahman, T, Paul, SK, Agarwal, R & Sarker, R 2023, 'Overview of Supply Chain Risk and Disruption Management Tools, Techniques, and Approaches' in Flexible Systems Management, Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1-22.
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Rhodes, C 2023, 'Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethical Quality of Leadership' in Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics, Routledge, pp. 67-82.
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The chapter begins with a review and critique of existing approaches to how the relationship between leadership and justice is theorized. Two main points of contention are raised. First, that research into justice and leadership tends to assume that justice involves leaders treating others fairly, but that those others are solely motivated by self-interest. Second, that while just leaders are proposed as being focussed on the interests of others (i.e. other employees), those interests are ultimately assumed to align with corporate or organizational interests. These two issues, it is argued, reflects an unquestioned managerialism that while speaking the language of ethics and justice, considers justice largely from an instrumental perspective. Justice, by this account, is good, because it is good for business and as a result remains self- rather than other-centered. The second part of the chapter responds to these critiques by outlining the possibilities of an other-centered justice for leadership, taking inspiration from the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (1969, 1985, 1998, 2006). It is argued that the multiple ethical demands faced by organizations put leaders in a position where ethical attention to those they lead is always divided, and hence compromised. Justice is here not so much a matter of ‘effectiveness’ but instead a persistent demand that is endemic to the very nature of leadership. As a result, the challenge for leadership is not to assert the value of its own just-ness, but to grapple with the aporia between the ethical necessity for justice and its own inevitable participation in injustice to others. Justice is not here regarded as a ‘goal’ that can be achieved through particular leadership or change management practices, but is an ongoing condition, the response to which defines the ethical quality of leadership.

Sarina, T 2023, 'Australia: Reimagining the Regulation of Work' in The Cambridge Handbook of Technological Disruption in Labour and Employment Law, Cambridge University Press, UK.
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This book is the first comprehensive international overview of how international institutions, countries, and legal systems, are responding to the technological disruption of the world of work"--

Schulenkorf, N, Welty Peachey, J, Spaaij, R & Collison-Randall, H 2023, 'Introduction to Handbook of Sport and International Development' in Handbook of Sport and International Development, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 1-9.
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Schweitzer, J, Benmahmoud-Jouini, S & Fixson, S 2023, 'Transform with design in seven lessons' in Schweitzer, J, BenMahmoud-Jouini, S & Fixson, S (eds), Transform with Design: Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking, University Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 257-269.

Schweitzer, J, Benmahmoud-Jouini, S & Fixson, S 2023, 'Why implementing design thinking remains a challenge' in Schweitzer, J, BenMahmoud-Jouini, S & Fixson, S (eds), Transform with Design: Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking, University Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 1-28.

Small, J, McIntosh, A, Almond, B & Darcy, S 2023, '6 Flying into Uncertainty: Part 2 – Flying with Non-Mobility Disabilities' in The Passenger Experience of Air Travel, Multilingual Matters, UK, pp. 139-161.
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Stacey, M, Fitzgerald, S, Wilson, R, McGrath-Champ, S & Gavin, M 2023, 'Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops' in Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity, Routledge, pp. 54-68.
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White, A 2023, 'Walking the Talk: Modelling Integrity as University Professionals as Part of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Activities' in Eaton, SE (ed), Handbook of Academic Integrity, Springer International Publishing, pp. 325-340.
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Academic integrity is a fundamental building block of scholarship and universities as institutions. However, little attention has been paid to how university teachers can model integrity as part of teaching, learning, and assessment activities. There is the assumption that university teachers will properly attribute the work of others and acknowledge the contributions of colleagues and peers; however, there are multiple factors that may inhibit this process – including the overwork of university teachers, a lack of training in teaching and learning, and an increase in the casualization of the academic workforce. This chapter provides a structured review of how university teachers can embed and model integrity to encourage our students to study and act with integrity.

Wright, CF, Yu, K-H & Clibborn, S 2023, 'Collaborative Institutional Experimentation to Address the Exploitation and Marginalisation of Migrant Workers' in Protecting the Future of Work: New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 111-126.
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Adams, R & Xu, J 2023, 'The Inequality of Finance', Review of Corporate Finance, vol. 3, no. 1–2, pp. 35-68.
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Adler, PS, Adly, A, Armanios, DE, Battilana, J, Bodrožić, Z, Clegg, S, Davis, GF, Gartenberg, C, Glynn, MA, Aslan Gümüsay, A, Haveman, HA, Leonardi, P, Lounsbury, M, McGahan, AM, Meyer, R, Phillips, N & Sheppard-Jones, K 2023, 'Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 3-20.
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To the surprise of many in the West, the fall of the USSR in 1991 did not lead to the adoption of liberal democratic government around the world and the much anticipated “end of history.” In fact, authoritarianism has made a comeback, and liberal democracy has been on the retreat for at least the last 15 years culminating in the unthinkable: the invasion of a democratic European country by an authoritarian regime. But why does authoritarianism continue to spread, not only as an alternative to liberal democracy, but also within many liberal democracies where authoritarian leaders continue to gain strength and popularity? In this curated piece, contributors discuss some of the potential contributions of management scholarship to understanding authoritarianism, as well as highlight a number of directions for management research in this area.

Agrawal, D, Dwivedi, A, Patil, A & Paul, SK 2023, 'Impediments of product recovery in circular supply chains: Implications for sustainable development', Sustainable Development, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 1618-1637.
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AbstractProduct recovery has fascinated the concentration of organizations and is prominent among industry practitioners and researchers due to improved environmental concerns, social awareness, and economic benefits. Circular supply chain (CSC) compounds the concept of product recovery in global supply chain management to present a sustainable perspective. Therefore, this study aims to determine impediments of product recovery and CSC toward sustainable production and consumption in the background of manufacturing organizations. This study determines potential impediments from literature and in consultation with experts. Further, a fuzzy VIKOR approach is practiced to prioritize the impediments of product recovery and CSC. Then, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to verify the robustness of the framework attained. The results from the study reflect that “lack of collaboration from supply chain performers”, “lack of tax policies for facilitating CSC models” and “limited expertise, technology, information on CSC practices” are the critical impediments to product recovery in CSCs. The findings of the study could assist industry managers and practitioners in developing procedures and strategies to attain sustainable development.

Ahmed, T, Karmaker, CL, Nasir, SB, Moktadir, MA & Paul, SK 2023, 'Modeling the artificial intelligence-based imperatives of industry 5.0 towards resilient supply chains: A post-COVID-19 pandemic perspective', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 177, pp. 109055-109055.
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Ahuja, S 2023, 'Professional Identity Threats in Interprofessional Collaborations: A Case of Architects in Professional Service Firms', Journal of Management Studies, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 428-453.
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AbstractIncreased use of multidisciplinary teams to carry out tasks that were previously seen as the domain of one profession has brought the manner in which professions collaborate to the fore of management interests. Drawing on 49 in‐depth interviews with senior architects in four multidisciplinary professional service firms (PSFs), this article contributes to better understandings of identity threats in interprofessional collaborations. My findings bring to the fore two threats to architects' identity relating to fragmentation of work and competing professional values. I show how architects manage these threats through the simultaneous use of two responses: highlighting identity distinctions and modifying identity and practices. However, despite these strategies to defend against identity threats, respondents presented themselves as under‐recognized and often under‐compensated. These findings suggest that the strength of professional identity may not merely mediate threats to professionals' identity but also be constraining by locking professionals in a kind of futile resistance and disrupting identity transformation. Further, responses to professional identity threats may result in a persistent identity struggle that renders professionals vulnerable to deep insecurities regarding their worth in interprofessional collaborations. The article contributes to recent debates on the unintended consequences of interprofessional collaborations thus highlighting the challenges of finding better ways to work together.

Ahuja, S & Weatherall, R 2023, '“This boys club world is finally getting to me”: Developing our glass consciousness to understand women's experiences in elite architecture firms', Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 826-841.
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AbstractIn this article, we take inspiration from the evolution of the material use of glass to explore how the metaphorical use of glass could be developed to understand the emerging struggles of women in architecture. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews of architects employed in professional service firms, we suggest that the multi‐faceted nature of glass helped us to identify and understand the complex experiences of inequality for women in architecture. In so doing, we make three contributions to scholarship on gender, work, and organizations. First, we demonstrate how glass barriers were truly material in their consequences for senior women, as they prevented their rise or initiated their decline. A focus on glass barriers, however, did not fully account for the experiences of younger women in these firms. Surprisingly, and in stark contrast to the “boys club world” that left many senior women in architecture with a fractured sense of self as they struggled to construct self‐affirming identities as both women and architects, we found that the exclusive use of new technologies enabled younger women architects to melt some aspects of the traditional identity and turn them into new forms. Our conceptualization of “technologies of glass” draws attention to the social, cultural, and technological resources that younger women deploy to construct a strong professional identity in the changing world of architecture. We argue that glass can be understood not just as a constraint but as a multifaceted material with limitless possibilities for design. Thus, by highlighting the material‐symbolic entanglements of the use of glass, we strengthen and refresh the metaphor of glass, to better understand the fluidity of contemporary challenges facing professional women at work.

Alexeev, V, Chen, J & Ignatieva, K 2023, 'Integrated variance of irregularly spaced high-frequency data: A state space approach based on pre-averaging', Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 733-763.
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Abstract We propose a new state space model to estimate the Integrated Variance (IV) in the presence of microstructure noise. Applying the pre-averaging sampling scheme to the irregularly spaced high-frequency data, we derive equidistant efficient price approximations to calculate the noise-contaminated realised variance (NCRV), which is used as an IV estimator. The theoretical properties of the new volatility estimator are illustrated and compared with those of the realised volatility. We highlight the robustness of the new estimator to market microstructure noise (MMN). The pre-averaging sampling effectively eliminates the influence of the MMN component on the NCRV series. The empirical illustration features the EUR/USD exchange rate and provides evidence of a superior performance in volatility forecasting at very high sampling frequencies.

Alfeus, M, Nikitopoulos, CS & Overbeck, L 2023, 'Implied roughness in the term structure of oil market volatility', Quantitative Finance, pp. 1-17.
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Ali Abadi, H, Coetzer, A, Roxas, HB & Pishdar, M 2023, 'Informal learning and career identity formation: the mediating role of work engagement', Personnel Review, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 363-381.
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PurposeThe aim of the study is to extend prior research on career identity formation by investigating whether individuals' participation in informal workplace learning activities positively relates to career identity. The study also examines whether work engagement significantly mediates the participation in informal learning and career identity relationship.Design/methodology/approachUsing data from a survey of 313 individuals in Iran, the study developed and tested measurement and structural models and employed partial least squares structural equation modelling to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe findings suggest that work engagement substantially mediates the positive relationship between participation in informal learning and career identity. Furthermore, the learning potential of the workplace and the propensities of individuals to actively approach situations that provide them with opportunities to learn and seek feedback on their performance have positive although varying relations with levels of participation in informal learning.Practical implicationsHuman resource management and career management specialists must be cognisant of the central role that employee participation in informal learning plays in strengthening their work engagement and career identity. Learning and development specialists should seek to create conditions in the work environment that are favourable to informal learning and work engagement.Originality/valueAlthough the role of formal development programmes in ca...

Ali, SM, Ashraf, MA, Taqi, HMM, Ahmed, S, Rob, SMA, Kabir, G & Paul, SK 2023, 'Drivers for Internet of Things (IoT) adoption in supply chains: Implications for sustainability in the post-pandemic era', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 183, pp. 109515-109515.
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Ali, SM, Jabbour, CJC, Paul, SK & Munim, ZH 2023, 'Guest editorial: Post-COVID-19 sustainable supply chain management in emerging markets', International Journal of Emerging Markets, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1285-1288.
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Almaskati, N, Bird, R, Yeung, D & Lu, Y 2023, 'Corporate governance, market conditions and investors’ reaction to information signals', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 38-66.
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We examine and compare the extent to which the reaction of investors to earnings announcements is influenced by a firm’s governance profile and prevailing market conditions. We find that firms with better governance characteristics experience a larger initial reaction to both good and bad earnings announcements regardless of the prevailing sentiment and uncertainty conditions. However, the influence of governance is constrained to the announcement period. We demonstrate that changes in market uncertainty and/or investor sentiment are related to the post-earnings announcement drift. We also find that a major channel through which greater corporate governance influences the market response to unexpected earnings news is by lowering information uncertainty and so providing greater clarity of the implication of the news for firm value. Finally, we establish that two types of uncertainties (market and information) have very different influence on investor’s response to information signals. JEL Classification: D81, G10, G14, G30, G32

Alsoibi, I, Agarwal, R, Bharathy, G, Samarawickrama, M, Unhelkar, B & Prasad, M 2023, 'A Systematic Review and Taxonomy of Data Analytics in Non-profit Organizations', Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS), vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 33-68.
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Nonprofit organisations (NPOs) use data analytics and corresponding visualisations to discover and interpretpatterns of donations and donor behaviours, predict future funds, and analyse time series to undertake decisionsand resolve issues. Further detailed understanding of these activities in the context of NPOs is required forefficient and effective utilisation of data analytics. This article reports a systematic review of available literatureon data analytics applications in NPOs to answer three research questions: (1) What are the proposed approachesand frameworks for adopting and applying data analytics in NPOs? (2) What aspects of data analytics are usedfor NPO activities and missions? (3) What challenges and barriers face NPOs regarding the adoption and applicationof data analytics for their missions? We answered the three research questions by collecting and examiningdata and using it to develop a new taxonomy. The results show the utilisation of data analytics applicationsby NPOs has not been examined in depth, indicating the need for further research. This study contributesto the literature by providing insights on the existing use of data analytics applications in various domains,and their benefits and drawbacks for NPOs. This study also presents future research directions.

Alsolbi, I, Agarwal, R, Bharathy, G, Samarawickrama, M, Unhelkar, B & Prasad, M 2023, 'A Systematic Review and Taxonomy of Data Analytics in Nonprofit Organisations', Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 39-68.
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Alsolbi, I, Shavaki, FH, Agarwal, R, Bharathy, GK, Prakash, S & Prasad, M 2023, 'Big data optimisation and management in supply chain management: a systematic literature review', Artificial Intelligence Review, vol. 56, no. S1, pp. 253-284.
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AbstractThe increasing interest from technology enthusiasts and organisational practitioners in big data applications in the supply chain has encouraged us to review recent research development. This paper proposes a systematic literature review to explore the available peer-reviewed literature on how big data is widely optimised and managed within the supply chain management context. Although big data applications in supply chain management appear to be often studied and reported in the literature, different angles of big data optimisation and management technologies in the supply chain are not clearly identified. This paper adopts the explanatory literature review involving bibliometric analysis as the primary research method to answer two research questions, namely: (1) How to optimise big data in supply chain management? and (2) What tools are most used to manage big data in supply chain management? A total of thirty-seven related papers are reviewed to answer the two research questions using the content analysis method. The paper also reveals some research gaps that lead to prospective future research directions.

An, J, Briley, D, Danziger, S & Levi, S 2023, 'The Impact of Social Investing on Charitable Donations', Management Science, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 1264-1274.
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We examine the impact of social investing on charitable donations using a unique data set consisting of investment behaviors and donation transactions for more than 10,000 customers of an investment app platform. We find that investors switching to a recently introduced social fund reduced their donations, mainly in charities supporting causes similar to those of the social fund. However, 79% of the investors that switched to the social fund did not donate before switching, so the social fund attracted more people to fund social causes. Still, because of the substitution effect, we estimate social funds have a positive effect on society only if their annual contributions to social causes are greater than 3.2% of the balance invested. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, finance. Funding: This work was supported by the Henry Crown Institute of Business Research and the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Supplemental Material: Data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4339 .

Anufriev, M, Borissov, K & Pakhnin, M 2023, 'Dissonance minimization and conversation in social networks', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 215, pp. 167-191.
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Bachmann, RL & Spiropoulos, H 2023, 'CSR Restatements: Mischief or Mistake?', Journal of Management Accounting Research, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 21-50.
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ABSTRACT Using a sample of Australian Securities Exchange Ltd. (ASX) 500 firms over the 2004–2020 period, we find that contracting on corporate social responsibility (CSR) increases the likelihood of CSR restatements and that these restatements are biased toward showing improvements in CSR performance for the current period. This is especially the case when firms contract on social CSR performance measures. We also find that CEOs’ short-term incentive compensation is significantly greater when restatements result in improved comparative performance, but only for firms that contract on CSR. Overall, our results suggest that contracting on CSR is another explanation for the increasing prevalence of CSR restatements and that standard setters should address metrics and measures when formulating policies with respect to CSR reporting. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: M12; M14; M52.

Bachmann, RL, Bedford, A, Ghannam, S & Yang, JS 2023, 'A shock to CEOs' external environment: terrorist attacks and CEO pay', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 77, pp. 101935-101935.
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Baddeley, M 2023, 'Capital investment, business behaviour, and the macroeconomy', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 35-50.
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AbstractGC Harcourt made many fundamental and essential contributions to the development of capital investment theory – most famously via his development of the Cambridge Capital Controversies, exposing conceptual and analytical flaws and contradictions in neoclassical approaches to defining and measuring capital. Relatedly, Harcourt also made essential contributions to our understanding of how accounting rules, used by real-world businesses to guide their investment decision-making, create anomalies and deficiencies in the accumulation of capital at a microeconomic level – with significant, deleterious consequences for the accumulation of capital at a macroeconomic level. In developing Harcourt’s contributions, this paper links Harcourt’s early insights about accounting rules with subsequent developments in behavioural economic models of business decision-making, thus aligning Harcourt’s contributions with insights from behavioural models of investment decision-making. These insights are then combined in showing how the misapplication of investment appraisal criteria at a microeconomic level contributes to under-investment and investment volatility in the macroeconomy, with negative implications for output, employment, labour productivity, wages and cyclical volatility.

Baker, M & Clegg, S 2023, 'Policies and practices of gender-based equality and diversity in Australian project-based organizations', Project Leadership and Society, vol. 4, pp. 100087-100087.
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Balzer, B & Schneider, J 2023, 'Mechanism design with informational punishment', Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 140, pp. 197-209.
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Bardon, T, Josserand, E, Sferrazzo, R & Clegg, S 2023, 'Tensions between (Post)Bureaucratic and Neo‐normative Demands: Investigating Employees’ Subjective Positions at EurAirport', British Journal of Management, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 57-71.
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AbstractThe introduction of a neo‐normative discourse in a (post)bureaucratic organization can result in tensions between the neo‐normative injunction to be authentic and exhortations to fit with the ideal (post)bureaucratic organizational subject. Focusing on how shopfloor workers subjectively experience the tensions between neo‐normative and (post)bureaucratic demands, this empirical investigation yielded three major contributions. First, it pinpointed and addressed significant gaps in existing studies of normative and neo‐normative discourse. Second, the study better distinguished normative and neo‐normative control on the basis of two tensions: (1) authenticity versus conformity; and (2) conflation versus differentiation between life and work. Third, the study identified four distinct subject positions that demonstrated how organizational participants creatively appropriate and strive to resolve these two tensions in a work setting that mixes normative and neo‐normative control.

Barlatier, P, Josserand, E, Hohberger, J & Mention, A 2023, 'Configurations of social media‐enabled strategies for open innovation, firm performance, and their barriers to adoption', Journal of Product Innovation Management, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 30-57.
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AbstractThe use of social media offers tremendous innovation potential. Yet, while current research emphasizes success stories, little is known about how firms can leverage the full potential of their social media use for open innovation. In this paper, the authors address this gap by conducting a configurational analysis to develop an integrative taxonomy of social media‐enabled strategies for open innovation. This analysis stems from the integration of internal and external variables such as social media communication activities, organizational innovation seekers, potential innovation providers, the stages of the open innovation process, and their relationship with different performance outcomes and barriers to social media adoption for open innovation. Through an empirical study of 337 firms based in eight countries, four clusters have been identified that are characterized as distinct strategies: “marketing semi‐open innovators,” “cross‐department semi‐open innovators,” “cross‐department full process semi‐open innovators” and “broad adopters open innovators.” The findings reveal the trade‐offs associated with different strategies for implementing social media for open innovation and provide insights of the use of these strategies. By doing so, they suggest a more nuanced approach that contrasts with the traditionally positive (or even rosy) depiction of the effects of social media on open innovation. Accordingly, managers are encouraged to contemplate their organizational competencies, capabilities, and their strategic intent when drafting social media strategies for open innovation. Selective approaches, along with greater adoption leading to greater benefits, are shown to be more rewarding than a middle way that spreads things too thin. Avenues for further research include qualitative explorations of the trajectories unfolding through implementing social media strategies for innovation activities and the use of obj...

Bedford, A, Bugeja, M, Czernkowski, R & Bond, D 2023, 'Is the effect of shared auditors driven by shared audit partners? The case of M&As', The British Accounting Review, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 101100-101100.
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Bedford, A, Ghannam, S, Grosse, M & Ma, N 2023, 'CEO Power and the Strategic Selection of Accounting Financial Experts to the Audit Committee'.

