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Sharing Teaching Strategies Online: Encouraging Conversations About Graduate Attributes, Geraldine E. Lefoe, G. Hoban
Sharing Teaching Strategies Online: Encouraging Conversations About Graduate Attributes, Geraldine E. Lefoe, G. Hoban
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Graduate attributes are a key aspect of students’ outcomes during their university career. Although universities acknowledge their importance, there is little support for academics to develop teaching strategies to help students achieve these attributes. This paper presents a web-based resource that links teaching strategies with graduate attributes in a university context. Whilst a number of universities provide support for graduate attributes through policy development, faculty strategic plans and subject outcomes, the actual implementation in the classroom requires an understanding of teaching strategies to develop the student outcomes. The paper also explains the conceptual framework of the website to show how …
Integrating Innovation Into The Mainstream In A Faculty Of Arts: Obstacles And Opportunities, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Rebecca Albury
Integrating Innovation Into The Mainstream In A Faculty Of Arts: Obstacles And Opportunities, Geraldine E. Lefoe, Rebecca Albury
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
For a university in regional Australia, a new degree program on offer to a remote campus and access centres, provided a supportive environment for faculty to trial new teaching and learning methods, specifically making use of learning management system (WebCT) for aspects of communication and content. This paper examines the impact this had on the faculty, in particular at the increased usage of ICT in subjects on offer on campus and examines issues such as workload and curriculum redesign that were identified as problematic by faculty as they embraced innovative methods of teaching and learning.
Wine Clusters Equal Export Success, D. K. Aylward
Wine Clusters Equal Export Success, D. K. Aylward
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The export success of the Australian wine industry continues to gain momentum. As this phenomenon becomes increasingly apparent, more and more studies are focusing on the association between levels of export intensity among firms within a wine cluster as opposed to those in non-cluster environments. The general claim is that clusters provide highly productive environments that encourage greater export awareness among firms, create conditions more conducive to international marketing, provide greater brand awareness and thereby facilitate increased levels of export activity. The author has recently completed a number of studies that, at least in the Australian context, substantiate these claims. …
Working Together: Innovation And Export Links Within Highly Developed And Embryonic Wine Clusters , D. K. Aylward
Working Together: Innovation And Export Links Within Highly Developed And Embryonic Wine Clusters , D. K. Aylward
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper examines innovation and export linkages within two distinct levels of wine cluster development. The aim of the paper, using empirical data from the Australian wine industry, is to demonstrate that the association between innovation and export activity intensifies as the cluster develops. The paper uses selected core indicators of innovation and export activity to explore levels of integration within highly developed and embryonic models (In this context, ‘embryonic’ does not relate to the age of the cluster, but rather, its level of sophistication and development). This integration is examined in the context of Porter’s theory of ‘competitive advantage’, …
Disney Through The Web Looking Glass, Brian Martin, Brian M. Yecies
Disney Through The Web Looking Glass, Brian Martin, Brian M. Yecies
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
For critics of the Disney Corporation, the World Wide Web is a convenient medium for providing information and expressing concern. The majority of anti–Disney Web sites are run by either Christian or labour rights organisations as utilitarian adjuncts to offline campaigns. In contrast are a number of idiosyncratic individual anti–Disney sites that provide links to criticism from a variety of perspectives. The Web appears to facilitate this type of cross–issue critique. On the other hand, some forms of opposition to Disney, such as by employees and corporate competitors, are largely absent from the Web. Assessing challenges to a corporation by …
Plagiarism: Policy Against Cheating Or Policy For Learning?, Brian Martin
