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  • The virtual leader construct: The mass mediatization and simulation of transformational leadership 
    Boje David; Rhodes Carl (SAGE Publications, 2006)
    This article explores what happens when leaders and leadership becomes virtualized through the mass media and proposes the Virtual Leader Construct (VLC) - a non-human image of a leader who is purposefully created by an ...
  • Visitor accessibility in urban centres (Technical Report 90040) 
    Darcy, Simon; Cameron, Bruce; Dwyer, L.; Taylor, Tracy; Wong, E; Thomson, Alana (Sustainable Tourism CRC, 2008)
    The research project was sponsored by the STCRC NSW state node to examine visitor accessibility in urban areas. Visitor accessibility encompasses all tourism markets including seniors and people with disabilities who have ...
  • Visitor Use and Satisfacton - Barrington Tops National Park 
    Griffin Anthony; Archer David (CRC Tourism, 2003)
    Study Method This report presents the findings from a visitor survey carried out over a three-day period from Saturday 29 September to Monday 1 October 2001. Visitors aged 15 years and over were contacted at one of five ...
  • The Visual Content of Magazine Advertisements in the Skincare Market 
    Hingorani Anurag (European Advertising Academy (in association with Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon), 2007)
    Despite the observations that visuals are almost always present in skincare ads, and that they are noticed to a greater extent than the text in these ads, there appears to be virtually no publicly available research that ...
  • Visual Project Mapping of Project Interdependencies 
    Killen Catherine; Kjaer Cai (Project Management Australia, 2011)
  • The voices of older women tourists 
    Small Jennifer (Centre for Tourism Research and Development, 2003)
  • Voices Of Women: A Memory-Work Reflection On Work-Life Dis/Harmony In Tourism Academia 
    Small Jennifer; Harris Carla; Wilson Erin; Ateljevic Irena (Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Network, 2011)
    While other disciplines have engaged with critiquing work-life balance, tourism studies has been slower in acknowledging and critically contesting the notion as it applies to our own academic lives. This paper aims to ...
  • The volatility of gold 
    Baur Dirk (EFMA, 2010)
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  • Voluntary use of independent valuation advice by target firm boards in takeovers 
    Bugeja Martin (Elsevier Inc, 2007)
    This study examines why target firm directors commission a voluntary expert to assess offer adequacy in Australian takeovers. The results indicate that expert use is higher where the board is rejecting the offer. In addition, ...
  • Volunteer and coordinator perspectives on managing women volunteers. 
    Onyx Jennifer; Hayward-Brown Helen; Leonard Rosemary (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2004)
    Recent changes in Australia, such as the new public management and national competition policy, have affected the way that human services are provided and have complicated the role of volunteer coordinators. However, ...
  • A volunteer companion-observer intervention reduces falls on an acute aged care ward 
    Donoghue Judith; Graham Jenny; Mitten-Lewis Suzanne; Murphy Moira; Gibbs Julie (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2005)
    The success of this intervention has resulted in both national and international connections. The intervention is now being trialled by other institutions. Paper received the outstanding article award for the journal in ...
  • Volunteering and events 
    Schlenker Katie; Edwards Deborah; Wearing Stephen (Routledge, 2012)
    An event workforce comprises a range of different types of employees including paid staff, external suppliers, contractors and volunteers. Event organisers depend on volunteers who are recognised as an integral part of the ...
  • Volunteer management practices and volunteer retention: a human resource management approach 
    Cuskelly, Graham; Taylor, Tracy; Hoye, Russell; Darcy, Simon (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2005)
    This study used a human resource management (HRM) approach to examine the efficacy of volunteer management practices in predicting perceived problems in volunteer retention. Participants were a sample of 375 Australian ...
  • Volunteer motives and retention in community sport: A study of Australian rugby clubs 
    Hoye, Russell; Cuskelly, Graham; Taylor, Tracy; Darcy, Simon (Volunteering Australia, 2008)
    The retention of volunteers has been identified as a significant organisational challenge for community sport organisations. However, little is known about the relationship between volunteer motives and their intentions ...
  • Volunteers as hosts and guests in museums 
    Holmes Kirsten; Edwards Deborah (CABI, 2008)
    This chapter uses the extant research on museum audiences to conceptualize the relationship between museum visiting and volunteering. First, the chapter examines the literature relating to museum visitors; second, it ...
  • The volunteer's journey through leisure into the self 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen; Deville Adrian (CABI, 2008)
    Volunteer tourism is in essence a form of leisure behaviour. Perceived freedom and choice (Neulinger, 1974), intrinsic motivation (Iso-Ahola, 1982), satisfaction and enjoyment (Kaplan, 1975), and identity and selfhood ...
  • Volunteer tourism 
    Wearing Stephen; Lyons K.; Snead Suzanne (Goodfellow Publishers Ltd, 2010)
    The aim of this chapter is to provide students with a critical understanding of the phenomenon of volunteer tourism. It will consider how volunteer tourism occurs in diverse community settings with a particular emphasis ...
  • Volunteer tourism and intercultural exchange: exploring the 'Other' in the experience 
    Wearing Stephen; Grabowski Simone (Routledge, 2011)
    Volunteer tourism as a form of international development has been posed as an alternative mechanism which has the potential to achieve different socio-cultural outcomes. In this guise it aims 'to establish direct ...
  • Volunteer tourism as alternative tourism: Journeys beyond otherness 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen (CABI, 2008)
    Seismic changes in leisure time, disposable income, mobility and communication technologies have created a context in which tourism has thrived. Grown and diversified to encompass a wide array of leisure travel behaviours ...
  • Volunteer Tourism: Challenging Consumerism in Tourism 
    Wearing Stephen (International Society of Naturalists (INSONA), 2001)