Database of Researchers

The high quality and internationally renowned research undertaken within the Curtin Business School results from our many talented and committed researchers.

This database provides a listing of some of these researchers and their particular areas of interest and expertise together with links to more detailed profiles and contact information. The information provided also indicates those staff members interested in collaborative work. Research interests have been grouped as below:

• Accounting
• Business Law and Taxation
• CBS Administration and Academic Development
• DEBII
• Economics and Finance
• Graduate School of Business
• Information Systems
• Management
• Marketing
• Centre for Entrepreneurship and Executive Education

CBS Administration and Academic Development

Carmela Briguglio

Dr Carmela Briguglio has a background in language education and applied linguistics. Her particular areas of research include: intercultural business communication, English as a global language, bilingualism and internationalisation of curriculum. Carmela is interested in developing further opportunities for collaborative research.
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Roberta Cowan

Dr Roberta Cowan has a doctorate in biological taxonomy, postgraduate qualifications in librarianship, and a masters in archives and records management. She is a Research Fellow working for the Executive Dean’s Office, where she is responsible for the retrieval, evaluation and collation of documents concerning selected management theorists. This information forms the basis of a number of multivolume works in the Routledge series ‘Critical Evaluations in Business and Management History’ concentrating on theorists of the twentieth century. She has worked as Information Manager/ Webmaster at East Metropolitan Population Health Unit, Royal Perth Hospital. In 2003 she was Australian Botanical Liaison Officer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England and in 2005 worked at the Natural History Museum, London and The National Archives, UK where she worked on information databases. She has published numerous refereed papers in phycolgy, including pivotal papers describing three new genera of red algae. She has also published papers in librarianship and chapters on business management. She has developed numerous information websites.
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Paddy Forde

Dr Paddy Forde is interested in Institutional Research with particular emphasis on developing academic outcomes for university business schools. His focus on strategic initiatives has resulted in involvement with international higher education projects, improving Internet utilisation in support of learning activities and leadership in the development of pragmatic & applied learning experiences. Paddy is interested in collaborative research.
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Accounting

Link to Accounting Researcher List

Greg Tower

Professor Greg Tower's research strengths are in accountability, governance, sustainability, financial reporting, regulation and international accounting. Greg is interested in collaborative work.
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John Neilson

Associate Professor John Neilson has a broad record in public sector area research with his major concentration being on accountability and external reporting within local government. John also has a strong interest in the preparation and effectiveness of public sector performance reporting and public sector governance. John also has published and received research grants in the area of intellectual capital, both in the public and private sectors and is interested in collaborative research.
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Business Law and Taxation

Rob Guthrie

Associate Professor Rob Guthrie is the Head of the School of Business Law. Rob has been training and teaching for the past 15 years in Industrial and Employment laws. He has been a legal practitioner since 1981. In 1991 Rob was the Chair of an enquiry into Workers Compensation Dispute Resolution and as a consequence of the report legislative changes were made to the Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981(WA). In 1999 Rob was again asked to contribute to the examination of compensation laws and was a member of the Pearson Committee which reported to the Minister for Labour Relations Cheryl Edwardes. In 2001 Rob prepared a significant report for the Minister for Consumer and Employment Protection on the implementation of the Labour Party Direction statement on Workers Compensation. Rob is the author of the Butterworths Workers Compensation Western Australia. Rob is interested in collaborative research opportunities.
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Dale Pinto

Associate Professor Dale Pinto is interested in taxation research, especially involving aspects of international tax, electronic commerce and income tax law. Dale is interested in collaborative research with members from related disciplines.
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Pauline Sadler

Associate Professor/Dr Pauline Sadler's area of research interest are in media law, particularly in relation to the competing public interests (past and present) between government regulation and the interests of free speech in a democratic society. Pauline is interested in collaborative research.
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Economics and Finance

Lakshman Alles

Lakshman Alles is an Associate Professor in the Department of Banking and Finance at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. He received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Washington State University. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Sri Lanka and a qualified Management Accountant. He teaches a range of courses in Finance and Financial Econometrics at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

Lakshman’s research interests cover areas such as asset pricing theory and applications, investment strategies, asset securitisation and structured financing, futures and options markets and developmental issues in financial markets. His research publications have appeared in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Fixed Income, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Australian Economic Review, Applied Financial Economics, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, International Financial Law Review, Accounting and Finance, JASSA, Pacific Basin Finance Journal and the Accounting Research Journal.

Lakshman has held visiting appointments at the International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, the Post-Graduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka, University College Dublin, Ireland, and the PACAP Research Center at the University of Rhode Island, USA. Lakshman has consulted for the Asian Development Bank and several Australian Government institutions. He is interested in participating in collaborative research.
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Siobhan Austen

Siobhan’s research centres on the gendered character of the labour market. It has featured empirical research on women’s labour market experiences together with the application of qualitative research methodologies to the analysis of economic issues. Among the issues that Siobhan has researched and prepared papers and/or reports on are: the effects of divorce on labour supply behaviour; demographic change and women’s future employment prospects; the retirement incomes system; low wage employment; work and family responsibilities; and the measurement of progress among women.