Plagiarism: Policy Against Cheating Or Policy For Learning?, Brian Martin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Several Australian universities are proposing to introduce use of plagiarism-detection services, specifically turnitin.com, for checking student essays. Having studied plagiarism issues for over 20 years,[2] I decided to look at educational rationales for using such services, especially (1) deterring and detecting cheating, and (2) fostering learning of proper acknowledgement practice. A wider treatment would also cover implications for workloads, intellectual property and institutional reputation. Plagiarism involves claiming credit for ideas or creations without proper acknowledgement. In an academic context, acknowledgement is typically given in the form of citations or explicit statements of thanks. This is important for several reasons, including …
Quality Management/Change Management: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?, Felicity Mcgregor
Quality Management/Change Management: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?, Felicity Mcgregor
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Change management strategies, as discussed in the literature, commonly share similar approaches and processes. Quality management or business excellence frameworks include many of the elements seen to be essential to effective change management. By adopting a management framework, a holistic approach to organisational change, development and innovation can be achieved. Instead of managing change as a series of events, a system wide approach is adopted. The disparate elements of effective management practice: human resources, industrial relations, customer relationship management, leadership strategies and planning processes are all integrated in a model underpinned by a systems approach and informed by systematic data …
Time Efficient Brand Image Measurement - Is Binary Format Sufficient To Gain The Market Insight Required? , Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun, F. Leisch
Time Efficient Brand Image Measurement - Is Binary Format Sufficient To Gain The Market Insight Required? , Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun, F. Leisch
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Ordinal scales have become the most popular format in questionnaire design for marketing surveys (Van der Eijk, 2001) despite both (1) causing a number of methodological problems (Scharf, 1991; Peterson, 1997; Kampen & Swyngedouw, 2000) and (2) taking longer to answer (Dolnicar, 2003). The duration of the survey is especially critical in brand image surveys, where including one additional brand leads to as many additional questions as there are attributes along which the brands have to be evaluated. This study aims at gaining insight into the consequences of asking respondents to evaluate brand-attribute associations in ordinal of binary format. This …
If You Don’T Need To Know, Don’T Ask! Does Questionnaire Length Dilute The Stability Of Brand Images? , Sara Dolnicar, M. Heindler
If You Don’T Need To Know, Don’T Ask! Does Questionnaire Length Dilute The Stability Of Brand Images? , Sara Dolnicar, M. Heindler
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Brand image measurement is the most fundamental building block of strategic marketing decisions in branded industry. Therefore, brand image studies are both regularly conducted and well researched. Nevertheless the measurement tools used are typically not constructed with the scientific rigour needed to generate the most informative results. The aim of this article is to evaluate the effect of one potential weakness: questionnaire length. It is investigated whether questionnaire length influences (1) the initial response rate of assigning attributes to brands, (2) the repeat rate of doing so, and (3) the empirical generalisation proposed by Dall’Olmo Riley et al. (1997) according …
Analogical Learning Of New Product Benefits: Between-Domain Analogies Versus Within-Domain Analogies., A. Ait El Houssi, K. P. Morel, E. J. Hultink
Analogical Learning Of New Product Benefits: Between-Domain Analogies Versus Within-Domain Analogies., A. Ait El Houssi, K. P. Morel, E. J. Hultink
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The slow rate at which many really new products (RNPs) are adopted can at least partially be explained by the low observability of the distinct benefits. It is suggested that between-domain analogies rather than within-domain analogies are effective in directing consumer’s attention to the key benefits of and developing preferences for a RNP. The results of a laboratory experiment show a significant relationship between ads using between-domain analogies and consumer’s benefit comprehension for one of the two RNPs. The relationship with preferences for the RNP, however, is insignificant. But an increased benefit comprehension positively influences preferences for the RNP. We …
Iraq Attack Backfire, Brian Martin
Iraq Attack Backfire, Brian Martin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
With each death of a US soldier in Iraq and each report about the absence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, it becomes more obvious that the attack of Iraq has backfired on the US administration.
