2002 Working Papers
The Faculty of Business Working Paper Series is intended to provide staff and students with a means of communicating new and evolving ideas in order to encourage academic debate. Working papers, as the title suggests, should not necessarily be taken as completed works or final expressions of opinions.
- Methodological weaknesses of small business research: A revisitation
By Neelam Goela & Jayne E. Bisman – Working Paper No. 1/02 - Teaching Law for Business Students: A pedagogy based upon relevance
By Robyn Donnelly and Janice Toner – Working Paper No. 2/02 - Student Approaches to Learning in Accounting (An Embryonic Work–in–Progress)
By Robyn Pilcher – Working Paper No. 3/02 - Accounting curriculum change: Is it a rational, academic exercise?
By Shirley Carr and M.R. Mathews – Working Paper No. 4/02 - Solving the Capital Structure Puzzle
By Chris Deeley – Working Paper No. 5/03 - Some Reflections on Ethics Education for Accountants
By Kay Plummer – Working Paper No. 6/04 - A Balanced Scorecard for Agricultural Co–operatives: An Introduction
By K. Plummer and D. Rolfe – Working Paper No. 7/04 - Australian meat industry: Challenging issues and prospects on world export markets
H. Kidane – Working Paper No. 8/04 - Knowledge creation and its place in the development of sustainable competitive advantage
By Rob Sharkie – Working Paper No. 09/04 - Accounting Information Systems: An Analysis of Current Curricula
By P.R. Hogan – Working Paper No. 10/04 - Management Academics: Are We Agents of Change?
By Dr Pamela Mathews – Working Paper No. 11/05 - Developments in Trade Practices Law in Australia 1999–2001: An Analysis of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974
By Wayne Guild – Working Paper No 12/05 - Accountability of NSW Local Councils
By Robyn Pilcher – Working Paper 13/05 - A Brief Description and Preliminary Analysis of Recent Social and Environmental Accounting Research Literature
By M.R. Mathews – Working Paper 14/05 - Using multiple methods in management accounting research: An example from a study of costs in outsourcing decision–making
Jayne E. Bisman – Working Paper 15/05 - Awards Vs AWAs: A Survey of Small Regional Business in Australia
Bill Robbins and Gerry Voll – Working Paper 16/02 - An Examination of Environmental Factors Regulating Goodwill Accounting Disclosure
Geoffrey Smith and Roman Lanis – Working Paper 17/02 - Foreign workers and capitalist class relations in Taiwan: A study of economic exploitation and political isolation
Robert Tierney – Working Paper 18/02 - An Overview of a Successful Export Industry from Regional Australia
Rumintha Wickramasekera and Geoff Bamberry – Working Paper 19/02 - An Investigation of the Convergence of International Measures Applicable to Goodwill Disclosure
Geoffrey Smith and Roman Lanis – Working Paper 20/02 - Measuring readability in Accounting: An application and evaluation of the cloze procedure
John Williams, Patrick Leung, Jenny Kent and Terry Heazlewood – Working Paper No 21/02 - An Epigrammatic Examination of the Nature, Measurement and Valuation of Goodwill between 1810–2002
Geoffrey Smith and Jennifer Smith – Working Paper No 22/02 - Global State–Welfare–Capitalism and the Over–assimilation of Business and the Professions
David Ardagh – Working Paper No. 23/02 - An Examination of the Relationship between the Cultural and Accounting Environments: Accounting Authority Structures and Goodwill (I)
Geoffrey Smith and Mrs. Jennifer Smith – Working Paper No. 24/02 - An Examination of the Relationship between the Cultural and Accounting Environments: Accounting Authority Structures and Goodwill (I)
Geoffrey Smith and Mrs. Jennifer Smith – Working Paper No. 25/02 - Comprehensiveness of Disclosure of Non–Financial Companies: Some Empirical Evidence from Annual Reports (2000) of Companies Listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange
POH–LING HO and M.R. Mathews – Working Paper No. 26/02 - Accounting, a convict and society: A case study in Australian accounting history
Jayne E. Bisman – Working Paper No. 27/02 - The Power and Triumph of Economic Ideas: Australian Economists in the Thirties
Alex Millmow – Working Paper No. 28/02 - The Public Sector Accounting Standards Board: Constructing Regulatory Space for Accounting Change
Jenny Kent – Working Paper No 29/02 - The PSASB: The accounting profession in regulatory space
Jenny Kent – Working Paper No 30/02 - A Survey of Small Regions Businesses and the Impact of the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Sue Petzke and Danny Murphy – Working Paper No. 31/02 - Employer Branding: The Perils of Transdisciplinary Extension
Chrys Gunasekara – Working Paper No. 32/02 - The Carver Model of Corporate Governance in Community Based Organisations
Mark Menchin – Working Paper No. 33/02 - Mentoring in an academic environment: Towards increased efficiency in the use of scarce resources.
Dr Pamela Mathews – Working Paper No. 34/02 - The Teaching of Economics in Schools: A Problem in the Making?
Alex Millmow – Working Paper No. 35/02 - Modelling Winegrape Prices in Disequilibrium
Edward Oczkowski – Working Paper No. 36/02 - Building and Sustaining Business and Personal Associations: Value Orientations & the Identification of Cross–Border Managers
Alan Fish – Working Paper No. 37/02 - The Knowledge Sharing Filter
Rob Sharkie – Working Paper No. 38/02 - The Legal Nature of Domain Names
Craig Latham – Working Paper 39/02 - The efficacy of Agnes Heller's Moral Philosophy for HRMs
Rob Macklin – Working Paper 40/02 - Financial and accounting aspects of leasing decision–making in Australia
Neelam Goela & Jayne E. Bisman – Working Paper No. 41/02 - Implementation of a Real World Information Technology Project at the University Level
Monique Bartley, Martin Le Marchant and Kira Simmons – Working Paper 42/02 - Pattern and Determinants of Intra–Industry Trade in Trans–Tasman Bilateral Trade
Kishor Sharma – Working Paper 43/02 - An Exploratory Investigation of International Pharmaceutical Firms’ FDI Decision into China
JIANG Fuming – Working Paper 44/02 - Continuous reporting and auditing: Conceptual considerations
Andrew Higson – Working Paper No. 45/02 - An exploration of the financial reporting expectations gap
Andrew Higson – Working Paper No. 46/02 - Horizontal and Vertical Intra–Industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing: Does Trade Liberalization have any Impact?
Kishor Sharma – Working Paper No. 47/02 - The Impact of Policy Reforms on Labour Productivity, Price Cost Margins and Total Factor Productivity: The Nepalese Experience
Kishor Sharma – Working Paper No. 48/02 - Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of FDI Venture Operations in China: A Comparison between Early–Entrants and Late–Entrants
Jiang Fuming – Working Paper 49/02 - The recent development of accounting education in China
Mei Jin & Fu Li – Working Paper 50/02 - Making audit critical: Relevance lost or found?
Catherine Hardy and Claudio Marzilli – Working Paper 51/02 - Are Market Orientation and Learning Orientation Necessary for Superior Organizational Performance?
Mark Anthony Farrell* and Edward Oczkowski – Working Paper 52/02