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The Influence Of Emotions And Social Value Orientation On Risk Tolerance And Sustainable Investment Choices, Surbhi Verma, Ashu Khanna

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

Purpose - The intricacy of the decision-making process has increased due to the inherent uncertainty surrounding investments. Therefore, the study aims to investigate the impact of individuals' Social Value Orientation (SVO), Emotional Instability (EI), and demographic factors on their Financial Risk Tolerance (FRT) levels. Additionally, it aims to investigate whether SVO and EI influence the adoption of socially responsible investment (SRI) funds and the diverse investment choices made by individuals.

Methodology - A convenient sampling technique was employed to gather data from 355 Indian retail investors through a structured questionnaire. Subsequently, the collected data was then examined and interpreted using …

Biases In Capital Market Instrument Investing Decisions: A Study From India, Sakshi Agarwal, Saurabh Singh

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

This study examines the influence of different behavioral biases on the investment choices made by individual investors in the Indian capital market. The study utilizes a cross-sectional design, which entails gathering a substantial amount of data at a specific point in time. The study employed a survey methodology to collect data from a sample of 497 individual investors using purposive and snowball sampling. The data was collected using structural equation modeling (SEM), utilizing SPSS version 25 and AMOS version 26 as statistical software. This study characterizes individual investors as displaying irrational conduct. The study reveals a significant and positive association …

For The Love Of: Book Review Of Radiophilia By Carolyn Birdsall, Lucia Vodanovic

RadioDoc Review

Radiophilia, the new book in The Study of Sound Series, discusses radio in the context of recent literature about affects and emotions. Informed by various traditions within media and cultural studies, and guided by the work of Lauren Berlant and Arjun Appudarai, it approaches ‘radiophilia’ -love for, or strong attachment to, radio—as a wide-reaching concept that includes groups practices and social moods and that can be practised in public spaces and communities, beyond interior and domestic set-ups.

The Amplify Manifesto: Rewind, Replay, Reflect, Stacey Copeland, Hannah Mcgregor, Natalie Dusek

RadioDoc Review

We are the Amplify Podcast Network, a research project working to develop sustainable models for producing, peer-reviewing, and publishing scholarly podcasts. The Amplify Manifesto aims to capture the spirit of our network: playful, experimental, and multi-voiced. As a radically political written form, the manifesto provides a creative ground to communicate a set of ideals, goals, and intentions with purpose. In revisiting the manifesto for Radio Doc Review, we unpack the construction of the manifesto as sound-first multimodal scholarship.

Review - The Long Game: Aliya Soomro's Boxing Journey, Syeda Sana Batool

RadioDoc Review

The Long Game: Aliya Soomro's Boxing Journey" is a poignant and uplifting radio documentary that goes beyond the typical sports narrative. It offers an in-depth analysis of gender norms, societal obstacles, and human resilience, emphasizing the power of podcasting to promote distinct and marginalized voices.

A Responsible Parrhesia? A Review Of The Price Of Secrecy, Sara Tafakori

RadioDoc Review

The Price of Secrecy immerses the listener in stories of individual trauma, of child abuse and rape, yet also draws lessons from them of wider social significance. It includes moments of narrative catharsis, interspersed with repeated reminders that the stories are unfinished and open-ended—that the solutions lie out there, in social action, rather than in the stories themselves. The series also gestures towards structural critique, especially of ‘the legal constraints’ it identifies, yet it places greater importance on changing the wider culture through challenging the culture of secrecy and shame around victims’ stories of rape and abuse. This centrally means …

The Feminist Community Of Podcast Producers In Brazil: Mapping The Profile Of Women, Aline Hack

RadioDoc Review

This paper goes beyond celebrating podcast growth in Brazil, analyzing 511 Brazilian podcast producers (2015-2020). Using a semi-structured form, the survey focuses on outlining the profile of female producers. Drawing from gender, cultural, and political science literature, it explores how producer presence aligns with intersectional practices in Brazilian feminisms. Results indicate that women podcast producers in Brazil mostly have a college degree, variable income and identify as feminist, contributing to a unified community that engages with and challenges the political and human rights agenda, expanding discourse through communication access.