Nativeness, Invasiveness And Nation In Australian Plants, Lesley M. Head, Pat Muir
Nativeness, Invasiveness And Nation In Australian Plants, Lesley M. Head, Pat Muir
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The conceptualization of alien invasive species conflates two axes of variability that have become unhelpfully blurred. The nativeness/alienness axis refers to the presumed belonging of a species in ecological or social space. Invasiveness refers to the behavior of the species in question, particularly in relation to other species. The overlay of nation introduces further variability. Teasing these axes apart is important for more effective environmental management. We examine these concepts using two influential forms of ecological knowledge: the biogeographical and ecological literature and the vernacular experiences of suburban backyarders. Three case studes, the invasive native Pittosporum undulatum and two invasive …
Exposing And Opposing Censorship: Backfire Dynamics In Freedom-Of-Speech Struggles, S. Curry Jansen, Brian Martin
Exposing And Opposing Censorship: Backfire Dynamics In Freedom-Of-Speech Struggles, S. Curry Jansen, Brian Martin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Censorship can backfire because it is usually viewed as a violation of the right to free expression, which is widely valued as an ideal; under the Charter of the United Nations, freedom of expression is a universal human right. Backfire occurs, for example, when censorious attacks on a film or book cultivate increased demand for the forbidden work rather than restrict access to it. Censors can inhibit this backfire effect in various ways, including covering up the censorship, devaluing the target, reinterpreting the action, using official channels, and using intimidation and bribery. These five methods to inhibit backfire from attacks …
Comparison Of Solvent Regimes For The Extraction Of Photosynthetic Pigments From Leaves Of Higher Plants, J. L. Dunn, J. D. Turnbull, Sharon A. Robinson
Comparison Of Solvent Regimes For The Extraction Of Photosynthetic Pigments From Leaves Of Higher Plants, J. L. Dunn, J. D. Turnbull, Sharon A. Robinson
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The relative efficiency of methanol- and acetone-based solvents for the extraction of pigments from photosynthetic tissues of plant was compared, together with the advantages of multiple versus single extractions. The two commonly employed triple acetone extractions (100:80:80% and 85:100:100%) performed comparably for most pigments and for all plant species tested. Single extractions with either 96% methanol or 85% acetone failed to extract the more hydrophobic pigments, especially ?-carotene. We conclude that multiple extractions that combine pure and aqueous (80–85%) acetone are preferable for extraction of the full range of pigments. These results suggest that previous studies that have utilised aqueous …
National Inquiry On Bushfire Mitigation And Management, S. Ellis, P. Kanowski, R. J. Whelan
National Inquiry On Bushfire Mitigation And Management, S. Ellis, P. Kanowski, R. J. Whelan
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Bushfires are an inherent part of the Australian environment. We cannot prevent them, but we can minimise the risks they pose to life, property and infrastructure, production systems, and the environment. Australia has a large and very capable force of volunteer and career firefighters, advanced firefighting technologies, and significant firefighting resources. But the geographical scale of our country, the large and expanding rural–urban interface, and the potential for rapid bushfire development and spread under adverse weather conditions mean that individual Australians cannot rely solely on fire agencies to protect their lives and property from bushfires. Bushfires have a fundamental and …
Trace Gas Emissions From Biomass Burning Inferred From Aerosol Optical Depth, Clare Paton-Walsh, N. B. Jones, Stephen R. Wilson, A. Meier, N. Deutscher, D. W. Griffith, R. Mitchell, S. Campbell
Trace Gas Emissions From Biomass Burning Inferred From Aerosol Optical Depth, Clare Paton-Walsh, N. B. Jones, Stephen R. Wilson, A. Meier, N. Deutscher, D. W. Griffith, R. Mitchell, S. Campbell
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
We have observed strong correlations between simultaneous and co-located measurements of aerosol optical depth and column amounts of carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde and ammonia in bushfire smoke plumes over SE Australia during the Austral summers of 2001/2002 and 2002/2003. We show how satellite-derived aerosol optical depth maps may be used in conjunction with these correlations to determine the total amounts of these gases present in a fire-affected region. This provides the basis of a method for estimating total emissions of trace gases from biomass burning episodes using visible radiances measured by satellite.
