Publications

Clegg, SR, Schweitzer, J, Whittle, A & Pitelis, C 2017, Strategy: Theory and Practice, 2nd, Sage Publishing, London.
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Updated to bring the material in line with the topical and contemporary ideas and debates on or about strategy and catering to students and their diverse learning styles, the second edition is an easy to use tool allowing students to switch from web resources to the print text and back again, opening windows on the world of strategy through cases that are vibrant and engaged, digital links that allow them to explore topics in more detail and video and other media that encourage relating theory to practice.Providing a fresh perspective on strategy from an organizational perspective through a discursive approach featuring key theoretic tenets, this text is also pragmatic and emphasizes the practices of strategy to encourage the reader to be open to a wider set of ideas, with a little more relevance, and with a cooler attitude towards the affordances of the digital world and the possibilities for strategy’s futures. The key areas of Strategy take a critical stance in the new edition, and also include areas less evident in conventional strategy texts such as not-for-profit organizations, process theories, globalization, organizational politics and decision-making as well as the futures of strategy. The new edition comes packed with features that encourage readers to engage and relate theory to practice and is complimented by a free Interactive e-book* featuring videos, cases and other relevant links, allowing access on the go and encouraging learning and retention whatever the reading or learning style. Suitable as core reading for undergraduate and postgraduate business management students of strategy and strategic management.

Edwards, D, Foley, C & Malone, C 2017, The Power of Conferences: Stories of serendipity, innovation and driving social change, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney.
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A chance encounter at a conference sets up a series of unfolding events. In 1982, immunologist Ian Frazer attended his first international gastroenterology conference in Canberra, Australia. After his presentation on genital warts, a colleague, Dr Gabrielle Medley, discussed with him the potential link between the human papillomavirus and cancer. This meeting proved fateful, as it helped to put him on the path that would ultimately lead to the development of the HPV vaccine. This vaccine is now used across the globe, and may eradicate cervical cancer within a generation. This book seeks to explore and understand these long-term outcomes: what we loosely refer to as the ‘long tail’ of conference impact. By doing so, we hope to add to an increasingly complex picture of the value of conferences. For, despite the costs and effort involved in hosting and attending conferences, despite all the online communication options for the circulation of knowledge and commentary, many thousands of events, involving many thousands of people coming together, take place around the world each year. What makes them so worthwhile? How can we plan and design conferences to allow for the full range of potential benefits and outcomes?

Fleming, P 2017, The Death of Homo Economicus Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation, Pluto Press (UK).
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The story begins with the creation of a fake persona labelled the 'dollar-hunting man', invented by economists Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek.

Adair, D 2017, 'Anti-doping for Paralympians' in Darcy, S, Frawley, S & Adair, D (eds), Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, USA, pp. 133-153.
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Doping in sport, as with cheating in other realms of life, is disappointing but not surprising. For high-performance athletes, there is arguably a stronger impetus to break the rules than in other domains: this is because some believe that their competitors are doping and—perverse as it might sound—a decision not to dope would put them at a performance disadvantage (Kräkel 2007).

Adair, D & Stronach, M 2017, 'Kwementyaye (Charles) Perkins: Indigenous Soccer Player and Australian Political Activist' in Nauright, J & Wiggins, D (eds), Sport and Revolutionaries Reclaiming the Historical Role of Sport in Social and Political Activism, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 86-102.
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This collection examines the role of sport in the lives of key revolutionary thinkers and leftist activists.

Adair, D, Darcy, S & Frawley, S 2017, 'Paralympic Paradigm: A Research Agenda' in Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 289-293.
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Aubke, F & Hergesell, A 2017, 'Networks for social capital building in tourism higher education' in Benckendorff, P & Zehrer, A (eds), Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 564-574.
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Higher education institutions form a micro-cosmos in which students build social connections both inside and outside of the classroom. Some relations can be considered affective (e.g. friendships), some can be considered functional (e.g. group work). Some relations are formed voluntarily, some are induced. Some relations endure beyond the university context and reach into the private sphere; some relations are of limited duration. At any point in time, students engage in multiple social relationships and the networks these relationships form have, in turn, a significant effect on student academic performance (Baldwin et al. 1997; Cho et al. 2007; Rizzuto et al. 2009). The interdependence of social relationships and academic performance builds on the theory of social capital. The mastery of building and using relationships and thereby social capital has been defined as a key element of (higher) education and thus should find a place in modern curricula (Wilson 1997). Preparing students to become responsible leaders in tourism requires that students get the opportunity 1) to learn how to build social capital and use it to their own and society’s benefit and 2) to develop and capitalize on a range of relations among each other at present and in the future. In order for universities to match this expectation, they need to go beyond a revision of classroom teaching and get a thorough understanding of the characteristics of student networks and the effects these features have on the network members before being able to actively encourage social capital building. The exploratory study presented in this chapter touches on these questions examining an intercultural tourism student setting and the characteristics of selected student networks. It also considers the impacts of those network characteristics on student performance. While the case study is context-specific and exploratory in nature, it can provide indicative insights into the interplay of network features ...

Chan, THT & Thambiratnam, DP 2017, 'Preface.' in Majumder, P, Mitra, M, Mehta, P & Sankhavara, J (eds), Working notes of FIRE 2017 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Bangalore, India, December 8-10, 2017., CEUR-WS.org, Denmark, pp. 9-12.

Clegg, S 2017, 'The East India Company: The First Modern Multinational?' in Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: Post Millennium Perspectives, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 43-67.
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© 2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited. The East India Company can lay claim to being the world's first company whose operations involved systematic organization of multiple countries. It was a pioneer and innovator: It was one of the first companies to offer limited liability to its shareholders; it laid the foundations of the British empire; it spawned Company Man; it developed its own 'university'. It was a trader, merchant, mercenary, military force and civil administrator; a pioneer bureaucracy as well as being a lean operation. Using an analytic lens drawn from contemporary discussion on MNCs the article reviews the role of the East India Company over its life and draws parallels with contemporary MNCs.

Clegg, S, Berti, M & Jarvis, WP 2017, 'Future in the Past' in Wilkinson, A, Armstrong, SJ & Lounsbury, M (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Management, Oxford University Press, England, pp. 145-185.
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Management studies has “lost its way” by advancing instrumental research too frequently foreclosing its larger ethical and practical implications. The authors argue for bracketing the excessively technical and scientistic orientation of much management research by re-questioning the purposes, presuppositions and prejudices on which management and organization theories have been based. They explore philosophical approaches capable of grounding a restored public trust. These range from the use of phronesis (practical wisdom) in Business School curricula, rather than either pure techne or pure theoria, to recovering exemplars of codetermination in workplace practices and cultures that affirm in practice a deeper regard for human dignity than mere resource efficiency. These examples offer antidotes to entrenched managerialism in neoliberalism, embedding social and ecological concerns in organizational purposes. Management legitimacy is enhanced when viewed as a process accomplishing ends that support rather than alienate public confidence.

Clegg, S, Ray, T & Carter, C 2017, 'Japan as institutional counterfactual: Knowledge, learning and power' in Hodgson, DE & Carter, C (eds), Management Knowledge and the New Employee, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK, pp. 84-102.

Clegg, SR 2017, 'The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology' in Ritzer, G (ed), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Wiley, Oxford, pp. 2201-2202.
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Clegg, SR, Sankaran, S, Biesenthal, C & Pollack, J 2017, 'Power and sensemaking in megaprojects' in Flyvbjerg, B (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 238-258.

Collins, J 2017, 'Critical Reflections on Migration, ‘Race’ and Multiculturalism' in Boese, M & Marotta, V (eds), Critical Reflections on Migration, 'Race' and Multiculturalism: Australia in a Global Context, Routledge, UK, pp. 71-87.
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In the past two decades Australia, one of the world’s few post-1945 settler immigration nations, has switched to strongly preferring temporary over permanent immigration (Markus et al. 2009). This historical shift in Australian immigration policy away from settlers to guest workers and international students is, according to Mares (2009), the biggest change in migration to Australia since the end of the White Australia Policy. Most other Western and non-Western nations have traditionally viewed immigration as a means of attracting temporary guest workers to fill labour shortages and to return home when the demand for their labour petered out (Castles et al. 2014; Goldin et al. 2011). Around the turn of this century, as part of Australia’s enthusiastic engagement with globalisation, immigration preferences also turned to temporary migration: today the annual intake of temporary immigrants exceeds the permanent immigrant intake by 350 per cent (DIBP 2014a).

Dalton, B & dela Rama, M 2017, 'Business Ethics in Korea' in Oh, I & Park, G (eds), The Political Economy of Business Ethics in East Asia, Elsevier, Cambridge, MA, pp. 79-94.
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For organisations and management the role of business ethics is of key importance, but to what extent business ethics are actually new or fashionable or universally applicable are interesting questions. Asia has been the site of contests between competing economic and ethical views of how economic norms and institutions are organized. This book examines the evolutionary similarities and differences of institutionalizing business ethics in Asia in a historical context and in comparison to better-explored business ethics literature, both empirically and theoretically.

Darcy, S 2017, 'Accessibility as a Key Management Component of the Paralympics' in Darcy, S, Frawley, S & Adair, D (eds), Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, UK, pp. 49-92.
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The Paralympics are undoubtedly the pinnacle sporting event for people with disability where accessibility is both a facilitator and a potential legacy of the event. Accessibility is so ubiquitous to contributing to legacy yet the operationalisation of accessibility has been so poorly understood globally that the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPWD) has placed it central to the preamble in “recognising the importance of accessibility to the physical, social, economic and cultural environment, to health and education and to information and communication” (United Nations 2006, p. np). In doing so, the CRPWD recognises accessibility as the enabler for people with disability enjoying citizenship. Similarly, accessibility at the Paralympic Games has had a history of being considered the best they could do rather than on the cutting edge of accessibility for most of its early years. The informal convergence of the Olympic and Paralympic Games from Barcelona 1992 raised significant issues for disability access in host cities (Gold and Gold 2007). Although the requirement to run the two events together only really became binding with the 2008 Beijing Games, from 1992 potential hosts with an established record of upholding disability rights and legislation had a clear advantage in the bidding process that raised the expectations that the Paralympics would be incorporated with the highest level of accessibility.

