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Backhouse, Kim, and Mark Wickham. "Corporate governance, boards of directors and corporate social responsibility: The Australian context." Corporate Ownership and Control 17, no. 4 (2020): 60–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv17i4art5.
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The challenge of corporate governance in Australian corporations is similar to those faced by the majority of corporations operating globally albeit the manner in which corporate governance is structured in Australia represents a strong reflection of the island continent’s people, egalitarian culture, and legislative framework. This article considers the legal framework in which Australian corporations operate within, which includes a discussion of corporate governance principles, the role of directors and ownership structures of companies in Australia. Australian board of director practices are discussed in detailed and this article outlines how these practices are heavily influenced by the Australian Commonwealth Corporations Law (which sets out mandatory legal requirements that all Australian companies must adhere to). The article continues to explore briefly directors’ remuneration practices, recent shareholder’s rights protection and activism, the importance of corporate governance and the link to firm performance, and finally the importance of corporate social responsibility in the Australian context.
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Hermann, Enno. "‘Sale of the Millennium’: The 2000 Olympics and Australia's Corporate Identity." Media International Australia 94, no. 1 (February 2000): 173–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0009400116.
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This article argues that discourses of ‘the national’ in Australia have increasingly come to be treated in commodified terms — that is, in the language of advertising. It looks at the advertising campaign that accompanies the upcoming Sydney Olympic Games, where Australia features as a tourist spectacle of an idealised global culture. Images of natural beauty, multicultural harmony and particularly Indigenous culture are highlighted in this unprecedented opportunity for Australia to sell itself to the world. Treating the Sydney Olympics in this way, as a global media event, allows for some reconsideration of the processes and the images employed in Australia's national imagining.
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Shilbury, David. "Determining the Problem of Order in the Australian Football League." Journal of Sport Management 7, no. 2 (May 1993): 122–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsm.7.2.122.
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This paper examines the means available to management to establish order within organizations. Three variables, bureaucracy, industrial democracy, and corporate culture, are examined in relation to Australia's largest professional sporting organization, the Australian Football League. The paper traces how the organization of sport in Australia emanated from a pure form of democracy that in the early 1980s impeded the Australian Football League's progress toward a professional competition. Establishing order within the league is complicated by the trichotomy formed between the league, the clubs, and the players.
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Ewart, Jacqui. "Changing Newsroom Culture by Putting Readers First: How Australian Journalists Reacted to a Corporate Change Program." Media International Australia 125, no. 1 (November 2007): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0712500104.
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This article explores the attitudes of journalists towards the introduction of a corporate-change program in the newsrooms of 14 regional daily newspapers in Australia. It draws data from a survey of journalists working for one of Australia's largest regional media corporations, Australian Provincial Newspapers. The article examines the journalists' attitudes towards the change effort, a year and a half after its introduction. The program had two over-arching aims. The first was to bring about a change in the relationship between journalists and their communities; the second was to get the journalists to use more ‘real’ or ordinary people as news sources. The study found that support for the corporate-change program remained high in the 18-month period between its introduction and the survey.
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Ewart, Jacqui. "Changing Newsroom Culture by Putting Readers First: How Australian Journalists Reacted to a Corporate Change Program." Media International Australia 125, no. 1 (November 2007): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812500104.
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This article explores the attitudes of journalists towards the introduction of a corporate-change program in the newsrooms of 14 regional daily newspapers in Australia. It draws data from a survey of journalists working for one of Australia's largest regional media corporations, Australian Provincial Newspapers. The article examines the journalists ‘attitudes towards the change effort, a year and a half after its introduction. The program had two over-arching aims. The first was to bring about a change in the relationship between journalists and their communities; the second was to get the journalists to use more ‘real’ or ordinary people as news sources. The study found that support for the corporate-change program remained high in the 18-month period between its introduction and the survey.
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Avery, Gayle, and Narelle Hooper. "How David Cooke implemented corporate social responsibility at Konica Minolta Australia." Strategy & Leadership 45, no. 3 (May 15, 2017): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sl-04-2017-0034.
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Purpose This interview demonstrates how CEOs can focus on CSR to engage the workforce and change the culture and performance of an organization. Design/methodology/approach This article reports on an interview with Dr David Cooke, Managing Director of Konica Minolta Australia. Findings By introducing CSR to the firm, and in particular pursuing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #8 against human trafficking, the MD not only changed the management style and culture in the organization, but also enhanced commercial results. Performance improved across many measures: revenue, profit, market share in a declining marketplace, highest number of units placed into the Australian market, increasing prestige associated with the company’s brand, and becoming an employer of choice. Research limitations/implications The findings are consistent with the literature on corporate sustainable investment, but further studies are needed to fully understand the processes involved in changing culture and improving performance via CSR. Practical implications This interview clearly shows the steps that the new CEO took in radically changing the culture of his organization by adopting CSR extensively. Social implications The power of business is vital to pursuing societal goals, and the case of Konica Minolta Australia demonstrates that doing so also benefits the company. Originality/value This study clearly explains how a corporate culture was changed and performance enhanced through a strategy based on investment in social issues.
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Tomasic, Roman, and Ping Xiong. "Mapping the Legal Landscape: Chinese State-Owned Companies in Australia." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 48, no. 2 (October 2, 2017): 323. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v48i2.4737.
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Australia has always relied heavily upon foreign sources of investment and financing and has in the past tended to draw mainly upon British, American and Japanese investment. In recent decades, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have played an increasingly important role in the Australian economy with a rising level of investment taking place. Chinese SOEs have been more heavily involved in investments into larger Australian investment projects, such as in mining and infrastructure. Australia has seen an increase in the number of Chinese state-owned companies acquiring substantial domestic assets; this may continue following the ratification of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement in 2015. Although Chinese SOEs operating in foreign countries such as Australia are required to comply with local corporate governance laws and principles, they also retain their unique Chinese corporate governance values and culture which they have inherited through their parent companies and from China itself. In Australia, there has been an ongoing debate over Chinese investment, with the business community being particularly supportive of such investment. Driven largely by the business community, this debate has been relatively narrow and has not explored the likely impact of Chinese SOEs and their subsidiaries upon the shape of corporate governance in countries in which they invest. This article seeks to examine the legal contours of Chinese-controlled investment in Australia with a view to acquiring a more informed understanding of the impact of Chinese SOEs upon the Australian legal landscape.
