About
Over recent years, Faculty of Business staff have attracted significant external funding to address questions tied to research themes in the Institute of Land, Water and Society, the Centre for Research and Complex Systems, and Organisational Performance, Ethics and Leadership research group. In addition, staff have investigated problems and challenges faced by industry and governments nationally and internationally outside the specific themes of these Centres and Groups, but of direct relevance to the disciplines and markets the Faculty serves.
The Faculty supports streams of research activities within disciplines that are of regional, national and international significance and relevant to both large and small corporations and government and other agencies and institutions. Supporting that body of work, our research Doctoral students (numbering over 100) are also contributing to theory and advancing professional practice in national, international and regional contexts.
Examples of areas where our staff are making a strong research contribution are described below.
In Accounting our staff have focussed our discipline research around challenges that practitioners are encountering in their work environment. For example, our research activities in accountability, governance and sustainability embraces social, environmental and corporate responsibility accounting and reporting; the roles and interplay of accounting, accountants and society in fostering sustainable rural regions in Australia and in developing nations such as China, India and Iran; accounting ethics; international financial reporting standards, annual reporting and governance for the corporate sector; and accounting and accountability for small and medium
The majority of Computing staff of the Faculty are members of the Centre of Research in Complex System (CRiCS). CRiCS has three main integrated research themes: a) The nature of complexity itself and the theories which characterize it; b) Complexity as a methodology for solving problems in the real world; and c) Complexity as a paradigm for theorizing about social systems, dynamics and change. For example, computer games bring together almost all aspects of complex systems - agents, emergence, visualisation - and are at the forefront of many aspects of computer science. Games have the potential to go beyond mere entertainment. Some of the research issues being explored through CRiCS are education, scenario modelling for the real world, understanding human cognitive processes and the maintenance of mental functioning into old age. A new cross platform, multi-threaded game engine in java to embrace multi treading of distributed systems is an ongoing project in the Centre.
The research work of our Management staff is centred around Human Resource Management (particularly in change management, conflict management and leadership in national and international contexts) and Organisational Dynamics (investigating areas of organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, work and labour history). Marketing staff have developed a body of research in areas of competitive strategy, marketing capabilities, consumer behaviour, and relationship marketing, while several Marketing, Accounting and Management staff are working in the field of professional practice.
Many of our Economists and a number of management staff are addressing research questions on sustainable communities through Economic and Regional Development (ERD) group that is part of the Institute of Land Water and Society. The vision of the ERD group is to conduct research that will assist in developing viable and healthy economies for regional communities that improve environmental quality. Researchers within ERD conduct research on environmental economics, agricultural economics, and regional and international development.
The Discipline Leaders in the Faculty of Business are:
| Professor Denise Jarratt | Marketing | djarratt@csu.edu.au |
| Associate Professor Bill Robbins | Management | wrobbins@csu.edu.au |
| Professor Eddie Oczkowski | Economics | eoczkowski@csu.edu.au |
| Associate Professor Jayne Bisman | Accounting | jbisman@csu.edu.au |
| Associate Professor Junbin Gao | Computing | jbgao@csu.edu.au |
| Associate Professor John Louis | Mathematics | jlouis@csu.edu.au |
| Professor Terry Bossomaier | Director, CriCS | tbossomaier@csu.edu.au |
| Professor Mark Morrison | Leader, ERD and Deputy Director of ILWS | mmorrison@csu.edu.au |