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 as they become available.

Lectopia recordings

Economics

Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.

 Date/Time  Speaker  Topic  Venue

Accounting and Finance

 

Abstracts of the upcoming and previous seminars are also provided.

 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

Marketing

 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
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