Determinants of purchase intention during COVID-19: A case study of skincare products in East Java
- Sudaryanto, Sudaryanto, Courvisanos, Jerry, Dewi, Ivana, Rusdiyanto, Rosediana, Yuaris, Jiva
- Authors: Sudaryanto, Sudaryanto , Courvisanos, Jerry , Dewi, Ivana , Rusdiyanto, Rosediana , Yuaris, Jiva
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Innovative Marketing Vol. 18, no. 1 (2022), p. 181-194
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- Description: During COVID-19, consumers of skincare products pay more attention to safety and comfort. In such a crisis, consumers seek skincare products with brand effectiveness, high quality, and persuasive reviews by social media influencers. This study investigates the influence of brand effectiveness, product quality, and celebrity endorsers on purchase intention of halal skincare products in the pandemic. The study employed a survey of halal skincare users in East Java, Indonesia. A purposive sampling of 180 female respondents was analyzed; they were followers of Safi-Skincare Instagram and aged 18 and over. Descriptive statistics indicated that religious background strengthened the factors influencing the purchase intention towards a skincare product. The data were then analyzed using multiple linear regression with a statistical level of confidence of 95%. The result showed that brand effectiveness, product quality, and celebrity endorsers significantly affect purchase intention in Indonesia during the pandemic. The study concludes that Muslim standards reinforce rigid standards applied to skincare products with a halal logo, supporting good quality performance and encouraging stronger purchase intention. This study contributes to understanding consumer behavior in the pandemic using a purchase intention framework that can be applied to the safety and comfort of other consumer products. © Sudaryanto Sudaryanto, Jerry Courvisanos, Ivana Rosediana Dewi, Rusdiyanto Rusdiyanto, Jiva Rendis Yuaris, 2022
- Authors: Sudaryanto, Sudaryanto , Courvisanos, Jerry , Dewi, Ivana , Rusdiyanto, Rosediana , Yuaris, Jiva
- Date: 2022
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- Relation: Innovative Marketing Vol. 18, no. 1 (2022), p. 181-194
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- Description: During COVID-19, consumers of skincare products pay more attention to safety and comfort. In such a crisis, consumers seek skincare products with brand effectiveness, high quality, and persuasive reviews by social media influencers. This study investigates the influence of brand effectiveness, product quality, and celebrity endorsers on purchase intention of halal skincare products in the pandemic. The study employed a survey of halal skincare users in East Java, Indonesia. A purposive sampling of 180 female respondents was analyzed; they were followers of Safi-Skincare Instagram and aged 18 and over. Descriptive statistics indicated that religious background strengthened the factors influencing the purchase intention towards a skincare product. The data were then analyzed using multiple linear regression with a statistical level of confidence of 95%. The result showed that brand effectiveness, product quality, and celebrity endorsers significantly affect purchase intention in Indonesia during the pandemic. The study concludes that Muslim standards reinforce rigid standards applied to skincare products with a halal logo, supporting good quality performance and encouraging stronger purchase intention. This study contributes to understanding consumer behavior in the pandemic using a purchase intention framework that can be applied to the safety and comfort of other consumer products. © Sudaryanto Sudaryanto, Jerry Courvisanos, Ivana Rosediana Dewi, Rusdiyanto Rusdiyanto, Jiva Rendis Yuaris, 2022
The genesis, development and implementation of an interdisciplinary university cross-school research group
- Brandenburg, Robyn, Smith, Jeremy, Higgins, Angela, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Brandenburg, Robyn , Smith, Jeremy , Higgins, Angela , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2022
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- Relation: Australian Educational Researcher Vol. 49, no. 3 (2022), p. 489-510
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- Description: This article examines the genesis, development and implementation of an interdisciplinary university cross-school research group (three individual schools) at Federation University in Australia. This CSRG is a consequence of both local and national calls for interdisciplinarity in university research and a direct response to the revised Strategic Goals and Policy document at Federation University. Using a conceptual framework based on a treatise by Jürgen Habermas (The theory of communicative action, Beacon Press, 1987) incorporating three socio-political levels (Lifeworld, Steering Media and Systems), we examined the ideals, processes and challenges in setting up an interdisciplinary research group within a traditional disciplinary-based university environment. Drawing on multiple data sets composed of member survey responses and interviews, email communication, online meetings, policy documents and co-leader feedback, we identified key resonant themes focussing on academic aspiration and motivation, the role of policy and practice, influence of grants and grant development across schools, mentoring and publishing. Using Habermas’ conceptual framework and his overarching notion of Lifeworld with qualitative methods of data analysis, this article explores establishment of the CSRG, deeper academic aspirations and engagement for interdisciplinarity informing the group’s formation and effectiveness of the processes used in this specific case. The impact on systems and policy is addressed together with the processes adopted to bring about interdisciplinary university collaboration. Evaluating the formation of the CSRG, the authors found that researchers placed a high value on opportunities to creatively collaborate in a cross-school and interdisciplinary environment, whereas obtaining grants and publishing research were seen by staff as indirect and less immediate benefits of collaboration. This article contributes to the growing body of research on interdisciplinary collaboration by applying a distinct theoretical and analytical framework to emphasise the potential of grassroots collaboration and the role of power and influence on research within universities. © 2022, The Author(s).