Siobhan’s research also spans issues beyond, but still complementary to feminist economics. Of particular importance is her research on the cultural aspects of labour markets. This was the focus of her doctoral dissertation and it formed the basis of a book titled “Culture and the Labour Market”, published by Edward Elgar in 2003. Siobhan is interested in participating in collaborative research projects.
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Harry Bloch

Professor Harry Bloch's current research focuses on the analysis of the competitive process, particularly the dynamic interaction between innovation and competition. The empirical aspect of the research emphasizes the measurement of productivity growth and pricing behaviour in Australian manufacturing. Harry is interested in collaborative research opportunities.
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Michael Dockery

Dr Alfred Michael Dockery is an active researcher in the field of applied labour economics, including the evaluation of assistance programs for the unemployed, vocational education and training and the school-to-work transition. His current research focuses upon the effects of work and other labour market experience on ‘happiness’ and ‘wellbeing’, Indigenous labour market and social outcomes and the effects of housing status on labour market outcomes. Mike is interested in collaborative research opportunities.
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Sandra Hopkins

Sandra Hopkins is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Curtin University in Perth. Sandra has a PhD from the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include health insurance systems, health policy in Australia and health financing. Sandra has also completed research on gender differences in performance in undergraduate economics and on gender inequity in university economics departments. Sandra is interested in participating in collaborative research.
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Phillip O’Hara

Phil is the Professor of Global Political Economy & Governance. His research covers the areas of global political economy, policy and governance, financial institutions, and the history of economic thought. Specifically, he is an institutionalist, which means that he specialises in studying the institutions of the state, family, finance, corporation, capital-labor relations and global economy. He is currently especially researching (a) the role of terrorism and war in the regional and global system; (b) policy and governance for the early years of the 21st century (A 4-volume work); (c) performance and functioning of transnational corporations; and (d) principles of political and social economy in a global age. He works individually and also collectively, with an extensive research network having been established through the Global Political Economy Research Unit, for which he is the Director.
See: http://pohara.homestead.com/GPERU.html email: philohara1@yahoo.com

Subhrendu Rath

Subhrendu completed his PhD in Finance at the Washington State University. Subhrendu currently teaches International Finance at the Master level and teaches research classes in Corporate Finance and Market Microstructure. Subhrendu’s research interests are in the areas of Corporate Governance and Market Microstructure. His refereed publications have appeared in the International Journal of Business Studies, Journal of Law, Finance and Management and JASSA. Subhrendu also coordinates a seminar series in Finance and Banking and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures. He has held a visiting position at Kansas State University. Subhrendu is interested in participating in collaborative research.
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Graduate School of Business

Paul Nicol

Paul is currently working on his PhD in the area of Scenario Planning as an Organisational Change Agent and has an MA (Futures Studies) degree. His specific research interests are in futures, organisational change and scenario planning and has worked with the Scenario Planning and Research Unit at Curtin's Graduate School of Business for four years. He has a particular interest in the adaptation and development of qualitative methodologies, with an emphasis on grounded theory, and their application in the broad areas of organisations and health, where the adaptations he has developed have been applied.

Paul's thesis research is based in a critical realist theoretical perspective which he is developing as a framework for wider research that is plausible, relevant and useful. With the completion of the thesis and associated journal publications Paul is interested in wider collaborative links to broaden the scope of his research

Des Klass

Dr Klass joined the University in 1976 and was instrumental in establishing the Strategic Planning and Decisions Unit at Curtin. The Unit has gained a local and international reputation for its work and research in Group Support Systems (GSS). The Unit is particularly recognised for its development of processes using GSS technologies for strategic planning.
Dr Klass has published extensively with articles appearing in refereed international journals, refereed conference proceedings and in book chapters. Dr Klass is the co-developer of the GDAM (Generalised Decision Assurance Methodology) facilitation process and is currently piloting the “Team Decision Framework” instrument he developed to identify the base level of decision intelligence inherent in decision groups.
Dr Klass consults in several areas which include strategy and policy development and review, executive development programs, the development and application of business simulation games, improving resource allocation decisions and processes and enhancing decision quality. Des is interested in participating in collaborative research and research interests include; Group Decision Support Systems, Computer aided facilitation, Corporate Strategy, Decision Analysis and Decision Quality.
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Mohammed Quaddus

Dr Mohammed Quaddus the Professor of Information & Decision Systems with the Graduate School of Business. His research interests are in Information Management, Decision Support Systems, Group Decision and Negotiation Support Systems, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Systems Dynamics, Business Research Methods and in the theories and applications of Innovation Diffusion process.

