Shareholder voting at Australian annual general meetings. The Australian Corporations Act requires public companies to hold an annual general meeting (AGM) of shareholders. This project aims to address several important issues regarding the integrity, transparency, effectiveness and consequences of voting at Australian AGMs in relation to: show of hands voting, AGM characteristics and technology use, and director elections. As there is limited prior research on these matters this project expects ....Shareholder voting at Australian annual general meetings. The Australian Corporations Act requires public companies to hold an annual general meeting (AGM) of shareholders. This project aims to address several important issues regarding the integrity, transparency, effectiveness and consequences of voting at Australian AGMs in relation to: show of hands voting, AGM characteristics and technology use, and director elections. As there is limited prior research on these matters this project expects to generate significant new knowledge. The project outcomes will provide significant benefits as the findings will support moves towards best practice in governance and thereby enhance public confidence in the integrity of the Australian financial market.Read moreRead less
Collective action and collaborative governance in crisis situations. This project aims at tackling the challenges that coordinated collective action faces in situations of complex crisis. It will generate novel scholarly knowledge that addresses the question of how a heterogeneous collective of actors that transcends organizational and institutional boundaries can establish, sustain, restore, and organize the capacity to act and make appropriate decisions in crisis situations. The expected outco ....Collective action and collaborative governance in crisis situations. This project aims at tackling the challenges that coordinated collective action faces in situations of complex crisis. It will generate novel scholarly knowledge that addresses the question of how a heterogeneous collective of actors that transcends organizational and institutional boundaries can establish, sustain, restore, and organize the capacity to act and make appropriate decisions in crisis situations. The expected outcomes include an improved theoretical understanding of multi-actor collaborative governance in crisis situations by identifying obstacles and governance gaps that need to be overcome. This should provide significant benefits in terms of national and international response strategies to crisis situations of various kind.Read moreRead less
Gender-Lens Investing: Harnessing Social Innovation for Impact. This project aims to investigate how the field of gender-lens investing can be harnessed to address gender inequality and generate social impact. It will generate novel scholarly knowledge that addresses how social innovations like GLI can emerge, grow and be sustained. The expected outcomes include improved theoretical understanding of the organisational and institutional infrastructure required to sustain social innovations by ide ....Gender-Lens Investing: Harnessing Social Innovation for Impact. This project aims to investigate how the field of gender-lens investing can be harnessed to address gender inequality and generate social impact. It will generate novel scholarly knowledge that addresses how social innovations like GLI can emerge, grow and be sustained. The expected outcomes include improved theoretical understanding of the organisational and institutional infrastructure required to sustain social innovations by identifying obstacles and best-practice approaches for growth, organisation and governance. This should provide significant benefits in terms of national and international policies and systems supporting impact investing and addressing Sustainable Development Goals. Read moreRead less
A History of Foreign Multinational Enterprises in Australia from Federation. We aim to deliver the first history of foreign multinational firms in twentieth-century Australia, connecting to, and enhancing, a rich overseas literature on global business. Foreign corporations have played a critical but poorly understood role here with public and policy opinions polarised between approval for new investment, job creation and innovation against concern for their impact on tax revenue, competition, an ....A History of Foreign Multinational Enterprises in Australia from Federation. We aim to deliver the first history of foreign multinational firms in twentieth-century Australia, connecting to, and enhancing, a rich overseas literature on global business. Foreign corporations have played a critical but poorly understood role here with public and policy opinions polarised between approval for new investment, job creation and innovation against concern for their impact on tax revenue, competition, and economic policy. Through a closer, long term understanding of multinationals – their magnitude, motives to settle here, corporate structures, and adaptation to local conditions – our findings will inform public debate and policy about the roles of foreign investment and foreign enterprises in the Australian economy today.Read moreRead less
Serious workplace fraud: How it is sustained and how organisations respond. This project aims to develop knowledge on how serious workplace fraud is sustained by offenders, particularly through thinking patterns and coping mechanisms, and responded to by organisations that are dealing with offenders and modifying control system deficiencies. The project will be a qualitative study, drawing evidence from interviews, with offenders, and with victim organisation representatives, and triangulated wi ....Serious workplace fraud: How it is sustained and how organisations respond. This project aims to develop knowledge on how serious workplace fraud is sustained by offenders, particularly through thinking patterns and coping mechanisms, and responded to by organisations that are dealing with offenders and modifying control system deficiencies. The project will be a qualitative study, drawing evidence from interviews, with offenders, and with victim organisation representatives, and triangulated with available secondary materials such as court reports, media coverage, and internal memoranda and presentations. The project will add to expert knowledge in forensic accounting by developing new typologies of fraud enablers and management control responses, which aim to advance best practice in mitigating serious workplace fraud. The knowledge generated will advance anti-fraud training, forensic accounting, management control system design and standard setting.Read moreRead less