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Backhouse, Kim, and Mark Wickham. "Exploring the link between corporate governance and innovative capacity in the Australian superannuation industry." Corporate Ownership and Control 14, no. 4 (2017): 32–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv14i4art3.
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In a large-scale single industry case study, insights are provided into corporate governance factors affecting innovative capacity in the superannuation industry in Australia. Analysis of the data indicated that the major corporate governance factors driving innovation in the industry included: ‘possessing a progressive organisational culture’, ‘emphasis on marketing-orientation’, and ‘engaging in co-opetition’. Similarly, the data indicated that the major corporate governance factors inhibiting innovation included: ‘possessing a conservative/risk-averse organisational culture’, ‘unwillingness to deviate from a strict interpretation of regulation’, ‘emphasis on a profit-orientation’, and ‘the absence of any formalised innovation processes within the firm’. These findings are used to develop a ‘theory of innovation’ link between corporate governance approaches and innovative capacity in the Australian superannuation industry. Although this study is limited in its scope, it does represent an initial exploration of the critical relationship that exists between Board-level functions and the ability of a superannuation firm to innovate in the Australian context.
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Pascoe, Janine, and Michelle Welsh. "Whistleblowing, Ethics and Corporate Culture: Theory and Practice in Australia." Common Law World Review 40, no. 2 (June 2011): 144–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1350/clwr.2011.40.2.0213.
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Belcher, Alice. "Imagining How A Company Thinks: What is Corporate Culture?" Deakin Law Review 11, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2006vol11no2art234.
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<p>Corporate responsibility for crimes that require thought, or lack of thought, has been the subject of much debate both in the UK and worldwide. This article investigates the current position in the UK, where a Bill is currently (October 2006) before Parliament, and briefly in Australia, where the law has been reformed at Commonwealth level, but not yet implemented in individual States. In line with developments in Australian and the UK law a realist rather than nominalist position is taken that explicitly recognises genuine corporate fault. The article looks forward to the cases that are likely to be brought under the “corporate culture” provisions. It suggests that the practical methods of providing evidence of corporate ‘attitudes, policies, systems or accepted practices’ could very well include the records of meetings, very much in line with<br />the method attempted in the failed Transco prosecution in Scotland. It is<br />submitted that the conceptual foundation for the realist approach is sound and that there are practical ways of bringing the company before the court. However, there are also some conceptual and practical difficulties to be faced. Issues identified include the question of responsibility for sub-cultures and the practical problem of a proliferation of different sorts of evidence and expert opinions that could be put before the courts.</p>
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Baird, Jeanette. "University Governance for the Longer-Term." International Journal of Chinese Education 4, no. 1 (August 19, 2015): 105–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22125868-12340047.
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Corporate governance models are becoming more prevalent in many universities, despite concerns over the effects of corporate practices on the identity of universities as a unique institutional field. In Westminster university systems, governance practices have become highly professionalized along corporate lines, not least to ensure a good fit with the necessary regulatory regimes for a marketized university system. Examples of Australian practices are provided to illustrate the governance dynamics, as both Western and Chinese corporate governance practices will affect the culture of Chinese universities, despite the continuance of deeply-inscribed State influence. Professionalization of governance in Australia has brought benefits but also generated some ‘blind spots’ to sustaining the longer-term features of successful universities. Stronger academic governance could provide a counterweight, yet the relationship between corporate governance and academic governance is not yet as well-defined as it needs to become.
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Gerrand, Peter. "The Trollope of Australian Telecommunications." Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 4, no. 3 (August 31, 2016): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/ajtde.v4n3.60.
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Trevor Barr’s page-turner of a novel Grand Intentions tackles the ugly side of the neo-liberalism sweeping Australia in the 1990s and 2000s. It examines the privatisation of an incumbent telecommunications carrier, and the drastic impact of its imported US corporate culture on several individuals. He deploys a cast of plausible fictional characters while allowing the narrative to be driven by an echo of real events in the Australian telecommunications industry.
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Gerrand, Peter. "The Trollope of Australian Telecommunications." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 4, no. 3 (August 31, 2016): 5–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v4n3.60.
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Trevor Barr’s page-turner of a novel Grand Intentions tackles the ugly side of the neo-liberalism sweeping Australia in the 1990s and 2000s. It examines the privatisation of an incumbent telecommunications carrier, and the drastic impact of its imported US corporate culture on several individuals. He deploys a cast of plausible fictional characters while allowing the narrative to be driven by an echo of real events in the Australian telecommunications industry.
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Begum, Afroza. "Corruption in business." Journal of Financial Crime 27, no. 3 (April 20, 2020): 735–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-02-2020-0018.
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Purpose This paper aims to critically analyse the Criminal Code Amendment (Bribery of Foreign Public Officials) Act 1999 and Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combating Corporate Crime) Bill 2017 with special focus on the facilitation payment (FP) defence by referring to the UK Bribery Act 2010. The study will showcase how FP promotes disrespect for a good corporate culture inevitable for responsible and sustained business and as to why FP must be abolished to make the Australian regulation consistent with the international standards. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on primary and secondary sources including the Senate Committee Reports and recent legislative developments in Australia, and the relevant law of the UK. Findings Australia is lagging far behind comparative jurisdictions including the UK, and the FP defence must be abolished to make the Australian regulation consistent with the international standards and to foster international business backed up by globalisation, competition and interconnectedness of national economies. Originality/value This paper is the original work of the author and has not been submitted elsewhere for publication.
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McKay, Jim, and Toby Miller. "From Old Boys to Men and Women of the Corporation: The Americanization and Commodification of Australian Sport." Sociology of Sport Journal 8, no. 1 (March 1991): 86–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.8.1.86.
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Although there are obvious American influences on Australian popular culture, the term “Americanization” is of limited help in explaining the elaborate form and content of Australian sport. The recent transformation from amateur to corporate sport in Australia has been determined by a complex array of internal and international social forces, including Australia’s polyethnic population, its semiperipheral status in the capitalist world system, its federal polity, and its membership in the Commonwealth of Nations. Americanization is only one manifestation of the integration of amateur and professional sport into the media industries, advertising agencies, and multinational corporations of the world market. Investment in sport by American, British, New Zealand, Japanese, and Australian multinational companies is part of their strategy of promoting “good corporate citizenship,” which also is evident in art, cinema, dance, music, education, and the recent bicentennial festivities. It is suggested that the political economy of Australian sport can best be analyzed by concepts such as “post-Fordism,” the globalization of consumerism, and the cultural logic of late capitalism, all of which transcend the confines of the United States.