Listening To News, A New Interaction Ritual: An Emotional Interaction Analysis Of Jump Into The Rabbit Hole, Yang Ding

RadioDoc Review

Objectivity and neutrality have always been the reporting principles followed by journalists. The emergence of audio news presents reality in an invisible way, blurring the boundary between emotion and truth. Jump into the Rabbit Hole[1], as one of the few in-depth news podcasts in China, brings immersive stories to the audience with immersive production. These stories help the audience better understand the truth of the news and also cultivate the habit of listening to the news. This paper examines how interaction rituals in news podcasts are carried out using the benefits of podcast platforms in the context of …

Some More Notes On Notes On A Scandal: Lessons From Producing Pakistan’S First True Crime Podcast, Tooba Masood Khan

RadioDoc Review

If a country’s podcast scene could be described as a vibe, Pakistan’s would be “dude bro”; that is, politically and culturally right-leaning masculinist narrative. The format is simple: like The Joe Rogan Experience which has over 15 million subscribers and over three billion views in Pakistan, there’s a host and a guest. In addition to Rogan, other popular pods are The Pakistan Experience, Pakistonomy, Thought Behind Things, Talks that Matter, Mooroo, The Pivot, Junaid Akram’s Podcast. The conversations usually revolve around the guest’s life, their political views, the economy – whether Pakistan will default or not, will …

Podcasting-As-Care, An Exercise In Diasporic Digital Media Activism, Zoha Zokaei

RadioDoc Review

This article draws on my experience of engaging in diasporic digital media activism on the issue of child sexual abuse in Iran, which culminated in the production of the Price of Secrecy podcast. I introduce the method of Podcasting-as-Care as a method of activism that brings notions of feminist care, activism and listening in a close conversation framed through podcasting. Without resorting to a top-down vision of activism where a notion of listening, i.e. how the victims should be listened to, is prescribed and exemplified, the Price of Secrecy podcast becomes an experience of listening to how victims are failed …

Introduction: Audio Storytelling And The Global South, Aasiya Lodhi, Abigail Wincott

RadioDoc Review

The Editors introduce this special tenth anniversary issue of RadioDoc Review, dedicated to listening to the Global South.

The Effects Of Management Control Systems And Leadership Style On Company Performance, Fauziah Aida Fitri, Muhammad Syukur, Dian Faradiba

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

A management control system (MCS) is one of the tools used to evaluate performance at different organisational levels. This study employs the Levers of Control (LoC) dimension introduced by Simons in 1995, consisting of the belief system, boundary system, diagnostic control system, and interactive control system. Besides, leadership styles (transformational style and transactional style) are also believed to influence company performance. This study aims to investigate the role of MCS and leadership styles on company performance. The result finds that MCS and leadership styles have a significant positive impact on company performance. The findings also suggest that the transactional leadership …

Post Pandemic Business Sustainability Performance On Indonesian Stock Exchange Listed Companies, M. Mulyono

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

This study aims to examine the effect of the pandemic on the performance of business sustainability implementation related to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Government) in companies listed on ESG-based stock indices on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. ESG-based stock indices are the SRI-KEHATI index, ESG Leaders index, ESG Sector Leader index, ESG Quality 45 index, and IDX LQ45 Low Carbon Leaders Index. ESG score data is obtained from the S&P Global website. There are 31 companies that are listed on the ESG-based index with available ESG score data. The data analysis used in this study is the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test and …

Contractors' Perception Of Success Factors For Implementing Public Road Construction Projects, Noah Mwelu, Susan Watundu, Musa Bukoma Moya

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

The Construction industry faces challenges and is increasingly failing to meet organizational objectives. This is evidenced by unsuccessful project implementation. Project failure oscillates between cost and schedule overruns and low-quality work, with construction organizations continuously failing to meet targets and losing significant funds annually. The public road construction subsector, which is currently in the spotlight for procurement irregularities, is equally challenged by the failures. Reports show that public road construction projects are not completed on time and within estimated budgets because of shoddy work and contract variations that negatively affect the government's goal attainment. This has resulted in several administrative …

Antecedents And Consequences Of Earnings Management: A Systematic Review Of The Banking Sector In Developed And Developing Countries, Sarit Biswas, Mousumi Bhattacharya, Deepak Kumar

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

The accuracy and utility of financial information are critical, but the prevalent issue of earnings management (EM) casts a shade on this goal. With a growing corpus of EM literature, a comprehensive review is essential for distilling insights and guiding future research. The paper systematically reviews 182 EM studies through the distinctive lens of developing and developed country banking institutions. With an emphasis on accrual-EM, the current study thoroughly examines and synthesizes the antecedents and consequences of bank EM. Notably, certain themes (such as corporate governance, international financial reporting standards, ownership structure and liquidity) emerge as universally relevant, bridging the …

