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Religion’S Influence On Decision-Making: Evidence Of Influence On The Judgment, Emotional And Motivational Qualities Of Sri Lankan Leaders’ Decision-Making, Mario Fernando
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The study compares and contrasts thirteen interfaith case studies of prominent Sri Lankan business leaders drawn from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and Muslim religious traditions. The primary data for the study are in-depth interviews with the leaders, supplemented by documentary sources. When the participants were asked why they engaged in religious practices at work, their responses were often associated with decision-making. Although they had an array of management tools with which to deal with day-to-day management situations, they suggested that, in ‘difficult’ moments, these tools needed to be complemented with the participants’ connecting with the ultimate—variously identified as the transcendent reality, …
Extending The Grape Vine: Innovation And Knowledge Transmission Within The Australian Wine Industry, D. K. Aylward
Extending The Grape Vine: Innovation And Knowledge Transmission Within The Australian Wine Industry, D. K. Aylward
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Innovation and its uptake are two key ingredients in the Australian wine industry’s rapid rise from cottage industry to international success. The industry has a well-deserved reputation of leadership in the funding, coordination and adoption of both product and process innovation. This leadership continues to underpin its competitive advantage in oenological and viticultural practices, training, branding, and export. Empirical research, however, upon which this paper is based, suggests that this success may be disguising systemic flaws. One of the most threatening of these flaws is the relative lack of access to the industry’s dominant knowledge cluster by the myriad regional …
Systematic Features Of High-Frequency Volatility In Australian Electricity Markets: Intraday Patterns, Information Arrival And Calendar Effects, H. Higgs, A. C. Worthington
Systematic Features Of High-Frequency Volatility In Australian Electricity Markets: Intraday Patterns, Information Arrival And Calendar Effects, H. Higgs, A. C. Worthington
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This paper investigates the intraday price volatility process in four Australian wholesale electricity markets; namely New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria. The data set consists of half-hourly electricity prices and demand volumes over the period January 1, 2002 to June 1, 2003. A range of processes including GARCH, RiskMetrics, normal Asymmetric Power ARCH or APARCH, Student APARCH and skewed Student APARCH are used to model the time-varying variance in prices and the inclusion of news arrival as proxied by the contemporaneous volume of demand, time-of-day, day-of-week and month-of-year effects as exogenous explanatory variables. The skewed Student APARCH model, …
Financial Returns And Price Determinants In The Australian Art Market, 1973-2003, H. Higgs, A. C. Worthington
Financial Returns And Price Determinants In The Australian Art Market, 1973-2003, H. Higgs, A. C. Worthington
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In this study, 37,605 paintings by sixty well-known Australian artists sold at auction over the period 1973-2003 are used to construct a hedonic price index. The attributes included in the hedonic regression model include the name and living status of the artist, the size and medium of the painting, and the auction house and year in which the painting was sold. The resulting index indicates that returns on Australian fine-art averaged seven percent over the period with a standard deviation of sixteen percent. The hedonic regression model also captures the willingness to pay for perceived attributes in the artwork, and …
A Note On The Rising Cost Of Education In Australia, Abbas Valadkhani, A. C. Worthington, A. Layton
A Note On The Rising Cost Of Education In Australia, Abbas Valadkhani, A. C. Worthington, A. Layton
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Human capital, or a better educated labour force, is a major determinant of economic growth and productivity. However, recent trends in the cost of education in Australia may cause growth and productivity to suffer. For example, during the period 1982-2003 inflation rose on average by 4.4 per cent per annum, whereas the cost of education grew overall on average by 7.8 per cent. This has made education a relatively expensive item among Australian households. This paper compares and contrasts the cost of education in Australia and comparable economies with the cost of other goods and services embedded in the CPI …
Modelling Residential Water Demand With Fixed Volumetric Charging In A Large Urban Municipality: The Case Of Brisbane, Australia, M. Hoffmann, H. Higgs, A. C. Worthington
Modelling Residential Water Demand With Fixed Volumetric Charging In A Large Urban Municipality: The Case Of Brisbane, Australia, M. Hoffmann, H. Higgs, A. C. Worthington
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This paper uses household level data to model residential water demand in Brisbane, Australia from 1998 to 2004. In this system, residential consumption is charged using a fixed annual service fee with no free entitlement and a fixed volumetric charge per kilolitre. Water demand is specified as quarterly household water consumption and demand characteristics include the contemporaneous and lagged marginal price of water, household income and size, and the number of rainy (with at least some precipitation) and warm (greater than 19.5°C) days. The findings not only confirm residential water as price and income inelastic, but also that the price …
Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, Boon L. Lee
Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, Boon L. Lee
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In this study, productivity growth in thirty-five Australian universities is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques over the period 1998 to 2003. The inputs included in the analysis are full-time equivalent academic and non-academic staff, non-labour expenditure and undergraduate and postgraduate student load and the outputs are undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD completions, national competitive and industry grants and publications. Using Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual productivity growth averaged 3.3 percent across all universities, with a range between -1.8 percent and 13.0 percent, and was largely attributable to technological progress. …
Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, Boon L. Lee
Efficiency, Technology And Productivity Change In Australian Universities, 1998-2003, A. C. Worthington, Boon L. Lee
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In this study, productivity growth in thirty-five Australian universities is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques over the period 1998 to 2003. The inputs included in the analysis are full-time equivalent academic and non-academic staff, non-labour expenditure and undergraduate and postgraduate student load and the outputs are undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD completions, national competitive and industry grants and publications. Using Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual productivity growth averaged 3.3 percent across all universities, with a range between -1.8 percent and 13.0 percent, and was largely attributable to technological progress. …
The Challenges Of Introducing Off-The-Shelf Systems Into Complex Work Organisations, Helen M. Hasan, Wannapa Suratmethakul
The Challenges Of Introducing Off-The-Shelf Systems Into Complex Work Organisations, Helen M. Hasan, Wannapa Suratmethakul
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This paper describes research into problems commonly experienced when implementing an off-the-shelf information system into the complex work-practices of an organisation. Encountering such an occurrence, the authors employed a grounded theory approach to study the case though the collection, analysis and interpretation of a variety of data. The case concerned the troubled introduction, into a large educational institution, of a complex class timetabling system that was already well established in another similar organisations. Unanticipated problems encountered by various stakeholders in the system during and following the implementation of the system are documented and classified into three categories: knowledge issues, system …
The Disruptive Impact Of Attribute Information On The Effectiveness Of Analogies In Print Advertising As A Means To Enhance Consumer Learning Of New Product Benefits, A. Ait El Houssi, K. P. Morel, E. J. Hultink
The Disruptive Impact Of Attribute Information On The Effectiveness Of Analogies In Print Advertising As A Means To Enhance Consumer Learning Of New Product Benefits, A. Ait El Houssi, K. P. Morel, E. J. Hultink
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The presented study had two purposes. First, it pursued to demonstrate that it is more effective to use analogies in advertisements for really new products to increase consumers’ comprehension of the new product’s benefits than not to use analogies. Second, it aimed to test the (counterintuitive) assumption that inclusion of product attribute information in the advertisement in addition to the analogy would actually frustrate benefit comprehension. The results of the experiment showed that advertisements with an analogy lead to greater benefit comprehension than advertisements without an analogy. Further, it is more effective in print advertising in managing consumer learning of …
The Impact Of Financial Deregulation On Money Aggregates And Financial Variables In Australia: An Empirical Analysis With Endogenously Determined Structural Breaks, Mosayeb Pahlavani, A. Valadkhani, A. C. Worthington
The Impact Of Financial Deregulation On Money Aggregates And Financial Variables In Australia: An Empirical Analysis With Endogenously Determined Structural Breaks, Mosayeb Pahlavani, A. Valadkhani, A. C. Worthington
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This paper employs all quarterly time series currently available to endogenously determine the timing of structural breaks for various monetary aggregates and interest rates in Australia over the last thirty years. The Innovational Outlier model (IO) and the Additive Outlier model (AO) are then used to test for nonstationarity. After accounting for the single most significant structural break, the results from both models clearly indicate that the null of at least one unit root cannot be rejected for almost all series examined. The structural breaks found coincide with important policy changes during the period of financial deregulation starting in the …
Experience Management In Knowledge Management, Zhaohao Sun, Gavin Finnie
Experience Management In Knowledge Management, Zhaohao Sun, Gavin Finnie
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This paper examines experience and knowledge, experience management and knowledge management, and their interrelationships. It also proposes process perspectives for both experience management and knowledge management, which integrate experience processing and corresponding management, knowledge processing and corresponding management respectively. The proposed approach will facilitate research and development of knowledge management and experience management as well as knowledge-based systems.