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Tomasic, Roman, and Jenny Jian Rong Fu. "Government-owned companies and corporate governance in Australia and China: beyond fragmented governance." Corporate Ownership and Control 3, no. 4 (2006): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv3i4p10.
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The ownership and control of government owned companies presents a major challenge for the integrity of established corporate law ideas regarding accountability of directors and the independence of government owned companies. Drawing upon experience from China and Australia, the article discusses some of the key corporate governance tensions that have emerged from the corporatization of state owned assets. The attempt to uncritically apply private sector ideas to the corporatisation of state-owned and controlled companies is fraught with difficulties that are discussed in this article. The article also examines attempts to place state owned companies on a sounder conceptual footing through changes to their culture brought about by adopting and embedding guidelines and standards, such as the recent OECD Guidelines on the Corporate Governance of State-owned Enterprises
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John, Alistair, and Brent McDonald. "How elite sport helps to foster and maintain a neoliberal culture: The ‘branding’ of Melbourne, Australia." Urban Studies 57, no. 6 (April 2, 2019): 1184–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019830853.
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This article explores the role that elite sport has played in the State Government of Victoria’s (Australia) neoliberal agenda of creating an environment conducive to commercial activity. Adopting an urban entrepreneurial approach of selling the ‘city’ as an attractive place for cross-border investment, the state government has strategically invested public funds into major sporting events in Melbourne. Four specific sporting events were examined: i) construction and redevelopments of ‘Melbourne Park’ to host the Australian Open Tennis Championships; ii) hosting the 2006 Commonwealth Games; iii) acquisition of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix and continued political, corporate and media support for the event; and iv) construction of an urban football stadium. Newspaper reports and parliament transcripts between 1984 and 2014 were collected to highlight issues of contest in the ‘sport city’ in conjunction with a thematic analysis of interviews with influential cultural producers of the ‘sport city’ – most notably state premiers, members of parliament, CEOs of public sports trusts and newspaper journalists. Findings illustrate that the Victorian state has successively re-regulated a neoliberal urban entrepreneurial strategy, often preventing dissident groups from resisting neoliberal activities, and that in Melbourne sport operates as ‘cultural glue’ to establish the logic of neoliberalism in an embodied sense.
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Cavanagh, Neil. "Corporate Criminal Liability: An Assessment of the Models of Fault." Journal of Criminal Law 75, no. 5 (October 2011): 414–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1350/jcla.2011.75.5.729.
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Current theories of corporate criminal liability in the UK are derived from the nominalist perspective. From this perspective, a company is nothing more than a collection of individuals. This article reviews three prominent models of fault that are based upon this perspective. It will be shown that these models have severe limitations. Primarily, these models fail to reflect the reality of modern corporate decision-making. This article, after briefly justifying the imposition of liability directly upon corporations, proceeds to examine models that are based upon the notion of organisational fault. It will be argued that the corporate culture doctrine, as implemented in Australia, is the most suitable model for imposing liability upon a corporation.
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Johnson, Catherine. "The INPEX diversity and inclusion journey." APPEA Journal 55, no. 2 (2015): 427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj14062.
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Corporate policies, standards, and procedures are being implemented by INPEX to support the ethnic cultures and corporate backgrounds of individuals who are constructing and will be operating its US$34 billion Ichthys LNG Project. Gas will be exported from the Ichthys Field in the Browse Basin to the onshore processing facilities at Bladin Point, Darwin through an 889 km pipeline. With no historical restrictions, INPEX has uncovered an opportunity to help create positive cultural norms, and thus has strategies to harness diversity and build an inclusive culture in its workforce. This strategy focuses on educating, enabling, empowering and engaging the workforce by establishing a working group, measuring behaviours in performance appraisals and evaluating corporate cultural behaviour in employee engagement surveys, and identifying diversity champions who decentralise activities. This extended abstract, therefore, discusses lessons that have been learned, activities and the progress to date by referring to relevant survey results and HR analytics. INPEX Corporation is involved in more than 70 projects across 25 countries. It has 2,000 employees from Australia, working in more than 15 global locations.
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Clark, Geoff. "Organisational culture and safety: an interdependent relationship." Australian Health Review 25, no. 6 (2002): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah020181.
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Since the early 1990s,a body of evidence regarding the lack of quality in health care has emerged in many countries including Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States of America. It has brought the subject of health care safety to the top of the policy agenda and the forefront of the public debate worldwide. Studies show not only that failure of quality occurs, but also that it inflicts harm and wastes resources on a large scale. Experts in risk management, both within and outside the health care industry, emphasize system failures and system-driven errors over direct human error, and accentuate the crucial role that organisational culture plays in ensuring safety. Examination of the interrelationship between culture and safety in organisations demonstrates that organisational relationships influence both culture and safety and that effective two-way communication is pivotal to the success of the development of a corporate 'safety culture'.
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Seto, WaiLing, and Fran Martin. "Transmigrant media: Mediating place, mobility, and subjectivity." International Journal of Cultural Studies 22, no. 4 (November 21, 2018): 577–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877918812470.
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This article contributes to the exploration of interrelationships between human and media mobilities through analysis of qualitative interviews with 18 Southeast Asian transmigrants in Australia. This group demonstrated three main orientations toward the media they habitually engaged. In the memorial-affective orientation, respondents re-engaged media familiar from remembered pre-migration childhood and family contexts. An ambivalent-localizing orientation was taken toward Australian legacy media, some of which respondents found helped them relate to Australian culture while other forms were experienced as xenophobic and alienating. In the cosmopolitan-global orientation, respondents engaged global corporate, largely Anglophone media in ways that reinforced their sense of themselves as mobile and cosmopolitan. Most importantly, in our respondents’ experience, these three orientations were often not separable but interwoven into complex admixtures. We explore the implications of this hybrid experience of location through media both for the conceptualization of place in globalization, and for the study of migrant media.