Benn, S, Angus-Leppan, T, Edwards, M, Brown, P & White, S 2023, 'Changing Directions in Business Education', pp. 87-102.
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Bhattacharyya, A, Rahman, ML & Wright, S 2023, 'Improving small and medium‐size enterprise performance: Does working capital management enhance the effectiveness of financial inclusion?', Accounting & Finance, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 3943-3969.
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AbstractGrowth of the small and medium‐size enterprise (SME) sector is traditionally an important driver of overall economic growth, particularly in emerging economies. SME growth is enhanced by access to finance (financial inclusion). In this study, we show that efficient working capital management has a positive influence on performance that is independent of the effect of financial inclusion. Our results remain robust to alternative measurements and estimations, and may be useful to national policy‐makers in developing strategies for SMEs' greater access to finance and introducing ways of improving financial management education and training for SME managers.

Bignoux, S, Gray, D & Booth, AT 2023, 'Developing an alternative approach to the measurement of B2B relationship health', Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 2066-2092.
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PurposePsychotherapy is often used to treat dysfunctional inter-personal relationships, but it is rarely used to treat dysfunctional B2B relationships. Yet many of the variables found in inter-personal relationships are also found in B2B relationships and both types of relationships have similar fail rates. The authors take a multi-disciplinary approach by adapting an instrument from marriage therapy into a new measure called the Business Relationship Health Index (BRHI). In the process we re-evaluate the drivers of B2B relationships.Design/methodology/approachThe authors apply the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF) psychiatric system to B2B relationships. The GARF instrument incorporates three components: interaction/problem solving, organization/structure and emotional climate. Using US panel data of 500 B2B relationships based in the USA, the authors use partial least squares analysis and develop a structural equation model to test the validity and reliability of the BRHI with some well-known relationship measures including, satisfaction, trust, commitment and performance.FindingsThe findings support a strong link between the BRHI (emotion, interaction and organization) and relationship performance. The proposed measure shows a strong link between BRHI and relationship performance (R2 = 0.54).Originality/valueThe GARF instrument has never been applied to a B2B context. BRHI is a holistic instrument used for assessing the specific relational characteristics of B2B relationships. The BRHI can benefit relationship stakeholder...

Boersma, M 2023, 'Teaching business and human rights Teaching business and human rights , edited by Anthony Ewing, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2023, 498 pp., AUD268.45(hardback), AUD82.36(paperback), AUD34.36(eBook), ISBN 978 1 80220 112 3', Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 433-435.
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Boersma, M & Bedford, DS 2023, 'The role of market devices in addressing labour exploitation: An analysis of the Australian cleaning industry', The British Accounting Review, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 101129-101129.
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Brown, DA, Ma, N, Yang, JS, Sutton, N, McAllister, G, Parker, D, Rawlings-Way, O & Lewis, RL 2023, 'The impact of business model workforce configurations on value creation and value appropriation in the Australian aged care sector', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 495-523.
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This article examines the influence of business model workforce configurations on value creation and capture in a skills-based service setting, extending previous research on business model performance. We investigate workforce configurations (higher versus lower stability and skills) and value creation and appropriation in aged care organisations. More skilled and stable workforces are associated with greater value creation but not appropriation, while less skilled and less stable workforces are associated with lower value creation and higher appropriation. This informs a substantive challenge in delivering value creation while ensuring financially viable business models in a sector with significant consequences for quality failure. JEL Classification: J24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity; L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior; M12 - Personnel Management; I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets

Buckner, D, Dowd, K & Hulley, H 2023, 'A market consistent approach to the valuation of no-negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages', Journal of Demographic Economics, vol. 89, no. 3, pp. 349-372.
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AbstractThis paper provides a new market consistent approach to the valuation of no negative equity guarantees and equity release mortgages. The paper provides a new approach to the estimation of volatility inputs. The proposed approach to volatility produces a volatility term structure that is dependent on the age and gender of the borrower. Illustrative valuations are provided based on the Black ’76 put pricing formula and mortality projections based on the M5 Cairns–Blake–Dowd mortality model. Results show interesting ramifications for industry practice and prudential regulation.

Bugeja, M, da Silva Rosa, R, Shan, Y, Walter, T & Yermack, D 2023, 'Lower Defeat Thresholds for Minority Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Australian “Two-Strikes” Rule', The Accounting Review, vol. 98, no. 7, pp. 61-96.
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ABSTRACT This study assesses the impact of minority shareholder empowerment via lower defeat thresholds in “say-on-pay” votes on CEO compensation and career prospects for directors. We exploit the adoption of the Australian “two-strikes” rule as a quasi-exogenous shock, which empowers shareholders to vote on board dismissal if a firm’s remuneration report receives 25 percent or more dissent votes for two consecutive years. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we find that firms respond to a “strike” by curbing excessive CEO pay. Under the two-strikes regime, independent directors are held more accountable for poor oversight and experience significant reputational penalties in terms of turnover and the loss of outside directorships subsequent to receiving a strike. The results are mainly driven by firms receiving a nonmajority strike, indicating that the effectiveness of the two-strikes regime stems largely from the lower defeat threshold. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: G34.

Buhalis, D, Leung, XY, Fan, D, Darcy, S, Chen, G, Xu, F, Wei-Han Tan, G, Nunkoo, R & Farmaki, A 2023, 'Editorial: Tourism 2030 and the contribution to the sustainable development goals: the tourism review viewpoint', Tourism Review, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 293-313.
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Burke, PF, Rose, J, Fifer, S, Masters, D, Kuegler, S & Cabrera, A 2023, 'A New Subjective Well-Being Index Using Anchored Best-Worst Scaling'.

Burke, PF, Schuck, S & Kearney, M 2023, 'Teachers’ Experiences of Emergency Remote Schooling During the Pandemic: Drivers for Student and Teacher Wellbeing', Australian Journal of Education, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 124-142.
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This article discusses findings from a recent survey ( n = 297) of teachers’ views of both their own and their students’ experiences during the 2021 enforced emergency remote schooling period occurring in New South Wales Australia, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The quantitative analysis reported here explores teachers’ views regarding teaching and learning during this challenging period. It identifies three latent constructs, learning, assessment, and interaction, and then uses structural equation modelling to identify the perceived impact of these constructs on student and teacher wellbeing. The remote schooling period had a significant negative impact for teachers and their students across a range of elements of teaching and learning, as well as wellbeing. Student learning experiences and their peer interactions were found to be strong predictors of students’ wellbeing outcomes. Assessment design and teachers’ feedback to students were significant in predicting levels of teacher wellbeing. Future research directions are also provided.

Camilleri, AR 2023, 'An investigation of big life decisions', Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 18.
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Abstract What are life’s biggest decisions? In Study 1, I devised a taxonomy comprising 9 decision categories, 58 decision types, and 10 core elements of big decisions. In Study 2, I revealed people’s perceptions of and expectations for the average person’s big life decisions. In the flagship Study 3, 658 participants described their 10 biggest past and future decisions and rated each decision on a variety of decision elements. This research reveals the characteristics of a big life decision, which are the most common, most important, and most positively evaluated big life decisions, when such decisions happen, and which factors predict ‘good’ decisions. This research contributes to knowledge that could help people improve their lives through better decision-making and living with fewer regrets.

Camilleri, AR, Dankova, K, Ortiz, JM & Neelim, A 2023, 'Increasing worker motivation using a reward scheme with probabilistic elements', Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 177, pp. 104256-104256.
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Cao, Y, Hu, Y, Liu, Q, Lu, M & Shan, Y 2023, 'Job creation or disruption? Unraveling the effects of smart city construction on corporate employment in China', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 195, pp. 122783-122783.
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Carnemolla, P, Darcy, S, Almond, B, Madon, F & Relf, M 2023, 'New UTS research “lifts the lid” on how wheelchair users access public bathrooms', Access Insight - The Magazine for the Association of Consultants in Access Australia, vol. 2023/2024, no. Summer, pp. 8-13.
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Public bathrooms are important places. The provision of accessible public bathrooms helps to ensure health, wellbeing and equitable access to our cities, public spaces, and communities. However, the real risk of falling off the toilet pan while reaching for toilet paper and avoiding public bathrooms altogether are two preliminary findings from a new research project “An Inclusive and Embodied Approach to Accessible Bathroom Design for Powered and Manual Wheelchair Users” by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Disability Research Network and industry collaborators Farah Madon & Mark Relf in partnership with Spinal Cord Injury Australia and Physical Disability Council NSW.The new project explores how accessible bathrooms are used by wheelchair users (both manual and power chair). It also looks at the effects of the Australian Design for Access and Mobility design code (AS1428:1) on public bathroom design. The design code takes a prescriptive approach to public bathroom design while making many assumptions about how wheelchair users access the toilets including how they use, approach and transfer onto the toilet pan. Most often, wheelchair users are considered as a single homogenous user group.

Cerdan Chiscano, M & Darcy, S 2023, 'Making cultural and tourist attractions accessible and inclusive for people with disability through value co-creation amidst COVID-19: a critical discourse analysis', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 856-870.
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Chan, K, Khamis, S, Taylor, M & Waller, D 2023, 'Indigenous Research Methods to Build an Uncontested Space for Marketing Insight', International Journal of Market Research, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 796-811.
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Many countries have ethnically diverse populations and marketing practitioners need to consider these diversities when undertaking research, particularly when exploring sensitive topics. In Australia, Indigenous Australians make up 3.3% of the population and are a commonly researched audience to gauge attitudes and ensure cultural offense does not occur due to unintended consequences of marketing activity. However, obtaining information from such a vulnerable group using quantitively based surveys is often inappropriate or insensitive. This paper introduces to Euro-western market researchers the concepts of flipping and yarning as a market research approach that has been used by Indigenous Australians for thousands of years. This circular market research approach demonstrates that ensuring a cultural understanding of the community can provide a foundation for a research approach that is ‘considered’ and respectful. It is hoped that this type of methodology can be used with other vulnerable communities as well as other diverse groups.

Chapman, KM, Richardson, FJ, Forster, CY, Middleton, EJT, White, TE, Burke, PF & Latty, T 2023, 'Artificial flowers as a tool for investigating multimodal flower choice in wild insects', Ecology and Evolution, vol. 13, no. 11, p. e10687.
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AbstractFlowers come in a variety of colours, shapes, sizes and odours. Flowers also differ in the quality and quantity of nutritional reward they provide to entice potential pollinators to visit. Given this diversity, generalist flower‐visiting insects face the considerable challenge of deciding which flowers to feed on and which to ignore. Working with real flowers poses logistical challenges due to correlations between flower traits, maintenance costs and uncontrolled variables. Here, we overcome this challenge by designing multimodal artificial flowers that varied in visual, olfactory and reward attributes. We used artificial flowers to investigate the impact of seven floral attributes (three visual cues, two olfactory cues and two rewarding attributes) on flower visitation and species richness. We investigated how flower attributes influenced two phases of the decision‐making process: the decision to land on a flower, and the decision to feed on a flower. Artificial flowers attracted 890 individual insects representing 15 morphospecies spanning seven arthropod orders. Honeybees were the most common visitors accounting for 46% of visitors. Higher visitation rates were driven by the presence of nectar, the presence of linalool, flower shape and flower colour and was negatively impacted by the presence of citral. Species richness was driven by the presence of nectar, the presence of linalool and flower colour. For hymenopterans, the probability of landing on the artificial flowers was influenced by the presence of nectar or pollen, shape and the presence of citral and/or linalool. The probability of feeding increased when flowers contained nectar. For dipterans, the probability of landing on artificial flowers increased when the flower was yellow and contained linalool. The probability of feeding increased when flowers contained pollen, nectar and linalool. Our results demonstrate the multi‐attribute nature of flower p...

Chen, S & Wang, J-X 2023, 'A New Channel for Global Volatility Propagation'.

Chen, X, Lu, M, Shan, Y & Zhang, Y 2023, 'Securities class actions and conditional conservatism: Evidence from two legal events', Accounting & Finance, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 2441-2471.
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AbstractWe use two US court rulings as exogenous shocks to firms' litigation environment and examine the changes in conservative financial reporting following these court decisions. The Silicon Graphics ruling in 1999 imposed a heightened pleading standard and discouraged the filing of shareholder lawsuits against firms with headquarters in the Ninth Circuit. The Tellabs ruling in 2007, however, effectively reversed the Silicon Graphics ruling and made it easier to file securities litigation against Ninth Circuit firms. We predict and find that the reduced litigation risk following the Silicon Graphics ruling discourages conservative reporting for Ninth Circuit firms. By contrast, the elevated threat of shareholder lawsuits following the Tellabs ruling encourages conservative reporting for Ninth Circuit firms relative to non‐Ninth Circuit firms. The disciplining effect of the threat of shareholder lawsuits on conservatism is stronger for firms facing higher ex ante litigation risk. The litigation‐risk‐induced increase (decrease) in reporting conservatism leads to higher (lower) firm valuations.

Chen, XC, Choi, KW, Wright, S & Wu, H 2023, 'The effectiveness of sanctions on disclosure regulation: Australian evidence', Accounting & Finance, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 3841-3872.
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AbstractWe investigate the deterrent effects of securities law enforcement sanctions with different levels of severity. Our setting is Australia's Continuous Disclosure Regulation, which features a range of sanctions from light through to more punitive. We find that after civil and administrative sanctions are imposed on a firm, market liquidity of industry‐peer firms significantly improves relative to non‐industry‐peers. Our results are robust to alternative measures, tests and models. The findings suggest that less costly and lighter sanctions are useful enforcement tools, providing important policy implications for securities regulators on the selection of sanctions to enforce disclosure regulation.

Chen, XC, Jones, S, Hasan, MM, Zhao, R & Alam, N 2023, 'Does strategic deviation influence firms’ use of supplier finance?', Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, vol. 85, pp. 101787-101787.
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Choi, S, Park, RJ & Xu, S 2023, 'The Strategic Use of Corporate Philanthropy: Evidence from Bank Donations', Review of Finance, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1883-1930.
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Abstract This article examines the strategic nature of banks’ charitable giving by studying bank donations to local nonprofit organizations. Relying on the application of antitrust rules in bank mergers as an exogenous shock to local deposit market competition, we find that local competition affects banks’ local donation decisions. Using county-level natural disaster shocks, we show that banks with disaster exposure reallocate donations away from nonshocked counties, where they operate branches, and toward shocked counties. The reallocation of donations represents an exogenous increase in the local share of donations in nonshocked counties for banks with no disaster exposure and leads to an increase in the local deposit market shares of such banks. Furthermore, banks can potentially earn greater profits from making donations and tend to donate to nonprofits that have the most social impact. Overall, our evidence suggests that banks participate in corporate philanthropy strategically to enhance performance.

Chowdhury, NR, Paul, SK, Sarker, T & Shi, Y 2023, 'Implementing smart waste management system for a sustainable circular economy in the textile industry', International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 262, pp. 108876-108876.
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Christodoulou, D, Samuell, D, Slonim, R & Tausch, F 2023, 'Counteracting dishonesty strategies: A field experiment in life insurance underwriting', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, vol. 36, no. 2.
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AbstractIndividuals often face financial incentives that challenge their desire to behave honestly. Strategically making excuses to justify dishonesty allows them to give in to the temptation of financial benefit and retain their moral self‐image. In the context of insurance underwriting, the stakes are high, as providing false information or redacting information allows customers to reduce premiums. This is particularly true for smoking disclosures that carry great weight in life insurance. We conduct a field study with a large insurance company with the aim of neutralizing justification strategies that individuals deploy for reducing the costs of dishonest smoking disclosures to insurers. First, we raise awareness of the negative consequences dishonesty could have on other policy holders to counteract that individuals could attenuate or ignore such adverse consequences. Second, we make salient the pro‐social efforts of the insurer to work against a potentially negative perception of the insurance industry that may feed the excuse of insurance companies being deserving of harm. The study presents field evidence that messages containing information about the social consequences of one's actions or the pro‐social behavior of a second party can influence normative behavior, particularly honesty.

Clegg, S & Ninan, J 2023, 'Unravelling governmentality in project ecologies', Project Leadership and Society, vol. 4, pp. 100099-100099.
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Under the rubric of project governance, governmentality has been defined as a general mode of governing people in projects, whether these projects are organized in an authoritarian, liberal, or neo-liberal mode in their approach to authority relations. We argue that governmentality is a specifically neo-liberal form of social integration, one that stresses the freedom of its subjects, and discuss how it extends governance beyond enforcing contracts and includes all stakeholders. Examples of governmentality in the modern era of projects are discussed as a proactive strategy conceptualized in five contexts in which the concept of governmentality, as governing through freedoms, has been applied in project ecologies. These include governance by contract, governance by alliancing, governance by influence, governance by co-optation, and governance by incorporation. The degree of governmentality in play increases through the sequence.

Clegg, S, Sarkar, S, Waldman-Brown, A & Roy, R 2023, 'Socialized leadership and improvisational responding to COVID-19 supply voids', Project Leadership and Society, vol. 4, pp. 100088-100088.
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Cobb-Clark, DA, Kettlewell, N, Schurer, S & Silburn, S 2023, 'The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities', Journal of Human Resources, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 2072-2110.
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Conceição, A, Major, M & Clegg, S 2023, 'Project ABC: Unanticipated affinities and affect in hospital health care', Financial Accountability & Management, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 569-592.
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AbstractIn this paper, we present an analysis of how activity‐based costing (ABC) was included among austerity policy prescriptions within the healthcare sector. Relying on the proposition that an increasing quality of outcomes is achievable simultaneously with a reduction in costs, ABC straddled tensions between the logics of care and business for clinicians but not for administrators. We draw on case study research and use institutional logics and related approaches to analyze how the introduction of ABC became a device that improved communication by clinicians with administrators. When actors’ interests and motivations were aligned, ABC was able to offer professional clinicians value in the hospital in question. The study demonstrates how and why competing logics can coexist where there is ability to affect decision‐making.

Costa, AA, Costa, LA & Vasconcelos, L 2023, 'Disentangling Reputational Effects in Alliances', Strategy Science, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 349-367.
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An important consequence of an alliance is that partnering firms combine their reputations by associating them to jointly implemented projects. However, an often-overlooked aspect is that those reputations may themselves change due to both the announcement of the firms’ decision to form the alliance and the performance of joint projects. We develop a formal model that provides an integrated perspective of these reputational effects, while allowing us to isolate and characterize each of them. We find that the way in which the firms’ competence levels affect their decision to form an alliance determines how the firms’ reputations evolve following the announcement of the alliance and the performance of joint projects. This indicates that the analysis of the reputational effects of an alliance requires understanding the firms’ alliance formation decision in the first place. We show, for instance, that a firm’s reputation may decrease following the decision to form an alliance, and that the impact of project performance on the reputations of alliance partners can be very asymmetric. Among other things, our analysis implies that a firm’s desirability as an alliance partner does not necessarily increase with its reputation and level of competence.Funding: A. Almeida Costa and L. Almeida Costa thankfully acknowledge funding from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [Grants UID/ECO/00124/2019, UIDB/00124/2020, UIDP/00124/2020, and Social Sciences DataLab–PINFRA/22209/2016], as well as from POR Lisboa and POR Norte [Social Sciences DataLab–PINFRA/22209/2016].Supplemental Material: The e-companion is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2022.0175 .

Cunha, MPE, Clegg, S, Rego, A & Berti, M 2023, 'The paradox of the peasantry in management and organization studies', International Journal of Organizational Analysis, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1802-1813.
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PurposeBurrell (2020) challenged management and organization studies (MOS) scholars to pay attention to a topic they have mostly ignored: the peasantry, those 2 billion people that work in the rural primary sector. This paper aims to address the topic to expand Burrell’s challenge by indicating that the peasantry offers a unique context to study a paradoxical condition: the coexistence of persistent poverty and vanguardist innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors advance conceptual arguments that complement the reasons why researchers should pay more attention to the peasantry. They argue that continuation of past research into field laborers, transitioning from feudalism to industrial capitalism, still has currency, not just because of the good reasons listed by Burrell (enduring relevance of the phenomenon in developing countries; sustainability concerns; acknowledgment of common heritage) but also because some seemingly archaic practices are evident in the economically developed countries where most management and organizations scholars live.FindingsThe authors show that in advanced economies, the peasantry has not disappeared, and it is manifested in contradictory forms, as positive force contributing to sustainable productivity (in the case of digitized agriculture) and as a negative legacy of social inequality and exploitation (as a form of modern slavery).Originality/valueThe authors discuss contrasting themes confronting management of the peasantry, namely, modern slavery and digital farming, and propose that a paradox view may help overcome unnecessary dual...

Cunha, MPE, Rego, A, Clegg, S & Giustiniano, L 2023, 'In a Kafkaesque catacomb: the killing of Ihor Homenyuk by the Portuguese customs and immigration bureaucracy', Journal of Political Power, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 23-46.
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Darcy, S, Collins, J & Stronach, M 2023, 'Entrepreneurs with disability: Australian insights through a social ecology lens', Small Enterprise Research, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 24-48.
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Darcy, S, Maxwell, H, Edwards, M & Almond, B 2023, 'Disability inclusion in beach precincts: beach for all abilities – a community development approach through a social relational model of disability lens', Sport Management Review, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 1-23.
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This paper examines a community development approach to including people with disability in a sport context within beach 10 precincts for a project called Beach for All Abilities. The aim of©this research is to investigate innovative and transformative solutionsthat enable inclusion. The research design used multiple methods and data sources across 30 projects and three geographically diverse precincts. The theoretical framework brought together 15 community development and the social relational model of disability to inform the research. The findings show how the funded organisation working in partnership with not-for-profit, commercialand government programs, facilitated processes and practices enabling greater access and inclusion for people with disability in 20 the beach precincts. These included solutions to constraints in the built, outdoor and natural environments across mobility, vision, hearing, intellectual and mental health disability from low to veryhigh support needs. Yet, the overall program had a major short- coming in establishing ongoing©beach-related activities for people 25 with disability. The paper concludes with implications for longevity, limitations, and future research.

