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  • Are SME printers accidental environmentalists? 
    Lawrence Phillip; Davis Douglas; Benn Suzanne (Monash University Business and Economics, Department of Management, 2009)
    This paper presents results of a case study that explores the response of Australian printing firms to social concerns about the impact of industrial activity on the natural environment. The study draws upon both qualitative ...
  • Asian-Born Women Enterpreneurs in Sydney: International Trade & Computer Technology 
    Low Audrey (OECD, 2001)
  • Assessing consumer vanity in Australia and China 
    Wang Paul (Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, 2003)
    Given the unmistakable trend toward a more integrated global economy and the tremendous impact of vanity on consumer demand for countless goods and services, there exists a need for more cross-cultural research on the ...
  • Assessing motivations for sports volunteerism. 
    Wang Paul (Association for Consumer Research, 2004)
    Drawing on recent conceptual models on volunteer motivations developed mainly in social psychology, this study proposes that motivation for sports volunteerism is a multidimensional construct that comprises five distinct ...
  • Assessing the Acquiescence Bias of Online Research Data 
    Wang Paul; Menictas Constantinos; Fine Brian (ANZMAC 2011 Conference, 2011)
    The impact of acquiescence bias in online samples is real and deserves serious research attention. This paper assesses the impact of acquiescence bias of online respondents on research output. Specifically, this paper ...
  • Assessing the validity of brand equity constructs: A comparison of two approaches 
    Menictas Constantinos; Wang Paul; Louviere Jordan (University of Canterbury, 2010)
    This paper tests both the internal and external validity of the Erdem and Swait (1998) brand equity framework using two measurement modelling approaches, namely the relatively new Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) method (Finn and ...
  • Asset delegation, career concerns and trade volume 
    Scotti Massimo (Financial Management Association, 2010)
    The paper analyzes the e¤ects of career concerns of portfolio managers on their incentives to trade in a order-driven market. We show that career concerns lead portfolio managers to trade even whithout valuable informa- ...
  • The association between busy directors and acquisition performance 
    Sim Luch; Wells Peter; Wyatt Anne (AFAANZ, 2009)
    This paper addresses the question of whether independent directors of the bidding firm are effective monitors during acquisitions and whether this effectiveness is impaired when the independent directors serve on multiple ...
  • Audit quality, earnings quality and the cost of equity capital 
    Li Yang; Stokes Donald; Taylor Stephen; Wong Leon (AFAANZ, 2009)
    We investigate the influence of audit quality on the relation between earnings quality and cost of equity capital. We utilize total accruals as a measure of earnings quality and auditor choice, auditor effort and auditor ...
  • Australian call centres: Time to search for a new management model? 
    Burgess John; Hannif Zeenobiyah; Connell Julia (International Employment Relations Association, 2009)
    As businesses restructure their operations the number of call centres is growing through ICT developments. Indeed the ACTU (2002) have argued that call centres are well placed to represent an e-commerce gateway for many ...
  • The Australian Olympic Caravan in Beijing 
    Cashman Richard (The International Centre for Olympic Studies, 2008)
  • Australian VET policy and the role of business and industry 
    Cornford, I. R (Australian Association for Research in Education, 2007)
    Vocational education needs to be closely linked to the requirements of business and industry both in terms of policy and educational practice. However, over the past fifteen years the wants of business have come to ...
  • Automated marking of individualised spreadsheet assignments: the impact of different formative self-assessment options 
    Blayney Paul; Freeman Mark (Learning and Teaching Development, 2003)
    This paper reports on the effects of providing students with the ability to selfassess individualized spreadsheet assignments prior to submission for formal assessment. Quality learning outcomes are achieved when students ...
  • Automating the detection of turning points: inventory control at ComputerShop 
    Jenkins, R. J; Breach, G. (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 2006)
    Inventory control for a product catalogue of 3000 products is carried out by two managers at ComputerShop. While there is a substantial level of automation of product flow in this company, there is no analysis of inventory ...
  • Autonomous Learning of Commonsense Simulations 
    Johnston Benjamin; Williams Mary-Anne (UTSePress, 2009)
    Parameter-driven simulations are an effective and efficient method for reasoning about a wide range of commonsense scenarios that can complement the use of logical formalizations. The advantage of simulation is its simplified ...
  • Balanced scorecard content, use, and performance impacts: some Australian evidence 
    Bedford David; Brown David; Malmi Teemu (Accounting & Finance Associations of Australia and New Zealand Ltd, 2006)
    In recent years academic literature has given increased consideration to the adoption and use of performance measurement systems, notably the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). However, there has been limited empirical investigation ...
  • Banking on Islam? Determinants of corporate social responsibility disclosure 
    Farook Sayd; Lanis Roman (Accounting & Finance Associations of Australia and New Zealand Ltd, 2005)
    Islamic banks offer distinct financial services and as such have grown significantly in Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Qatar, Turkey and U.A.E over the past two decades. They are unique in the sense that ...
  • Barriers to Developing a Sustainable Rural Tourism Sector: a case study of rural tourism in the Macarthur region 
    Sawoniewska M; Edwards Deborah (Victoria University, 2006)
    Developing a sustainable rural tourism sector involves a holistic approach of ensuring economic, social and environmental values are realised. This requires an understanding of the stakeholders that develop rural tourism, ...
  • Beer distribution game: a simulation using Java agents and MySQL 
    Jenkins Roger; Breach Geoff (University of Melbourne, 2004)
    The Beer Distribution Game is widely used in the teaching of Supply Chain Management and other complex interacting systems. The lessons illustrated by the game are accepted as having a useful level of validity, and ...
  • A benchmark framework for risk management 
    Platen Eckhard (World Scientific, 2004)
    The paper describes a general framework for contingent claim valuation for finance, insurance and general risk management. It considers security prices and portfolios with finite expected returns, where the growth optimal ...