Workplace Spirituality: Another Management Fad?, Mario Fernando
Workplace Spirituality: Another Management Fad?, Mario Fernando
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During the last two decades, interest in the field of workplace spirituality has continued to grow. However, will workplace spirituality be another management fad? Human Relations, Organisational Development, Total Quality Management and Quality of Working Life were all more deeply researched than spirituality at work. In this paper, I discuss the relevance of Institutional Theory to examine the faddish nature of the workplace spirituality discourse. With the increase in ‘spiritual talk’, I argue that a controversial issue is how we could ascertain the extent to which organisations are seeking legitimacy rather than a genuine commitment to an authentic spirituality.
Sources Of Iranian Labour Productivity, Abbas Valadkhani
Sources Of Iranian Labour Productivity, Abbas Valadkhani
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This study presents a model capturing sources of Iranian aggregate labour productivity using annual time series data from 1960 to 2002. Labour productivity in this model is determined by real net capital stock, information technology and telecommunications (ITT) and trade openness. Empirical estimates indicate that policies aimed at promoting various types of investment and trade openness, which generates technology spillovers, can improve labour productivity. A substantial rise in productivity can not be achieved unless the economy increases its stock of capital in both ITT and non-ITT sectors, and industrial protectionist policies are reversed.
Modelling Demand For Broad Money In Australia, Abbas Valadkhani
Modelling Demand For Broad Money In Australia, Abbas Valadkhani
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The existence of a stable demand for money is very important for the conduct of monetary policy. It is argued that previous work on the demand for money in Australia has not been very satisfactory in a number of ways. This paper examines the long- and short-run determinants of the demand for broad money employing the Johansen cointegration technique and a short-run dynamic model. Using quarterly data for the period 1976:3-2002:2, this paper finds, inter alia, that the demand for broad money is cointegrated with real income, the rate of return on 10-year Treasury bonds, the cash rate and the …
Sources Of Volatility In Australia's Export Prices: Evidence From Arch And Garch Modelling, Abbas Valadkhani, A. P. Layton, N. D. Karunaratne
Sources Of Volatility In Australia's Export Prices: Evidence From Arch And Garch Modelling, Abbas Valadkhani, A. P. Layton, N. D. Karunaratne
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Australia has one of the more volatile set of export prices among OECD countries. This paper examines the extent to which Australia’s export prices relate to the world prices using quarterly time-series data spanning the period 1969q4-2002q3. The empirical results based on dynamic least squares method show that Australia’s export prices are cointegrated with the global export prices. A short-term dynamic ARCH-in Mean model, which captures the time varying nature of price volatility, has been used to explain the growth rate of Australia’s export prices. It is found that (a) changes in Australia’s export prices are highly associated with systematic …
Goods And Services Tax Effects On Goods And Services Included In The Consumer Price Index Basket, Abbas Valadkhani
Goods And Services Tax Effects On Goods And Services Included In The Consumer Price Index Basket, Abbas Valadkhani
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This paper quantifies the magnitude and duration of the GST effect on the quarterly growth rate of the eleven groups of the consumer price index (CPI) in Australia using the Box and Tiao intervention analysis. It was found that prices did not increase significantly before or after the introduction of GST beyond what could have been expected on the basis of the discernible systematic pattern of fluctuation in the data. Furthermore, the varying one-off effect of GST on prices was significant in seven out of eleven CPI groups, the effect was found insignificant for the other four CPI groups.
