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.
Lectopia recordings
Economics
Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.
| Date/Time | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
| 1 March 11.00am - 12.00pm | Asst Prof. Darwin Choi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Performace-Chasing Behavior and Mutual Funds: New Evidence from Multi-Fund Managers | BUSN 2.01 |
| 22 March 11.00am - 1.00pm | Inderpal Singh |
TBC | BUSN 2.01 |
| 15 March 11.00am - 1.00pm |
Prof. Jonas Heese, Maastricht University | The Role of Revenue Management in the Trade-Off Decision between Earnings Management Strategies |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 28 March 11.00am - 1.00pm | Prof. David Yermack, New York University | Smokescreen: How managers behave when they have something to hide |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 12 April 11.00 - 1.00pm |
David Johnstone |
A Bayesian Understanding of Information Uncertainty and the Cost of Capital |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 19 April 11.00am - 1.00pm |
Prof. Bruce Grundy, University of Melbourne | Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 26 April 11.00am - 1.00pm | Brian Rountree |
TBC |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 3 May 11.00am - 1.00pm | Robert Faff |
The Value of Cash Holdings- Financial Constraints, Governance and Crisis Effects |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 10 May 11.00am - 1.00pm | Frank Zhang |
Investor Sentiment and Accounting Conservatism |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 17 May 11.00am - 1.00pm | Mark Wilson |
Corporate Governance and Motives for Political Donations |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 24 May 11.00am - 1.00pm | Paul Coram |
Earnings Management Decisions: The Role of Economics and Ethics |
BUSN 2.01 |
| 31 May 11.00am - 1.00pm | Allan Hodgson |
Rent extraction by directors or outside information transfer? - An examination of the impact of regulation on insider trading |
BUSN 2.01 |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
| 15 April 11.00am - 12.00pm |
Sharon Purchase, UWA Business School |
Intersections in the Identity Work of Sikh Entrepreneurs in Thailand |
BUSN 263 |
| 22 April 11.00am - 12.00pm |
Thierry Volery, University of St. Gallen |
How would Mintzberg study and Entrepreneur? Shining some much needed light into the black |
BUSN 263 |
| 30 April 9.300am - 12.00pm |
Marketing Honours Student, UWA Business School |
BUSN 201 |
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| 20 May 11.00am - 12.00pm |
Paul Harrigan, UWA Business School |
BUSN 263 | |
| 27 May 11.00am - 12.00pm |
Alex Tan, UWA Business School |
Firm-level innovation and new venture performance: The moderating effect of industry innovations |
BUSN 263 |
| 17 June 11.00am - 12.00pm |
Kristof Coussement, School of Management, France |
BUSN 201 |
Management and Organisations
Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.
| Date/Time | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
| 1 February 12.00pm - 1.30pm | Prof. Jim Walsh, University of Michigan | Better than Empire: Active Corporate Restructuring and CEO Compensation | BUSN 142 |
| 11 February 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Prof. Sue Ashford, University of Michigan | Leadership Construction in Prganisations | BUSN 142 |
| 22 February 1.00pm -2.00pm |
Prof. Martin Hoegl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen |
What Makes the Glass Half Full and (How) does it Matter? Material Resource Perceptions in Innovation Projects |
BUSN 142 |
|
12 March 1.00pm - 2.00pm |
Prof. Gary Jones, Concordia University |
Presenteeism at Work: Problems and Promise |
BUSN 201 |
| 15 March 12.00pm - 1.00pm |
Dr Guihyun Park, Singapore Management University |
Psychological Factors Predicting Inter-team Cooperation and Competition |
BUSN 142 |
| 18 March 12.00pm - 1.30pm |
Prof. Andrw Herod, University of Georgia |
Labour union organising in early 21st Century USA |
Sports Science Exercise & Health - Robyn Gray Lecture Theatre |
| 5 April 12.00pm - 1.00pm |
Julia Backmann, LMU Munich |
Soaking it Up: Team Absorptive Capacity and Innovation Performance in New Product Development Teams |
BUSN 142 |
| 12 April 12.00pm - 1.00pm |
Jim O'Farrekk, UWA |
Veiwing ERP Usability Through the Lens of Sociomateriality |
BUSN 142 |
| 19 April 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Ellza Byington, University of New South Wales | Coworker Satisfaction in 3-D | BUSN 142 |
| 7 June 12.00pm - 1.00pm |
Ziad Matni, Rutgers' University |
Using Big Data in Social Media to Make Sense of Cities |
BUSN 142 |
| 21 June 12.00pm - 1.00pm |
John Rose, University of Sydney |
Measuring Community Attitudes Toward Transport Investment |
BUSN G42 |
| 27 July 12.00pm - 1.00pm |
Matthew Hayward, University of Colorado |
Micro-Financing Within Firms: How Employers' Informal Loan Choice Builds Trust, Social Capital and Firm Profits |
BUSN 142 |