Darzi Ramandi, M, Bafruei, MK, Ansaripoor, AH, Paul, SK & Chowdhury, MMH 2023, 'Coordination mechanisms in a two‐stage green supply chain: analyzing the impact of transportation decisions on environment', International Transactions in Operational Research, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 4170-4207.
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AbstractIn this study, the distributor in charge of freight transport is responsible for replenishing the buyer's inventory level, with the government intervening in the supply chain to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the proposed model, a periodic review replenishment policy is applied by the buyer, whereby the distributor is responsible for determining the optimal review period. Therefore, a game theory approach is used to show how government intervention influences the replenishment decisions, transportation, and safety factor. Due to the government constraint imposed to control GHG emissions, the distributor has to set a longer review period involving fewer trucks, resulting in his/her decision leading to more shortage costs for the buyer. The results of four numerical examples indicate that the buyer is not given any incentives to cooperate with the distributor due to his/her reduced revenue. Hence, this study proposes two‐part tariff (TPT) and cost‐sharing (CS) contracts to increase the profitability of both players. Finally, the results show that both coordination mechanisms can effectively coordinate the supply chain, but the TPT contract can also reduce GHG emissions. Furthermore, in all scenarios where the government constraint is implemented, the number of unfilled trucks in each replenishment inventory has been decreased.

Datta, S, Jauhar, SK & Paul, SK 2023, 'Leveraging blockchain to improve nutraceutical supply chain resilience under post-pandemic disruptions', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 183, pp. 109475-109475.
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Day, C, Bugeja, M, Spiropoulos, H & Matolcsy, Z 2023, 'Non‐executive directorship importance and takeover hostility: Australian evidence', Accounting & Finance, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 769-793.
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AbstractThis study investigates the importance of the target firm directorship to target firm non‐executive directors during takeovers. Using Australian data and a size‐based measure of directorship importance, we find a positive association between takeover hostility and directorship importance after controlling for takeover premiums and target firm size. Further analysis reveals that directorship importance leads to a greater likelihood of offer price revisions following initial rejection of a takeover bid, but not the likelihood of bid success. Our findings are consistent with target firm non‐executive directors exhibiting self‐serving behaviour at directorships which they consider more important to their reputation.

Deranty, J-P, Rhodes, C & Yeoman, R 2023, 'Does work have a future? The need for new meanings and new valuings of work', Organization, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 799-808.
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This introduction to the special section “Does Work Have a Future?” begins by reviewing the main ways work stands at the crossroads today. We identify three core disputes with the potential to disrupt the future of work but which also harbor resources for affirmative futures of work: the precariousness of work and lives under existing economic arrangements; the emergence of care work as a source of social and environmental value; and technological change. We then consider the demands for new meanings and new valuings that the manifold disputed status of work formulates. Finally, we highlight the contributions the four pieces making up this special section give to that momentous question of whether work has a future.

Deroover, K, Knight, S, Burke, PF & Bucher, T 2023, 'Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy', Public Understanding of Science, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 224-246.
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People are increasingly exposed to conflicting health information and must navigate this information to make numerous decisions, such as which foods to consume, a process many find difficult. Although some consumers attribute these disagreements to aspects related to uncertainty and complexity of research, many use a narrower set of credibility-based explanations. Experts’ views on disagreements are underinvestigated and lack explicit identification and classification of the differences in causes for disagreement. Consequently, there is a gap in existing literature to understand the range of reasons for these contradictions. Combining the findings from a literature study and expert interviews, a taxonomy of disagreements was developed. It identifies 10 types of disagreement classified under three dimensions: informant-, information- and uncertainty-related causes for disagreement. The taxonomy may assist with adoption of more effective strategies to deal with conflicting information and contributes to research and practice of science communication in the context of disagreement.

Dickson, TJ, Sharpe, S & Darcy, S 2023, 'Where are the Indigenous and First Nations people in sport event volunteering? Can you be what you can’t see?', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 831-843.
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Mega-sport events (MSE) are frequently cited for their developmental and legacy potentials for host communities, including tourism, sport participation and volunteering. MSE volunteer research has demonstrated the potential to develop volunteers who may contribute to the host community’s social and human capitals. However, little research considers how marginalised groups, such as First Nations or those with disability, may be co-providers of MSE experiences. This paper differs from a dominant quasi-scientific approach to empirical journal articles in that it begins with a reflexive posture drawing upon First nations pedagogy of storytelling. Reflecting upon the volunteers’ social context and drawing upon a dataset of volunteers across 6 MSE in 5 countries (2009–2016), this research explores to what extent First Nations volunteers are considered and included in MSE research and practice, and what differences may exist between First Nations volunteers and others regarding their motivations and future volunteering intentions. The results indicate that significantly more can be done to include First Nations people equitably and respectfully across the design, delivery, and legacy potential of MSE. The results inform a novel framework that provides a map for theory and practice, and thus praxis, for incorporating marginalised groups as full partners across the MSE journey.

Distadio, LF, Ferguson, A & Lam, P 2023, 'Common Stock Returns around Farmout Announcements in the Oil and Gas Industry', The Energy Journal, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 171-194.
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We examine market reactions to farmout agreements, a common form of strategic alliance undertaken by oil and gas explorers internationally. Using an Australian sample of 722 farmout agreements announced during the 1990–2016 period, we find that farmout announcements generate a positive cumulative average abnormal return of 3.60% for farmors and 1.90% for farminees over a 3-day event window. Cross-sectional analysis of farmors’ event returns provides results consistent with the resource pooling hypotheses. We also find that farmors’ announcement returns are sensitive to the underlying oil price volatility, consistent with the real options view of farmout arrangements.

Du, J, Zhu, S & Li, WH 2023, 'Innovation through internationalization: A systematic review and research agenda', Asia Pacific Journal of Management, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 1217-1251.
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AbstractIn this paper we perform a systematic literature review of the diverse and somewhat fragmented current state of research on firms’ internationalization and innovation. We analyze 207 key works from 1989 through 2020 and synthesize them into an internationalization process framework that conceptually maps key internationalization-related antecedents and moderators that influence innovation behaviors and outcomes. Through an internationalization process framework, we categorize existing relevant studies into three key stages: (a) the pre-internationalization stage, (b) the internationalization entry stage, and (c) the post-internationalization stage. Furthermore, we review how firms’ various strategic decisions and operations in different stages influence their innovations by elaborating the moderating role of external country/region institutions and firm internal characteristics. Building on this review, we provide suggestions for future research to advance the developments of this domain.

Dwivedi, A, Agrawal, D, Paul, SK & Pratap, S 2023, 'Modeling the blockchain readiness challenges for product recovery system', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 327, no. 1, pp. 493-537.
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Dwivedi, A, Chowdhury, P, Agrawal, D, Paul, SK & Shi, Y 2023, 'Antecedents of digital supply chains for a circular economy: a sustainability perspective', Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 123, no. 6, pp. 1690-1716.
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PurposeA digital supply chain (DSC) positively enhances circular economy (CE) practices. However, what factors and conditions lead to the implementation of DSC for transitioning toward CE is not yet clear. Therefore, this study aims at identifying and subsequently analyzing the antecedents of DSC for CE.Design/methodology/approachThe study identifies major antecedents of DSC for CE to achieve sustainability objectives through literature review and expert opinions. In this study, 19 potential antecedents of DSCs for CE are established from the literature and suggestions from industry professionals. A trapezoidal fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach is applied quantitatively to investigate the antecedents identified.FindingsConducted in the context of Indian automobile manufacturing industry, the findings of the study reflect that advanced information sharing arrangement, effective government policies for DSC and CE implementation and digitalizing the supply chains are the top three potential antecedents of DSC for a CE.Originality/valueIn the existing literature, few studies are specific to investigating the DSC and CE paradigm. The present study will help organizations develop a practical and integrated strategic approach that will foster DSC through improved knowledge of CE.

Dwivedi, A, Chowdhury, P, Paul, SK & Agrawal, D 2023, 'Sustaining circular economy practices in supply chains during a global disruption', The International Journal of Logistics Management, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 644-673.
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PurposeCircular economy (CE) practices are critical to achieving sustainable development goals. However, the recent global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted sustainable practices. The literature shows a significant research gap in analyzing factors that sustain CE practices in supply chains during a global disruption. This study fills the research gap by developing a mix-method approach to analyze factors for sustaining CE practices during a global disruption.Design/methodology/approachTo fulfill the objectives of this study, the list of factors that sustain CE practices was first identified by conducting a literature review and finalized through an expert opinion survey. The survey finalized 18 different factors for sustaining CE practices. The finalized factors were further analyzed using the grey decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method. The quantitative analysis confirmed the priority of the factors and their cause-and-effect relationships.FindingsThe results revealed that continued stakeholder pressure, retention of CE and sustainability culture, continued implementation of cleaner technology, feedback system and ongoing CE training for resilience issues are the top five factors that sustain CE practices during a global disruption. The study also revealed ten factors as belonging to the cause group and eight to the effect group.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature by exploring factors for sustaining CE practices during a global disruption. Moreover, the study’s findings are important in real-life situati...

Dwivedi, A, Srivastava, S, Agrawal, D, Jha, A & Paul, SK 2023, 'Analyzing the Inter-relationships of Business Recovery Challenges in the Manufacturing Industry: Implications for Post-pandemic Supply Chain Resilience', Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 24, no. S1, pp. 31-48.
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Dwyer, L 2023, 'Resident well-being and sustainable tourism development: the ‘capitals approach’', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 2119-2135.
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Dwyer, L 2023, 'Tourism development and sustainable well-being: a Beyond GDP perspective', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 2399-2416.
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© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Beyond GDP approach to development is gaining widespread support from policy makers and researchers worldwide. While not formulated specifically for tourism activity, the approach serves as a guide to measuring the current and future well-being of destination residents associated with tourism development. Inspired by the Beyond GDP approach, a framework comprising the main dimensions of well-being is argued to provide valuable input into an action agenda to achieve sustainable tourism development. The paper discusses some key responsibilities of tourism industry stakeholders structured according to several different senses of ‘beyond’ that characterise the Beyond GDP research agenda. The paper concludes that research on destination tourism development can learn much from the Beyond GDP approach in respect of conceptual advance, industry practice and policy implementation.

Dwyer, L 2023, 'Why tourism economists should treat resident well-being more seriously', Tourism Economics, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 1975-1994.
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Recognising that well-being is a primary policy objective, tourism economics must incorporate resident well-being outcomes into conceptual analysis, empirical findings and policy assessment in a more inclusive way. Use of a well-being lens allows the research effort in tourism economics to convert tourism development impacts into resident well-being outcomes and better align with the broader Beyond GDP research agenda to measure societal progress. Several areas of tourism research are identified where determination of well-being outcomes can enrich economic analysis and its input into policymaking. This requires new concepts and new systems of measurement to support tourism policymaking with tourism economists expected to play an important role in the research effort.

Dymock, A, Wells, P & Govendir, B 2023, 'Should asset impairments be included in earnings when evaluating stewardship by management?', Pacific Accounting Review, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 863-880.
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PurposeThis paper aims to consider the relevance of asset impairments when evaluating stewardship by management.Design/methodology/approachThis paper considers association of earnings (including and excluding asset impairments) with contemporaneous stock returns which are used as a measure of management performance and demonstration of stewardship.FindingsEvidence is provided of earnings including asset impairments (an accounting measure of current measure firm performance) having a higher explanatory power for contemporaneous stock returns (an objective evaluation of current period firm performance) than earnings exclusive of asset impairments. Consistent with this, recognized asset impairments are significantly associated with contemporaneous stock returns. These results occur across firm years generally, as well as for firm years exhibiting indicators of impairment and firm years recognizing asset impairments.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper adds to the literature providing evidence of asset impairments not being recognised on a timely basis. Additionally, challenges are identified in evaluating the relevance of accounting information for so-called growth firms.Practical implicationsThese findings support continued recognition of asset impairments in the Statement of Profit or Loss if stewardship is accepted as an objective for financial reporting. It also suggests issues with the recognition of asset impairments that might be addressed by enhanced disclosure.<...

Eckert, C & Hohberger, J 2023, 'Addressing Endogeneity Without Instrumental Variables: An Evaluation of the Gaussian Copula Approach for Management Research', Journal of Management, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1460-1495.
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The availability and quality of instrumental variables (IV) are frequent concerns in empirical management research when trying to overcome endogeneity problems. For endogeneity that does not arise from sample selection, management scholars have recently started to apply the Gaussian Copula (GC) approach as an alternative to IV regression. Although the GC approach has various promising features, its limitations and usefulness in a management context are still not fully understood. We discuss the GC approach as a flexible, instrument-free approach to correct for endogeneity and examine its suitability for applied management research. We use simulations to explore the limitations and practical usefulness of the GC approach relative to ordinary least squares (OLS), IV regression, and a Higher Moments (HM) estimator by simulating the impact of different degrees of violation of the key underlying assumptions of the GC approach. We show that the GC approach can recover the true parameters remarkably well if all of its assumptions are met but that its absolute and relative performance in terms of parameter recovery and estimation precision can deteriorate quickly if these assumptions are violated. This is of particular concern as some of these assumptions are not testable and violations of them are likely in many empirical management contexts. Based on our results, we provide a series of recommendations and practical guidelines for scholars who consider using the GC approach when dealing with endogeneity.

English, M, Canuto, K, Schulenkorf, N, Evans, J, Curry, C, Slater, C & Caperchione, CM 2023, 'Co-designing a health promotion program for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls: lessons learnt', Health Promotion International, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 1-14.
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SummaryDespite progression in the ethical and methodological conduct of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, disparities still pervade, indicating limitations in knowledge translation. One identified gap is a lack of documented experiences detailing how ethical guidelines may be practically applied. This paper aims to (i) describe the research processes involved in co-designing a physical activity and psychosocial health program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls and (ii) highlight learnings of the collaborative research journey. The Criteria for Strengthening Reporting of Health Research involving Indigenous Peoples (CONSIDER) statement was used to document participatory research activities undertaken with an Aboriginal community partner. Building upon the CONSIDER statement, Aboriginal (N = 3), Torres Strait Islander (N = 1) and non-Indigenous (N = 4) research team members engaged in critical reflection to identify lessons learnt. Researchers identified a tension between participatory research principles and the expectations of funding agencies and research institutions. Consequently, timelines must be flexible to foster meaningful community engagement and participatory processes. Additionally, researchers and community stakeholders are encouraged to embrace tensions that may associated with participatory research or the pressures Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers face from their community and organization. Furthermore, differences in professional (i.e. occupational) and cultural knowledge systems need to be acknowledged and accounted for within the early stages of a project to ensure informed decision-making. Identified lessons will assist relevant stakeholders in the development of future Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health programming, ensuring the most appropriate health solutions are devised with community.

Fam, K-S, Waller, DS & Grohs, R 2023, 'Celebrity Endorsements in Liked Advertisements: A Study of Asian Countries', Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 39-54.
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Ferguson, A & Lam, P 2023, 'Information Asymmetry, Financial Intermediation, and Wealth Effects of Project Finance Loans', The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 656-711.
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Abstract Using a unique hand-collected sample, we study market reactions to mining developers announcing project finance loans. We document a significant three-day abnormal return of 2.6% and a 3.4% reduction in abnormal bid-ask spread around loan approvals, consistent with information transfer from private lenders to equity holders and reduction in asymmetric information. Cross-sectional analysis reveals a negative association between announcement return and hedging requirements specified in loan contracts, which becomes insignificant after controlling for treatment effects of hedging. Specialist banks do not charge lower rates but are more likely to impose hedging requirements, consistent with rent extraction due to bargaining power. (JEL G30, G32)

Fleming, P 2023, '“Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste”: How Consulting Firms Are Using COVID-19 as a Pretext to Transform Universities and Business School Education', Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 425-438.
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Fleming, P, Godfrey, R & Lilley, S 2023, 'Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry', Human Relations, vol. 76, no. 10, pp. 1545-1566.
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Global commodity capitalism necessitates the fast and efficient movement of all manner of entities across the globe. Importantly, this commercial flow needs to be secured against the undocumented and unregulated flow of illegitimate people, finance and information, counterfeits, drugs, terror and other undesirables. The organizational practices of business logistics are central for achieving this objective. Yet they have received little attention in management and organization studies to date. We suggest a fruitful avenue is via Foucault’s notion of ‘biopower’ – particularly his less discussed concept (in management studies, at least) of an apparatus of security. This is useful for understanding the emergent organizational/management practices of security in the border spaces in which business logistics operate. If ‘Society Must Be Defended’, as Foucault ironically notes in his famous lecture series that introduces biopower, then so too must contemporary organizations and their net-like activities within the global economy.

Foley, C, Darcy, S, Hergesell, A, Almond, B, McDonald, M, Nguyen, LT & Morgan-Brett, E 2023, 'Extracurricular activities, graduate attributes and serious leisure: competitive sport versus social-cultural clubs in campus life', Leisure Studies, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 971-988.
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Research indicates that students’ participation in university-based extracurricular activities contributes to their graduate attributes such as leadership, teamwork, communication and resilience. However, it has yet to be determined which types of extracurricular activities are more impactful. This study inquired if participation in competitive sporting activities compared to social-cultural clubs have a greater impact on graduate attributes. Students attending a large metropolitan university in Sydney, Australia, who participated in extracurricular activities were surveyed (n = 844) with an instrument adapted to measure their degree of club engagement and questions on the skills, knowledge and experience they acquired. The findings indicate that engagement in competitive sport is more effective at contributing to graduate attributes when compared to social-cultural clubs. The study drew on the theories of serious leisure and leisure constraints to interpret this phenomenon. Participation in competitive sport was found to relate to more aspects of serious leisure such as study/work-life balance, stress reduction and skill development such as teamwork, time management and leadership skills. However, there are greater constraints to participating in competitive sport. The study concludes with implications for university administrators and recommendations for facilitating greater student opportunities to participate in all types of extracurricular activities.

Forseth, U, Røyrvik, EA & Clegg, S 2023, 'Naturalizing, normalizing and neutralizing: metaphors framing the global financial crisis in Nordic banks', Culture and Organization, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 157-174.
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Frawley, S & Bond, D 2023, 'Participation Legacy and International Sport Events Hosted in Australia'.

Garvey, AM, Kim, T & Duhachek, A 2023, 'Bad News? Send an AI. Good News? Send a Human', Journal of Marketing, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 10-25.
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The present research demonstrates how consumer responses to negative and positive offers are influenced by whether the administering marketing agent is an artificial intelligence (AI) or a human. In the case of a product or service offer that is worse than expected, consumers respond better when dealing with an AI agent in the form of increased purchase likelihood and satisfaction. In contrast, for an offer that is better than expected, consumers respond more positively to a human agent. The authors demonstrate that AI agents, compared with human agents, are perceived to have weaker intentions when administering offers, which accounts for this effect. That is, consumers infer that AI agents lack selfish intentions in the case of an offer that favors the agent and lack benevolent intentions in the case of an offer that favors the customer, thereby dampening the extremity of consumer responses. Moreover, the authors demonstrate a moderating effect, such that marketers may anthropomorphize AI agents to strengthen perceived intentions, providing an avenue to receive due credit from consumers when the agent provides a better offer and mitigate blame when it provides a worse offer. Potential ethical concerns with the use of AI to bypass consumer resistance to negative offers are discussed.

Gavin, M & Stacey, M 2023, 'Enacting autonomy reform in schools: The re-shaping of roles and relationships under Local Schools, Local Decisions', Journal of Educational Change, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 501-523.
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AbstractLocal Schools, Local Decisions (LSLD) was a package of school autonomy reforms operating in the state of New South Wales, Australia from 2012 to 2020. The set of reforms centred on the devolution of additional powers and responsibilities to school principals, namely enhanced capacity to manage staffing and financial functions in response to local conditions. Using a conceptual lens of policy enactment, we analyse interview data gathered from 31 teachers and school leaders on how these reform areas were understood and enacted at the school level. Our findings highlight the tensions in enacting devolutionary reform in schools. While the centrality of the school principal’s role was emphasised, including in relation to contested levels of principal discretion, the enactment of devolved powers and responsibilities also produced a fracturing of staff relationships within schools, notably between principals and teaching staff. This finding is understood within a context of heightened workload and unclear expectations which attended the policy’s introduction. We contribute to the school autonomy literature through: (a) the inclusion of teachers’ voices, a stakeholder perspective often missing in the autonomy literature, enabling the impact of the reforms on interpersonal, relational dynamics to come to the fore; and (b) exploring implications for future reform suggested by the fate of LSLD. In doing so, this article deepens knowledge on the enactment of autonomy reforms in schools, drawing implications for understanding school autonomy reform around the globe.

