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Rivers And Puddles: Metaphors For Explaining The Need For Continuous Change And Development In Modern Organisations, Ann M. Rogerson
Rivers And Puddles: Metaphors For Explaining The Need For Continuous Change And Development In Modern Organisations, Ann M. Rogerson
Sydney Business School - Papers
Metaphors are popular with academics and researchers to explain organisational phenomena including change, but these metaphors may not be as useful when explaining the need for continuous change to employees. This paper proposes the use of rivers and puddles as metaphors for leaders, managers and organisations to use to explain the shift required in accepting day to day change as the norm rather than a process. These relatable metaphors provide an approach to differentiating between process and adaptive change and how to explain this in terms that having meaning to individual employees and organisations.
The Aging Workforce: How Can Australian Universities Address Future Workforce Challenges?, Susan Loomes, Grace Mccarthy
The Aging Workforce: How Can Australian Universities Address Future Workforce Challenges?, Susan Loomes, Grace Mccarthy
Sydney Business School - Papers
Australia is facing major demographic challenges fueled by low workforce participation rates and the exit of the baby boomers from the workforce. Universities are likely to face the same workforce challenges. However, they may be in a better position than mainstream businesses due to the skills required, the flexibility of hours, and the nature and casualization of the workforce. This opens the door to attract retiring business professionals and aiding them to transition into academic teaching roles. For this non-traditional recruitment pathway to succeed, universities will need to ensure they have appropriate education and training pathways, mentoring along with peer …
Corporate Governance In Sri Lanka: The Status Quo, Walter Gunathilake, Anura De Zoysa, Palli Mulla K. A. Chandrakumara
Corporate Governance In Sri Lanka: The Status Quo, Walter Gunathilake, Anura De Zoysa, Palli Mulla K. A. Chandrakumara
Sydney Business School - Papers
This paper examines the existing corporate governance environment, practices, and institutional framework in Sri Lanka and evaluates their effectiveness to identify current issues and challenges. Sri Lanka is an emerging and rapidly growing market economy in South Asia with a liberalised economic and trade policies associated with FDI, international trade, and export-led development policies. Sri Lanka's corporate governance (CG) systems and practices have been largely influenced by both colonial economic policies and post-independence govt policies. Its CG practices consists of promoting dispersed ownerships, increasing size of a board and decreasing directorship per director, greater involvement of internationally recognized few audit …
Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Using The Sri Lankan Tea Industry As A Pilot Study, Pradeepa Jayaratne, Lee Styger, Nelson Perera
Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Using The Sri Lankan Tea Industry As A Pilot Study, Pradeepa Jayaratne, Lee Styger, Nelson Perera
Sydney Business School - Papers
Genuine sustainable supply chain management is now critical to achieve competitive advantage. Risk, uncertainty, strategy, innovation, relationship, infrastructure, regulation and technology are typically historically important areas that have a strong impact on sustainable SCM. These factors have been studied within manufacturing sector in developed countries; there is a lack of research on agri-supply chain in developing countries with respect to the concept of sustainable SCM. Therefore, this research tries to map the tea supply chain and identify the influencing factors and their performance on sustainable SCM in the tea supply chain in Sri Lanka. Importantly, early research suggests that mapping …
A Literature Analysis On Business Performance For Smes - Subjective Or Objective Measures?, Siti Nur 'Atikah Zulkiffli, Nelson Perera
A Literature Analysis On Business Performance For Smes - Subjective Or Objective Measures?, Siti Nur 'Atikah Zulkiffli, Nelson Perera
Sydney Business School - Papers
The study examines the basic research methodologies and approaches for assessing business performance. It provides a critical literature analysis on how perception-based evaluation can be used to evaluate performance, specifically for SMEs. The analysis of the literature covers articles from major journals related to the topic. The methodology followed during the conduct of this paper involves starting with the broad case of articles in general business performance measurement, then focusing on the indicators used to study SMEs. Next, the review screens the list, focusing on the differences between subjective and objective measures. The validity issue related to subjective measures is …
Modelling Corporate Competitive Capabilities For Smes In The Malaysian Manufacturing Sector: An Exploratory Study, Siti Nur 'Atikah Zulkiffli, Nelson Perera
Modelling Corporate Competitive Capabilities For Smes In The Malaysian Manufacturing Sector: An Exploratory Study, Siti Nur 'Atikah Zulkiffli, Nelson Perera
Sydney Business School - Papers
This study empirically tests the relationship between the four factors of corporate competitive capabilities (CCC) (cost leadership, differentiation, innovative marketing and customer service) and business performance. The study specifically emphasises small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. The study’s quantitative approach is based on the responses of 135 Malaysian manufacturing SMEs responded to a postal questionnaire. Empirical results from structural equation modelling (SEM) demonstrate an insignificant relationship between CCC and business performance.
The Influence Of Levels Of Supply Chain Integration On The Relationship Between Corporate Competitive Capabilities And Business Performance: Evidence From Malaysian Smes, Siti Nur 'Atikah Zulkiffli, Nelson Perera
The Influence Of Levels Of Supply Chain Integration On The Relationship Between Corporate Competitive Capabilities And Business Performance: Evidence From Malaysian Smes, Siti Nur 'Atikah Zulkiffli, Nelson Perera
Sydney Business School - Papers
This study aims to empirically investigate the influence of levels of supply chain integration (SCI) as a moderating variable on the relationship between corporate competitive capabilities (CCC) and business performance. Data was collected from a postal questionnaire from 135 Malaysian manufacturing SMEs. The data was tested using confirmatory factor analysis, cluster analysis and multi-group SEM analysis. The findings confirm that the levels of SCI in a given firm moderate the relationship between CCC and business performance for that firm. The study also contributes to the body of knowledge by expanding the understanding of levels of SCI as a moderator.
Influential Organisational Capabilities For Smes’ Export Performance: An Exploratory Study, Majidah Hassan, Grace Mccarthy
Influential Organisational Capabilities For Smes’ Export Performance: An Exploratory Study, Majidah Hassan, Grace Mccarthy
Sydney Business School - Papers
Organisational capabilities that influence the export performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been identified and discussed in previous studies which mostly have used SMEs in developed countries as their research sample. Thus, the empirical evidence from developing countries is still lacking. This exploratory study employs a resource-based view (RBV) perspective to understand how a set of organisational capabilities can influence the export performance of SMEs in Malaysia (a developing country). Based on in-depth interviews with CEOs or top level managers from twenty-three SMEs in Malaysia, the study found that capabilities to develop business networking, innovation capabilities, and capabilities …