Academic in Focus 

NZ’s respected Journalist quotes Professor Reveley’s insights about Port differences.

The School of Management & Marketing’s Associate Head of School - Management, Associate Professor James Reveley was extensively quoted by NZ’s respected Journalist, Alison McCulloch.

With his experience exceeding over 20 years in researching and writing about New Zealand port labour relations, Professor Reveley papers was quoted to explain why the Port of Tauranga is vastly different in the employment conditions its offers workers compared to Auckland’s port.

He claims that Auckland has a stronger Union and has manage to rebuild itself the strongest in NZ. The article quotes “in fact the term often used in employer circles and also within union circles is ‘Fortress Auckland’,” Reveley says, “because they’ve been very successful at keeping rates of casualization/casual labour low and keeping their workforce unionized, whereas Tauranga’s been a lot less successful”.

Professor Reveley’s studies on disputes and casual workers of Ports were also made references to in the online article.

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Emeritus Professor Michael Gaffikin wins the Accounting History Special Interest Group Manuscript Award for 2011

The 2011 Accounting History Special Interest Group Manuscript Award for 2011 was awarded to Emeritus Professor Michael Gaffikin from the School of Accounting and Finance for his article entitled "What is (accounting) history", which appeared in Accounting History (Vol. 16, No.3) in August 2011.

This annual award is presented to the author of the article published "which makes the most significant contribution to the accounting history literature". This is a prestigious award from a high quality  international journal and represents Professor Gaffikin’s excellent contribution accounting scholarship.

Marketing measurement revolution article in top journal

Professor John Rossiter’s "Marketing measurement revolution: The C-OAR-SE method and why it must replace psychometrics" has just been published as the lead article in the European Journal of Marketing.

Highly content-valid measures are absolutely necessary for proper tests of theories and hypotheses, and for obtaining trustworthy findings in marketing. New measures in marketing are created by using a psychometric approach based on Churchill’s “scale development” procedure, and Prof Rossiter's paper aims to compare and contrast Churchill’s procedure with his own content-validity approach to measurement, called C-OAR-SE.

See the abstract and  full article

IIBSoR Multiple Grant Success

Congratulation to IIBSoR members Tim Coltman and Rajeev Sharma on their successful 2012 Linkage Project grant.  This grant is the largest awarded to UOW in this round, and the 5th largest amount awarded nationally.
 

Congratulations also to IIBSoR members Sara Dolnicar, Ulrike Gretzel and Abbas Valadkhani on their success in the 2012 Discovery Grant rounds.
 

Prof Tim Coltman; Prof Tim Devinney; Dr Rajeev Sharma; Prof Dr Siegfried Gudergan; Dr Benjamin Brooks; Dr Nidthida Lin
Technology and innovation management in high risk situations
Total      $652,367.00 (+$675,000 from industry partners)
Partner Organisations - Newcastle Port Corporation, Port Kembla Port Corporation
Linkage Project Summary
The value of Australian bulk commodity exports and container imports is expected to double from $400 billion to $800 billion by 2020, placing considerable pressure on port waters. This project will examine the challenge whereby port operators are both encouraged to take risks to innovate but are constrained by the consequences of risk.
 

Prof Sara Dolnicar and Dr Ulrike Gretzel
Reducing the Australian tourism industry's vulnerability to external shocks: identifying and understanding disaster-resilient tourists
Total      $200,000.00
Discovery Project Summary
The tourism industry is vulnerable to external shocks, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Global Financial Crisis, all of which led to immediate and substantial drops in tourism demand of between 4 per cent and 55 per cent. This project investigates a new way of reducing this vulnerability well in advance of disasters occurring: targeting the segment of disaster-resilient tourists.
 

A/Prof Abbas Valadkhani
Does retail petrol price respond asymmetrically to changes in its cost? A modelling framework
Total      $99,204.00
Discovery Project Summary
This project will offer a model for assessing the abnormal-price setting for various goods and services, leading to greater transparency of the market. The modelling framework proposed in this project will assist in resolving a significant policy issue, which is now the subject of considerable public debate and not thoroughly examined to date.

Research Enters Top Ranking Journals

Congratulations to Professor Tim Coltman at IIBSoR who had his paper titled What drives the choice of a third-party logistics provider?  appear in the April edition of Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM).   According to the 2010 ISI Impact Factor scores, JSCM is ranked second out of 144 management journals with an impact factor of 5.853.  Professor Coltman has also been invited to join the JSCM Editorial Review Board.

In addition, Tim had a paper titled Best-worst approach to predict customer choice for 3PL services appear in the June edition of Journal of Business Logistics (JBL).  The journal is ranked 10th out of 144 management journals with an impact factor score of 3.905.

Both journals are experiencing a rapid ascendancy in importance to scholars in management.