IGSB Updates May 2006

Week ending 5th May

Associate Professor Peter Lok’s article with John Crawford, 'The relationship between commitment and organizational culture, subculture, leadership style and job satisfaction in organizational commitment', in Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, 20, 7, 365-373, has won an award for the Emerald LiteratiNetwork –'Most downloaded articles - top 200 globally' in 2005.

Bobby Banerjee has been invited to convene a sub-theme for the Critical Management Studies research workshop at the Academy of Management Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. The subtheme 'Imperialism, Nationalism and Globalization: Unpacking the Organizational Elements of the New World Order' has accepted 11 papers for the workshop which will be held August 11-12 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Convention Center, Atlanta.
Bobby has also been invited to join the editorial board of the journal Organization & Environment published by Sage publications. He has accepted the invitation for a two year appointment starting June 2006.
Congratulations to Barry Elsey, who has accepted the role of a Business Ambassador for the State of South Australia. The invitation was given by Her Excellency Marjorie Jackson-Nelson AC CVO MBE Governor of South Australia.
The 'Letter of the Week' in last week's Business Review Weekly was written by Prof. David Corkindale. It suggested that the BRW's Marketing writer had failed to realise a change in who undertakes much marketing decision making in many companies: non-marketers.

Mr Basil Tucker, Professor Helen Thorne and Associate Professor Bruce Gurd have had their paper entitled, ‘Measuring what matters – an approach to evaluating performance in the third sector’, accepted for presentation in the refereed stream at the Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Conference: Navigating New Waters to be held in Adelaide from the 26th to 28th November 2006.
IGSB is pleased to announce that the following people have completed all requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy:
- Dr Josephine Caust
- Dr Yenlin Stella Loh
- Dr Hok Yang Ming Spencer Lai
- Dr Ping Li
- Dr Tzu Hui Chen
- Dr Anna Lau
- Dr Man Shing So
- Dr Arkav Juliandri
- Dr Ho Keat Leng
With our sincere congratulations on your achievement and best wishes for your future success.

Dr Barry Elsey has been invited to a reception at Government House on Friday 26th May as a special guest of the President of the SA College of Educators and to the Australian College of Educators conference dinner afterwards.
Professor Helen Thorne will be visiting Bangkok, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur from Sunday 28th May to Monday 5th June inclusive. Professor David Corkindale will assume Acting Head of School responsibility during this time.