Ghasemiardekani, M, Dadpour, R, Irannezhad, E & Bidarmaghz, A 2023, 'Endangering trust in health services: using ambulances to arrest protesters in Iran', Medicine, Conflict and Survival, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 345-351.
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Girsberger, EM, Hassani-Nezhad, L, Karunanethy, K & Lalive, R 2023, 'Mothers at work: How mandating a short maternity leave affects work and fertility', Labour Economics, vol. 84, pp. 102364-102364.
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Glover, K 2023, 'With or without replacement? Sampling uncertainty in Shepp’s urn scheme', Journal of Applied Probability, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 661-675.
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AbstractWe introduce a variant of Shepp’s classical urn problem in which the optimal stopper does not know whether sampling from the urn is done with or without replacement. By considering the problem’s continuous-time analog, we provide bounds on the value function and, in the case of a balanced urn (with an equal number of each ball type), an explicit solution is found. Surprisingly, the optimal strategy for the balanced urn is the same as in the classical urn problem. However, the expected value upon stopping is lower due to the additional uncertainty present.

Golder, PN, Dekimpe, MG, An, JT, van Heerde, HJ, Kim, DSU & Alba, JW 2023, 'Learning from Data: An Empirics-First Approach to Relevant Knowledge Generation', Journal of Marketing, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 319-336.
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A theory-first paradigm tends to be the dominant approach in much academic marketing research. In this approach, a theory is borrowed, refined, or developed and then tested empirically. In this challenging-the-boundaries article, the authors make a case for an empirics-first approach. “Empirics-first” refers to research that (1) is grounded in (originates from) a real-world marketing phenomenon, problem, or observation, (2) involves obtaining and analyzing data, and (3) produces valid marketing-relevant insights without necessarily developing or testing theory. The empirics-first approach is not antagonistic to theory but rather can serve as a stepping-stone to theory. The approach lends itself well to today’s data-rich environment, which can reveal novel research questions untethered to theory. The present article describes the underlying principles of an empirics-first approach, which consists of exploring a domain purposefully without preconceptions. Using a rich set of published examples, the authors offer guidance on how to implement empirics-first research and how it can lead to valuable knowledge development. Advice is also offered to scholars on how to report empirics-first research and to reviewers and to editorial teams on how to evaluate it. The ultimate objective is to pave a way for the empirics-first approach to enter the mainstream of academic marketing research.

Goswami, M, Daultani, Y, Paul, SK & Pratap, S 2023, 'A framework for the estimation of treatment costs of cardiovascular conditions in the presence of disease transition', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 328, no. 1, pp. 577-616.
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AbstractThe current research aims to aid policymakers and healthcare service providers in estimating expected long-term costs of medical treatment, particularly for chronic conditions characterized by disease transition. The study comprised two phases (qualitative and quantitative), in which we developed linear optimization-based mathematical frameworks to ascertain the expected long-term treatment cost per patient considering the integration of various related dimensions such as the progression of the medical condition, the accuracy of medical treatment, treatment decisions at respective severity levels of the medical condition, and randomized/deterministic policies. At the qualitative research stage, we conducted the data collection and validation of various cogent hypotheses acting as inputs to the prescriptive modeling stage. We relied on data collected from 115 different cardio-vascular clinicians to understand the nuances of disease transition and related medical dimensions. The framework developed was implemented in the context of a multi-specialty hospital chain headquartered in the capital city of a state in Eastern India, the results of which have led to some interesting insights. For instance, at the prescriptive modeling stage, though one of our contributions related to the development of a novel medical decision-making framework, we illustrated that the randomized versus deterministic policy seemed more cost-competitive. We also identified that the expected treatment cost was most sensitive to variations in steady-state probability at the “major” as opposed to the “severe” stage of a medical condition, even though the steady-state probability of the “severe” state was less than that of the “major” state.

Han, JJ, Smale, MC & Lee, J 2023, 'How power increases preference for experiential purchases but not for material purchases', Psychology & Marketing, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1089-1102.
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AbstractWhile recent research indicates that experiential purchases lead to greater happiness than material purchases (i.e., experiential advantage), we have a limited understanding of when and why consumers prefer experiential purchases. In this paper, we address this topic and find that consumers' feelings of power play a significant role in their preference for experiential purchases. Across four experimental studies, using multiple manipulations and stimuli, we demonstrate that feelings of high (vs. low) power lead to increased consumer preference for experiential, but not material, purchases. Mediation (Study 3) and moderation (Study 4) analyses revealed that this phenomenon is driven by greater expected happiness from experiential purchases for consumers feeling high (vs. low) power. We contribute to the experiential purchase literature by identifying consumer power as an important antecedent of consumers' preference for experiences and also add to the consumer power literature by documenting how perceived power affects consumer evaluations and decision‐making. Furthermore, our paper suggests that managers should target people in powerful positions or seek to facilitate feelings of greater power in potential customers when marketing experiential products.

Happy, A, Chowdhury, MMH, Scerri, M, Hossain, MA & Barua, Z 2023, 'Antecedents and consequences of blockchain adoption in supply chains: a systematic literature review', Journal of Enterprise Information Management.
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PurposeDespite the availability of several published reviews on the adoption of blockchain (BC) in supply chain (SC), at present, the literature lacks a comprehensive review incorporating the antecedents and consequences of BC adoption. Moreover, the complex adoption of BC in SC, explained with the mediating and moderating relationships, is not fully consolidated. Thus, the aim of this study was to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) on BC technology adoption (BCTA) in SC by integrating its antecedents and consequences.Design/methodology/approachKeyword searches were performed in multiple databases resulting 382 articles for evaluation and verification. After careful screening with respect to the purpose of the study and systematic processing of the retrieved articles, a total of 211 peer-reviewed articles were included in this study for review.FindingsVarious technological, organisational, individual, social, environmental, operational and economic factors were found as the antecedents of BCTA in SC. In addition, numerous applications of BC Technology (BCT) were identified, including asset management, identity management, transaction management, data management and operations management. Finally, the consequences of BCTA were categorised as operational, risk management, economic and sustainability outcomes.Practical implicationsThis study can assist relevant decision-makers in managing the factors influencing BCTA and the potential uses of the technology to enhance SC performance.Originality/value

Haque, M, Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2023, 'A novel heuristic approach for planning decentralised supply chain under uncertainties', International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, vol. 10, no. 1.
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Hasan, KW, Ali, SM, Paul, SK & Kabir, G 2023, 'Multi-objective closed-loop green supply chain model with disruption risk', Applied Soft Computing, vol. 136, pp. 110074-110074.
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Hemsley, B, Darcy, S, Given, F, Murray, BR & Balandin, S 2023, 'Going thirsty for the turtles: Plastic straw bans, people with swallowing disability, and Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Below Water', International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 15-19.
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Hirata, D, Kasuya, Y & Tomoeda, K 2023, 'Weak stability against robust deviations and the bargaining set in the roommate problem', Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 105, pp. 102818-102818.
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Horak, S, Kakabadse, N & Clegg, SR 2023, 'Head versus Heart - An Ethics as Paradoxical Practice Perspective on Social Enterprise Leadership', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2023, no. 1.
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Huang, C, Cao, Y, Lu, M, Shan, Y & Zhang, Y 2023, 'Messages in online stock forums and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from China', Accounting & Finance, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 3011-3041.
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AbstractOnline stock forums allow investors to share information and exchange opinions, which facilitates the incorporation of firm‐specific information into prices and reduces stock price synchronicity. However, prior research presents mixed evidence as to the value of messages in online forums. Using the information of the Eastmoney Guba online forum in China, we find a causal and negative relation between Guba messages and stock price synchronicity. The finding is robust after accounting for media reports and firm fixed effects and using both an instrumental variable analysis and an experimental design that exploits exogenous changes in the authenticity of Guba messages. We find the impact of Guba information is attributed to its roles in both information dissemination and investor interaction and is more pronounced for messages with a negative narrative tone. Additional tests suggest Guba messages improve firm information disclosure quality, reduce stock price crash risk and decrease stock return volatility synchronicity.

Jasovska, P, Rammal, HG, Rhodes, C & Logue, D 2023, 'Tapping foreign markets: Construction of legitimacy through market categorization in the internationalizing craft beer industry', Journal of World Business, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 101425-101425.
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Jauhar, S, Pratap, S, Lakshay, Paul, S & Gunasekaran, A 2023, 'Internet of things based innovative solutions and emerging research clusters in circular economy', Operations Management Research, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1968-1988.
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Jauhar, SK, Priyadarshini, S, Pratap, S & Paul, SK 2023, 'A literature review on applications of Industry 4.0 in Project Management', Operations Management Research, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1858-1885.
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Kagzi, M, Khanra, S & Paul, SK 2023, 'Machine learning for sustainable development: leveraging technology for a greener future', Journal of Systems and Information Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 440-479.
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PurposeFrom a technological determinist perspective, machine learning (ML) may significantly contribute towards sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to synthesize prior literature on the role of ML in promoting sustainability and to encourage future inquiries.Design/methodology/approachThis study conducts a systematic review of 110 papers that demonstrate the utilization of ML in the context of sustainable development.FindingsML techniques may play a vital role in enabling sustainable development by leveraging data to uncover patterns and facilitate the prediction of various variables, thereby aiding in decision-making processes. Through the synthesis of findings from prior research, it is evident that ML may help in achieving many of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.Originality/valueThis study represents one of the initial investigations that conducted a comprehensive examination of the literature concerning ML’s contribution to sustainability. The analysis revealed that the research domain is still in its early stages, indicating a need for further exploration.

Kearney, M, Young, K & Burke, PF 2023, 'An Examination of Special Education Teachers’ Digital Practices', Journal of Special Education Technology, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 314-326.
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The aim of this study is to understand how mobile devices are being used to support students’ learning (i.e., mobile learning) in specialist schools, and in specialist support units within mainstream schools. A validated survey instrument is used to examine these practices through the lens of a sociocultural digital framework that highlights distinctive mobile learning approaches. One hundred and twenty-six teachers responded to the survey. The findings provide a nuanced understanding of teachers’ current digital pedagogical approaches, and show potential benefits for students, including increased agency. Possible directions for the development of special education teachers’ digital practices are also provided.

Keddie, A, MacDonald, K, Blackmore, J, Boyask, R, Fitzgerald, S, Gavin, M, Heffernan, A, Hursh, D, McGrath-Champ, S, Møller, J, O’Neill, J, Parding, K, Salokangas, M, Skerritt, C, Stacey, M, Thomson, P, Wilkins, A, Wilson, R, Wylie, C & Yoon, E-S 2023, 'What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education?', The Australian Educational Researcher, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1571-1597.
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AbstractThe series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education? There was consensus across the group that school autonomy reform creates further inequities at school and system levels when driven by the logics of marketisation, competition, economic efficiency and public accountability. Against the backdrop of these themes, the conference generated discussion and debate where provocations and points of agreement and disagreement about issues of social justice and the mobilisation of school autonomy reform were raised. As an important output of this discussion, we asked participants to write a short response to the guiding conference question. The following are these responses which range from philosophical considerations, systems and governance perspectives, national particularities and teacher and principal perspectives.

Kim, T, Lee, H, Kim, MY, Kim, S & Duhachek, A 2023, 'AI increases unethical consumer behavior due to reduced anticipatory guilt', Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 785-801.
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Kim, T, Usman, U, Garvey, A & Duhachek, A 2023, 'Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and Consumer Behavior Research', Foundations and Trends® in Marketing, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-93.
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Lakisa, D, Taylor, T & Adair, D 2023, 'Managing Psychological Contracts: Employer-Employee Expectations and Non-Athlete Pasifika Professionals in the National Rugby League (NRL)', Journal of Global Sport Management, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 139-160.
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© 2020, © 2020 Global Alliance of Marketing & Management Associations (GAMMA). In Australia, a substantial proportion of men’s National Rugby League (NRL) players are of Pasifika (Pacific Islander and Māori) origin; however, this cultural group is a more modest proportion of the NRL’s non-athlete workforce. Using psychological contract (PC), we explored workplace expectations of non-athlete Pasifika employees and their employers in the NRL, either within the league or clubs. In terms of methodology, a ‘talanoa’ approach to interpersonal dialogue provided the framework for culturally relevant conversations, stories and ideas exchange with 30 individuals, including 20 Pasifika NRL employees and 10 non-Pasifika employers. Additionally, 21 sessions of fieldwork, including participant observations at Pasifika rugby league events were also used to collect data. Results indicate Pasifika knowledge and contribution are important in the NRL workplace. It is clear there is a positive shift to a ‘balanced’ psychological contract based on increased visibility and intercultural sharing of experiences and knowledge systems by Pasifika employees. However, non-Pasifika employers are still grappling to understand Pasifika socio-cultural sensibilities and to translate that, as appropriate, into management approaches. Diversity management is a tentative work in progress, with little knowledge about how management practices might optimize the skills and expectations of Pasifika employees with a view to better understanding and managing PC in professional sport.

Le, CHA, Shan, Y & Taylor, SL 2023, 'International Economic Policy Uncertainty and Properties of Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts'.

Leung, J, Casswell, S, Parker, K, Huckle, T, Romeo, J, Graydon‐Guy, T, Byron, K, Callinan, S, Chaiyasong, S, Gordon, R, Harker, N, MacKintosh, AM, Meier, P, Paraje, G, Parry, CD, Pham, C, Williams, PP, Randerson, S, Schelleman‐Offermans, K, Sengee, G, Torun, P & van Dalen, W 2023, 'Effective alcohol policies and lifetime abstinence: An analysis of the International Alcohol Control policy index', Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 704-713.
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AbstractIntroductionAlcohol abstinence remains common among adults globally, although low and middle‐income countries are experiencing declines in abstention. The effect of alcohol policies on lifetime abstinence is poorly understood. The International Alcohol Control (IAC) policy index was developed to benchmark and monitor the uptake of effective alcohol policies and has shown strong associations with alcohol per capita consumption and drinking patterns. Uniquely, the index incorporates both policy ‘stringency’ and ‘impact’, reflecting policy implementation and enforcement, across effective policies. Here we assessed the association of the IAC policy index with lifetime abstinence in a diverse sample of jurisdictions.MethodsWe conducted a cross‐sectional analysis of the relationship between the IAC policy index score, and its components, and lifetime abstinence among adults (15+ years) in 13 high and middle‐income jurisdictions. We examined the correlations for each component of the index and stringency and impact separately.ResultsOverall, the total IAC policy index scores were positively correlated with lifetime abstinence (r = 0.76), as were both the stringency (r = 0.62) and impact (r = 0.82) scores. Marketing restrictions showed higher correlations with lifetime abstinence than other policy domains (r = 0.80), including restrictions on physical availability, pricing policies and drink‐driving prevention.Discussion and ConclusionOur findings suggest that restricting alcohol marketing could be an important policy for the protection of alcohol abstention. The IAC policy index may be a useful...

Li, J, Mukherjee, A & Vasconcelos, L 2023, 'What Makes Agility Fragile? A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Rigidity', Management Science, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 3578-3601.
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We present a novel explanation of why organizations tend to lose their agility over time despite their efforts to foster worker initiative in adapting to local information. Worker initiative ensures efficiency but requires strong incentives. When incentives are relational and the firm faces shocks to its credibility, it may adopt standardized work processes that ignore local information but yield satisfactory (though suboptimal) performance. The adoption of such standardized processes helps the firm survive the current shock but inflicts inefficiencies in the future. Although the firm may recover, it becomes more vulnerable to future shocks, and consequently, more reliant on the standardized work procedures. This paper was accepted by Joshua Gans, business strategy.

Lim, L-A, Atif, A, Heggart, K & Sutton, N 2023, 'In Search of Alignment between Learning Analytics and Learning Design: A Multiple Case Study in a Higher Education Institution', Education Sciences, vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 1114-1114.
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Learning design (LD) has increasingly been recognized as a significant contextual element for the interpretation and adoption of learning analytics (LA). Yet, few studies have explored how instructors integrate LA feedback into their learning designs, especially within open automated feedback (AF) systems. This research presents a multiple-case study at one higher education institution to unveil instructors’ pilot efforts in using an open AF system to align LA and LD within their unique contexts, with the goal of delivering personalized feedback and tailored support. A notable finding from these cases is that instructors successfully aligned LA with LD for personalized feedback through checkpoint analytics in highly structured courses. Moreover, they relied on checkpoint analytics as an evaluation mechanism for evaluating impact. Importantly, students perceived a stronger sense of instructors’ support, reinforcing previous findings on the effectiveness of personalized feedback. This study contributes essential empirical insights to the intersection of learning analytics and learning design, shedding light on practical ways educators align LA and LD for personalized feedback and support.

Lin, Y, Michayluk, D & Zou, M 2023, 'Does Random Auction Ending Curb Stock Price Manipulation?', The Quarterly Journal of Finance, vol. 13, no. 04.
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This paper examines the effect on stock market efficiency and potential market manipulation of introducing a random ending time for the call auctions that start and end continuous trading on three equity markets. We find that the probability of a price dislocation at the end of the auction declines, indicating a lower risk of market manipulation. In addition, the variance ratio and market-adjusted return volatility measures decrease, suggesting a more efficient and less volatile price discovery process. We confirm a behavioral change in order submissions by observing the timing of order entry, amendments, and deletions on one of the exchanges for which we have access to order data. Overall, our results indicate that adding a random auction ending time can reduce the risk of stock market manipulation and improve price efficiency.

Locatelli, G, Ika, L, Drouin, N, Müller, R, Huemann, M, Söderlund, J, Geraldi, J & Clegg, S 2023, 'A Manifesto for project management research', European Management Review, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 3-17.
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AbstractProject management research has evolved over the past five decades and is now a mature disciplinary field investigating phenomena of interest to academics, practitioners and policymakers. Studies of projects and project management practices are theoretically rich and scientifically rigorous. They are practically relevant and impactful when addressing the pursuit of operational, tactical and strategic advancements in the world of organisations. We want to broaden the conversation between project management scholars and other scholars from cognate disciplines, particularly business and management, in a true scholarship of integration and cross‐fertilisation. This Manifesto invites the latter scholars to join efforts providing a foundation for further creative, theoretical and empirical contributions, including but not limited to tackling grand challenges such as climate change, pandemics, and global poverty. To this end, we identify five theses:Projects are often ‘agents of change’ and hence fundamental to driving the innovation and change required to tackle grand challenges.Much project management research leverages and challenges theories across disciplines, including business, organisation and management studies, contributing to developing new theories, including those specific to projects and temporary organisations.‘Projects’ are useful units of analysis, project management research is ideal for scientific cross‐fertilisation and project management scholars welcome academics from other communities to engage in fruitful conversations.As in many other fields of knowledge, the project management research community embraces diversity, welcoming researchers of different genders and various scientific and social backgrounds.<...

Lu, S & Mintz, O 2023, 'Marketing on the metaverse: Research opportunities and challenges', AMS Review, vol. 13, no. 1-2, pp. 151-166.
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Lu, SQ, Singh, S & de Roos, N 2023, 'Effects of online and offline advertising and their synergy on direct telephone sales', Journal of Retailing, vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 337-352.
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Ma, N, Sutton, N, Yang, JS, Rawlings‐Way, O, Brown, D, McAllister, G, Parker, D & Lewis, R 2023, 'The quality effects of agency staffing in residential aged care', Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 195-203.
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AbstractObjectivesIn Australia, temporary agency workers are a relatively small but enduring component of the residential aged care workforce. However, evidence from other countries suggests reliance on agency workers has a detrimental effect on the quality of care (QoC). We examined whether QoC outcomes differ for Australian residential aged care facilities (RACFs) based on their reliance on agency care staff.MethodsA retrospective observational study was conducted using de‐identified datasets obtained under the legal authority of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Regression analysis was conducted using data comprising 6221 RACF‐year observations, across 5 years (2015–2019), from 1709 unique RACFs in Australia.ResultsAfter controlling for other determinants of QoC, RACFs with a greater reliance on agency care staff have poorer QoC outcomes, with significantly higher rates of complaints, missing persons, reportable assaults, hospitalisations, and accreditation flags.ConclusionsConsistent with international evidence, we found that the QoC of Australian RACFs is sensitive to the reliance on agency staff in delivering direct care to residents. These findings illustrate the importance of workers' employment conditions, alongside other workforce characteristics, in driving the quality of residential aged care.

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'Carbon tax accompanied by a revenue recycling increases Australia's GDP: A dynamic recursive CGE approach', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 418, pp. 138187-138187.
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McAllister, G, Sutton, N, Brown, DA, Rawlings-Way, O, Parker, D, Lewis, R, Yin, J & Harrison, B 2023, 'Using Public Inquiries as a Data Source for Accounting Research: A Systematic Review', European Accounting Review, pp. 1-27.
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McGrath-Champ, S, Fitzgerald, S, Gavin, M, Stacey, M & Wilson, R 2023, 'Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work', Work, Employment and Society, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 1165-1185.
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This article analyses the commodification of professional labour and union responses to these processes within the employment heartland. It explores the category of fixed-contract or ‘temporary’ employment using Australian public school teaching as the empirical lens. Established to address intensifying conditions of labour market insecurity, the union-led creation of the temporary category was intended to partly decommodify labour by providing intermediate security between permanent and ‘casual’ employment. However, using historical case and contemporary survey data, we discern that escalation of temporary teacher numbers and intensifying work-effort demands concurrently increased insecurity within the teacher workforce, constituting recommodification. The article contributes to scant literature on unions and commodification, highlighting that within the current marketised context, labour commodification may occur through contradictory influences at multiple levels, and that union responses to combat this derogation of work must similarly be multi-level and sustained.

