Research Areas

The People and Organisation Research Centre’s interests and projects address its central focus on emergence, change and precarious systems. Here are some examples of completed and current projects:

• Managing OHS in organizations
• Women’s career issues in family business
• Social innovation
• Organizational change, innovation and regional development
• Innovation clusters and regional development (Aylward/Sense/Clements (Centre for Applied Systems Research))
• Managing change, creativity and innovation (Andriopoulos/Dawson)
• Cultural change in organization
• Interorganizational time-frames
• Narratives and sense making during change
• Ethical issues in Australian organizations
• Perceptions of threat and responsibility for information security
• Improving the working lives of Public Servants
• Power and resistance in the coal mining industry
• Discourses around tourism and Australian identity 
• Gender issues at work: communication and emotion work 
• Organizational issues in the Australian Film Industry 
• Differing approaches to corporate governance in large, medium and small organizations 
• Strategies and management involving ethnic networks and the concept of social capital 
• Multinational corporations in Australia 
• Interorganizational Cooperation in APEC 
• Learning in project based environments 
• Integration in supply chain systems 
• Indigenous industries and entrepreneurship 
• ATUL: Activities and Tools for Users and Learners 
• Developing a climate of trust to enhance cross-functional relationships during new product development 
• Perceptions of reward and risk in cross-sector collaborative research centres
• The structure and role of local community organisations in building regional innovation capabilities and networks 
• The evolution of policies for the ‘collaborative research space’ in Australia: contesting demands of knowledge, industry and society
• Environmental issues and sustainability
• New and precarious systems
• Regional and national electronic health record systems