Publications

Fleming, P 2015, The Mythology of Work How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself, Pluto Press (UK).
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In The Mythology of Work, Peter Fleming examines how neoliberal society uses the ritual of work (and the threat of its denial) to maintain the late capitalist class order.

Agarwal, R & Selen, W 2015, 'Dynamic Capabilities for Service Innovation in Service Systems' in Agarwal, R, Selen, W, Roos, G & Green, R (eds), The Handbook of Service Innovation, Springer London, London, pp. 237-249.
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© Springer-Verlag London 2015. One of the principal drivers of productivity growth is innovation, which includes not only technological but nontechnological innovations. A key element of nontechnological innovation is skills which drives a large part of productivity improvement at the organizational level. Scholars have enunciated that innovation in services is brought to market through collaboration, asset orchestration, technological adoption, and knowledge-based competencies. To this effect, the role of human capital in promoting service innovation is identified in the innovation literature. Further, service innovation in a service ecosystem is centered on the resource-based definition, where services are treated as an application of competencies, making use of knowledge, skills and experience of all stakeholders. In addition, the process-based definition of service highlights the important role customers play in the service production process, where the customer themselves are an input to the service delivery process. Amidst resource limitations and acute competition, service firms need to therefore not only upskill the human talent of their employees and customers, but also reconfigure, renew, and redeploy resources and capabilities on an ongoing basis. This indeed highlights the importance of capabilities required to facilitate the creation of sustainable competitive advantage, which are not ubiquitously available in large proportion amongst service organizations. It is in this context that we identify and explore in this chapter the role played by service firms’ learning capacity to deploy operational and dynamic capabilities across service systems. This chapter highlights an entire suite of dynamic capabilities which are made up of higher order competencies, such as relationship capital, organizational learning, collaborative agility, entrepreneurial alertness, innovative capacity, and customer engagement, which are instrumental to service firms...

Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Brown, PJ & Green, R 2015, 'Global comparison of management practices' in Wilkinson, A, Townsend, K & Suder, G (eds), Handbook of Research on Managing Managers, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 327-350.
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Agarwal, R, Selen, W, Roos, G & Green, R 2015, 'The Handbook of Service Innovation' in Agarwal, R, Selen, W, Roos, G & Green, R (eds), The Handbook of Service Innovation, Springer, London, pp. xi-xvii.
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This book presents service innovation holistically and systemically across various service areas, including health, education, tourism, hospitality, telecommunications, and retail.

Baunsgaard, VV & Clegg, SR 2015, 'Innovation: A Critical Assessment of the Concept and Scope of Literature' in Agarwal, R, Selen, W, Roos, G & Green, R (eds), The Handbook of Service Innovation, Springer London, Germany, pp. 5-25.
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© Springer-Verlag London 2015. We begin by asking: What is innovation, and note the problems of defining both context and novelty in the usual essentialist answers. Within the literature, nonetheless, a range of types of innovation is identified, which we delineate. One way of trying to address the critique of innovation as essentialist is to try and demarcate degrees and dimensions of innovativeness. Given the specificity of this Handbook with service innovation, we next consider this particular type of innovation, looking especially at the literature associated with the view that profit is increasingly to be found in what is termed Service-Dominant (S-D) logic. We conclude the chapter by reiterating some problems in innovation research that any further extension of the term to “service innovation” will have to contend with.

Clegg, S 2015, 'Power in Society' in Wright, JD (ed), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 765-769.
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Power has been seen as an ‘essentially contested’ concept (Lukes 1974). Some of the major recent contours of this contestation will be addressed in this entry.

Clegg, S 2015, 'The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History' in McLaren, PG, Mills, AJ & Weatherbee, TG (eds), The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, Routledge, London, pp. 387-401.
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Clegg, S & Kornberger, M 2015, 'Analytical frames for studying power in strategy as practice and beyond' in Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice, Cambridge University Press, pp. 389-404.
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Clegg, S, Mikkelsen, EN & Sewell, G 2015, 'Conflict: Organizational' in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 639-643.
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Godfrey, J, Wearing, S & Schulenkorf, N 2015, 'Scientific Tourism' in Slocum, S, Kline, C & Holden, A (eds), Scientific Tourism: Researchers as Travellers, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 131-147.
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The purpose of this chapter is to explore the motivations and experiences of medical volunteer tourists (MVTs) from developed countries volunteering in developing countries, and to examine the underlying ethics relating to this form of volunteer tourism. We seek to develop an understanding of the relationship between scientific tourism and medical volunteer tourism, and to investigate experiences that provide both learning and training for MVTs to develop skills for their future medical careers.

Green, R, Agarwal, R & Logue, D 2015, 'Innovation' in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 145-151.
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Innovation, and the understanding of processes of innovation, is fundamentally about social, scientific, and economic change. Innovation is seen as underpinning the productivity and success of firms, communities, and nations. Innovation, as a concept, is increasingly considered as a nonlinear multidimensional phenomenon, which involves a complex relational ecosystem with concurrent processes of value cocreation through collaboration. Innovation can be understood on several broad dimensions – product or process; technological or nontechnological; radical or incremental; and open or closed. The article will explore these dimensions, the historical background to innovation, and current issues and challenges with reference to developments in the social, scientific, engineering, and behavioral sciences, including the cross-disciplinary linkages, which illuminate the nature and significance of innovation for the twenty-first century.

Green, R, Agarwal, R & Logue, DM 2015, 'Innovation' in International Encyclopaedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 145-151.
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Innovation, and the understanding of processes of innovation, is fundamentally about social, scientific, and economic change. Innovation is seen as underpinning the productivity and success of firms, communities, and nations. Innovation, as a concept, is increasingly considered as a nonlinear multidimensional phenomenon, which involves a complex relational ecosystem with concurrent processes of value cocreation through collaboration. Innovation can be understood on several broad dimensions – product or process; technological or nontechnological; radical or incremental; and open or closed. The article will explore these dimensions, the historical background to innovation, and current issues and challenges with reference to developments in the social, scientific, engineering, and behavioral sciences, including the cross-disciplinary linkages, which illuminate the nature and significance of innovation for the twenty-first century.

Hoekman, MJ & Schulenkorf, N 2015, 'Sustainable management of sport-for-development through youth re-engagement' in Hayhurst, L, Kay, T & Chawansky, M (eds), Beyond Sport for Development and Peace, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 135-149.
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The relationship between sport participation and personal, community as well as societal development has recently received increased attention within sport sociology and sport politics discourses. However, despite their importance for Sport-for-Development (SFD) practice, process-based investigations of sport programmes and their potential to contribute to sustainable social competencies have only recently been addressed by sport management researchers. In the context of the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation (BDCF), an international NGO based in Hanoi, Vietnam, this chapter examines the management of social processes in SFD work, with a focus on re-engaged youths as ‘change agents’ and their contributions to community development. We propose a newly designed Framework for Re-Engaged Youth as Change Agents (FREYCA) that highlights the contribution of re-engaged youth workers in the context of sustainable SFD projects.

Katsigiannis, T, Agarwal, R & Jin, K 2015, 'Business Model Approach to Public Service Innovation' in Agarwal, R, Selen, W, Roos, G & Green, R (eds), The Handbook of Service Innovation, Springer London, London, pp. 751-778.
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The operating environment of the public sector has undergone a fundamental shift towards a more competitive nature. As these changes accelerate, they are exerting considerable pressure on the government in terms of rising costs and ever-increasing need for innovative service offerings. In order to shed light on these contemporary challenges, this chapter will review and analyse a number of innovative service delivery modes observed in practice, including joint ventures with the private and not-for-profit sectors, public private partnerships, contracting out, franchising, and the use of social bonds and collaborative services. By presenting a new ‘business model’ designed specifically for decision makers in the public sector, this chapter will equip the readers with the means to better understand and manage public service innovations in the increasingly challenging environment.

Koh, B 2015, 'Drug use in swimming' in Moller, V, Waddington, I & Hoberman, JM (eds), Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport, Routledge, USA, pp. 128-144.
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Sport in Society 13(2): 221–33. Pappa, Evdokia, and Eileen Kennedy. 2013. “It was my thought . . . he made it a reality”: Normalization and responsibility in athletes' accounts of performance-enhancing drug use. International Review for the ...

Leung, LT 2015, 'Experiential Equality and Digital Discrimination' in Benz, P (ed), Experience Design: Concepts and Case Studies, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 45-54.

Lyras, A & Welty Peachey, J 2015, 'The Conception, Development And Application Of Sport-For-Development Theory 1' in Routledge Handbook of Theory in Sport Management, Routledge, pp. 131-142.
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Patterson, I, Darcy, SA & Pegg, S 2015, 'Adventure recreation programming and tourism opportunities: Bringing together consumer demands and supplier understandings for people with disabilities' in Black, R & Bricker, K (eds), Adventure Programming and Travel for the 21st Century, Venture Publishing, Inc., United States of America, pp. 249-260.

Perrott, B 2015, 'Organizational Knowledge Management Dynamics: Insight and Perspectives' in Soliman Fawzy (ed), From Knowledge Management to Learning Organization to Innovation: The Way Ahead!, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, pp. 79-104.

Randhawa, K & Scerri, M 2015, 'Service Innovation: A Review of the Literature' in Agarwal, R, Selen, W, Roos, G & Green, R (eds), The Handbook of Service Innovation, Springer London, Germany, pp. 27-51.
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© Springer-Verlag London 2015. Services are fast overtaking manufacturing to form a dominant proportion of the world economy. Service innovation is increasingly seen as a vector of sustainable growth and competitive advantage at the firm-, industry- and economy-level. Innovation started evolving as a key discipline of research over the twentieth century. Initially, innovation research was predominantly focused on science and technology and the new product development approach for commercializing ideas and inventions mainly in the manufacturing industry. With the increasing growth of services in today’s organizations and economy, the importance of understanding service innovation concepts and practices has been on the rise. Over the last two decades, researchers have hence been directing attention to innovation in the context of services. Today, service innovation has evolved into a vast field encompassing the study of intangible processes and dynamic interactions among technological and human systems that lead to managerial and organizational change in services. The literature on service innovation is expanding into a diverse and cross-disciplinary body of knowledge scattered across economics, marketing, organizational science, and management perspectives. The purpose of this chapter is to cut through this complexity and diversity in the streams of extant service innovation literature, and provide a holistic overview of the literature in this rapidly growing field. Organized across three broad themes: Overview of Service Innovation, The Dynamic and Systemic Process of Service Innovation, and Management of Service Innovation; this chapter presents a consolidated guide to the service innovation concepts and practices.

