http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland en Fez http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:163329 2009-02-06T15:39:24Z http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:98854 2007-08-24T02:13:03Z Bellamy, D. E. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:71533 2007-08-14T12:17:51Z Ashkanasy, N. M. og Zerbe, W. J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:71546 2007-08-14T12:18:04Z Ashkanasy, N. M. og Hartel, C. E. J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:71529 2007-08-14T12:17:47Z Ashkanasy, N. M. og Zerbe, W. J. og Hartel, C. E. J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:58572 2007-08-14T15:14:19Z Rundle-Thiele, S. og Bennett, R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:148091 2008-06-06T14:08:14Z Skoufa, L. A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:69555 In this article we take a discourse-historical approach to illustrate the significance of George W Bush's (2001) declaration of a 'war on terror'. We present four exemplary 'call to arms' speeches by Pope Urban 11 (1095), Queen Elizabeth I (1588), Adolf Hitler (1938) and George W Bush (2001) to exemplify the structure, function, and historical significance of such texts in western societies over the last millennium. We identify four generic features that have endured in such texts throughout this period: (i) an appeal to a legitimate power source that is external to the orator, and which is presented as inherently good; (ii) an appeal to the historical importance of the culture in which the discourse is situated; (iii) the construction of a thoroughly evil Other; and (iv) an appeal for unification behind the legitimating external power source. We argue further that such texts typically appear in historical contexts characterized by deep crises in political legitimacy. 2007-08-15T03:21:53Z Graham, Phil og Keenan, Thomas og Dowd, Anne- Maree http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:149884 2008-06-06T15:56:08Z Weerawardena, J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:95477 2007-08-23T23:41:35Z Nicholson, G. og Kiel, G. C. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:104862 2007-08-23T22:39:19Z Christie, M. J. og Rowe, P. A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:176416 Abstract: The development of Web applications is an important focus of the modern information enabled organization – whether the Web application development is in-house, outsourced, or purchased as ‘commercial-off-the-shelf’ (COTS) software. Traditionally Web application development has been delivered via the dominant waterfall system. The waterfall system relies upon well-defined governance structures, linear phases, gating, and extensive reporting and sign-off documentation. An increasing number of development stakeholders criticise the waterfall system for web application development. The criticisms include a disproportionate focus on governance and process at the direct expense of flexibility and, most importantly, reduced productivity. One consequence of these criticisms is the increasing adoption of Web application development via agile-system methods. This agile-system approach centres upon smaller design teams, fewer development phases, and shorter development time tables. 2009-04-16T16:17:57Z Clutterbuck, P. og Seamons, O. og Rowlands, T. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:151587 This research examined recent pilots of accelerated apprenticeships in the automotive industry in Queensland. Interviews with apprentices, employers and teachers showed that the traditional model is still well regarded. It is not failing, but does require evolutionary change. 2008-06-27T16:30:42Z Callan, V. J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:163005 2009-02-04T17:23:59Z Greig, P. og Mackay, J. og Beaumont, S. og Sagner, R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:75002 2007-08-15T05:34:44Z Herbohn, K. F. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185819 Julian and Ofori-Dankwa (2006) argue that on-line education and corporate universities are potentially disruptive threats to traditional U.S. business schools and suggest that accreditation processes may hinder their ability to adapt to these threats. I challenge those arguments by showing that it is unlikely that on-line education and corporate universities will disrupt the environment of traditional business schools. I also show that two longer term trends--the growth of for-profit universities and the globalization of business education coupled with the diffusion of accreditation--are likely to have an impact on business school enrollment markets both within and outside the United States. My conclusion is that accreditation can be beneficial to many business schools for two reasons. One reason is that accreditation processes require that business schools gain clarity about the markets they serve and the services they offer, which is increasingly important as enrollment markets grow more competitive. The other reason is that the value of accreditation as a quality differentiator appears to be rising in the markets for part-time working students and international students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] 2009-11-12T11:58:40Z Zammuto, Raymond F. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:171453 Recent theoretical work argues that information risk is a non-diversifiable risk factor that is priced in the capital market. Using accruals quality to proxy for information risk, Francis et al. (2005) provide empirical support for this argument using a sample of US firms. This paper re-examines the interplay of accruals quality, information risk and cost of capital in Australia, where a number of important institutional and regulatory differences are hypothesized to affect the relation between accruals quality and cost of capital. The results suggest that, while accruals quality impacts on the cost of capital for Australian firms, some salient differences exist. In contrast to findings for US firms, the costs of debt and equity for Australian firms are largely influenced by accruals quality arising from economic fundamentals (i.e., innate accrual quality) but not discretionary reporting choices (i.e., discretionary accrual quality). This finding is consistent with our predictions based on the Australian institutional and regulatory environment. In addition, using both the asset pricing tests in Francis et al. (2005) and Core et al. (2008), we provide evidence consistent with accruals quality being a priced risk factor. 2009-03-23T18:31:00Z Gray, Philip og Koh, Ping-Sheng og Tong, Yen H. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:183769 The research topic has significant implications on organisations that aspire to reach higher levels of improvement by continuously creating diverse values to their stakeholders and building unique Business Process Improvement (BPI) capabilities. We present an a-priori model derived from well-known theories and domains such as stakeholder and organisational capabilities theories. The model mainly posits that the degree of key stakeholder requirements alignment and the BPI organisational capabilities together impact the level of improvement achieved in BPI projects. These factors are in turn impacted by, for example, centrality, communication, culture. The model is tested using a case study in an Australian higher education institution, relying primarily on semi-structured interviews. The testing of the model has uncovered a number of interesting insights. For example, continuous top management support, which was posited to be an antecedent of BPI organisational capabilities, was found to be strongly related to key stakeholders requirements’ alignment and risk management. As such, top management can play a more effective role in BPI initiatives in achieving higher levels of improvement. The case also found that better levels of: time to perform processes, accessibility, maintainability, accuracy, ease of use, consistency, quality, and end users’ satisfaction could measure the levels of improvement. 2009-09-08T13:29:34Z Abou Moghdeb, F. og Green, Peter F. og Indulska, Marta K. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:139502 2008-06-10T10:41:34Z Booth, G. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:171337 2009-03-23T13:45:04Z Xu, H. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:103210 2007-08-23T21:26:05Z Kastelle, T. H. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:69259 Socially responsible investment is a rapidly emerging phenomenon within the field of personal investment. However, the factors that lead investors to choose socially responsible investment products are not well understood, especially in an Australian context. This study provides a comparative examination of conventional and socially responsible investors, with the aim of identifying such factors. A total of 55 conventional investors and 54 ethical investors participated in the study by completing mailed questionnaires about their investment and general behaviour and their attitudes and beliefs. Results indicated some important differences between socially responsible and conventional investors in their beliefs of the importance of ethical issues, their investment decision-making style, and their perceptions of moral intensity. These results support the notion that socially responsible investors differ in critical ways to conventional investors, and are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications. 2007-08-15T03:17:08Z McLachlan, J. og Gardner, J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:69399 This article examines the development of two distinct models of organising allied health professionals within two public sector health service organisations in Australia. The first case illustrated a mode of organising that facilitated a culture that focused on asset protection and whose external orientation was threat oriented because its disparate multiple identities operated as a fractured, fragmented and competitive set of profession disciplines. In this milieu, there was no evidence of entrepreneurial approaches being used. In contrast, the second case study illustrated a mode of organising that facilitated an entrepreneurial culture that focused on asset growth and an external orientation that was opportunity oriented because of the evolution of a strong superordinate allied health identity that operated as a single united health services stakeholder. This evolution was coupled with the emergence of a corporate boardroom model of management that is consonant with Savage et al. (1997) IDS/N model of management. Once this structure and strategy were in place, corporate entrepreneur ship became the modus operandi. Consequently, because the case study was a situation where corporate entrepreneurship existed in the public sector, it was possible to compare the factors that stimulate corporate entrepreneurship in Sadler's (2000) study with factors that were observed in our study. 2007-08-15T03:19:10Z Rowe, Patricia A. og Boyce, Rosalie A og Boyle, Maree V. og O'Reilly, Kathleen http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:147433 2008-06-06T13:30:05Z Fitzgerald, L. M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:150936 2008-06-06T16:54:02Z Fitzgerald, L. M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:100959 2007-08-23T19:51:23Z Murray, J. P. og Jordan, P. J. og Ashkanasy, N. M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:61267 2007-08-14T17:05:09Z Bennett, R. og Rundle-Thiele, S. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:75011 2007-08-15T05:35:02Z Leo, W. W. C. og Bennett, R. og Cierpicki, S. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:98880 2007-08-24T02:14:03Z Rundle-Thiele, S. og Bennett, R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:136514 2008-04-28T16:03:20Z Dagger, T. og Sweeney, J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:148314 2008-06-06T14:22:13Z Hartel, C. E. og Hsu, C. og Boyle, M. V. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:102077 2007-08-23T20:40:30Z Ayoko, R.O.B. og Moore, A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:101774 2007-08-23T20:24:52Z Clutterbuck, P. J. og Rowlands, T. P. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:150473 2008-06-06T16:33:11Z Goodwin, J. D. og Goodwin, D. og Fiedler, B. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:79034 2007-08-15T08:06:38Z Zhu, Y. og Nel, P. og Bhat, R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:75072 Purpose - Previous studies have looked at how socio-economic and political factors play a role in consumers' ethical positions, but few have considered the role of religion which is a major driver of ethics. This paper seeks to address this. Design/methodology/approach - From a survey of over 700 consumers this paper explores the similarities and differences between consumers' ethical positions in three different religions namely; Christian (from three countries), Islam, and Buddhism. Findings - It was found that a reduced item scale measuring the two factors of Forsyth's idealism and relativism was applicable in all five religions, but variations were seen because of religious teachings. In particular, Austrian Christians were significantly less idealistic and relativistic than all other religions, even other Christians from the United States and Britain. Research limitations/implications - The results have implications for measuring ethical positions internationally and for developing ethically based marketing messages and products. Originality/value - The paper shows for the first time how ethical positions are affected by religions and should be of interest to marketers involved in ethics research and ethical marketing. 