Darcy, S, Frawley, S & Adair, D 2017, 'The Paralympic Games: Managerial and Strategic Directions' in Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, UK, pp. 1-19.
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In 2020 it will be 60 years since the first Paralympic Games in Rome (International Paralympic Committee 2015a, b). Over that time the Paralympics have grown into the world’s third largest sporting event behind the Olympic Games and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. Each successive Paralympic Games has made contribution to this growth: introducing new sports, encouraging more countries to attend, increased scope of broadcasting, record ticket sales, and alternative media channels to promote the event and its athletes. From 1960 to 2020 this has led to 11-fold increase in athlete participation, “from less than 400 in 1964 to over 4,250 at London 2012 and a projected 4,350 for Rio 2016” (International Paralympic Committee 2015b). Geographically, those countries represented at the Games have grown from 21 to 164 competing for some 500 medal event 23, evolving from an event for wheelchair athletes to numerous activities involving nine different impairment types (International Paralympic Committee 2015b). The summer Paralympics now has a cumulative TV audience of 3.8 billion people and has an increasing presence on social media: at London 2012, for example, some 1.3 million tweets mentioned “Paralympic” (International Paralympic Committee 2015b). Like the Olympics, the focus of these statistics has often been on the summer Paralympics, but there has also been important growth in the winter Paralympic Games (Legg and Gilbert 2011).

Darcy, SA & Almond, B 2017, 'Case study: Sydney’s 'Cultural Ribbon' (Australia)' in Aragall, F, Neumann, P & Sagramola, S (eds), Design for All in Tourist Destinations ECA 2017, EuCAN – European Concept for Accessibility Network, pp. 78-83.

Fee, A 2017, 'Expatriates in Aidland: Humanitarian aid and development expatriates' in McNulty, Y & Selmer, J (eds), Research Handbook of Expatriates, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 368-390.
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This chapter addresses a group of expatriates often overlooked by business and management researchers, but who comprise a large and growing proportion of the globally mobile workforce. These are expatriates working in humanitarian aid and development cooperation (international aid and development, or IAD). As this chapter makes clear, the sector is far from homogenous and defies easy categorisation. Notwithstanding this, the umbrella term ‘Aidland’ of the chapter’s title is a metaphorical construct coined by a social anthropologist to describe the virtual, cultural and geographic spaces that exist in the provision of aid and development; for expatriates, this is often a third cultural space separate from their home and host cultures, with established vernacular, mores, artefacts and discourses that are distinct and often a source of shared identity to its inhabitants. The chapter contains five sections. First, I demystify some of the bewildering terminology, concepts and actors that populate the sector. Following this, the operating context of Aidland is canvassed, focusing on features that make the expatriate experience distinctive. Next, an overview of the research base that has examined expatriates in this sector is presented and discussed. It combines literature from within aid and development with literature from the business and management sphere. This is followed by a discussion of future research possibilities, and concluding thoughts.

Fee, A 2017, 'Expatriates' safety and security during crisis' in McNulty, Y & Selmer, J (eds), Research Handbook of Expatriates, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 160-183.

Hassanli, N 2017, 'The Social and Political Dimensions of Visitor Management: Rural Home-based Accommodations' in Albrecht, J (ed), Visitor Management in Tourism Destinations, CABI, UK, pp. 33-42.
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This book is written by leading international researchers and provides an authoritative overview of the current knowledge and insights into conceptual issues of VM.

Küpers, W 2017, 'Wisdom Learning' in Wisdom learning: Perspectives on wising-up business and management education, Gower, UK, pp. 98-116.
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Onyx, J 2017, 'Governance Issues' in Kenny, B, McGrath, B & Phillips, R (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Community Development, Routledge, New York, pp. 40-53.
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Peters, D, Frawley, S & Favaloro, D 2017, 'Leading the Team: The Role of the Chef de Mission at the Paralympic Games' in Managing the Paralympics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 175-191.
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In this chapter, we argue that the effective leadership of a National Paralympic team is critical for successful participation at the Paralympic Games. Games participation is important since the summer Games only occur every four years and are highly prized by numerous stakeholders, including athletes, coaches, sponsors, the media, and national and international sporting federations (Australian Paralympic Committee 2012). National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), Individual sports, athlete and stakeholder perceptions of the event are influenced by the performance of the national team and the related Games experience. National team success is of course dependent upon the quality of athletic talent and coaching, while the overall Games experience can be affected by many factors, including leadership, planning and access to the appropriate level of information and resources. Involvement in the Paralympic Games can therefore benefit a nation through increasing the level of national pride gained due to medal success by its athletes on the world stage, promoting sport recruitment and succession, generating public and sponsorship support, and by enhancing the reputation of team leadership and organizational capability.

Schulenkorf, N & Frawley, S 2017, 'Critical Issues in Global Sport' in Critical Issues in Global Sport Management, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 1-6.
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In this introductory chapter, we provide the background, purpose and context for Critical Issues in Global Sport Management. In the remaining 19 chapters of this book we invite readers to explore, learn, discuss and reflect on the latest concepts, issues and trends in managing sport.

Schulenkorf, N & Frawley, S 2017, 'Current trends and future research challenges in global sport management' in Critical Issues in Global Sport Management, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 278-285.
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In this final chapter of Critical Issues in Global Sport Management, we as editors reflect on a number of the key debates highlighted in the book. Moreover, with the use of practical examples, we critically discuss how current issues, challenges, and emerging trends in global sport are likely to develop in the future.

Schulenkorf, N & Schlenker, K 2017, 'The role of highlight events in sport-for-development' in Dodds, M, Heisey, K & Ahonen, A (eds), Routledge Handbook of International Sport Business, Routledge International Handbooks, USA, pp. 356-363.
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When strategically managed, sport can be an exciting and proactive space for economic, social, cultural, physical and educational development. Consequently, around the world government agencies, aid organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been implementing sport-for-development (SFD) projects in disadvantaged communities for several years. Most of these initiatives also include special events such as cultural festivals, sport tournaments and educational workshops as part of the overall program portfolio. In this chapter, we focus on discussing the opportunities and challenges of using ‘highlight events’ as a leverage strategy to reach – and benefit – participants and the wider community.

Small, J & Wearing, SL 2017, 'Women and Travel' in Khoo-Lattimore, C & Wilson, E (eds), Women and Travel: Trends, Journeys and Experiences, Apple Academic Press, New Jersey.
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Wearing, S, Tarrant, MA, Schweinsberg, S & Lyons, K 2017, 'Cultural and environmental awareness through sustainable tourism education: exploring the role of onsite community tourism-based Work-Integrated Learning projects' in Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism, Edward Elgar Publishing, USA, pp. 402-415.
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This chapter explores the potential of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) in promoting cultural and environmental awareness through sustainable tourism education. The chapter considers how an experiential framework built on an ecological paradigm provides a platform for WIL that not only exposes learners to concrete experiences, but also has the capacity to introduce them to authentic practices through interaction with industry and community leaders and players. Two case studies of WIL are presented from programs being run at the University of Georgia and the University of Technology (Sydney). These descriptive cases provide evidence of the different modes of WIL application, which are then used by the authors as a starting point for a discussion on the contribution of WIL to sustainable tourism education. The chapter concludes by considering the potential for such an approach to be embraced by higher education in less formal education contexts such as the gap year.

Yu, K-H & Noh, SC 2017, 'State and HRM in Asia' in Routledge Handbook of Human Resource Management in Asia, Routledge, UK, pp. 23-45.
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This chapter explores the role of religion, religiosity, and ethics in managing employees in East Asian countries. Ethical behaviors are influenced by a number of factors ranging from individual attributes to organizational and social factors. There are many religions and philosophies that have induced differing levels of religiosity amongst the various nations and societies of East Asia but the most influential ones are Confucianism and Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. The chapter discusses how the key common virtues of religiosity and spirituality might have contributed to the contemporary characteristics of human resource management (HRM) in Asian countries. Human resource development in Asian countries is inspired by a tradition of learning and self-development. Asian employee relations are influenced by the state in power rather than by religion or philosophy because the state is the largest employer, the regulator, the policy-maker, and the decision-maker.

Adair, D 2017, 'Sport Management with Historical Perspective', The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 34, no. 5-6, pp. 309-314.
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Agogo, D, Hajjat, F, Milne, GR, Schewe, CD & Perrott, B 2017, 'An empirical examination of subjective age in older adults', Health Marketing Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 62-79.
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It has been observed that subjective age (SA) often trails chronological age, especially in older adults. In a previously published article, we argued that differences in individual's SA is a function of their level of activity on biological, mental, and social dimensions. This article empirically tests this proposition using a newly created Subjective Aging Index (SAI). The SAI is related to SA above the effect of age with differences existing across age groups and sex. The findings contribute to the literature on successful aging strategies with important implications for health care practitioners, marketers, and individuals heading towards older adult years.

Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N & Clegg, S 2017, 'Paradoxical identity: The changing nature of architectural work and its relation to architects’ identity', Journal of Professions and Organization, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. jow013-jow013.
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In this article, we explore what happens in professional formation when the locus of its meaning, as it has been formed, is increasingly contradicted by professional practice. Specifically, we explore the problematic nature of architects’ professional identity that is constituted in terms of the primacy of design aesthetics, in contexts where practice denies this identification. We highlight the tensions between identity and practices and suggest that while architects’ traditional self-identification enables perpetuation of the profession’s identity, it challenges the profession’s standing in its relations with other professions and occupations. We refer to this as a paradox of identity. Although much has been written about the profound changes occurring in professional practices and professional jurisdictions, scant attention has been given to the ways in which professionals shape their identities in the context of changing practices. We conducted a year-long ethnography of contemporary architects engaged in large and complex projects in order to examine both the architects’ and the profession’s identity. Our contributions are threefold. First, we conceptualize misalignments between professional identity and professional practice as identity paradox that has consequences for identity work among professionals. Second, we highlight how professional identity construction is organized around competing and paradoxical identification. Third, the article contributes to sociological studies of architecture by generating insights about the identity work of architects engaged in large multi-organizational projects.

Boersma, M 2017, 'Changing Approaches to Child Labour in Global Supply Chains: Exploring the Influence of Multi-stakeholder Partnerships and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights', University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 1249-1274.

Bond, D, Frawley, S & Duffield, R 2017, 'The Effect of Competition Expansion on Volume and Distribution of Travel for Super Rugby Teams', Sporting Traditions, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 77-88.
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This article examines the effect of the expansion of an international sporting competition on the volume and distribution of travel required by competing teams. The Super Rugby competition has involved various incremental iterations, starting with 10 teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In 2016, three new teams were added to the competition, one each from South Africa, Argentina and Japan. Even prior to this expansion, the competition was unique in world sport, comprising teams from three widely dispersed countries competing in weekly, high intensity matches over a playing season lasting up to five months. The article provides evidence of the change in travel demands, both in terms of overall volume of travel for the season, as well as the distribution of travel within season, following this recent expansion. Not unexpectedly, the expansion of the competition has substantially increased the overall volume teams are required to travel, although this increase was not uniform across the competition. Despite some teams travelling more, the distribution of travel has become more even and consistent throughout the season.

Carabetta, G 2017, ''Alternative Dispute Resolution in Public, Essential and Emergency Services'', Australian Business Law Review, vol. 45, no. 3.