Roos, G & Agarwal, R 2015, 'Services Innovation in a Circular Economy' in Agarwal, R, Selen, W, Roos, G & Green, R (eds), The Handbook of Service Innovation, Springer London, London, pp. 501-520.
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© Springer-Verlag London 2015. This chapter reviews various concepts captured under the term Circular Economy, drawn together from various service innovation perspectives. The circular economy is built on the principle that all intermediary outputs that are of no further use in the firm’s value-creating activities are provided as inputs into other firm’s value-creating activities. The chapter identifies complexities around monetising value, monetising non-monetary benefits, different attributes that consumers and customers’ value in the services space, and the substitution effects that services can have on product sales. From insights and methodologies developed in the service design area, combined with the ability to measure and compare alternative attributes from a value performance point of view, it is identified that further research is needed to facilitate both a higher adoption and a greater success rate among services developed. The chapter explores service innovation in the circular value chain as a growing domain of activity, and points towards a need for development of an appropriate business model framework within a circular economy for firms to engage in service innovation and delivery.

Schweinsberg, SC & Wearing 2015, 'Transforming Nature’s Value – Cultural Change Comes from Below: Rural Communities, the ‘Othered’ and Host Capacity Building' in Reisinger, Y (ed), Transformational Tourism: Host Perspectives, CABI, UK, pp. 102-113.

Simpson, AV, Freeder, D & Clegg, S 2015, 'Compassion Power and Organization' in Heaney, J & Flam, H (eds), Power and Emotion, Routledge, pp. 31-51.
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In this paper we analyse the significance of compassion as an emotion in its relationship to various manifestations of power within the organizational context. We critique those theories of compassion that assume that compassion in organizational contexts is motivated only by a noble intent. The paper draws on a study of organizational responses to the flood that devastated the City of Brisbane Australia on the morning of January 11, 2011. We use Clegg’s (1989) research framework of ‘circuits of power’ to provide a triple focus on interpersonal, organizational and societal uses of power together with Etzioni’s (1961) model of coercive, instrumental and normative organizational power. We present our findings in a framework constructed by overlapping Clegg (1989) and Etzioni’s (1961) frameworks. The unique contribution of this paper is to provide a conceptualization of organizational compassion enmeshed with various modes of power exercised in and by organizations.

Tarrant, MA, Stoner, L, Tessman, K, Gleason, M, Lyons, K & Wearing, S 2015, 'Global Programs in Sustainability: A Case Study of Techniques, Tools and Teaching Strategies for Sustainability Education in Tourism' in Moscardo, G & Benckendorff, P (eds), CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 229-237.
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Wang, K, Clegg, SR, Tang, C & Fang, Y 2015, 'Chapter eleven incremental innovation and knowledge exploitation in SMES: Learning and social facilitation' in Soliman, F (ed), From Knowledge Management to Learning Organisation to Innovation: The Way Ahead!, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.

Wearing, S, Tarrant, MA, Schweinsberg, S, Lyons, K & Stoner, K 2015, 'Exploring the Global in Student Assessment and Feedback for Sustainable Tourism Education' in Moscardo, G & Benckendorff, P (eds), CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 101-115.
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This chapter examines a values-based approach to teaching sustainable tourism management and the related student assessment and feedback mechanisms that reinforce it. The chapter considers and describes how this values-based approach is pedagogically activated by employing critical thinking, self-directed and experiential learning techniques. It draws upon a number of subjects taught by two Universities: one in the USA and one in Australia that use values associated with global citizenship and lifelong learning as frameworks that provide a personally meaningful link between students and the concepts central to sustainable tourism. Particular attention is given to describing alternative assessment and feedback tools that support a values-based approach to sustainable tourism education and to the use of assessable learning contracts, and learning modules.

Wearing, SL, Grabowski, S & Small, J 2015, 'Volunteer Tourism: Return of the Traveller' in Singh, TV (ed), Challenges in Tourism Research, Channel View Publications, UK, pp. 98-106.

Wearing, SL, Grabowski, S, Small, J, Lyons, KD, Guttentag, D & Coghlan, A 2015, 'Is Volunteerism a New Avatar of Travelism?' in Challenges in Tourism Research, pp. 97-134.

Biesenthal, C, Sankaran, S, Pitsis, T & Clegg, S 2015, 'Temporality in Organization Studies: Implications for Strategic Project Management', Open Economics and Management Journal, vol. 2, no. Suppl 1: M7, pp. 45-52.
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Project managers require temporal skills and the ability to improvise when linear assumptions confront the complexities of managing projects within a context of strategic calculation. While the management and organization (MOS) literature emphasizes the importance of temporal skills for managing uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity, a dearth of project management literature contributes to this discussion. By reviewing literature on time in MOS and linking it to the field of project management we seek to make an initial bridge of this gap and argue that in order to improvise project managers need temporal skills. Project management practitioners and researchers work with assumptions of what constitutes normal time and linearity in projects, despite the variety of situations and events faced in projects. Practitioners, students and researchers in project management need to develop more sophisticated temporal skills to deal with a variety of projects, situations and events strategically.

Chan, A, Clegg, S, Pina e Cunha, M & Rego, A 2015, '‘The revolution will not be televised’: the institutional work of radical change in China’s Cultural Revolution', Journal of Political Power, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 61-83.
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© 2015, © 2015 Taylor & Francis. Mao Zedong sought both to destabilize existing institutional categories for ordering meaning, and impose new ones, initially through the Great Leap Forward and subsequently during the Cultural Revolution. The paper explores the institutional work that made this process of radical change possible. At its core was the construction and deployment of a set of binary categorization devices. These are explored in the paper to argue that persistent and morally sophisticated institutional work is necessary to make radical change possible. Macro, meso and micro processes of institutional work operate in parallel, reinforcing each other and articulating utopian desire with local possibility. There is no single revolutionary event, no central scene to be represented. Together, leaders and followers at several levels participate in the processes of categorizing and managing the result of such categorizations. Categorizations of radical change have explicitly stigmatizing purposes and managing categorization/stigmatization is an important institutional work, instrumental for radical change.

Chelliah, J, Boersma, M & Klettner, A 2015, 'The role of a national regulator in developing solutions to governance challenges in the not-for-profit sector', vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 449-458.
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This article presents empirical evidence of the governance challenges faced by not-for-profit (NFP) organisations. Drawing on interviews and survey data, the paper explores perceptions of NFP leaders concerning governance challenges, drawing implications for theory and practice. The research shows that NFPs face internal and external contingencies that determine effectiveness of governance systems. The study finds that considerable variation in the roles of boards exists. This has theoretical consequences, as the usefulness of stewardship, agency, resource-dependence and stakeholder theory varies according to the directives of NFP boards, and provides empirical evidence in favour of taking a contingency approach towards theories concerning NFP boards. The study further shows that director recruitment is challenging, particularly for NFPs with membership-based board models, as the constitution often determines a pool from which must be sourced. This often leads to directors not being recruited based on skills, which in turn increases the importance of skills development. While many respondents state they provide training, interviewees indicate that lack of time and resources pose practical obstacles. We contend that this lack of resources represents a contingency that can negatively impact board functioning. The findings furthermore suggest that funding dynamics can negatively impact accountability and governance. Specifically the fact that government is the largest donor in the sample, while the recipients of services are the most important stakeholders. While donor and stakeholder representation on boards may help to mitigate donor dependency and asymmetric accountability, the study finds that NFPs are often unable to recruit directors with appropriate skills. As it is also challenging to facilitate training due to the lack of resources, the result is a conflicting dynamic between the demand for skills and stakeholder representation on governance bodie...

Cheng, M & Edwards, D 2015, 'Social media in tourism: a visual analytic approach', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1080-1087.
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This research note seeks to examine a vast amount of tourism-related Chinese social media posts using a visual analytic approach. Visual analytics turns information overload into an opportunity. In this case, the mainstream Chinese microblog service, Sina Weibo, was selected as it generates large volumes of data, representing significant consumer insights, that are challenging to analyse by other common research methods. The most frequently reposted tourist visa news in the first eight months of 2014 were harvested and used as a case study. Findings from this study demonstrate that a visual analytic approach can offer insights into the impact of travel news on Chinese consumers. These insights include potential tourist generating regions, the life span of travel news, and tourists’ attitudes towards travel policy changes. Such insights provide important implications for scholars and practitioners, such as enabling real-time decisions of Destination Management Organizations’ social media marketing strategies in China.

Chowdhury, MMH & Quaddus, MA 2015, 'A multiple objective optimization based QFD approach for efficient resilient strategies to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities: The case of garment industry of Bangladesh', Omega, vol. 57, pp. 5-21.
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. With the upsurge of frequent disruptive events, organizations have become more vulnerable to the consequences of these disruptive events. As a result, the need for more resilient supply chain (SC) to mitigate the vulnerabilities has become paramount. Supply chain resilience (SCR) has been discussed in the literature and resilience index has been developed, but developing and selecting a portfolio of supply chain resilience capabilities in order to mitigate the vulnerabilities have not been studied. In this research we develop a 0-1 multi-objective optimization model based on QFD methodology. Our multi-objective method is interactive and interacts with the decision makers to choose the most satisfactory efficient portfolio of supply chain resilience strategies. We apply our methodology to three large ready-made garment (RMG) companies of Bangladesh. Results show that lack of materials (high dependence on imported materials), disruptions in utility supply, increased competition (and hence competitive pressure), impact of economic recession, and reputation loss are the top most vulnerabilities of Bangladesh RMG industry. The most preferred resilience strategies to mitigate the vulnerabilities are: back-up capacity, building relation with buyers and suppliers, quality control, skill and efficiency development, ICT adoption, demand forecasting, responsiveness to customers, and security system improvement. Theoretical and managerial implications of our study are included.

Chowdhury, MMH, Hossain, MM & A. Dewan, MN 2015, 'A framework for selecting optimal strategies to mitigate the corporate sustainability barriers', Corporate Ownership and Control, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 462-481.
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This paper develops a framework to prioritize the barriers to corporate sustainability and select the strategies to mitigate those barriers by applying an optimization based analytical hierarchy process integrated quality function deployment framework with multiple case studies. This research has collected data from the textile and clothing industries (six case companies) from an emerging economy, Bangladesh. Contingency theory, resource-based view and stakeholder theory are adopted to explain the sustainability barriers and their mitigation process through optimal use of resources. The study finds that lack of awareness, lack of governance, the utility supply problem and lack of expertise are the main barriers of CS. The findings also indicate that internal and external audits regarding compliance issues and setting policies for sustainability standards are considered as highly important mitigation strategies. Finally, the study identifies the optimal mitigation strategies based on maximising the relative importance while considering savings from the simultaneous implementations of strategies and constrained resources. This study advances existing CS literature by developing a framework to prioritize CS barriers and selects optimal strategies to mitigate those barriers. The developed framework should be of interest to organisations’ decision makers (specifically in the case of apparel industry of Bangladesh) in countries which have a similar institutional context.