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Azmat, Fara, and Ambika Zutshi. "Perceptions of corporate social responsibility amongst immigrant entrepreneurs." Social Responsibility Journal 8, no. 1 (March 2, 2012): 63–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17471111211196575.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the understanding of the term corporate social responsibility (CSR) by Sri Lankan immigrant entrepreneurs in Australia. It also seeks to investigate the importance the entrepreneurs place on CSR, their understanding of stakeholders, the types of CSR activities undertaken by them, and the issue of social capital.Design/methodology/approachData were collected through in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with Sri Lankan entrepreneurs based in Victoria, Australia.FindingsThe interviewees were aware of the term CSR but, nevertheless, had different interpretations of its meaning. However, CSR was considered important and all the interviewees were, in some way, involved in CSR activities and also had a good understanding of the importance of their stakeholders. Findings also highlighted the significance attached to social capital by the entrepreneurs such as informal relationships and trustworthiness which build the intangible attributes of CSR. The present findings can be attributed to immigrant entrepreneurs behaving partly to adapt to the host country, by changing their beliefs, values, traditions and partly by being influenced by their home country culture as found in the extended part of this current study.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper addresses gaps in the fields of both CSR and immigrant entrepreneurship literature. However, the small sample size is a limitation and further research is required in order to generalize the findings.Originality/valueIt is important to have an understanding of the interpretation of social responsibility amongst immigrant entrepreneurs. Despite the steadily growing number of Sri Lankan immigrant entrepreneurs and their potential impact on the Victorian and Australian socio‐economic context, this area remains under‐researched. This paper addresses this gap in the literature and makes an attempt to provide insight into this area that can be used as a catalyst for future research.
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Kelton, Maryanne, Michael Sullivan, Emily Bienvenue, and Zac Rogers. "Australia, the utility of force and the society-centric battlespace." International Affairs 95, no. 4 (July 1, 2019): 859–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz080.
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Abstract Greater uncertainty characterizes Australia's strategic environment. Power transitions in the Indo-Pacific test US primacy at a time when Australia as a major US alliance partner is encountering new asymmetric, society-centric threats from state and non-state actors in what is called the ‘cognitive battlespace’. This is a different kind of warfare, utilizing information as military force. Threats take the form of direct manipulation of interconnected, information-rich environments. Securing the national interest from society-centric threats involving the ‘weaponization of information’, especially of social media and the global corporate platforms upon which they operate, poses considerable strategic, conceptual and technological challenges for Australia's civilian and military cyber-defence agencies. We begin by briefly reviewing the evolution of the strategic culture underpinning Australia's understanding and use of military force, arguing that it is shaped largely by historical insecurity borne from a deeply embedded social sense of isolation and an unquestioned strategic imperative to rely on alliances with ‘great and powerful friends’. We give a brief account of Australia's ‘last wars’ which saw it deploy to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria and note the evolving cyber-enabled changes to the battlefield. We then argue that the new cyber-threats target the domestic fabric of liberal democracies and market economies, posing risks to all military and civilian institutions as well as weakening citizens' belief in the values which underpin them. Finally, we examine Australia's evolving integration with US networked cyber capabilities, and legislative and bureaucratic reforms to counter foreign political interference campaigns, asking whether they are sufficient.
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Harper, Andrew. "The Legitimisation of Soccer in Australia: A Theoretical Analysis." World Journal of Social Science 6, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjss.v6n2p1.
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Weber’s legitimacy theory has been diffused widely throughout the corporate and political context but not to thesporting world. This paper adopts Weber’s legitimacy theory to better understand the context of Australian sport,particularly as it relates to soccer’s standing in the culture. For the majority of its Australian existence, soccer wasnot part of the mainstream, and academic and other writing has labelled it illegitimate. However, despiteappropriating the illegitimacy label, no theoretical model has been applied to the assertion. Weber’s Theory ofLegitimacy depicts three types of legitimacy; charismatic, legal/rational and traditional. This qualitative researchutilized interview data collected from a purposive sample (N=22) of the influential people who determined soccer’slegitimacy as a result of the sport’s restructure in 2003, through to the nationally acclaimed triumph of winning themen’s Asian Cup in 2015. The data was then compared against Weber’s theory to better understand soccer’stransformation, showing that Australian soccer was legitimised by the recruitment and leadership of Frank Lowy(charismatic), the intervention of the Federal Government (legal/rational) and the inter-generational growth of thesport’s popularity and participant base (traditional). This paper not only attempts to theorise Australian soccer butalso raises some important questions regarding Australian soccer studies in general.
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Pasko, Oleh, Fuli Chen, Tetyana Kuts, Inna Sharko, and Natalia Ryzhikova. "Sustainability reporting nexus to corporate governance in scholarly literature." Environmental Economics 13, no. 1 (October 19, 2022): 61–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.13(1).2022.06.
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Sustainability reporting has become a practice of the majority and is decided by boards of directors as the supreme governing body in the decision-making process of companies. The paper provides a high-view picture and visualizes research to portray the historical shifts in sustainability reporting nexus to corporate governance through an analysis utilizing CiteSpace software on 935 articles published in Web of Science Core Collection from 2009 to 2021.The number of papers in the area has expanded, especially since 2013 (a branching point), while the study determines a type of bifurcation spot (the year 2017) that evinces the SR-CG field maturity. The study determined the dominant countries through affiliated to them researchers (the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, China and Australia), the most esteemed journals (Journal of Business Ethics, Business Strategy and the Environment and Accounting, Auditing &amp; Accountability Journal), and the major co-occurrence of hot keywords (carbon disclosure project, environmental disclosure quality, integrated reporting, financial performance, foreign director, environmental reporting, public sector, sustainability assurance statement). The paper identifies principal issues where SR-CG research lags (dearth of those research in developing economies and geographical limitation of research) and unravels uncharted so far domains (jurisdictions-related studies) in the realm. Future research in the realm is likely to focus on ESG, disclosures and governance performance, as well as on specific areas (geography, industry, etc.), and will explore in depth the role of multiple factors together. This papers indicate the growing convergence between SR and CG in literature, and given predominance of ‘SR as a function of CG’ approach a more stalwart and sound CG framework could bring about more tenable SR practices. The paper puts forward an agenda for advancing forthcoming research in the realm of SR-CG interdependence. AcknowledgmentThis paper is co-funded by European Union through the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) within the project “EU BEST PRACTICE OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT, SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING” 101047667 — EULASTING — ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEI-TCH-RSCH https://bit.ly/3Bbvquw
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Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh, Zubaidah Ismail, Malcolm Smith, and Anuar Nawawi. "The influence of a board’s ethical commitment on corporate governance in enhancing a company’s corporate performance." Journal of Financial Crime 26, no. 2 (April 1, 2019): 496–518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-04-2018-0035.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between corporate governance and company performance and how a board’s ethical commitment can influence this relationship. Prior studies documented mixed evidence on the corporate governance and corporate performance relationship, which can be due to the influence of a board’s ethical commitment and will shape the corporate governance mechanism in the company and, in turn, influence performance. Design/methodology/approach This study collected data for two years, i.e. 2013 and 2014, from the biggest 500 Malaysian companies listed in the stock exchange. Corporate governance is measured based on the requirements of the Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance (MCCG), while a board’s ethical commitment is measured based on the MCCG and various international best practices. Corporate performance is measured based on return on equity, return on assets, net profit margin, market-to-book value and TobinQ. Findings A board’s ethical commitment was found to be significant in increasing the strength of the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance. The findings are robust to the alternative performance measurements and lagged one-year corporate performance. Research limitations/implications This paper provides further evidence on the importance of ethical practices to improve corporate environment and, hence, sustain a company’s performance. This study, however, was conducted on only large companies with a limited data collection period. Practical implications This study provides an indicator that the policymaker and regulatory authorities need to double their efforts in promoting and encouraging a board of directors to take a bold step in improving its ethical culture. Shareholders and investors need to use their power and rights to demand the company to improve their governance and ethical practices. Originality/value This study is original, as it measures a board’s ethical commitment from various sources of local and international best practices such as Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Norway, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the USA. It also contributes to the literature and theoretical understanding of the interaction between a board’s ethical commitment and corporate governance on corporate performance, particularly in developing countries like Malaysia, which is scarce in the literature.