- Authors: Brandenburg, Robyn , Smith, Jeremy , Higgins, Angela , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2022
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- Relation: Australian Educational Researcher Vol. 49, no. 3 (2022), p. 489-510
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- Description: This article examines the genesis, development and implementation of an interdisciplinary university cross-school research group (three individual schools) at Federation University in Australia. This CSRG is a consequence of both local and national calls for interdisciplinarity in university research and a direct response to the revised Strategic Goals and Policy document at Federation University. Using a conceptual framework based on a treatise by Jürgen Habermas (The theory of communicative action, Beacon Press, 1987) incorporating three socio-political levels (Lifeworld, Steering Media and Systems), we examined the ideals, processes and challenges in setting up an interdisciplinary research group within a traditional disciplinary-based university environment. Drawing on multiple data sets composed of member survey responses and interviews, email communication, online meetings, policy documents and co-leader feedback, we identified key resonant themes focussing on academic aspiration and motivation, the role of policy and practice, influence of grants and grant development across schools, mentoring and publishing. Using Habermas’ conceptual framework and his overarching notion of Lifeworld with qualitative methods of data analysis, this article explores establishment of the CSRG, deeper academic aspirations and engagement for interdisciplinarity informing the group’s formation and effectiveness of the processes used in this specific case. The impact on systems and policy is addressed together with the processes adopted to bring about interdisciplinary university collaboration. Evaluating the formation of the CSRG, the authors found that researchers placed a high value on opportunities to creatively collaborate in a cross-school and interdisciplinary environment, whereas obtaining grants and publishing research were seen by staff as indirect and less immediate benefits of collaboration. This article contributes to the growing body of research on interdisciplinary collaboration by applying a distinct theoretical and analytical framework to emphasise the potential of grassroots collaboration and the role of power and influence on research within universities. © 2022, The Author(s).
Government funded business programs : advisory help or hindrance?
- Labas, Alan, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Labas, Alan , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies Vol. 27, no. 1 (2021 2021), p. 88-112
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- Description: This study seeks, through the perspective of Professional Business Advisors (PBAs), to understand how government business programs help and/or hinder the provision of small business advisory services in a regional (non-metropolitan) Australian setting. An emergent theme identifies such programs as significant conduits for regional business knowledge transmission. However, those programs are also perceived by PBAs, who deliver such programs, as imposing substantial constraints for provision of such services. The identified constraining factors include issues of PBAs’ financial viability, ineligibility of businesses to access such programs, capriciousness of programs, and clash between technology utilisation and infrastructure reliability in some non-metropolitan regional areas. Regional Australian PBAs service a heterogeneous collection of businesses across large geographic areas. Yet, the potential for PBAs to support the process of knowledge transmission is severely constrained by current government programs aimed at start-up businesses, but ignoring organisational growth. Such constraints raise concerns that have regional policy implications
- Authors: Labas, Alan , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies Vol. 27, no. 1 (2021 2021), p. 88-112
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- Description: This study seeks, through the perspective of Professional Business Advisors (PBAs), to understand how government business programs help and/or hinder the provision of small business advisory services in a regional (non-metropolitan) Australian setting. An emergent theme identifies such programs as significant conduits for regional business knowledge transmission. However, those programs are also perceived by PBAs, who deliver such programs, as imposing substantial constraints for provision of such services. The identified constraining factors include issues of PBAs’ financial viability, ineligibility of businesses to access such programs, capriciousness of programs, and clash between technology utilisation and infrastructure reliability in some non-metropolitan regional areas. Regional Australian PBAs service a heterogeneous collection of businesses across large geographic areas. Yet, the potential for PBAs to support the process of knowledge transmission is severely constrained by current government programs aimed at start-up businesses, but ignoring organisational growth. Such constraints raise concerns that have regional policy implications
Localisation of the sustainable development goals in an emerging nation
- Jain, Ameeta, Courvisanos, Jerry, Subramaniam, Nava
- Authors: Jain, Ameeta , Courvisanos, Jerry , Subramaniam, Nava
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Public Administration and Development Vol. 41, no. 5 (2021), p. 231-243
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- Description: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed to by all member countries of the United Nations, require urgent action on the world's most pressing problems. Success requires bottom-up participation of local stakeholders. This case study of Timor-Leste—a fledgling, fossil fuel-supported economy—maps the awareness and commitment of grassroots stakeholders to the SDGs and the roadblocks to localisation. Guiding this paper is Habermas’ view of societal evolution and communicative action, which aids analysing the socio-political and structural dynamics affecting SDGs localisation in a developing nation. This study reveals stakeholder inability to articulate a clear vision for the SDGs, lack of human capital and funds, a weak public-administrative system, strong socio-political nuances, and poor governance infrastructure to support multi-stakeholder relationships. This paper provides insights for developing a more nuanced and robust public intervention to support local stakeholders that will enable knowledge, cultural and communication transformations required for successful SDGs localisation. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Authors: Jain, Ameeta , Courvisanos, Jerry , Subramaniam, Nava
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Public Administration and Development Vol. 41, no. 5 (2021), p. 231-243