Dr Quaddus has published in a number of journals and contributed in several books/monographs. In 1996 he received Curtin Business School's “Researcher of the Year” award. Prior to joining Curtin, Dr Quaddus was with the University of Technology-Sydney and with the National University of Singapore. He also spent a year at the Information Management Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr Quaddus is interested in collaborative research opportunities.

Information Systems

Dr Ashley Aitken

Ashley has interests in a number of research areas ranging from software engineering, object orientation, and Enterprise application architecture and design to information management and knowledge management within organisations.  He currently has the following two projects underway: 1) Open Systematic Review Project.  This project aims to take the open source approach to software development and trial it within software engineering research, particularly a systematic review of a specific set of software engineering literature.  2) Full-Lifecycle CASE Tool Project.  This project aims to develop a full-lifecycle (from requirements to application testing) CASE tool that strongly encourages a disciplined approach to development.  In particular the tool will require developers to answer analysis issues within the context of the analysis model, design issues within the context of the design model, and only use coding for low-level implementation.  The tool will initially be targeted at simple application development by students.
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Elizabeth Chang

Professor Elizabeth Chang undertakes research on the cutting edge fields of trust, security, risk and reputation for the ebusiness environment, peer-to-peer communication, web services, object/component based development, steganography and secret information hiding, ontology modelling design and implementation along with Quality of Service assessment and metrics. She works extensively with industry and government to find solutions to real world problems and is interested in collaborative research.
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Kum Leng Chin

Chin's research interest lies on educational issues in IT related areas. Currently she is undertaking a research project to design and build an ontological based IT Related Education knowledge framework with the aim to establish commonly accepted standard and uniform IT concepts, topics, subjects, and courses along with terminology and concepts, with a clear relationship between concepts in the field of IT; establish commonly accepted competencies in the IT field, including IS, CS, CE, SE, and EC; provide a mapping between competencies and Ontological concepts, topics, subjects, and courses; provide an Ontology View Mechanism to support curriculum development for a particular field of study. Chin is also involved in strategies and approaches to teaching and learning across cultures.
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Peter Dell

Peter Dell has research interests in the social and technical aspects of communications networks, especially the Internet.  Particular areas of focus include wireless network security, and the social and economic impact of social Internet use and next-generation Internet technologies.
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A/Prof. Heinz Dreher

Science & Technology of Learning, Educational Design and Evaluation, E-Learning, Automated Essay Grading, Conceptual Searching, SmartSearch, Semantic Analysis & Text mining, Mobile & Pervasive Computing, Digital libraries, Hypermedia and Hypertext, Qualitative Research.
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Dr Rodney Jarman

Rod Jarman is seeking opportunities to continue case study research on virtual teams. He has developed a conceptual model which can be used for assessing the performance of virtual teams. Specifically, it can be used in identifying the factors that impact performance and the solutions for any problems that might occur.
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Dr Alan Parkinson

Alan Parkinson has research interests in application of neural networks and other artificial intelligence techniques to business problems, time series analysis and prediction, and object oriented techniques and languages.
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Prof. Graham Pervan

Graham Pervan chairs the IT Adoption and Management research group. His research interests include: the application of IT adoption and diffusion models, especially in the health and mining industries; the foundations of the Decision Support Systems field; all aspects of collaboration technology; and various aspects of IT management including IT governance, and the outsourcing and offshoring of IT and other business processes.
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A/Prof. John Venable

John Venable’s main research interests are in information systems development methods and practice; modelling of data, information systems, business processes, and organisations; problem analysis and solving methods; business process design and improvement; knowledge management and organisational learning; organisational change; digital library systems; Group Support Systems; online and offline teaching and learning methods; and IS research methods, including Critical and Design Science Research.
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Robert F Williams

Robert Williams has over 25 year's experience in the Information Systems industry, as a practitioner, researcher and lecturer. He has extensive experience in systems analysis and design, and programming, on a variety of mainframe, mini and personal computers, and a variety of operating systems and programming languages. Applications he has worked with include mathematical, statistical, bridge and road engineering, financial and educational systems. He has published a number of articles on system users' personalities and satisfaction, decision support systems, and automated essay grading systems.

Robert is a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Robert’s research interest lies in the field of Automated Essay Grading (AEG). He and a small team of researchers are developing the MarkIT AEG system. It is hoped to have a commercial essay grading system in operation by the end of 2005.

Management

Dr Subramaniam Ananthram

Research Interests

• Global mindset development
• Global strategy
• Cross-cultural management

Dr. Subramaniam (Subra) Ananthram is a Lecturer in Management at the Curtin Business School (CBS), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. He is currently involved with research in the areas of services management and global mindset development in the Asia-Pacific with particular emphasis on India, China and Japan. He is also working on projects dealing with learning organisations in Singapore. Subra is very keen on collaborative research.
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Dr Martin Brueckner

Dr Martin Brueckner has a background in business management, economics and social ecology, specialising in sustainability management. In recent years Dr Brueckner has been involved in collaborative research work in the areas of community health and well-being, regional sustainability, the Australian organic food industry and the governance of land management. At present, his research focuses on industry-community relations in Western Australia, analysing a long-running conflict between members of a small, rural community and their corporate neighbour over environmental and health concerns.

