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Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business & Government

There are two issues per volume. Volume 1, Number 1 was published in November 1995.

 Volume 12 no 2, November 2006 

• Margaret Nowak and Margaret McCabe:  “Institutional Investors: Do they have a Role in the Monitoring of Corporate Performance?” 
• Roger Wettenhall:  “The 'State Tradition' in Australia: Reassessing an Earlier View”  
• Emita Astami, Greg Tower, Rusmin and Ross Taplin:  “An Exploration of the Attributes of International Harmonisation Indices using the T-Index”    
• Robyn Pilcher:  “The Smoothing Potential of Depreciation for Local Authorities”  
• Ian Hyland, Sean Chinnery and John Evans:  “US Economic Announcements: Do They Convey Information to the Australian Share Market?”   
• Chris Gusenzow and Greg Tower:  “Valuing Athletes”     

Volume 12, Number 1, May 2006

• Peter Vitartas and Don Scott:  “The Relationship Between Community Involvement, Attachment and Trust and Perceived Satisfaction Levels of local Government Service Delivery”
• Alina Lee, Kenneth Ke, Jeanette Ng, Kevin Tian, Greg White and Leah Walters:  “Accounting Public Practice and Employee Job Satisfaction Today:  Professional Values, Organisational Commitment and Employee Intention to Turnover in Accounting Firms”
• Pauline Sadler, Cameron Yorke and Kyle Bowyer:  “The Effect of the Decision in McCracken v Melbourne Storm Rugby League Football Club on Professional Sport in Western Australia”
• Fitra Roman Cahaya, Stacey A Porter and Alistair M Brown:  “Nothing to Report?  Motovations for Non-Disclosure of Social Issues by Indonesian Listed Companies”
• Stuart Collins and Gregory White:  “A Free-Market Perspective for the Preparers and Users of Financial Accounting Information Today”
• Jo Fletcher:  “An Emergent Approach to Public Procurement”

 Volume 11, No 2, November 2005

•  Robert Evans and John Evans: "The Effects of Performance Measures on Executive Pay Structure: Evidence from Australia." 
• Siobhan Austen: "Demographic Change in Singapore and its Possible Consequences for Women’s Involvement in the Paid Workforce." 
• Bruce Jackson and Susan Madsen: "Common Factors of High Performance Teams."  
• Nurianna Thoha: "The Barriers and Enablers to the Transition from Personnel Administration to Strategic Human Resource Management Practices: A Study of Large Indonesian Companies." 
• Guy Callender, Kevin Vinsen, Diane Jamieson and John Brown: "Cost Estimation Models for Software Development: Art or Science?"  
• Submission Guidelines  

Volume 11, No 1, May 2005 

• Lance Cray: "Business-Information Technology Relationships: A Critical Dependence on IT Investment Outcomes? "  
•  Yvonne Shanahan, Beverley Lord and Jennifer Boyd: "An Evaluation of the Capital Budgeting Process in New Zealand  Local Authorities"  
• En Khong and Greg Tower: "Through the Looking Glass : Perceptions of Corporate Transparency."    
• Sandy Chong: "An Empirical Study of Factors that Influence the Adoption Of E-Commerce in Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises." 
• Peter Kenyon, Paul Koshy and Nick Wills-Johnson:  "A  Cost Benefit Analysis of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Provided by CRS Australia."     
• Submission Guidelines       
   

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Volume 10, Number 2, November 2004

• Anton de Waal: "Internet Marketing: A Typology of Theories and Some Practical Implications"
• Graeme Hodge and Diana Bowman: "Governing Nanotechnology: Setting the Regulatory Agenda"
• Guy Callender and Darin Matthews: "The Role of the Past in the Future of Public Procurement" 
• Cecil Pearson and Samir Chatterjee: "An Assessment of Managerial Work: Evidence from a Field Study in Eight Asian Nations"

Volume 10, Number 1, May 2004

• Teresa Connolly, Greg Tower and David Holloway: "Infrastructure Assets and Accounting Measurement: Western Australian Local Government Councils"
• Carol Gorelick, Sandra Fowkes and Shanil Haricharan: "Knowledge Fuel for Fighting Fires-Knowledge Capture at Ukuvuka: A Case Study"
• Linda Herkenhoff, Grant O'Neill and Antonio Travaglione: "Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence Across Cultures" 
• David Crombie: "The Missing Link: Could Emotional Intelligence Solve the Mystery of Entrepreneurship?" 
• Peter Galvin and John Rice: "Governance Systems, Modular Products and Innovation"

