Research Interests

The Faculty's Academics undertake research in a variety of Commerce related areas.

Accounting & Finance | Economics | Management & Marketing

Accounting & Finance

Accounting and eBusiness - Shirley Xu
Accounting education - Indra Abeysekera, Sam Jebeile, Sudhir Lodh, Kathy Rudkin
Accounting for social justice - George Mickhail
Accounting for immigration - George Mickhail
Accounting for toxic products and long-tail liabilities - Lee Moerman
Accounting history - Warwick Funnell, Michael Gaffikin
Accounting in its organisational, social and political contexts - Mary Kaidonis
Accounting information systems - Parulian Silaen
Accounting profession - Indra Abeysekera
Accounting standard setting - Corinne Cortese, Hajar Roudaki
Accounting theory - Eagle Zhang, Michael Gaffikin, Kellie McCombie

Bank lending - Gary Tian
Banking - Freda Hui   
Bankrupty Prediction Modeling -Maria Kim   
Business ethics - Ciorstan (Kitty) Smark
Business evaluation - Feng Li
Business finance - Shyam Bhati

Corporate banking - Paul Mazzola
Corporate finance - Dionigi Gerace, Xiaofei Pan, Maria Kim  
Corporate governance - Graham Bowrey, Shiguang Ma, Feng Li
Corporate governance and CEO compensation - Gary Tian
Corporate strategy and performance evaluation of MetaCapitalism (efficiency) - George Mickhail
Cost management - Anura De Zoysa
Credit risk management - Paul Mazzola
Critical theory - Kathy Rudkin, Ron Perrin, Mary Kaidonis, Lee Moerman

Dividend clienteles - Aelee Jun
Dividend valuations - Aelee Jun

Earnings management - Feng Li
Earnings quality - Feng Li
Emerging financial market - Shiguang Ma
Emotional capital - Indra Abeysekera
Environmental auditing and assurance - Shirley Xu
Event study - Shiguang Ma
Extractive industries accounting - Corinne Cortese

Finance - Ian Mann
Financial accountability - Kathy Rudkin, Ron Perrin
Financial accounting - Freda Hui, Kellie McCombie, Connie Spasich, Corinne Cortese, Lee Moerman, Hajar Roudaki
Financial accounting (accounting regulation & conceptual framework project) - Eagle Zhang  
Financial Distress Modeling - Maria Kim 
Financial markets - Kathie Cooper, Mara Koplin
Financial planning regulation - Ron Perrin                                                    
Financial planning - advice population, ageing, risk profiling, superannuation - Loretta Iskra
Financial reporting - Fariba Ahmadi-Pirshashid
Financial statement analysis - Anura De Zoysa
Forensic accounting - Nash Kumar

Global warming - Brian Andrew

Insolvencies - Connie Spasich
Intellectual capital - Indra Abeysekera
International accounting - Indra Abeysekera
International accounting standards - Corinne Cortese
International banking and finance - Shyam Bhati
Introductory accounting - Sudhir Lodh, Sam Jebeile
Investment management - Paul Mazzola
Investments - Shyam Bhati
IPO - Shiguang Ma

Knowledge management - Indra Abeysekera

Management accounting - Parulian Silaen, Graham Bowrey, Ciorstan (Kitty) Smark, Warwick Funnell
Management control systems - Parulian Silaen
Managerial accounting - Ted Watts
Market efficiency - Shiguang Ma
Mental health funding issues - Ciorstan (Kitty) Smark        
Microstructure of financial markets - Dionigi Gerace

Political connection - Gary Tian
Project and leverage finance - Paul Mazzola
Public sector accountability (with a special interest in public sector audit) - Warwick Funnell
Public sector accounting - Michael Gaffikin
Public sector financial accountability - Graham Bowrey

Risk & insurance - Shyam Bhati

Social & environmental accounting - Michael Gaffikin, Mary Kaidonis, Lee Moerman
Social responsibility - Fariba Ahmadi-Pirshashid
State controlled and family controlled firms - Gary Tian            
Superannuation - Loretta Iskra  
Survival Analysis - Maria Kim
 