Research Interests:

• Sustainability management
• Sustainable communities
• Regional sustainability
• Social justice
• Corporate governance
• Corporate social responsibility

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Samir Chatterjee

Samir Ranjan Chatterjee is the Professor of International Management at CBS. His research interests are primarily centered around the following areas:

• Global managerial challenges in the areas of culture, strategy, joint venture and alliances, work values and work goals, human resource deployment and ethical responsibilities.
• Managerial issues in developing countries specially in India and China.
• Management education and related issues.

Samir is interested in collaborative work.
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Jane Coffey

Research Interests

• Staff attraction and retention
• Labour shortages
• Performance management
• Intrinsic rewards in the performing arts

Jane Coffey has extensive experience in coordinating and teaching a range of HRM and Industrial Relations programs throughout South East Asia and is the Managing Editor of Pearson Education's Human Resource Management Series, including the book "Perspectives of Human Resource Management in the Asia Pacific. In addition to her academic experience, Jane has significant corporate professional experience, operating a highly successful HR consultancy business prior to joining Curtin University of Technology. She specialised in providing HR support and advice to the public sector and maintains a significant consultancy profile in this area in the University. Her areas of specific interest and expertise include the development and implementation of performance management systems; attraction and retention strategies; retention of staff in the performing arts and cultural sectors; and human resource management systems in the Asia Pacific.
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Dr Kandy Dayaram

Specialisation

• Investigating the imperatives of change management during periods of mergers
• Globalisation and women in leadership
• Applying frame reflection analysis to public policy issues

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Victor Egan

Dr Victor Egan is a Lecturer and researcher in the School of Management. Victor has a working background in engineering, project management, and cross-cultural management in Asia and Africa. His research interests include interfirm networks and management in Asia (with a particular interest in Thailand), project management (particularly in the construction industry), and management in Africa. Victor is keen to research and publish collaboratively.
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Associate Professor Richard Grainger

Associate Professor Richard Grainger currently works in the International Business Area of the School of Management, at Curtin University of Technology, in Perth, Western Australia. Dr Grainger's teaching and research interests are international management, comparative management, Asian management systems and international human resources. He has published numerous book chapters, academic journal and media articles in the aforementioned areas. His current research is focussed on the global mindset of Japanese managers, and he is collaborating with local and Japan based colleagues in these endeavours.

His doctoral research was in the international management discipline area, he holds a Masters Degree in Business (Marketing), and an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies, with a Japanese language major. His industry and professional experience includes several years with Mitsubishi Corporation as an import/export commodity trader, and more than ten years with the Australian Customs Service in the commercial investigation and import/export areas. His academic profile includes significant periods as an international advisor and faculty member of the Tsukuba Institute of Science and Technology, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, and as a Visiting Researcher with Tokyo University of Economics.
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Dr Kirsten Holmes

Dr Kirsten Holmes is a CBS Research Fellow in the School of Management. She has taught and researched in the areas of arts, heritage, leisure and sport management and tourism studies in the UK and Australia. Her research focuses on volunteerism, particularly within tourism but she also researches within the areas of cultural management, cultural regeneration, cultural tourism and leisure studies. Kirsten is keen to collaborate with other researchers and industry.
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Peter Hosie

Dr Peter J. Hosie is a CBS Post Doctoral Research Fellow. He has taught undergraduate and graduate units in human resource management and development in Perth, Singapore, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

His primary research interests include the relationships between Managers' Job Related Affective Wellbeing, Intrinsic Job Satisfaction and Performance, Crisis and Security Management, and Technologically–Mediated Learning. Peter welcomes opportunities for research and publishing collaboration.
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Christina Howe

Research Interests

• Remuneration Management
• Industrial Relations - International and Australian
• Staffing and Retention
• International HRM

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Theodora Issa

Theodora is a PhD student with the School of Management whose research focuses on the study of individuals (i.e. employees), their values, their individual differences as expressed in spirituality, and aesthetic judgement, and the relationship of factors into the individual’s ethical behaviour and ethical decision-making in an Australian business context.

