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Stream Chair Bios 2015
No. Stream Name University Contact Details Bio
Conor O’Kane University of Otago [email protected]
Conor O’Kane is a Senior Lecturer in strategic management. Conor’s research interests focus on leadership and corporate turnaround as well as the changing role-identity of scientists, technology transfer offices and the
entrepreneurial university at the micro-foundation of the Triple Helix.
Elizabeth Rose University of Otago [email protected]
Elizabeth Rose is a Professor of International Business in the Department of Management. Her research interests involve various aspects of internationalisation and global strategy, including foreign direct investment, multimarket
competition, globalisation strategies of small- and medium-sized firms and service-sector internationalisation. She also has a long-standing interest in the Japanese business context.
Janet Sayers Massey University [email protected]
Janet Sayers is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management. She is interested in issues around the organisation of human experiences. Particularly, her research focuses on the tensions experienced in service delivery by
employees required to deliver personal relationship services in corporate-discourse laden, highly mediated, technological systems.
Bronwyn Boon University of Otago [email protected]
Bronwyn Boon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management. Her research interests are orientated around the philosophy and sociology of organisation. Particular research themes include critical management studies,
discourse, identity and place. She also has an emerging interest in organisation and work within the not-for-profit sector.
Jo Kirkwood University of Otago [email protected]
Jodyanne Kirkwood is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management. She is also the academic leader of the University of Otago Centre for Entrepreneurship. Her research is centred on areas involving ecopreneurs, social
entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship education. Jo is currently working on a study of Tall Poppy Syndrome and its effects on business owners.
Martina Battisti Massey University [email protected]
Martina is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management. Her research areas involve small business management and entrepreneurship. She is particularly interested in the factors that contribute to business growth and
innovation and the role of policy and support programmes.
Chris Graves University of Adelaide [email protected]
Chris is a Senior Lecturer in accounting and family business. Chris’s research interests focus on management and international growth of SMEs and family businesses; organisational financial distress and turnaround strategies; and
the development and application of product costing and performance measurement systems within organisations.
Donella Caspersz University of Western Australia [email protected]
Donella is a Lecturer in international management, and employment relations. Donella’s research interests focus on the fields of family business governance and management issues related to bargaining, temporary migrant
labour; and service-learning.
Carlene Boucher RMIT [email protected]
Carlene is an Associate Professor at RMIT in Melbourne. Carlene's research interest focus on health services management, leadership, difference and organization, gender and work, human resource management and emotional
labour. Her current research examines the role of emotional resilience in the life of managers in the health industry and explores the experience of managers with disabilities.
Diane Ruwhiu University of Otago [email protected]
Diane is Lecturer in strategic operations and supply chain management. Diane's core research interests investigate indigenous perspectives and socio-cultural dynamics of organisational practice. In addition, she introduces M?ori
values and practice into entrepreneurship, research methods, business communication, and organisations and sustainability.
Ann Dadich University of Western Sydney [email protected]
Ann is a Senior Lecturer in human resource and management. Ann’s research interests focus on health service management with emphasis on knowledge translation that is the processes by which knowledge gained from empirical
research is translated into practice. She is also a registered psychologist and a member of the Australian Psychological Society.
Louise Kippist University of Western Sydney [email protected] Louise is a Lecturer in human resource and management. Louise’s research interests focus on health service management with emphasis on process improvement techniques and innovative approaches for knowledge transfer.
Fiona Edgar University of Otago [email protected]
Fiona is a Senior Lecturer in human resource management, industrial relations and management theory. Fiona’s research interests focus on human resource management – the employee perspective, wellbeing in the workplace
and knowledge workers as well as partnerships under industrial relations.
Paula O’Kane University of Otago [email protected]
Paula is a Senior Lecturer in management. Her research interests focus on the use of technology for communication within organisational settings, with a specific focus on the use and efficacy of social media, the transfer of training
from the classroom to the workplace, which considers how educators and other stakeholders can make training more effective for the individual and their organisation and the role of computer-aided qualitative data analysis
software (CAQDAS) within the research process.
