Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by publication year
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New Beginnings: Tackling the Problem of Lookism and the Role of Dress for Success
Published 2013-01-01This report provides a brief commentary on the issue of lookism and the problems this may present for many women seeking employment both in Australia and overseas. It then presents research on the organisation Dress for ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Exploring the Relationship between Perceived Acceptability and Referendum Voting Support for Alternative Road Pricing Schemes
Published 2013-01-01stakeholders as a pre-condition for gaining support from politicians. This paper explores the key influences and the extent to which particular road pricing schemes are acceptable to the community at large, and how this ...Open AccessArticle -
The effect of abductive reasoning on concept selection decisions
Published 2015This study examines the effect of the form of logical reasoning on concept selection decisions. An experiment was conducted with members of a committee called upon to decide whether or not to invest in new product concepts. ...Article -
Australia’s International Business Survey: 2015 Report
Published 2015-01-01This report provides the results of a major survey of Australia’s internationally active businesses, known as Australia’s International Business Survey (AIBS). This AIBS 2015 survey is a follow-up to the inaugural surve ...Open AccessOther -
Does scheduling matter? When unscheduled decision making results in more effective meetings
Published 2016Purpose Managers spend a great deal of time in meetings making decisions critical to organisational success, yet the design aspects of meetings remain largely understudied. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the ...Open AccessArticle -
Design Thinking as Principles for the Structure of Creative Cities
Published 2016Birds build nests, and bees build hives, and bowerbirds build bowers. Humans build villages, suburbs, urban metropolises, space stations, and virtual, online worlds we cannot actually live in but often spend more time in. ...Article -
Generative sensing in design evaluation
Published 2016The analysis of design review conversations from a junior-level undergraduate industrial design course and an entrepreneurship course uncovered a new pattern of design thinking. Design thinking during concept evaluation ...Open AccessArticle -
Australia’s International Business Survey: 2016 Report
Published 2016-01-01This report provides the results of Australia’s International Business Survey 2016. This latest report follows our surveys of Australia’s international businesses published in 2015 and 2014. The findings of this report are ...Open AccessOther -
PERSPECTIVAS INTERNACIONALES SOBRE LAS POLITICAS DE TRANSPORTE ADAPTADO Y ENFOQUES PARA ASIGNAR TRANSPORTE ACCESIBLE
Published 2016-01-01Purpose: The impetus was to assess pluses and minuses of a national mandate with specific paratransit guidelines in “the” 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) model). Two European countries were chosen to explore ...Open AccessBook chapter -
PERSPECTIVES INTERNATIONALES SUR LES MESURES POUR OFFRIR DES TRANSPORTS ACCESSIBLES AUX PERSONNES À MOBILITÉ RÉDUITE
Published 2016-01-01Purpose: The impetus was to assess pluses and minuses of a national mandate with specific paratransit guidelines in “the” 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) model). Two European countries were chosen to explore ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Bio-inspired Design: Explicating the Value of Bio-Inspiration
Published 2017Policymakers and stakeholders are asking corporations to innovate and synchronize their practices with that of the natural environment. In this hopefully thought-provoking position paper, we use a comprehensive review of ...Open AccessConference paper -
Behavioral Strategy and the Strategic Decision Architecture of the Firm
Published 2017This special issue explores the impacts of behavioral strategy on management practice. Behavioral strategy can best contribute to management practice by shifting its focus from individual decision biases to the design of ...Article -
Does organizational politics kill company growth?
Published 2017Purpose Whether an organization’s political behaviour is positively related to its performance has been a long-standing question. Most studies elaborating on this issue, although rich in detail, primarily have been limited ...Open AccessArticle -
The Effects of Relative Size, Profitability, and Growth on Corporate Capital Allocations
Published 2017Resource allocation in firms is often done in relative terms. Allocations to each project or, in the case of multibusiness firms, business segments are not made independently but through comparisons among the options. In ...Open AccessArticle -
The value of bank capital buffers in maintaining financial system resilience
Published 2017There is a current controversy concerning the appropriate size of banks’ capital requirements, and the trade-off between the costs and benefits of implementing higher capital requirements. We quantify the size of capital ...Open AccessArticle -
Skipping a beat: Assessing the state of gender equality in the Australian music industry
Published 2017-01-01This report demonstrates that male advantage is a pervasive feature of the Australian music industry. Using publicly available published data the report interrogates the industry dynamics that have produced a contemporary ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Teaching & Learning: Review of Workload
Published 2017-01-01This report presents findings of a workload study of teachers and school leaders in NSW public schools in 2017. The project was undertaken at the request of the NSW Teachers Federation arising from concerns expressed at ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Prisoner's Dilemma
Published 2018A fundamental problem in game theory, the Prisoner's Dilemma shows that players may not choose cooperative behaviour even when it is in their best interest to do so.Open AccessBook chapter -
Five Things You Should Know About Cost Overrun
Published 2018This paper gives an overview of good and bad practice for understanding and curbing cost overrun in large capital investment projects, with a critique of Love and Ahiaga-Dagbui (2018) as point of departure. Good practice ...Article