This research would provide useful insight into ethical failure in business in particular, and business failure in general which is particularly timely given that such failures are now on the increase, despite an increase in regulations, codes of conduct and standards in all aspects of business. It is anticipated that it will have a practical value, since the findings may assist organisations to better evaluate their employees by incorporating the values in their recruitment requirements, employee codes of conduct and value statements. The findings may also contribute to the development of knowledge in the area since future replications can be conducted either in different industries, countries, or involve the examination of further individual values. Theodora is interested in collaborative research.
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Dr Leighton Jay

Specialisation

• Business Communication
• Human Resource Development
• Groups & Facilitation
  

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John Milton-Smith

Professor John Milton-Smith has three major areas of research activity:

• The strategic management of corporate culture to support business strategy, especially in the areas of innovation and the management of service excellence. Over the past decade an original survey instrument "Developing a Positive Corporate Culture" has been applied in over 100 organizations in five different countries.
• Exploring the relationship between original research, the technology transfer process, and the creation of customer value. He is currently examining the reasons why university research makes so little impact on business performance.
• Distinguishing management functions and leadership roles and evaluating and comparing the leadership qualities of particular leaders through the application of a "Leadership Style Descriptor", an evaluation instrument which draws on the perceptions for followers, stakeholders and informed observers.

John is interested in collaborative research.
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Dr Tadayuki (Yuki) Miyamoto

Research Interests

• Strategic Community Management and Marketing (e.g. community brading and building)
• Strategic Management for NPOs Community-based Enterprises Inter-firm Relationships/Network Management Services management Model building and testing Japanese Management and HRM

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Dr Christof Pforr

Research Interests

• Tourism policy and planning
• Sustainable tourism, sustainable development
• Ecotourism, nature-based tourism, geotourism, coastal tourism
• Public policy analysis (policy processes, policy networks)
• Community attitudes
• Regional interests: Western Australia, Northern Territory, Germany

Dr Christof Pforr is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management and Research Director with the School of Management, Curtin Business School. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Northern Territory University and a ‘Staatsexamen’ in Geography and Political Science as well as a Teaching Certificate from the University of Tübingen (Germany). His academic background is reflected in his main research interests, which include tourism policy and planning, sustainable (tourism) development, coastal tourism, geotourism and ecotourism as well as policy analysis with a focus on policy processes and policy networks, all fields he has frequently published in. Prior to joining Curtin in 2003, Dr Pforr held academic positions at the Northern Territory University, the University of Canberra and Edith Cowan University. Since 2000, he has contributed to more than 70 publications and numerous international research collaborations, in addition to national projects under the umbrella of the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre and the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre. He is co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Economics & Business and book review editor of the International Journal of Tourism Policy. In 2004, his doctoral research was recognised with the dissertation award of the German Association for Australian Studies, and in 2005 he received the Curtin Business School New Researcher of the Year Award.
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Dr David Pick

Research Interests

• Higher Education Policy
• Globalisation
• Frame Analysis
• Public Policy
• Reflexive modernisation

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Associate Professor Werner Soontiens

Associate Professor Werner Soontiens is actively involved in researching the impact of, and strategic approach towards, internationalisation across various sectors and industries. He is also involved in cross cultural management and education research in Asia and Africa. Werner is interested in collaborative research.
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Ruth Taylor

Research Interests

• Services Management
• Tourism Management
• Educational Management
• Event Management
  

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Dr Vicki Thein

Dr Vicki Thein is a Lecturer in International Business at the School of Management. Vicki has an ongoing research interest in international trade and business investment in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Vicki’s doctoral thesis was an analysis of the market entry and business development strategies of international consumer goods businesses in Myanmar. Her writings on Myanmar explore a range of issues including the impact of trade sanctions, multi-level institutions and investment risk, global-regional institutional responses to market participation, and international business ethics. She is currently extending her Myanmar research to explore natural resource seeking foreign direct investment in Myanmar’s growing oil and gas industry. Since 2006, she has been invited by Routledge (London) to contribute an annual overview essay on "The Economy of Myanmar” for inclusion in The Europa Regional Survey of The World, The Far East and Australasia.

Vicki’s other research interest concentrates on cross cultural issues in Asia and Australia. She is currently engaged in a collaborative study exploring Asian women’s attitudes to work, family, life and leisure by means of a qualitative multi-country comparative study that focuses on Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and Myanmar. The project aims to explore and contrast the culture and organisation specific dimensions of work-life balance issues. Vicki is a research associate of WiSER (Women in Social and Economic Research) at Curtin Business School. Vicki is interested in collaborative work and exchanging ideas with other researchers on these topics.
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Prof Tony Travaglione

Research Interests

• Leadership
• Change
• Strategy

During his career Tony has held a number of senior leadership roles including Dean at the University of Adelaide and Head of Research at the Workplace Research Centre at the University of Sydney. Additionally he has held the position of Visiting Professor at Stanford University where he taught MBA students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Tony obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Management from the University of Western Australia. Tony has published widely in the areas of change management, leadership, organisational commitment, workplace trust and emotional intelligence. Tony has over 100 publications including a substantial number of refereed journal articles in the aforementioned areas of expertise.

Tony's most recent book, Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim is co-authored with Professor Steve McShane from the University of Western Australia and has become the best selling management text within Australia.