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Ali, Syaiful. "Effective Information Technology Governance Mechanisms: An Australian Study." Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business 8, no. 1 (January 12, 2006): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/gamaijb.5623.
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Growing importance of information technology (IT), as a strategic factor for organizations in achieving their objectives, have raised the concern of organizations in establishing and implementing effective IT governance. This study seeks to empirically examine the individual IT governance mechanisms that influence the overall effectiveness of IT governance. The data were obtained by using web based survey from 176 members of ISACA (Information Systems and Audit Control Association) Australia. This study examines the influences of six proposed IT governance mechanisms on the overall effectiveness of IT governance. Using Factor Analysis and Multiple Regression techniques, the current study finds significant positive relationships between the overall level of effective IT governance and the following four IT governance mechanisms: the existence of ethics/ culture of compliance in IT, corporate communication systems, an IT strategy committee, and the involvement of senior management in IT.
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Jury, Ceri, M. Anthony Machin, Jan Phillips, Hong Eng Goh, Shaney Olsen, and Jeff P. Patrick. "Developing and implementing an action-oriented staff survey: Queensland Health and the 'Better Workplaces' initiative." Australian Health Review 33, no. 3 (2009): 365. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah090365.
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QUEENSLAND HEALTH IMPLEMENTED the ?Better Workplaces? staff opinion survey (the survey) in May 2006. The initiative stands as the largest single staff survey ever conducted in Queensland, and one of the largest in Australia. This case study outlines the process of this project, the outcomes to date and some of the pitfalls and successes along the way. Logistically it involved 37 health service districts and 10 corporate areas spread across the state. The survey process incorporated four survey periods over two years. The aim of the survey was: to improve workplace culture at the local level and across the organisation as a whole. Workplace culture is defined by Cole as ?The collection of unwritten rules, codes of behaviour and norms by which people operate, how we do things around here?1 Queensland Health proposed to improve its workplace culture by listening to staff and developing and driving targeted action plans following the survey with each district and division to create a climate of trust, respect, and innovation among staff which will ultimately improve patient outcomes. ?. . . The creation of a culture that is free of blame and encourages an open examination of error and failure is a key feature of services dedicated to quality improvement and to learning.?
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Kiers, D. "ALLIANCE COMPETENCE: KEY CAPABILITIES FOR SUCCESS." APPEA Journal 41, no. 1 (2001): 811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj00051.
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The formulation of alliances and partnerships is a global trend that is growing at an exponential rate. In the United States, alliances now account for 18% of the revenue of Fortune 1,000 Companies—and this figure is expected to exceed 30% by 2004. In Europe, alliances are growing at an even faster rate, and already represent over 30% of revenue. According to recent surveys, 82% of United States executives believe alliances will be a prime vehicle for future growth, and managing alliances is consistently mentioned as one of their three biggest challenges.Developing a competence in alliances and other collaborative arrangements, therefore, is now high on virtually all corporate agendas. Yet the ability to successfully manage alliances remains elusive. If current trends continue, about 70% of all alliances will fail to deliver the expected results.In most cases, failure is attributed to mismatches in corporate culture, poor communications, or some similarly high-level cause. This conventional analysis camouflages some specific and fundamental capabilities that are critical for alliance success. These capabilities address facilitating and maintaining alliance-like thinking and behaviours that are a match for alliance strategies. The ability to develop the appropriate thinking and behaviour to be a valued partner is a distinct corporate competitive advantage.Using recent examples in the oil and gas industry in Canada and Australia, this paper details three key capabilities that are critical to alliance success. Some new approaches to effective partnering in any environment or industry are offered, to help in reframing the challenges that inevitably arise.
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Sinyagina, Natalia Yu. "New trends in HR technologies: overview of foreign studies." SHS Web of Conferences 103 (2021): 01033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202110301033.
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The main aim of this work is theoretical studies of trends in HR technologies based on foreign and Russian publications and practice. This article highlights the most obvious trends of working with talented employees supported by attitude to talented persons, the analysis of various types of attitudes to them is performed; it is mentioned that positive attitude at present is one of the most important properties demanded by employers, since quite often it adds positive properties to a working team. The data were collected, classified and generalized using theoretical analysis, content analysis, and analytical synthesis of more than 50 scientific publications by researchers and practitioners from Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, and the USA. This article presents the most significant results of the study. The trends of shifting the focus from equality in the relation to employees to fairness and the importance of fitting the culture of relations into the corporate culture are characterized. Generalized typology of talented employees is presented. The reasons of talented employees for leaving the company are analyzed. The importance of evaluation of skills to communicate with people, to find compromise is described, as well as of skills required for execution of this or that activity. Necessity of long-term well-considered relations with people, who are at the top in their working area, is mentioned.
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Hoffmann, Jochen, Ulrike Röttger, Diana Ingenhoff, and Anis Hamidati. "The rehabilitation of the “nation variable”." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 20, no. 4 (October 5, 2015): 483–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-10-2014-0071.