Quantifying The Effect Of Gst On Inflation In Australia’S Capital Cities: An Intervention Analysis, Abbas Valadkhani, A. P. Layton
Quantifying The Effect Of Gst On Inflation In Australia’S Capital Cities: An Intervention Analysis, Abbas Valadkhani, A. P. Layton
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper examines the magnitude and duration of the GST effect on inflation in Australia’s eight capital cities using the Box and Tiao intervention analysis and quarterly data spanning from 1948:4 to 2003:1. We found that GST had a significant but transitory impact on inflation only in the September quarter of 2000 when this new tax system was implemented. In this quarter inflation showed an additional increase of 2.6 per cent in Sydney (minimum effect) and 2.8 per cent in Australia as a whole, the same figure for Hobart was 3.3 per cent (maximum effect). Based on the Wald test …
Does The Term Structure Predict Australia’S Future Output Growth?, Abbas Valadkhani
Does The Term Structure Predict Australia’S Future Output Growth?, Abbas Valadkhani
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper examines whether the term structure of interest rates provides predictive power for real output growth using quarterly time series data from 1980:1 to 2002:2. The empirical results are consistent with previous studies undertaken for France, Germany and the UK as well as earlier Australian works. It is found that a 10 per cent increase in the interest rate spread between the 10-year Treasury bond and the 90-day bank bill results in approximately 4 per cent rise in GDP growth over the succeeding seven-nine quarters. This result is robust to the inclusion of two other relevant predictors in the …
An Empirical Analysis Of The Black Market Exchange Rate In Iran, Abbas Valadkhani
An Empirical Analysis Of The Black Market Exchange Rate In Iran, Abbas Valadkhani
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The Iranian rial has been depreciated on average about 13 per cent per annum against the U.S dollar during the last four decades. This paper examines the long- and short-run determinants of the black market exchange rate employing the cointegration techniques and the annual time series data from 1960 to 2002. Consistent with previous studies and the monetary approach to the exchange-rate determination, it is found that the black market exchange rate is cointegrated with the relative consumer price indices in Iran and the U.S., real GDP and the relative import prices. However, in the short run only the rising …
What Determine Private Investment In Iran?, Abbas Valadkhani
What Determine Private Investment In Iran?, Abbas Valadkhani
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Iran’s Third Five-Year Development (2000/01-2004/05) has considered a pivotal role for private investment in creating seven to eight hundred thousand jobs per annum to stabilise the rate of unemployment. This paper examines the long- and short-run determinants of the private investment function by employing the Johansen multivariate cointegration technique and a short-run dynamic model. Using annual data for the period 1960-2000, this paper finds, inter alia, that private investment is cointegrated with non-oil GDP, and the rate of inflation. It is found that a one per cent increase in inflation in the long-run can immediately result in a one per …
An Example Of The Use Of Financial Ratio Analysis: The Case Of Motorola, H. W. Collier, T. Grai, S. Haslitt, C. B. Mcgowan
An Example Of The Use Of Financial Ratio Analysis: The Case Of Motorola, H. W. Collier, T. Grai, S. Haslitt, C. B. Mcgowan
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
In this paper, we demonstrate the use of actual financial data for financial ratio analysis. We construct a financial and industry analysis for Motorola Corporation. The objective is to show students exactly how to compute ratios for an actual company. This paper demonstrates the difficulties in applying the principles of financial ratio analysis when the data are not homogeneous as is the case in textbook examples. We use Motorola as an example because the firm has several segments, two of which account for the majority of sales and represent two industries (semi-conductor and communications) that have different characteristics. The case …
From The Stage To The Clinic: Changing Transgender Identities In Post-War Japan, Mark J. Mclelland
From The Stage To The Clinic: Changing Transgender Identities In Post-War Japan, Mark J. Mclelland
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper looks at the transformation of male-to-female transgender identities in Japan since the Second World War. The development of print media aimed at a transgender readership is outlined as is the development of bars, clubs and sex venues where transgendered men sought both partners and commercial opportunities. The origin of various transgender 'folk categories' such as okama, gei bōi, burūbōi and nyūhāfu is discussed and their dependence upon and relationship to the entertainment world is outlined. Finally, the paper looks at how the resumption of sex-change operations in Japan in 1998 has led to a new public discourse about …
The Road Of Trials: Management Concepts In Documentary Film Production In Australia, M. L. Jones, Christina Kirsch
The Road Of Trials: Management Concepts In Documentary Film Production In Australia, M. L. Jones, Christina Kirsch
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
New technologies affecting work and organizational design, unclear work functions and roles, communication problems, cross-cultural management problems, lack of knowledge transfer and industrial disputes - the catalogue of problems that affect the Australian film Industry (AFI) in general reads like a curriculum in the management discipline. Management and organizational studies have obviously neglected the film production industry and only few established management research programs tackle the film industry (Blair 2000, Cunningham 2002, Starkey, Barnatt & Tempest 2000). This project investigates projects in the AFI from a management perspective, with the objective to develop a theoretical framework and evaluate various management …