Tony has published in numerous international journals including Journal of Strategic Change, Personnel Review; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Journal of Managerial Psychology and the International Journal of Organisational Analysis.
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Dr Paull Weber

Dr Paull Weber has taught various marketing and management undergraduate and postgraduate courses including small business management, entrepreneurship, marketing communications, marketing principles and services marketing. He has researched topics focussed on organisational commitment, customer lifetime value, intranet effectiveness, mature entrepreneurs and small business success. His current research interests include mature entrepreneurship, business benchmarking and tourism-hosted accommodation. He is currently involved in course design work to improve the first and second year student experience. He is also the lead investigator in an initiative between the Centre for Entrepreneurship, the School of Management and other external parties to benchmark small businesses across Western Australia. In addition to his academic pursuits he has a prior history of successful relationship banking roles in Western Australia.
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Marketing

Sandy Chong

Dr Sandy Chong's research interests include Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), Electronic Commerce, Internet Marketing, Adoption and Implementation of Innovation, Business Process Management, Cross-Cultural Studies, Strategic Alliances, and Global Communication. Sandy is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Christine Daymon

Dr Christine Daymon's areas of research interest are:

• Organisational communication, including internal communications and public relations
• Organizational cultures and creativity
• Intercultural communication
• Managing organizations in the media and creative sectors
• Qualitative research methodology.

Her current doctoral students are investigating cultural practices within public relations consultancies and media organisations, and she would be particularly interested in hearing from potential doctoral students who are keen to undertake research in this area. She is interested also in developing collaborative projects, especially those with a focus on South East Asia.
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Nigel de Bussy

Dr Nigel de Bussy’s research interests are Stakeholder Management, Corporate Reputation and Branding, Integrated Communication, Public Relations and New Media. Nigel is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Sonia Dickinson

Dr Sonia Dickinson’s research interests include Brand Authenticity, Advertising & Highly Attractive Models, Ethical Issues in Advertising, Societal Marketing Issues and Cooperative Branding. Sonia is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Steve Dix

Dr Steve Dix’s research interests are Advertising Effectiveness, Ad Avoidance, Media Planning and Leadership. He won the Best Paper Award in the Advertising/Marketing Communications Issues track at ANZMAC 2006. Steve is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Brian Handley

Brian Handley is currently finishing his PhD. His research interests are Membership and Not for Profit Organizations. Brian is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Dr Robyn Ouschan

Dr. Robyn Ouschan’s supervisor interests include:

• Content analysis of socially undesirable behaviours in comic strips e.g., alcohol binge drinking, car racing.
• Consumer reactions to gambling promotions.
• Ethical implications and effectiveness of shock appeals in social marketing campaigns.
• The impact of customer empowerment on service performance evaluations – e.g., The impact of student empowerment on course evaluations.
• Exploring the impact of negative consumption experience expectations on customer purchase decisions and post purchase evaluations

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Ian Phau

Associate Professor Ian Phau's research is focused on Country Image, Country of Ownership, Consumer Animosity, Consumer Ethnocentrism and Regiocentrism, Branding Issues such as Brand Personality, Brand Extensions and Brand Piracy and Counterfeits, and Advertising Appeals - specifically Nostalgic and Guilt Appeals in Communication. He is the Chair for Research and Development for the School of Marketing. He has been involved in several research and consulting projects. His recent portfolios include:

• Hugo Boss Australia,
• Action Supermarkets,
• Araluen Botanic Park,
• Freja Hairstyling,
• Fotronics China
• Department of Information and Resources WA.
  

He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Asia Pacific Marketing. He is the current Editor-in-Chief for the Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics (Emerald). Ian is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Dr Vanessa Quintal

Dr Vanessa Quintal is currently finishing her PhD. Her research interests are Attributes and Strategies of Australian Tertiary Institutions in Marketing Education Internationally, Risk and Uncertainty of Consumers in Selecting Tourism Destinations and Cross Cultural Behaviours related to Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions. Vanessa is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Ram Ramaseshan

Professor Ram Ramaseshan is the Head of the School of Marketing. His research interests include Global Customer Relationship Marketing, Models for Optimal Allocation of Retail Shelf Space and the Use of Technology in Services. Ram is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Tekle Shanka

Dr Tekle Shanka’s research interests include Destination Branding/Image/Personality, Tourism Marketing in Developing Countries, Special Interest Tourism, Marketing Higher Education and Not for Profit Organizations. Tekle is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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David Wong

Dr David Wong’s research interests are the Banking Industry, Electronic Commerce, Marketing of Higher Education, Service Quality (and use of SERVQUAL – Parasuraman), Adoption Theory (eg. work by Rogers), Diffusion Theory/Innovativeness (eg. Bass Model), and the Expectancy Theory (eg. Vroom Model). David is interested in developing further collaborative research opportunities.
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Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII)

Professor Tharam Dillon

DEBII Distinguished Research Professor. Professor Dillon is a 5-Star Research Professor, recently appointed at DEBII, who has a very strong research record in ICT, a track record in obtaining large ARC grants, as well as being an excellent mentor and motivator for early career researchers and middle career researchers. In the recent ATN Trial, he was ranked as the only 5-star Professor in Math and Computer category, and his group in UTS was ranked #1 in ICT among the ATN universities. He currently holds five concurrent ARC grants, with total cash about $2 million.