2007-08-15T05:37:14Z Cornwell, B. og Cui, C. C. og Mitchell, V. og Schlegelmilch, B. og Dzulkiflee, A. og Chan, J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:171816 Scholars have given enormous attention to the top-down process of how organisational values influence individual values yet literature suggests that individual values do shape team values. Furthermore, few studies have examined the process by which specific individual values impact team values and how these team values influence team processes such as conflict and trust behaviours at the workplace. Similarly, conflict literature is replete with studies that focus on trust as antecedent to conflict but few have examined the reverse proposition that conflict has an impact on trust. To bridge these gaps in literature, this paper proposes a theoretical model aimed at examining a cross-level relationship between values, conflict and trust at the workplace. The implications of research are also discussed. 2009-03-25T13:10:06Z Ng, J. L. og Ayoko, O. B. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:136014 2008-04-22T15:58:39Z Tse, H. H. M. og Dasborough, M. T. og Ashkanasy, N. M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:57677 In a program of laboratory and field research over the last decade, the author has replicated and extended the attribution model of leadership (Green & Mitchell, 1979). This paper reports a cross-national test of the model, in which 172 Australian and 144 Canadian work supervisors' recalled their attributional and evaluative responses to high and low levels of subordinate performance. It was expected that the supervisors' responses would conform to the predictions established in the earlier studies, but that there would be key differences across the cultures. In particular, Australians were expected to endorse more internal attributions for subordinate performance than Canadians, and to focus more on individual characteristics in evaluating performance. Results supported the model's robustness and the hypothesised cross-national differences. The implications of these results are discussed in terms of crosscultural research opportunities, and the need to take account of small but potentially important differences in supervisory styles across cultures. 2007-08-13T16:50:01Z Ashkanasy, N. M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:69226 Uses research in a major UK company on the introduction of an electronic document management system to explore perceptions of, and attitudes to, risk. Phenomenological methods were used; with subsequent dialogue transcripts evaluated with Winmax dialogue software, using an adapted theoretical framework based upon an analysis of the literature. The paper identifies a number of factors, and builds a framework, that should support a greater understanding of risk assessment and project management by the academic community and practitioners. 2007-08-15T03:16:36Z Parker, D. W. og Mobey, A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:96927 2007-08-24T00:55:14Z Bramble, T. J. og Minns, J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:96909 Totally generalisable theories of firm internationalisation in the post-industrial era of international business, where national barriers are becoming less significant and technology becoming more influential, appear to be illusory. Stepwise or evolutionary models that predict gradual internationalisation are under challenge from empirical evidence of rapid internationalisation such as the phenomenon of the “born global” firm. Similarly, equilibrium models such as the eclectic paradigm have been criticised for being static and unable to account for process and path dependency. In this paper, the information and knowledge assumptions implied in theories of firm internationalisation are outlined and discussed. From this discussion, we suggest that actor-network theory, with its balance between description and explanation, may be a useful theoretical and empirical tool for investigating the complex and heterogeneous process of firm internationalisation whilst creating opportunities for further theory building. 2007-08-24T00:54:36Z Steen, J. T. og Liesch, P. W. og Dowling, P. J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:73424 2007-08-15T04:36:11Z Steen, J. T. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:64496 2007-08-14T19:11:32Z Rowe, P. A. og Christie, M.J. og Pickernell, D. G. og Parsons, L. G. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:69385 2007-08-15T03:18:59Z Innes, P. A. og Littler, C. R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:96908 2007-08-24T00:54:34Z Lamb, P. og Liesch, P. W. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:138066 This study uses SWOT analysis to explore perceptions of differential administrative placement of the Information Systems academic discipline within four universities across two countries, Australia and Korea. The analysis provides a useful basis for decision makers to exploit opportunities and minimize external threats. The study also offers useful insights for Information Systems academics contemplating administrative relocation of their group. The paper serves the dual-purpose of (1) informing the positioning of IS in the four case institutions, while (2) evolving an approach and related tools for usefully extending the SWOT analysis to other institutions and states, and across time. The extension of the analysis to other states and to IS groups in differing circumstances will broaden the relevance of study findings, while improving our understanding of differential placement of IS and perceptions of the relative advantages of the alternatives. 2008-05-08T18:02:03Z Gable, G. G. og Lee, J. og Kwahk, K. og Green, P. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:95118 2007-08-23T23:22:29Z Kavanagh, Marie og Marjanovic, Olivera og Brown, Allison http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:163749 2009-02-10T16:05:18Z Baumgartner, I. og Green, P. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:96761 2007-08-24T00:47:06Z Shulman, A. D. og Mathews, J. M.