Maryam Omari Edith Cowan University [email protected]
Maryam is an Associate Professor in human resource management. Maryam’s research interests focus on international studies, cross-cultural management, international human resource management, workplace bullying and
business and culture. She has over 20 years’ experience in academia and over 17 years’ experience in human resource management with the last 7 years of that spent as an HR Manager.
Hadrian Djajadikerta Edith Cowan University [email protected]
Hadrian is an Associate Professor in accounting for management decision making and the Associate Head of the School of Business. Hadrian’s research interests focus on strategic management accounting, sustainability reporting,
corporate social reporting, strategic alliances, learning approaches as well as research in these fields in Indonesia and the Australasia region.
Herman Tse Griffith University [email protected] Herman Tse is a Senior Lecturer in the Griffith Business School. His research interests include transformational leadership, relational leadership, emotions in teams, multilevel issues in organizations and Chinese management issues
Marie dela Rama University of Technology Sydney [email protected] Marie dela Rama is an Associate Lecturer in the Management Discipline Group. Her areas of research interest include ethics, corporate governance and business financing.
Peter McLean University of Wollongong [email protected]
Dr Peter McLean is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Operations and Marketing. His current research interests focus on issues of corporate social responsibility education, employee ethical dilemmas, and employee
perceptions of their duty of fidelity. Other research projects explore issues of identity, sensemaking and organisational discourse in a range of contexts from disability and aged care to coal mines.
Christa Wood University of Wollongong [email protected]
Christa is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Management, Operations and Marketing. With over following over 11 years' experience in the federal public service Christa now researches the effects of reform programs on the
motivation of public servants. Other areas of research interest include customer service orientation in the public service, team-based learning, teaching and learning in higher education, and business communication.
Aron O'Cass University of Marketing [email protected]
Aron is a Professor of Marketing. His interests focus on firm capabilities and performance, value and value creation, marketing strategy and brand performance, marketing in political parties, voter behaviour, tourism and brand
strategy and innovation.
Vida Siahtiri University of Tasmania [email protected] Vida is a Lecturer in Marketing. Areas of research interest include branding and value creation in the the service sector.
Ezaz Ahmed Central Queensland University [email protected] Ezad is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law . His research interests are managing employees, psychological contract, workforce management, leadership employee, ethical behaviour and employee wellbeing.
Ramudu Bhanugopan Charles Sturt University [email protected]
Ramudu is a Senior Lecturer in human resource management. His research interest are human resource management, cross cultural management, leadership behaviour, training and development, work life balance, workplace
bullying and aggression, risk analysis and employment practices.
Marketing &
Communication
Organisational Behaviour
9
Leadership and
Governance
Management Education
and Development
10
11
12
ANZAM
Managing for Peak
Performance
Critical Management
Studies
Entrepreneurship, Start-
Ups and Small Business
1
2
3
4
Family Business &
Enterprise
6
7
8
Human Resource
Management
International
Management
Health Management &
Organization
5
Gender, Diversity and
Indigeneity
Jenny Green University of Technology Sydney [email protected]
Jenny is a Senior Lecturer in management of indigenous community based organisations; human resource management in the Third Sector; resource mobilisation; volunteer management and career and portfolio development.
Jenny’s research interests focus on management of community-based organisations, relations with government, volunteering, social model of disability and careers.
Wayne Fallon University of Western Sydney [email protected]
Wayne is a Senior Lecturer in Management in the areas of business sustainability, governance and ethics, and management and leadership skills, with focus on engaged learning and academic service learning. Wayne's research
interests focus on business sustainability, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder participation in business and impacts of business in society.
Renu Agarwal University of Technology Sydney [email protected]
Renu is a Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Service Operations Management. Renu’s research interests are in service value networks, innovation in services, dynamic capability building, management practices and its impact on firm
performance, supply chain management, and managerial innovation education.