Well-being and Productivity in Metricised Employee Performance Systems . The project will advance knowledge around the impact that the increasing use of digitised monitoring, performance measurement and metric systems are having on the workforce. It will generate a greater understanding of why, when and how these systems have a positive rather than a negative impact on employee motivation, well-being and performance. It will produce design guidelines to enhance organisations’ understanding and c ....Well-being and Productivity in Metricised Employee Performance Systems . The project will advance knowledge around the impact that the increasing use of digitised monitoring, performance measurement and metric systems are having on the workforce. It will generate a greater understanding of why, when and how these systems have a positive rather than a negative impact on employee motivation, well-being and performance. It will produce design guidelines to enhance organisations’ understanding and capability to sustainably manage and implement the use of monitoring and metric systems. Increasing this capability will help reduce the financial burden of workplace stress that these systems will have, it will positively influence worker well-being and work culture and help increase workplace productivity.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210100368
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$396,071.00
Summary
Algorithmic management and the future of work: lessons from the gig economy. The gig economy is at the forefront of ‘algorithmic management’, a major technological disruption of management, work, and employment. Used to replace humans as organisational managers, these systems are projected to spread wide across the Australian economy yet remain poorly understood. This study will systematically interrogate the nature and operations of algorithmic management across platforms operational in the Aus ....Algorithmic management and the future of work: lessons from the gig economy. The gig economy is at the forefront of ‘algorithmic management’, a major technological disruption of management, work, and employment. Used to replace humans as organisational managers, these systems are projected to spread wide across the Australian economy yet remain poorly understood. This study will systematically interrogate the nature and operations of algorithmic management across platforms operational in the Australian gig economy. It will explore the design and oversight of, workers’ experiences with, and the role end-users play in sustaining these systems. The study will generate state-of-the-art academic knowledge and provide guidance to policy makers on how to respond to, and where necessary regulate, algorithmic management.Read moreRead less
Financial performance, uncertainty and corporate investment decisions. It is well understood that the provision of financial reports to external stakeholders impacts their decision making. Yet the extent to which externally reported financial measures such as earnings can resolve uncertainty, and their influence on corporate investment decisions is largely unknown. This project identifies how disaggregation of earnings into market-, industry- and firm-specific components explains differences in ....Financial performance, uncertainty and corporate investment decisions. It is well understood that the provision of financial reports to external stakeholders impacts their decision making. Yet the extent to which externally reported financial measures such as earnings can resolve uncertainty, and their influence on corporate investment decisions is largely unknown. This project identifies how disaggregation of earnings into market-, industry- and firm-specific components explains differences in the quality of financial information, and the implication for accounting standards regulating the reporting of periodic performance. It applies the resulting insights to identify an uncertainty reduction role for financial reporting, and the way in which information contained in earnings impacts investment decisions. Read moreRead less
Characterisation of amorphous metal materials. This project aims to develop in-depth understanding of magnetisation mechanisms and accurate characterisation of amorphous metal materials for effectively designing advanced transformers. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of property understanding and modelling of advanced soft magnetic materials through extensive theoretical and experimental studies on material samples and transformer prototypes. The intended outcome is hig ....Characterisation of amorphous metal materials. This project aims to develop in-depth understanding of magnetisation mechanisms and accurate characterisation of amorphous metal materials for effectively designing advanced transformers. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of property understanding and modelling of advanced soft magnetic materials through extensive theoretical and experimental studies on material samples and transformer prototypes. The intended outcome is high-frequency high-power-density transformers, which are crucial in many distributed renewable energy systems. The project would significantly benefit Australian manufacturing industry at the high-end market.Read moreRead less
Diversification failures and improved measures of uncertainty. The project aims to develop new statistical tools, applicable when the conventional paradigm that diversification reduces risk fails and when textbook approaches to risk quantification severely under-report risk. The new tools enhance our capacity to build and manage natural, social and human-made systems in uncertain environments. Our effective response to many threats including financial crises and natural events, depends on this c ....Diversification failures and improved measures of uncertainty. The project aims to develop new statistical tools, applicable when the conventional paradigm that diversification reduces risk fails and when textbook approaches to risk quantification severely under-report risk. The new tools enhance our capacity to build and manage natural, social and human-made systems in uncertain environments. Our effective response to many threats including financial crises and natural events, depends on this capacity. Thus, the expected benefits in the form of more reliable and robust risk analytics will accrue when they are most needed.Read moreRead less