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• IIBSoR Member gains place on Most Cited Article list
• ARC achievements
• Inspiring Accounting International Issues

Dr Fosso-Wamba gains place on Most Cited Article list - International Journal of Production Economics  

Congratulations to UOW’s IIBSoR member Dr Samuel Fosso -Wamba, whose work was recently named on the most cited articles list of the A-ranked International Journal of Production Economics.

His journal article “Exploring the impact of RFID technology and the EPC network on mobile B2B eCommerce: A case study in the retail industry”, authored with colleagues from Polytechnique Montréal in Canada earned a place on the list. The same article was also on the journal’s “Top 25 Hottest Articles for April to June 2008” list.

The article provides insights into radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and the electronic product code (EPC) network, investigating their impact on mobile B2B eCommerce.  Findings show that these technologies can help retail companies enhance product availability, which represent billions of dollars in opportunities each year in terms of cost reduction related to inventory shrinkage. In addition, it can lead to business process optimisation, reducing information handling by employees, contributing to cost savings.

ARC Grants for Early Researchers

Congratulations to IIBSoR's Dr Melanie Randle and Dr Peter Siminski on their Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) success. DECRA is a new ARC scheme which provides more focused support and creates more opportunities for early-career researchers in both teaching and research positions.

They were both awarded three-year grants for a total amount of $375,000 each.

Dr Randle’s project is entitled “More foster carers for children in need: understanding heterogeneity among Australian foster carers to increase recruitment and placement success". This project improves the ability of foster care organisations to attract the particular types of carers best suited to the children needing homes. More suitable carers will give foster children a healthier start to life, reduce the chances of developing antisocial behaviours and increase the chances of become contributing members of society.

Dr Siminski’s project is called "Army service, employment incentives and veterans’ life outcomes: a natural experiment”. This project will analyse the complex long-run effects of Australia’s conscription ballots on the lives of conscripts and their families. Treating the ballots as ‘natural experiments’, it will consider direct effects of army service, including service in Vietnam and the effects of incentives created by veterans’ compensation on a range of outcomes.

Inspiring International Accounting

George Mickhail from the School of Accounting & Finance has been invited by the IESEG School of Management in Paris (which is one of the top 10 business schools in France), to discuss the geo-financial and  geopolitics of the global financial crisis and  climate change, in a series of guest lectures in the last week of September, titled: "International Issues in Accounting and Auditing".