Cheng, M, Wong, IA, Wearing, S & McDonald, M 2017, 'Ecotourism social media initiatives in China', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 416-432.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of social media by ecotourism management agencies and how this potentially changes the relationship between the ecotourist and the natural environment. It examines the meaning of ecotourism and the way that social media shapes visitor perceptions and meaning through an examination of the content of 775 Sina microblog postings from five leading ecotourism site management agencies in China. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the social media postings, a series of semi-structured interviews was also conducted with followers and management agencies. The findings provide an enhanced understanding of ecotourism marketing and its impacts on the ecotourist while also creating a framework for the use of social media to market ecotourism. The framework outlines the importance of the meanings associated with this form of communication through its promotional appeal to tourists and the outcomes for both the ecotourist and site management.

Chowdhury, MMH & Quaddus, M 2017, 'Supply chain resilience: Conceptualization and scale development using dynamic capability theory', International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 188, pp. 185-204.
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. A growing number of researchers and practitioners have placed supply chain resilience (SCRE) at the forefront of their research agendas due to an increased susceptibility to disruptive events in global supply chains. However, empirical research in this area has been affected by the lack of a validated measurement model. In this context, drawing on dynamic capability theory, this research develops a measurement instrument for SCRE. This research conducts a qualitative field study, followed by a quantitative survey. Content analysis is used to explain various dimensions in the qualitative field study, and partial least squares (PLS)-based structural equation modelling (SEM) is used to analyse the data collected in the quantitative survey. The research is conducted with three rounds of data collection and analyses. The results show that SCRE is a multidimensional and hierarchical construct, which consists of three primary dimensions: proactive capability, reactive capability and supply chain design quality. These three primary dimensions are further operationalized through twelve sub-dimensions. The findings also affirm that the SCRE scale potentially better predicts supply chain operational vulnerability (OV) and supply chain performance (SCP) and conforms to the “technical” and “evolutionary” fitness criteria of dynamic capability theory. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of theory and practice. Limitations and future avenues of research are also discussed.

Clarke, T & Boersma, M 2017, 'The Governance of Global Value Chains: Unresolved Human Rights, Environmental and Ethical Dilemmas in the Apple Supply Chain', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 143, no. 1, pp. 111-131.
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. The continued advance of global value chains as the mode of production for an increasing number of goods and services has impacted considerably on the economies and societies both of the developed world and the emerging economies. Although there have been many efforts at reform there is evidence of unresolved dilemmas of human rights, environmental issues and ethical dilemmas in the operation of the global value chain. This paper focuses on the role and performance of Apple Inc in the global value chain in Asia. Apple is the most successful corporation on earth measured in financial terms and yet has failed to find a solution to recurrent employment and environmental problems occurring in plants manufacturing Apple components. This analysis informs the current theoretical debate on the development of the global value chain and the continuing institutional failure that leaves employees vulnerable and the environment neglected.

Cobourn, S & Frawley, S 2017, 'CSR in professional sport: an examination of community models', Managing Sport and Leisure, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 113-126.
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Collins, J, Morrison, M, Basu, PK & Krivokapic-Skoko, B 2017, 'Indigenous culture and entrepreneurship in small businesses in Australia', Small Enterprise Research, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 36-48.
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Cunha, MPE, Clegg, SR, Costa, C, Leite, AP, Rego, A, Simpson, AV, Sousa, MOD & Sousa, M 2017, 'Gemeinschaftin the midst ofGesellschaft? Love as an organizational virtue', Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 3-21.
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Love is a powerful human process that has attracted the attention of scholars within the cultural and scientific domains. Thus far, the majority of management scholars have tended to neglect love as a relevant topic of theorizing and research. Given the recent interest in the phenomenon in allied fields such as sociology and psychology, this is surprising. We create, inductively, an archetypical image of how managers make sense of the meaning of love as an organizational phenomenon by means of a sample of Christian managers. The findings indicate that such managers associate love with two core dimensions. First, they describe love as an expression of virtue. Second, they link love with a sense of community-ship. Organizational love can thus be theorized as the exercise of constructing virtuous, other-oriented human communities that transcend the productive functions of work and respond to important human needs, fulfilling normative performativity.

Dalton, B, Jung, K & Willis, J 2017, 'Fashion and the Social Construction of Femininity in North Korea', Asian Studies Review, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 507-525.
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© 2017 Asian Studies Association of Australia. In this paper we argue that North Korea’s socioeconomic transformation has had a profound and yet under-appreciated impact on the social construction of femininity. Drawing on 45 in-depth interviews with North Korean refugees, interviews with regular visitors to North Korea and NGO workers, and our own field notes from trips to North Korea, we analyse changes over three discernible (yet overlapping) economic periods: the 1960s–90s pre-famine period; the mid-1990s to late 2000s grassroots capitalism era; and the current Kim Jong Un period of quasi-capitalism. As dress is a discursive daily practice of gender, we focus on the practice of femininity as shown through North Korean women’s fashion choices. We argue that images of women in state propaganda have been shaped primarily by male leaders, but norms of femininity have shaped, and also been shaped by, women themselves. That is, the recent trend for North Korean women to dress in hyper-feminine styles can be explained in terms of women remaking themselves and planning their future lives.

Darcy, S, Green, J & Maxwell, H 2017, 'I’ve got a mobile phone too! Hard and soft assistive technology customization and supportive call centres for people with disability', Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 341-351.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine the use of a mobile technology platform, software customization and technical support services by people with disability. The disability experience is framed through the participants’ use of the technology, their social participation. Method: A qualitative and interpretive research design was employed using a three-stage process of observation and semi-structured interviews of people with disability, a significant other and their service provider. Transcripts were analyzed to examine the research questions through the theoretical framework of PHAATE–Policy, Human, Activity, Assistance and Technology and Environment. Results: The analysis revealed three emergent themes: 1. Engagement and activity; 2. Training, support and customization; and 3. Enablers, barriers and attitudes. Conclusions: The findings indicate that for the majority of users, the mobile technology increased the participants’ communication and social participation. However, this was not true for all members of the pilot with variations due to disability type, support needs and availability of support services. Most participants, significant others and service providers identified improvements in confidence, security, safety and independence of those involved. Yet, the actions and attitudes of some of the significant others and service providers acted as a constraint to the adoption of the technology. Implications for Rehabilitation Customized mobile technology can operate as assistive technology providing a distinct benefit in terms of promoting disability citizenship. Mobile technology used in conjunction with a supportive call centre can lead to improvements in confidence, safety and independence for people experiencing disability. Training and support are critical in increasing independent use of mobile technology for people with disability. The enjoyment, development of ski...

Darcy, S, Lock, D & Taylor, T 2017, 'Enabling Inclusive Sport Participation: Effects of Disability and Support Needs on Constraints to Sport Participation', LEISURE SCIENCES, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 20-41.
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© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Framed by a social approach to disability and leisure constraints theory, this paper presents the results of a national study examining the constraints to sport participation for people with disability. Responses were obtained from a multi-platform questionnaire survey capturing data on constraints to participation, dimensions of disability, and level of support needs. The Exploratory Factor Analysis identified five structural together with intrapersonal and interpersonal constraint factors. While intrapersonal and interpersonal considerations were found to constrain sport participation and nonparticipation, the five structural factors had the most significant constraining impact on sport participation. The findings showed that disability type and level of support needs explain significant variations in constraints to participation and nonparticipation. When the 2-Way MANOVA included type of disability and level of support needs as contingent independent variables, the level of support needs was the most significant indicator of the likelihood of having constraints to participation or nonparticipation.

Dickson, TJ, Darcy, S & Benson, A 2017, 'Volunteers with Disabilities at the London 2012 Olympic And Paralympic Games: Who, Why, and Will They Do It Again?', Event Management, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 301-318.
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People with disabilities are often the recipients of volunteer services but are rarely considered as a potential volunteer resource, such as in sport events where volunteers are an essential component of major sport event operation and legacy potential. For London's 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, there was a determined effort by the Organizing Committee to recruit people with disabilities to be Games Makers (i.e., volunteers). This exploratory research investigated 786 London 2012 volunteers who self-identified as having disability or access needs. The research design involved an online questionnaire examining their motivations for volunteering, their experiences, their likelihood to continue volunteering, and their sociodemographic profile. This article contributes to the literature by examining the motivations of people with disability volunteering at a mega-sport event, as this has not been done previously. The factor analysis identified eight components: transactional; altruistic; it's all about the games; volunteering community; rewards; availability; variety; and application. The solution highlighted the duality of human capital-related transactional components where the individual wanted to improve their skills and the altruistic components of giving back and it's all about the games experience. The discussion examined these components in comparison to other mega-event volunteers to examine commonalities and contrasts.

Dickson, TJ, Misener, L & Darcy, S 2017, 'Enhancing destination competitiveness through disability sport event legacies', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 924-946.
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PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to the event legacy discourse by exploring the nexus between event legacy literature and destination competitiveness by focusing on disability sport events or parasport and addressing an identified gap in the research literature.Design/methodology/approachThis is achieved through conducting a systematic review of disability sport events literature; performing an audit of international disability sport events; developing a typology of disability sport events; and outlining a research agenda drawing upon these previous steps. The typology is then placed in context to the destination competitiveness framework to provide direction for both host organizing committees and tourism destination managers. The research framework reflects the complexity of disability sport events with specific reference to the social impact of disability sport events for destinations.FindingsDespite calls for increased research into accessible tourism and events, the potential social legacy for communities and destinations from disability sport or parasport events remains absent from most sport, event and tourism literature. The findings and resultant typology from this study provide an interdisciplinary approach to value add to the disability sport event and destination management sectors. The combined understanding of both sectors creates an opportunity to leverage further events through marketing accessibility as a competitive advantage, seizing opportunity for international and national disability events, and the subsequent event accessible tourism and general accessible tourism that improved destination accessibility provides a host city or precinct.

Edwards, D, Cheng, M, Wong, IA, Zhang, J & Wu, Q 2017, 'Ambassadors of knowledge sharing', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 690-708.
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PurposeThe aim of this study is to understand the knowledge-sharing structure and co-production of trip-related knowledge through online travel forums.Design/methodology/approachThe travel forum threads were collected from TripAdvisor’s Sydney travel forum for the period from 2010 to 2014, which contains 115,847 threads from 8,346 conversations. The data analytical technique was based on a novel methodological approach – visual analytics, including semantic pattern generation and network analysis.FindingsFindings indicate that the knowledge structure is created by community residents who camouflage as local experts and serve as ambassadors of a destination. The knowledge structure presents collective intelligence co-produced by community residents and tourists. Further findings reveal how these community residents associate with each other and form a knowledge repertoire with information covering various travel domain areas.Practical implicationsThe study offers valuable insights to help destination-management organizations and tour operators identify existing and emerging tourism issues to achieve a competitive destination advantage.Originality/valueThis study highlights the process of social media mediated travel knowledge co-production. It also discovers how community residents engage in reaching out to tourists by camouflaging as ordinary users.