History Of Macroeconometric Modelling: Lessons From Past Experience, Abbas Valadkhani
History Of Macroeconometric Modelling: Lessons From Past Experience, Abbas Valadkhani
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper reviews briefly the general literature on macroeconometric modelling and highlights some important lessons from more than half a century of model-building. It appears that from the late 1940s to the 1960s this field has contributed to the expanding knowledge of both economists and econometricians. However, from the early 1970s, several issues invalidated macroeconometric models. These issues are: theoretical contrasts with rational expectations theory, structural instability, the arbitrary division of endo-exogenous variables of the model, the existence of the problem of unit roots (spurious regressions) and insufficient amount of econometric "know-how". It is argued that with advancement of econometric …
Dissent And Heresy In Medicine: Models, Methods, And Strategies, Brian Martin
Dissent And Heresy In Medicine: Models, Methods, And Strategies, Brian Martin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Understanding the dynamics of dissent and heresy in medicine can be aided by use of suitable frameworks. The dynamics of the search for truth vary considerably depending on whether the search is competitive or cooperative and on whether truth is assumed to be unitary or plural. Insights about dissent and heresy in medicine can be gained by making comparisons to politics and religion. To explain adherence to either orthodoxy or a challenging view, partisans use a standard set of explanations; social scientists use these plus others, especially symmetrical analyses. There is a wide array of methods by which orthodoxy maintains …
Food Fears: A National Survey On The Attitudes Of Australian Adults About The Safety And Quality Of Food, P. G. Williams, E. Stirling, N. Keynes
Food Fears: A National Survey On The Attitudes Of Australian Adults About The Safety And Quality Of Food, P. G. Williams, E. Stirling, N. Keynes
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
A national telephone survey of a representative sample of 1200 Australian adults was conducted in March 2002 in order to identify the factors of greatest concern to consumers in relation to the safety and quality of food, to measure recent trends in views about hazards in the food supply, to explore beliefs about the safety of additives and to discover whether consumers use food labels to check for ingredients of concern. Forty five percent of Australians responded that they were more concerned about the safety and quality of food than they were five years previously, while only 5% were less …
Accelerating New Product Development: The Experience Of Concurrent Engineering In Australia, Paul Couchman
Accelerating New Product Development: The Experience Of Concurrent Engineering In Australia, Paul Couchman
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Concurrent engineering (CE) is a distinctive approach to the organisation and management of new product development (NPD) which seeks to achieve cross-functional integration, product life cycle design integration and high levels of project task concurrence in order to reduce development lead times. To address the limited research to date on CE in the Asia-Pacific region, the paper presents findings from a survey of Australian manufacturers (n = 150) and from five in-depth case studies on the application of CE in Australia. The survey found that just over one-half (54%) of the companies surveyed used CE to some extent and that, …
Online Information Values For Recreational Travellers: A Review Of Online Sources In Decision Making For An Unfamiliar Long Haul Destination, Robert Grant
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Acquisition or purchase of travel arrangements involves an exchange of information which is theoretically suited for transfer from offline to online interaction. The ability to digitise material and ease access through searchability based on metatags (Reedy and Schullo, 2004, p 276) make the internet a potentially ideal medium for information gathering and exchange. This paper reviews the value of information sources for consumer decision making for a high involvement experience product with multiple and variable components and points to further research which help our understanding of the value of electronic networks.
Does Confidence Moderate Or Predict Brand Attitude And Purchase Intention?, Lars Bergkvist
Does Confidence Moderate Or Predict Brand Attitude And Purchase Intention?, Lars Bergkvist
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper reports results from a study in which the role of consumer confidence in brand evaluations was investigated. Data from a survey of Internet shoppers showed that confidence is a direct predictor, not a moderator, of purchase intention. This result is contrary to expectations from social psychology but in line with earlier research in marketing. However, confidence does moderate the relationship between brand beliefs and brand attitude.
Innovation Heterogeneity And Schumpeterian Growth Models, Eduardo Pol, P. Carroll
Innovation Heterogeneity And Schumpeterian Growth Models, Eduardo Pol, P. Carroll
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Innovation heterogeneity refers to two empirical facts: economic sectors vary according to sources and rates of innovation, and innovations vary in terms of the magnitude of their economic impact. The central focus of this paper is the problem of scale effects in the Schumpeterian growth models. Although these models make endogenous the production of innovations, they assume not only an oversimplified pattern of sectoral innovation but also that major innovations are virtually indistinguishable from minor innovations. The main claim of the a er is that without a theoretical framework revolving around both the existence of realistic sectoral patterns of innovation …