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- Description: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed to by all member countries of the United Nations, require urgent action on the world's most pressing problems. Success requires bottom-up participation of local stakeholders. This case study of Timor-Leste—a fledgling, fossil fuel-supported economy—maps the awareness and commitment of grassroots stakeholders to the SDGs and the roadblocks to localisation. Guiding this paper is Habermas’ view of societal evolution and communicative action, which aids analysing the socio-political and structural dynamics affecting SDGs localisation in a developing nation. This study reveals stakeholder inability to articulate a clear vision for the SDGs, lack of human capital and funds, a weak public-administrative system, strong socio-political nuances, and poor governance infrastructure to support multi-stakeholder relationships. This paper provides insights for developing a more nuanced and robust public intervention to support local stakeholders that will enable knowledge, cultural and communication transformations required for successful SDGs localisation. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The Timor-Leste Petroleum Fund : from buying peace to white elephants
- Doraisami, Anita, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Doraisami, Anita , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds p. 233-260
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- Description: Sovereign Wealth Funds rarely have the opportunity to be examined from their beginning concurrently with the installation of sovereignty for the country itself. This is the unique case of Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor), built up from information provided by all stakeholders in the establishment and ongoing operation of the country’s Petroleum Fund. With oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea plentiful and already extracted previously by Indonesia, the United Nations administration ensured the Norwegian model should be the basis for setting up the Fund. Thus, Timor-Leste began well by establishing a globally acknowledged well-designed Fund soon after gaining sovereignty. This chapter examines the Fund from the amity of its inception to the realities of a post-conflict society. These realities soon became apparent after civil disturbances resulted in Fund resources being used to “buy the peace.” Then emerged economic and social pressures of large infrastructure development where major projects were raising concerns as to whether the Fund is being used to construct white elephants. Together these two acute influences have the potential for the Resource Curse to emerge on the horizon if the big spending “peace and development” strategy fails. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
- Authors: Doraisami, Anita , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds p. 233-260
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- Description: Sovereign Wealth Funds rarely have the opportunity to be examined from their beginning concurrently with the installation of sovereignty for the country itself. This is the unique case of Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor), built up from information provided by all stakeholders in the establishment and ongoing operation of the country’s Petroleum Fund. With oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea plentiful and already extracted previously by Indonesia, the United Nations administration ensured the Norwegian model should be the basis for setting up the Fund. Thus, Timor-Leste began well by establishing a globally acknowledged well-designed Fund soon after gaining sovereignty. This chapter examines the Fund from the amity of its inception to the realities of a post-conflict society. These realities soon became apparent after civil disturbances resulted in Fund resources being used to “buy the peace.” Then emerged economic and social pressures of large infrastructure development where major projects were raising concerns as to whether the Fund is being used to construct white elephants. Together these two acute influences have the potential for the Resource Curse to emerge on the horizon if the big spending “peace and development” strategy fails. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Government business programs and regional business knowledge transmission by professional business advisor
- Labas, Alan, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Labas, Alan , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2018
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- Description: Based on research seeking to understand mechanisms affecting the provision of small business advisory services in a Regional (non-metropolitan) Australian setting, by what are called Professional Business Advisors (PBAs), an emergent theme identifies government business programs and initiatives as significant conduits for regional business knowledge transmission. However, those programs and initiatives are also perceived to impose substantial constraints for PBAs providing services in regional communities. The identified constraining factors include issues of financial viability for PBAs, ineligibility of many regional small businesses to access government funded initiatives, capriciousness of government programs, and clash between technology utilisation and infrastructure reliability in some non-metropolitan regional areas. Regional Australian PBAs service a heterogeneous collection of businesses across large geographic areas. Yet, the potential influence that these PBAs have in the process of knowledge transmission is severely constrained by current government programs aimed both at start-up regional businesses and those pursuing organisational growth. Such constraints raise concerns that have regional policy implications.
- Authors: Labas, Alan , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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- Description: Based on research seeking to understand mechanisms affecting the provision of small business advisory services in a Regional (non-metropolitan) Australian setting, by what are called Professional Business Advisors (PBAs), an emergent theme identifies government business programs and initiatives as significant conduits for regional business knowledge transmission. However, those programs and initiatives are also perceived to impose substantial constraints for PBAs providing services in regional communities. The identified constraining factors include issues of financial viability for PBAs, ineligibility of many regional small businesses to access government funded initiatives, capriciousness of government programs, and clash between technology utilisation and infrastructure reliability in some non-metropolitan regional areas. Regional Australian PBAs service a heterogeneous collection of businesses across large geographic areas. Yet, the potential influence that these PBAs have in the process of knowledge transmission is severely constrained by current government programs aimed both at start-up regional businesses and those pursuing organisational growth. Such constraints raise concerns that have regional policy implications.