Mehreen, H, Rammal, HG & Clegg, SR 2023, 'Managing International Knowledge in MNEs – What Aids its Effectiveness and Efficiency?', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2023, no. 1.
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Menkveld, AJ, Dreber, A, Holzmeister, F, Huber, J, Johannesson, M, Kirchler, M, Razen, M, Weitzel, U, Abad, D, Abudy, MM, Adrian, T, Ait-Sahalia, Y, Akmansoy, O, Alcock, J, Alexeev, V, Aloosh, A, Amato, L, Amaya, D, Angel, J, Bach, A, Baidoo, E, Bakalli, G, Barbon, A, Bashchenko, O, Bindra, PC, Bjonnes, GH, Black, J, Black, BS, Bohorquez, S, Bondarenko, O, Bos, CS, Bosch-Rosa, C, Bouri, E, Brownlees, CT, Calamia, A, Cao, VN, Capelle-Blancard, G, Capera, L, Caporin, M, Carrion, A, Caskurlu, T, Chakrabarty, B, Chernov, M, Cheung, WM, Chincarini, LB, Chordia, T, Chow, SC, Clapham, B, Colliard, J-E, Comerton-Forde, C, Curran, E, Dao, T, Dare, W, Davies, RJ, De Blasis, R, De Nard, G, Declerck, F, Deev, O, Degryse, H, Deku, S, Desagre, C, van Dijk, MA, Dim, C, Dimpfl, T, Dong, Y, Drummond, P, Dudda, TL, Dumitrescu, A, Dyakov, T, Dyhrberg, AH, Dzieliński, M, Eksi, A, El Kalak, I, ter Ellen, S, Eugster, N, Evans, MDD, Farrell, M, Félez-Viñas, E, Ferrara, G, FERROUHI, EM, Flori, A, Fluharty-Jaidee, J, Foley, S, Fong, KYL, Foucault, T, Franus, T, Franzoni, FA, Frijns, B, Frömmel, M, Fu, S, Füllbrunn, S, Gan, B, Gehrig, T, Gerritsen, D, Gil-Bazo, J, Glosten, LR, Gomez, T, Gorbenko, A, Güçbilmez, U, Grammig, J, Gregoire, V, Hagströmer, B, Hambuckers, J, Hapnes, E, Harris, JH, Harris, L, Hartmann, S, Hasse, J-B, Hautsch, N, He, X, Heath, D, Hediger, S, Hendershott, T, Hibbert, AM, Hjalmarsson, E, Hoelscher, SA, Hoffmann, P, Holden, CW, Horenstein, AR, Huang, W, Huang, D, Hurlin, C, Ivashchenko, A, Iyer, SR, Jahanshahloo, H, Jalkh, N, Jones, CM, Jurkatis, S, Jylha, P, Kaeck, A, Kaiser, G, Karam, A, Karmaziene, E, Kassner, B, Kaustia, M, Kazak, E, Kearney, F, van Kervel, V, Khan, S, Khomyn, M, Klein, T, Klein, O, Klos, A, Koetter, M, Krahnen, JP, Kolokolov, A, Korajczyk, RA, Kozhan, R, Kwan, A, Lajaunie, Q, Lam, FYE, Lambert, M, Langlois, H, Lausen, J, Lauter, T, Leippold, M, Levin, V, Li, Y, Li, MH, Liew, CY, Lindner, T, Linton, OB, Liu, J, Liu, A, Llorente, G, Lof, M, Lohr, A, Longstaff, FA, Lopez-Lira, A, Mankad, S, Mano, N, Marchal, A, Martineau, C, Mazzola, F, Meloso, D, Mihet, R, Mohan, V, Moinas, S, Moore, D, Mu, L, Muravyev, D, Murphy, D, Neszveda, G, Neumeier, C, Nielsson, U, Nimalendran, M, Nolte, S, Norden, LL, O'Neill, P, Obaid, K, Ødegaard, BA, Östberg, P, Painter, M, Palan, S, Palit, I, Park, A, Pascual, R, Pasquariello, P, Pastor, L & et al. 2023, 'Non-Standard Errors'.

Michailova, S, Fee, A & DeNisi, A 2023, 'Research on host-country nationals in multinational enterprises: The last five decades and ways forward', Journal of World Business, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 101383-101383.
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Mintz, O 2023, 'Metrics for Marketing Decisions: Drivers and Implications for Performance', NIM Marketing Intelligence Review, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 18-23.
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Abstract Marketers are using metrics to diagnose, coordinate and monitor customer relationships and marketing efforts, set benchmarking goals to guide marketing implementation, and communicate the results of marketing outcomes with internal and external stakeholders. Even if the number of available metrics is striking, some studies found support for the idea that the more metrics managers employed for their decisions, the better the marketing performance. Studies by the author also showed that using non-financial marketing metrics, such as awareness, willingness to recommend and loyalty, seemed to be associated with better marketing mix performance outcomes than using financial metrics, such as target volume, NPV and net profit. Developing a customer-centric organizational structure encourages managers to consider and develop a greater reliance on metrics.

Mintz, O, Currim, IS & Deshpandé, R 2023, 'National customer orientation: an empirical test across 112 countries', Marketing Letters, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 189-204.
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AbstractCustomer orientation is a central tenet of marketing. However, less is known about how customer orientation varies across countries and time. Mintz, Currim, and Deshpandé (Eur. J. Mark., 56: 1014–1041, 2022) propose a country-level construct, national customer orientation, and develop theoretical propositions on how a country’s wealth and average customer price sensitivity affect national customer orientation during and after global economic shocks without providing an empirical test. This paper tests drivers of national customer orientation by employing World Economic Forum and World Bank annual panel data from 112 countries between 2007 and 2017. The results show that customer orientation is a greater luxury of richer nations and price sensitivity is a partial mediator of that relationship; however, both relationships only transpire in non-recessionary times. The empirical test furthers scholarly research on national customer orientation and provides managers with country-level customer orientation benchmarks across countries and time.

Moasa, H, Cunha, MPE, Clegg, S & Sorea, D 2023, 'Romancing leadership: temporality and the myths of Vlad Dracula', Management & Organizational History, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 119-150.
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Moktadir, MA, Paul, SK, Kumar, A, Luthra, S, Ali, SM & Sultana, R 2023, 'Strategic drivers to overcome the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for ensuring resilience in supply chains', Operations Management Research, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 466-488.
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Nguyen, KQ, Nguyen, TH & Do, BL 2023, 'Narrative attention and related cryptocurrency returns', Finance Research Letters, vol. 56, pp. 104174-104174.
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We investigate the causal relationship between investor attention to prevailing narratives and the returns of narrative-related coins. We find that when a particular narrative gains prevalence, the returns of coins related to that narrative increase significantly. In turn, the higher price growth of coins attracts more investor attention and increases the search queries for the corresponding narrative. Our empirical results suggest that investors can use information on narrative attention to make investment decisions for narrative-related coins. Our research also helps to explain the recent rapid price growth of artificial intelligence-related cryptocurrencies, which is driven by the AI narrative, propelled by the success of ChatGPT.

Niu, Y, Zhao, S & Zou, Z 2023, 'Endogenous discounting, investment and asset pricing', International Journal of Finance & Economics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 644-650.
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AbstractWe extend an equilibrium business cycle/asset pricing model of production and capital accumulation by introducing wealth‐dependent time preferences. First, we find that the aggregate consumption is no longer proportional to the output and the consumption volatility is always lower than the volatility of output. Second, the expected real growth rate is increasing in the capital stock, which leads to a twin‐peak shape of the world wealth distribution as shown in the data. With respect to financial markets, we show that the equity risk premium is reduced by the endogenous discounting and exhibits a cyclical pattern, which depends on the capital stock. Finally, time‐varying discount rate leads to welfare improvement and the welfare gain is decreasing in the capital stock.

Noguti, V, Ho, H, Padigar, M & Zhang, SX 2023, 'Do Individual Ambidexterity and Career Experience Help Technological Startup Founders Acquire Funding?', IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 4162-4174.
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In an extension of the entrepreneurship literature's long-standing emphasis on the role of human capital in attracting startup funding, we propose that tech-based startup founder’s ambidexterity and experience-based human capital have direct and interactive effects on new venture funding. Drawing on the human capital perspective, we consider ambidexterity an ability-based human capital that helps entrepreneurs navigate new venture environments and carry out entrepreneurial tasks more effectively. We compiled a unique dataset by gathering data from Crunchbase, social media sites, and entrepreneur’s online communications posted on Reddit. On the basis of text analyses on 115 startup founder’s public discourse using a purpose-built dictionary to measure ambidexterity, our empirical results confirm that founder ambidexterity has positive effects on tech startup funding and that these effects are moderated by founder’s experience-based human capital in terms of prior career experience and startup creation experience. This finding is complemented by semistructured interviews with venture capitalists providing evidence that funders consider founder ambidexterity in their investment decisions. Implications for literature and practice are discussed.

O’Brien, E, Coneybeer, J, Boersma, M & Payne, A 2023, 'Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors', International Political Science Review, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 609-626.
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This article establishes a new basis for examining the participation, mobilisation and impact of investors at a time when market-based activism for social change is rising in prominence. Existing terminology describing the expression of political values through investment decisions lacks conceptual clarity. Political participation by shareholders and other investors is variously described as shareholder activism or socially responsible investment, and currently conceptualised under the banner of political consumerism. However, this term fails to capture the unique political role and diverse actions of investors. We put forward ‘political investorism’ as a cohering term for investment-based political participation to remedy existing conceptual confusion, to distinguish between investors and consumers as political actors and to set an agenda for the future study of market-based activism. This article defines and develops the concept of political investorism, drawing upon illustrative cases from Australia to identify hallmarks, actors and tactics of this form of political participation.

O’Brien, E, Elbra, A, Boersma, M & Coneybeer, J 2023, 'Political investorism in Australia: unnatural insiders and the insider/outsider dynamics of market lobbying', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 383-403.
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Patil, A, Shardeo, V, Dwivedi, A & Paul, SK 2023, 'An integrated framework for digitalization of humanitarian supply chains in post COVID-19 era', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 87, pp. 103574-103574.
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Patil, A, Shardeo, V, Madaan, J, Dwivedi, A & Paul, SK 2023, 'A study to forecast healthcare capacity dynamics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic', International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 1187-1216.
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PurposeThis study aims to evaluate the dynamics between healthcare resource capacity expansion and disease spread. Further, the study estimates the resources required to respond to a pandemic appropriately.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a system dynamics simulation and scenario analysis to experiment with the modification of the susceptible exposed infected and recovered (SEIR) model. The experiments evaluate diagnostic capacity expansion to identify suitable expansion plans and timelines. Afterwards, two popularly used forecasting tools, artificial neural network (ANN) and auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), are used to estimate the requirement of beds for a period when infection data became available.FindingsThe results from the study reflect that aggressive testing with isolation and integration of quarantine can be effective strategies to prevent disease outbreaks. The findings demonstrate that decision-makers must rapidly expand the diagnostic capacity during the first two weeks of the outbreak to support aggressive testing and isolation. Further, results confirm a healthcare resource deficit of at least two months for Delhi in the absence of these strategies. Also, the study findings highlight the importance of capacity expansion timelines by simulating a range of contact rates and disease infectivity in the early phase of the outbreak when various parameters are unknown. Further, it has been reflected that forecasting tools can effectively estimate healthcare resource requirements when pandemic data is available.Practical implicationsThe models develope...

Patterson, E & Agarwal, R 2023, 'Reducing the gap between rhetoric and reality: Use of Digital Service Standards for public service innovation through digital transformation in Australia', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 557-589.
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AbstractNearly a decade ago, the Australian Federal Government introduced a Digital Service Standard (DSS) for new and redesigned government services. This was an opportunity to encourage digital services and disruptive innovations to help the government improve citizens outcomes, and indeed there was a significant uptake in the digital services assessments offered by the program with key government agencies across health, human services, taxation, and education on board. However, by the 2020s the number of publicly visible assessments had significantly reduced. The initial broad adoption and recent reduction in numbers present an opportunity to explore the effectiveness of this government innovation management program that was ahead of its time. This paper reviews the impact of the DSS in fostering public service innovation and presents lessons learnt from the program. To perform this analysis, this research evaluates to what extent the DSS applied common private sector innovation management approaches of Innovation Process Management and Innovation Portfolio Management in the public sector. It also looks at the impact of these programs in encouraging specific types of modern digital innovations. The analysis draws on DSS assessments from 2015 to 2021 and considers how the program demonstrated public sector innovation leadership. This paper proposes a framework to improve the DSS by tailoring its approach for new and existing services, adopting specific standards to encourage incremental and disruptive innovations, and promoting more transparent reporting and funding of innovation management programs. This evaluation found that the DSS exemplifies Innovation Process Management in its use of stages and gates, and Innovation Portfolio Management in its use of targeted assessment criteria across innovation portfolios of various government agencies. The analysis also identified design limitations in ...

Paul, SK, Chowdhury, P, Chowdhury, MT, Chakrabortty, RK & Moktadir, MA 2023, 'Operational challenges during a pandemic: an investigation in the electronics industry', The International Journal of Logistics Management, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 336-362.
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PurposeThe recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses numerous challenges to supply chains. This pandemic is quite unique when compared to previous epidemic disruptions and has had a severe impact on supply chains. As a result, the operational challenges (OCs) caused by COVID-19 are still unknown among practitioners and academics. It is critical to comprehensively document current OCs so that firms can plan and implement strategies to overcome them. Consequently, this study systematically identifies and ranks COVID-19-related OCs.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses an integrated methodology combining expert interviews and the best-worst method (BWM) to analyze the results. The data have been collected from the electronics industry of Bangladesh, an emerging economy. This study also conducts a sensitivity analysis to check the robustness of the results.FindingsThe results reveal 23 COVID-19-related OCs under five categories: sourcing, production and inventory management, demand management and distribution, return management and after-sales service, and supply chain-wide challenges. The quantitative investigation reveals that overstock in finished goods inventory, low end-customer demands, order cancellations from dealers and retailers, high inventory holding costs and lack of transportation are the top five OCs.Practical implicationsThe findings will help practitioners to understand the OCs and allow them to prepare for future major disruptions and formulate long-term strategies for operations during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul, SK, Moktadir, MA & Ahsan, K 2023, 'Key supply chain strategies for the post-COVID-19 era: implications for resilience and sustainability', The International Journal of Logistics Management, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 1165-1187.
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PurposeThe impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continue to devastate supply chain operations. To attain a competitive advantage in the post-COVID-19 era, decision-makers should explore key supply chain strategies to move forward and ready their policies to be implemented when the crisis sufficiently subsides. This is a significant and practical decision-making issue for any supply chain; hence, the purpose of this study is to explore and analyse key supply chain strategies to ensure robustness and resilience in the post-COVID-19 era.Design/methodology/approachThis study conducted an expert survey targeting practitioners and academics to explore key supply chain strategies as means of moving forward in the post-COVID-19 era. Further, the key strategies were quantitatively analysed by applying the best-worst method (BWM) to determine their priority importance in the context of the manufacturing sector.FindingsThe results revealed that supply chain resilience and sustainability practices could play a dominant role in this period. The findings of the study can assist supply chain decision-makers in their formulations of key strategies.Originality/valueThis is the first study to investigate key supply chain strategies for the post-COVID-19 era. This study will help practitioners paying attention to resilience and sustainability practices for managing the impacts of future large-scale disruptions.

Paul, SK, Moktadir, MA, Sallam, K, Choi, T-M & Chakrabortty, RK 2023, 'A recovery planning model for online business operations under the COVID-19 outbreak', International Journal of Production Research, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 2613-2635.
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Perdomo-Charry, G, Clegg, S & Schweitzer, J 2023, 'Do start-up ecosystems foster start-up performance? The moderating role of network learning capability', The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, pp. 146575032311698-146575032311698.
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This study investigates the relationship between start-up ecosystem (SE) and start-up performance (SP) in two distinct environments. It analyses SE as a critical antecedent of SP by considering the underlying effects of network learning capability (NLC). We test the hypothesized relationships by a study of 221 start-ups in Colombia and 203 start-ups in Australia and validate the theoretical model using survey information. We apply a structural equation modelling partial least squares structural equation modelling and multi-group approaches. The results verify the positive influence of SE on SP independently of NLC development. Nevertheless, network learning as a capability acts as a moderator by establishing the impact of the SE on SP. The moderating is determined by a strong NLC linking the SE's government, financial and organisational support. The findings contribute to the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation with relevant management implications by providing new evidence regarding the benefits of SE in terms of SP effectiveness.

Phua, K, Tham, M & Wei, C 2023, 'Peer Effects in Equity Research', Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 647-676.
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AbstractWe study the importance of peer effects among sell-side analysts who work at the same brokerage house, but cover different firms. By mapping the information network within each brokerage, we identify analysts who occupy central positions in the network. Central analysts incorporate more information from their coworkers and produce better research. Using shocks to network structures around brokerage mergers, we identify the influence of peer effects and the importance of industry expertise on analysts’ performance. A portfolio strategy that exploits the forecast revisions of central analysts earns up to 24% per annum.

Pontes, V, Greer, DA, Pontes, N & Beatson, A 2023, 'Need for distinction moderates customer responses to preferential treatment', Journal of Services Marketing, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 409-419.
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PurposeThis paper aims to examine how individuals’ need for distinction moderates the effect of perceived harm to others as a result of preferential treatment on customers’ attitudes towards the service provider.Design/methodology/approachTwo experiments test the hypothesis that when a customer receives preferential treatment, the effect of perceived harm to others on the customer’s attitudes towards the service provider is moderated by their need for distinction and mediated by negative moral emotions, such that mediation occurs for customers with a lower (but not higher) need for distinction.FindingsWhen customers have a lower need for distinction, they scan the environment to seek information about others when judging their own experience. In contrast, customers with a higher need for distinction tend to disregard others’ opinions and feelings, focusing solely on the benefits they receive from the service provider and avoiding moral emotions. Our results show that customers with a higher need for distinction tend to evaluate the service provider more favourably than those with a lower need for distinction in scenarios where the benefit given to an advantage customer imposes a disadvantage on other customers.Originality/valueTo the best of author’s knowledge, this research is the first to examine the interaction between perceived harm to others and one’s need for distinction as drivers of customers’ response to preferential treatment. The authors are the first to show that negative moral emotions may arise for customers with a lower need for distinction but not for those with a higher n...

Pradies, C, Berti, M, Pina e Cunha, M, Rego, A, Tunarosa, A & Clegg, S 2023, 'A Figure is Worth a Thousand Words: The role of visualization in paradox theorizing', Organization Studies, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 1231-1257.
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Visualization (i.e., the use of figures and images to represent findings and conceptual models) is central to theorizing. Yet, by focusing solely on the textual content of papers, analysis has inadvertently marginalized the graphic representations of key ideas. We review the paradox literature not just in terms of what authors have written but also how they have visualized models concisely. An analysis of figures in paradox articles captures the essential role that visuals play in our understanding of competing tensions, leveraging the power of imagery. We explore paradox visually, searching for the figurative materialization of paradox; more particularly, we seek visual signs that render abstract ideas more saliently and concretely. We contribute to paradox theory in three ways. First, we show how visuals constitute the lynchpin between convergent and divergent forces, allowing scholars to simultaneously reinforce and challenge current understanding. Second, we offer a tool for scholars to theorize competing demands based on three key antinomies, or dualities, that define the terrain of research in our field. Third, we reveal the performative effect of figures by identifying the ongoing dominance of certain classes of paradox visuals, which allows us to point to uncharted territories for paradox research.

Pratap, S, Jauhar, SK, Daultani, Y & Paul, SK 2023, 'Benchmarking sustainable E‐commerce enterprises based on evolving customer expectations amidst COVID‐19 pandemic', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 736-752.
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AbstractThe 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic has seriously impacted the performance of all types of businesses. It has given a tremendous structural boost to e‐commerce enterprises by forcing customers to online shopping over visiting physical stores. Moreover, customer expectations of the digital and operational capabilities of e‐commerce firms are also increasing globally. Thus, it has become crucial for an e‐commerce enterprise to reassess and realign its business practices to meet evolving customer needs and remain sustainable. This paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation framework for e‐commerce enterprises based on evolving customer expectations due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. The framework comprises seven primary criteria, which are further divided into 25 sub‐criteria, including two sustainability factors, namely, environmental sustainability and carbon emissions. The evaluation approach is then practically demonstrated by analyzing the case of three Indian e‐commerce firms. The results are obtained using a multi‐criteria decision‐making (MCDM) method, namely, Fuzzy VIKOR, to capture the fuzziness of the inherent decision‐making problem. Further, numerical analysis is conducted to evaluate and rank various e‐commerce enterprises based on customer expectations and satisfaction benchmarks. The findings explain the most important criteria and sub‐criteria for e‐commerce businesses to ensure customer expectations along with their economic and environmental sustainability.