Professor Dillon has successfully supervised to completion over 30 PhDs in ICT. This is one of the highest levels of PhD supervision productivity in the history of Australian universities. He has published 8 books and over 550 publications, and there are over a 1000 citations of his work. He built the entire Software Engineering curriculum and research in La Trobe, when he was Head of School of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. La Trobe’s Software Engineering and Computer System Engineering was ranked 6th in the world for two years in a row between 1999-2000 by JSS (International Journal of System and Software) as well as Boston Consulting Group. He arrived at UTS in the role of Executive Dean in 2003, where there was an average of 8-9 ARC successful grants per year in the last four years compared to before his arrival when the whole Faculty of IT at UTS had an average of about one successful ARC grant per year. Professor Dillon is a Fellow of IEEE (USA) and ACS and IE (Aust). He is Chairman of IEEE/IES Technical Committee (TC) on Industrial Informatics. It is extremely unusual to have a Chair of an IEEE TC from outside the USA. He is also Chair of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) International Working Group 2.12/12.4 on Web Semantics.

He has given numerous keynotes at international conferences and undertaken the roles of Technical Chair and General Chair of numerous international refereed conferences.
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Dr Stephen Quinton

DEBII Senior Research Fellow, Dr Stephen Quinton is a full time researcher who works with the University’s Digital Ecosystems Research Centre in the area of Frontier Technologies. He is an expert in the field of eLearning as evidenced by three large ARC grants awarded from 2002 to 2009, one Carrick Institute Grant between 2007 and 2009 and one CRC Flagship program on Tourism. Dr Quinton has several scientific papers accepted in international journals and conferences. He is also a recipient of two Curtin Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in online developments. He is also co-director for Area of Research Excellence in Text Mining.

Dr Quinton has expertise in the areas of the design of advanced learning models that advantage the growing sophistication of ICT; determination of the distinctions to be made in terms of learning preferences, attitudes, needs and ICT expertise to facilitate variations in learner attributes; the contextualisation of learning object content as a strategy for challenging learner understanding and enhancing cognitive development; and the design and application of web-based technologies to facilitate ‘virtual’ learning networks that support participation in creative thinking.
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Dr Vidyasagar Potdar

DEBII Research Fellow, Dr Vidyasagar Potdar’s areas of research are business and advanced IT, namely: e-supply chain and logistics informatics, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for logistics informatics and information security – digital watermarking and digital steganography. Dr Potdar has two patent applications in process with Curtin R&D office. These patents are a result of his PhD research: Tamper Detection Technique for RFID and Robust Watermarking Technique for Copyright Management. Dr Potdar has published over 50 international refereed journal articles, 2 book chapters and 18 refereed international conference publications. Most of his publications are in top ranked tier 1 conferences including IEEE conferences.

Dr Potdar is currently completing an authored book to be published by Springer in 2007. All of his publications are in the field of e-supply chain, logistics and information security. Dr Potdar is a research fellow funded by Curtin R&D. He was also a recipient of the Planning and Transport Research Centre (PaTReC) Scholarship between 2003 and 2005. He has been invited to give industry courses for the benefit of Australian industry, such as to Planning and Transport Research Centre (PaTReC), and Logistics Association of Australia (LAA). He has been invited to be in the International Program Committee and Track Chair for a number of leading conferences such as IEEE and IFIP. Dr Potdar undertakes the role of industry linkage and research commercialisation for DEBII.
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Dr Farookh Hussain

DEBII Research Fellow, Dr Farookh Hussain is currently a DEBII Target Research Fellow at the Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence (DEBI) Institute, Curtin University of Technology. Dr Hussain along with Professor Elizabeth Chang and Professor Tharam Dillon has written a seminal book on – ‘Trust and Reputation for Service Oriented Environments: Technologies for Building Business Intelligence and Consumer Confidence’ published by John Wiley and Sons in 2006. This book is very highly regarded in the international community. It has received over 20 citations so far.

Dr Hussain has co-edited two conference proceedings, published over ten journal publications in various international tier one IEEE/ACM Journals, over 6 book chapters in internationally prestigious books and over 80 conference papers in various refereed conferences. He has received two best paper awards in international IEEE/ACM conferences and one best presentation award at an international IEEE conference and one best tutorial award and has been on the program committee for international IEEE/ACM conferences and served as conference technical program co-chair and the track chair in several international IEEE/ACM conferences. Dr Hussain undertakes the role of coordinating research training at DEBII.
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Dr Maja Hadzic

DEBII Research Fellow, Dr Maja Hadzic’s research interest is in the area of human disease study and control, through ICT support and she is finishing a joint authored book to be published by John Wiley and Sons in 2007. Over the last three years, she has also participated in four large National Competitive grant applications; 2 as APID and 2 as an Associate Investigator. She has helped obtain $150,000 industry cash commitment to support these grant applications.