Evans, J, Georgakis, S & Wilson, R 2017, 'Indigenous Games and Sports in the Australian National Curriculum: Educational Benefits and Opportunities?', ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 195-213.
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Abstract The introduction of the national Australian Curriculum (AC) has the potential to make a significant impact on Indigenous education (Australian Curriculum 2012). Indigenous perspectives will now feature in all key learning areas in the national curriculum. More specifically, in the Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum, endorsed in 2015, the teaching of Indigenous Games and Sports (IGaS) is “encouraged for all students” (ACARA 2012, 28). However, there has been very little research into its place or a clear rationale for its inclusion. This article outlines the possibilities for the inclusion of IGaS across Australian schools. We provide details on IGaS and suggest an appropriate pedagogy for teaching purposes. We also outline two rationales for the inclusion of IGaS: first, for the contribution they can make to the development of social justice within schools; and second, for the way IGaS can promote fully inclusive classrooms that recognize and welcome Indigenous students.

Fee, A & McGrath-Champ, S 2017, 'The role of human resources in protecting expatriates: insights from the international aid and development sector', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 28, no. 14, pp. 1960-1985.
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Multinational organisations of all kinds face growing challenges to ensure that their international operations and staff are safe from threat of physical and psychological danger. This is particularly acute in the international aid and development sector, where expatriate field staff are both valuable and vulnerable, and where organisations often confront limited infrastructure and financial resources. This paper reports an empirical study exploring the ways in which 10 international non-government organisations from 5 nations (USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia), all with substantial experience operating in high-risk contexts, manage the safety and security of their expatriate staff. Our results unearth four areas where these organisations seek to build in-house competence, centred on culture building, and supported by a suite of human resource practices relating to people services, information services and communication services. These competencies coalesce around an overarching philosophy towards safety and security that we describe as ‘personal responsibility and empowerment’.

Fee, A, Heizmann, H & Gray, SJ 2017, 'Towards a theory of effective cross-cultural capacity development: the experiences of Australian international NGO expatriates in Vietnam', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 28, no. 14, pp. 2036-2061.
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© 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Capacity development (CD) partnerships between highly qualified expatriates and host-country counterparts are a commonly used tool by non-government organisations (NGOs) working in international development. This article reports on an empirical investigation of the factors contributing to the effectiveness of these interpersonal cross-cultural CD relationships. Using a variant of the critical incident technique, we explored 40 such relationships (20 effective and 20 ineffective) reported by 20 expatriates from an Australian international NGO who were embedded in international and domestic NGOs and government organisations in Vietnam. From our analysis, we propose a theoretical model that identifies the features of effective cross-cultural CD relationships. The model is intended to lay the foundation for future research as well as strategic action by organisations. It identifies shared trust between expatriate and counterpart as central to effective CD, supported by five enabling conditions relating to the perceptions, abilities and attitudes of participants, the way the work roles are structured, and the way that leaders in the host organisations manage the context of the relationship.

Fleming, P 2017, 'The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization', Organization Studies, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 691-709.
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Human capital theory – developed by neoclassical economists like Gary Becker and Theodore Schultz – is widely considered a useful way to explain how employees might enhance their value in organizations, leading to improved skill, autonomy and socio-economic wellbeing. This essay argues the opposite. Human capital theory implies that employees should bear the costs (and benefits) of their investment. Highly individualized training and work practices are an inevitable corollary. Self-employment, portfolio careers, the ‘gig economy’ and on-demand business models (including Uber and Deliveroo) faithfully reflect the assumptions that inform human capital theory. I term this the radical responsibilization of the workforce and link it to growing economic insecurity, low productivity, diminished autonomy and worrying levels of personal debt. The essay concludes by proposing some possible solutions.

Foley, C 2017, 'The art of wasting time: sociability, friendship, community and holidays', Leisure Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 1-20.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Slow tourism is motivated by the desire for personal and communal well-being. It emerged as an antidote to the fast-paced imperatives of global capitalism that urge the entrepreneurial self to speed up and work harder to achieve and demonstrate desired social status. The entrepreneurial self can be understood in the contexts of neoliberalism and the class- and gender-based histories of time-thrift and rational recreation; the entrepreneurial self uses leisure time purposively in the pursuit of status, avoids idle pursuits and has restricted capacity to experience leisurely social relationships. In this article, it is argued that leisurely social relations can be reclaimed by letting go, even temporarily, of time-thrift and the compulsion to use leisure time purposively. Data drawn from in-depth interviews with repeat visitors at two Australian caravan parks revealed that for the period of their holiday the tourists relax, refuse to be driven by schedules, socialise with other tourists and feel no compulsion to use time purposively. The key reasons the tourists return to the parks each year were for the friendships and the sense of community they experience as part of the holiday. Slow tourism by its very nature rejects time-thrift, however, as the movement is harnessed by global capitalism, slow tourism risks becoming a source of conspicuous consumption. The findings of this study suggest that friendship and community thrive more readily in conditions where the need to achieve and demonstrate social status is discarded along with time-thrift.

Fujak, H, Frawley, S & Bush, S 2017, 'Quantifying the value of sport broadcast rights', Media International Australia, vol. 164, no. 1, pp. 104-116.
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Although sport broadcasting has received a considerable amount of academic attention, how sport content is valued and monetised from a broadcaster perspective remains relatively underdeveloped. This article adopts multisided market theory to test the broadcast value of Australia’s two most valuable sport broadcasting properties, the Australian Football League and the National Rugby League. To do so, a content and ratings analysis was performed to quantify the interaction between content and viewership within broadcasts. The article concludes that innate game dynamics have a significant bearing on the value generated for broadcasters from sport content. Advertising aired during intermissions generated audiences 23% lesser than advertising within the match itself. Notably, the National Rugby League’s most valuable timeslot was a delayed telecast, which although potentially reducing the audience size, allowed for an increase in the concentration of advertising within the telecast.

Gavin, M & McGrath‐Champ, S 2017, 'Devolving authority: the impact of giving public schools power to hire staff', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 255-274.
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Governments in the western world are increasingly experimenting with education policies that devolve responsibility for hiring and staffing to the local school level. Driven by forces of neoliberalism, marketisation and decentralisation, such reforms differentially affect schools as a result of various geographic and socio‐spatial factors. This article presents the findings of a recent study of public schools in the Australian state of New South Wales, and the impact that the government's Local schools, local decisions policy has had on staffing and hiring decisions within schools considered ‘hard‐to‐staff’. Drawing on interviews conducted with school principals and representatives of industrial bodies, this article reveals the differential and geographically diverse impact of devolutionary reform on ‘hard‐to‐staff’ schools. It posits that while the reforms facilitate the augmentation of staffing composition and enhanced decision‐making flexibility, the interaction of the policy with existing staffing processes undermines the reform's potential.

Ghobadi, S, Campbell, J & Clegg, S 2017, 'Pair programming teams and high-quality knowledge sharing: A comparative study of coopetitive reward structures', Information Systems Frontiers, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 397-409.
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© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York There has been a growing research interest in understanding knowledge sharing in agile development. Yet, empirical research that sheds light on its underlying practices, such as pair programming, is evolving. This study uses insights from coopetition and software literature to focus inquiry on the relation between coopetitive rewards and high-quality knowledge sharing in pair programming teams. Theoretical hypotheses are developed and validated, suggesting that: ‘coopetitive rewards influence high-quality knowledge sharing both directly and over time through their impact on the level of knowledge sharing satisfaction’, and, ‘the impact of coopetitive rewards on high-quality knowledge sharing is dependent upon task complexity and the history of working under similar reward structure’. This study generates new understanding related to the use of rewards in pair programming teams, and offers a rigorous and replicable seven-step experimental process for simulating coopetitive structures and investigating their role in pair programming and in similar collaborative contexts.

Gilfillan, B & Fee, A 2017, 'Shaping participation: an international NGO implementing a government participation policy', Development in Practice, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 1035-1049.
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This article reports on a case study of how one NGO utilised a government participation policy to establish ostensibly participatory spaces in the Cambodian health sector. The ethnographic field study revealed how the NGO exerted influence in establishing and facilitating participative committees by controlling membership, resources, and meeting agendas. This resulted in limited citizen participation, with committees used to educate, lobby, and mobilise community leaders to work towards the NGO’s priorities rather than community identified needs. This case contributes to our understanding of insisted spaces and the role of third parties implementing government participation policies.

Grabowski, S, Wearing, S, Lyons, K, Tarrant, M & Landon, A 2017, 'A rite of passage? Exploring youth transformation and global citizenry in the study abroad experience', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 139-149.
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Travel, long recognised as a rite of passage, is often also touted as a transformative experience which facilitates cross-cultural understanding, fosters an embrace of diversity and promotes global awareness. This process is aligned with youth development and has a rich history in the tourism literature. The importance of transformational travel, however, has now spread to programmes across the higher education landscape, with the recognition that travel has the potential to nurture a global citizenry. Additionally, for many young people, the motivation for studying abroad is to assist in the transition to adulthood. In this way, educational travel is similar to an ‘overseas experience’ or a ‘gap year’. It is often taken at an important time of transition in emerging adulthood, for example, from school to work. We argue that this period of identity formation for youth can be likened to a rite of passage much like the Grand Tour of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was for young European men and women. Our paper examines the role of the study abroad experience in promoting youth transformation and global citizenry.

Guo, B, Xu, G & Li, W 2017, 'Seeking legitimacy: Chinese OFDI and domestic isomorphic pressures', Asian Business & Management, vol. 16, no. 1-2, pp. 1-24.
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© 2017 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Drawing on institutional theory, we argue that the likelihood of a Chinese firm adopting an isomorphic strategy in outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) depends on the influence of external isomorphic pressures-specifically, domestic regional and domestic industrial isomorphic pressures-and the firm's internal legitimacy-seeking motivation. Quantitative analysis of a sample of 107 Chinese listed firms and their OFDI projects in the 2008-2012 period offers supportive evidence for our arguments. Our study offers further insights into Chinese MNEs by providing a better understanding of the impact of China's regional and industrial diversity on their OFDI.