Review of the roadmap for implementing the SDGs in Timor-Leste: Achievements and limitations
- Courvisanos, Jerry, Boavida, Matias
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Boavida, Matias
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Timor-Leste Studies Association's 'New Research on Timor-Leste' conference, Sixth TLSA, 29th- 30th June, 2017 p. 186-193
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- Description: On 23 September 2015 under Government Resolution No34/2015, the Timor-Leste Government (RDTL) adopted the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for attainment by 2030. The ‘roadmap’, as set up by the Prime Minster (PM), His Excellency Dr Rui Maria de Araújo and his SDG Working Group, specified the need to ‘harmonise’ the SDGs in the context of its strong commitment to the 2011-2030 Strategic Development Plan (SDP). This ‘roadmap’ approach was endorsed by the RDTL (2017). This paper reviews the roadmap by asking the following question: How has the RDTL been able to harmonise the SDGs with the existing SDP that currently guides policy in the economy? Based on an ‘eco- sustainable framework’ originally developed in Courvisanos (2005), this paper identifies both achievements and limitations of this roadmap. A deep six-month country-wide field-based method was undertaken for this review. Elements of a transition path towards an alternative sustainable development economic development for this fledgling nation are noted at the end.
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Boavida, Matias
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Timor-Leste Studies Association's 'New Research on Timor-Leste' conference, Sixth TLSA, 29th- 30th June, 2017 p. 186-193
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- Description: On 23 September 2015 under Government Resolution No34/2015, the Timor-Leste Government (RDTL) adopted the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for attainment by 2030. The ‘roadmap’, as set up by the Prime Minster (PM), His Excellency Dr Rui Maria de Araújo and his SDG Working Group, specified the need to ‘harmonise’ the SDGs in the context of its strong commitment to the 2011-2030 Strategic Development Plan (SDP). This ‘roadmap’ approach was endorsed by the RDTL (2017). This paper reviews the roadmap by asking the following question: How has the RDTL been able to harmonise the SDGs with the existing SDP that currently guides policy in the economy? Based on an ‘eco- sustainable framework’ originally developed in Courvisanos (2005), this paper identifies both achievements and limitations of this roadmap. A deep six-month country-wide field-based method was undertaken for this review. Elements of a transition path towards an alternative sustainable development economic development for this fledgling nation are noted at the end.
Economic resilience of regions under crises : A study of the Australian economy
- Courvisanos, Jerry, Jain, Ameeta, Mardaneh, Karim
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Jain, Ameeta , Mardaneh, Karim
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Regional Studies Vol. 50, no. 4 (2016), p. 629-643
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- Description: Economic resilience of regions under crises: a study of the Australian economy, Regional Studies. Identifying patterns of economic resilience in regions by industry categories is the focus of this paper. Patterns emerge from adaptive capacity in four distinct functional groups of local government regions in Australia, in respect of their resilience from shocks on specific industries. A model of regional adaptive cycles around four sequential phases - reorganization, exploitation, conservation and release - is adopted as the framework for recognizing such patterns. A data-mining method utilizes a k-means algorithm to evaluate the impact of two major shocks - a 13-year drought and the Global Financial Crisis - on four functional groups of regions, using census data from 2001, 2006 and 2011. © 2015 Regional Studies Association.
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Jain, Ameeta , Mardaneh, Karim
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Regional Studies Vol. 50, no. 4 (2016), p. 629-643
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- Description: Economic resilience of regions under crises: a study of the Australian economy, Regional Studies. Identifying patterns of economic resilience in regions by industry categories is the focus of this paper. Patterns emerge from adaptive capacity in four distinct functional groups of local government regions in Australia, in respect of their resilience from shocks on specific industries. A model of regional adaptive cycles around four sequential phases - reorganization, exploitation, conservation and release - is adopted as the framework for recognizing such patterns. A data-mining method utilizes a k-means algorithm to evaluate the impact of two major shocks - a 13-year drought and the Global Financial Crisis - on four functional groups of regions, using census data from 2001, 2006 and 2011. © 2015 Regional Studies Association.
Business advisor knowledge and knowledge transference : A conceptual framework
- Labas, Alan, Courvisanos, Jerry, Henson, Sam
- Authors: Labas, Alan , Courvisanos, Jerry , Henson, Sam
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 28th Annual SEAANZ Conference Proceedings; Melbourne, Australia; 1st-3rd July 2015. p. 1-17
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- Description: Prior studies raise the question of how business advisors’ knowledge affects the provision of advice to small business. This paper recognises there is limited understanding of ‘how knowledge is connected to action’ and asks the question of how to research such an issue. A conceptual framework is derived from the literature to guide future empirical analysis exploring small business advisor knowledge and its transference. Two theories underpin this framework and illustrate the important role external advisors play in small business knowledge development - the theory of outside assistance as a knowledge resource, and theory of guided preparation as a guide to action based on advisor knowledge. The framework is underpinned by a critical realist methodology that allows actors (i.e. small business advisors) to operate in a changing environment. This critical realist philosophical lens enables the framework to uncover causal relationship between professional small business advisor knowledge foundations and knowledge transference.