Pu, R, Chankoson, T, Dong, RK & Song, L 2023, 'Bibliometrics-based visualization analysis of knowledge-based economy and implications to environmental, social and governance (ESG)', Library Hi Tech, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 622-641.
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PurposeThis study brings knowledge economy and sharing to advance environmental, social and governance (ESG). Nevertheless, knowledge economy is a broad research field and dynamic phenomenon. To fill this lacuna, the purpose of this study is to build a link between the literature field of knowledge economy and sharing to advance each ESG limitation. To achieve this aim, the authors have (1) presented the prevailing state of research on the literature field of knowledge economy and sharing and (2) provided future research avenues for understanding the ESG.Design/methodology/approachTherefore, this study has conducted a bibliometrics-based visualization analysis of literature data of 169 publications in knowledge economy field from 2010 to 2020. The authors classify findings into five clusters mapping the evolution of knowledge economy.FindingsThe analytical findings indicate the linkages between these clusters with ESG, as well as the application of knowledge economy to advance ESG limitations. This study offers future research implications for knowledge management scholars and managerial suggestions to ESG practitioners.Originality/valueESG is a newly emerging investment concept and corporate evaluation standard aiming at exploring a sustainable development path and striking a balance between commercial value and corporate social responsibility. But the status quo indicates identical ESG limitations due to the board of directors’ limited knowledge capacity, inconsistent and ununified ESG measurement and a lack of ESG information. In parallel, knowledge economy has increasingly created a h...

Rahman, HF, Chakrabortty, RK, Paul, SK & Elsawah, S 2023, 'Optimising vaccines supply chains to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic', International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-33.
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Rahman, T, Paul, SK, Shukla, N, Agarwal, R & Taghikhah, F 2023, 'Dynamic supply chain risk management plans for mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic', International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, vol. 10, no. 1.
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Raian, S, Siddiqua, T, Abdul Moktadir, M & Rahman, T 2023, 'An empirical model for identifying and controlling operational and environmental risks in spinning industry in an emerging economy', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 180, pp. 109244-109244.
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Reshad, AI, Biswas, T, Agarwal, R, Paul, SK & Azeem, A 2023, 'Evaluating barriers and strategies to sustainable supply chain risk management in the context of an emerging economy', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 4315-4334.
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AbstractWith increasing awareness about society and the environment, industries are urged to develop and implement sustainable supply chain (SSC) processes. However, the risk of non‐compliance against these SSC processes to manage overall business risks, namely, avoiding reputational damage and managing financial losses, is increasingly receiving senior management attention. Given these shortcomings, the objective of this research is twofold, namely, (i) to identify and evaluate barriers adopting sustainable supply chain risk management (SSCRM) processes and (ii) to prioritize SSCRM strategies to overcome these barriers in an emerging economy, namely, Bangladesh. To achieve the objectives, this study develops a framework by integrating the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and VIsekriterijumska optimizacija i KOmpromisno Resenje (VIKOR). The results show that the “information‐related barriers” are most prevalent among the categories of barriers, and “lack of coordination and collaboration” has been identified as the most significant barrier. Evaluating the strategies, “top management commitment” is the best strategy. These findings can help managers develop strategies to overcome the most significant barriers to adopting SSCRM. The proposed framework, which integrates quantitative and qualitative approaches, can be used by decision‐makers to make accurate, prompt, and systematic decisions compliant with SSCRM business processes.

Rhodes, C 2023, 'The Ethics of Organizational Ethics', Organization Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 497-514.
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This Perspectives article reviews research on organizational ethics presented in a select group of articles from Organization Studies, each of which draws inspiration, directly or indirectly, from the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. This work is commended for how it has wrestled the locus of ethicality away from organizational authority and instead examined ethics in relation to the actions and interactions of those subject to that authority. Collectively, these articles articulate organizational ethics as an affective, relational and embodied response to the needs of others. Such ethics motivates political engagement in resistance to oppression and domination meted out by organizational authority. Acknowledging the significance of this contribution, the present article examines how the research reviewed is remiss for its latent humanism and the attendant risk of assuming that the actions of individual ethical subjects are morally superior to organized forms of ethics. The source of this ethical privileging of individual subjects comes from a failure to distinguish between the practice of ethics in organizations and the originary ethics of ethics. Following Levinas, the latter is understood as the passive and pre-subjective call to responsibility for the other with whom one is organized and that precedes any concrete proposal for an organizational ethics. By acknowledging the ethics of ethics, we see that affective, interpersonal ethics and more formally organized ethics can both be translations of the ethics of ethics, each being necessarily imperfect. The tension between authoritative and interpersonal forms of ethics in organizations is not a problem for ethics, but rather a condition of the possibility of organizational ethics itself.

Rhodes, C & Pullen, A 2023, 'The good business school', Organization, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 1273-1280.
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As Organization celebrates its 30th Anniversary, this paper asks: what might it mean to be a good business school? The paper reviews research published in this journal to assess the current state of business schools, revealing a somewhat dismal picture of institutions beholden to instrumental managerialism, top-down hierarchical control, obsession with metrics, and narrow and elitist research agendas. This state of affairs is re-assessed though Raewyn Connell’s idea of The Good University. Through this analysis, we are able to identify the good business school as one serves society by educating citizens and creating knowledge that leads to shared prosperity, social equality and human flourishing.

Roozkhosh, P, Pooya, A & Agarwal, R 2023, 'Blockchain acceptance rate prediction in the resilient supply chain with hybrid system dynamics and machine learning approach', Operations Management Research, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 705-725.
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In today’s era, the importance and implementation of blockchain networks have become feasible as it improves the resilience of the supply chain network at all levels by clarifying information and creating security in the network, improving the speed of response, and gaining the trust of customers. This paper aims to investigate the behavior of the blockchain acceptance rate (BAR) in the home appliances flexible supply chain in Iran using. system dynamics (SD), which is used to better define the relationships between the variables of the model that are non-linearly connected. Through simulating the behavior of the BAR in the long term in the supply chain, whilst conducting sensitivity analysis, policy design, and validation, this model will be implemented for the years 2020 to 2030. Additionally, post-simulation, blockchain acceptance behavior will be assessed by having simulated data considered as input for studied Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Vector Regression (SVR) (data that have the highest correlation with BAR). The acceptance rate behavior is predicted with the help of machine learning methods to have the best behavior and prediction for the data of 2020-2022 since the prediction function is compared to daily real data obtained these years. The results show that in 2030, the BAR will be around 0.6 if the COVID-19 outbreak impact is medium, and if the considered policy designs are implemented, this rate will reach a maximum of 0.8. So paying attention to the creation and design of policies can achieve positive implications for increasing the resilience of the supply chain in the long run. Findings suggest that the SD-MLP method is better than the SD-SVR method as it has less error and can predict the better behavior of the BAR.

Sameti, A 2023, 'Strategic horizon of market success: comparing alternative “strategic landscapes” of the new product development process', Journal of Product & Brand Management, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 1063-1081.
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Purpose The success rate of new products is stubbornly low. This paper aims to explore the differences in how product designers and product managers approach the new product development task by comparing their perspectives on the process. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted a worldwide survey of professional product designers and managers and compared their perspectives. Findings Managers struggle to understand the problem to be solved until they see the solution in the form of an outstanding product design. Designers struggle to develop new products until they have a specific and insightful understanding of the problem that needs to be solved. Practical implications Designers’ and managers’ ways of thinking are different, and effective collaboration depends on them being cognizant of each other’s ways of thinking; the success of their work is highly interdependent. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first study that simultaneously investigates both product designers and managers to reveal the paradoxical dynamics between their perspectives.

Sarkar, S, Waldman‐Brown, A & Clegg, S 2023, 'A digital ecosystem as an institutional field: curated peer production as a response to institutional voids revealed by COVID‐19', R&D Management, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 695-708.
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This paper investigates the ecosystem dynamics of the Open‐source [COVID‐19] Medical Supplies network that arose to fill the institutional void revealed by state and private sector failures to stockpile and supply enough personal protective equipment. Theoretically, the paper adds correctives to extant institutional theory accounts of entrepreneurship filling institutional voids, showing that these can be filled rapidly and normatively by digital entrepreneurial ecosystems allied with peer production networks. These were able to transform the boundary conditions of a routinized system, refixing its autopoiesis innovatively. The COVID‐19 epidemic galvanized hundreds of thousands of volunteer “makers” around the world to cooperate to meet urgent demand for medical supplies. A digital entrepreneurial ecosystem arose in response to the problem of critical equipment shortages, connecting global, expert‐curated know‐how with local production equipment. We contribute to the theory of institutional voids by documenting and analyzing how the formation and emergent processes that created and sustained a Digital Peer Production Ecosystem based on self‐organization, expert curation and scalability, successfully catalyzed local initiatives worldwide. Institutional voids are not just barriers to entrepreneurship; they are also opportunities.

Schweinsberg, S 2023, 'Complementarity: bridging the tourism academic/religion divide', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 627-629.
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Schweinsberg, S 2023, 'Religion, spirituality, and the formation of tourism knowledge', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 593-604.
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Sepehr, S, Carlson, J, Rosenberger III, P & Pandit, A 2023, 'Social media discussion forums, home country and immigrant consumer acculturation: the case of Iranian immigrants in Australia', Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 136-149.
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PurposeSocial media has transformed communication possibilities for immigrant consumers with their home country in their acculturation efforts. However, the acculturative outcomes of consumer interactions with the home country through social media are largely overlooked in previous research. This study aims to investigate the acculturative processes and outcomes resulting from interacting with the home country through social media.Design/methodology/approachA netnographic approach is used to collect data from a social media platform that provides an interactive social context in which Iranian immigrants in Australia share their experiences of immigration with non-immigrants who are considering and planning to migrate to Australia.FindingsFindings show how both immigrants and non-immigrant users via social media reflexively contribute to the formation of two competing collective narratives, namely, the dominant, romanticizing narrative and counter, pragmatic narratives. Findings highlight how notions of the home and host countries, and the idea of migrating from home to host, are constructed as the result of the circulation of the dominant and counter narratives. Further findings include how these two collective narratives come into play in the formation of three acculturative outcomes, namely, self-validating, ordinary experts and wellbeing. These insights extend consumer acculturation theory through highlighting the acculturative processes and outcomes of interactions with the home country via a social media platform. This includes, for example, how interacting with the home culture can take on assimilationist properties through the construction of a romanticized representation of th...

Sepehr, S, Holzmüller, H & Rosenberger, PJ 2023, 'City, Consumption and Interculturalism: How Cities Can Facilitate Consumer Acculturation', Australasian Marketing Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 303-313.
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With the rise of interculturalism as an alternative paradigm to the dominant multicultural integration policies in immigration countries, the importance of cities, as landscapes of intercultural interactions and consumption has become more and more important. This study aims to investigate how cities and city-related consumption practices play a role in consumer acculturation, an area that is largely overlooked in previous research. A hermeneutic approach is used to analyse and interpret the data collected through semi-structured and unstructured go-along interviews with 18 Iranian immigrants who live in Dortmund, Germany. Beyond the dichotomy of the home and host countries, the findings of this study show how city-related activities and interactions can lead to the construction of a sense of belonging to the hosting society. We show how such a sense of belonging can be constructed through immigrant consumers’ involvement in city-related rituals, private appropriation of public space and reterritorialisation.

Shan, Y & Wright, S 2023, 'Contemporary Challenges: Spotlight on Climate, Cryptocurrencies and SME Practices', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 229-229.
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Shan, Y & Wright, S 2023, 'Editorial', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 3-4.
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Shan, Y & Wright, S 2023, 'Focus on the Future', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 335-335.
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Shan, Y & Wright, S 2023, 'Keeping up with the Changing World of Accounting', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 109-109.
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Sharp, P, Oliffe, JL, Bottorff, JL, Rice, SM, Schulenkorf, N & Caperchione, CM 2023, 'Connecting Australian Masculinities and Culture to Mental Health: Men’s Perspectives and Experiences', Men and Masculinities, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 112-133.
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Masculinities and culture are intertwined and have significant implications for men’s mental health. This study aimed to explore influences of Australian masculinities and culture on men’s mental health. Five focus groups were conducted with men ( N = 43) living in New South Wales, Australia. Three overarching themes were identified: (1) a history of strength and self-reliance: taketh as we are, she’ll be right, (2) social and geographical divides: surrounded by men but never actually connecting, and (3) male socialisation and generational dissidence: not getting the wisdom from the men that have gone before me. Participants’ perspectives and experiences offer a reference point and lens for understanding challenges and enhancing efforts to promote Australian men’s mental health. Gender transformative program strategies are proposed to promote men’s mental health and help-seeking.

Shi, Y, Zheng, X, Venkatesh, VG, Humdan, EAI & Paul, SK 2023, 'The impact of digitalization on supply chain resilience: an empirical study of the Chinese manufacturing industry', Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-11.
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PurposeFacing turbulent environments, firms have strived to achieve greater supply chain resilience (SCR) to leverage the resources and knowledge of supply chain members. Both SCR and supply chain integration (SCI) require digitization in the supply chain, but their interrelationships have rarely been researched empirically. This paper aims to uncover the impact of digital technology (DT) on SCR and SCI and the role of SCI in mediating between DT and SCR.Design/methodology/approachChina manufacturing enterprises were surveyed through a Web-based questionnaire, and 96 responses were received. Structural equation modeling was used to test the conceptual model.FindingsThe level of enterprise digitization is not directly related to supply chain resilience, but the level of enterprise digitization has a positive impact on the improvement of SCI and SCI also has a positive effect on SCR. Therefore, SCI has a complete intermediary effect between the level of DT and SCR.Originality/valueThis is a pioneer study to examine the relationships among DT, SCI and SCR. The findings of this study present that firms need to improve DT, SCI and SCR consequently.

Silva, USKD, Paul, A, Hasan, KW, Paul, SK, Ali, SM & Chakrabortty, RK 2023, 'Examining risks and strategies for the spice processing supply chain in the context of an emerging economy', International Journal of Emerging Markets, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 1124-1146.
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PurposeManaging supply chain risk is a crucial element in ensuring the long-term sustainability of any organization or industry. As such, identification of risks and deploying their mitigation strategies should be the focal point to sustain in the long run. The risks that are faced by food processing supply chains are gaining prominence, given more consumers requiring higher quality products while ensuring traceability. In essence, this research focuses on the supply chain risks and mitigation strategies in the spice industry of an emerging economy, Sri Lanka.Design/methodology/approachThis paper integrates two popular multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques, such as the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to assess the supply chain risks and to derive their mitigation strategies for the spice industry.FindingsFindings show that “inability to meet quality requirements” has been established as the most significant risk in the Sri Lankan spice industry. On the other hand, “vertical integration” (backward integration) has been discovered as the key mitigation strategy to ameliorate the effects of supply chain risks in this sector.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is exploratory, and more empirical data and statistical analyses are needed to further validate the outcomes of the study.Originality/valueDespite being one of the largest trade exporters in Sri Lanka, the spice industry gets scant attention to...

Simpson, AV, Panayiotou, A, Berti, M, e Cunha, MP, Kanji, S & Clegg, S 2023, 'Pandemic, power and paradox: Improvising as the New Normal during the COVID-19 crisis', Management Learning, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 3-13.
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The global COVID-19 pandemic made salient various paradoxical tensions, such as the trade-offs between individual freedom and collective safety, between short term and long-term consequences of adaptation to the new conditions, the power implications of sameness (COVID-19 was non-discriminatory in that all were affected in one way or another) and difference (yet not all were affected equally due to social differences), whereas most businesses became poorer under lockdown, others flourished; while significant numbers of workers were confined to home, some could not return home; some thrived while working from home as others were challenged by the erosion of barriers between their private and working lives. Rapid improvisational responding and learning at all levels of society presented itself as a naturally occurring research opportunity for improvisation scholars. This improvisation saw the arrival of a ‘New Normal’, eventually defined as ‘learning to live with COVID-19’. The five articles in this special issue capture critical aspects of improvisation, paradoxes and power made salient by the COVID-19 pandemic in contexts ranging from higher-education, to leadership, to medical care and virtue ethics. In their own ways, each breaks new ground by contributing novel insights into improvisation scholarship.

Smith, AE, Zlatevska, N, Chowdhury, RMMI & Belli, A 2023, 'A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 188, no. 3, pp. 553-588.
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Spiropoulos, H & Zhao, R 2023, 'Stock liquidity, cash flow sensitivity and the value of cash', International Review of Economics & Finance, vol. 88, pp. 1565-1581.
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Stacey, M, McGrath-Champ, S & Wilson, R 2023, 'Teacher attributions of workload increase in public sector schools: Reflections on change and policy development', Journal of Educational Change, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 971-993.
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Suggett, DJ, Edwards, M, Cotton, D, Hein, M & Camp, EF 2023, 'An integrative framework for sustainable coral reef restoration', One Earth, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 666-681.
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Suzuki, T 2023, 'Endogenous ambiguity and rational miscommunication', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 211, pp. 105686-105686.
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This paper studies a sender-receiver game in which both players want the receiver to choose the state-optimal action. Before observing the state, the sender observes a “contextual signal,” a payoff-irrelevant signal that correlates with states and is imperfectly shared with the receiver. Once the sender observes the state, the sender sends a message to the receiver, incurring a small messaging cost. It is shown that there is no miscommunication in any efficient equilibrium if the messaging cost is uniform or contextual information is poorly shared between players. However, if the messaging costs are different between some messages, and contextual information can affect the probability ranking of states and is shared reasonably well, any efficient equilibrium that favors the sender exhibits miscommunication. Furthermore, the messages that cause miscommunication can be coarse or ambiguous, depending on how well players share contextual information.

Taylor, S & Wakefield, J 2023, 'Business school doctoral programs and the future of business research', Australian Journal of Management, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 471-494.
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We apply a neo-institutional theoretical lens to interpret the extent of any significant similarities or differences in doctoral programmes across business schools in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Overall, we characterise the state of doctoral education in business as lacking adequate funding, primarily attracting students with limited professional or industrial experience but having diverse approaches to the role of formal training as part of the doctoral programme. Although we view these findings as somewhat inevitable given institutional and isomorphic pressures, they are of concern if ANZ business schools are to produce research that is both rigorous and relevant beyond the academy. Comparisons across institutional groupings and discipline areas largely suggest relatively common approaches to doctoral programme design and administration across and within institutions. JEL Classification: M00

Temnyalov, E 2023, 'An Information Theory of Efficient Differential Treatment', American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 323-358.
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When are differential treatment policies—such as preferential treatment, affirmative action, and gender equity policies—justified by efficiency concerns? I propose a nonparametric assignment model where a policymaker assigns agents to different treatments or positions to maximize total surplus, based on the agents’ characteristics and noisy information about their types. I provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the agents’ signal structures, which characterize whether surplus maximization requires differential treatment or not, and study how the bias and informativeness of signal structures determine the efficiency implications of differential treatment. I examine implications of this model for inequality, decentralization, and empirical work. (JEL D63, D82, D83, I23, I24, J71)

Tinson, J, Sinclair, G & Gordon, R 2023, 'How value is disrupted in football fandom, and how fans respond', European Sport Management Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 411-428.
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Toner, P, Agarwal, R, Li, H, Bajada, C, Paul, S, Phan, Y, Pugalia, S & Green, R 2023, 'AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol. 2023, no. 91, pp. 31-55.

Vafadarnikjoo, A, Moktadir, MA, Paul, SK & Ali, SM 2023, 'A novel grey multi-objective binary linear programming model for risk assessment in supply chain management', Supply Chain Analytics, vol. 2, pp. 100012-100012.
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Van Essen, M & Wooders, J 2023, 'Dual auctions for assigning winners and compensating losers', Economic Theory, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 1069-1114.
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Veal, AJ 2023, 'Cultural participation as a human right: holding nation states to account', International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 686-700.
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Veal, AJ 2023, 'Everyday life and Everyday Leisure', International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 225-248.
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AbstractA substantial body of theory exists on the concept of everyday life, including the sociology of everyday life, but it has barely featured in the mainstream of the sociological study of leisure or leisure studies more broadly. This paper explores this theoretical work and considers the place of leisure in it, and how it might inform the further development of the study of leisure. It is argued that the time is right to broaden the scope of leisure research to incorporate consideration of the way in which all forms of everyday time-use interact.

Veal, AJ 2023, 'Sport and human rights: assessing the performance of nation states in assuring the right to sport participation', European Journal for Sport and Society, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 140-160.
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Veal, AJ 2023, 'The 4-day work-week: the new leisure society?', Leisure Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 172-187.
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Current campaigns for a four-day, 32-hour standard working week to replace the five-day, 40-hour model have attracted the attention of employers, trade unions, political parties, governments and the communications media but, seemingly, not of leisure scholars. This is in contrast to the leisure society concept of the 1960s/1970s, some versions of which anticipated a 30-hour working week. This paper examines the 4-day work-week proposition from a leisure point of view. It summarises: some of the antecedent twentieth century calls for shorter working weeks; the twenty-first-century advocacy literature for the 4-day week; and the growing list of live trials of the concept. An analysis is offered of the goals of the 4-day week proposition and its proponents’ response to anticipated opposition. It is concluded that, in the interests of social relevance, there is a role for leisure scholars to play in critically evaluating the 4-day work-week proposition, in general and in regard to its implications for leisure.

