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Areas of Research

Accounting
Information Systems
Management
Marketing / International Business
Tourism

Accounting

  • Accounting for investments
  • Accounting for joint ventures
  • Aspects of commercial law
  • Conflict management
  • Corporate equity, debt and profitability
  • Corporate governance
  • Economics of technological change
  • Economics, finance and accounting issues
  • Ethics and cultures in auditing
  • Evaluation of student teaching methods
  • Financial accounting
  • Financial sector instruments
  • Information systems
  • International accounting
  • Labour economics and industrial relations
  • Legal frameworks for management practice
  • Legal issues and accounting
  • Management education
  • Mediation / alternative dispute resolution
  • Small business & regional issues
  • Strategy
  • Student attrition
  • Superannuation reform
  • Taxation
  • The impact of technology on retail banking
  • The sport-media nexus and the internationalisation of sport
  • University teaching and learning
  • Viability of segmentation in financial services

Information Systems

  • Adoption and diffusion of e-commerce technologies
  • Adoption and diffusion of innovative information technologies and systems by SMEs
  • Automated assessment
  • Business value of information technology
  • Change management
  • Electronic business
  • Electronic commerce and the digital economy
  • End-user computing training and support
  • Information Systems (IS) management especially with regard to information system planning and strategy formulation, and effectiveness measures
  • Knowledge discovery in databases
  • Knowledge management
  • Mobile data technologies and adoption by SMEs
  • Modern heuristic techniques
  • Sustainability of competitive advantage
  • Visual programming

Management

  • Australian higher education history
  • Corporate entrepreneurship
  • Cultural change
  • Employment equity
  • Environmental management systems
  • Higher education management
  • Innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Leadership
  • Organisational and professional commitment
  • Organisational behaviour (organisational culture, organisational climate, and organisational socialisation) and work-related values / value congruence
  • Organisational conflict
  • Organisational development
  • Organisational learning
  • Performance measures
  • Regional development
  • Small business management
  • Social and environmental accounting
  • Strategic management
  • Strategy
  • Team dynamics
  • Total quality management
  • Work stress and emotions

Marketing / International Business

  • Advertising regulation
  • Advertising self-regulation in Australia, overseas, and across boundaries
  • Business networks
  • Company turnarounds - reviving sick firms
  • Consumer behaviour
  • E-business / e-marketing
  • Foreign market participation with a focus on Hong Kong
  • History of economic thought
  • International education
  • International marketing and purchasing
  • Islamic economics and finance
  • Marketing communications
  • Marketing education
  • Marketing higher education in Australia
  • Marketing of new technology to small and medium-sized enterprises
  • Marketing orientation and growing business
  • Marketing research methods
  • Realist research philosophy and qualitative methods
  • Relationship marketing
  • Sales force management
  • Services marketing
  • Social marketing issues
  • Strategic management
  • Student attrition
  • The first year university experience
  • The quality of business to business relationships

Tourism

  • Coastal tourism
  • Community tourism development
  • Ecotourism management
  • Education needs in tourism
  • Olympics, sport and tourism
  • Physical self-concept
  • Small business tourism
  • Sociocultural impacts of tourism
  • Special interest tourism and marketing
  • Sport psychology
  • Sport, festival and event marketing and management
  • Sustainable tourism
  • Technology and tourism
  • Tourism decision making
  • Tourism policy and planning
  • Water-based tourism and recreation