- Authors: Labas, Alan , Courvisanos, Jerry , Henson, Sam
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 28th Annual SEAANZ Conference Proceedings; Melbourne, Australia; 1st-3rd July 2015. p. 1-17
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- Description: Prior studies raise the question of how business advisors’ knowledge affects the provision of advice to small business. This paper recognises there is limited understanding of ‘how knowledge is connected to action’ and asks the question of how to research such an issue. A conceptual framework is derived from the literature to guide future empirical analysis exploring small business advisor knowledge and its transference. Two theories underpin this framework and illustrate the important role external advisors play in small business knowledge development - the theory of outside assistance as a knowledge resource, and theory of guided preparation as a guide to action based on advisor knowledge. The framework is underpinned by a critical realist methodology that allows actors (i.e. small business advisors) to operate in a changing environment. This critical realist philosophical lens enables the framework to uncover causal relationship between professional small business advisor knowledge foundations and knowledge transference.
Building the capacity to innovate: The role of human capital
- Smith, Andy, Courvisanos, Jerry, Tuck, Jacqueline, McEachern, Steven
- Authors: Smith, Andy , Courvisanos, Jerry , Tuck, Jacqueline , McEachern, Steven
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Technical report
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- Authors: Smith, Andy , Courvisanos, Jerry , Tuck, Jacqueline , McEachern, Steven
- Date: 2012
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Corporate social responsibility in regional small and medium-sized enterprises in Australia
- Moyeen, Abdul, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Moyeen, Abdul , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies Vol. 18, no. 3 (2012), p. 364-391
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- Description: The recognition that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is important for business sustainability has focused the bulk of research on explicit normative arguments for its adoption by large corporations. This ignores the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the investigation of how such firms actually perform CSR activities. This study begins with the premise that SMEs may design appropriate CSR strategies to address issues in local communities. SMEs operate within these communities and subsequently are more aware of community and environmental issues than their larger counterparts. From this emerges the aim of examining the reality of this proposition from the particular perspective of a regional city in Australia. The results show a gap between normative CSR proposals and the actual operation of CSR processes in this cohort of SMEs in a regional community. What is exposed is the complexity of CSR ‘on the ground at the business frontline’.
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- Authors: Moyeen, Abdul , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies Vol. 18, no. 3 (2012), p. 364-391
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- Description: The recognition that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is important for business sustainability has focused the bulk of research on explicit normative arguments for its adoption by large corporations. This ignores the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the investigation of how such firms actually perform CSR activities. This study begins with the premise that SMEs may design appropriate CSR strategies to address issues in local communities. SMEs operate within these communities and subsequently are more aware of community and environmental issues than their larger counterparts. From this emerges the aim of examining the reality of this proposition from the particular perspective of a regional city in Australia. The results show a gap between normative CSR proposals and the actual operation of CSR processes in this cohort of SMEs in a regional community. What is exposed is the complexity of CSR ‘on the ground at the business frontline’.
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Management practices and innovation capacity in enterprises
- Smith, Andy, Courvisanos, Jerry, McEachern, Steven, Tuck, Jacqueline
- Authors: Smith, Andy , Courvisanos, Jerry , McEachern, Steven , Tuck, Jacqueline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AVETRA, Research in VET: Janus- Reflecting back, projecting forward Vol. 2011, p. 1-14
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- Description: This paper reports on a project which seeks to identify the role of human capital formation in promoting innovation in Australian enterprises and the ways in which enterprises can improve their human resource management and learning and development practices to improve their innovation performance. There are a number of factors that affect enterprises' ability to innovate. These include internal factors such as the ability to detect technological changes in the environment, the development of core competencies from which innovation can develop and external factors such as the maturity of the market which the enterprise serves and the impact of government policy to stimulate innovation. A range of studies have suggested that human factors within the enterprise are critical to innovation. However, these studies have not established exactly what practices enterprises need to put in place to improve their 'innovation capacity'. This paper reports the results from the research. The research method involved a survey of over 2,500 business enterprises and seven case studies drawn from the manufacturing, [information and communication technology] ICT and finance industries. The paper will discuss the major findings from the research.
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- Authors: Smith, Andy , Courvisanos, Jerry , McEachern, Steven , Tuck, Jacqueline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AVETRA, Research in VET: Janus- Reflecting back, projecting forward Vol. 2011, p. 1-14
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- Description: This paper reports on a project which seeks to identify the role of human capital formation in promoting innovation in Australian enterprises and the ways in which enterprises can improve their human resource management and learning and development practices to improve their innovation performance. There are a number of factors that affect enterprises' ability to innovate. These include internal factors such as the ability to detect technological changes in the environment, the development of core competencies from which innovation can develop and external factors such as the maturity of the market which the enterprise serves and the impact of government policy to stimulate innovation. A range of studies have suggested that human factors within the enterprise are critical to innovation. However, these studies have not established exactly what practices enterprises need to put in place to improve their 'innovation capacity'. This paper reports the results from the research. The research method involved a survey of over 2,500 business enterprises and seven case studies drawn from the manufacturing, [information and communication technology] ICT and finance industries. The paper will discuss the major findings from the research.