Volume 9, Number 2, November 2003

• Mahinda Siriwardana and Brian Dollery: "An Empirical Analysis of the Proposed Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement"
• Pauline Sadler and Cameron Yorke: "The 2003 Rugby World Cup: Player Image as Intellectual Property"
• Graeme Hodge: "Business Process Outsourcing: Improving Services, Reducing Costs & the Intelligent Buyer"
• Susan Madsen: "Viewing Corporate Wellness Programs as Systems" 
• Nancy Bursey and Geraldine Lindley: "Fashion Crimes: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Fur Industry"
• Sonja Petrovic-Lazarevic: "The Global Building and Construction Industry: Some Governance Challenges in its Future"
• Judy Johnston and Guy Callender: "Revisiting Public Governance: An Interdisciplinary Review"

Volume 9, Number 1, May 2003

• Mark Lyons: "Improving Government - Community Sector Relations" 
• Kerry Brown and Neal Ryan: "Redefining Government - Community Relations Through Service Agreements"
• Myles McGregor-Lowndes and Matthew Turnour: "Recent Developments in Government Community Service Relations: Are You Really My Partner?" 
• Des Pearson: "Public Sector Contracting of Not-for-Profit Organisations for the Delivery of Community Services"
• Kerry Brown, Sharon Gyde, Adele Renwick and Karyn Walsh: "Government-Community Partnerships: Rhetoric or Reality?" 
• Linda McGuire: "Benchmarking Community Services: 'nailing Jello to a tree'"
• Ted Flack and Christine Ryan: "Accountability of Australian Non-profit Organisations: Reporting Dilemmas"
• Kathy Brown: "How has Queensland Fared in the Development of the Community Services Industry Plan?"

Volume 8, Number 2, November 2002

• Mike Rowe: "Partnership Working? A Tale of Two Programs"
• Rona Beattie, Stephen Osborne and Arthur Williamson: "Community Involvement in Rural Regeneration Partnerships: Structural Rhetoric or Reality?" 
• Matthias Finger and Christophe Genoud: "Towards institutionalised governance? The case of the local/global water sector?
• Allan Peachment: "The Contemporary Public Sector in Western Australia: The Role of History and the Place of Research"
• Frederick Frost: "The Dairy Industry Post Deregulation: Development of Future Scenarios for the Australian Dairy Industry"
• Peter Stearns: "Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire"
• Jeremy Moon and Bruce Stone: "Power and Freedom in Modern Politics"

Volume 8, Number 1, May 2002

• Graeme Hodge: "Who Steers the State When Governments Sign Public-Private Partnerships?"
• Alessandro Ancarani: "A Model for Evaluating Public/Private Alternatives in Network Services Provision"
• JC van Ham and JFM Koppenjan: "Partnerships Passing in the Night" 
• Dianne Lewis, Jennifer Waterhouse and Jolanta Szymczyk-Ellis: "From Bureaucracy to Project Management: A Cultural Leap"
• Lance McMahon, Michael Sim Yaw Seng and Don Smart: "Quality Assurance in Australian Higher Education: Evolution and Emerging Issues"
• Gary Madden and Cherelle Murphy: "Protection, employment and wages in Australian manufacturing"
• Lance McMahon: "Research Note: Collective Consumption Marketing"
• Anthony Giddens: "The Third Way and its Critics"
• Richard Earle: "The Art of Cause Marketing"

Volume 7, Number 2, November 2001

• Peter Walsh and Neal Ryan: "In Search of New Approaches to Governance: The Case of Place Management"
• Judy Johnston and Guy Callender: "Outsourcing Public Sector Infrastructure: Running the Reform Agenda off the Rails"
• Tony O'Connor and E Eugene Clark: "Successful Partnerships in Education and Training: Lessons Learnt from the Australian Customs Service - University of Canberra Commercial Education Program"
• Esmie Nichol and Dennis Taylor: "Accountability and Performance Reporting in the Public Accounts of the Malaysian Government"
• Gudrun Biffl: "Coordination of Migration, Employment and Education Policy in the EU-Labour Market"
• Robert Guthrie: "Sex in the City: Decriminalisation of Prostitution in Western Australia"
• Richard P Feynman: "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P Feynman"
• Peter L Bernstein: "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk"