Hergesell, A 2017, 'Environmental commitment in holiday transport mode choice', International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 67-80.
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PurposeThis study aims to contribute to a better understanding of environmentally friendly consumers. It examines differences in holiday transport mode choices by persons’ general level of environmental commitment across lifestyle domains. Adopting a marketing perspective, the study also explores transport mode perceptions and underlying product attribute preferences that may shape holiday transport mode choices.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted Kaiser’s (1998) General Ecological Behaviour scale to measure commitment to environmentally friendly behaviour. ANOVAs were run to examine differences in actual holiday travel behaviour and transport mode perceptions by level of environmental commitment. Pattern models were calculated to estimate differences in the relative importance of selected transport mode attributes (price, travel time, punctuality, accessibility, flexibility, comfort and environmental impact).FindingsThe study findings suggest that differences exist in transport mode choices for train and car use, but not for plane use, namely, train users tend to be more environmentally committed and car users less so. Differences were also noted in transport mode perceptions, with more environmentally friendly consumers holding more favourable views of the train. Those who are more environmentally committed also placed greater importance on environmental impact and less importance on comfort and time in mode choice.Originality/valueThe study applied an environmental scale thus far not used within tourism research. It also adopted a marketing perspective focused on...

Jung, K, Dalton, B & Willis, J 2017, 'The onward migration of North Korean refugees to Australia: in search of cosmopolitan habitus', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1-20.
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Based on assumed common ethnicity, language and culture, South Korea is believed to be the best country for North Korean defectors to restart their lives. This is, however, not necessarily the case. Since the mid-2000s, 2000 to 3000 North Koreans have allegedly settled in the UK, Canada, the US, Australia and EU countries. Despite this trend and its broader implications, the onward migration process of North Korean refugees, together with their motivations and lived experiences, remain poorly addressed in academic research. Drawing from the unique experience of North Korean refugees’ onward movement to Australia, the paper suggests that discarding a North Korean identity and habitus and gaining cosmopolitan habitus are the main reasons behind North Korean defectors’ onward migration. The paper is the first empirical study on North Korean refugees resettled in Australia to adopt habitus as a theoretical framework, and thus provides new insight into migration studies.  

Keller, LR & Wang, Y 2017, 'Information Presentation in Decision and Risk Analysis: Answered, Partly Answered, and Unanswered Questions', Risk Analysis, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1132-1145.
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For the last 30 years, researchers in risk analysis, decision analysis, and economics have consistently proven that decisionmakers employ different processes for evaluating and combining anticipated and actual losses, gains, delays, and surprises. Although rational models generally prescribe a consistent response, people's heuristic processes will sometimes lead them to be inconsistent in the way they respond to information presented in theoretically equivalent ways. We point out several promising future research directions by listing and detailing a series of answered, partly answered, and unanswered questions.

Lea, EJ, Andrews, S, Stronach, M, Marlow, A & Robinson, AL 2017, 'Using action research to build mentor capacity to improve orientation and quality of nursing students’ aged care placements: what to do when the phone rings', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 26, no. 13-14, pp. 1893-1905.
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Aims and objectivesTo describe whether an action research approach can be used to build capacity of residential aged care facility staff to support undergraduate nursing students’ clinical placements in residential aged care facilities, using development of an orientation programme as an exemplar.BackgroundAged care facilities are unpopular sites for nursing students’ clinical placements. A contributing factor is the limited capacity of staff to provide students with a positive placement experience. Strategies to build mentor capability to shape student placements and support learning and teaching are critical if nursing students are to have positive placements that attract them to aged care after graduation, an imperative given the increasing care needs of the ageing population worldwide.DesignAction research approach employing mixed‐methods data collection (primarily qualitative with a quantitative component).MethodsAged care facility staff (n = 32) formed a mentor group at each of two Tasmanian facilities and met regularly to support undergraduate nursing students (n = 40) during placements. Group members planned, enacted, reviewed and reflected on orientation procedures to welcome students, familiarise them with the facility and prepare them for their placement. Data comprised transcripts from these and parallel student meetings, and orientation data from student questionnaires from two successive placement periods (2011/2012).ResultsProblems were identified in the orientation processes for the initial student placements. Mentors implemented a revised orientation programme. Evaluation demonstrated improved ...

Leung, L & Bentley, N 2017, 'Producing Leisured Laborers: Developing Higher Education Courses for the Digital Creative Industries', The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 148-160.
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© 2017 Taylor & Francis. This article attempts to detail the range of assumptions and challenges in designing an undergraduate university degree in digital creative industries. Leaders in digital industries, who bemoan the general skills shortage and lack of “industry-ready” graduates, have identified the need for post-secondary education in this area. But in developing these new courses, how do we reconcile the traditional reflective, critical modes of academic practice with the fast and dynamic pace of the dot.com industries? How can slower-paced higher education and lifelong learning be meaningful to the current and future generations of digital natives who thrive on “just-in-time” knowledge? These important issues are analyzed and built upon to showcase the unique qualities and opportunities associated with tertiary education in this area. Overall, the article develops these high-level considerations practically by applying them to a pioneering undergraduate course in Australia that was launched in 2014.

Li, W, Guo, B & Xu, G 2017, 'How do linking, leveraging and learning capabilities influence the entry mode choice for multinational firms from emerging markets?', Baltic Journal of Management, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 171-193.
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PurposeBased on the linkage-leverage-learning (LLL) framework developed by Mathews (2006), the purpose of this paper is to examine how linking, leveraging and learning capabilities influence the choice of foreign-entry mode, and the way such influences are contingent on context factors in the emerging markets.Design/methodology/approachContrary to a prior literature applying the LLL framework, which mainly used case studies, this paper adopts a quantitative approach and is based on a sample of 321 Chinese listed companies to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results show that multinational firms from emerging markets (EMFs) with stronger LLL capabilities are more likely to choose the wholly owned mode in foreign entries. In addition, the relationship between linking capability and wholly owned entry mode choice is weaker at higher levels of cultural distance between home and host country. At the same time, the relationship between learning capability and wholly owned entry mode choice is weaker at higher levels of cultural distance between home and host country, and of institutional distance between prior entries and the focal entry.Research limitations/implicationsAn entry mode strategy for firms without ownership advantages and the identification of boundary conditions for applying different LLL capabilities are recommended. The generalizability of the findings from a single-country setting still needs further validation with other emerging economies.Originality/valueThis paper treats interna...

Li, W, Guo, B & Xu, G 2017, 'Making the next move: When does the newness of experience matter in overseas sequential entries of multinational companies?', International Business Review, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 908-926.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Traditional internationalization models suggest multinational companies (MNCs) can exploit their accumulative experience to facilitate their sequential entries. However, experience may depreciate over time. Thus, obtaining benefits from prior experience for MNCs is based on two critical premises, i.e., interpreting and applying experience correctly. We argue that there is a need to study the newness dimension of experiential learning. In doing so, we aim to explore to what extent the newness of experience matters in overseas sequential entries for MNCs. Moreover, we expect that the benefits from recent experience in guiding sequential entries are contingent on the extent of context similarity between the most recent entry location and sequential entry location and the outcome expectancy of focal entry. With a sample of 112 Chinese listed firms and 410 observations during the period of 2000–2012, we find that else being equal, the newness of experience of MNCs is positively associated with sequential entry and such a relationship is positively moderated both by context similarity in institutional environment and the outcome expectancy of the focal entry. We also compare the effects of the newness of different types of experience and find that the newness of the most recent experience has a larger influence on sequential entry than location-specific experience and general experience.

Maclean, M, Harvey, C & Clegg, SR 2017, 'Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects', Business History Review, vol. 91, no. 3, pp. 457-481.
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A common lament is that business history has been marginalized within mainstream business and management research. We propose that the remedy lies in part with more extensive engagement with organization theory. We illustrate our argument by exploring the potentialities for business history of three cognitive frameworks: institutional entrepreneurship, evolutionary theory, and Bourdieusian social theory. Exhibiting a higher level of theoretical fluency might enable business historians to accrue scholarly capital within the business and management field by producing theoretically informed historical discourse, demonstrating the potential of business history to extend theory, generate constructs, and elucidate complexities in unfolding relationships, situations, and events.

Maxwell, H, Stronach, M, Adair, D & Pearce, S 2017, 'Indigenous Australian women and sport: findings and recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry', Sport in Society, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 1500-1529.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Researchers have consistently pointed to positive links between sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing amongst marginalized population groups. This paper concentrates on a group about which little is presently known in terms of these links–Indigenous women in Australia. The catalyst for this focus is twofold: demographic data that, while sparse, suggests that this group has very low levels of participation in sport and associated physical activity; and second, a recent parliamentary inquiry into Indigenous sport in which the participation of women featured in several submissions. Both data sets confirm that Indigenous women are significantly underrepresented in the Australian sporting landscape. There is no systematic knowledge about why this is so. The present study contributes to that small body of literature by considering (a) evidence about participation rates of Indigenous women in sport; and (b) the aspirations of sport organizations to attract Indigenous women into their programs.

McDonald, M, Bridger, AJ, Wearing, S & Ponting, J 2017, 'Consumer spaces as political spaces: A critical review of social, environmental, and psychogeographical research', Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. e12325-e12325.
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AbstractThe purpose of this review is to critique the social and environmental psychology literature on spaces and places with a focus on consumer culture and neoliberalism. By drawing on social theory and the Continental philosophical literature, the review argues that an alternative approach to knowledge production is required. To this end, recommendations are provided for what a psychogeographical approach in social and environmental psychology could look like. It argues that such work could be of benefit to academic and local communities by exposing the social costs and consequences associated with consumer culture and neoliberalism.

McDonald, M, Gough, B, Wearing, S & Deville, A 2017, 'Social Psychology, Consumer Culture and Neoliberal Political Economy', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 363-379.
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AbstractConsumer culture and neoliberal political economy are often viewed by social psychologists as topics reserved for anthropologists, economists, political scientists and sociologists. This paper takes an alternative view arguing that social psychology needs to better understand these two intertwined institutions as they can both challenge and provide a number of important insights into social psychological theories of self‐identity and their related concepts. These include personality traits, self‐esteem, social comparisons, self‐enhancement, impression management, self‐regulation and social identity. To illustrate, we examine how elements of consumer culture and neoliberal political economy intersect with social psychological concepts of self‐identity through three main topics: ‘the commodification of self‐identity’, ‘social categories, culture and power relations’ and the ‘governing of self‐regulating consumers’. In conclusion, we recommend a decommodified approach to research with the aim of producing social psychological knowledge that avoids becoming enmeshed with consumer culture and neoliberalism.

Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2017, 'A quantitative model for disruption mitigation in a supply chain', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 257, no. 3, pp. 881-895.
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© 2016 Elsevier B.V. In this paper, a three-stage supply chain network, with multiple manufacturing plants, distribution centers and retailers, is considered. For this supply chain system we develop three different approaches, (i) an ideal plan for an infinite planning horizon and an updated plan if there are any changes in the data, (ii) a predictive mitigation planning approach for managing predictive demand changes, which can be predicted in advance by using an appropriate tool, and (iii) a reactive mitigation plan, on a real-time basis, for managing sudden production disruptions, which cannot be predicted in advance. In predictive mitigation planning, we develop a fuzzy inference system (FIS) tool to predict the changes in future demand over the base forecast and the supply chain plan is revised accordingly well in advance. In reactive mitigation planning, we formulate a quantitative model for revising production and distribution plans, over a finite future planning period, while minimizing the total supply chain cost. We also consider a series of sudden disruptions, where a new disruption may or may not affect the recovery plans of earlier disruptions and which consequently require plans to be revised after the occurrence of each disruption on a real-time basis. An efficient heuristic, capable of dealing with sudden production disruptions on a real-time basis, is developed. We compare the heuristic results with those obtained from the LINGO optimization software for a good number of randomly generated test problems. Also, some numerical examples are presented to explain both the usefulness and advantages of the proposed approaches.

Pina e Cunha, M, Giustiniano, L, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2017, 'Mission impossible? The paradoxes of stretch goal setting', Management Learning, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 140-157.
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Stretch goal setting is a process involving multiple and nested paradoxes. The paradoxical side of stretch is attractive because it holds great promise yet dangerous because it triggers processes that are hard to control. Paradoxes are not readily managed by assuming a linear relation between the here and now and the intended future perfect. Before adopting stretch goal setting, managers should thus be prepared for the tensions and contradictions created by nested or interwoven paradoxes. Achieving stretch goals can be as difficult for the managers seeking to direct the process as for designated delegates. While the increasing popularity of stretch goal setting is understandable, its unexpected consequences must be taken into account. The inadequate use of stretch goals can jeopardize the social sustainability of organizations as well as their societal support systems.

Presbitero, A, Roxas, B & Chadee, D 2017, 'Sustaining innovation of information technology service providers', International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, vol. 47, no. 2/3, pp. 156-174.
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PurposeHow do knowledge-intensive technology-based offshore information technology service providers (ITSPs) in developing countries sustain their innovation and remain competitive? The purpose of this paper is to answer this question by drawing from the knowledge-based view of firm innovation to argue that organisational collectivism (COLL) plays a crucial role in influencing the effects of knowledge-based capabilities on innovation of ITSPs.Design/methodology/approachThe study develops a model which shows that learning mediates the effects of knowledge sharing on innovation and that COLL moderates the effects of knowledge sharing on both innovation and learning. A moderated-mediation model is tested using structural equation modelling techniques and data (n=388) from a survey of ITSPs in the Philippines.FindingsThe results show that knowledge sharing capability is positively related to innovation and that organisational learning capability fully mediates the effects of knowledge sharing on innovation. Moreover, COLL is found to significantly and positively moderate the effects of knowledge sharing on both organisational learning and innovation. The results indicate that organisational learning serves as the mechanism that transforms knowledge into innovation, but this effect is contingent on COLL of ITSPs.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that ITSPs from developing countries can look beyond costly investments in research and development activities to invigorate their innovative capabilities. ITSPs can focus on the development of their in...

Randhawa, K, Josserand, E, Schweitzer, J & Logue, D 2017, 'Knowledge collaboration between organizations and online communities: the role of open innovation intermediaries.', J. Knowl. Manag., vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1293-1318.
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Purpose This research paper aims to examine how open innovation (OI) intermediaries facilitate knowledge collaboration between organizations and online user communities. Drawing on a Community of Practice (CoP) perspective on knowledge, the study lays out a framework of the knowledge boundary management mechanisms (and associated practices) that intermediaries deploy in enabling client organizations to engage in online community-based OI. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on an exploratory case study of an OI intermediary and 18 client organizations that engage with online user communities on the intermediary’s platform. Results incorporate both the intermediary and clients’ perspective, based on analysis of intermediary and client interviews, clients’ online community projects and other archival data. Findings Results reveal that OI intermediaries deploy three knowledge boundary management mechanisms – syntactic, semantic and pragmatic – each underpinned by a set of practices. Together, these mechanisms enable knowledge transfer, translation and transformation, respectively, and thus lead to cumulatively richer knowledge collaboration outcomes at the organization–community boundary. The findings show that the pragmatic mechanism reinforces both semantic and syntactic mechanisms, and is hence the most critical to achieving effective knowledge collaboration in community-based OI settings. Practical implications The findings suggest that OI intermediaries have to implement all three boundary management mechanisms to successfully enable knowledge collaboration for community-bas...

Reis, AC, Frawley, S, Hodgetts, D, Thomson, A & Hughes, K 2017, 'Sport Participation Legacy and the Olympic Games: The Case of Sydney 2000, London 2012, and Rio 2016', Event Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 139-158.
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Sport participation as a legacy of the Olympic Games (OG) has frequently featured as a component of the 'legacy package' that government bodies and organizing committees promote to the local communities to gain support for the hosting of these mega-events. However, only recently increased sport participation has been explicitly included as part of a legacy plan in OG candidature files. This article examines the changes and development of sport legacy planning and implementation from Sydney 2000, London 2012, and Rio 2016. The three case studies confirm that sport participation legacies are only achieved if host governments engage the community, develop long-term strategies, and coordinate efforts between different government portfolios and with a range of relevant stakeholders. So far, there is limited evidence available to demonstrate that relevant government bodies have attempted to strategically leverage the Games with the purpose of developing a sport participation legacy for the wider population.

Schulenkorf, N 2017, 'Managing sport-for-development: Reflections and outlook', Sport Management Review, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 243-251.
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© 2016 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand The field of sport-for-development (SFD) has experienced significant growth and increased academic rigor over the past 15 years. As sport management scholars have started to critically investigate and evaluate SFD programs, they have in turn contributed to the future design and improvement of SFD initiatives that today are more strategically planned and pedagogically sound than ever before. As part of the 20th anniversary series of Sport Management Review, the author looks back at some of the key achievements of sport management scholarship and proposes new and exciting areas for future enquiry. In particular, while past research can be classified under the four headings of SFD programming and design; sustainable management and capacity building; creating and leveraging impacts and outcomes; and conceptual/theoretical advancements, the author suggests that future studies may attend to the managerial concepts of leadership, entrepreneurship and Design Thinking to maximise the potential of sport (management) to contribute to desired, innovative and sustained community development outcomes.

Schulenkorf, N & Schlenker, K 2017, 'Leveraging Sport Events to Maximize Community Benefits in Low- and Middle-Income Countries', Event Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 217-231.
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For many years, special events have played an important role as strategic elements within community development. However, to date little work has been conducted on how to maximize the social potential of special events in low- and middle-income countries. In addressing this issue, we reflect on event management processes and leverage mechanisms that have underpinned a community sport event in the Pacific Island nation of Sāmoa, and identify strategies for maximizing beneficial event outcomes. We present findings related to previously identified leverage areas, including sociocultural and participatory leverage, and also suggest new areas that seem particularly relevant in the context of community development, including educational, health-related, and reputational leverage. Finally, key challenges and opportunities for event managers and local communities are discussed, implications for event leverage are provided, and areas for future research are outlined.

Schweinsberg, S, Darcy, S & Cheng, M 2017, 'The agenda setting power of news media in framing the future role of tourism in protected areas', Tourism Management, vol. 62, pp. 241-252.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd This exploratory paper examines the agenda-setting and framing role of news media in the ongoing development of the Draft Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Master Plan. The paper will argue that the publication of the Masterplan and ensuing public commentary has drawn into stark focus future challenges in juxtaposing the frames of public use, commercial tourism and scientific/cultural values in the sustainable management of protected areas. Agenda setting and framing theory provides the theoretical foundation for the paper. Guided by critical discourse analysis, the analysis of the paper is supported through the use of Leximancer and Gephi software for visually illustrating the relationship between different framing perspectives. This paper contributes to a fresh understanding of the complex nature of the sustainable management of protected areas in urban spaces.

Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N, Seal, E, Nicholson, M & Hoye, R 2017, 'Sport-for-Development in the South Pacific Region: Macro-, Meso-, and Micro-Perspectives', Sociology of Sport Journal, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 303-316.
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As the field of sport-for-development (SFD) has developed, there has been increasing debate over the ability of SFD programs to effect lasting structural change on target communities. Highlighting the barriers to SFD program delivery in five Pacific Island nations, in this paper we argue that numerous challenges emerging at macro-, meso-, and microlevels must be explored, understood, and accounted for to enact structural change. Building on thematic findings from our empirical cross-nation research project, we discuss the importance of addressing SFD challenges at all levels of society to ensure that interventions are appropriately tailored for the specific and often divergent sociocultural contexts in the Pacific Islands region. We argue for a more holistic approach to planning, management, and evaluation when attempting to deliver structural change through sport.

Sherry, E, Schulenkorf, N, Seal, E, Nicholson, M & Hoye, R 2017, 'Sport-for-development: Inclusive, reflexive, and meaningful research in low- and middle-income settings', Sport Management Review, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 69-80.
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© 2016 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Research in and around sport-for-development (SFD) has increased steadily since the first scholarly work in the field was conducted in the 1990s. As SFD has grown into an established and respected area of study, it has also diversified in its research approaches and methodologies. In this article, we reflect on our experiences as researchers in low- and middle-income countries and specifically discuss the combination of traditional research methods and innovative approaches to qualitative inquiry within two distinct projects that were funded under a single SFD program. We highlight the efficacy of a flexible, innovative, and locally-relevant research design, and advocate for inclusive, reflexive, and participatory research approaches during the monitoring and evaluation processes. Finally, we identify likely success factors and challenges for current SFD research, and offer recommendations for future qualitative inquiries in and around sport-based development programs.

van Iterson, A, Clegg, S & Carlsen, A 2017, 'Ideas are feelings first: epiphanies in everyday workplace creativity', M@n@gement, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 221-221.
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This paper contributes to the literature on workplace creativity by combining insights on epiphanies with theory on the embodied and relational nature of understanding. We explore and develop the concept of epiphany, defined as a sudden and transient manifestation of insight. Primarily, we are interested in the implications of the concept’s artistic and philosophical origins for organizational creativity. We start from a consideration of the importance of epiphany in the literary works of Joyce, who underlined the crucial aspect of the conjunction of different human senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching). Next, we draw up upon the theory of insights as embodied, experientially felt qualities, as described by Mark Johnson (2007) and predecessors in pragmatism. Using three sets of empirical snippets as aids to reasoning, we arrive at renewed understanding of epiphany as a phenomenon in creativity that is experientially multi-sensuous and collective rather than merely cognitive and individual. Epiphanies are typically manifest as a series of felt occurrences arising within collective practice, follow from a history of preparation, and do not solely involve breakthrough ideas but can also include feelings of doubt, movement, opening up or disconfirmation. Understanding epiphanies in this way extends research on organizational creativity as collective practice. The article suggests further attention be paid to the transient and noetic qualities of work on ideas in organizations, such as visual and material stimuli in sensorial preparations of creativity and the use of openness in marking felt insights. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)

Veal, AJ 2017, 'The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure', Leisure Sciences, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 205-223.
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The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct forms, serious, casual and project-based, has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the last 40 years. This paper evaluates the perspective as theory and as a typology. The theory associated with the SLP, concerning social worlds, identification and optimal leisure lifestyles, is found to be generally untested because it has been largely developed in relation to the serious leisure form only. The validity of the typology is questioned on the grounds that ‘seriousness’ is a continuum, rather than discrete categories, and that most leisure activities can be engaged in with varying degrees of seriousness. It is proposed that the SLP be replaced by a more flexible, open research approach, the Leisure Experience Perspective, which consolidates features of the SLP and other research traditions and a number of other theoretical perspectives.