David Stiles University of Canterbury [email protected]
David is a Senior Lecturer in strategic management & international business. David’s research interests are in implementation of strategy in emerging and transitional cultures; higher education policy and strategy; joint ventures in
China; the interrelationships between strategy, organisational image and identity; and strategy-as-practice in organisations.
Melisa Edwards UTS Business School [email protected]
Dr Melissa Edwards is a Senior Lecturer. She has a passion for embedding sustainability into the university curriculum. She has been involved in various interdisciplinary teaching teams where academics and thinkers from different
disciplines explore new teaching techniques. These include: integrating business perspectives, a interdisciplinary business subject with sustainability as the key principle for innovative business design.
Sara Walton University of Otago [email protected]
Dr Sara Walton is a Senior Lecturer in the area of business, sustainability and the natural environment. Her research includes examining ecopreneurial businesses in New Zealand, social enterprise and for-benefit organisations,
business responses to climate change, understanding natural resource based conflicts and analysing triple bottom line (TBL) company reports and constructions of sustainability. Besides lecturing and researching, Sara is part of the
MBIE funded Energy Cultures team at Otago, where she leads the work streams researching SME’s energy and transport practices.
Terry Sloan University of Western Sydney [email protected]
Terry Sloan is currently Associate Head of School, Department of Organisation Studies, School of Management. His teaching and research is presently centred on innovation, knowledge management and continuous innovation in
supply chains; particularly those associated with SMEs. His output over recent years includes over 20 refereed publications, more than 25 conference papers, and several consulting projects in the areas of business communications
and quality management systems
Arun Elias Victoria University of Wellington [email protected]
Dr Arun Elias is the Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Management at the Victoria Management School. He teaches systems thinking and operations management in the post-experience (eg, MBA) and post-graduate (eg,
MMS) and undergraduate (eg, BCA) programmes at Victoria University.His research interests include stakeholder management, systems thinking and modelling and environmental conflict management. He has published widely on
these topics.
Sustainability and Social
Issues in Management
Technology, Innovation &
Supply Chain
Management
14
Public Sector
Management and Not-for-
Profit
Strategic Management
15
16
13
doc_514850462.pdf
Stream Chair Bios 2015
No. Stream Name University Contact Details Bio
Conor O’Kane University of Otago [email protected]
Conor O’Kane is a Senior Lecturer in strategic management. Conor’s research interests focus on leadership and corporate turnaround as well as the changing role-identity of scientists, technology transfer offices and the
entrepreneurial university at the micro-foundation of the Triple Helix.
Elizabeth Rose University of Otago [email protected]
Elizabeth Rose is a Professor of International Business in the Department of Management. Her research interests involve various aspects of internationalisation and global strategy, including foreign direct investment, multimarket
competition, globalisation strategies of small- and medium-sized firms and service-sector internationalisation. She also has a long-standing interest in the Japanese business context.
Janet Sayers Massey University [email protected]
Janet Sayers is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management. She is interested in issues around the organisation of human experiences. Particularly, her research focuses on the tensions experienced in service delivery by
employees required to deliver personal relationship services in corporate-discourse laden, highly mediated, technological systems.
Bronwyn Boon University of Otago [email protected]
Bronwyn Boon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management. Her research interests are orientated around the philosophy and sociology of organisation. Particular research themes include critical management studies,
discourse, identity and place. She also has an emerging interest in organisation and work within the not-for-profit sector.
Jo Kirkwood University of Otago [email protected]
Jodyanne Kirkwood is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management. She is also the academic leader of the University of Otago Centre for Entrepreneurship. Her research is centred on areas involving ecopreneurs, social
entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship education. Jo is currently working on a study of Tall Poppy Syndrome and its effects on business owners.
Martina Battisti Massey University [email protected]
Martina is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management. Her research areas involve small business management and entrepreneurship. She is particularly interested in the factors that contribute to business growth and
innovation and the role of policy and support programmes.
Chris Graves University of Adelaide [email protected]
Chris is a Senior Lecturer in accounting and family business. Chris’s research interests focus on management and international growth of SMEs and family businesses; organisational financial distress and turnaround strategies; and
the development and application of product costing and performance measurement systems within organisations.