The Effect Of Workload, Level Of Audit Fees And Audit Risk On Audit Quality: An Empirical Study Of A Public Accounting Office In East Java-Indonesia, Lely Kumalawati, Made Sudarma, Aulia Fuad Rahman, Syaiful Iqbal

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

This study explores the variables of workload, level of audit fees and audit risk on audit quality by testing the three research hypotheses using SPSS with multiple linear regression methods. The study was conducted at a Public Accounting Firm in East Java, Indonesia, with a population of 48 officially registered auditors. A questionnaire instrument was used to collect research data, containing questions/statements related to research variables tested for validity and reliability. The collected data were analyzed using multiple linear regression methods. The research results show that workload variables, audit fees, and risk levels significantly positively affect audit quality. The main …

Insights Into Professional Learning For Intensive Block Model: Lessons From A Participatory Evaluation For Capacity Building, Gayani Samarawickrema, Kaye Cleary, Sally Gauci

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

We share lessons gained through supporting an institution-wide curriculum innovation via a post-graduate professional learning program. At the inception of the innovation, an intensive Block Model (BM) was unfamiliar to both the institution and its professional learning facilitators. The Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Education was re-modelled with BM as the heart of professional learning so academics would encounter BM as students. The program modelled BM principles, reinforced by meta-conversations to provide students with a reflective, immersive experience. Through a participatory evaluation, professional learning facilitators’ individual reflections were distilled to generate collaborative insights into academics’ capacity building for BM. Their lessons …

Belonging In Remote Higher Education Classrooms: The Dynamic Interaction Of Intensive Modes Of Learning And Arts-Based Pedagogies, Shiona L. Long, Mary-Rose Mclaren

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

In this paper, the authors explore the conditions that support belonging in remote VU Block Model^® teaching. They examine the role of arts-based, embodied pedagogy in promoting engagement in learning, connection between students, and between students and teachers, and in an environment in which vulnerability and risk-taking in learning is valued. A discussion of belonging in higher education and the practice of embodied learning is followed by the reflections of seven participants. These participants were students in a remotely taught, arts-based higher education block unit, which had been mindfully adapted to retain the embodied nature of delivery during the …

Air Therapy Workbook, Brin F. S Grenyer, Emily Matthews, Sam Reis, Ely M. Marceau, Amanda Gigliotti, Michelle L. Townsend, Sarah Stevenson

University of Wollongong research publications

The Air Therapy manual and workbook are designed to assist mental health clinicians to work effectively with young people in both an online and/or an in-person setting.

How Professionals Work And Learn In Digitalised Work Contexts: Insights From An Australian Survey Of Education Professionals, Shirley Agostinho, Lori Lockyer, Kellie Buckley-Walker, Sarojni Choy, Sue Bennett, Allison Littlejohn, Claire Rogerson

Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities - Papers

How professionals work and learn in digitalised work contexts The Australian Research Council Discovery project titled: “Investigating Professional Learning Lives in the digital evolution of work” (DP210100164) investigated how Education and Health professionals in Australia learn as they work in increasingly digitalised work contexts through a survey.

The survey was sent to members of 11 Education and 10 Health Australian professional associations.

The survey ran from August to November 2022.

This report presents the findings of Education professionals’ responses to this survey (299 responses).

Top Management Characteristics, Performance Measurement Systems Design And Strategic Change Of Reformed Public Hospitals In Indonesia, Made Aristia Prayudi, Nurkholis Nurkholis, Erwin Saraswati, Mohamad Khoiru Rusydi

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

This study examined the impact of top management characteristics on strategic change in public hospitals in Indonesia, focusing on the mediating role of performance measurement system (PMS) design. Questionnaires were distributed to 157 top managers from Indonesian regional public hospitals undergoing reform. The findings indicate that younger, short-tenured top managers with business administration backgrounds are likelier to lead the strategic change, specifically the shift from a defender to a prospector strategy. Additionally, PMS design partially mediates the relationship between top managers' age, educational background, and strategic change. However, no significant mediation effect of PMS design was observed in the relationship …

‘Self-Sustainability’ And ‘Performance’ In Microfinance – The Contextual Relevance Of The Terms, Ashfaq Khan

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

The microfinance sector’s Paradigm Shift (PS) of the 1990s caused a drastic shift in how Microfinance Organizations (MFOs) ensured their long-term survival and sustainability. The PS required MFOs to adopt a commercial approach in all their operations and pursue profitability and self-sustainability rather than depending on the provision of subsidized funds. Resorting to Schatzki’s (2002) ‘site of the social’ theoretical construct and DiMaggio and Powell’s (1983) institutional theory, this empirical paper aims to evaluate the real performance of Pakistan’s microfinance sector, following the PS, in terms of its strict adherence to its founding objectives of eradicating poverty and serving the …