Clegg, S, Geppert, M & Hollinshead, G 2015, 'Politicization and political contests in contemporary multinational corporations', Human Relations, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 1526-1529.
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Clegg, S, Geppert, M & Hollinshead, G 2015, 'Politicization and political contests in contemporary multinational corporations', Human Relations, vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 1662-1665.
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Clegg, S, Pina e Cunha, M, Rego, A & Story, J 2015, 'Powers of Romance', Journal of Management Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 131-148.
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Problematic organizational relationships have recently been at the core of highly visible media coverage. Most analyses of sexual relations in organizations have been, however, simplistic and unidimensional, and have placed insufficient systematic emphasis on the role of governmentality in the social construction of organizational romance. In this article, we proceed in two theoretical steps. First, we elaborate a typology of organizational romance that covers different manifestations of this nuanced process. We think of these as organizational strategies of governmentality. Second, we elaborate and identify liminal cases that fall into the interstices of the four predominant ways of managing sexual relationships in organizations. We think of these as vases of liquid love and life that evade the border controls of regulation by governmentality. Finally, we relate these issues to debates about the nature of the civilizational process and suggest hypotheses for future research.

Clegg, SR 2015, 'Reflections: Why Old Social Theory Might Still be Useful', Journal of Change Management, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 8-18.
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© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Abstract: In the following, I first identify some of the breadth of concern raised within academe subsequent to the global financial crisis (GFC) and then move to identify what some mainstream financial press outlets have done recently to foster debate about the systemic nature of concerns increasingly manifest since 2007. In certain Marxist-oriented social science circles, the current crisis was well prepared but, unfortunately, hardly visible in business education. We need a sociological understanding of the market to augment the limited understanding of orthodox economics. To understand how the GFC came to be the contributions of the virtually forgotten social theory are retrieved as pointers to understanding how the profound social and organizational changes leading up to and creating the GFC occurred. The implications of this literature for the curriculum of the business school should be profound, it is argued.

Cohen, A & Peachey, JW 2015, 'Quidditch', Journal of Sport and Social Issues, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 521-544.
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This study examines the sport of quidditch, based on the Harry Potter franchise, an alternative sport growing in popularity. The purpose of this research was to examine the impact and benefits participants of this sport received and determine similarities and differences to mainstream sport activities. Findings suggest involvement with quidditch provided leadership skills, social gains, self-confidence, and pride, along with a positive sporting experience, all of which have been recognized in more mainstream sports. Considering the need for inventive and fiscally viable sports programs due to shrinking budgets and increased burnout, this study advocates the potential value of alternative sport initiatives and the benefit of their implementation.

Cohen, A & Peachey, JW 2015, 'The making of a social entrepreneur: From participant to cause champion within a sport-for-development context', Sport Management Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 111-125.
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© 2014 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a sport-for-development initiative, Street Soccer USA, on one of its most successful participants in order to understand her experiences, expectations, and motivations towards becoming a cause champion and social entrepreneur and continuing her activism. We adopted a narrative inquiry approach for this study in an effort to explore this topic in a detailed manner. Guided by previous literature within the field of social entrepreneurship, we found there were three specific background influences - sport, life, and traumatic experiences - which influenced her social entrepreneurial leanings. Within that context we show how the variables of people, opportunity, and capital intersect and lead towards the social value proposition of the social entrepreneur. Drawn from the findings, we provide theoretical and practical implications and directions for future research in the field of sport-for-development and social entrepreneurship.

Crook, SJ, Sharma, MD & Wilson, R 2015, 'An Evaluation of the Impact of 1:1 Laptops on Student Attainment in Senior High School Sciences', International Journal of Science Education, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 272-293.
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Cunha, MPE, Clegg, SR, Rego, A & Gomes, JFS 2015, 'Embodying Sensemaking: Learning from the Extreme Case of Vann Nath, Prisoner at S‐2', European Management Review, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 41-58.
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Cunha, MPE, Neves, P, Clegg, SR & Rego, A 2015, 'Tales of the unexpected: Discussing improvisational learning', Management Learning, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 511-529.
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Improvisation has been treated largely as if it were a conceptual monolith: all improvisations are similar. We challenge this theorizing by distinguishing forms of improvisation in organizations (semi-structured, episodic, subversive, resistive) and by exploring ways in which these forms interrelate in improvisational sequences. Improvisation is not just something individuals do; it is a learned capacity that organizations can manage. We introduce the dimension of improvisational formality and informality, adding a political dimension to the study of the topic. By combining forms in process sequences, we organize the existing literature under a systematic perspective facilitating theory development via an integrative understanding of how improvisation produces learning.

Cunha, MPE, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2015, 'The Institutionalization of Genocidal Leadership: Pol Pot and a Cambodian Dystopia', Journal of Leadership Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 6-18.
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AbstractMisleadership is defined as leadership process involving a complex interplay of leader, follower, and situational elements, inscribing a vicious circle of intensifying dysfunctional action. It is tempting to see misleadership as the result of the madness of one leader. It is also misleading. Leadership research has been insufficiently attentive to misleadership and, in particular, to the misleadership factors intervening in genocidal processes. Discussed in the current article are the antecedents and the rule of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the 1970s as an extreme case of misleadership. Lessons from the Polpotist dystopia are derived and reflections on possible contra‐strategies are presented. In particular, it is suggested that it is necessary to distinguish measures for social change that are admissible and positive, from negative utopian visions that are negative, inadmissible, and facilitative of evil leadership.

Cunha, MPE, Rego, A, Silva, ÁFD & Clegg, S 2015, 'An institutional palimpsest? The case of Cambodia’s political order, 1970 and beyond', Journal of Political Power, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 431-455.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. How do continuity and change coexist and coevolve? How does continuity enable change and change reinforce continuity? These are central questions in organizational and political research, as organizational and institutional systems benefit from the presence of both reproduction and transformation. However, the relation between the processes of change and continuity still raises significant questions. To contribute to this discussion, we analyse the coexistence of deep institutional continuity and radical political change in the second half of twentieth-century Cambodia. Over a two-decade period, Cambodia was ruled by radically different political systems of organization: a traditional monarchy with feudal characteristics, a failing republic, a totalitarian communist regime, and a Vietnamese protectorate, before being governed by the UN and finally becoming a constitutional monarchy. We use an historical approach to study how a succession of radical changes may in reality signal deep lines of continuity.

Dalton, B, Wilson, R, Evans, JR & Cochrane, S 2015, 'Australian Indigenous youth's participation in sport and associated health outcomes: Empirical analysis and implications', Sport Management Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 57-68.
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© 2014 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. Analysis of the 2012 Mission Australia Youth Survey (MAYS) finds that among Indigenous youth aged 15-19 years there is a positive relationship between self-reported participation in sport and two health outcomes: rating of overall health and risk of mental health disorder. We find that Indigenous youth who participate in sport are 3.5 times more likely to report good general health and 1.6 times more likely to have no probable serious mental illness. The significance of these findings is discussed in relation to potential future research and policy. In terms of research, the analysis illustrates the utility of brief and cost-effective measures of health outcomes that could be used in future evaluations of specific programs targeting Indigenous youth participation in sport. We also discuss the potential ramifications, for practitioners and management professionals, of the particular policy paths needed to address the current gaps in service delivery to Indigenous communities, and for the development of grassroots, evidence-based, well resourced, culturally sensitive, inclusive and community-led programs. This can, in part, be achieved by ensuring youth sport development programs are shaped by Indigenous youth themselves.

Deng, J & Li, J 2015, 'Self-identification of ecotourists', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 255-279.
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This article outlines the development of a framework that enables the classification of different interpretation research so that it can be linked to management needs in protected areas. The developed framework has been linked to selected case studies, thus enabling this research to be systematically placed in a protected area management context. A real life context for interpretation research is important if park managers are to take new knowledge of interpretation and apply it to their operational practices.

Deroy, X & Clegg, S 2015, 'Back in the USSR: Introducing Recursive Contingency Into Institutional Theory', Organization Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 73-90.
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Institutional theory’s understanding of unplanned change in fragmented and complex environments has made the connection between institutional work at the micro level and institutional logics at the macro level a central issue. Change that is not planned is contingent on events. In practice an event, as a single occurrence of an unexpected, unanticipated or unacknowledged process, connects these levels, as the event is selected for attention, enacted in meaning, and organizationally coded. Not all events are selected, enacted and coded, of course. The recognition, attributes and potential of events depend on selections made from and meaning given to past events and those conceived as coming into being in the future perfect. The concept of recursive contingency describes how unique occurrences become connected in an evolving process over time; in doing so, it stresses the important role of the unexpected in regard to institutional change. Using a theoretical framework derived from Luhmann’s work, in which institutions are seen as relatively autonomous self-closed subsystems generating contingency, we define an event as such by the fact that what it means and what is to be done with it cannot be decided by the application of a rule: choice is demanded that requires coding it as a specific type of event. A recursive view of contingency can be connected to an institutional theory of change in which the central role of institutional codes and networks of communication is stressed, producing a new theoretical approach to the explanation of institutional change. To illustrate the argument we make reference to one of the most significant counterfactual cases for questioning the solidity of institutions: the collapse of the key organization of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party.

Dickson, TJ, Darcy, S, Edwards, D & Terwiel, FA 2015, 'Sport Mega-Event Volunteers' Motivations and Postevent Intention to Volunteer: The Sydney World Masters Games, 2009', Event Management, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 227-245.
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Investment in mega-sport events is frequently justified on the basis that there are infrastructure and social legacies that remain after the event. This research explores the claims of a social legacy through a pre- and post-Games survey of volunteers at the Sydney world Masters Games 2009 (SwMG). Through online surveys the research explores pre-and post-volunteer motivations, postevent volunteering intentions before the Games and actual volunteer behavior after the Games. The pre-Games survey supports previous research that a desire to be involved in the event motivates people to volunteer. however, the postevent expression of motivations shifted to a more altruistic focus. The postevent volunteering intentions as indicated in the preevent survey would support the claim of a social legacy; however, this was not supported by the postevent measures of volunteering levels. The use of a pre- and postevent survey has highlighted that the timing of measures of motivations can influence responses and one may not depend on preevent intentions as an indicator of postevent behaviors.

Domínguez Vila, T, Darcy, S & Alén González, E 2015, 'Competing for the disability tourism market – A comparative exploration of the factors of accessible tourism competitiveness in Spain and Australia', Tourism Management, vol. 47, pp. 261-272.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This paper seeks to address the research question of what factors make a destination competitive for the accessible tourism market. The research design is based on destination competitiveness theories. The objective is to formulate a ranking that can compare the competitiveness factors between two countries, with historical and appropriate data sets, in order to examine destination competitiveness for accessible tourism across the tourist regions of both countries. The current research examines the background of destination competitiveness theories, both generally and specifically, as they relate to the research contexts. The research design was developed to examine the underlying elements that facilitate accessible tourism experiences through factorial and cluster analyses, adapting the Crouch's model of competitiveness destination. The findings suggest that the competitiveness factors are different in determinance and importance, and are country-dependent. The climate, locale and tourist structure are the most important for Spain, whereas quality of services, brand and infrastructure are of great importance for Australia. The cluster analysis of the different tourist regions suggests the existence of three main stages. These stages where related to their accessibility level of offered tourism product and their policies.