Donella Caspersz University of Western Australia [email protected]
Donella is a Lecturer in international management, and employment relations. Donella’s research interests focus on the fields of family business governance and management issues related to bargaining, temporary migrant
labour; and service-learning.
Carlene Boucher RMIT [email protected]
Carlene is an Associate Professor at RMIT in Melbourne. Carlene's research interest focus on health services management, leadership, difference and organization, gender and work, human resource management and emotional
labour. Her current research examines the role of emotional resilience in the life of managers in the health industry and explores the experience of managers with disabilities.
Diane Ruwhiu University of Otago [email protected]
Diane is Lecturer in strategic operations and supply chain management. Diane's core research interests investigate indigenous perspectives and socio-cultural dynamics of organisational practice. In addition, she introduces M?ori
values and practice into entrepreneurship, research methods, business communication, and organisations and sustainability.
Ann Dadich University of Western Sydney [email protected]
Ann is a Senior Lecturer in human resource and management. Ann’s research interests focus on health service management with emphasis on knowledge translation that is the processes by which knowledge gained from empirical
research is translated into practice. She is also a registered psychologist and a member of the Australian Psychological Society.
Louise Kippist University of Western Sydney [email protected] Louise is a Lecturer in human resource and management. Louise’s research interests focus on health service management with emphasis on process improvement techniques and innovative approaches for knowledge transfer.
Fiona Edgar University of Otago [email protected]
Fiona is a Senior Lecturer in human resource management, industrial relations and management theory. Fiona’s research interests focus on human resource management – the employee perspective, wellbeing in the workplace
and knowledge workers as well as partnerships under industrial relations.
Paula O’Kane University of Otago [email protected]
Paula is a Senior Lecturer in management. Her research interests focus on the use of technology for communication within organisational settings, with a specific focus on the use and efficacy of social media, the transfer of training
from the classroom to the workplace, which considers how educators and other stakeholders can make training more effective for the individual and their organisation and the role of computer-aided qualitative data analysis
software (CAQDAS) within the research process.
Maryam Omari Edith Cowan University [email protected]
Maryam is an Associate Professor in human resource management. Maryam’s research interests focus on international studies, cross-cultural management, international human resource management, workplace bullying and
business and culture. She has over 20 years’ experience in academia and over 17 years’ experience in human resource management with the last 7 years of that spent as an HR Manager.
Hadrian Djajadikerta Edith Cowan University [email protected]
Hadrian is an Associate Professor in accounting for management decision making and the Associate Head of the School of Business. Hadrian’s research interests focus on strategic management accounting, sustainability reporting,
corporate social reporting, strategic alliances, learning approaches as well as research in these fields in Indonesia and the Australasia region.
Herman Tse Griffith University [email protected] Herman Tse is a Senior Lecturer in the Griffith Business School. His research interests include transformational leadership, relational leadership, emotions in teams, multilevel issues in organizations and Chinese management issues
Marie dela Rama University of Technology Sydney [email protected] Marie dela Rama is an Associate Lecturer in the Management Discipline Group. Her areas of research interest include ethics, corporate governance and business financing.
Peter McLean University of Wollongong [email protected]
Dr Peter McLean is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Operations and Marketing. His current research interests focus on issues of corporate social responsibility education, employee ethical dilemmas, and employee
perceptions of their duty of fidelity. Other research projects explore issues of identity, sensemaking and organisational discourse in a range of contexts from disability and aged care to coal mines.
Christa Wood University of Wollongong [email protected]
Christa is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Management, Operations and Marketing. With over following over 11 years' experience in the federal public service Christa now researches the effects of reform programs on the
motivation of public servants. Other areas of research interest include customer service orientation in the public service, team-based learning, teaching and learning in higher education, and business communication.
Aron O'Cass University of Marketing [email protected]
Aron is a Professor of Marketing. His interests focus on firm capabilities and performance, value and value creation, marketing strategy and brand performance, marketing in political parties, voter behaviour, tourism and brand
strategy and innovation.
