The case examines the volunteer management practices within the Australian Rugby Union and its community clubs based based on the authors' ARC Linkage grant research.

Purpose – To examine an atypical member of the brand family, “difficult” brands, defined as brands that have intermittent availability, and have inherent performance risks, that, contrary to traditional marketing teachings, ...

Trust has been widely studied in the context of business relationships and is viewed as one of the drives for relationship development. However, the majority of the studies in the past decades have treated trust as a ...

How do working relationships between functional managers develop, and how are they maintained? Does interpersonal trust drive communication, or is communication the building block of interpersonal trust? Massey and Dawes ...

This paper investigates the extent to which Australian CEOs are compensated following the completion of mergers and acquisitions (M&A)with reference to the incentive alignment and managerial power perspective. Findings ...

Modern sports management necessitates the use of disciplinary systems to both dissuade and to penalise athletes who engage in off-field misconduct. This paper considers the relative legal risks and rights of penalisation ...

Participation in higher risk outdoor adventure activities has increased significantly in recent years and this trend is expected to continue in the foreseeable future. It is suggested in this paper that the general focus ...

The web design for international e-commerce sites is becoming an increasingly important issue. This paper addresses issues about cultural differences in web design and designers' views. The summary of research work ...

Traditionally accounting has been described as a gendered profession Recently accounting firms and especially the Big Four have made very public commitments to promote greater gender equality, yet they struggle to retain ...