Volume 7, Number 1, May 2001

• Shaun Goldfinch and Paul Bellamy: "The Performance of Public Science: A Research Assessment of the Crown Research Institutes of New Zealand Using Bibliometric Methods"
• Jennifer Waterhouse, Kerry Brown and Christine Flynn: "The Pacific Motorway: A Case Study Examining Public Sector Management Dilemmas"
• Scott Gardner: "Stakeholder and Reputation Management as a Tool of Effective Governance Within Corporatised Government Agencies"
• Carol Dalglish and Jenifer Frederick: "Leadership Development and its Impact on a Public Sector Organisation"
• Robyn Keast: "Government Service Delivery Framework: A New Governance Approach for Queensland"
• John Martin and Tatjana Kehren: "The Getting of Wisdom in Local Governance: Reflections on the Queensland Case"
• John Simpson and John Evans: "Chinese Banking and World Trade Organisation Membership"

Volume 6, Number 2, November 2000

• Rachel Parker, Neal Ryan and Kerry Brown: "Drivers and Outcomes of the New Public Management in Three Public Sector Agencies"
• Pauline Sadler and Frank Harman: "Reform of Freedom of Information Legislation in Western Australia"
• Michael T Ewing, Julie Napoli and Albert Caruana: "Asian Networks: An Individualist-Collectivist Perspective"
• Kerry Brown, Peter Brosnan and Natalie Gallery: "Women and Superannuation: Labour Market Participation and Retirement Prospects"
• Fred Frost: "The Changing Role of Governments Involvement in the Dairy Industry: A Delph Study of its Future Role"

Volume 6, Number 1, May 2000

• Des Pearson: "Contemporary Issues in Public Sector Accountability"
• Geoff Gallop: "Drawing the Line Between the Public and the Private"
• Neal Ryan: "Public Confidence in the Public Sector"
• Tekle Shanka: "International Students Perception of Rural Western Australia as a Tourist Destination"
• John Evans, Cartiona Chin and Ian Chin: "Asset Valuation and Rate of Return Considerations in Public Entities"
• Simon James and Lynne Oats: "Tax Harmonisation: Clarifying the Issues"

Volume 5, Number 2, November 1999

• Siobhan Austen and Alison Preston: "Fairness, Equity and Safety Net Wage Adjustments"
• Andrew Korac-Kakabadse, Alexander Kouzmin and Nada Korac-Kakabadse: "Re-Institutionalising Trust in Lean Public Sectors"
• Nimal Jayaratna, Patrick Holt and Trevor Wood-Harper: "Criteria for Methodology Choice in Information Systems Development"
• Allan Peachment, Michael Ewing and Lance McMahon: "Social Marketing Initiative"
• Matthew Robson, Leyland Pitt and Deon Nel: "Value-for-Money and Local Government Services Pricing: The Marketing Perspective"

Volume 5, Number 1, May 1999

• Lance McMahon: "Marketing and the Policy Sciences: The Emerging Relationship"
• Christian Bauer and Laurent Ramelet: "Electronic Commerce and Export Success: A Case Study on Australian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises"
• Dennis Taylor, Jeanne H Yamamura, Yvonne Stedham and Morton Nelson: "Managing Professionals: The Impact of Organisational Factors on Dimensions of Satisfaction in Chartered Accounting Firms"
• Tim Mazzarol and Geoffrey N Soutar: "China's Demand for International Education - Social and Policy Implications for Australia"
• Catherine Jordan and Anthony Travaglione: "Strategies Used to Maintain Positive Employee Attitudes and Work Outcomes During Downsizing"
• Don Harding and Peter Kenyon: "Theories of Franchising"

Volume 4, Number 2, November 1998

• Prafula Fernandez and Lynne Oats: "Tax Reform - Replacing Australia's Wholesale Sales Tax with a GST"
• Linda Irene Glassop: "The Role of Government: An Analysis of the Australian Constitution Using Systems Theory"
• Simon James: "A Strategic Analysis of the Future International Business Tax Environment"
• Andrew Korac-Kakabadse, Nada Korac-Kakabadse and Alexander Louzmin: "Negotiating Consultant Links with the Top Team: Transacting Meaning and Obligations or Executive Failure Through Excessive Outsourcing?"
• Marc Robinson: "Market Testing versus Strategic Contracting"