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The impact of technical change and profit on investment in Australian manufacturing
- Bloch, Harry, Courvisanos, Jerry, Mangano, Maria
- Authors: Bloch, Harry , Courvisanos, Jerry , Mangano, Maria
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Review of Political Economy Vol. 23, no. 3 (2011), p. 389-408
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- Description: This paper combines W.E.G. Salter's analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki's analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a Post Keynesian model of investment with process innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. The approach to process innovation taken in this study is to identify new capital stock introduced through physical investment, which results in the older vintage stock being decommissioned as technologically obsolete. In the estimated model, the profit factor is used as a measure of the ability to invest, and the rate of labour productivity growth factor reveals the inducement to invest as this rate acts as a proxy for technical change in the Kaleckian investment-ordering model. The two factors combine to explain the accumulation process, both level and variability, and its link to technical change. In conclusion, this paper demonstrates that investment, incorporating technical change, enables industries to become sustainable into the uncertain future with varying states of investment instability. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.
- Authors: Bloch, Harry , Courvisanos, Jerry , Mangano, Maria
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Review of Political Economy Vol. 23, no. 3 (2011), p. 389-408
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- Description: This paper combines W.E.G. Salter's analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki's analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a Post Keynesian model of investment with process innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. The approach to process innovation taken in this study is to identify new capital stock introduced through physical investment, which results in the older vintage stock being decommissioned as technologically obsolete. In the estimated model, the profit factor is used as a measure of the ability to invest, and the rate of labour productivity growth factor reveals the inducement to invest as this rate acts as a proxy for technical change in the Kaleckian investment-ordering model. The two factors combine to explain the accumulation process, both level and variability, and its link to technical change. In conclusion, this paper demonstrates that investment, incorporating technical change, enables industries to become sustainable into the uncertain future with varying states of investment instability. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.
Toward a synthetic economic systems modeling tool for sustainable exploitation of ecosystems
- Richardson, Colin, Courvisanos, Jerry, Crawford, John
- Authors: Richardson, Colin , Courvisanos, Jerry , Crawford, John
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1219, no. 1 (2011), p. 171-184
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- Description: Environmental resources that underpin the basic human needs of water, energy, and food are predicted to become in such short supply by 2050 that global security and the well-being of millions will be under threat. These natural commodities have been allowed to reach crisis levels of supply because of a failure of economic systems to sustain them. This is largely because there have been no means of integrating their exploitation into any economic model that effectively addresses ecological systemic failures in a way that provides an integrated ecological-economic tool that can monitor and evaluate market and policy targets. We review the reasons for this and recent attempts to address the problem while identifying outstanding issues. The key elements of a policy-oriented economic model that integrates ecosystem processes are described and form the basis of a proposed new synthesis approach. The approach is illustrated by an indicative case study that develops a simple model for rainfed and irrigated food production in the Murray-Darling basin of southeastern Australia. © 2011 New York Academy of Sciences.
- Authors: Richardson, Colin , Courvisanos, Jerry , Crawford, John
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1219, no. 1 (2011), p. 171-184
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- Description: Environmental resources that underpin the basic human needs of water, energy, and food are predicted to become in such short supply by 2050 that global security and the well-being of millions will be under threat. These natural commodities have been allowed to reach crisis levels of supply because of a failure of economic systems to sustain them. This is largely because there have been no means of integrating their exploitation into any economic model that effectively addresses ecological systemic failures in a way that provides an integrated ecological-economic tool that can monitor and evaluate market and policy targets. We review the reasons for this and recent attempts to address the problem while identifying outstanding issues. The key elements of a policy-oriented economic model that integrates ecosystem processes are described and form the basis of a proposed new synthesis approach. The approach is illustrated by an indicative case study that develops a simple model for rainfed and irrigated food production in the Murray-Darling basin of southeastern Australia. © 2011 New York Academy of Sciences.
Towards a model of eco-sustainable agricultural production in a regulated river basin
- Courvisanos, Jerry, Richardson, Colin
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Richardson, Colin
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Innovation Economics Vol. 2, no. 8 (2011), p. 59-87
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- Description: A clear path to the new eco-sustainable techno-economic paradigm is mapped out in Courvisanos (2009a) using a framework for innovation and investment developed from the seminal work of Adolph Lowe and Michal Kalecki. This theoretical framework is based around three elements that are crucial to achieving this eco-sustainable paradigm: (i) cumulative effective demand for eco-sustainable products, services and processes, (ii) ecological rules for capital investment to ensure resource saving and long-term carrying capacity, and (iii) iterative flexible public and private planning and monitoring processes to allow ecologically sustainable innovation to be supported by infrastructure, R&D and learning and development systems. This path was specifically applied in Courvisanos (2009a) to regional (non-metropolitan) Australia, an area of food and fibre production that is fragile because of drought, fire and massive storms due to ecological degradation and greenhouse warming. The heartland of regional Australia is the nation’s food bowl, the Murray-Darling River Basin (MDRB), which is under great stress due to salination and drought. There also is great rainfall variability with huge floods due to climate change, as became evident in 2010. A path for resolution of the concerns of specific regional and corporate interests along the whole Murray-Darling river system has not yet emerged. What is required is an eco-sustainable framework that addresses these issues in a holistic manner.