Edwards, M, Onyx, J, Maxwell, H, Darcy, S, Bullen, P & Sherker, S 2015, 'A Conceptual Model of Social Impact as Active Citizenship', VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 1529-1549.
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© 2014, International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University. Participation in Civil Society Organizations (CSO) draws on and enriches social, cultural, and human capital. Social impacts of such participation as active citizenship are systemic and ‘ripple’ far beyond the immediate program outputs and outcomes. CSOs and the third sector as a whole must demonstrate and gage the difference they make in the social life of the broader community. This research offers a new approach to conceptualize CSO social impacts through an empirically derived model that accounts for the impacts of active citizenship for individuals, organizations, and the broader community. A conceptual model of systemic social impact is presented as it was developed through an exploratory study of a large Australian CSO using an abductive methodology combining focus groups and a survey. Considering the potential of the model that could account for impacts beyond program outputs and outcomes, we propose several propositions for future testing the conceptual model.

Evans, JR, Wilson, R, Dalton, B & Georgakis, S 2015, 'Indigenous Participation in Australian Sport: The Perils of the ‘Panacea’ Proposition', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 53-77.
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The argument that participation in sport among disadvantaged populations can produce positive outcomes in wide range of areas has been a consistent theme in academic literature. It is argued that sport participation can promote women’s empowerment, sexuality, lifestyle, peacemaking, youth development, poverty reduction and conflict resolution. Similarly, in Australia, participation in sport among Indigenous Australians has been proffered as a ‘panacea’ for many Indigenous problems; from promoting better health and education outcomes, to encouraging community building, good citizenship and entrepreneurship. Parallel to this has been a focus on documenting and analysing sport participation among Indigenous Australians in elite sport which often concludes that Indigenous Australians have an innate and ‘natural ability’ in sports. These two assumptions, first, that sport participation can help realise a wide range of positive social outcomes; and second, that Indigenous Australians are natural athletes, have driven significant public investment in numerous sport focused programs. This paper questions these assumptions and outlines some of the challenges inherent with an emphasis on sport as a solution to Indigenous disadvantage. We highlight how participation in sport has often been tied to ambitious, ill-defined and, in terms of evaluation, often elusive social outcome goals. Second, we also argue that there is limited research to indicate that participation in either elite or grassroots level sport has led to any discernible social progress in addressing inequality. We contrast historical Indigenous participation in a range of sporting codes to demonstrate the influence of factors beyond the ‘natural ability’ and ‘born to play’ propositions. Finally, we outline six ‘perils’ associated with viewing sport as a panacea; including how privileging sport can not only perpetuate disadvantage by reinforcing stereotypes and also contribute to a diversion o...

Festing, M, Kornau, A & Schäfer, L 2015, 'Think talent – think male? A comparative case study analysis of gender inclusion in talent management practices in the German media industry', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 707-732.
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Strong forces of competition and globalisation have created awareness and an urgency to focus how organisalions control and nurture intellectual capital. The knowledge concept and its management have gained currency and momentum, as technology has enabled thoughts and ideas to be more easily produced and distributed. With the increased appljcation of recent technologies such as the internet, CRM and advanced software capabilities, it has been suggested rhat the tlme has come for a debate on a new paradigm for knowledge management. As a contribution to this debate, this paper will examine exploratory research conducted in the Australian private hospital indust.y with a view to better understand issues retaled to knowledge management from an industry perspective.

Forseth, U, Røyrvik, EA & Clegg, S 2015, 'Brave new world? The global financial crisis’ impact on Scandinavian banking’s sales rhetoric and practices', Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 471-479.
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Frawley, S & Van den Hoven, P 2015, 'Football participation legacy and Australia’s qualification for the 2006 Football World Cup', Soccer & Society, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 482-492.
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This paper examines the impact of qualification for the 2006 World Cup on football participation in Australia. Australia’s qualification for the 2006 World Cup created widespread media coverage across the country, and this was amplified by the fact that it was only the second time the nation had qualified for the event. Contrary to a number of studies that have examined sport participation legacy and major events, this research presents data that suggest an overall positive trend in Australian football participation post Australia’s successful World Cup qualification. Three of the four demographic categories examined in the study had witnessed increased football participation across the examined period.

Ghobadi, S & Clegg, S 2015, '“These days will never be forgotten …”: A critical mass approach to online activism', Information and Organization, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 52-71.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Social activists increasingly wield the power of the Internet technology to penetrate organizational boundaries and enable social and political change. Yet, research on activism beyond organizational boundaries and the role that new technology may play in it is scarce. This study explores this phenomenon by studying the dynamics of social activism through the Internet for expressing resistance to a powerful organizational regime. We first develop a critical mass approach to online activism to understand longitudinal data (2009-2013) collected from three YouTube-based cases and supplementary interviews. We then integrate the results of within-case and cross-case analyses in a process model that explains how online activism started, generated societal outcomes, and changed over time. The model suggests that online activism helped organize collective actions and amplify the conditions for revolutionary movements to form. Yet, it provoked elites' reactions such as Internet filtering and surveillance, which do not only promote self-censorship and generate digital divide, but contribute to the ultimate decline of activism over time. We provide a theoretical path for studying the phenomenon of online activism and present opportunities for organizations and social activists to direct online activities' focus from one being based on the creation of 'knowers' to one based on the empowerment of 'learners'.

Glassock, G & Fee, A 2015, 'The decision-making processes of self-initiated expatriates: a consumer behaviour approach', Journal of Global Mobility, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 4-24.
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Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore the features of the decision-making processes used by self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) when considering an international assignment. It does this by examining expatriates’ decision processes through the lens of prominent theories of consumer decision making.Design/methodology/approach– An abductive, exploratory research design was employed, based on in-depth qualitative case studies of nine SIEs.Findings– In general, the expatriates in the study tended to deploy high-involvement decision-making processes. Rational decision models drawing on multiple high-quality information sources were common, especially for expatriates with career-oriented motivations and no prior experience in the target country. Three types of expatriates are distilled: “career building” (high involvement, career oriented, compensatory decision model), “risk minimizing” (high/medium involvement, non-compensatory decision model), and “emotionally driven” (low involvement, affective decision model).Originality/value– While research into expatriates’ motivations is plentiful, this is the first study to examine the decision-making processes that define the way in which these motivations are enacted. Its originality stems from combining two previously unrelated strands of research (consumer decision making and expatriation). The resulting tentative typology of decision-making approaches provides a platform for organisations seeking to better target talent recruitment, and for researchers seeking to further examine the decision processes of SIEs.

Godfrey, J, Wearing, S & Schulenkorf, N 2015, 'Medical Volunteer Tourism as an Alternative to Backpacking in Peru', Tourism Planning & Development, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 111-122.
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© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Medical volunteer tourism (MVT) and backpacking are both alternatives to mass tourism; yet, while backpackers simply aim to “get off the beaten track”, medical volunteer tourists (MVTs) aim to additionally “give back”. This paper examines the experiences of MVTs in Peru and explores MVT as an alternative to backpacking for Generation Y. Findings are derived from a case study conducted of a commercial volunteer tourism organisation in Cusco, Peru. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 MVTs and 3 staff members. In this paper, we describe what the MVTs did at the local clinics, explore the contribution they made to the host community, discuss the benefits the MVTs themselves gained from the experience, and examine the similarities and differences between MVTs and backpackers. There is a wide overlap between the demographics, motivations, and experiences of MVTs and backpackers: they are generally young, stay for a longer rather than a brief period of time, focus on participatory activities, and often view their choice of travel as more ethical than mainstream mass tourism. However, MVTs differ from backpackers, in that they attempt to make a positive contribution to the host community, while simultaneously benefitting their own personal and professional development.

Hasan, MM, Shohag, MAS, Azeem, A & Paul, SK 2015, 'Multiple criteria supplier selection: a fuzzy approach', International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 429-429.
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Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. A company must purchase a lot of diverse components and raw materials from different upstream suppliers to manufacture or assemble its products. However, it is not only a very complicated and perplexing task to select outstanding suppliers for decision-makers of strategic purchasing, but also it involves uncertainty and produces erroneous results while considering single criteria. For this reason, the decision-makers of strategic purchasing greatly require an efficient, valid and fair tool to assist them in selecting appropriate suppliers forthwith. This paper proposes a supplier selection model for any kind of company by using MATLAB fuzzy logic toolbox to help the purchasing department in selecting the most appropriate supplier. The main task in the proposed model involves determining the numerical score for different suppliers considering their respective performance in various qualitative and quantitative evaluation criteria and then selecting the best supplier having highest score. Fuzzy control is used to determine the best supplier by calculating the score in selected evaluation criteria which are provided in numerical values for the convenience of calculation.

Hossain, M, Chowdhury, MMH, Evans, R & Lema, AC 2015, 'The relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance: Evidence from a developing country', Corporate Ownership and Control, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 474-487.
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We investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP) in a developing country context using annual report data from a sample of 131 firms over a 5 year period (2008-2012). Legitimacy theory and stakeholder theory underpin the study. We find a positive and significant relationship between CSR and CFP when using accounting measures of return on assets and equity, but an insignificant relationship when using the market based Tobin’s Q. The moderating effect of organisational governance on measures of workplace and environmental reporting is found to be important in a less developed economy

Jonson, PT, Small, J, Foley, C & Schlenker, K 2015, ''All Shook Up' at the Parkes Elvis Festival: The Role of Play in Events', Event Management, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 479-493.
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Leisure in the postmodern environment is often regarded as superficial, depthless, and meaningless, dominated by simulation and hyperreality. Many aspects of the Parkes Elvis Festival fall clearly into the category of simulation and hyperreality as attendees imitate Elvis Presley (and other associated characters) and are willing to accept the fake and contrived as real. However, the simulation does not, in the case of the Parkes Elvis Festival, lead to a depthless, meaningless, or inauthentic experience. Using Huizinga's ideas of play and Bateson's play frame we present the Elvis Festival as a liminal social space that invites playfulness and creativity. The theory of Georg Simmel is explored to show how sociability is created at the event to facilitate play. Finally, Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow is used to demonstrate ways in which the enjoyment of the playful event experience is maximized for participants. We argue that play provides the substance that makes the Parkes Elvis Festival memorable and meaningful. An understanding of play theory may assist event managers to increase social facilitation at festivals and events, ensuring an enjoyable, sociable, creative, and authentic experience for attendees.