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Purpose – Despite an impressive body of international research, there is a lack of empirical evidence describing the ways in which organisational environments influence the practices of corporate communications (CC). A cross-cultural survey in five countries contributes to closing this research gap. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – What makes the research design innovative is that the questionnaire incorporates both practitioners’ perceptions of the cultural context and the relevance of CC practices. The sample comprises 418 practitioners from the most senior positions in CC in the biggest companies in Australia, Austria, Germany, Indonesia, and Switzerland. By choosing a systematic access to the field the authors circumvent shortcomings of “snowball” sampling techniques. Findings – While cultural perceptions and CC priorities vary to a certain degree, there are hardly any significant correlations between the two. Meanwhile, the “nation variable”, and the institutional settings associated with it, are more instructive when explaining differences in CC. Research limitations/implications – A large cross-cultural survey needs to take a “birds eye view” and, as such, is able to identify only general tendencies when describing relations between perceptions of culture and CC practices. Future case studies and qualitative research could explore more subtle ways in which CC is influenced not only by the cultural context, but also – and probably even more – by institutional environments. Originality/value – This is the first cross-cultural survey to systematically describe on the level of primary data, the links between CC practices and perceptions of the organisational environment. Since the results indicate only a limited impact of culture, the authors would recommend the rehabilitation of the “nation variable”. Provided it is understood and differentiated as a representation of specific institutional contexts, the nation variable is likely to prove highly instructive when accounting for the diversity of CC observed around the world.
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Fitch, Kate. "Rethinking Australian public relations history in the mid-20th century." Media International Australia 160, no. 1 (August 2016): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x16651135.
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This article investigates the development of public relations in Australia and addresses calls to reconceptualise Australian public relations history. It presents the findings from an analysis of newspaper articles and industry newsletters in the 1940s and 1950s. These findings confirm the term public relations was in common use in Australia earlier than is widely accepted and not confined to either military information campaigns during the war or the corporate sector in the post-war period, but was used by government and public institutions and had increasing prominence through industry associations in the manufacturing sector and in social justice and advocacy campaigns. The study highlights four themes – war and post-war work, non-profit public relations, gender, and media and related industries – that enable new perspectives on Australian public relations history and historiography to be developed.
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Murray, Simone. "Think Global, Act Global: Corporate Content Streaming and Australian Media Policy." Media International Australia 116, no. 1 (August 2005): 100–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0511600111.
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Australia's media policy agenda has recently been dominated by debate over two key issues: media ownership reform, and the local content provisions of the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement. Challenging the tendency to analyse these issues separately, the article considers them as interlinked indicators of fundamental shifts occurring in the digital media environment. Converged media corporations increasingly seek to achieve economies of scale through ‘content streaming’: multi-purposing proprietary content across numerous digitally enabled platforms. This has resulted in rivalries for control of delivery technologies (as witnessed in media ownership debates) as well as over market access for corporate content (in the case of local content debates). The article contextualises Australia's contemporary media policy flashpoints within international developments and longer-term industry strategising. It further questions the power of media policy as it is currently conceived to deal adequately with the challenges raised by a converging digital media marketplace.
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Cucuzza, J. "MULTI-CLIENT COLLABORATIVE R&D CONTRIBUTING TO NATIONAL PROSPERITY: A TALE OF TWO INDUSTRIES." APPEA Journal 38, no. 1 (1998): 794. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj97053.
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The business landscape has undergone some significant changes over the last several years. Accompanying these changes has been an alignment of corporate R&D with business goals. This has resulted in significant downsizing of corporate research laboratories and the devolving responsibility for R&D matters to operating sites or business units. The downside of this is that the operations are now more than ever focussing on productivity, industrial relations and other essential short-term profitability-motivated issues. Consequently, the changing environment is creating cultures that value and reward short-term results. This short-termism has important implications to industry and the research community.One of the more successful and cost-effective mechanisms by which Australia can enhance its R&D base and consequent prosperity is through collaborative R&D. The Australian Minerals Industries Research Association (AMIRA), together with its oil and gas Division APIRA, has demonstrated over the years how effective this can be. AMIRA's raison d'etre is to assist the resource industries improve their technology position through collaborative R&D. It achieves this by working closely with researchers and industry to identify areas of common interest, develop research proposals, and seek financial support for these proposals from industry. Once a project commences, the Association administers the financial and reporting aspects, as well as monitoring progress, organising progress review meetings and assisting in technology transfer. AMIRA/APIRA has the track record, the systems and expertise to facilitate and manage collaborative R&D focussing on industry needs.The evolution of the Australian collaborative R&D environment in the oil and gas and minerals sectors has been significantly different. The oil and gas industry, particularly in exploration, does not have a history of strong collaborative R&D in Australia. The reasons for this are varied and can be found in the different corporate cultures between mineral and oil and gas companies.
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Bagust, Joanne. "The Culture of Bullying in Australian Corporate Law Firms." Legal Ethics 17, no. 2 (September 11, 2014): 177–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.5235/1460728x.17.2.177.
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Balakrishnan, Melodena Stephens, Payyazhi Jayashree, and Ian Michael. "Etihad: contributing to the UAE vision through Emiratisation." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20450621111110285.
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Subject area Strategy, Emiratisation (national policy); human resources (recruitment, training and development, organizational culture and values) and marketing (branding, communication), tourism (destination image). Study level/applicability Undergraduate and Postgraduate Business and Management. Case overview This case highlights the strategy and initiatives taken by Etihad to attract Emirati employees (local nationals) to join the organization. Etihad Airways is the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), based in Abu Dhabi, the national capital. Since its inception in 2003, the airline has grown faster than any other in commercial aviation history; it currently flies to more than 60 destinations in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. In the UAE, nationals or Emiratis comprise only 20 per cent of the overall population. According to the UAE 2021 Vision, the government's focus is on building the human capabilities on knowledge and innovation for Emiratis. This vision is reinforced in the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030, which aims to boost national participation, encourage women (national women are on average more highly educated than the men) and decrease the education – market demand gap through training. Expected learning outcomes This case can be used to teach strategy from the point of view of government, human resources and marketing. From the government point of view parallels can be drawn to other nations whose government have focused on policies to create opportunities for and to encourage local employability. An example of a similar programme that was very successful is the “Bumiputra” programme created for indigenous Malaysians in 1971. In the area of human resource strategy, recruitment, training, inculcation of corporate values are some areas that can be reinforced. Form the point of view of marketing; the case can be used to discuss branding from the point of view of people, loyalty building (internal) and communication (internal and external). Destination branding and the role airlines play can also be a discussion point from the strategic point of view with some opportunity for macro-environmental analysis using the PESTLE model. Supplementary materials A teaching note available upon request.
