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We have not lived long enough: sensemaking and learning from bushfires in Australia
(2017)
Why did the bushfires of 7 February 2009 in Victoria take so many lives? Why were those bushfires so extreme, so feral, so catastrophic, so devastating? What can be done to ensure that so many lives are not lost, that so ...
"But that's not corruption": an interpretive approach to corruption in business-government relations in Indonesia
(2016)
Mainstream corruption research suggests that corruption is universally harmful or dysfunctional and is bad for development and democracy. It also assumes that people who engage in corruption are rational actors seeking to ...
Branded utopia: desired futures, utopian function and brand connection
(2016)
We are all utopians. We all hold an image of a desired way of living in our minds. As cultural artifacts, brands educate what it is we desire and aspire for in our lives, such as the ideal body, house, relationship, family, ...
Beyond altruism: trust, fairness and social inclusion in deceased organ donor registration
(2016)
Despite decades of research and efforts to increase organ donation, the gap between the supply of and demand for transplantable organs continues to grow. Much of this research relies on models of individual prosocial ...
To erect temples to virtue and dig dungeons for vice: an advertising reductionist framework for enhancing the persuasiveness of warning messages
(2016)
Dysfunctional forms of consumption behavior (e.g., problem gambling, binge drinking) can interfere with consumer wellbeing to the point of physical, mental, financial and social harm. Prior research has called for theory-based ...
The role of social networks for the management and performance of frontline employees
(2016)
This dissertation explores the ways in which the social relationships that frontline employees form with both supervisors and co-workers affect employee and team performance. Generally, social relationships permit the ...
Values-focussed thinking for complex social problems: uncovering the role of managerial values and perceptions in business sustainability decision-making
(2016)
In a global economy that is composed of intertwined multi-tier supply chain linkages, local managerial choices often entail far-reaching environmental, social, and economic consequences that manifest as ripple effects ...
Toward an organisational theory of surprises: Institutions and uncertainty in Australian emergency management
(2016)
How organisations deal with uncertainty is a core concern in organisation theory. This thesis examines the institutional sources of this problem by investigating emergency management organisations, focusing on the Australian ...
Crowding in, crowding out: the multiple orders of Premier League crowds
(2016)
An extensive body of consumer research has examined the coping strategies of consumers trapped between two oppositional and conflicting social worlds. More recent studies has extended this stream of research by investigating ...
Achieving sustainability goals through environmental, health and safety management systems in manufacturing plants
(2015)
This study focuses on how manufacturing plants can achieve sustainability goals through installation and use of environmental management system (EMS) and occupational, health and safety (OHS) system. The study proposes ...
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