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Financial And Social Well-Being Performance After Privatisation Of The Port Of Brisbane: A Case Study, Mudiyanselage Upali Ranjith Jayasundara, Greg Jones, John Sands
Financial And Social Well-Being Performance After Privatisation Of The Port Of Brisbane: A Case Study, Mudiyanselage Upali Ranjith Jayasundara, Greg Jones, John Sands
Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal
Available literature has failed to provided a satisfactory expalination to the contradiction between ‘the theory of the firm’ and ‘stakeholder theory’ predictions related to financial and socialwellbeing performance of public versus private firms. Limited literature has evaluated the financial and social-wellbeing performance of privatised ports in Australia. This study investigates the potential impact of the privatisation of the Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC) to the Port of Brisbane Proprietary Limited (PBPL) on its financial and social-wellbeing performance. Mixed methods research is employed following the theory of the firm, investigating the relationship between the change of ownership and financial and social-wellbeing …
Determinants Of Pro-Environmental Behaviours – A Cross Country Study Of Would-Be Managers, Asit Bhattacharyya, Kumar Biswas, Abdul Moyeen
Determinants Of Pro-Environmental Behaviours – A Cross Country Study Of Would-Be Managers, Asit Bhattacharyya, Kumar Biswas, Abdul Moyeen
Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal
Purpose: This cross-cultural based paper aims to provide an understanding of the determinants contributing to adopting pro-environmental behaviour by ‘would-be managers’ represented by MBA students studying in two highly carbon emitting yet contrasting countries – India and Australia. The paper particularly examines the effects of personal values, moral obligation, attitudes, and subjective norms on pro-environmental behavior of such would-be managers. Design/methodology/approach: In predicting the pro-environmental behavior of would-be managers, a conceptual model was developed by combining Schwartz’s (1992) value theory and Homer and Kahle’s cognitive hierarchy model of value-attitude-behaviour (VAB). Data was collected from 476 respondents consisting of 342 MBA …