Business Book Chapters

Ethics and Social Responsibility

Mike Fazey — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:04:28 PST

Human Resource Management: in Australia and New Zealand provides a comprehensive approach to the subject. Firstly, it provides the reader with a perspective covering both the Australian and New Zealand contexts. Secondly, it integrates behavioural aspects aligned to organisation behaviour in the overall context of the management of people in the workplace. The book deliberately includes chapters on motivation and teamwork to give a practical approach in exploring the interdependency between human resources and organisational behaviour in the workplace. Thirdly, the themes in the book address contemporary issues which cover specific human resource components such as human resources information systems (HRIS) and equal employment opportunity (EEO). This provides learners with an overall perspective of not only the human resource functions, but also the more contemporary issues that impact on the core functions of human resource management. Fourthly, the chapter on international human resource management in particular focuses on issues extending beyond standard human resources within a particular country. It also provides the international perspective necessitated by the global economy within which both Australian and New Zealand organisations operate. [Retrieved from publisher's website: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780195575705.do]

Human Resource Development and Career Management

Mike Fazey — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:59:28 PST

Strategic Management and Strategic HRM

Mike Fazey — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:54:53 PST

The Movement of Meaning Across Cultures: A Conceptual Model for Understanding Cross-Cultural Consumption

Hélène de Burgh-Woodman — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:50:11 PDT

This chapter asks the questions of whether traditional marketing tools and practices are sufficiently reflexive to deal in the international environment and how we might refine our understanding of cross-cultural environments. Starting from the vantage point that ‘‘international’’ occurs within national boundaries rather than across them, this chapter conducts a qualitative ethnographic study of Arabic and North African people who participate in a visible ‘‘street culture’’ on the streets of France. This ethnographic project models consumption habits in these groups. It asks why they consume certain things, what value or meaning discourses are articulated through these things within their group, and what cultural, social, or personal relevance or symbolism this kind of consumption represents. It also unravels the broader social discourses spun out of these symbolisms and ‘‘meaning-makings.’’ Based on the data discussed, a conceptual model is then offered to explain the process the marketing message undergoes and how meaning is transformed when taken from one cultural context to another. Some conclusions are drawn on how postcolonial analysis provides a new tool for our understanding and practice of international marketing.

Effects of a Unilateral Tariff Liberalisation on Forestry Products and Trade in Australia: An Economic Analysis Using the GTAP Model

Luz C. Stenberg et al. — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:10:22 PDT

Australia has 147.4 million hectares of native forest areas which includes 48.4 million hectares of closed forest and open forest (Bureau of Rural Sciences [BRS], 2010). Some 103 million hectares of native forest areas are either privately owned or leasehold while the balance is multiple use forest (9.4 million hectares), conservation reserves (22.4 million hectares) or other categories of public ownership (12.4 million hectares).

Negotiations on trade liberalisation and bilateral agreements between countries and regions suggest that further tariff reductions are inevitable. With the current trade negotiations under the Doha round, the global forestry sector as well as Australia’s could be affected by the outcomes of the negotiations. Moreover, the increasing recognition of the importance of the forestry sector in terms of addressing climate change issues suggests that any policy affecting this sector can be significant in terms of its economic as well as environmental impact. Forest conservation and carbon emissions are two issues linked to a possible carbon trading scheme in Australia.

The Pursuit of Policy Rules: A conversation between Robert Leeson and John B Taylor

Robert Leeson — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:04:14 PDT

Twenty years ago, John Taylor proposed a simple idea to guide monetary policy. Quickly the idea spread, not only through academia, but also to the trading floors of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve's boardroom in Washington. Now, two decades later, the Taylor rule remains a focal point for discussions of monetary policy around the world.

Monetary policy rules: From Adam Smith to John Taylor

Pier Francesco Asso et al. — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:52:28 PDT

The Taylor Rule and the Transformation of Monetary Policy: Introduction

Evan F. Koenig et al. — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:42:34 PDT

Equity and diversity policy

Mike Fazey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:22:08 PST

The aim of this book is to familiarise students with the theory and practice of diversity and diversity management at work. It provides clarity and focus to the areas of diversity and diversity training, and outlines the nature of diversity understanding and research for the benefit of employees, managers, educators and training professionals.