Virmani, N, Agarwal, V, Karuppiah, K, Agarwal, S, Raut, RD & Paul, SK 2023, 'Mitigating barriers to adopting electric vehicles in an emerging economy context', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 414, pp. 137557-137557.
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Wakefield, J & Tyler, J 2023, 'Does active participation via integrated questions in large lectures matter?', Heliyon, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. e15873-e15873.
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Wang, KK, Cheng, MM & Chang, LJ 2023, 'Reducing Strategy Surrogation: The Effects of Performance Measurement System Flexibility and Environmental Dynamism', The Accounting Review, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 435-456.
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ABSTRACT Prior research shows that individuals exhibit a propensity to surrogate performance measures for their underlying strategy, resulting in suboptimal strategic decisions. We investigate whether the incorporation of flexibility in contemporary performance measurement systems (PMSs) reduces surrogation propensity in the context of product innovation and whether this effect varies depending on environmental dynamism. We conduct a 2 × 2 experiment and find that PMS flexibility significantly lowers managers' surrogation propensity when the business environment is more dynamic and when the investment decisions have opportunity costs. Our study contributes to the literature by identifying a viable way to reduce managers' surrogation propensity.

Wang, KK, Dyball, MC & Wang, A 2023, 'The link between formality and procedural fairness: The influences of precision, sensitivity and role clarity', Accounting & Finance, vol. 63, no. S1, pp. 1571-1598.
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AbstractThis study investigates the complex and not straight‐forward association between formality and procedural fairness. It examines the mediating roles of precision of performance measures, sensitivity of performance measures and role clarity. Using survey responses of functional managers of Australian manufacturing firms, the study finds that the link between formality and procedural fairness is mediated by sensitivity of performance measures and role clarity. Role clarity also mediates the link between sensitivity of performance measures and procedural fairness. Our study contributes to the literature by identifying two important factors through which formal performance evaluation can enhance procedural fairness, which is a source of performance motivation.

Wang, L, Wu, B, Pechmann, C & Wang, Y 2023, 'The performance effects of creative imitation on original products: Evidence from lab and field experiments', Strategic Management Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 171-196.
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AbstractResearch SummaryA market entrant often challenges the incumbent using creative imitation: The entrant creatively combines imitated aspects of the original with its own innovative characteristics to create a distinct offering. Using lab and field experiments to examine creative imitation in China, we find the effects of creative imitations on the originals depend on the creative imitation's quality. We explore the underlying mechanisms, and show that including a low‐quality creative imitation in the retail choice set increases satisfaction with and choice of the original, while a moderate‐quality creative imitation does the opposite. Moreover, creative imitation affects consumers' satisfaction with the original by influencing whether their experience with the original verifies their expectations. Our paper reveals creative imitation effects to help incumbent firms effectively address them.Managerial SummaryWhen the incumbent is challenged by an entrant using creative imitation, consumers may react differently to the incumbent, and understanding consumers' reactions allows the incumbent to make better strategic decisions about how to address the challenge. Using lab and field experiments, we investigate creative imitations with two quality levels common in our empirical context, low quality and moderate quality, and examine how and why they differentially affect the originals. We find the presence of a low‐quality creative imitation actually increased choice of the original by enhancing consumers' satisfaction with it, while a moderate‐quality creative imitation reduced choice of the original by undermining satisfaction with it. Our research suggests the incumbent should address moderate‐quality creative imitations' challenges to customer satisfaction, while tempora...

Whitley, MA, Welty Peachey, J, Leitermann, J, Shin, N & Cohen, A 2023, 'University–Organization Collaboration in Sport for Development: Understanding Practitioners’ Perspectives and Experiences in Research and Evaluation Partnerships', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 389-402.
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Despite a growing body of scholarship exploring university–organization collaborations in the sport for development (SfD) field, there has been limited consideration of the experiences of practitioners and partnering organizations in these partnerships. The purpose of this study was to examine their experiences when partnering with academic institutions, programs, scholars, and/or students, with a specific focus on research and evaluation partnerships. Interviews were conducted with 22 participants working at 20 SfD organizations in the United States. Findings were organized into six main categories (e.g., motivations, factors that facilitate or impede collaboration, collaboration outcomes). A conceptual process framework for university–organization collaboration emerged from the data. This study is one of the first in the SfD field to examine practitioners’ perspectives of university–organization collaborations centered on research and evaluation activities. The findings help advance the SfD field, identifying the various factors at play as these partnerships are formed, activated, and sustained.

Wilson, R, Evans, J & Macniven, R 2023, 'Long term trends in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth sport participation 2005–2019', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 89-99.
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© 2020 Australia and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies. Physical activity is essential for good health and sport participation is an important contributor to physical activity. Sport can achieve many health and broader social benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (Indigenous Australians). Children’s physical activity typically declines during teenage years. This study examined 14-year sport participation trends among youth aged 15–19 years. Indigenous youth sport participant levels were lower than non-Indigenous levels. The highest sports participation level was 80.1% (non-Indigenous males, 2016); the lowest was 56.8% (Indigenous females, 2018). Lower sport participation was reported by females compared to males in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups in each survey year with the lowest levels found among Indigenous females. These findings challenge current discourses of high Indigenous sport participation. A comprehensive understanding of the factors related to sports participation is required to inform future strategies and programmes to increase participation and contribute to closing health and broader equity gaps.

Wright, CEF 2023, 'Board Games: Antecedents of Australia’s Interlocking Directorates, 1910–2018', Enterprise & Society, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 589-616.
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Interlocking directorates can encourage innovation, cooperation, and adherence to best practices or can contribute to collusion, corruption, and the stagnation of ideas. Research has identified the contingent nature of director networks, with outcomes dependent on the nature of the tie; the firms and individuals involved; and the institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural context. Distinguishing between helpful and harmful interlocks thus requires understanding the foundations on which they were built. This article is the first systematic, longitudinal analysis of the antecedents of interlocking directorates in Australia, complementing substantial international efforts to understand and compare director networks across the twentieth century. The network has been characterized by a relatively consistent long-run level of connection but substantial variation in the causes of interlocks. The director network in Australia has responded to the pragmatics of the board member occupation, with corporate governance regulations, the progress of the professions, banking and prudential practices, and the form of large organizations encouraging ties that were built on professional expertise and geographic proximity. These findings are important for policy makers, regulatory bodies, and scholars, highlighting the importance of understanding the contextual foundations of interlocks when assessing their potential for harm.

Yan, L & Murray, KB 2023, 'The motivational dynamics of arousal and values in promoting sustainable behavior: A cognitive energetics perspective', International Journal of Research in Marketing, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 679-699.
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Yang, JS, Bedford, A & Bugeja, M 2023, 'Director expertise and co‐option in industry superannuation funds?', Accounting & Finance, vol. 63, no. S1, pp. 1249-1283.
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AbstractThis study examines whether independent directors who possess financial expertise and are independent from the CEO (i.e., non‐co‐opted) are associated with improved outcomes for industry superannuation funds. Our results highlight that independence alone is insufficient to improve fund outcomes. Instead, we find that only non‐co‐opted independent directors benefit fund members in terms of higher performance and lower fees. Moreover, we find that independent directors' financial expertise is not associated with fund performance and fees. Our study has implications for regulators and superannuation funds who are currently debating the need for one‐third independent directors on the board of Australian superannuation funds.

Yu, K-H & Pekarek, A 2023, 'Bridging industrial relations and critical management studies: Work, resistance, and alternate imaginings in late capitalism', Organization, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 1252-1258.
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The study of work is central to understanding how changes in organizations and their environments impact lives and livelihoods. While industrial sociology and its concern with the organization of work are foundational to management and organization studies, scholars have bemoaned the waning interest in work and its evolution within these fields. In this article we seek to re-energize this tradition, arguing that Critical Management Studies (CMS) and Industrial Relations (IR)—two disciplines whose core interests concern work and its changing nature—have much to gain from further cross-fertilization. As Organization becomes a recognized platform for scholarship on the organization of work, we submit that more could be done to bring IR’s intellectual legacy into CMS approaches, and that doing so will yield mutual benefits. We focus here on IR’s core concerns with rules and regulatory frameworks, and collectivities over individualities. Similarly, IR can benefit from integrating and building on insights developed in CMS. We argue that CMS as a whole offers lessons for IR in at least three ways: (i) the emphasis on cultural dominance over workers; (ii) recognition of social and identity-based fault lines that define life and work experiences; and (iii) attention to the social construction of subjectivities. In closing, we suggest four areas that cross-fertilization between IR and CMS is likely to greatly contribute to: resistance in late capitalism, alternative organizations, inclusion, and the “future of work.”

Zhou, Y, Liu, P, Teng, M & Wang, Z 2023, 'Back to roots: TMTs’ country-specific experience, FDI preference, and political center favoritism', International Business Review, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 102103-102103.
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Zhou, Y, Liu, Z, Wang, M, Dong, RK & Yue, X-G 2023, 'Evaluating the impacts of education and digitalization on renewable energy demand behaviour: new evidence from Japan', Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 1-13.
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Ahuja, S 1970, 'Clinicians’ experiences of the implementation of Electronic Medical Records for Intensive Care in NSW', Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society, Darwin, Australia.

Ahuja, S 1970, 'Technology and Identity in healthcare: Clinicians experiences of the implementation of a new technology in intensive care units.', European Group for Organizational Studies, Cagliari, Sardinia, 2023.
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This paper reports on an ethnographic field study of three public hospitals in Australia implementing a new technology for intensive care units (ICU). ICU is a dynamic work environment where time is a precious commodity for all healthcare workers involved in patient care. This is because patients in the ICU require prompt assessments and regimented treatment administration. Typically clinicians provide such care while also completing a myriad of other tasks in each shift (Mador and Shaw, 2009). Busy and often overcrowded units, combined with a shortage of highly trained clinicians and allied healthcare workers, contribute to the struggle to meet the demands of high volumes of complex patients, emerging new technologies, and staffing shortages that challenge the provision of high-quality care (Kirk et al., 2019). In these environments, policy and management focus has shifted to improvement strategies and reorganization of care, to optimize efficiency and quality of care. However, although management researchers have paid a lot of attention to workers as “human capital”, or in other words, the object of managers’ efforts they have paid far less attention to workers as subjects. In this article, therefore, my focus is on healthcare workers and how they navigate their identities and practices in a rapidly changing world of work. In doing so, this paper responds to recent calls to address how emerging technologies impact our understanding of organizing (Bailey et al., 2019; Murray et al., 2021; Von Krogh, 2018) by exploring the experiences of workers during implementation of a new technology.

Ahuja, S & Weatherall, R 1970, '‘I wear red lipstick to stand out from the sea of black’: Fashioned space and fashioning space by women in Architecture firms', The Standing Conference of Organizational Symbolism, Paris, France.

Ahuja, S & Weatherall, R 1970, '‘The only place to get peace and quiet around here is in the women’s toilet!’: Women as agents in the (re)creation of gendered space in elite architecture firms', Process Organization Studies, Chania, Crete.

Atkins, R, Schweitzer, J & Wood, R 1970, 'Barriers and enablers of entrepreneurship success for veterans and former athletes', Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Brisbane.
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When people transition from a military or professional sports career into a new career, they are often unaware of how their professional identity, skills and experience can help or hinder their future success as entrepreneurs. There has been a growing interest in researching the transition of professional sports people. However, the research is nascent and fragmented, with no common definitions, a lack of conceptual clarity and few empirical studies. Our understanding of how veterans and athletes transition successfully into self-employment and entrepreneurship is insufficient. Yet, there is a continued rise in people transitioning into entrepreneurial career paths due to changing work conditions, the pandemic, technological advancements and the desire of many professionals for more flexible working settings. Transitioning out of any career presents people with instability and uncertainty, which can significantly affect people’s life. Some recent research found that American military veterans are nearly twice as likely to be self-employed as nonveterans. People transitioning out of the military or sports have little or no barriers to transferring the skills they have acquired. For example, in military training and professional sport, roles and tasks are clearly defined, the skills required to be successful and success metrics are articulated unambiguously. Such clear expectations provide a goal and vision, even a mental image, of what needs to be done to succeed. Entrepreneurship similarly includes planning, leadership, risk mitigation, decision-making, and communication, skills that veterans would have acquired. Yet, individuals often struggle with self-awareness, adopting an entrepreneurial mindset, and developing a new career identity. Building on the research of self-identity, micro-identities, belongingness and distinctiveness and applying social cognitive theory, we explore in this study the barriers and enablers that contribute to entrepreneurial...

Attree, K, Gainsford, A, Sainty, R, Bajada, C & Manton, D 1970, 'From compliance to collaboration: critically reflecting on the process of embedding an Indigenous Graduate Attribute in an undergraduate business program.', 36th ANZAM Conference: Changing management values and practices for a sustainable future, ANZAM, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 790-805.
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Calls for Australian universities to embed Indigenous content into curriculum are more than a decade old yet this work remains largely incomplete. Institutional commitments made at senior level to achieve these outcomes can lack direction, guidance, and support at the coalface. Using a critical reflection methodology this paper outlines the approach undertaken by a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics to embed a contextualised Indigenous graduate attribute into a traditional undergraduate business degree with multiple majors. The results indicate that collaborative approaches based on relationships and trust and supported with clear guidelines and processes can achieve positive outcomes. A focus on professional capabilities can enhance non-Indigenous staff confidence to teach this content and allay concerns about misappropriation of Indigenous Knowledges.

Bickett, D, Clegg, S, Berti, M & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Curiosity as a Practice: a practice lens perspective', European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Cagliari, Italy.
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In this paper, we draw on extant studies about curiosity and practice to analyse and frame curiosity as a salient social practice for organizations. We go beyond the psychological applications of curiosity to consider the social practices of ‘doing’ curiosity. We draw on the strategy as practice (SAP) literature and propose a curiosity as practice (CaP) conceptual framework. We argue that CaP is enacted at the nexus of three practices—sociomateriality, discursivity and agency—collectively enabling CaP to engage and connect with other practice bundles, including decision-making, sensemaking and strategising. Finally, we discuss the implications of our conceptual research and suggest an agenda of empirical research aligned with the CaP conceptual framework.

Cagarman, K & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Life design and design thinking: understanding the role of mindset', European Academy of Management Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
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Life Design got a lot of attention as a tool for self-development and life planning. The courses or workshops are guided by the design thinking process and supported by positive psychology interventions. The design thinking approach is mostly used for its process which guides the structure of the course and its tools which are used throughout the course. However, not enough attention is paid to the design thinking mindset. This article discusses first ideas on how far the design thinking mindset can be taken over from the traditional approach to life design. Nine mindset attributes are examined on their adaptability to life design. This is done by using an example of a life design course taught at the Technical University of Berlin. The article proposes several possible future research directions.

Joachim, G, Whales, L & Frawley, S 1970, 'Enhancing leisure education with a transdisciplinary focus on human-centred design thinking', Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies, Auckland.

Kaya, E 1970, 'Creative Problem Solving for Business Postgraduate Students', International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Kaya, E 1970, 'Redeveloping Sydney’s Darling Harbour', The 33rd Annual CAUTHE Conference, Curtin, Murdoch & ECU, Fremantle, Western Australia, pp. 346-346.
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This exploratory research discusses the redevelopment of Darling Harbour with the intention to create a new place for people in terms of tourism, education, recreation, entertainment, and cultural and commercial activities. It states the significance of Darling Harbour in the industrial development of Australia and aims to create an impact on future planning decisions of similar places. From a critical tourism perspective, it argues that the case study area has been regenerated as a consumption space while it used to be a place for production in Australian industrial history. The research employs a qualitative case study approach based on extensive archival document analysis, site observation and semi-structured interviews. It explores the process and implications of the transformation of Darling Harbour on its industrial values. The findings argue that the development decision announced by the State Government of NSW in early 1984 resulted in the loss of industrial identity for the place.

Lee, J, Gershoff, A & Han, J 1970, 'Sharing Personal Information for Connection: The Effect of Social Exclusion on Consumer Self-Disclosure to Brands', AMA Marketing and Public Policy Conference, Arlington, VA, USA.

Marupanthorn, P, Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C, Ofosu-hene, E, Peters, G & Richards, K-A 1970, 'Mechanisms to incentivise fossil fuel divestment and implications to investors risk and returns', Accounting and Finance Association of Australia & New Zealand Annual Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.

Maulidina, A & Sepehr, S 1970, 'Acculturation in situ: How trigger-city marketing formsconsumers’ taste', Association for Consumer Research (ACR) Conference, Seattle, WA.

Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C, Thomas, A & Wang, J 1970, 'Liquidity provision channels and oil price volatility', Commodity and Energy Markets Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

Nikitopoulos Sklibosios, C, Thomas, A & Wang, J 1970, 'Liquidity provision channels and oil price volatility', International Commodities Research Symposium of J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities & Energy Management, Denver, USA.

Nikolova, N, Schweitzer, J & Bobyreff, N 1970, 'Innovation in established organizations: The impact of senior managers on corporate entrepreneurship', European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Cagliari, Italy.
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Corporate innovation and entrepreneurship are important ways of accumulating, converting, and leveraging resources for established organizations to innovate, renew, and bring about venturing activities. They have been recognized as critical for companies’ competitiveness and long-term prosperity, and many organizations have established innovation labs to foster the proliferation of innovation and entrepreneurship practices and methods. Senior executives of Top Management Teams (TMT) are critical in supporting innovation initiatives. Yet, we know little about the managerial actions and decisions that enable or inhibit the successful pursuit of entrepreneurial innovations and the lived experiences of innovation managers. This research explores how senior managers influence middle managers driving corporate innovation initiatives. We adopt a microfoundations perspective, which focuses on understanding individual actions that lead to macro-level outcomes. We focus on the agents' (or actors') role in shaping and informing strategic innovation. We explore the interactions of senior managers who oversee innovation activities with individual innovation managers of a company’s innovation lab initiative. Our study is based on a 6-year longitudinal case study of a leading Australian property development company. It reveals the practices senior managers adopt, how they impact middle managers, and their role in achieving strategic innovation outcomes. By understanding how senior managers enable or inhibit corporate innovation and entrepreneurship, we contribute to the growing body of research on the microfoundations of innovation. We offer practical insights to help established organizations enhance innovation and entrepreneurship capability.

Rahman, T & Paul, SK 1970, 'A Leagile Supply Chain Model for the Effective Mitigation of Sudden Risks', Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2nd Australian International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM Society International, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-10.
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The leagile supply chain (SC) approach, merging lean and agile strategies, has gained traction within the dynamic landscape of food manufacturing industries. By combining the efficiency of lean practices with the adaptability of agile principles, leagile SCs adeptly handle both regular operations and disruptions. This study explores the functioning of leagile SCs in various scenarios, highlighting their efficacy in efficient inventory management and rapid response to market changes, i.e., demand surges. Additionally, it discusses potential avenues for future research, including technological advancements and sustainable practices, aiming to reshape the food manufacturing SC landscape for enhanced industry standards and improved customer experiences.

Rahman, T & Paul, SK 1970, 'Evaluating Environmental Sustainability Performance in Healthcare Supply Chains Under Demand Surges', 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), IEEE.
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Sainty, R & Foley, C 1970, 'Mission Impossible? Preparing Business School Graduates for a Post Banking Royal Commission World', Flourishing in Our New Normal, 35th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Goldcoast, Queensland Australia, pp. 1236-1265.
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Financial institutions in Australia have recently been exposed for normalised bad behaviour by the Banking Royal Commission and business schools stand accused by critical management scholars of perpetuating a corporate culture that prioritises maximizing shareholder profit to the detriment of broader stakeholder concerns. Our research aim was to understand how well business schools have prepared their students to enact personal and social responsibility in workplaces through an investigation into the experience and perspectives of current student interns and graduates. We employ a qualitative and exploratory multi methods approach. Our findings serve to inform pedagogy and practice that supports business school students to develop purposeful, critically considered approaches to professional practice and emerging professional identity.

Sepehr, S & Dehghan Nayeri, H 1970, 'How does social media consumption disseminate neoliberal multiculturalism?', Consumer Culture Theory Conference: Utopia Revisited, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
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In this work in progress, we investigate how neoliberal multiculturalism can subjugate consumers even before migrating to multicultural immigration countries as the result of social media consumption. Our netnographic study highlights three mechanisms through which hierarchies in relation to neoliberal multiculturalism are normalised even before living in immigration countries.

Sepehr, S & Dehghan Nayeri, H 1970, 'Social media consumption and pre-immigration consumer acculturation: A poststructuralist perspective', International Netnography Conference, University of Salford, MANCHESTER, UK.

Sobel, L, Schweitzer, J, Asquith, L & Nikolova, N 1970, 'Integrating Design and Strategy Practices: the Role of Designers in Strategy', European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Cagliari, Italy.
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We explore the integration of design into strategy practices with a particular focus on the role and value of designers in developing innovative strategies. Despite the growing recognition of design practices and particularly design thinking for fostering innovative strategies, we still need to learn more about how designers contribute to strategy and how the practices of designers and strategists relate. To address this, we conducted a qualitative study involving 19 strategic design practitioners and 14 strategists. Following a grounded theory methodology, we share emerging themes to develop a conceptual framework that explains the roles of designers in strategy practice and how they are involved in strategy formulation. Our analysis suggests that designers increasingly work in roles that place them at closer junctions with strategy practitioners and therefore see their work influencing strategy more frequently and differently. Even when firms follow traditional strategy-making approaches and designers' proximity to strategy practices is more distant, designers are valued in many ways. Designers are integrated into strategy work, for example, through communication, inspiring a human perspective on impending change and transformation, exploration and discovery of possibilities and identifying ‘levers’ for change. Another valuable perspective designers bring is human-centredness and systems thinking, allowing strategy problem-solving to be divergent and iterative. We discuss the implications of our findings for designers and strategists and identify avenues for further research into the merging of strategic management and design practice.