Introduction: Animal Cultures, Laura Jean Mckay, Alexandra Mcewan, Clare Archer-Lean

Animal Studies Journal

Creative writing, transdisciplinary literary animal studies, and law-anthropology don’t often appear in the same sentence, but this interdisciplinary mingling is where we as editors meet in animal studies. We were particularly enthused by discussions that emerged during the Australasian Animal Studies Conference, held at the University of Sydney in November 2023, providing a rich source from which to consider the conference theme: ‘Animal Cultures’. Keynote speaker, Carol Gigliotti, wondered about the animal cultural research ideas that can be taken with us to ‘make lives better for animals, both wild and captive'.

Mateship With Animals: Writing Nonhuman Animals As Channels For Substitution And Expression, Carrie Tiffany

Animal Studies Journal

This paper reflects on my childhood fixation with nonhuman animals and considers my father’s relationship with the family dog as an example of a retreat to a traumatic wound. In my later work as a park ranger, I was confronted by the conditions by which certain nonhuman animals were categorised as those to be culled, or to be cared for. These memories, together with inspiration from Freud’s case studies, informed the writing of my second novel, Mateship with Birds. This novel is interested in what nonhuman animals might represent and where the divisions between nonhuman animal and human experience begin …

Birds Beyond Words: Fantastic Animals And Other Flights Of Imagination, Pattrice Jones

Animal Studies Journal

In ‘Nature in the Active Voice’, Val Plumwood called for a ‘thorough rethink’ of the logic of domination that has authorized both colonialism and the exploitation of animals (113). But this mandate creates a conundrum: that logic elevates mind over matter and cognition over emotion. If Audre Lorde was right that ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house’ (110), then we are unlikely to succeed in undermining that logic by rethinking it. We need practices that will expose the tedious nonsensicality of human supremacy while simultaneously awakening our capacities for empathy, imagination, and full-bodied ecological reasoning. Plumwood noted …

All The Animals: Short Fiction About Multispecies Families, Becky Tipper

Animal Studies Journal

The five-part short story ‘All the Animals’ imagines an array of animals who feature in the life of a fictional human family over many years. The story is inspired by qualitative research into human-animal relationships in families with children in Lisbon, Portugal. ‘All the Animals’ aims to offer a fictional ‘thick description’ of multispecies families in a particular time and place, but also to provide a reflection on the role of storytelling in human-animal entanglements.

[Review] Elizabeth Ellis, Australian Animal Law: Context And Critique. Sydney University Press, 2022. 390pp. Isbn 978-1743328514, A. P. A. Best

Animal Studies Journal

[Review] Elizabeth Ellis, Australian Animal Law: Context and Critique. Sydney University Press, 2022. 390pp. ISBN 978-1743328514.

[Review] Susan Nance And Jennifer Marks, Editors. Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, And Us Environments In Crisis. Seattle: University Of Washington Press. 242 Pp. Isbn 9780295751429, Wendy Woodward

Animal Studies Journal

163 [Review] Susan Nance and Jennifer Marks, editors. Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 242 pp. ISBN 9780295751429.

Language Maintenance And Bilingualism In The Indian Migrant Community In Australia, Ragni Ranjini Prasad

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

This study is a sociolinguistic investigation into the maintenance of heritage languages in Indian migrants residing in Sydney, Australia. Underpinned by Fishman’s (1972) Sociology of language theory and partly by Spolsky’s (2004) Language policy theory, it investigates the patterns of language use across and between the first and second- generation Indian migrants in a variety of situations and with various family members and other interlocutors. It focuses on both home and public domains. It also investigates the factors that influence the maintenance of Indian heritage languages in the Australian context. As far as we are aware, there are very few …

Straddling Two Worlds: How Linguistic Backgrounds And Sociocultural Norms Influence The Experiences Of Saudi Female Expats In Australia, Lamia Alhassoun

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

This study constructs a collective story of Saudi female expats (SFEs) as they navigate the transition from their conservative society in Saudi Arabia to a new one in Australia. It examines the impact of the SFE’s Arabic background and their English learning experiences in Australia on their lives and explores SFEs perceptions of their self-representation in the social and educational milieu in Australia. Additionally, it sheds light on the intricate relationships between language, culture, gender and self-representation.

The study employs a demographic questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with twenty-two SFEs in Australia. The study adopts lenses from social identity theory (Erikson …