Lancione, M & Clegg, SR 2015, 'The lightness of management learning', MANAGEMENT LEARNING, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 280-298.
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Lewis, KV, Cassells, S & Roxas, H 2015, 'SMEs and the Potential for A Collaborative Path to Environmental Responsibility', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 750-764.
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AbstractGlobally, the potential for small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to collectively impact negatively on the environment is great. Therefore, the adoption, and maintenance, of environmentally responsible practices by this group of firms is especially critical. Studies of environmental practices successfully implemented by small firms have revealed that relationships with other firms, or other organizations, can contribute to greater awareness of the benefits of such activities and, therefore, enhance the possibility of environmental engagement. Collaborative relationships may provide opportunities for SMEs to overcome some of the barriers to implementing environmental initiatives associated with their size, and/or associated characteristics. This paper focuses on attitudes of SME owner‐managers to a variety of environmental issues (including regulation and voluntary standards), and to collaborating with other firms (in either a formal or informal sense). The data this paper draws upon are from two waves of an ongoing longitudinal survey of New Zealand SMEs. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

Lobpries, J, Hodge, C & Cohen, A 2015, 'Will Motivated Players Help Women's Professional Leagues Survive? Investigating the Motives and Needs of National Pro Fastpitch Players', International Journal of Sport Management, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1-24.

Logue, DM & Clegg, SR 2015, 'Wikileaks and The News of the World: The Political Circuitry of Labeling', JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 394-404.
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© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Labels are important when organizations seek membership in an existing category, as are the agreed upon labeling practices of audiences that are already members of that category. The origins of labeling theory emerge from sociological examinations of deviant behavior and of deviant individuals. We return to this earlier emphasis and extend the analysis to organizations to demonstrate the contribution of a more politicized conception of labeling and categorizing for organization studies’ literature. In drawing upon two empirical illustrations, that of Wikileaks and News Corp’s The News of the World, we apply a “circuits of power” framework to analyze the politics of labeling. We suggest that a more politicized conception than offered in current literature highlights the moral reasoning, disciplining, and symbolic violence that may be invoked by labels and labeling practices and also the circuits of power by which they may be maintained and disrupted.

Logue, DM, Jarvis, WP, Clegg, S & Hermens, A 2015, 'Translating models of organization: Can the Mittelstand move from Bavaria to Geelong?', JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 17-36.
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Copyright © 2015 Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. In this paper, we examine the increasing global attention being given to the German organizational form of the Mittelstand over the past decade. We do so, especially, in consideration of the construction of Australian analogues to the Mittelstand. Such translations have been posited as a solution to the current crisis facing Australian manufacturing. Translation out of context always poses problems: can a specifically national form of organization, such as the German Mittelstand, be something that can, potentially, be translated to other nations and industrial contexts? The Australian case offers an empirical setting in which to explore understandings of transnational translation of management innovations. Our findings demonstrate how globally theorized models subject to translation align abstract value orientations with local templates. Our discussion focuses on the translation of a Bavarian model of organization into very different locations, such as Geelong, Australia.

Malcolm, M-J, Onyx, J, Dalton, B & Penetito, K 2015, 'Nonprofit Management Education Down Under: Challenges and Opportunities', Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 219-243.
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In this article, we will explore the context within which two significant nonprofit management education programs developed in Australia and New Zealand. These tertiary education programs grew with relatively little reference to each other, yet both responded to nonprofit sector needs with similarities of vision and adult education philosophy and practice. Over time, the Australian program, based in a university business school, has been focused more on postgraduate programs, research, and more recently, social entrepreneurship and measuring social impact. The New Zealand program, with roots in a community development school, has grown with wide geographic coverage, alongside customized delivery for Māori and Pacific communities. Nonprofit sector, cultural, institutional, and wider contextual factors have played a part in shaping their current forms of delivery. Just as the nonprofit sector is characterized by a high degree of diversity in terms of organizational form, industry, and organizations, these programs have responded in different ways to multiple and diverse stakeholder influences. Given the size, significance, and growth of the sector, the uptake across all programs is smaller than expected in either country. Why is this so? In this article, we will examine the growth of the first accredited tertiary education programs in Australia and New Zealand and highlight the challenges and opportunities of delivering nonprofit management education in this region.

Maxwell, H, Foley, C, Taylor, T & Burton, C 2015, 'The development of female Muslim life-savers', SPORT MANAGEMENT REVIEW, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 139-151.
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© 2014 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. This teaching case illustrates the use of community development strategies to increase and enhance community sport participation of a targeted minority group. Royal Life Saving Society of Australia is presented here as an example of an organisation that embraced cultural change and developed a strategic approach to inclusive provision for individuals from marginalised population groups. The case is based on a community development framework that includes multiple facets: a shared concern about a social problem requiring action; encouraging the active participation of a marginalised group; forming public sector partnerships to pool resources and build political support; adopting collaborative principles of organising; collectively developing and implementing action plans; and re-conceptualising traditional ideas around accountability. The case facilitates the examination of the theoretical and practical considerations of adopting a community development approach in sport management.

Michopoulou, E, Darcy, S, Ambrose, I & Buhalis, D 2015, 'Accessible tourism futures: the world we dream to live in and the opportunities we hope to have', Journal of Tourism Futures, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 179-188.
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PurposeAccessible tourism is evolving as a field of academic research and industry practice, set within a dynamic social context. The field is interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary. The purpose of this paper is to examine key concepts and global initiatives that will shape accessible tourism futures.Design/methodology/approachThree of the authors have extensive academic experience in the area and the fourth author is the Managing Director of the pre-eminent European Network for Accessible Tourism. In taking a limited Delphi approach to canvassing key areas likely to shape accessible tourism futures, the following concepts and policy initiatives were examined: motivations, dreams and aspirations of people with disability; demography; UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; destination competitiveness; universal design (UD); and the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.FindingsA discussion of each of the above areas was placed in context to accessible tourism futures and to contextualise the papers that were selected for the special issue. The latter part of the paper outlines the contribution of each empirical paper to the issue discussing the approach, findings and implications. Stakeholder collaboration was identified as the key common theme of the papers and the factor for developing accessible tourism solutions, recognising the value of the market and capitalising on it. A collaborative approach is required to recognise the complementary nature of the different paradigms; to re-shape and transform the future of the accessible tourism industry. To assist in the development of accessible tourism futures, UD principles should provide a foundation to ...

Nicholas, J, Poladian, L, Mack, J & Wilson, R 2015, 'Mathematics preparation for university: Entry, pathways and impact on performance in first year science and mathematics subjects', International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 37-51.
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Secondary school mathematics has always been considered central to preparation for university science degrees. Within the context of low levels of participation and attainment in both secondary school and tertiary mathematics and science, we examine the relationship between these two. Using university databases, we examine secondary school mathematics preparation in relation to university entry, pathways and performance for science students at a single, research-intensive university in Australia. We analyse the relationship between senior secondary school mathematics choice and attainment and overall attainment in Science degrees and performance in large cohort units in university mathematics, physics and chemistry. We also examine the impact of mathematics bridging courses for mathematically under-prepared students on attainment in the university mathematics unit. Our findings indicate that the higher levels of mathematics taken in senior secondary school are strong predictors of success in first year science and mathematics, but that our students who achieve in the top bands of each level of mathematics taken in senior secondary school can and often do outperform their peers who study a higher level of mathematics at school but achieve a lower band result. The impact of mathematics bridging courses on attainment in university mathematics is also discussed.

Nogueira, S & Pinho, JC 2015, 'Stakeholder Network Integrated Analysis: The Specific Case of Rural Tourism in the Portuguese Peneda‐Gerês National Park', International Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 325-336.
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AbstractThis study addresses the structure, nature and composition of stakeholder networks related to rural tourism in a Portuguese National Park (Peneda‐Gerês National Park). In particular, it examines their interactions along the following dimensions: marketing information (marketing exchanges such as flyers, tourism information and information on specific events), administrative resources (logistic and technical support), human resources (allocation of human resources), training (training of local stakeholders in the area of promotion) and financial resources (financial support). In terms of methodology, it uses both qualitative and quantitative techniques.The analysis of the type and nature of interactions among different stakeholders within a specific rural tourism destination is the main focus of this study. Among these, the marketing information network shows both a high number of connections and high centrality indices, which may indicate that there is a significant share of information about common projects, products and services among stakeholders. In contrast, the training network evidenced the opposite behavior pattern. The study also contributes to a better understanding of how different local stakeholders are positioned in a complex structure of interactions that are critical in providing useful directions to maximize potential opportunities that may contribute to promote rural tourism and local development efficiently. Several limitations and implications are offered in the final section. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Oliveira, J & Clegg, S 2015, 'Paradoxical puzzles of control and circuits of power', Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 425-451.
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Purpose– This paper aims to clarify a paradox in an organisation: in the past, formally powerful “central” actors confronted important limitations in their relations with formally less powerful actors. However, three innovations – the financial accounting module of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, a corporate centre (CC) and a shared services centre (SSC) – substantially changed and re-centred network power relations. The authors adopt a critical discourse to explain this paradox, contributing to the emerging literature on SSCs and bridging the management control and power literatures.Design/methodology/approach– An in-depth, processual, actor-network theory-inspired three-year case study of a large Portuguese manufacturer.Findings– As the intertwined accounting-related innovations were (re)mobilised by actors, dynamically adjusting to unfolding repercussions, control and power effects emerged, enabling enhanced organisational steering.Research limitations/implications– Based on a single case, this paper highlights effects of managerial technologies, in particular ERPs and SSCs, on control and power relations, and refines Clegg’s model for future research.Practical implications– The transactional, low value-added activities typically performed by SSCs should not lead to underestimating their potentially profound organisational consequences. However, the surrounding socio-technical network is decisive for the emerging, inter-related repercussions.

Paul, SK 2015, 'Supplier selection for managing supply risks in supply chain: a fuzzy approach', The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 79, no. 1-4, pp. 657-664.
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© 2015, Springer-Verlag London. Supplier selection is one of the most important tasks for supply chain decision making, and there are many quantitative and qualitative factors that affect this process. This paper develops a simple and user-friendly supplier selection process for a supply chain which considers various selection criteria for managing supply risks. A rule-based fuzzy inference system (FIS) model is developed using the fuzzy logic toolbox in MATLAB R2012a to select the most excellent supplier by considering both quantitative and qualitative selection criteria. We identify a total of 18 selection criteria, of which four are quantitative and 14 qualitative. Risk factors are also incorporated in the model by developing fuzzy input and output criteria, and the best supplier is selected based on the aggregated supplier ranking index value. Finally, a numerical example presented to explain the usefulness of the developed model.