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Vance, Leonard, Maria M. Raciti, and Meredith Lawley. "Sponsorship selections: corporate culture, beliefs and motivations." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 21, no. 4 (October 3, 2016): 483–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-11-2015-0072.
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Purpose Sponsorship can be an effective strategic marketing tool yet it attracts criticism as a corporate indulgence shaped by the personal interests of senior executives. While research into the outcomes of sponsorship is extensive, the practices involved in sponsorship selections have been largely ignored. Today, sponsorship selection in large corporations is recommended to be a formal process involving evaluation criteria aligned to corporate policy and strategic priorities. Yet, in reality, corporate culture influences sponsorship selection, as do sponsorship managers’ beliefs about sponsorship types and motivations. The purpose of this paper is to explore sponsorship selection practices and to consider the interplay between corporate culture and sponsorship managers’ beliefs about sponsorship types and their motivations. The findings provide not only new interpretation of the literature but also reveal a detailed picture of sponsorship selection. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory qualitative study comprises in-depth interviews with senior sponsorship managers from eight large Australian companies that use sponsorship as a strategic marketing tactic. Findings This study concludes that the sponsorship selection process is strongly influenced by corporate culture as well as the sponsorship manager’s beliefs about sponsorship types and their motivations. Originality/value This study contributes to the sponsorship management research stream by providing important insights into under-researched factors that influence the sponsorship selection process.
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Fallon, Felicity, and Barry J. Cooper. "Corporate Culture and Greed - The Case of the Australian Wheat Board." Australian Accounting Review 25, no. 1 (March 2015): 71–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/auar.12031.
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Christopher, Joe. "Implementation of performance management in an environment of conflicting management cultures." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 69, no. 7 (February 15, 2020): 1521–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-02-2019-0071.
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PurposeThe aim of this paper is to examine how performance management (PM) is adopted in the public university sector and the problems it faces in an environment of conflicting management cultures.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on institutional logics as a theoretical framework and inductive qualitative interviews as a research approach.FindingsThe results reveal that the conflicting values instilled in key players aligned with the different cultures have resulted in PM assuming a hybrid form, rather than the corporate form. Three identified problematic factors further demonstrate that the level of hybridity varies across the sector. The paper alludes to a theory-practice gap as a result of the findings and the concept of negative hybridity and its risk to effective governance aligned with the corporate approach.Research limitations/implicationsThe results are limited to Australian public universities. In addition, interviews were conducted with a specific set of university management staff. A different perspective on the findings may have been generated with a different set of management or operational staff.Practical implicationsThe results provide policymakers and university management with information on the theory practice gap and the problematic factors contributing to it. It also informs policymakers to the risks associated with negative hybridity.Originality/valueThe results reveal the existence of a theory–practice gap because of a number of common problematic factors in the adoption of a corporate-oriented PM system in Australian public universities. The results highlight the need for further studies to establish the extent to which the current hybrid PM system deviates from the expected corporate-oriented PM system, and whether this poses a risk to effective governance aligned with the corporate approach.
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Crawford, Robert. "Culture and the multinational advertising agency: the rise and fall of Mojo-MDA, 1964-1991." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 12, no. 1 (June 27, 2019): 151–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-10-2018-0048.
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Purpose This paper aims to trace the emergence, rise and eventual fall of Mojo-MDA. Established as a creative consultancy in 1975, Mojo embarked on an ambitious growth strategy that would see it emerge as Australia’s first multinational agency. By examining the agency’s trajectory over the 1970s and 1980s, this paper revisits the story of an Australian agency with boundless confidence to develop a more nuanced understanding of the dynamic role played by corporate culture in the agency's fortunes. Design/methodology/approach This study uses reports and features published in the Australian advertising trade press, along with other first-hand accounts, including oral history interviews and personal correspondence with former agency staff. Findings By identifying the forces and influences affecting Mojo-MDA’s outlook and operations, this paper demonstrates the important yet paradoxical role that corporate culture plays in both building and undermining an agency’s ambitions and the need for marketing historians to pay closer attention to it. Originality/value This examination of an agency’s inner machinations over an extended period presents a unique perspective of the ways that advertising agencies operate, as well as the forces that drive and impede them, at both national and global levels. The Mojo-MDA story also illustrates the need for marketing and business historians to pay close attention to corporate culture and the different ways that it affects marketing business and practices.
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Gordon, M., M. Lockwood, J. Schirmer, F. Vanclay, and D. Hanson. "Adoption of community engagement in the corporate culture of Australian forest plantation companies." Australian Forestry 76, no. 1 (March 2013): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049158.2013.776925.
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YOU, Clark Li Ke, Max COULTHARD, and Sonja PETKOVIC-LAZAREVIC. "CHANGING CORPORATE CULTURE TO IMPROVE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: CASE OF THE AUSTRALIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY." Journal of Global Strategic Management 1, no. 4 (June 15, 2010): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.20460/jgsm.2010415839.
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Callaghan, Michael, and Greg Wood. "The engagement with business ethics." European Business Review 26, no. 4 (June 3, 2014): 286–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ebr-11-2013-0138.
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Purpose – The aim of this research was to determine the evolution of engagement with business ethics in the top 500 Australian corporations operating in the private sector from 1995 to 2010. Design/methodology/approach – Primary data were obtained via a non-sponsored and unsolicited self-administered mail questionnaire distributed to a census of the top 500 Australian companies operating in the private sector administered in both 1995 and 2010. This paper examines and compares the responses of the companies that possessed a code of ethics at those times. Findings – This paper finds that business ethics has continued to evolve over the period of the study and that, in most cases, such an evolution has been positive, with the majority of companies exhibiting high levels of engagement. Research limitations/implications – While the responses provided a rich picture of the evolution of Australian corporate engagement with business ethics, further longitudinal research exploring international and cross-cultural contexts would add to this understanding of organisational engagement. Practical and social implications – It would seem that codes of ethics have evolved beyond a regulatory requirement and are now considered an integral component of the corporate culture and commercial practice in the majority of Australia’s top 500 companies. Originality/value – Despite a history of business ethics research, longitudinal studies seeking to understand the evolution of corporate engagement to business ethics are exceedingly rare. This paper, unique and original in its focus on an Australian context, provides a basis for future studies focused on exploring international and cross-cultural contexts. This paper makes a substantive and valuable contribution to the literature as it quantifies the evolution of corporate engagement over a 15-year period.