Ville, S & Wright, C 2017, 'Neither a Discipline nor a Colony: Renaissance and Re-imagination in Economic History', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 152-168.
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Wearing, S, Young, T & Everingham, P 2017, 'Evaluating volunteer tourism: has it made a difference?', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 512-521.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This paper examines the challenges of evaluating volunteer tourism and looks towards possibilities for rethinking the ways in which the phenomenon is conceptualised. We reflect on the debates and practices that have emerged since the first theoretical exploration introduced over 15 years ago in a book titled Volunteer tourism: Experiences that make a difference. This review paper commences with a discussion of the criticisms that have been targeted at both research and practice, and reflects on the need to rethink how volunteer tourism is evaluated. We argue that the volunteer tourism industry must respond to criticisms from academics and the media and move towards conscious choices that reframe volunteer tourism away from development aid towards intercultural mutuality and decommodification.

Wearing, SL & Foley, C 2017, 'Understanding the Tourist Experience of Cities', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 65, pp. 97-107.
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Economic, environmental and social forces have changed the way we are developing our cities. A range of theoretical constructs have been explored to provide direction for contemporary analyses of urban tourism experience. This paper engages with a feminist perspective in our understanding of the way tourists explore and experience cities. It achieves this by expanding current sociological frameworks that assume the tourist is simply a wanderer in the urban environment. Drawing on interactionist and post-structural critique and Wearing and Wearing’s (1996) theoretical framework of the flâneur and choraster, this paper demonstrates how a more feminized conceptualisation of the tourist experience as a creative and interactive process could have a transformative effect on our understanding of tourists’ experiences of cities.

Westberg, K, Stavros, C, Smith, ACT, Newton, J, Lindsay, S, Kelly, S, Beus, S & Adair, D 2017, 'Exploring the wicked problem of athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport', Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 94-112.
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PurposeThis paper aims to extend the literature on wicked problems in consumer research by exploring athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport and the potential role that social marketing can play in addressing this problem.Design/methodology/approachThis paper conceptualises the wicked problem of athlete and consumer vulnerability in sport, proposing a multi-theoretical approach to social marketing, incorporating insights from stakeholder theory, systems theory and cocreation to tackle this complex problem.FindingsSport provides a rich context for exploring a social marketing approach to a wicked problem, as it operates in a complex ecosystem with multiple stakeholders with differing, and sometimes conflicting, objectives. It is proposed that consumers, particularly those that are highly identified fans, are key stakeholders that have both facilitated the problematic nature of the sport system and been rendered vulnerable as a result. Further, a form of consumer vulnerability also extends to athletes as the evolution of the sport system has led them to engage in harmful consumption behaviours. Social marketing, with its strategic and multi-faceted focus on facilitating social good, is an apt approach to tackle behavioural change at multiple levels within the sport system.Practical implicationsSport managers, public health practitioners and policymakers are given insight into the key drivers of a growing wicked problem as well as the potential for social marketing to mitigate harm.Originality/v...

Wright, C 2017, 'Book review: Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible', Accounting History, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 252-253.
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Wright, C & Ville, S 2017, 'The Evolution of an Intellectual Community Through the Words of Its Founders: Recollections of Australia's Economic History Field', Australian Economic History Review, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 345-367.
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Analysing the dynamic evolution of a scholarly field requires an understanding of the social interactions within its community as well as the impact of the written word. Influence might diffuse through mentoring, graduate supervision, seminar discussion, and management roles. To date, our knowledge of the growth of economic history in Australia after 1945 draws heavily upon the impact of a number of key publications. We interview a broad selection of academics who worked in the field of Australian economic history, approximately 1950–90, to provide a fuller understanding of the evolution of this interdisciplinary field. Our results confirm, complement and, in some cases, challenge conventional views. © 2016 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd

Wright, C & Ville, S 2017, 'Visualising the Interdisciplinary Research Field: The Life Cycle of Economic History in Australia', Minerva, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 321-340.
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Zhuang, L, Taylor, T, Beirman, D & Darcy, S 2017, 'Socially sustainable ethnic tourism: a comparative study of two Hakka communities in China', Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 467-483.
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Ethnic tourism is a catalyst for economic and sociocultural development in many countries. However, ethnic tourism development has given rise to many challenges associated with the sustainable development of ethnic regions within different cultural contexts. This paper addresses the social aspect of sustainable ethnic tourism through comparative case studies of two ethnic Hakka tourism destinations, Nanyuan and Sujiawei villages in Heyuan, Guangdong Province, China. The comparative case-study research design included in-depth interviews, document analysis and a household study in each case-study village. The comparative case study provides insights into factors contributing to socially sustainable ethnic tourism in China, including levels of community involvement, control of the tourism ‘product’, the benefits accruing to the ethnic community, perceived inconveniences/externalities and authenticity considerations. This study contributes to a better understanding of socially sustainable ethnic tourism in a Chinese context, and has practical implications for ethnic tourism destination marketing, management and policy-making.

Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N & Clegg, SR 1970, 'Expertise and professional identity in client-professional interactions: A case of architectural firms', Professional Service Firms Annual Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

Ahuja, S, Nikolova, N, Heizmann, H & Clegg, SR 1970, 'Professional Client Interactions: Co-constructing Professional Identity', European Group for Organisational Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ashwell, J & Hassanli, N 1970, 'The role of small accommodation providers in creating mindful tourists', Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies, Hobart.

Darcy, SA 1970, 'Cultural Life: Disability, Inclusion and Citizenship (Abstract Only)', ATSA Independent Living Expo, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney.
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Disability is a complex multidimensional social construct where the type of disability and the level of support of individuals needs to be considered within leisure provision. In a leisure context, people with disability often face a multitude of constraints to participation. However, when leisure is possible, the benefits are substantial and worth pursuing. While other marginalised populations have received a great deal of attention across disciplines and in the field of leisure and recreation, disability has received comparatively less attention and generally in isolation to the leisure context.

Dickson, T & Darcy, S 1970, 'Facilitating sport participation legacies from Olympic and Paralympic Games: the case of Whistler Adaptive Sports and Vancouver 2010', NASSM (North American Society for Sport Management) Conference 2017, NASSM (North American Society for Sport Management) Conference 2017, Denver, USA.
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One of the ‘offers’ to host communities from the conduct of mega sport-events such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games is that following the event there would be increased participation in sport and physical activity. For Paralympic events, under the auspices of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) there is the further hope that there will be a legacy of increased participation and social inclusion of people with disabilities as the result of hosting the event. Using a contextualist approach, this research explored the reliability of these claims by exploring the case of Whistler Adaptive Sports (WAS) in the lead up to and following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (Vancouver 2010) that were held in the city of Vancouver and the Resort Municipality of Whistler in British Columbia, Canada. WAS has evolved to leverage off the Vancouver 2010 infrastructure and social development.

Dong, K 1970, 'Learning from failures of entering European markets by Asian SMEs', the European Union Studies Association Asia Pacific (EUSAAP) Conference and Postgraduate workshop, Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan.

Edwards, M, Williams, T, Angus-Leppan, T & Benn, S 1970, 'Navigating Sustainability: Morphing the Role of the Sustainability Officer', 31st Annual Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, 31st Annual Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, Melbourne, Australia.

Farr-Wharton, B, Xerri, M, Brunetto, Y, Harrison, B & Hermens, A 1970, 'Qualifying beliefs about informality and hard HRM in small, medium and large firms: an employee’s perspective', Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Melbourne.

Faulkner, S 1970, 'The Cyclic Volunteer Tourism Experience', Proceedings of the 27th CAUTHE conference, CAUTHE 2017: Time for big ideas? Re-thinking the field for tomorrow, CAUTHE, University of Otago, Dunedin.
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This paper presents a model of volunteer tourism acculturation as a cyclic process. In this process volunteer tourists engage with volunteer tourism through their relationships with others and three different cultures at several stages; pre-departure, in-country and re-entry.

Gavin, M 1970, '‘Building capacity to respond strategically – How teacher unions in Australia can look internally in order to respond to global education reform’', ‘Building capacity to respond strategically – How teacher unions in Australia can look internally in order to respond to global education reform’.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Can teacher unions successfully influence neoliberal government policy in New South Wales to shape teachers’ work and conditions?', Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2017, Canberra, Australia.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Evolving campaign tactics and strategies used to defend teacher salaries and staffing conditions in neoliberal times: a case of the NSW Teachers’ Federation', 9th Annual Conference of the Association of Academic Historians in Australia and New Zealand Business Schools, Sydney, Australia.

Gavin, M 1970, 'Passive unions won’t cut it.’ (How) can female teacher unionists strategically respond to neoliberal educational reform affecting their work and conditions?’', 31st Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand AIRAANZ Conference, Canberra, Australia.

Hassanli, N & Ashwell, J 1970, '“We’re All In This Together”: Improving The Sustainability Practices Of Holiday Homes Through Clustering', CAUTHE 2017 Conference Papers - Working Papers, The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education, Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 840-844.
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This working paper aims to examine how clustering may be utilized as a means of achieving sustainability in holiday homes. This is in line with the gap identified in the literature on how sustainability could be achieved in small accommodation establishments. To achieve the study’s objective, the research will focus on holiday homes in the Alexandrina region in South Australia. In the initial stage, in-depth interviews with holiday home owners will be conducted to identify their perceptions about their responsibility in contributing to a sustainable tourism industry. The findings will inform the next stage of data collection on how clustering could be used by holiday home owners to achieve sustainable tourism. Considering the continued growth of holiday home ownership and their significance to tourism development, it is hoped the findings of this research would support Local Government Agencies (LGAs) in their agenda for local tourism strategies.

Johns, R, Darcy, S & Dickson, T 1970, 'Co-creation for greater accessibility', The 15th International Reserch Symposium on Service Excellence in Management, The 15th International Reserch Symposium on Service Excellence in Management, Porto, Portugal.