Volume 4, Number 1, May 1998

• John Ryan and Mark Hepworth: "Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Their Impact on European SME Growth"
• Peter Curwen: "Private Finance Initiative or Playing with Funding Investment? Public Services Delivery Reform in the UK"
• Dane Howarth and Yvonne Shanahan: "An Investigation into the Application of Activity-Based Management in Public Sector Organisations"
• Chris Provis, Jennifer McKay and John Tomaino: "Whistleblowing and Organisational Strategy"
• Ian Radbone: "Governments and Statutory Authorities: Recent Lessons from the Case of Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority"
• Debra Harker and Peter Graham: "Establishing New Advertising Self-Regulatory Schemes: Lessons from the American Model"

Volume 3, Number 2, November 1997

• Hongxin Zhao and Kong Yam Tan: "Relationships Between Imported Technology and Indigenous Technological Capability: Evidence from Four Asian Economies"
• Peter Graham and Stephen Dann: "Banning Tobacco Advertising: The Australian Example"
• Louise Kloot and David Goodwin: "Local Government Management Reforms in Victoria: An Accounting Perspective"
• Morton Nelson, James Fisher, Greg Tower and William Banks: "A Comparison of University Accountability in Australia and Canada"
• Nick Sciulli: "Identification of Key Costing Issues in the Context of Competitive Tendering and Contracting Out by Public Sector Agencies"
• Rob Guthrie: "Resolving Workers Compensation Disputes in Western Australia Without Lawyers"

Volume 3, Number 1, May 1997

• E Eugene Clark: "The Role of Legal Compliance Programs in the Marketing of Goods and Services: Product Liability, Advertising, Credit Management, Intellectual Property and International Trade Issues"
• Andy Khan and Allan Davison: "Auditors' Common Law Liability to Third Parties - Recent Trends"
• Bee Chai Lee and Sheila Bellamy: "Planning and Control in Australian Government Business Enterprises: Perceptions of Senior Managers"
• Prafula Fernandez: "Project Finance Under International Islamic Capital Market"
• Donald McDermid: "The Need to Model Business Rules: A Contemporary Issue in Information Systems"
• Muayyad Jabri: "Resuscitating Climate Audits: Implications for the Management of Change"

Volume 2, Number 2, November 1996

• Margaret McNeil and Allan Peachment: "Ethics and the Public Sector Manager: A Comparative Treatment of the Western Australian Public Sector"
• E Eugene Clark: "Legal Compliance Programs: General Principles and Practical Guidelines for Preventative Legal Action"
• Nick Bruning: "An Assessment of Antecedents, Task Satisfaction and Perceived Organisational Effectiveness: The Creation of a Solid Waste Management District"
• George Hagglund and Chris Provis: "Enterprise Bargaining and Productivity Issues in South Australia"
• Helen Cabalu: "The East Asian 'Miracle': Can it Happen in Australia? (The case of Manufactured Exports)"
• Tan Kong Yan: "Regionalism in the Pacific Basin: ASEAN, APEC and Global Free Trade"

Volume 2, Number 1, May 1996

• John K Courtis: "Annual Report Chart Graphics: Emerging Interest"
• Margaret Jackson: "The Gulf Between International and National Obligations: The Australian Government and Teoh's Case"
• Andy Khan and Nii Wallace-Bruce: "Implied Constitutional Rights and the Closed Shop"
• Anthony Travaglione, Dale Pinto and Robert Evans: "A Critical Analysis of the Intention and Effects of Policies to Encourage Employee Share Ownership"
• Yvonne P Shanahan and Karyn M Dance: "Implementing a New Costing System in the New Zealand Health Sector: A Case Study of Nelson Marlborough Health Services Limited"
• John Neilson and Dennis Taylor: "Managing Rapid Commercialisation: The Case of a Public Transport Organisation"

Volume 1, Number 1, November 1995

• Glen Bartlett: "Termination of Employment: Legal Aspects of Counselling and Procedural Fairness"
• Sue Deegan: "Managerialism: a review of the debate and a consideration of its potential impact on innovation in public sector agencies"
• Susan Long, Barbara Cargill and Jillian Stewart: "Action Learning: A Case Study in Business Planning in Local Government"
• Tim Mazzarol: "Regulation of International Education in Australia: Findings of a Multi-National Study"
• Kevin G Brown: "Contracting Out by Western Australian Government Departments and the Legal Implications Applicable to Safety and Health Related Issues"
• Swee Hoon Ang: "Effectiveness of an Informational Public Policy Campaign: A Comparison Among Social Classes"

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