Paul, SK, Azeem, A & Ghosh, AK 2015, 'Application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and artificial neural network in inventory level forecasting', International Journal of Business Information Systems, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 268-268.
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Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Determining optimum level of inventory is very important for any organisation which depends on various factors. In this research, six main factors have been considered as input parameters and the inventory level has been considered as the single output for this inventory management problem. Price of raw material, demand of raw material, holding cost, setup cost, supplier's reliability and lead time are considered as input parameters. An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) has been applied as the artificial intelligence technique for modelling the inventory problem. ANFIS results have been compared with results from another artificial intelligence technique, artificial neural network (ANN), to validate the output results. Performance of both methods has been shown regarding different error measures. Comparison clearly shows the superiority of ANFIS results over ANN results and thus makes ANFIS a better choice for inventory level forecasting.

Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2015, 'A disruption recovery plan in a three-stage production-inventory system', Computers & Operations Research, vol. 57, pp. 60-72.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper proposes a recovery plan for managing disruptions in a three-stage production-inventory system under a mixed production environment. First, a mathematical model is developed to deal with a disruption at any stage while maximizing total profit during the recovery-time window. The model is solved after the occurrence of a disruption event, with changed data used to generate a revised plan. We also propose a new and efficient heuristic for solving the developed mathematical model. Second, multiple disruptions are considered, where a new disruption may or may not affect the recovery plans of earlier disruptions. The heuristic, developed for a single disruption, is extended to deal with a series of disruptions so that it can be implemented for disruption recovery on a real-time basis. We compare the heuristic solutions with those obtained by a standard search algorithm for a set of randomly generated disruption test problems, and that show the consistent performance of our developed heuristic with lower computational times. Finally, some numerical examples and a real-world case study are presented to demonstrate the benefits and usefulness of our proposed approach.

Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2015, 'Managing disruption in an imperfect production–inventory system', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 84, pp. 101-112.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. In this paper, a disruption recovery model is developed for an imperfect single-stage production-inventory system. For it, the system may unexpectedly face either a single disruption or a mix of multiple dependent and/or independent disruptions. The system is usually run according to a user defined production-inventory policy. We have formulated a mathematical model for rescheduling the production plan, after the occurrence of a single disruption, which maximizes the total profit during the recovery time window. The model thereby generates a revised plan after the occurrence of the disruption. The mathematical model, developed for a single disruption, is solved by using both a pattern search and a genetic algorithm, and the results are compared using a good number of randomly generated disruption test problems. We also consider multiple disruptions, that occur one after another as a series, for which a new occurrence may or may not affect the revised plan of earlier occurrences. We have developed a new dynamic solution approach that is capable of dealing with multiple disruptions on a real-time basis. Some numerical examples and a set of sensitivity analysis are presented to explain the usefulness and benefits of the developed model. The proposed quantitative approach helps decision makers to make prompt and accurate decisions for managing disruption.

Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2015, 'Managing risk and disruption in production-inventory and supply chain systems: A review', Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1009-1029.
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This paper presents a literature review on risk and disruption management in production-inventory and supply chain systems. The review is conducted on the basis of comparing various works published in this research domain, specifically the papers, which considered real-life risk factors, such as imperfect production processes, risk and disruption in production, supply, demand, and transportation, while developing models for production-inventory and supply chain systems. Emphasis is given on the assumptions and the types of problems considered in the published research. We also focus on reviewing the mathematical models and the solution approaches used in solving the models using both hypothetical and real-world problem scenarios. Finally, the literature review is summarized and future research directions are discussed.

Peachey, JW, Bruening, J, Lyras, A, Cohen, A & Cunningham, GB 2015, 'Examining Social Capital Development Among Volunteers of a Multinational Sport-for-Development Event', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 27-41.
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Much sport-for-development (SFD) research has focused on the impact initiatives have on participants, and not on other stakeholders such as volunteers. Some research suggests volunteerism enables social capital gains, while other scholars have been skeptical, with even less known about how volunteers are impacted by working for SFD events rather than for ongoing programs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate how, if at all, a large, multinational SFD event contributed to social capital development of volunteers. Findings revealed volunteers experienced social capital development through building relationships, learning, and enhanced motivation to work for social change and reciprocity. As very little research has examined the efficacy of SFD events in contributing to social capital development, the findings extend the literature on SFD events. It would be prudent for SFD events to target programming to impact the experience of volunteers to retain them and contribute to social capital development.

Peachey, JW, Cunningham, GB, Lyras, A, Cohen, A & Bruening, J 2015, 'The Influence of a Sport-for-Peace Event on Prejudice and Change Agent Self-Efficacy', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 229-244.
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The purpose of this research project was to examine the impact of participating in a sport-for-peace event and one’s social dominance orientation on prejudice and change agent self-efficacy. In Study 1, participants (n = 136) completed questionnaires both before and following their participation in a sport-for-peace event. The event was designed to ensure both high levels of and quality intergroup contact, with interactions confirmed through a manipulation check. Results from the doubly repeated measures analysis of variance indicate a significant decrease in prejudice and a significant increase in change agent self-efficacy. Social dominance orientation did not influence the nature of these changes. In Study 2, the authors conducted focus group interviews with 27 participants to better understand how the event impacted prejudice and change agent self-efficacy. Results indicate that the team-based sport environment and social opportunities were instrumental in prejudice reduction while the educational platform was important for increasing change agent self-efficacy.

Perrott, B 2015, 'Including Consumers in the Organisational Knowledge Network', Knowledge and Process Management, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 288-296.
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This article is intended to build a better understanding of the knowledge dynamics in organisations and the role communities of practice play in facilitating the effective flow and application of knowledge.Exploring the dimensions of knowledge dynamics in organisations, this article highlights the critical role communities of practice play in healthcare organisation operations. Readers will gain new insights into the role they play in the knowledge dynamics of organisations. From the insights gained from pilot studies in health care, the article suggests that the concept of communities of practice can be extended to include customers, thus building knowledge management efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Perrott, BE 2015, 'Building the sustainable organization: an integrated approach', Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 41-51.
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine how some leading companies are integrating sustainability into their planning of future direction and growth. Readers will have a strong interest in sustainability and how it should be managed within organizations. Creating and maintaining sustainable organizations is of high priority to companies planning their future in a turbulent and difficult-to-predict operating environment. Readers will learn how sustainability may be better integrated into the strategic thinking and management processes. This article will be cited in the future for its early discussion on the importance of integrating sustainability discussion and planning into mainstream strategic management. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws on secondary data from seven international organizations to show how they are beginning to embrace sustainability issues into mainstream strategic management. This background is used to propose a process that integrates business and sustainability strategy processes that will deal with issues that emerge in more turbulent operating environments. Findings – Secondary research findings suggest that it would be timely to embrace sustainability issue processing with mainstream strategic management processes. Research limitations/implications – Information collected in this paper is based upon a small sample of seven international organizations; hence, obse...

Pina e Cunha, M, Rego, A, Clegg, S & Lindsay, G 2015, 'The dialectics of serendipity', European Management Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 9-18.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Serendipity in organizations has often been perceived as a mysterious occurrence. We approach the process of serendipity via reconsideration of Honda's entry into the US market using an alternate templates analysis, showing that serendipity can be conceptually interpreted as the synthesis of preparation and openness to novelty, articulated through generative doubt. In this sense, it can be thought of as a dialectical process that thrives through the creative synthesis of the existing and the new. It is a practical accomplishment rather than an organizational form of mystery.

Schulenkorf, N & Spaaij, R 2015, 'Commentary: Reflections on theory building in sport for development and peace', International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, vol. 16, no. 1-2, pp. 71-77.
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Building on the limited yet important groundwork that has been laid in regard to the theoretical and conceptual underpinning of sport for development and peace (SDP), the special issue on Theory Building in SDP provides a starting point for exploring contemporary challenges in the sector. In our reflective commentary, we engage critically with the four articles in the special issue through a discussion of cross-cutting themes and issues.

Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N & Chalip, L 2015, 'Managing sport for social change: The state of play', SPORT MANAGEMENT REVIEW, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-5.
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© 2014 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. Sport-for-development (SFD) provides a platform for sport to be used as a tool or 'hook' to contribute to positive outcomes in areas including economic development, social inclusion, cultural cohesion, healthy lifestyles, education, gender equity, as well as reconciliation and peacebuilding. The area of sport for social change (SFSC) represents a sub-field of SFD that uses sport as a catalyst to build social capacity and develop socially and physically healthy communities. The Managing Sport for Social Change special issue of Sport Management Review brings together a collection of conceptual advances, empirical research papers and teaching case studies from a range of social and cultural perspectives, with a focus on managing sport for social change; aimed at engaging critically with sport management theory and praxis, and discussing associated practical and policy implications. Theoretical gaps and recommendations for future research, including: local engagement, innovative research methodology, and a broadening of the scope of research are also discussed.

Siefken, K, Schofield, G & Schulenkorf, N 2015, 'Process evaluation of a walking programme delivered through the workplace in the South Pacific island Vanuatu', GLOBAL HEALTH PROMOTION, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 53-64.
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© The Author(s) 2014. Background: The South Pacific region is experiencing significant rates of chronic diseases. Well-evaluated health promotion programmes are needed as a central piece of a strategic solution. Just as important as the evaluation itself is how that evaluation outcome can be communicated for future programme use by local programme planners. The objective of this study is to evaluate a physical activity (PA) programme that was designed for Pacific women in urban Vanuatu, and subsequently to develop new techniques to display data that support the understanding and communication of programme success and challenges. Methods: Data collection methods included quantitative Likert scale questions and qualitative openended questions. A new analysis technique visualises open-ended process evaluation data. We present themes using word sizes proportional to the frequency of the themes identified through thematic analysis. Results: The Likert scale technique revealed little meaningful information; almost all participants rated most elements of the programme highly. This may be related to Pacific people being frequently inclined to assent with external ideas. Open-ended questions provided more significant insights. For example, we found a stronger change in eating habits (68.9%) than in exercise behaviour (28.2%). Conclusion: We present an evaluation of the first pedometer-based PA intervention in the Pacific and respond to the paucity of process evaluations that have been carried out in the context of low-and middle-income countries. Moreover, the new thematic data visualisation (TDV) approach may aid in understanding complex and cluttered data in a constructive and coordinated way; we present a new approach in health promotion research.

Simpson, AV, Pina e Cunha, M & Clegg, S 2015, 'Hybridity, sociomateriality and compassion: What happens when a river floods and a city's organizations respond?', SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 375-386.
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In this study we analyze the ethics of compassionate support provided by organizations to their employees during and after the Brisbane flood crisis of January 2011. The relationship between the social and the material is often taken for granted in discussions of compassion, which has largely been conceived as an emotion or an ethical virtue. By contrast, we see it as a variable state that is contingent on phenomenal events, social relations, organizational routines, technology and corporeality. These are entangled in temporal processes in which the ethics of organizing compassion are constituted. When traumatic events occur processes of sociomateriality can substantiate or negate organizational compassion.