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Massey, Brian L., and Jacqui Ewart. "Australian Journalists and Commitment to Organisational Change: A Longitudinal Study." Media International Australia 132, no. 1 (August 2009): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0913200104.
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This paper investigates the commitment of journalists to change programs, which is a previously unexplored aspect of organisational change. Studies of organisational change in newsrooms have until now focused on journalists' attitudes to change, rather than their commitment to change. This paper draws on the findings of a longitudinal survey of Australian journalists involved in an ongoing corporate change program in order to enrich the literature and theory-building around corporate change in media organisations. The organisational science literature is used to explore whether commitment to change operates among journalists in similar ways to other types of workers. The data are drawn from three annual surveys of journalists in 14 newsrooms operated by the Australian corporation APN News & Media. The paper explores the trajectory of the journalists' commitment to APN's corporate-change program across more than three years of change. Although the study is limited in that it examines only one media organisation's change program, it has implications for those researching in the field of organisational change in newsrooms — particularly at a theoretical level. It also has practical implications for those managing, planning and implementing change at the newsroom level.
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Mansoor, Sadia, and Muhammad Ali. "Women on Australian Boards and Corporate Social Responsibility." International Journal of Organizational Diversity 18, no. 2 (2018): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2328-6261/cgp/v18i02/15-28.
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Christopher, Joe, Sarath Ukwatte, and Prem Yapa. "How do government policies influence the governance paradigm of Australian public universities?" Journal of Management History 26, no. 2 (April 14, 2020): 231–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-04-2019-0029.
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Purpose This study aims to examine how government policies have influenced the governance paradigm of Australian public universities from a historical perspective. In doing so, it addresses current uncertainty on government-governance connectivity. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on Foucault’s concept of governmentality and governance and uses a developed framework of three constituents of governance to explore government–governance connectivity through a critical discourse analysis. Findings The findings reveal that government policies have influenced the three constituents of governance differently since 1823, resulting in three distinct governance discourses. In the third governance discourse, the findings reveal a deviation from policy directions towards corporate managerialism, resulting in a hybrid governance control environment. This scenario has arisen due to internal stakeholders continuing to be oriented towards the previous management cultures. Other factors include structural and legalistic obstacles to the implementation of corporate managerialism, validity of the underlying theory informing the policy directions towards corporate managerialism and doubts on the achievability of the market based reforms associated with corporate managerialism. The totality of these factors suggests a theory practice gap to be confirmed through further empirical research. There are also policy implications for policymakers to recognize the hybrid control environment and ascertain the risk the hybrid control environment poses towards the expected outcomes of corporate managerialism. Research limitations/implications The findings are limited to a critical discourse analysis of data from specific policies and journal publications on higher education and a developed framework of constituents of governance. Originality/value The study is the first to examine government–governance connectivity in Australian public universities and also the first to introduce a three-constituent governance framework as a conduit to explore such studies. The findings contribute to the literature in identifying a theory-practice gap and offer opportunities for further research to confirm them.
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Christopher, Joe. "Tension between the corporate and collegial cultures of Australian public universities: The current status." Critical Perspectives on Accounting 23, no. 7-8 (December 2012): 556–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2012.06.001.
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Colaco, Beverly, and Natasha M. Loi. "Investigating the relationship between perception of an organisation’s ethical culture and worker motivation." International Journal of Organizational Analysis 27, no. 5 (November 4, 2019): 1392–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoa-08-2018-1511.
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Purpose This study aims to examine whether an individual’s perception of the ethical culture of their organisation could be used to predict their work motivation. Design/methodology/approach Using the corporate ethical virtues model as a foundation, the role of distributive justice was explored through the development of a composite measure for assessing ethical organisational culture. The resulting six-factor solution was then used. Australian employees (N = 330; Mage = 38.40) completed an online survey examining perceptions of ethical culture, distributive justice and work motivation. Findings Results indicated that higher work motivation was associated with a higher perception of an organisation’s ethical culture. Additionally, the six dimensions of ethical culture accounted for significant variance in worker motivation, with factors relating to congruency of peers, clarity and feasibility being the best predictors. Originality/value This study provides useful cues for future research and interventions enabling organisations to take a more targeted approach to influence their ethical culture and, consequently, an individual’s motivation to work.
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Callaghan, Stephen. "Back to basics: achieving successful outcomes using structured contracting strategy." APPEA Journal 54, no. 2 (2014): 549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj13122.
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Cost blowouts have been one of the greatest challenges for the Australian gas industry in recent years. To understand these blowouts, it is essential to re-visit some of the basic project and contracting elements such as project timing, overall project cost, market conditions and corporate requirements, and review common pitfalls and misconceptions. Reviewing the Australian gas experience highlights the opportunities and limitations of different contracting strategies and it can identify lessons for future developments. While many organisations seek to transfer risk using hard dollar lump sum contracts with fixed pricing, the frequent failure to appreciate the upfront work required and imposition of unrealistic timeframes—on an organisation and the market—and corporate commitments and culture means this strategy often does not deliver. As the onshore gas industry moves into its next phase of development, ensuring efficient and cost-effective delivery of projects will become increasingly important. Understanding the limitations and strengths of different contracting strategies will be crucial to addressing the industry’s greatest ongoing challenge. Drawing on our involvement in a range of Australian gas projects, including a number of recent CSG projects, this extended abstract examines the spectrum of contracting options available to major gas infrastructure projects and it outlines the key techniques that can be used to ensure contracting strategies support effective project delivery.
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Goggin, Gerard, and Christopher Newell. "Crippling Competition: Critical Reflections on Disability and Australian Telecommunications Policy." Media International Australia 96, no. 1 (August 2000): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0009600111.
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Telecommunications reform in Australia, and in particular the introduction of competition, is often claimed to have delivered benefits to consumers. From the perspective of people with disability, this competition so far can been seen as crippling rather than enabling. There have been some gains for telecommunications for people with disabilities over the past decade in particular —delivered by slowly changing corporate attitudes buttressed by the explicit reference to the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 in the Telecommunications Act 1997. This article examines telecommunications and disability in Australia since 1975, and concludes that it is high time for a telecommunications and new media industry where measures of outcomes would include utilising the experiences and meeting the needs, expectations and aspirations of those who live with disability.