A Cross-Country Analysis Of High Employment Generating Industries, Abbas Valadkhani
A Cross-Country Analysis Of High Employment Generating Industries, Abbas Valadkhani
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The objective of this paper is to identify high employment industries in Australia, Japan and the U.S using input-output (IO) analysis. It is found that (1) the high and low employment generating industries in 1980 and/or 1990 are almost the same as those in 1997. Thus on a relative basis, there is no evidence that high employment generating industries have changed since 1980; and (2) the high and low employment generating industries are very similar across these three countries. Four of the consistently high employment generating industries in these countries are Food, Beverage and Tobacco; Chemicals, Petroleum, Coal, Rubber & …
Macroeconometric Modelling: Approaches And Experiences In Developing Countries, Abbas Valadkhani
Macroeconometric Modelling: Approaches And Experiences In Developing Countries, Abbas Valadkhani
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This paper selectively reviews various approaches of macroeconometric modelling and highlights some important lessons from more than half a century of model-building particularly in the context of Asian countries. Addressing several issues discussed in this paper can improve the use of macroeconometric models (MEM) in forecasting and policy analysis in the foreseeable future. This survey shows that most MEMs in developing countries are either becoming smaller in size or not being subject to a thorough diagnostic investigation. In the specification of models one should consider the interplay among macroeconomic policies of different countries via international trade and global financial markets. …
An Analysis Of The Output And Employment Conversion Matrices Of Australia’S Economy, Abbas Valadkhani, T. Robinson
An Analysis Of The Output And Employment Conversion Matrices Of Australia’S Economy, Abbas Valadkhani, T. Robinson
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Based on two snapshots taken from the Australian economy, this study quantifies the impacts of final demand aggregates on output and employment in various sectors using the 1989 and 1997 conversion matrices. The sectoral output and employment are linked with final demand deliveries in such a way that one can measure the impacts on changes in each component of aggregate demand, other components remaining unchanged, on output and employment. A comparison of the aggregate output and employment multipliers in 1989 to 1997 indicates that while the output multipliers have increased, the employment multipliers have declined. This means that through time, …
Transmission Of Prices And Price Volatility In Australian Electricity Spot Markets: A Multivariate Garch Analysis, A. C. Worthington, A. Kay-Spratley, H. Higgs
Transmission Of Prices And Price Volatility In Australian Electricity Spot Markets: A Multivariate Garch Analysis, A. C. Worthington, A. Kay-Spratley, H. Higgs
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This paper examines the transmission of spot electricity prices and price volatility among the five regional electricity markets in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM): namely, New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA), the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme (SNO) and Victoria (VIC). A multivariate generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (MGARCH) model is used to identify the source and magnitude of price and price volatility spillovers. The results indicate the presence of positive own mean spillovers in only a small number of markets and no mean spillovers between any of the markets. This appears to be directly related to the …
Marketing Recycled Water: Review Of Past Studies And Research Agenda, Sara Dolnicar, C. Saunders
Marketing Recycled Water: Review Of Past Studies And Research Agenda, Sara Dolnicar, C. Saunders
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A review of past marketing-related research in the area of recycled water has been conducted. Findings are reported within the main areas of past research: willingness to adopt different forms of usage of recycled water, concerns of the general public towards the use of recycled water, the socio-demographic profile of early adopters, strategies to increase acceptance and adoption of recycled water in communities, perceived benefits among users of recycled water. The limitations of prior studies are reviewed and gaps identified, leading to recommendations for a future marketing-related research agenda to support public acceptance of recycled water in communities
Reflecting On Providing Multiple Assignment Supports To First-Year Marketing Students In A Large Class, Venkata K. Yanamandram, S. Lambert
Reflecting On Providing Multiple Assignment Supports To First-Year Marketing Students In A Large Class, Venkata K. Yanamandram, S. Lambert
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This paper describes improvements in learning outcomes in a large undergraduate marketing class at the University of Wollongong. The authors reflect on the interventions developed and evaluated, aimed at supporting students in their transition from novice researchers into self-regulated researchers, and producing professional marketing reports in industry recognised report writing genres. The project, and therefore the paper, was focussed on the major assignment and the initial and ongoing supports provided to students. These have been developed through a continuous cycle of improvement – planned, developed in partnership with a central resource development unit, deployed using a website and classroom activities, …
Fear Segments In Tourism, Sara Dolnicar
Fear Segments In Tourism, Sara Dolnicar
