History in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools: The Proceedings of the First AAHANZBS Conference.: Recent submissions
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We’ve Been Down this Road Before: Evidence on the Health Consequences of Precarious Employment in Industrial Societies, 1840-1920
Published 2009-12-01A large body of international scientific research now indicates that the growth of job insecurity, flexible/temporary work and precarious forms of self-employment have had significant negative consequences for occupational ...Open AccessConference paper -
When History is Ignored: Business Black Swans and the Use and Abuse of a Notion
Published 2009-12-01Historical enquiry reveals how ideas mutate. This account of the ideas underpinning how fair value accounting (FVA) drifted into corporate financial reporting shows that a primary lesson of business history is that we ...Open AccessConference paper -
Using Historical Perspective to Enhance Understanding of the Relationship Between Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action and Diversity Management
Published 2009-12-01The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the value of considering Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Affirmative Action (AA) and Diversity Management (DM) and the relationships between them from an historical perspective. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Car Parking Matters to Small Retailers: An Historical Case Study of Three Town Centres in Marrickville
Published 2009-12-01Increasing the costs of car parking and in some cases removing it has become recommended practice for discouraging car use. To understand the perspective of the high street retail cluster who will be confronted with such ...Open AccessConference paper -
Can Historical Research into Fengshui Tell Us Anything about Business in China?
Published 2009-12-01The commodification of higher education has been led by business schools in Australia, and they have been accused of teaching merely technique and preaching greed in their manifesto of career and revenue generation. The ...Open AccessConference paper