Taxation law - Ian Mann
Taxation law and policy - Brian Andrew
The economics of alternative energy systems - Brian Andrew
The European Union emissions trading scheme - Brian Andrew
 

Economics

Ageing society policy - Martin O’Brien
Applied econometrics - Martin O’Brien, Reetu Verma, Abbas Valadkhani, Silvia Mendolia
Applied macroeconomic modelling - Amir Arjomandi   
Applied macroeconomics, specifically, development macroeconomics, macro finance and open economy macroeconomics - Arusha Cooray
Applied microeconometrics - Peter Siminski, Oleg Yerokhin, Joan Rodgers
Applied time series econometrics - Khorshed Chowdhury
ASEAN free trade area - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
Australian macroeconomic policy issues - Abbas Valadkhani
Automobile industry in Australia - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran

Behavioural health economics - Amnon Levy          
Business collaboration - Aimee Zhang
Business innovation - Eduardo Pol

Chinese economy (eg state sector reform and layoffs, labour market, migration and urban affairs) - Zhiming Cheng
Computer science - Helen Hasan

Defence and peace economics - Amnon Levy
Development economics - Amnon Levy, Abbas Valadkhani, Arusha Cooray
Disaster management - Simon Ville

East Asian economic development - Charles Harvie
East Asian economic integration, macroeconomics - Charles Harvie
Economic and business history – Australian and comparative - Simon Ville
Economic and social consequences of military conscription - Simon Ville
Economic evaluation - Peter Siminski
Economic growth and productivity - Edgar Wilson
Economic integrations and performance - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran          
Economic modelling - Reetu Verma, Edgar Wilson
Economics education: innovations for student engagement in economics - Eduardo Pol
Economics of regulation, competition policy, technological innovation and institutional economics - Cassey Lee        
Efficiency and productivity - Amir Arjomandi   
Environmental economics - Amir Arjomandi   
Experience of migrant women - Simon Ville    
Export Processing Zones (EPZs) - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran

Financial economics - Amnon Levy

Health economics - Peter Siminski, Oleg Yerokhin, Silvia Mendolia
Hidden unemployment - Martin O’Brien
Human and social capital - Frank Neri
Human-Computer Interaction - Helen Hasan

India’s re-entry in the global trade - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
Industrial organisation - Cassey Lee
Information systems - Helen Hasan
Input-output analysis  - Abbas Valadkhani
International financial and monetary economics - Abbas Valadkhani
International monetary economics - Khorshed Chowdhury
International trade, growth and developmental economics - Reetu Verma, Khorshed Chowdhury

Labour economics - Peter Siminski, Joan Rodgers, Silvia Mendolia

Macroeconometric model-building - Abbas Valadkhani
Macroeconomics - Reetu Verma, Edgar Wilson, Khorshed Chowdhury
Mixed methods research - Zhiming Cheng
Modern and contemporary studies of social capital  - Simon Ville
Monetary economics - Charles Harvie
Multi-dimensional ranking of Australian universities   - Abbas Valadkhani

Older worker employment issues - Martin O’Brien

Quantitative Methods for Management - Amir Arjomandi   

Passenger motor vehicle industry - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran     
Political economy - Zhiming Cheng
Poverty and economic inequality - Joan Rodgers
Poverty and inequality - Peter Siminski, Zhiming Cheng
Pre- and post-GST effects on inflation - Abbas Valadkhani
Productivity and growth - Abbas Valadkhani
Public economics - Peter Siminski, Oleg Yerokhin

Research methods - Peter Siminski
Resource and environmental economics - Amnon Levy
Role of industry associations - Simon Ville

Schumpeterian growth models - Eduardo Pol
Segmented labour market theory - Martin O’Brien
Small business and economic development - Charles Harvie      
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran       
South Asian economics - Reetu Verma     
State emissions - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran

Teaching of economics - Frank Neri         
Telecommunications industry - Aimee Zhang        
Threshold and asymmetric models - Abbas Valadkhani        
Trade reforms and performance of Australia and Asia - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran

Venture capital - Eduardo Pol

Wage inequality performance - Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
 

Management & Marketing

Aboriginal entrepreneurship - James Reveley
Adding value to achieve better pricing levels in business-to-business markets - Robert Grant
Advertising - John Rossiter
Advertising and promotion - Jennifer Algie
Advertising communications - Alan Pomering    
Anti-consumption and new consumption philosophies - Julie Francis        
Application of supply chain principles in practise - Tillmann Böhme        

B-B online service quality - Lois Burgess
Brand management - Greg Kerr            
Business ethics - Mario Fernando                
Business operations (strategy, knowledge, process handling and competitive analysis) - Michael Jones
Business processes - Peter Larkin
Business strategy & performance - Tim Coltman
Business-to-business marketing - Ping Kattiyapornpong

Change processes in organisations - Patrick Dawson               
Communicative and semiotic modelling business processes, services, coalitions and virtual communities - Rodney Clarke         
Community connectedness and its role in retaining skilled migrant women in Australia - Sara Dolnicar     
Community services organisations - Chris Sykes
Competitive advantage - Greg Kerr
Complex modelling using component based SEM - Shahriar Akter
Consumer behaviour - Jennifer Algie, Julie Francis, Ping Kattiyapornpong, John Rossiter, Sue Slowikowski, Nadia Zainuddin
Contextual analysis of systems in organisations - Rodney Clarke
Continuous improvement - Peter Larkin         
Construct Measurement and Scale Development - Julie Francis  
Corporate marketing - Shaun Powell
Corporate social responsibility - Alan Pomering, John Cantrell (non-profit support perspective), Mario Fernando, Sue Slowikowski, Gary Noble, Shaun Powell (employee perspective)
Critical analysis of HRM practices - James Reveley

Drivers and barriers for corporate donation behaviour in Australia - John Cantrell

Entrepreneurship - Les Kirchmajer
Event management - Greg Kerr

Family business - Mary Barrett
Foster care - Melanie Randle
Franchising - Les Kirchmajer

Gender equity - Anne Vo

Human resource management (international and comparative) - Michael Zanko
Human resource management-critical studies - Peter McLean

Identifying, attracting and retaining successful foster parents - Sara Dolnicar
Identity and resistance - Peter McLean
Influence of trust climate on collaborative behaviours - Janette Rowland
Innovation - Les Kirchmajer
Innovation and change management - Andrew Sense
Innovation management - Tim Coltman
International business management - Peter Massingham
International marketing - Ping Kattiyapornpong
Internationalisation strategies of emerging Asian multinational firms - Ah Ba Sim
Internet retailing - Julie Francis
Inter-organisational relations - Michael Zanko

Knowing and learning - Chris Sykes
Knowledge management - Peter Massingham, Helen Hasan
Knowledge production (universities & research institutions) - Sam Garrett-Jones

Leadership - Mario Fernando         
Leadership behaviour  - Joy Peluchette 
Leadership and management theory - Mary Barrett
Lean/agile systems - Matthew Pepper
Location marketing - Greg Kerr

Management history - James Reveley
Management of ethics and governance - Michael Gross
Market orientation / organisational transformation in non-profit charities - Paul Chad        
Market segmentation methodology and measurement in the social sciences  - Sara Dolnicar
Marketing education - Venkat Yanamandram          
Marketing knowledge - John Rossiter
Marketing strategy - Robert Grant
Motivations for corporate philanthropy - Gary Noble, John Cantrell
Multimedia techniques for representing work spaces and work - Rodney Clarke

New product development - Elias Kyriazis
Non-profit marketing - Elias Kyriazis, John Cantrell, Melanie Randle, Sue Slowikowski
Non-profit organisations - John Cantrell