Part C - Developing and implementing diversity policy, consists of two chapters that look at issues including organisational culture, equity, and writing diversity policy.

Managing policy issues

Mike Fazey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:08:28 PST

The aim of this book is familiarise students with the theory and practice of sustainability and environmental sustainability at work.

Part C - Writing Policy - outlines how sustainability workplace policy needs can be identified, developed, written, implemented and managed.

Policy review

Mike Fazey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:04:30 PST

Policy implementation

Mike Fazey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:00:51 PST

Policy development

Mike Fazey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:46:34 PST

Policy needs identification

Mike Fazey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:37:47 PST

Forestry Trade and Population Growth in the Philippines in a General Equilibrium Framework

Luz Stenberg — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:58:38 PDT

Forests are enormously important to mankind. They not only supply essential harvestable products, but also ornamental landscapes, regulate climate, hydrology, mineral cycling and soil erosion. Over the last few decades, crucial changes have taken place in the views and demands on forests by society at large. In this new book, the authors present topical research in the study of forestry ecology and policy. Topics discussed include forest management in Finland and Sweden; forestry-related GPS research; forestry trade and population growth in the Philippines and forestry education towards ecological civilization. [Book Description from publisher's website]

ISBN: 978-1-61209-824-1

The Chicago Counter-Revolution and The Sociology of Economic Knowledge

Robert Leeson — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:07:50 PDT

The array of contributions offered in this volume on the growth of economics is comprehensive. There are sufficient number of ideas and perspectives about economic themes to whet the appetite of the most scholarly of readers. Others, more inclined to welcome efforts to explain economic phenomena, will find a diversity of interpretations of events which should be sufficient to stimulate the imagination as well as the understanding of policy choices. [From Publisher's website]

ISBN: 978-0-9823895-2-2

The Legacy of Milton Friedman

Robert Leeson — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:27:56 PDT

Professor Milton Friedman was a distinguished monetary economist who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in the year 1976. Since the inception of Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969, Milton Friedman was the fourth economist to receive the full prize. He was awarded the prize for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy. He has thus been recognized for his path breaking contributions to monetary economics in particular. [From Publisher's website]

ISBN: 978-0-9823895-0-8

The Great Inflation of the 1970s: Evidence from the Archives

Robert Leeson — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:07:05 PDT

In the twentieth century, the United States replaced the United Kingdom as the centre of both the output of economic literature and the international economy. Having examined the structure of influence within the Keynesian and the Anti-Keynesian Traditions, (volume 1 and 2), this volume, the third of the trilogy, focuses more directly on economists and it highlights a multi-layered structure of influence within the policy process. Unpublished archival evidence illuminates aspects of the process by which the USA emerged as a dominant player in the world economy. This volume will be of interest not just to economists but to historians and social scientists, and to anyone interested in this transformation in world history. [From Publisher's website]

ISBN: 9781403949561

Henry Gyles Turner

Gregory C G Moore — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:14:41 PST

This book documents the history of economic discourse in Australia and New Zealand from the early days of European settlement. Many of the early economists were immigrants (William Hearn, Charles Pearson, Catherine Spence, David Syme). A few (such as W.C. Wentworth, born on the First Fleet) were proud natives, self-taught but confident and assertive in their use of economic arguments. The 20th century brought European refugees (Heinz Arndt, Harro Bernardelli, Fred Gruen, Kurt Singer) and a healthy crop of locally-born public servant-economists (Bernard Ashwin, John Crawford, ‘Nugget’ Coombs, Leslie Melville, Roland Wilson). There were theorists of international renown (Richard Manning, Wilfred Salter, Trevor Swan), some who made important contributions to public policy debates (Ronald Henderson, Eric Russell) or distinguished themselves in econometrics (Rex Bergstrom, Bill Phillips). The 130 entries in this volume have been written by more than 50 international authorities, revealing the depth and diversity of economics in Australia and New Zealand over almost two centuries.

ISBN: 9781845428693

David Syme

Gregory C G Moore — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:11:42 PST

ISBN: 9781845428693