Current candidates
David Bruce
Supervisor
Professor Helen Thorne
Location: Hong Kong
Research topic
Exploring how entrepreneurs influence the development of management
accounting information.
Email: dabruce@netvigator.com
John Knight
Supervisors
Assoc Prof. Margaret Patrickson
Assoc Prof. Bruce Gurd
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Research topic
This project is driven by the desire of the federal government to
introduce an information system that will routinely collect data on a
patient condition and treatments from several individual practices, and
amalgamate this data for statistical purposes. This research is focused on
understanding and on overcoming the causes of negative attitudes of
physicians in General Practice medicine towards the introduction and use of
such health information systems.
It is expected this research will contribute to a better understanding of the drivers of success in physician adoption and regular use of such systems. It is also expected the outcome of this project will be improved understanding of what steps are necessary to reduce resistance and increase adoption of amalgamated health information systems
Email: john.knight@unisa.edu.au
Jiwat Ram
Supervisor
Dr Sajid Anwar
Location: Adelaide
Research topic
Diffusion of ERP : My research interests are focussed on studying the diffusion process of complex information system, Corporate strategic perspective for Informatin Systems design and implementations, and examine their impact on profitability of firms. Presently I am studying the diffusion process of ERP system with intention to develop an integrated framework for successful adoption and implementation of ERP.
Email: jiwat.ram@postgrads.unisa.edu.au
Basil Tucker
Supervisors
Professor Helen Thorne
Professor Bruce Gurd
Location: Adelaide
Research topic
Despite the widespread attention on strategy, and management control practices,
our knowledge about how these two management functions should combine, and the
performance implications of this combination is limited.
Surprisingly, given its size and significance, the extent to which our current knowledge is applicable to the not-for-profit sector is largely unknown as the not-for-profit sector has to date, been largely neglected in the research in this area.
In response to this apparent gap in our knowledge, this research seeks to find out how not-for-profit organisations link their strategy with their management control systems and the effect on performance outcomes.
The research will involve a survey of over 400 not-for-profit organisations across Australia, followed up with short interviews of selected Chief Executives of these organisations.
Email: basil.tucker@unisa.edu.au
Lei Xu
Supervisors
Dr. Edward Lin
Location: Adelaide Home country: China
Research topic
Investment
Email: lei.xu@unisa.edu.au