Occupational health and safety management - Michael Zanko
Operations management - Matthew Pepper
Organisational aesthetics - James Reveley
Organisational behaviour - Michael Gross, Michael Jones (motivation and commitment)
Organisational change processes - Peter McLean
Organisational discourses - Chris Sykes
Organisational learning - Andrew Sense
Organisational practice - Chris Sykes
Organisational Studies- Helen Hasan

Performance management - Peter McLean
Performance management in the Public Service - Christa Wood
Performance of international joint ventures and strategic alliances - Ah Ba Sim      
Project management - Andrew Sense             
Project-based learning - Andrew Sense   
Public information - understanding fears and increasing acceptance of alternative water sources - Sara Dolnicar             
 

Quality engineering and multimedia-based teaching techniques - Trevor Spedding    
Quality systems - Matthew Pepper

R&D collaboration - Sam Garrett-Jones              
Relationship management - Tillmann Böhme             
Response style heterogeneity in empirical marketing research  - Sara Dolnicar            
Research methods - Ulrike Gretzel
Road safety advertising - Jennifer Algie

Scale development - Julie Francis, Lois Burgess, (and validation) Shahriar Akter
Self-identity in organisations - James Reveley
Service quality - Julie Francis, Lois Burgess 
Service quality modelling for multi-channel services - Shahriar Akter
Services marketing - Ping Kattiyapornpong, Julie Francis, Robert Grant, Venkat Yanamandram, Nadia Zainuddin    
Simulation and modelling - Trevor Spedding
Small business management - Les Kirchmajer
SME eCollaboration  - Lois Burgess
Social innovation - Patrick Dawson   
Social Innovation based teaching - Mario Fernando     
Social marketing - Jennifer Algie, John Cantrell, Paul Chad, Melanie Randle, John Rossiter, Sue Slowikowski (water conservation, reuse and recycling water), Nadia Zainuddin  
Social marketing and advertising - Gary Noble
Social marketing and health - Gary Noble       
Social networking with interest in the implications of these for human resource management and impression management - Joy Peluchette  
Social science knowledge and measurement - John Rossiter
Socio-cultural facets research into global migration, tourism and sustainable business management - Lynnaire Sheridan
Socio-technical analysis of information technologies, organisational control and the self - Karin Garrety
Spirituality and religion in organisations - Mario Fernando     
Statistical and AI techniques in manufacturing - Trevor Spedding
Storytelling - Patrick Dawson
Strategic and business planning - Les Kirchmajer
Strategic HRM - Christa Wood
Strategic management - Ah Ba Sim           
Student incivility and its implications for classroom management, as well as methods for using teams effectively in the classroom - Joy Peluchette  
Supply chain enhancement (change) - Tillmann Böhme        
Supply chain management - Matthew Pepper, Tim Coltman              
Sustainability - Alan Pomering
Sustainable and Ethical Consumption  - Julie Francis      
Sustainable services - Elias Kyriazis
Systems development methodologies - Peter Larkin

Technology acceptance in community health  - Lois Burgess        
Technology adoption & use -  Ulrike Gretzel  
Technology alignment - Tim Coltman
Tourism - Alan Pomering, Sara Dolnicar        
Tourism experiences - Ulrike Gretzel
Tourism management - Greg Kerr
Tourism marketing - Ping Kattiyapornpong, Venkat Yanamandram
Transfer of HRM policies and practices across borders - Anne Vo
Transformation of HR systems in developing countries - Anne Vo  
Transformational marketing and advertising, sustainable tourism - Gary Noble 
Transformative services research - Shahriar Akter 
Trust between cross-functional specialists involved in New Product Development - Janette Rowland
Turnaround strategies - Ah Ba Sim

Volunteering - Julie Francis

Web-based customer service and support - Lois Burgess
Web-based destination marketing - Lois Burgess
Well-being in organisations  - Mario Fernando       
Wellness Services - Nadia Zainuddin  
Women in management (including women entrepreneurs) - Mary Barrett
Workplace fun and attire - Joy Peluchette
Workplace communication - Mary Barrett