Vida Siahtiri University of Tasmania [email protected] Vida is a Lecturer in Marketing. Areas of research interest include branding and value creation in the the service sector.
Ezaz Ahmed Central Queensland University [email protected] Ezad is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law . His research interests are managing employees, psychological contract, workforce management, leadership employee, ethical behaviour and employee wellbeing.
Ramudu Bhanugopan Charles Sturt University [email protected]
Ramudu is a Senior Lecturer in human resource management. His research interest are human resource management, cross cultural management, leadership behaviour, training and development, work life balance, workplace
bullying and aggression, risk analysis and employment practices.
Marketing &
Communication
Organisational Behaviour
9
Leadership and
Governance
Management Education
and Development
10
11
12
ANZAM
Managing for Peak
Performance
Critical Management
Studies
Entrepreneurship, Start-
Ups and Small Business
1
2
3
4
Family Business &
Enterprise
6
7
8
Human Resource
Management
International
Management
Health Management &
Organization
5
Gender, Diversity and
Indigeneity
Jenny Green University of Technology Sydney [email protected]
Jenny is a Senior Lecturer in management of indigenous community based organisations; human resource management in the Third Sector; resource mobilisation; volunteer management and career and portfolio development.
Jenny’s research interests focus on management of community-based organisations, relations with government, volunteering, social model of disability and careers.
Wayne Fallon University of Western Sydney [email protected]
Wayne is a Senior Lecturer in Management in the areas of business sustainability, governance and ethics, and management and leadership skills, with focus on engaged learning and academic service learning. Wayne's research
interests focus on business sustainability, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder participation in business and impacts of business in society.
Renu Agarwal University of Technology Sydney [email protected]
Renu is a Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Service Operations Management. Renu’s research interests are in service value networks, innovation in services, dynamic capability building, management practices and its impact on firm
performance, supply chain management, and managerial innovation education.
David Stiles University of Canterbury [email protected]
David is a Senior Lecturer in strategic management & international business. David’s research interests are in implementation of strategy in emerging and transitional cultures; higher education policy and strategy; joint ventures in
China; the interrelationships between strategy, organisational image and identity; and strategy-as-practice in organisations.
Melisa Edwards UTS Business School [email protected]
Dr Melissa Edwards is a Senior Lecturer. She has a passion for embedding sustainability into the university curriculum. She has been involved in various interdisciplinary teaching teams where academics and thinkers from different
disciplines explore new teaching techniques. These include: integrating business perspectives, a interdisciplinary business subject with sustainability as the key principle for innovative business design.
Sara Walton University of Otago [email protected]
Dr Sara Walton is a Senior Lecturer in the area of business, sustainability and the natural environment. Her research includes examining ecopreneurial businesses in New Zealand, social enterprise and for-benefit organisations,
business responses to climate change, understanding natural resource based conflicts and analysing triple bottom line (TBL) company reports and constructions of sustainability. Besides lecturing and researching, Sara is part of the
MBIE funded Energy Cultures team at Otago, where she leads the work streams researching SME’s energy and transport practices.
Terry Sloan University of Western Sydney [email protected]
Terry Sloan is currently Associate Head of School, Department of Organisation Studies, School of Management. His teaching and research is presently centred on innovation, knowledge management and continuous innovation in
supply chains; particularly those associated with SMEs. His output over recent years includes over 20 refereed publications, more than 25 conference papers, and several consulting projects in the areas of business communications
and quality management systems
Arun Elias Victoria University of Wellington [email protected]
Dr Arun Elias is the Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Management at the Victoria Management School. He teaches systems thinking and operations management in the post-experience (eg, MBA) and post-graduate (eg,
MMS) and undergraduate (eg, BCA) programmes at Victoria University.His research interests include stakeholder management, systems thinking and modelling and environmental conflict management. He has published widely on
these topics.
Sustainability and Social
Issues in Management
Technology, Innovation &
Supply Chain
Management
14
Public Sector
Management and Not-for-
Profit
Strategic Management
15
16
13
doc_514850462.pdf