Business School

Research Seminars


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These seminars are provided for staff and students of the Business School. Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided in most instances.  The Semester 2, 2009 seminars will be published as they become available.

Lectopia Recordings

Economics


Date/Time Speaker Topic Venue
Friday 31 July 12.00pm - 1.00pm
K N Bhatt - GB Pant Social Science Institute
The Crisis in the Indian Agrarian Economy
Case Study Room 260
Friday 7 August 12.00pm-1.00pm
David Gruen - Australian Treasury
The Global Financial Crisis and the Implicationsw for Macroeconomics and Finance
Case Study Room 260
Friday 21 August 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Kent Deng - LSE
Growth with Declining Living Standards: The case of Maoism, 1949-1976
Case Study Room 260
Friday 28 August 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Prof. Anping Cheng - Jinin University and Visiting Professor UWA
Reducing Regional Disparities in China: Is there a national output trade-off?
Case Study Room 260
Friday 4 September 12.00 - 1.00pm
Prof. Heather Anderson - Australian National University
Forecasting under Structural Accumulation in China: Causes and International Impacts
Case Study Room 260
Friday 18 September 12.00 - 1.00pm
W/Prof. Peter Robertson - UWA
Trade Costs and Skill Accumulation in China: Causes and International Impacts
Case Study Room 260
Friday 25 September 12.00 - 1.00pm
A/Prof. Mike Dockery - Curtin University
The Cost of Children
Case Study Room 260
Friday 2 October 12.00 - 1.00pm
Bill Russell - University of Dundee
Phillips Curve
Case Study Room 260
Friday 9 October
Prof. Prasada Rao - University of Queensland
Consistent Comparisons of Real Incomes acros Timeand Space under Non-homothetic Preferences
Case Study Room 260
Friday 16 October 12.00 - 1.00pm
Lisa Magnani - University of New South Wales
TBA
Case Study Room 260
Friday 23 October
Bernardo da Vega - Curtin University
Econometric Risk Modelling
Case Study Room 260

Accounting and Finance

 

Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.


Date/Time Speaker Topic Venue
Friday 31 July 10.30am Honours Students Presentations Director Trades around M&A Announcements
and
Shooting the Messenger: Short Selling Bans and Implications for Market Quality
Case Study Room 201
Friday 31 July 11.00am Dr Victoria Clout - Business School Investigating the Relationship between Market Values and Accounting Numbers for Australian Listed Companies Case Study Room 201
Friday 7 August 11.00am Prof Stephen Brown -  New York University Stern School of Business TBA Michael Chaney Case Study Room G42
Friday 14 August 11.00am - 12.00pm
Prof Bryan Howieson - University of Adelaide
ALTC Research Grant on Feedback Practices to Accounting Students
Michael Chaney Case Study Room G42
Friday 21 August 11.00am - 12.00pm
Prof Jonathon Rogers - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Disclosure Tone and Shareholder Litigation
Michael Chaney Case Study Room G42
Friday 28 August 11.00am - 12.00pm
Mr Dane Etheridge - UWA Business School
The Impact of Board Networks on Information Asymmetry in Mergers and Acquisitions
Michael Chaney Case Study Room G42
Friday 4 September 11.00am - 12.00pm
Dr Yuhui Lan - UWA Business School
A Wavelet Analysis of Purchasing Power Parity
Michael Chaney Case Study Room G42
Friday 18 September 11.00am - 12.00pm
Dr Duy Tran - UWA Business School
The Relationship Between Persistent and Erratic Volatility Factors and Trading Activity Michael Chaney Case Study Room G42
Friday 25 September 11.00am - 12.00pm
Nelly Samarasekara - UWA Business School PhD students
The impact of regulation and enforcement on accounting quality
Michael Chaney Case Study Room G42, Ground Floor, UWA Business School (Hackett Entrance 4)
Friday 2 October - 11.00am - 12.00pm
Dr Jing Yu - UWA Business School
Are Earnings Announcements Informative? A Cross-Country Analysis
Michael Chaney Case Study Room G42, Ground Floor, UWA Business School (Hackett Entrance 4)
Monday 19 October 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Prof. Mary Bath - Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting Stanford Graduate School of Business
Asset Securitizations and Credit Risk
Tony Howarth Case Study Room, G01 Ground Floor, UWA Business School (Hackett Entrance 4)

Doctoral Seminar Series

The Doctoral Seminars are held both in Perth and in Singapore.  Please see details below.

