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  • Leisure, culture and lifestyle 
    Veal Anthony (Presses de l'Universitie du Quebec, 2002)
  • Tracking error and active profolio management 
    El-Hassan Nadima; Kofman Paul (Australian Graduate School of Management, 2003)
    Persistent bear market conditions have led to a shift of focus in the tracking error literature. Until recently the portfolio allocation literature focused on tracking error minimization as a consequence of passive benchmark ...
  • Housing Reforms in China: A Paradigm Shift To Market Economy 
    Li, P. C (UTS , Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, 2003)
    In the period since the influential studies by Case and Shiller (1989, 1990), it has been established that housing markets are characterised by information diffusion patterns determined by informational inefficiencies. ...
  • Vers un tourisme sans barrieres: Initiatives dans la region Asie-Pacifique 
    Foggin, Elizabeth; Cameron, Bruce; Darcy, Simon (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Service des Publications, 2003)
    Given the growing numbers of consumers of leisure-oriented products and services for whom barrier-free travel (BFT) would be welcomed, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) ...
  • Can large economies drive international real estate markets? 
    Wilson Patrick; Zurbruegg Ralf (Pacific Rim Real Estate Society, 2003)
    There is continuing interest in the inter-relationships among real estate markets. This includes research suggesting that international linkages in real estate market returns are partly driven by the inter-relatedness ...
  • 'I don't think I am a learner': acts of naming learners at work 
    Boud David; Solomon Nicole (Emerald Group Publishing, 2003)
    The terms ‘learning’ and ‘learner’ are used in discussions of workplace learning as if they were unproblematic and as if workers, organisations and researchers had a common shared view about what these terms mean. A study ...
  • Information transfer and press coverage: The case of the Gawler Craton gold boom 
    Ferguson Andrew; Crockett Adrian (Elsevier Inc, 2003)
    This study examines intra-industry information transfer after Helix Resources announced a successful drill result in the Gawler Craton region of South Australia that sparked significant investor interest in mining companies ...
  • Investment director turnover and the impact on performance 
    Gallagher David; Nadarajah Prashanthi (Financial Services Institute of Australasia, 2003)
  • Tracking change: leisure participation and policy in Australia, 1985-2002 
    Veal Anthony (Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies, 2003)
    This paper puts forward the proposition that the purpose of official national surveys of leisure participation is: l. to track changes in overall leisure participation over time in order to evaluate policy aimed at ...
  • A survival analysis of Australian equity mutual funds 
    Cameron A; Hall Anthony (Australian Graduate School of Management, 2003)
    Determining which types of mutual (or managed) investment funds are good financial investments is complicated by potential survivorship biases. This project adds to a small recent international literature on the patterns ...
  • Multi-database mining 
    Zhang Shichao; Wu Xindong; Zhang Chengqi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2003)
    Multi-database mining is an important research area because (1) there is an urgent need for analyzing data in different sources, (2) there are essential differences between mono- and multi-database mining, and (3) there ...
  • Inclusive and accessible special event planning: an Australian perspective 
    Harris, Rob; Darcy, Simon (Cognizant Communication Corporation, 2003)
    People with disabilities have a right to access the full range of social activities and services available in a society. Nonetheless, the way that built and social environments are often constructed serves to restrict ...
  • Theorizing 'Globalization' Sociologically for Management 
    Clegg Stewart (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2003)
    Since the time of the earliest civilisations trade across frontiers and regions has occurred but it was only at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century that significant transnational activity ...
  • Are Active Fund Managers More Successful? 
    Gallagher David; Looi Adrian (Financial Services Institute of Australasia, 2003)
    Australian investment managers are significant participants within the financial services sector. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the size of the Australian investment management industry was in excess ...
  • The relevance of sporting role models in the lives of adolescent girls 
    Adriaanse Johanna; Crosswhite Janice; Wilde Kerrie (Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 2003)
    It is well documented that, despite recent strategic initiatives and improvements, adolescent girls in comparison with boys continue to be under represented in sport and physical activity participation. There is widespread ...
  • An analysis of international linkages in strike activity 
    Perry Leonard; Wilson Patrick (Group Researching Organisations, Work, Employment and Skills (GROWES), 2003)
    The international pattern of strike activity has been a source of interest to both policy makers and researchers. The worldwide decline in strike actitvity over the last decade or two has prompted researchers to explore, ...
  • Museums: challenges for the 21st century 
    Burton Christine; Scott Carol (AIMAC, 2003)
  • Learning from others at work: communities of practice and informal learning 
    Boud David; Middleton Heather (Emerald Group Publishing, 2003)
    This paper addresses the question of who is involved in learning in workplaces and ways in which members of workgroups learn as part of their normal work. It draws upon qualitative data from a study of multiple work sites ...
  • New Wine in Old Bottles: A Case Study of Innovation Territories in "New World" Wine Production 
    Aylward David; Turpin Tim (Imperial College Press, 2003)
    This article applies the concept of "innovation territories" to explain the recent export success of the Australian Wine Industry. Recent data collected from four "New World" wine producing countries are contrasted in order ...
  • Constructing the Olympic dream: A future perfect strategy of project management 
    Clegg Stewart; Marosszeky Marton; Pitsis Tyrone; Rura-Polley Thekla (INFORMS, 2003)
    In this paper we investigate a uniquely complex organizational context—that of the fast-tracked large-scale project management of a significant piece of Sydney 2000 Olympic infrastructure, which we researched in terms ...