Working Links
Division of Business
I invite you to join us for the 2008 Working Links lectures. Why ‘Working Links’? Well, not only do we engage professorial staff who work with business. We also link up with business leaders to ensure we’re teaching the knowledge they seek in our students. Then our research into marketing science, law, accounting, economics, tourism and human resource management completes the link by adding to that pool of knowledge.
Professor Gerry Griffiin, Pro Vice Chancellor
The birth of ideas and the death of technology |
Available online |
Tuesday 22 July (Registrations
closed,
access online lecture)
5.45 - 7.00pm
Bradley Forum,
Level 5, Hawke Building
City West campus
One of the defining characteristics of modern western societies is the rate of change. Many major corporations today are based on products that did not exist 20 years ago: Google, Microsoft, Nokia and Lenovo, are just four examples. Marketing professionals have always been concerned with such change: how new ideas and products enter society; how they displace their competitors; and then, how they grow while obsolescent products wither. Using examples ranging from steam locomotives to the growth of broadband, this fascinating session presents the facts and folklore about the product lifecycle and how the application of marketing science can help confront the challenge of technological transformation.
Professor Malcolm Wright
Malcolm is Head of UniSA’s
School of Marketing. His research interests
lie in the application of scientific principles to help solve marketing
problems. Malcolm’s current projects include new product forecasting and the
mechanisms of market change. His work has been published in many leading
journals, including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the
International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Product
Innovation Management and the European Journal of Marketing. Malcolm also
has extensive consulting and management experience.
Professor Malcolm Wright's
homepage
Corporate governance and boardroom accountability: lessons from the top
Tuesday 26 August (Registrations
closed,
access online lecture)
5.45 - 7.00pm
Bradley Forum,
Level 5 Hawke Building
City West campus
Remarkably little is known about what goes on in the top-floor inner sanctums of private, public and non-profit sector boardrooms. Yet they have a profound impact on corporate performance and accountability. Lee Parker’s presentation gives us a fly-on-the-wall insight into corporate governance based on his own board-level research and drawing on latest international research and practice. What are a director’s role and responsibilities for strategic management, organisational control and internal boardroom governance? Lee examines all the processes, highlighting implications for future practice in boardroom corporate governance.
Professor Lee Parker
Lee is Professor of Accounting
at UniSA’s School of Commerce,
and an Honorary Professor at
the University of St Andrews,
Scotland. Previous positions
include the Universities of
Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith, Flinders and Adelaide
with visiting professorships in
the UK, USA, NZ, Singapore and
Kuwait. He's published over 150
articles and books internationally,
was joint founding editor of
the Accounting, Auditing and
Accountability Journal and
currently serves on over 20
editorial boards. He is past-President of the Academy of
Accounting Historians (USA), the
American Accounting Association
Public Interest section and CPA
Australia (SA); past-Vice-President
International of the American
Accounting Association; and past-Deputy President of AIM (SA).
Professor Lee Parker's
homepage
Who are judges writing for?
Tuesday 23 September (Registrations
closed,
access online lecture)
5.45 - 7.00pm
Bradley Forum,
Level 5 Hawke Building
City West campus
You can’t access the law if you can’t understand it. But that leads to a dilemma for judges. Judges need to explain their legal determinations in concise language that makes the message clear; too concise, however, and the reasoning that ought to be subject to public scrutiny is hidden. If judges over-amplify, on the other hand, it makes the law arcane except for a small group of elite legal specialists. Ideally the balance between conciseness and amplification should be determined by the intended audience of the judgment. Compared with other jurisdictions, Australian judgments tend to be long and complex. So is the Australian judiciary writing for a different audience to its counterparts elsewhere? Just who are Australian judges writing for?
Professor Vicki Waye
Vicki is a Professor at UniSA's
School of Law, which opened this year.
She comes to us with 20 years'
teaching and research experience
at the University of Adelaide at
undergraduate and postgraduate
levels. Vicki's expertise includes
arbitration (both domestic
and international), evidence,
procedure, corporate law, contract
law and wine law. Her research
incorporates international and
comparative elements, spanning
such topics as multilateral treaties
affecting wine trade, comparisons
between criminal procedure
systems in Australia and the
United States, the legal regulation
of carbon foot-printing, and
matters affecting access to justice.
Much of her research is concerned
with the comparative efficacy of
the legal process.
Professor Vicki Waye's
homepage
The Anne Hawke Memorial Lecture. Is prevention better than cure?
Tuesday 7 October (Registrations closed,
access online lecture)
5.45 - 7.00 pm
Bradley Forum,
Level 5 Hawke Building
City West campus
Research SA Chair in Health Economics at UniSA, Leonie Segal focuses the microscope on one of the hot topics in the debate about health care costs. What is the role for prevention? Will prevention really provide the answer to rising health care costs? Are rising health care costs even an issue? Leonie will expand on her earlier Body of Knowledge lecture (July 15) and consider these issues from an economics perspective in relation to the achievement of an efficient and equitable health system.
Professor Leonie Segal
Research
SA Chair in Health
Economics at UniSA, Leonie Segal
focuses the microscope on one of
the hot topics in the debate about
health care costs. What is the role
for prevention? Will prevention
really provide the answer to rising
health care costs? Are rising
health care costs even an issue?
Leonie will expand on her earlier
Body of Knowledge lecture
(July 15) and consider these issues
from an economics perspective in
relation to the achievement
of an efficient and equitable
health system.
Professor
Leonie Segal's homepage
Anne was Director of UniSA's
Centre for Applied Economics
when she died tragically in 2000
at just 33. In her short life, she
had completed an Honours
Commerce Degree, a PhD and
worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow
in the Centre for Aboriginal
Economic Policy Research, a
Director in the Commonwealth
Department of Industrial Relations
and as a Senior Research Fellow
in the National Institute of Labour
Studies at Flinders. She was
prolific in her contribution to
economics literature, research
on indigenous economic policy
and the welfare economics of
gambling. The Anne Hawke
Memorial Lecture is given annually
to address the issues Anne was
most interested in.
Dr Anne Hawke, 1967 - 2000