Veal, AJ 2015, 'Human rights, leisure and leisure studies', World Leisure Journal, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 249-272.
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© 2015 World Leisure Organization. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, endorsed by the United Nations in 1948, includes the right to leisure time, to cultural participation and to travel. While the idea of human rights permeates many aspects of national and international life, it has not permeated the field of leisure studies to any great extent. The purpose of this paper is not to remedy this situation but to argue that this neglect is unjustified and to suggest that leisure researchers might incorporate the idea of human rights and leisure rights into their work. The paper is divided into six main parts. First, it considers the parallels between the neglect of human rights in sociology and in leisure studies. Second, it considers the basis of human rights in general. Third, it examines the nature of the leisure rights declared in the Universal Declaration. Fourth, the place of leisure in the general critique of economic, social and cultural rights is assessed. Fifth, the relationship between human rights and a number of themes in leisure studies is briefly explored, including: the work/leisure divide; the individual versus society; freedom; gender; globalization; and policy. Finally, some suggestions are made for a research agenda on leisure and human rights.

Veal, AJ 2015, 'Leisure and the family life cycle', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 290-295.
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Wang, Y, Wang, L & Keller, LR 2015, 'Discounting over subjective time: Subjective time perception helps explain multiple discounted utility anomalies', International Journal of Research in Marketing, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 445-448.
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Consumers often face choices involving intertemporal tradeoffs. Existing research suggests that, in general, decision makers do not obey discounted utility theory because their discount rates are context dependent. Recent literature incorporates decision makers' subjective perception of time into the classic discounted utility model and finds relatively constant discount rates over subjective time. In the current study, we investigated the magnitude effect with subjective time, provided a holistic view via a more comprehensive experiment including multiple anomalies, and found that subjective time perception was able to explain most of the anomalies simultaneously in a single scenario.

Wearing, SL, McDonald, M, Ankor, J & Schweinsberg, S 2015, 'The Nature of Aesthetics: How Consumer Culture Has Changed Our National Parks', Tourism Review International, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 225-233.
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Tourism is essentially a modern Western social and cultural phenomenon, the analysis of which has evolved from premodernism through to postmodernism. Tourism differs significantly from non-Western and historical forms of travel, being closely related to the emergence of modernity with the emphasis on economic viability and consumer culture. The massive growth of tourism over the 20th century and the emergence of a multibillion dollar global tourist industry have impacted on national parks as tourists increasingly seek nature-based experiences. This has occurred in conjunction with increases in leisure time, disposable income, technological improvements in communication and transportation, demographic changes, and a shift in the axis of personal identity and meaningful social action from production to consumption. This article examines how aesthetics fits into this evolution and the current role of national parks with a focus on the emergence of their production through the mass media to a consumer market. Finally, we propose more reflexivity in regards to tourism and place image production.

Wearing, SL, Wearing, J, McDonald, M & Wearing, M 2015, 'Leisure in a world of ‘com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games’: a father and son conversation', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 219-234.
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Wearring, A, Le, H, Wilson, R & Arambewela, R 2015, 'The international student's experience: An exploratory study of students from Vietnam', International Education Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 71-89.
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International students are an important part of today's global university sector. This paper explores, through 10 in-depth interviews, the perceptions of Vietnamese international students studying with regard to their experience of teaching and learning in Australia. The findings indicate that Vietnamese students struggle with language, assessment, and Western teaching and learning styles. Many interviewees felt that local students often lumped them together with other international students, who sometimes had no desire to befriend or work with them. The paper provides recommendations on how to improve students' experiences and adds to the current debate on international students' satisfaction, with general implications for international education.

Welty Peachey, J & Cohen, A 2015, 'Reflections from scholars on barriers and strategies in sport-for-development research', Journal of sport for development, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 16-27.

Welty Peachey, J, Borland, J, Lobpries, J & Cohen, A 2015, 'Managing impact: Leveraging sacred spaces and community celebration to maximize social capital at a sport-for-development event', Sport Management Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 86-98.
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© 2014 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand. The purpose of this investigation was to understand how a sport-for-development event can be leveraged socially, and if event organizers created the best possible experiences for homeless participants through the creation of communitas and thus, social capital. We also examined the mechanisms through which liminality is cultivated and communitas can emerge, along with the means for leveraging liminality. It was found that liminality was cultivated and communitas materialized at this SFD event, as event organizers employed various processes to foster a liminoid space and develop community. Additional tactics were employed to leverage liminality and associated communitas for social capital development. We contribute to the research literature on event leveraging and also make important contributions to theory development. Implications are drawn forth for theory, practice, and future research.

YE, C & Onyx, J 2015, 'Development Paths, Problems and Countermeasures of Chinese Civil Society Organizations', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1-18.
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Although the process of reform and opening-up accelerates continually in China, the speed of development for Chinese Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) is still slow; most organizations still operate under the government shadow and it is very difficult to cut relations with government. The autonomy of Chinese CSOs, to a large extent, is affected by the constraints from government. Overall, Chinese CSOs are still in their infancy, and they need to be further perfected and developed. The aim of this paper is to present a review of the field, with issues and promise identified. Specifically, the paper focuses on the internal management of these organizations and their existing problems in the development process, and some potential solutions for CSOs’ future development.

Yu, K 2015, 'Institutional Pluralism, Organizations, and Actors: A Review', Sociology Compass, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 464-476.
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AbstractThe institutional logics perspective holds the promise of delivering where neo‐institutionalist theory has disappointed – the ability to address key societal problems such as inequality, social discrimination, and economic insecurity – a promise that, as of yet, has been unrealized. In this review, I provide an overview of the body of work within the institutional logics perspective that addresses the co‐existence of multiple institutional logics influencing identities, values, cognitive frameworks, and practices – institutional pluralism. I demonstrate how pluralism diverges from conventional neo‐institutionalist theory in its view of institutional fields as heterogeneous spaces. I then review the implications for organizations and social actors responding to multiple logics in the institutional environment. In the discussion section, I argue that the study of pluralism, in acknowledging human agency, politics, and collective mobilization, opens the door for creative resolutions to societal problems hitherto overlooked in neo‐institutional theory. Despite the promise, I address key research areas that remain unresolved or under‐addressed in the institutional pluralism perspective.

Yu, K-H, Kim, S & Restubog, S 2015, 'Transnational Contexts for Professional Identity Development in Accounting', Organization Studies, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 1577-1597.
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Global expansion in the boundaries of professional work, the introduction of managerial concepts and thinking, and changes in the organizational form of professional service firms all impact the process by which professionals come to identify with their profession. The focus of this paper is on transnational professional careers and professional identity development, which remain an under-researched aspect of how globalization affects the professions. Based on original survey data from Australia, we chart the influence of social and organizational contexts on professional identity development for migrant and local accounting professionals respectively. Findings suggest that unlike the “boundaryless” opportunities associated with globe-trotting professionals, the majority of professional migrants are significantly constrained by the organizational and inter-subjective settings in which they work. Theoretically, we extend the concept of professional identity development to include not only formative early career experiences, but also large institutional jolts such as those provided by migration. Findings also help expand current understandings of organizations as sites of professionalization by shedding light on their impact on transnational careers.

Ahuja, S 1970, 'Performative Practice: Rethinking architecture-as-practice', Asia Pacific Researchers for Organization Studies, Sydney, Australia.

Berti, M, Simpson, AV & Clegg, S 1970, 'Design, designing and designs: 'a new school of thought'', European Group for Organisational Studies Colloquium (EGOS), European Group for Organisational Studies Colloquium (EGOS), Athens, Greece.

Berti, M, Simpson, AV & Clegg, S 1970, 'Designer labels and the nouveau riche? Re-designing academic spaces and identities', APROS EGOS, Sydney, Australia.

Boersma, M 1970, 'Sustainable Finance: Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance of Banks', 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, London.

Chelliah, J, Boersma, M & Klettner, A 1970, 'Governance Challenges for Not-For-Profit Organisations: Empirical Evidence in Support of a Contingency Approach', Australasian Conference on Business and Social Sciences 2015, Sydney, Sydney.

Cheng, M, Edwards, D & Darcy, S 1970, 'A novel review approach on adventure tourism scholarship', BEST EN Think Tank XV The Environment-People Nexus in Sustainable Tourism : Finding the Balance, BEST EN Think Tank XV The Environment-People Nexus in Sustainable Tourism : Finding the Balance, South Africa, pp. 187-189.
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As a niche market, adventure tourism has been developing rapidly in many regions and territories, evidenced by increasing number of participants and intensive growth of adventure tourism products (Adventure Travel Trade Association, 2013; Tourism New Zealand, 2013). It has become an important component of the tourism industry in many Western countries (e.g. New Zealand) and is gaining some prominence in domestic tourism in select emerging countries (e.g. China and Brazil). This particular growth of adventure tourism sector in past two decades is closely related to the increase of all types of nature based tourism. Adventure tourism has been strongly likened to outdoor and adventure recreation (Buckley, 2006; Pomfret & Bramwell, 2014; Sung, Morrison, & O'Leary, 1996). Buckley (2006), for example, sees little distinction between the terms adventure tourism, nature tourism, outdoor and adventure recreation in some cases. However, research in adventure tourism has been slight, especially when compared with the large number of other dominant special interest tourism studies (Buckley, 2010). As such, an updated review article on adventure tourism in the tourism context seems essential.

Darcy, SA 1970, 'Preparing for the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Consumer understandings of providing an equality of experience', 2015 Asia-Pacific Venue Industry Congress Program, It's All About Them: 2015 Asia-Pacific Venue Industry Congress, Adelaide Convention Centre.
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Simon's address will draw on his personal, professional and technical knowledge of the impending business opportunities that the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) ca bring to the venue sector through understanding how to best provide an equality of experience to improve the social participation of people with disability as consumers, participants, volunteers and employees. His presentation will be divided into two parts: 1. Understanding the legislative and policy framework of disability reform; and 2. What is equality of experience for people with mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive disabilities?.The NDIS, which is currently being piloted in three jurisdictions in Australia, is much talked about within the disability community but not very well understood by others. The NDIS is a revolutionary change to the way that all Australians that have or acquire a disability will be provided with services in the future. The presentation will outline the overall approach of the NDIS through community awareness, information provision for effective support of people with disability in the community and individual funding for the 400,000 people with disability with specialised support needs. The change to individualised funding allocation to each person presents challenges to current disability service provision and opportunities for business, government and the not-for-profit sector who are able to provide services that the group are looking to purchase. The Commonwealth government also has a National Disability Strategy that provides a framework for social participation across all areas of citizenship. In a venue and event context, people with disabilities need to be considered as consumers, members, volunteers, participants and employees. From an audience perspective venue managers need to consider what constitutes an 'equality of experience' for the group. The presentation will examine cutting-edge contemporary practice for those with mobility...