Katic, M, Agarwal, R & Al-Kilidar, H 1970, 'The Interplay Between Flexibility and Innovation within High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing', Production and Operations Management Society 2017 International Conference, Sydney, Australia.
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Innovation and flexibility have long been understood as key elements in the competitive repertoire of todays’ manufacturing SME (Small to Medium Sized Enterprise). For SME’s that produce a high variety of customised products at low volumes (HVLV), the necessity to innovate and simultaneously maintain flexibility poses a significant organisational challenge.HVLV manufacturers are typically designed in such a manner to enable the manufacture of a wide range of highly customised products. The organisational success of the HVLV manufacturer, then, largely depends on its’ ability to reconfigure resources and adapt to new circumstances (in other words, the ability to be flexible). In fact, it is in the pursuit of flexibility that HVLV manufacturers choose to adopt the job-shop style of production and “project-based” organisational structure. There is evidence which suggests flexibility and innovation are complementary in the realm of mass-customisation. Yet, authors investigating the adoption of “project-based” organisational forms (as observed in HVLV manufacturing) warn the quest for “fast, flat and flexible” organisational designs often result in environments which hinder innovation. Indeed, the applicability of organisational practices designed to foster flexibility and its effects on the ability of a HVLV manufacturer to innovate requires further investigation – thus, a core objective of this paper.In order to achieve this objective, this paper provides two outcomes. Firstly, a comparative analysis based on a literature review is undertaken between HVLV manufacturers and those adopting lesser, more standardised, forms of customisation. This will determine key differences in both flexibility dimensions and the organisational practices designed to facilitate this flexibility. Secondly, a conceptual model is developed (based on the comparative analysis) to demonstrate the relationship between key flexibility dimensions and the likelihood of developing suc...

Katic, M, Al-Kilidar, H & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Exploring the Effect of Customisation on Management Practices in High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing', 24th International Annual EUROMA Conference, EUROMA International Conference, Edinburgh.

Noh, SC & Yu, K 1970, 'The role of emotions in degenerative political processes in pluralistic organizations', European Group for Organization Studies annual colloquium, Copenhagen.

Randhawa, K, Josserand, E & Logue, D 1970, 'Routines of knowledge collaboration at the organization-community boundary: An exploratory study of community-based open innovation', European Group of Organization Studies, Copenhagen.

Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & West, J 1970, 'Crowdsourcing without profit: The role of seeker motivation and strategies', Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 14684-14684.
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Rathore, A, Agarwal, R, Bajada, C & Paul, S 1970, 'Japan’s technology management legacy impacting its IoT leadership', Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) 2017 International Conference, MGSm Sydney.
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Abstract: The objective of this study is to identify the factors in traditional Japanese corporate management style which are impacting Japan’s leadership in IoT on global platform. To-date, Japan has 18% of worldwide share of IoT patents assigned. Fujitsu is the only Japanese company at 8th place in world’s top ten patents assignee ranking. Top places are filled by US, Chinese, Korean and European companies (Trappey, A. 2016). Japan envisioned the concept of an “Intelligent Object Network” TRON (The Real-time Operating system Nucleus), an open real-time operating system kernel - similar to IoT - as one of the Tokyo University’s objectives as far as back in 1987 (Sakamura J, 2015). However, Japan simply let Germany initiate ‘Industry 4.0’ policy and standards while allowing the United States to lead the IIC (Industrial Internet Consortium) despite years of experience and lead in embedded systems and high level proficiency in ubiquitous computing. Exploratory research revealed that management-related factors such as catch-up and mass production roll out policies were the largest inhibitors to setting international software standards whereas local focus related policies were considered major hindrances for Japanese gadgets to succeed worldwide. Local focus of gadgets and unwillingness of management into development of open source IoT software were found to be interlinked that Japan is not leading Industry 4.0. Institutional arrange¬ments of Japan’s catch-up system in most key industries are the primary cause of Japan’s software firms’ competitive weak¬ness. The very arrangements that help explain Japan’s success in steel, machine tools, semiconductors, and computer hardware are found to be the source of its weakness in computer software (Anchordoguy, M 1999). Insularity is a long-standing problem in Japan, often referred to as the 'Galapagos Syndrome.' Products are highly evolved but don't survive well beyond the water's edge (Pesek, W 2013). Many Japanes...

Scerri, M & Agarwal, R 1970, 'Crypto-currency and supply chains – Is there a fit?', Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) 2017 International Conference, MGSM Sydney.
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Participating in global supply chains is becoming an imperative, yet remains a challenging endeavour for many businesses. In 2015 World Trade Organisations members exported merchandise to the value of US$16.2 trillion and commercial services US$4.68 trillion. Monetary policies in developed countries and exchange rate volatility impact the price of goods, firm performance and growth of international trade. One of the many risks for participating businesses in international business, especially for small to medium sized business, is foreign exchange risk generally managed through hedging and invoicing risks. In this context, invoicing currency strategy is an important factor for supply chains and is indicative of the level of economic risk and which parties bear risks in global supply chains. This research explores and compares management techniques for exchange rate exposure in the currency payment processes and though the use of different currencies when deploying block chain technology and crypto-currency. This draws on data on the invoicing practices of buyers and sellers in Australia which is analysed to determine exporters invoicing currency at an aggregate level by industry. Values of buyer currency, seller currency and vehicle currency are then compared with the potential for cryptocurrency to enable a single currency global trading environment, where monetary policy is not in the control of any one countries central governing body. The paper finds that Australian exporters will have new and optimal instruments at hand to limit the adverse impact of exchange rate volatility embedded in current payment processes which can be eliminated or more easily managed through the deployment of emerging solutions.

Schulenkorf, N, Schlenker, K & Frawley, SM 1970, 'Leveraging Sport Events to Maximise Community Benefits in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experiences from Samoa', ”, 22nd European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress, Essen.

Yu, K & Noh, SC 1970, 'OF CONQUESTS AND EXODUS: SETTLEMENTS AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION PROCESS', Academy of Management annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Green, R, Rammal, HG & Scerri, M ECA 2017, Australia’s International Business Survey 2017, Sydney, Australia.

Boersma, M Elsevier BV 2017, Do No Harm? Procurement of Medical Goods by Australian Companies and Government.
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Du Cros, H, Foley, C, Edwards, D & Hergesell, A JMIC 2017, JMIC Case Study Program CONFERENCES: CATALYSTS FOR THRIVING ECONOMIES, Belgium.

Foley, C, Edwards, D, Harrison, B & Hergesell, A JMIC 2017, ICC SYDNEY: FEEDING YOUR PERFORMANCE, Belgium.

Green, R, Agarwal, R, Bajada, C, Chowdhury, M, Paul, S & Soco, S DAE 2017, Imagine Sydney Create, Imagine Sydney Create, Sydney.

Agarwal, R 2017, 'Improving management and productivity in regional Australian businesses', ABC Radio Talk.

Agarwal, R 2017, 'Peer-learning enables growth in hard-to-reach places'.

Agarwal, R 2017, 'What’s in a supply chain?', UTS.

Agarwal, R & Brown, P 2017, 'UTS researchers recognised at AMCS data launch event'.

Agarwal, R, Green, R, Bajada, C & Brown, P 2017, 'Major study paints picture of who's managing our businesses', UTS.

Carabetta, G 2017, '‘Collective Bargaining Disputes in the Emergency Services: The New Zealand Experience’, Seminar Presentation, The University of Sydney Law School, 18 September 2017.'.
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Darcy, S, Frawley, S & Adair, D 2017, 'Managing the Paralympics', Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 1-302.
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers and connected stakeholders effectively organize and deliver the Paralympics, taking into account what has been learned from previous events. Including emergent models of best practice from event management, project management and sport management literature, the book gives an insight into the planning of one of the world's biggest sporting events that encompasses ten impairment types and multiple sport classes within sports.

Gavin, M 2017, 'How has the NSW Teachers’ Federation responded to education reform to protect and advance teachers’ working conditions? An analysis of teacher salaries and staffing entitlements'.

Green, R & Agarwal, R 2017, 'Three theories for what’s causing the global productivity slowdown', The Conversation.

Green, R, Agarwal, R & Bajada, C 2017, 'Study identifies Sydney’s innovation hotspots', UTS News room.

Joachim, JG, Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, SM & Schlenker, K 2017, 'Adaptable Design Thinking (aDT) for Sport Management'.

Joachim, JG, Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, SM & Schlenker, K 2017, 'Empowering Change Agents Through Adaptable Design Thinking (aDT)'.

Kaine, S, Josserand, E & Boersma, M 2017, 'How to stop businesses stealing from their employees', The Conversation.

Katic, M, Agarwal, R & Al-kilidar, H 2017, 'High Performance Management Practices for High-Variety, Low-Volume Manufacturing: A Theoretical Framework'.

Kaur, A & Agarwal, R 2017, 'Digitising the farm – UTS and IIT Madras tackle food waste with technology', UTS research and teaching.

Kaur, A & Agarwal, R 2017, 'Fresh produce supply chains', UTS Research and teaching.

Okumu, CO 2017, 'Impact of Chinese Corporations' Investments in Sub Saharan Africa: Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability'.
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This thesis investigated the social and economic impact of Chinese corporations investments in Sub Saharan Africa. The extent of technology transfer and local skill development is assessed. Related infrastructure developments are considered, and the question examined of whether this represents a balanced approach to sustainable development.

Porter, D, wearing, S, McCauley, B, Wearing, M & Foley, CT 2017, 'Exploring Male Adolescent Video Gaming as Leisure Consumption: It’s not as simple as ‘Bang Bang: You’re dead!’', Routledge.

Sugden, JT, Schulenkorf, N, Frawley, SM, Edwards, D & Adair, D 2017, 'Brief Immersion, Rich Engagement: Researching Sport and Intergroup Relations in Fiji'.

Wearing, SL & Foley, C 2017, 'Understanding the tourist experience of cities', Elsevier BV, pp. 97-107.
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Economic, environmental and social forces have changed the way we are developing our cities. A range of theoretical constructs have been explored to provide direction for contemporary analyses of urban tourism experience. This paper engages with a feminist perspective in our understanding of the way tourists explore and experience cities. It achieves this by expanding current sociological frameworks that assume the tourist is simply a wanderer in the urban environment. Drawing on interactionist and post-structural critique and Wearing and Wearing’s (1996) theoretical framework of the flâneur and choraster, this paper demonstrates how a more feminized conceptualisation of the tourist experience as a creative and interactive process could have a transformative effect on our understanding of tourists’ experiences of cities.

Wearing, SL, Schweinsberg, S, Chatterton, P, Grabowski, S & Reggers, A 2017, 'Exploring the potential of Community Based Ecotourism in the REDD Forest Climate Change Initiative', Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles.