Business School

Research seminars

 
View of a male writing notes at a seminar

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 as they become available.

Lectopia recordings

Economics

Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.

 Date/Time  Speaker  Topic  Venue
9 March 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Curtis Eaton, University of Calgary
How many potential competitors is enough?
BUSN101
16 March 12.00pm - 1.00pm Sanna Markkanen, Curtin University
What role does regulation play in determining the size and scope of the private rented sector?
BUSN101
23 March 12.00pm - 1.00pm Christopher Spencer, Loughborough University
Voting on the policy rate BUSN101
30 March 12.00pm - 1.00pm Steven Schilizzi, School of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UWA
Three approaches to a thorny problem: evaluating procurement auctions
BUSN101
20 April 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Brenda Gannon, Leeds University
A structural model of Social Capital Investment, Retirement Decisions and Health: causal impacts of social capital investment on health BUSN101
24 April 12.00pm - 1.30pm Asep Suryahadi, Director of SMERU Research Institute Evaluating Indonesia's Unconditional Cash Transfer Program, 2005-2006 BUSN:G42
27 April 12.00pm - 1.00pm Maroš Servátka, University of Canterbury
Status quo effects in fairness games: Acts of commission vs. acts of omission
BUSN101
4 May 12.00pm - 1.00pm Marit Kragt, School of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UWA Attribute Non-Attendance in Environmental Choice Experiments
BUSN101
11 May 12.00pm - 1.00pm Jeff Sheen, Macquarie University
Optimal Monetary Policy for an Imperfect Economy
BUSN101

Accounting and Finance

 

Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.

 Date/Time  Speaker  Topic  Venue
2 March 11.00am - 12.00pm
Carole Comerton-Forde, Australian National University
Shorting at close range: A tale of two types
BUSN101
9 March 11.00am - 12.00pm
Sean Pinder, University of Melbourne
Short-sale Constraints and Limits
BUSN101
16 March 11.00am - 12.00pm
Tami Dinh Thi, University of New South Wales
Booms, Busts, and Sentiment
BUSN101
23 March 11.00am - 12.00pm Chris van Staden, University of Canterbury
Environmental disclosures by the global electricity generation industry: contry and firm effects
BUSN101
30 March 11.00am - 12.00pm Phil Gray, Monash University
Stock Returns, Portfolios Weights and Non-trading
BUSN101
5 April 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Sun Qian, University of China
How Cross-listings from an Emerging Economy affect the Host Market?
Ernst & Young Lecture Theatre
20 April 11.00am - 12.00pm
Terry Walter, UTS
Do frictions Associated with Market Microstructure Explain the Ex-Dividend Day Anomaly?
BUSN 1.01
20 April 11.00am - 12.00pm  Peter Clarkson, University of Queensland  Target price forecasts: Fundamentals and behavioral anchors  BUSN 1.01
27 April 11.00am - 12.00pm  Barry Oliver, Australian National University  Decomposing the Effect of Consumer Sentiment News - Evidence from US Stock and Stock index Futures Markets  BUSN 1.01
4 May 11.00am - 12.00pm  Bryan Howieson, University of Adelaide  TBA  BUSN 1.01
25 May 11.00am - 12.00pm   Andrew Jackson, University of New South Wales  Does Accounting Quality Enhance the Timeliness of Price Discovery?  BUSN 1.01
1 June 11.00am - 12.00pm  Rob Brooks, Monash University  Responding to uncertainty caused by volatility: explaining irrigator price clustering behaviour in Victoria's water markets  BUSN 1.01

Marketing

 Date/Time  Speaker  Topic  Venue
23 March 11.00am - 12.00pm
Delma Poniman, PhD proposal, UWA
Traceability in Halal Food Supply Chains from a Business Network Perspective
BUSN 201
30 March 11.00am - 12.00pm Alex Tan, UWA
The Asset Specificity Issue in Internationalization of R & D
BUSN 201
20 April 11:00am - 12:00pm
Tim Daly, UWA
Consumer Bargaining
BUSN 201
4 May 11:00am - 12:00pm
Alexander Kokshoorn & Fiona Hanrahan, UWA Honours Student
Honours Proposal Presentations (taken from Article G & E)
BUSN 201
11 May 11:00am - 12:00pm Julie Lee, UWA
The Values Project
BUSN 201
18 May 11:00am - 12:00pm Geoff Soutar, UWA
Introduction to WARPPLS Analysis Program
BUSN 201

Management and Organisations

Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.

 Date/Time  Speaker  Topic  Venue
3 February 12.00pm - 1.00pm Prof. Andrea Hollingshead, University of Southern California Hidden (and not so Hidden) Agendas in Groups and Online Communities BUSN 142
1 February 12.00pm - 1.00pm Jue Wang, PhD Student, UWA Business School

Single-Resource Revenue Management with Demand Dependency: An Empirical Study of Choice-Based Optimisation

BUSN 201

3 February 12.00pm - 1.00pm Peter Carnevale, University of Southern California Property Negotiation, the Role of Groups, Markets & Culture BUSN 242
6 February 12.30pm - 2.00pm Prof. Guy Standing, University of Bath Analysing the Rise of the Implications of the Precariat BUSN 142
10 February 12.00pm - 1.30pm Sabine Sonnetag, University of Mannheim Recovery from Job Stress: The Importance of Psychological Detachment BUSN 201
24 February 10.00am - 11.00am Sandra Mashinini, Phd Student, UWA The Changing Nature of the Employment Relationship in Aged Care BUSN242
2 March 12.00pm - 1.30pm Markus Pudelko, Tubingen University Language Competencies, Policies and Practices in Multinational Corporations BUSN201
12 March 11.00am - 1.30pm Patrick Gunnigle, University of Limerick Multinational companies and human resource management during the global financial crisis; the experience of a small, highly globalised economy BUSN242
16 March 12.00pm - 1.30pm John Cordery, UWA Organisational Communities of Practice: Do they function like teams? BUSN201
19 March 1.00pm - 2.00pm Andrew Herod, University of Georgia Labor Union Organizing in Early 21st Century USA BUSN142

3 April 1.00pm - 2.00pm

Dana Crisan, UWA Investigating Exposure to Particulate Matter (PM) in Urban Areas BUSN201
19 April 2.00pm - 3.00pm David Hensher, University of Sydney Choosing Public Transport: Some Behavioural Challenges BUSNG.42
20 April  12:00pm - 1:00pm Winthrop Professor Cristina Gibson, UWA  A Journey Toward Collaborative Cultural Competency Building to Increase Sustainable Social Impact  BUSN201 
27 April 12.00pm - 1:00pm Prof. Timothy Devinney, University of Technology, Sydney Being in Good Standing: The Value of a Corporate, Workplace & Social Reputation to Potential Executive Employees BUSN201
11 May 12.00pm - 1.00pm Tim Ballard, UWA The Influence of Risk Framing on Goal-Directed Action Selection During Multiple Goal Pursuit BUSN201