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This article proposes the investigation of fear segments in tourism. By doing so, a broadly accepted strategic marketing tool (market segmentation) is integrated with a topic that presently causes significant concern to the tourism industry: the impact of negative global events on tourism demand. The concept of psychographic segmentation is extended to a new construct of tourist psychographics: kinds of perceived fears associated with vacation travel. The academic relevance lies in the introduction of a novel segmentation base to tourism research, the practical value lies in the potential for improved target marketing, minimizing the risk of demand fluctuations. The concrete …
Financial Institution Analysis In An Evolving Environment: The Case Of The Hong Leong Bank Bhd, H. W. Collier, C. B. Mcgowan, Z. Sulong
Financial Institution Analysis In An Evolving Environment: The Case Of The Hong Leong Bank Bhd, H. W. Collier, C. B. Mcgowan, Z. Sulong
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Return on equity analysis provides a system for planning as well as analyzing financial institution performance. In the case of Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia has successfully implemented a merger program for Malaysian banks in order to face the onslaught of the imminent financial deregulation brought about by globalization. The purpose of this paper is to provide additional insights into the improvement of a bank’s financial situation, i.e. commercial banks, because of the recent series of bank mergers in Malaysia. This paper also presents an application of a model for financial analysis of a bank based on the DuPont system presented …
The Effects Of Structure, Communication And Trust Between Marketing And R&D During New Product Development, Elias Kyriazis, Graham Massey
The Effects Of Structure, Communication And Trust Between Marketing And R&D During New Product Development, Elias Kyriazis, Graham Massey
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The ability to effectively manage cross-functional working relationships (CFRs) during innovation is a key success factor in developing successful new products. However, empirical evidence suggests that CFRs during new product development are often problematic, resulting in extremely poor relations between managers, and the development of unsuccessful new products. This paper adds to our existing knowledge on the Marketing/R&D CFR by examining the effects of structural factors, communication behaviours, and interpersonal trust on the dependent variable perceived relationship effectiveness. Our findings reveal that trust has potent positive, direct effects on this CFR. Further, bidirectional communication and quality of communication also have …
Structural Changes In Australia's Monetary Aggregates And Interest Rates, Abbas Valadkhani, Mosayeb Pahlavani
Structural Changes In Australia's Monetary Aggregates And Interest Rates, Abbas Valadkhani, Mosayeb Pahlavani
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This paper employs all quartley time series currently available to determine endogenously the time of structural breaks for three monetary aggregates, the long and short-tem interest rates as well as the consumer price index in Australia using the ZA (Zivot and Andrews, 1992) test and the LP (Lumsdaine and Papell, 1997) test.
The Design Of A Performance Measurement Model For Small Firms Within The Service Sector, Vicki Baard, Edmund W. Watts
The Design Of A Performance Measurement Model For Small Firms Within The Service Sector, Vicki Baard, Edmund W. Watts
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The role of small business, as part of the value adding chain in any economy, should never be understated. In Australia small business represents 96% of all private sector business, accounts for 47% of all private sector employment and the majority fail within three to five years of establishment. Despite this contribution the small business sector, and in particular the service sector component, appear to be underrepresented in the development of specific performance measurement models, which, within the academic and professional literature appear to focus on their larger firm counterparts. Given the unique position of small business service organisations the …
Answer Format Effects Revisited, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun
Answer Format Effects Revisited, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun
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The effect of answer formats presented to respondents in written surveys are investigated for two constructs (attitudes and behavioral intentions) and three response scales (binary, ordinal and metric). Results indicate that (1) formats differ in their susceptibility to response styles but lead to the same results with respect to average values and underlying dimensions; (2) binary format is quicker to complete and perceived as quicker while all formats are perceived as equally simple, pleasant, and useful to express feelings; (3) an interaction between the construct measured and the answer format clearly exists which should be investigated more systematically in future …
A Contextual Approach To Design And Development Of Interfaces For Search Engines, Using Activity Theory As The Basis For Informing Design Decisions, Joseph A. Meloche, Li Cheng
A Contextual Approach To Design And Development Of Interfaces For Search Engines, Using Activity Theory As The Basis For Informing Design Decisions, Joseph A. Meloche, Li Cheng
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The goal of this study is to support the design of more effective search engines. The research presented in this chapter investigates the design of search engines in the context of information seeking
activities. This study is also informed by Activity Theory and considers Information Seeking to be a Keystone Activity. This improvement in search engine design takes into consideration the context of users, and elicits and captures users' explicit and implied requirements. The study uses Q-methodology to elicit the subjective understanding of the participants thought the phases provided by the methodology. This entails collecting, sorting and analysis of detailed …