Business School

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.
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 |
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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 |