- Description: 200300879
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Richardson, Colin
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Innovation Economics Vol. 2, no. 8 (2011), p. 59-87
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- Description: A clear path to the new eco-sustainable techno-economic paradigm is mapped out in Courvisanos (2009a) using a framework for innovation and investment developed from the seminal work of Adolph Lowe and Michal Kalecki. This theoretical framework is based around three elements that are crucial to achieving this eco-sustainable paradigm: (i) cumulative effective demand for eco-sustainable products, services and processes, (ii) ecological rules for capital investment to ensure resource saving and long-term carrying capacity, and (iii) iterative flexible public and private planning and monitoring processes to allow ecologically sustainable innovation to be supported by infrastructure, R&D and learning and development systems. This path was specifically applied in Courvisanos (2009a) to regional (non-metropolitan) Australia, an area of food and fibre production that is fragile because of drought, fire and massive storms due to ecological degradation and greenhouse warming. The heartland of regional Australia is the nation’s food bowl, the Murray-Darling River Basin (MDRB), which is under great stress due to salination and drought. There also is great rainfall variability with huge floods due to climate change, as became evident in 2010. A path for resolution of the concerns of specific regional and corporate interests along the whole Murray-Darling river system has not yet emerged. What is required is an eco-sustainable framework that addresses these issues in a holistic manner.
- Description: 200300879
Attitude to risk in technology-based strategic alliances for tourism
- Pansiri, Jaloni, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Pansiri, Jaloni , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration Vol. 11, no. 3 (2010), p. 275-302
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- Description: This article examines how attitude to risk in the tourism industry impacts on the role of strategic alliances in developing technology-based knowledge. A survey of Australian travel sector businesses indicates that strategic alliances in tourism contribute only marginally to technology-based knowledge. The study further found that executives in the travel sector of tourism are risk-averse and this has implications for their perceptions regarding the contribution of alliances to technology-based knowledge. The findings imply that Australian industry policy towards tourism needs to encourage strategic alliances that have the potential to stimulate knowledge-based innovation. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
A tale of two strategies : A framework of analysis for human resource management and innovation - An Australian perspective
- Cavagnoli, Donatella, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Cavagnoli, Donatella , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. : 12th-15th June 2009 p. 304-320
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- Description: Innovation, both technological and organisational, has become the top national priority in generating strong industrial development in order to stimulate economic development and strengthen competitiveness. From this perspective, it is crucial to identify how various aspects of business management in practice are responding to the challenge of supporting innovation. One crucial aspect under scrutiny lately has been the role of human resource management (HRM) in effectively building the capacity of organisations to innovate through motivation and learning. Recent research has found a positive relationship among HRM policies, innovation and industrial performance. This important relationship has been often mentioned, but without any clear theoretical framework or empirical evidence to identify the type of HRM strategies that support innovation. The aim of this paper is to examine the Australian situation with regard to HRM strategies and their support (or lack thereof) for innovation during the 2000s boom years prior to the recent “Great Recession”. This is done by comparing two distinct HRM systems and strategies implemented in Australia. One is centred around deregulation, the other is centred around regulation. A theoretical framework is developed based on the capability of firms to innovate and how it is strictly related to their ability to substitute between labour inputs, within these two strategies. This framework then provides the basis for examining HRM practices and industrial relations systems in order to identify the difference between the learning practices that are common to successful innovation, and the ones that hamper innovation. The focus of the paper is on the input of innovative individuals. For it is individuals who learn within a frame of reference created by their education and by their social and organisational systems of rewards. The paper will show how through HRM strategies, the process of learning can lead to innovation, but it can also hinder innovation. It is crucial that societies invest in practices that foster and maintain the individual’s motivation to innovate and ability to generate new knowledge.
- Description: 2003007912
- Authors: Cavagnoli, Donatella , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. : 12th-15th June 2009 p. 304-320
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- Description: Innovation, both technological and organisational, has become the top national priority in generating strong industrial development in order to stimulate economic development and strengthen competitiveness. From this perspective, it is crucial to identify how various aspects of business management in practice are responding to the challenge of supporting innovation. One crucial aspect under scrutiny lately has been the role of human resource management (HRM) in effectively building the capacity of organisations to innovate through motivation and learning. Recent research has found a positive relationship among HRM policies, innovation and industrial performance. This important relationship has been often mentioned, but without any clear theoretical framework or empirical evidence to identify the type of HRM strategies that support innovation. The aim of this paper is to examine the Australian situation with regard to HRM strategies and their support (or lack thereof) for innovation during the 2000s boom years prior to the recent “Great Recession”. This is done by comparing two distinct HRM systems and strategies implemented in Australia. One is centred around deregulation, the other is centred around regulation. A theoretical framework is developed based on the capability of firms to innovate and how it is strictly related to their ability to substitute between labour inputs, within these two strategies. This framework then provides the basis for examining HRM practices and industrial relations systems in order to identify the difference between the learning practices that are common to successful innovation, and the ones that hamper innovation. The focus of the paper is on the input of innovative individuals. For it is individuals who learn within a frame of reference created by their education and by their social and organisational systems of rewards. The paper will show how through HRM strategies, the process of learning can lead to innovation, but it can also hinder innovation. It is crucial that societies invest in practices that foster and maintain the individual’s motivation to innovate and ability to generate new knowledge.
- Description: 2003007912
In search of New Atlantis : What can HET on innovation reveal about the path out of the 2009 great recession?
