Department of Business

Staff Research Interests

Business, Demographics and Consumer Markets

Mr Gordon Brooks - organisational commitment and consumer behaviour.

Ms June Buchanan - standardisation and customisation, ethics, fraudulent activities of corporations, brands, consumer empowerment, globalisation and the anti-globalisation, anti-corporatisation movements, marketing of socially unacceptable products.

Ms Leanne Carter - marketing orientation, organisational learning theories, with focus on not-for-profit sector and application of these theories.

Mr Julian de Meyrick - marketing ethics, application of marketing principles, social marketing.

Professor Greg Elliott - marketing management, strategic marketing, services marketing and international marketing. His current research projects involve the study of customer relationships in financial services, the relationship between services marketing strategies and financial performance and the study of "country of origin" effects.

Dr Fei Guo - labour migration, demographic behaviours and research methods

Mr Con Korkofingas - marketing research, business forecasting.

Dr Nick Parr - demographic change and labour management issues, demographic modelling, fertility and family planning, and the social mobility of migrants.

Professor Farhat Yusuf - women's health, indigenous populations and ethnic minorities.

Applied Social Research

Dr Fei Guo - labour migration, demographic behaviours and research methods.

Dr Nick Parr - demographic change and labour management issues, demographic modelling, fertility and family planning, and the social mobility of migrants.

Professor Farhat Yusuf - women's health, indigenous populations and ethnic minorities.

International Business and Competitiveness, International Finance

Professor Greg Elliott - international marketing, the relationship between services marketing strategies and financial performance and the study of "country of origin" effects.

Professor Farhat Yusuf - international consumption and demographic patterns.

Organisational Studies & Leadership

Mr Gordon Brooks - organisational commitment and consumer behaviour.

Dr Angie Knox - service sector employment regulation and management systems.

Associate Professor Peter McGraw - management strategy in employee relations, employee participation structures, international human resource management and cross cultural management.

Dr Peter Murray - organisational learning patterns, effects of leadership and change, context and processes of top management reams.

Knowledge Management

Ms Leanne Carter - organisational learning patterns and links with marketing orientation and busienss performance.

Dr Peter Murray - organisational learning patterns.

Labour-Management Studies and Conflict Resolution

Dr Angie Knox - managerial strategies emphasizing labour flexibility through the deployment of sophisticated working time systems as well as training and skill development programs, occupational segregation and the impact of equal employment opportunity legislation within the workplace.

Associate Professor Peter McGraw - management strategy in employee relations, employee participation structures, international human resource management and cross cultural management.

Dr Peter Murray - relationship between ageing and discrimination.

Human Resources Management

Dr Angie Knox - service sector employment regulation and management systems.

Associate Professor Peter McGraw - management strategy in employee relations, employee participation structures, international human resource management and cross cultural management.

Dr Peter Murray - organisational learning patterns, effects of leadership and change, relationship between ageing and discrimination, context and processes of top management teams.