PERTH
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SINGAPORE  
 
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Marketing

Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.

Date/Time Speaker Topic Venue
Friday 17 July 2.30pm Susan Golicic - Colarado State University
Searching for a Competitive Edge: Innovation and sustainability in the global wine supply chain
Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room 261
Thursday 6 August 10.00am - 1.00pm
Peter LaPlaca - Editor Industrial Marketing Management
How to Write a World Class Paper
Myers Street Lecture Theatre, Myers Street Building, Room 2.06
Friday 7 August
11.00am
Stephan Dann - Australian National University
The Australian Social Marketing Experience
Business School Case Study Room 201
Friday 21 August 11.00am
Budi Soetarto, Ken Yap - Honours Students, and Prof Jill Sweeney - Business School
Electronic Word of Mouth in Online Communities: An exploration into the why, what and how?
Business School Case Study Room 201
Friday 18 September 11.00am
Daniel Schepis - Business School Research student
Country of Origin Effects on Consumer Decisions for Unpackaged Seafood
Business School Case Study Room 201
Friday 13 November 11.00am
Saleem Sadeque - Business School PhD Student
Effectiveness of Warning Labels in Online Gambling Context
Business School Case Study Room 242
Thursday 26 November 11.00am
Prof.Sabrina Helm - University of Arizona
The Credibility Effect of Paid vs Non Paid Referrals
Business School Case Study Room 201

Management and Organisations

Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.

*denotes brownbag research presentation and discussion

Date/Time Speaker Topic Venue
*Friday 24 July 12.00pm Dr Kerrie Unsworth - Business School

Integrating Motivation Theories: How do job characteristics, goal-setting, and self-regulation interact?

Don Voelte and Nancy Keegan Case Study Room 101
TBA Mr Mohsin Malik -  Business School PhD Student Operational Planning in the Pulp and Paper Supply Chain Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room 261
Tuesday 28 July 5.30pm - 7.00pm
A/Prof Sanjay Goel - Labovitz School of Business and Economics, Duluth and Mr Wayne Bubb - Managing Director Business Coaching Systems, WA
Sources of Competitive Advantage: Bringing the family back in
Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room 261
Friday 31 July 2.30pm Mohd Azham - Business School PhD Student The Effects of Task-Technology Fit on User Performance Impacts: The case of human resource management information system in the Malaysian public sector
Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room 261
Friday 14 August 2.30pm
Norhisham Nordin
Wikis for Knowlege sharing and collaborative learning: Results of a design research study
Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room 261
Tuesday 18 August 5.00pm to 7.00pm
Prof Tracey Horton - Dean Business School, Prof Alan Robson - Vice Chancellor UWA, Prof Webster and Dr Bezuidenhout - University of the Witwatersrand, Prof Rob Lambert - Business School, Prof Fellow Carmen Lawrence - UWA's Institute of Advanced Studies
Debating the Free Market in an Age of Insecurity
Ernst and Young Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, UWA Business School
Friday 21 August
12.00pm
Prof Ian Williamson - University of Melbourne
Rethinking Employee Mobility: The different performance impacts of employee mobility between competitors versus co-operators
Don Voelte and Nancy Keegan Case Study Room 101
Friday 21 August
2.30pm

Ms Jingqiu Guo - Student Business School

Analysis and Modelling Methods for the Design of an in-vehicle Information System
Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room 261

Friday 28 August 2:30pm -

Pauline Joseph- Student Business School
Information Seeking Behaviours of EDRMS Users
Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room 261
Friday 4 September 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Prof. David Day - UWA Business School
Person and Group-Centred Research on Leader
Development: Analyzing Developmental Trajectories

