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This collection refers to contributions, consisting substantially of new material, to an edited compilation in which the material is subject to editorial scrutiny.

To be included in this collection the publication must meet the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) definition of research and:

  • be offered for sale be offered for sale as bound hard copies, packaged CD-ROMs or subscription/fee based e-books
  • have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
  • have been published by a commercial publisher

A book chapter may be included if it has been published previously as long as it constitutes substantial new knowledge and constitutes original research. The types of book chapters that may meet the criteria include:

  • a scholarly introduction of chapter length to an edited volume, where the content of the introduction reports research and makes a substantial contribution to a defined area of knowledge
  • a critical scholarly text of chapter length, e.g. in music, medieval or classical texts
  • critical reviews of current research

Unless they meet all of the criteria for inclusion, the following book chapters should be excluded:

  • chapters in textbooks
  • entries in reference books
  • anthologies
  • revisions of chapters in edited books
  • forewords
  • brief introductions
  • brief editorials
  • appendices
  • literary or creative pieces such as collections of short stories; and
  • translations.

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  • The Positive Power of Character Strengths and Virtues for Global Leaders 
    Rego Armenio; Clegg Stewart; Pina E Cunha Miguel (Oxford University Press, 2012)
    In a globalized world, transnational companies are implicated in power relations with many other organizations, including states, and are responsible for millions of people's lives and livelihoods. Building positive ...
  • Power, Legitimacy and Authority 
    Clegg Stewart (Routlege, 2011)
    Any sociological discussion of the relations between power, legitimacy, and authority must start with Max Weber, and some vexed issues of translation, for it was Weber who first developed a systematic account of these ...
  • Aboriginal Australia and Democracy: Old Traditions, New Challenges 
    Behrendt Larissa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
    When Europeans arrived in Australia to stay a little over two centuries ago, they did not appreciate the complex and consultative governance and legal structures that existed within the Aboriginal communities that they ...
  • Australia: a Continuing Love Affair with the New Public Management 
    Lyons Mark; Dalton Bronwen (Routledge, 2011)
    The purpose of this book is to explore the implications for nonprofit organizations of the transition from New Public Management.(NPM) to more collaborative forms of relational or distributed governance. The case of ...
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Identities 
    Watson Nicole (Cengage Learning Australia, 2011)
    Identity has long been and remains a bitterly contested issue. For the Coloniser, the power to define Aboriginal people facilitated colonisation. Terra nullius had the effect of erasing violent dispossession from the ...