Subhadrammal, D, Bliemel, M & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Introducing a Learning Ecology Framework for entrepreneurial learning', Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Brisbane.
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Entrepreneurship and learning are intrinsically linked. Entrepreneurial learning research considers entrepreneurship as a learning process, where it is assumed that within the entrepreneurship process, entrepreneurs learn from their past experiences (Politis, 2005) and failures (Cope, 2011) through experimentation and repetition, which in turn increases their confidence and expertise (Minniti & Bygrave, 2001). A central concept in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning is Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy (ESE), as one of the primary outcomes of entrepreneurial learning. However, multiple leaps in logic remain when determining how ESE is developed and measured. For example, many studies employ pre- and post-intervention surveys that lack the texture of how people learn to become entrepreneurial. This paper draws on the education literature to identify two key constructs that help link learning opportunities to the development of ESE: Learning ecologies (e.g. Bronfenbrenner, 1979) and student engagement (e.g., Fredricks et al., 2004; Lawson & Lawson, 2013). We rename the latter to learner engagement to recognise that entrepreneurial learning is not just for students. Drawing on these concepts from education, this paper addresses the growing appeals for better integration between entrepreneurship and educational science to provide theoretical foundations rooted in education and learning (Hagg & Kurczewska, 2019; Pittaway & Cope, 2007).

Subhadrammal, D, Bliemel, M & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Where, When And How? Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy Development Through Engagement In Learning Ecologies', wISE 2023 Scholarship in Oceania, Sydney.

Voola, R, Liu, S, Goswami, G, Deo, K, Matanda, M, Kemper, J, Makker, M & Chan, K 1970, 'Distinctive strengths of marketing in implementing SDG', ANZMAC Conference, Dunedin, Otago.

Wakefield, J, Pham, H & Yang, J 1970, 'Use of social networking and students' learning performance: A comparison between international and domestic students.', Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Gold Coast.

Waller, D 1970, 'Luxury Brands and the Attitudes of Gen Z', The Mystique of Luxury Brands Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam..

Whales, L & Joachim, G 1970, 'Reflections on engaging professional sport organisations in Australian doctoral research', Conference of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra.

Whales, L, Frawley, S & Rothwell, L 1970, 'Diversifying Methods in Sport Leadership Research', University of Canberra.

Whales, L, Frawley, S, Cohen, A & Nikolova, N 1970, 'The social practice of leading: Leadership development in a professional sport team', Montreal.

White, A & Caccamo, F 1970, 'Let me confess … Can a social media page create a sense of belonging?', ASCILITE Publications, ASCILITE Conference, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Christchurch, pp. 599-603.
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This research paper explores the ability of social media platforms, specifically Facebook pages such as UTS Confessions to influence student belonging – by providing opportunities for students to engage in the university community and build a sense of belonging. This study considers the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on both university and online experiences and highlights the importance of university intervention in online platforms to enhance student support and engagement. By examining relevant literature and conducting interviews with students, alumni, and staff, the study provides insights and recommendations for how universities cn interact with Facebook pages to help foster a sense of belonging.

Carnemolla, P, Gill-Finnegan, T, Herath, S, Ghosh, S, Taylor, M, Callaway, L, Robinson, S, Darcy, S, Wiesel, I & Council for Intellectual Disability UTS 2023, Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) in New South Wales: Analysis of the National Disability Insurance Agency SDA-Enrolled Dwelling Dataset, no. 1st Edition October 2023, pp. 1-143, Sydney, Australia.
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This report provides an analysis of the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) enrolled dwellings supply in New South Wales (NSW), with data communicated in diverse and inclusive ways. The report has two objectives. Firstly, it aims to identify and describe the quantity and types of SDA settings currently available for selection and uptake by National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants as part of capital supports that would be funded by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). Secondly, the report aims to showcase how data can be presented in diverse and inclusive ways in accordance with a reader’s’ individual preference. We have achieved this by including a Plain English executive summary, Easy Read report summary, high colour contrast and colour friendly maps and long-form narrative descriptions of all maps. The analysis has been conducted with data provided by the NDIA and contracted to the University of Technology Sydney. The analysed data is a snapshot of SDA supply in NSW at November 2022. The analysis references the diversity of housing types, SDA design categories and patterns of distribution. The authors share this data analysis alongside a discussion of the development and accumulation of SDA housing since this category of NDIS capital funding was first rolled out in 2017. The report concludes with a discussion of the implications for future community-led housing, including considerations for both policy and practice.

Kirby, B-L, Edwards, T, Riboldi, M & Ferguson, A Maranguka Community Hub 2023, “Inclusive & Collaborative” – Coordinated Youth Engagement, NSW, Australia.
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This case study of the Maranguka Community Hub's summer youth engagement activities, commissioned by philanthropic foundation Dusseldorp Forum, demonstrates how collaboration can drive community outcomes.

Lin, J, Ries, N, Sutton, N, Woods, M, Lewis, R & Brown, D University of Technology 2023, A New Model for Regulating Aged Care: A Submission on the Supposed New Regulatory Model Consultation Paper No2, Sydney.

Ormiston, J, Bliemel, M, González Lago, M, Cetindamar Kozanoglu, D, Schweitzer, J, Skellern, K, Doldor, S, Stephens, L, Renando, C & Strömmer, K NSW Innovation and Productivity Council 2023, Accelerating NSW: the impact of coworking spaces, accelerators, incubators, and startup hubs, NSW Innovation and Productivity Council.
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This report, supported by Investment NSW, shows the state of NSW’s ecosystem of coworking spaces, accelerators, incubators, and startup hubs and outlines how policymakers and partners in the innovation ecosystem can more robustly measure the impact of these entities on the wider economy.

Sutton, N, Ma, N, Yang, J, Lewis, R, Woods, M, Ries, N & Parker, D University of Technology Sydney 2023, Australia’s Aged Care Sector: Mid-Year Report (2022–23), Sydney, Australia.

Sutton, N, Ma, N, Yang, JS, Lewis, R, Woods, M, Tsihlis, E, Lin, J & Parker, D University of Technology Sydney 2023, Australia’s Aged Care Sector: Full-Year Report (2022–23), pp. 1-153, Sydney, Australia.
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On 7 December 2023, UARC released the fourth edition of its Australia’s Aged Care Sector Report. The report includes detailed analyses of de-identified datasets collected by StewartBrown, including financial, workforce and other operational results, for 1,197 aged care homes and 68,129 home care packages. It also provides independent analyses of the first year of AN-ACC, Star Ratings results and the opportunities the drafting of the new Aged Care Act presents. Highlights are:Financial performance continues to deteriorate Losses grow for non-care servicesAcute financial viability issues in rural areasLarger providers benefit from economies of scale

Alsolbi, I, Agarwal, R, Unhelkar, B, Karimi, F, Al-Jabri, T, Samarawickrama, M, Tafavogh, S & Prasad, M 2023, 'A Conceptual Design of AI-enabled Decision Support System for Analysing Donor Behaviour in Non-profit Organisations', MDPI AG.
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Baddeley, M 2023, 'Peter E. Earl, Principles of Behavioral Economics: Bringing Together Old, New and Evolutionary Approaches', Springer Science and Business Media LLC, pp. 1037-1039.
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Bairstow, N 2023, 'ChatBots Transforming Customer Interactions', Retail World.
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The retail landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, and at the heart of this evolution lies the integration of chatbots powered by artificial intelligence.

Bairstow, N 2023, 'Harnessing the Power of Local Area Marketing: The Key to Franchise Success', Business Franchise Magazine.
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Franchising offers entrepreneurs an opportunity to own and operate a business under an established brand. It provides a framework for success, allowing individuals to tap into a proven business model while benefiting from the support and expertise of the franchisor.

Bairstow, N 2023, 'Maximising Franchise Success with AI-Powered Chatbots', Business Franchise Magazine.
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Leveraging AI-powered chatbots is pivotal for franchise success. These intelligent bots enhance customer engagement, streamline operations, and provide consistent service across multiple locations. They offer 24/7 support, personalize interactions, and gather valuable customer data for data-driven decision-making. Ultimately, AI chatbots can drive efficiency and customer satisfaction, leading to franchise growth and profitability.

Bairstow, N 2023, 'Omnichannel: An elusive goal for many retailers', Retail World, pp. 48-48.

Bairstow, N 2023, 'Retailers Crucial in Tackling Food Waste', Retail World.
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By implementing a four-pronged strategy, Australia’s major retailers can reduce food waste during farming, production, in store, and during consumption.

Bairstow, N 2023, 'The Power of Colour in Retail Marketing: A kaleidoscope of shopper’s attention', Retail World.
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The use of colour in Retailing as a tool, is often overlooked yet immensely powerful, is the use of colour. The strategic application of colours within a retail environment canevoke emotions, shape perceptions, and ultimately drive purchasing decisions.

Bairstow, N 2023, 'Unlocking Future Retail', Retail World.

Barbopoulos, LG, Dai, R, Putniņš, TJ & Saunders, A 2023, 'Market Efficiency When Machines Access Information'.

Burdon, S, Stewart, C, John, C, Bajada, C, Kang, K & Abedin, B 2023, 'Powering National Outcomes from New Digital Technologies: An analysis of government policies to maximize the economic and social benefits', Asian Productivity Organization.
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The accelerating advancement of digital technologies is providing a myriad of opportunities for nations, both economically and socially. This study was a collaboration between the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). It considered how APO member governments might approach the advancement of digital technologies to maximize benefits for their nations.Specifically, the study considered which digital technologies, industry sectors, and regulatory and policy initiatives had the greatest potential to deliver national outcomes in areas of economic growth, productivity, and social impact.Overall, the research found that virtually all countries believed that the latest wave of digital technologies would deliver significant economic and productivity growth and that having policies and regulations in place to support a digital economy was important. It also highlighted the different opportunities, constraints, and challenges that individual APO nations faced, which meant that a one-size approach would be inappropriate. So, this report outlines a range of approaches that can be employed by nations, depending on where a country is currently positioned on the spectrum of digital economic development. It provides an initial framework that can be applied to any country, and offers some useful generic approaches, while also proposing specific recommendations for countries at different stages of digital readiness.The study led us to segment APO member economies into four ‘digital economy’ groups: the embryonic, the nascent, the emergent, and the leaders. In addition, we paid particular attention to three exemplars or ‘case study countries,’ each representing a different level of economic development and digital maturity. These were: Indonesia (nascent), Malaysia (emergent), and the Republic of Korea (leaders). Individual countries can get feedback from this report, in the first instance, by considering their relative st...

Dadpour, R 2023, 'Book review: Brown, D.L. and Schafft, K. A. 2019: Rural people and communities in the 21st century: Resilience and transformation', SAGE Publications, pp. 115-116.
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Brown, D.L. and Schafft, K. A. 2019: Rural people and communities in the 21st century: Resilience and transformation (2nd edition). Cambridge: Polity Press. ix +342 pp. £65.00 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). ISBN: 978 1 509 52985 8 (cloth), 978 1 509 52986 5 (paper).

Darcy, S, Amin, M, Bryant, A & Firth, V 2023, 'What do Australians think about inclusion?', Centre for Inclusive Design.
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The Inclusion Compass report provides a rare look into how inclusive Australian society really is and reveals what Australians are saying about our major institutions and society in general. Using AI-powered digital decoders to analyse over 700,000 online conversations, together with six months of in-person workshops, the report identified the issues that are stopping Australia becoming a fully fair and inclusive society. So where to next?Hear from Dr Manisha Amin (Centre for Inclusive Design), Anna Bryant (The Lab Insight & Strategy), and Professor Simon Darcy (UTS) in conversation with The Hon. Prof. Verity Firth AM (UTS) as they unpack why conversations matter, and how to create a truly inclusive Australia that leaves no one behind.

Eglīte, E, Štaermans, D, Patel, V & Putniņš, TJ 2023, 'Using ETFs to Conceal Insider Trading'.

Faulkner, S, Wakefield, J, Egea, K & Percy, A 2023, 'Listening to students: The state and impact of student belonging in Business curricula'.
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2023 Annual Conference: Higher Education Research and Development Association

Hafalir, I, Kojima, F & Yenmez, MB 2023, 'Efficient Market Design with Distributional Objectives', ACM, p. 849.
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In a matching market with distributional objectives, we study the existence of mechanisms that weakly improve the distributional objective (compared to a status-quo matching), and satisfy constrained efficiency, individual rationality, and strategy-proofness.

Hansen, M & Darcy, S 2023, 'Accessible Tourism. Episode 5: Simon Darcy and mobility disability considerations.', Accessible Tourism Podcast.
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Hello and welcome to episode 5 of the Accessible Tourism podcast. This week we're joined by none other than Prof. Simon Darcy.Admittedly, Simon is someone I look up to a great deal. He's the first to write about accessibility in a tourism context, beginning this particular academic journey back in the mid 1990s. However, Simon also has lived experience as he is a wheelchair user due to a high-level spinal cord injury. As such, Simon is not 'just' an expert in an academic sense, but he also has personal experience of travelling with a disability.This summer Simon ventured all the way from Australia to Europe! It was his first trip to Europe since the Covid lockdowns and it required a great deal of planning to organise the trip. And so, in this episode we discuss this trip. We cover a lot of territory (metaphorically and geographically speaking!), including some very special moments in Belfast as well as some very negative airline experiences.Much like the previous episodes, we talk about the constraints to access for people with disabilities. In this episode, we talk about the informational and attitudinal constraints, which come to light in both positive and negative contexts, including the horrific experience onboard an airplane, despite Simon having booked special assistance and double checked said assistance was in place 24 hours prior to the flight. We also talk about the positive difference it makes when front-line staff are disability trained and thus have the skills to support people with disabilities.

Kaya, E & Khanjaninejad, L 2023, 'Examining the Gender Pay Gap in Surfing Competitions: A Study on Women Surfers' Experiences in Australia'.
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The gender pay gap in the sports industry has been a topical issue in women’s sports, in the past few years. For example, in the longboarding competition at North Curl Curl, NSW, Australia in April 2021, Lucy Small received $1,500 in prize money while the men’s winner on the same day was awarded $4,000. In thanking the sponsors, Lucy asked the pertinent question: “Why is our surfing worth half of the men’s prize money?” (Allman, 2021). Lucy’s comment highlights that “there is no law in NSW standardising prize money or requiring sporting clubs to pay men and women equally” (Allman, 2021, p. 25). Despite significant advancements in gender equality in various fields, the issue of pay disparity continues to persist in sports (Morgan, 2021), including surfing. The surfing industry is seen as a male-dominated culture with male surfers portrayed as aggressive, competitive, powerful and privileged (Wheaton and Thorp, 2018). Therefore, success and monetary rewards are measured according to standards that are determined by this hegemonic masculinity (Ford & Brown, 2005; Franklin & Carpenter, 2018). According to Schmitt and Bohuon (2022), the institutionalisation of surfing initially excluded women and partnerships with sponsors have traditionally favoured men over women to finance competitions. This resulted in significant inequality between men and women surfers. Women surfers have been provided fewer opportunities to compete and have been paid less to finance their professional needs. “Although pay is the most visible topic in discussions of sports equality, broader respect for women’s competitions and the provision of support services are just as important” (Nimphius, 2021). In its 2023 rulebook, Surfing Australia has added a pay parity section, mandating clubs to offer equal prize money in events affiliated with Surfing Australia (Surfing Australia, 2023). However, the question remains why the pay discrepancy in surfing competitions still exists and why...

Liu, L, Sojli, E & Tham, WW 2023, 'CEO Experience and Value Creation: Evidence from Green Lab Locations', SSRN.

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'A carbon tax can have economic, not just environmental benefits for Australia', The Conversation.

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'Carbon Tax Policy and Economic Growth: A Natural Experiment from Norway'.

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'Carbon tax—what can Australia learn from the experiences of other countries?', GlimmerWorld.

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'Economic effects of a carbon tax for Australia's economy', 2SER Radio.

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'Evaluating the Effect of Market-Related Policies in Reducing the Rebound Effect of Energy Consumption'.

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'How to make a new carbon tax that sticks', Think: Sustainability (Podcast).

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'Returning to the Idea of a Carbon Tax', Think: Business Futures (Podcast).

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'The effect of two carbon tax policy scenarios on Australia's economy: A dynamic recursive approach'.
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Financial Market and Corporate Governance Conference (FMCG2023)

Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2023, 'The wealth effect of net zero announcement in the US'.
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Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference (AFAANZ 2023)

Mashhadi Rajabi, M, Linnenluecke, M & Smith, T 2023, 'The wealth effect of the net zero announcement in the U.S.'.

Mintz, O 2023, 'How conversations with customers will help you survive the period of upheaval in the markets', Globes.

Mintz, O, Bart, Y, Lenk, P & Reibstein, D 2023, 'Hybrid BYO Conjoint with Boosting for Data Fusion'.

Paul, S & Agarwal, R 2023, 'Don't panic: How to prepare for the next crisis', UTS News.
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The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare vulnerabilities in global supply chains, underscoring the urgency for Australian businesses and the government to enhance their readiness for future crises.

Paul, S & Agarwal, R 2023, 'Preparing for the next crisis', MHD Supply Chain News.
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Experts from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) explain to MHD how businesses can better prepare for the next supply chain-related crisis.

Pham, H, Brown, P & Soco, S 2023, 'The Role of Environmental Management Accounting for the Control of Energy in Agriculture (Under Review)'.

Rahman, T & Paul, S 2023, 'Advancing Supply Chain Resilience: Mitigating Future Disruption', Supply Chain Insights, pp. 43-43.

Rahman, T & Paul, S 2023, 'When fears drive markets: understanding the impacts of panic buying on the supply chain economy and proposed solution', The Supply Chain Street, pp. 33-40.
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Rhodes, C, Pullen, A & McEwen, C 2023, 'Leadership Diversity Through Relational Intersectionality in Australia: Research Report', The University of Technology Sydney, Sydney.
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Report presenting the findings and recommendations from a four-year research project funded by the Australian Research Council investigating how leadership is practised in the intersection of cultural and gender differences in Australian organisations known for their best practice in diversity and inclusion management and programs. The project surfaced how diversity in organisations is made visible through internal and external means. Internally, diversity is managed through formal strategies and documents, informal activities and dedicated diversity and inclusion positions. Externally, diversity is demonstrated through the display of symbolic and material engagement with diversity and inclusion (e.g., public statements on same-sex marriage, customer-based multicultural programs and community guidelines) and the attainment of awards and certifications. The project also highlighted that despite changes to the workforce composition and diversity in business being promoted, celebrated and championed, many obstacles remain to expanding the diversity of the workforce and its leadership.

Schweitzer, J, Benmahmoud-Jouini, S & Fixson, S 2023, 'Transform with design: Creating new innovation capabilities with design thinking', University Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 1-291.
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Design thinking is widely recognized as an alternative approach to innovation, but it can be challenging to implement, often conflicting with organizational structures, cultures, and processes. The practice of design thinking calls for a new mindset that moves past conventional approaches to innovation, and embraces ambiguity, risk-taking, and collaboration. Transform with Design presents examples of creative organizations across industries and geographies, and recounts the stories of how they adapted design thinking to build their innovation capabilities. Written by leading industry experts and design-thinking scholars, the book features ten anecdotal experiences by professionals who detail the implementation of design thinking as it unfolded for them. Contributors share how they navigated the many barriers and obstacles they encountered along the way and describe their experience from early beginnings to the present, revealing valuable lessons for anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation. Providing a rich tapestry of examples, anecdotes, and lessons that place design thinking in perspective, Transform with Design is for innovators interested in learning how design has transformed organizations while also gaining a current perspective on what others are doing in their field.

Sobel, L, Schweitzer, J, Nikolova, N & Asquith, L 2023, 'Integrating Design Practitioners and Design Practices into Strategy Practice', Academy of Management.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore ways design practices are interacting with strategy practices and the role and value of designers in proximity to strategy practice. Despite the growing recognition of design thinking in the management literature, we still know little about how designers contribute to strategy and how design and strategy practices interact. To address these gaps, we draw upon findings from a qualitative study with 16 strategic designers and strategists. We use a grounded theory approach to share emerging themes that outline the ways design practitioners and desig(ing) are featuring in strategy practice and outline the factors that enable and inhibit the integration of design practices into strategy practices. Our analysis suggests that, first, design practices have influenced strategy formulation by integrating some of its specific characteristics into strategy practices. Second, that design in strategy practice is seen as a valuable extension to traditional practice in a number of ways. Third, as design practice is being integrated into strategy practice, there is a need to understand the placement of strategic design practitioners in strategy practice. We conclude the paper with a discussion of our findings and avenues for further research into the relationship of design practices in strategy practice.

Waller, D 2023, 'Attitudes Of The Young Towards Luxury Brands', Retail World, pp. 29-29.

Waller, D, Chan, K & Saluja, G 2023, 'What students told us ‘good’ feedback means to them', Times Higher Education.

Wilson, R, Mcgrath-Champ, S, Stacey, M, Fitzgerald, S & Gavin, M 2023, 'Teacher Workload and Intensifying Demands', Journal of Professional Learning, pp. 14-17.
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This is a research translation article, published in a professional journal for teachers.