BUSN101 Don Voelte & Nancy Keegan Case Study Room
Friday 11 September 2.30pm - 3.30pm
Arthur Wilson - UWA Business School PhD Student
When Communities Collide: The Convergence of Physical and Electronic Communities
Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room 261
Wednesday 16 September - 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Dr Mike Gillan and Prof. Rob Lambert - UWA Business School
AEG ist Deutschland: Corporate Restructuring and the AEG-Electrolux Strike 2005-2006
Business School Tutorial Room 264
Friday 18 September 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Dr Sandra Kiffin-Petersen - UWA Business School
Emotional Labour of Salespersons: A multilevel experience sampling study
BUSN101 Don Voelte & Nancy Keegan Case Study Room
Wednesday 2 October 12.00pm to 1.00pm Dr Gillian Yeo - UWA Business School Feedback-seeking and performance: Differential effects as a functon of feedback type. Feedback sign and task practice Don Voelte & Nancy Keegan Case Study Room 101
Wednesday 21 October 2.00pm to 3.30pm  
Dr Donella Caspersz - UWA Business School
Temporary Labour Migration and Trade Union Responses
Business School Tutorial Room 264
Friday 23 October 12.00pm to 1.00pm
Elisa Adriasola - Business School PhD
StudentLeadership’s Effect on Motivation: The Role of Self-Concordance in Work Motivation BUSN160 Hawaiian Tutorial Room
Wednesday 28 October 2.00pm to 3.30pm
Jennifer De Vries - UWA Business School PhD candidate
Disrupting the Gendered Power Order? Do ‘Women Only’ Initiatives Still Have a Place?
BUSN264 Business School Case Study Room
Friday 30 October 12.00pm to 1.00pm
Visiting Winthrop Professor Christina Gibson - UWA Business School
Musings on Mosaics and Queries on
Kaleidoscopes: Reflections on Cross-Cultural and Virtual Teams

BUSN101 Don Voelte & Nancy Keegan Case Study Room
Friday 6 November 12.00pm to 1.00pm
Dana McDaniel - PhD candidate Paul Merage School of Business, University of California Irvine
Energy at Work: A Multinational, Cross-
Situational Investigation of Relational Energy

BUSN142 Sir Rod Eddington Case Study Room
Friday 13 November 2.00pm to 3.00pm
Markus Botte - Technical Services Manager, City of Gosnells
How Do We Measure the Impact of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) on Activity Travel Behaviour
BUSN261 Trevor Eastwood Tutorial Room




Research Development Seminar Series


Please note this program is currently in draft form.  Please check closer to the date of each seminar for updates to content.

Papers from the Research Development Seminar Series.

Date/Time Speaker Topic Venue
Wednesday 25 March
12pm - 2pm
A/Prof. Julie Lee and Prof. John Cordery - UWA Business School

ARC Linkage Grants: Building and developing relationships with industry partners


Alliance Seminar Room 1, Grd Flr, Business School
Wednesday 22 April
12pm - 2pm
Prof. David Yermack and Prof. David Day - UWA Business School Visiting Fellows
Publications Workshop - building academic profile, publishing strategies, tips from journal reviewers
Alliance Seminar Room 1, Grd Flr, Business School
Wednesday 20 May 12pm - 2pm
Joanne House - Healthway
Healthway seminar: how to apply for Healthway funding
Alliance Seminar Room 1, Grd Flr, Business School
Wednesday 29 July
Sato Juniper
PhD Supervision - Managing the Relationship: Roles and expectations and time management

Wednesday 6 August
Peter LaPlaca
How to Write a World Class Paper
TBC
Wednesday 30 September
Panel: TBC
ARC - Discovery. Tips and Strategies in Developing ARC Discovery Proposals.
TBC
Friday  October 9
1/2 day seminar with Prof Tom Smith (ANU),  and Prof Tim Mazzarol - Business School
Developing Research Potential in the Business School
TBC
Wednesday 28 October
Prof Jill Sweeney and Panel
Publishing from your PhD
TBC