Dr Hadzic has been a Medical Research fellow for 3.5 years at the University of Newcastle where she was examining the effects of various genes and proteins on specific human diseases and supporting drug design. During her employment, she helped supervision of PhD and Masters students. She obtained a Masters degree in Biochemistry from Belgium in 1999 and PhD in Information Systems from Curtin University of Technology in 2006. These solid studies form a strong foundation for her future achievements. Her area of research is ground breaking in the area of health informatics and will revolutionise the way that research can be done in the area of disease research. It is in line with the current trend of health research which is increasingly moving towards the use of information systems as research tools rather then purely experimental studies.
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Dr Pornpit Wongthongtham

DEBII Research Fellow, Dr Pornpit Wongthongtham’s research areas are in ontology and software engineering which is affirmed through her publications in internationally journals and refereed conference proceedings. Most of her publications are in the top ranked conferences including IEEE and ACM. She is also now completing a book entitled ‘Engineering of Ontology and Multi-agent Systems’ that will be published in 2007 by Wiley publications. Besides a substantially number of scientific publications, she has been invited to undertake roles such as on several international program committees, technical program chair and as track chair for a number of leading conferences.

Dr Wongthongtham has also been awarded several fellowships, for example, from the Thai-Australia Science and Engineering Assistance Project (TASEAP). She works in an entirely new area that utilises ontology for multi-site software development. Dr Wongthongtham has developed a very new approach using ontologies, a shared conceptualisation of knowledge in software development. There is almost no-one in Australia, in fact, very few people around the world who have these skills and capabilities because it is an entirely new area that has been opened up, which was the subject of an Australian Research Council grant.
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Dr Alex Talevski

DEBII Research Fellow, Dr Alex Talevski is an ARC funded Research Fellow. His research interests are component-based software engineering, mobile telecommunication related software development issues and software evolution. Dr Talevski has co-authored more than twenty scientific publications that include IEEE Transaction journals. Two of his publications have won best-paper awards. His PhD thesis was entitled ‘Reconfigurable Plug-and-Play Component-Based Software Framework’. He has also been involved in a number of software development projects at various levels. Most recently, he was software development team leader of more than fifteen team members in the construction of a $0.5M Supply-Chain Management (SCM) solution. This solution promoted the collaboration of a number of logistics service providers in an extended enterprise.
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Dr Song Han

DEBII Research Fellow, Dr Song Han graduated from Peking University (one of best universities in Science in P.R. China) in 1998 to pursue a Master of Mathematics and, as an excellent student, completed his PhD in 2003 in Mathematics, especially in cryptography and information security at Peking University. His research work is not only in cryptography and information security but also in pure mathematics, such as group theory, elliptic curves and so forth. He has been lectured in Advanced Mathematics and is capable of teaching most information security and computer science courses. His research also covers the anonymity of information security; he developed the concept of fair anonymity of undeniable signature scheme and successfully designed a protocol satisfying the required properties.

Dr Han also applied certain theory and tools of elliptic curves, such as Weil paring, to the group signature and blind signature to obtain the anonymity. He published numerous scientific papers in these areas. He has also worked at the City University of Hong Kong, and he has been a Visiting Fellow at Curtin’s Department of Computing.
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Dr Guimin Huang

DEBII Research Fellow, Dr Guimin Huang has over fifteen years of professional experience as a senior engineer, technical leader, project manger, as well as being an Associate Professor in information technology domains. He was awarded a PhD in Computing at the East China University of Science and Technology in P.R. of China in 2005. His PhD work has led to seven industry information technology development projects. He has also taken charge of a Guangxi Natural Science Fund project, one Guangxi Science Research and Technology Development Fund project, one Information Industry Ministry of China Electronic Fund project and taken part in several National Fund projects.

In addition to his excellent work and research experiences, several of his papers have been published or accepted. In these papers, a web Quality of Service based on differentiated services mechanism is implemented based on the Window real-time scheduling policy to decrease the miss rates of requests in web services. And also, these papers propose the high priority first algorithm to implement differentiated services of request responses for web services. His thinking contributed to the design and development of the next web services framework.
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Centre for Entrepreneurship and Executive Education

Professor Lynn Allen

Areas of research interest / expertise include futures methodologies, Soft Systems methodology
Leadership, Management development, Public sector management
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Dr Kerry Pedigo

Areas of research interest / expertise include International business ethics and Bribery and corruption, Organisational behaviour, Management education, Occupational health and safety – construction industry
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Richard Thorning

Areas of research interest / expertise include entrepreneurship, business strategy, leadership and
organisational culture.
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Matthew Winter

Areas of research interest / expertise include advertising, branding, toursim, social marketing / public health and alcohol abuse.
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