Frawley, SM 1970, 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’ A Longitudinal Analysis of Football Attendances and the Australian Population', Worlds of Football lll, Melbourne.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Understanding changed governance and regulation: working conditions of NSW teachers and principals in times of neoliberalism and marketisation', 29th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Aukland, New Zealand.

Godfrey, J, Wearing, S & Schulenkorf, N 1970, 'Neo-Colonialism and the Volunteer Tourist Gaze: Commercial Volunteer Tourism in Cusco, Peru', 25th Annual CAUTHE Conference: Rising Tides and Sea Changes: Adaptation and Innovation in Tourism and Hospitality, 25th Annual CAUTHE Conference: Rising Tides and Sea Changes: Adaptation and Innovation in Tourism and Hospitality, School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, pp. 135-141.
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In recent years volunteer tourism has become increasingly commercialised and this has shifted the relationship between the volunteer tourist, the volunteer tourism organisation and the host community. Compared to mass tourism, the more reciprocal tourist-host interaction of volunteer tourism has traditionally been assumed to create a more authentic travel experience resulting in increased cross-cultural understanding. However, this paper suggests that this is perhaps no longer the case in contemporary commercial volunteer tourism. The paper presents a case study of a large commercial volunteer tourism organisation in Cusco, Peru and explores the volunteer tourists’ perceptions of Cusco and their interactions with the host community.

Hawryszkiewycz, I, Pradhan, S & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Design thinking as a framework for fostering creativity in management and information systems teaching programs', Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2015 - Proceedings, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, AISEL, Singapore, pp. 1-12.
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Modern businesses are recognising the power of innovation through design thinking to sustain innovation and growth in today's competitive markets. Design is now becoming a holistic process and there is emerging need for future business leaders to understand the underlying processes of design thinking in an urge to innovate. This paper introduces a framework in design thinking to encourage information systems (IS) and management students to foster their creativity and innovation capabilities, and also improve their metacognitive skills. The framework is used to develop and implement teaching methods that increasingly focus on agility and innovation. An exploration of steps of implementing this framework in teaching introductory to high level university subjects is discussed. One of the key goals of the framework was to ensure that students learn early in their studies that design thinking is not only about identifying new ideas, but how the ideas can be externalised and differentiated to get commercial acceptances. Idea management tools are introduced in some subjects to help students follow through their brainstormed ideas, building blocks management and on-going evaluations by peers. This process has helped to spawn new solutions based on what is discussed within their group. Through the use of these tools the experiential journey of learning in collaborative environment has allowed students to interact with their peers, encourage and motivate students to participate and learn better in an effective and efficient manner.

Killen, CP, Clegg, S, Biesenthal, C & Sankaran, S 1970, 'Time to make space for practice-based research in project portfolio management', Asia Pacific Researchers in Organisational Studies (APROS) / European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), Asia Pacific Researchers in Organisational Studies (APROS) / European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), Sydney, Australia.
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Practice-based research is extending understanding in the disciplines of strategy and project management, in part as a result of strong advocacy of research from ‘strategy-as-practice’ and ‘projects-as-practice’ perspectives. Such perspectives provide holistic contextual information and reveal the evolutionary and responsive nature of project and strategy processes. As environments shift and become more complex, dynamic capabilities are required for projects to flourish. Normative project management approaches are being challenged and practice-based project portfolio management (PPM) research is emerging. Increasingly, PPM defines the space between strategy and project management, with a key project focus on temporality. There is a need for further development and encouragement of practice-based approaches in PPM research that are alert to the becoming of projects as spatial manifestations that unfold in (different conceptions of) time. We identify three themes in project and portfolio management research that employ practice-based and strategically anchored perspectives. We illustrate the trajectory of early work on strategy and the front end of projects through to the development and application of increasingly sophisticated theoretical perspectives in project portfolio management (PPM) research. The dynamic capabilities perspective is shown to provide a strong theoretical foundation for investigating PPM and its role in implementing and informing strategy through projects. Theoretically grounded and practice-based research represents the interplay between structure and practice, with these reciprocally and recursively shaping each other over time. Building on these examples we call for practice-based research in PPM, and we suggest a convergence of strategy-as-practice perspectives and practice-based PPM research.

Kim, S, Chan-Serafin, S & Yu, K 1970, 'An empirical examination of ethnicity-based workplace discrimination in Australia', ANZAM.

Leung, LT 1970, 'The Creative Other: marginalization of and from the creative industries', 41st Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference, Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference, University of South Australia.

Morgan, A, Frawley, SM & Schulenkorf, N 1970, 'CSR and Mega-Events: Sponsorship Compatibility and Alignment', North American Society for Sport Management Conference, Ottawa.
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Organizations seek unique and innovative platforms in which to communicate their brand messages to the publicand other stakeholders. Event sponsorship presents an attractive and popular medium for these communications.Effective sponsorship campaigns can build brand identities and provide differentiation in the competitive market.Building a meaningful identity and instilling symbolic value into brands, is now a key priority for organizations inboth the private and public sectors (Alcañiz, Cáceres, & Pérez, 2010). Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is highon the corporate agenda for these exact reasons. CSR is used to position organizations as socially responsible and forthem to develop a brand identity that aligns to social and ethical values.There is now significant discourse on the brand building potential of both sponsorship and CSR activity. CSRactivities have been found to increase consumer loyalty (Du, Bhattacharya & Sen, 2007), brand credibility (BeckerOlsen,Cudmore & Hill, 2006) and product purchase intentions (Gupta & Pirsch, 2006). In the context of sportmanagement, most CSR research has focused on similar areas, that is, the consumer response (e.g. Walker & Kent,2009).

Mukherjee, A, François-Xavier, DV, Clegg, S, Berti, M, Simpson, AV & Naar, L 1970, 'Making space for the material in the social world: Critically applying Lefebvre’s triad to organisational space', European Group for Organisational Studies Colloquium (EGOS), Athens, Greece.

Randhawa, K, Josserand, E & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Open innovation through firm-hosted user communities: A social practice perspective on firm-community relationship', Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Randhawa, K, Josserand, E & Schweitzer, J 1970, 'Open Innovation via firm-hosted user communities: A Community of Practice perspective', Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management (AoM) 2015, Academy of Management, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 17208-17208.
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Sandberg, J, Dall'Alba, G & Stephens, A 1970, 'Equipment in skillful performance', 7th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Kos, Greece.

Schulenkorf, N & Schlenker, K 1970, 'Spectacle meets Sustainability: The Relationship between Events and Sport-for-Development Programs', European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress, Malmö, Sweden.

Shalbafan, S, Leigh, E, Pollack, J & Sankaran, S 1970, 'Using simulation to create a time-bound, space-constrained context for studying decision-making in project portfolio management using the Cynefin® framework', Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS), UTS, Sydney.

Stephens, A & Sandberg, J 1970, 'Learning how to cluster: A structuration perspective', 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece.

Yu, K 1970, 'Negotiating Cultural ‘Otherness’ Through Cultural Work: Professional Migrants in Multicultural Australia', European Group for Organization Studies, Athens, Greece.

Agarwal, R, Green, R, Bajada, C, Brown, P & Bloom, N ABS 2015, Australian Management Capability Survey Reports 1 & 2 (Release of the ABS 8172.0 Management and Organisational Survey), Australian Management Capability Survey and Innovation Case Study Reports 1,2 & 3, Canberra.

Boersma, M Catalyst Australia 2015, How Does Sustainable Banking Add Up?, pp. 1-31, Sydney, Australia.
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Florin, N, Madden, B, Sharpe, S, Benn, S, Agarwal, R, Perey, R & Giurco, D University of Technology Sydney 2015, Shifting Business Models for a Circular Economy: Metals Management for Multi-Product-Use Cycles, pp. 1-90, Sydney, Australia.
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The overarching aim of this report is to explore how the Australian metals and minerals sector could embrace new business models and build on its strengths to harness new value in a global economy orientated more towards sustainable futures

Foley, C, Edwards, DC & Hergesell, A University of Technology Sydney 2015, Asian incentive events in New South Wales: expenditure and retail impact, pp. 2-26, Sydney.
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The purpose of this study is to provide BESydney with an improved understanding of the characteristics of incentive delegates inclusive of expenditure on shopping, attractions and food and beverage; satisfaction with Sydney; and a comparison of Sydney to other destinations; with a focus on the Asian incentive market.

Green, R, Agarwal, R, Brown, PJ, Bajada, C & Shashnov, M Hargraves Institute and Food and Innovation Australia Ltd (FIAL) 2015, Innovation Capability and the Food Beverage and agri-business sectors.
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A review by University of Technology Sydney UTS on F&B companies recommends that the greatest opportunities to lift innovation culture, productivity and competitiveness lie in improving management practices and workforce skills as well as encouraging collaboration between MNCs and SMEs.

Howard, JH, Green, R, Josserand, E, Agarwal, R, Chelliah, J, Ayers, M & Umbers, R McKell Institute and UTS Business 2015, Digital Post – Business Transformation and the future sustainability of Australia Post.

Nagel, P, Samaranayake, P, Nakandala, D, Agarwal, R, West, M & Oakden, R ApicsAu (The Society for Supply Chain Professionals) and ChAINalytics publication 2015, Ten Insights in Supply Chain innovation,, Sydney.

Agarwal, R 2015, 'Program targets regional business leaders on the front line', http://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-business-school/news/program-targets-regional-business-leaders-front-line.

Boersma, M 2015, 'Australia’s banking four pillars wobbly on sustainability record', The Conversation.

Carabetta, G 2015, 'In sports violence legal cases, we still don’t know what’s ‘normal’', The Conversation.

Carabetta, G 2015, ''What’s the Score? Direct and Vicarious Liability in Professional Contact Sports’, Guest Presentation, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney, Australia'.
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Darcy, SA 2015, 'Stop, go back, the NDIS board shake-up is going the wrong way'.
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The article examines the underlying charter of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the current board structure and the proposed changes to the board. It is suggested that by 'corporatizing' the board structure with people of high-level business experience without an understanding of disability that a fundamental principle of the establishment of the NDIS has been compromised. People with disability and those with an understanding of the disability sector should be core

Frawley, S 2015, 'Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: volume one: making the games', Informa UK Limited, pp. 385-386.
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Frawley, S 2015, 'Managing Mega-Sport Events', Routledge, pp. 1-186.
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What is lacking, however, is a book which identifies and evaluates the current issues and complexities faced by those charged with the responsibility of managing these mega-sport events. This book fills the gap.

Parker, L 2015, 'Supply chains: The weakest link', #think, UTS Business School, pp. 21-23.

Paul, SK 2015, 'Managing Disturbances in Supply Chain Systems'.

Schulenkorf, N 2015, 'Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology, by S.C. Darnell, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2012, £50.00 (hardback), 192 pp., ISBN 978-1-849-66344-1', Informa UK Limited, pp. 1-3.
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