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 22nd Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia : 14th-17th July 2009
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- Description: The 2009 “Great Recession” has created a severe collapse of business expectations to coincide with severe financial overexposure. In this economic climate there is the tendency for the private sector to withdraw from investing in the future and for the public sector to seek to protect the major institutions of capitalism. Both lead to the exclusion of innovation and the concomitant deterioration of the accumulation process. In this context, there have been calls by some prescient economists and politicians to recognise this severe downturn as the opportunity for the generation and implementation of new knowledge. Innovation needs to be generated - particularly eco-innovation into sustainable development - and supported with a large public and private accumulation programme. In about 1623, Francis Bacon wrote a fable about a secret undiscovered island, Bensalem, in which scientific progress through innovation (Bacon’s “instauration”) created an idyllic economy where humanity was in concert with nature. This Bacon juxtaposed with another island, Atlantis, which gained wealth and prominence through its domination over nature, until nature took its revenge. From Adam Smith onwards writings on economics have recognised the power of innovation to drive an economy. Using Bensalem as the ideal, this paper appraises visions of innovation and accumulation from various HET schools (especially Neoclassical, Austrian, Schumpeterian, Post-Keynesian, Ecological) to assess what these schools can contribute to development of an ecologically sustainable economic trajectory out of the 2009 Great Recession.
- Description: 2003007361
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 22nd Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia : 14th-17th July 2009
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- Description: The 2009 “Great Recession” has created a severe collapse of business expectations to coincide with severe financial overexposure. In this economic climate there is the tendency for the private sector to withdraw from investing in the future and for the public sector to seek to protect the major institutions of capitalism. Both lead to the exclusion of innovation and the concomitant deterioration of the accumulation process. In this context, there have been calls by some prescient economists and politicians to recognise this severe downturn as the opportunity for the generation and implementation of new knowledge. Innovation needs to be generated - particularly eco-innovation into sustainable development - and supported with a large public and private accumulation programme. In about 1623, Francis Bacon wrote a fable about a secret undiscovered island, Bensalem, in which scientific progress through innovation (Bacon’s “instauration”) created an idyllic economy where humanity was in concert with nature. This Bacon juxtaposed with another island, Atlantis, which gained wealth and prominence through its domination over nature, until nature took its revenge. From Adam Smith onwards writings on economics have recognised the power of innovation to drive an economy. Using Bensalem as the ideal, this paper appraises visions of innovation and accumulation from various HET schools (especially Neoclassical, Austrian, Schumpeterian, Post-Keynesian, Ecological) to assess what these schools can contribute to development of an ecologically sustainable economic trajectory out of the 2009 Great Recession.
- Description: 2003007361
Key public sector individuals as ICT change agents : An analysis of Australian and German experience
- Jagodick, Jana, Courvisanos, Jerry, Yearwood, John, Braun, Patrice
- Authors: Jagodick, Jana , Courvisanos, Jerry , Yearwood, John , Braun, Patrice
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration Vol. 31, no. 2 (2009), p. 197-212
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- Description: The increasing demand for technology-enabled public sector services drives state agencies to launch information and communication technology (ICT) projects. The Australian and German state agencies are taking a proactive role towards technological change by employing so-called ICT change agents. These ICT change agents introduce, diffuse, manage and implement ICT within projects. Despite the mobilisation of change agents, there is scant research on the formal and informal roles of these key individuals within public sector projects. This article bridges that gap by providing valuable insights into the activities of public sector ICT change agents. It is based on empirical research from six case studies in Australian and German state agencies. Findings from these studies indicate that public sector ICT change agents position organisations to take advantage of cutting edge technologies by performing a great variety of formal and informal roles. Formal roles are performed in order to accomplish set formal project tasks, while informal roles help to speed up rapid ICT adoption and innovation through the change agents’ informal networks. The findings are delineated in a framework for future research which shows that formal and informal roles impact on the outcomes of public sector ICT projects.
- Description: 2003007371
Political aspects of innovation
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Research Policy Vol. 38, no. 7 (2009), p. 1117-1124
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- Description: "Political aspects" that enhance, but also undermine, the positive transformational power of public innovation policies are examined. As such, this paper follows Michał Kalecki in his 1943 paper that identifies the "political aspects" which enhance and undermine the positive transformational power of Keynesian full employment policies. Similarly, this paper provides a policy framework that identifies what government and business support as innovation policies. The role of innovation stems from Schumpeter's long-run perspective, but incorporates the more dynamic cyclical short-term and trend perspectives of Kalecki. This paper critiques the strategy of public innovation policy in general and derives policy implications. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Description: 2003007343
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Research Policy Vol. 38, no. 7 (2009), p. 1117-1124
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- Description: "Political aspects" that enhance, but also undermine, the positive transformational power of public innovation policies are examined. As such, this paper follows Michał Kalecki in his 1943 paper that identifies the "political aspects" which enhance and undermine the positive transformational power of Keynesian full employment policies. Similarly, this paper provides a policy framework that identifies what government and business support as innovation policies. The role of innovation stems from Schumpeter's long-run perspective, but incorporates the more dynamic cyclical short-term and trend perspectives of Kalecki. This paper critiques the strategy of public innovation policy in general and derives policy implications. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Description: 2003007343