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IGSB Updates August 2006
Week ending 11th August
- Prof David Corkindale has had an article published in The
Weekend Australian, 29- 30 July, titled, ‘To get the business -
Should you be different?'
- Prof Bobby Banerjee's paper titled 'Live and Let Die: Colonial
Sovereignties and the Deathworlds of Necrocapitalism' has been
accepted for publication in the journal Borderlands.
- Prof Bobby Banerjee presented a paper titled 'Biotechnology and
Intellectual Property Rights: Toward Colonial Control of Knowledge' at
the 6th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in
Organizations held in Prato, Italy in July.
- Prof Bobby Banerjee was part of a research team consisting of
Prof. Alan Mayne, (Project Leader), Director of the Hawke Research
Institute for Sustainable Societies and Associate Professor Gerry
Bloustien from the School of Communication that was awarded a Telstra
Foundation Grant totaling $84,000 over two years. The research
project, in partnership with the Waralungku Arts Centre is entitled
'Building a socially sustainable future for Indigenous youth living in
Borroloola'.
- Prof Bobby Banerjee has been invited to deliver the keynote
address for the 7th Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Conference/1st Asia Pacific Congress on Work and Organisational
Psychology to be held in Adelaide, from 28 June to 1 July 2007.
- Prof Bobby Banerjee has been invited to convene a research stream
on Postcolonialism at the Fifth Critical Management Studies Conference
to be held in Manchester Business School in July 2007. Details of the
conference can be found in
http://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/organisation-studies/cms5/index.htm.
- Prof Bobby Banerjee has been appointed to the International
Advisory Board by Palgrave Macmillan for their Critical Management
Studies Series which is series of books designed as accessible
introductions to the best critical thinking about business and
management.
- Prof Bobby Banerjee has been invited to contribute a chapter for
the Critical Management Studies Handbook to be published by Sage.
Week ending 18th August
- IGSB's "Business in China" seminar: A hit again at International
Business Week.
Approximately 70 attendees packed the Imperial Room at the Quality
Hotel Rockford to show that the mix of China & business is still a hot
topic at IBW. Professor Helen Thorne was event MC and introduced IGSB's
new "Business in China" program, an intensive two week study and
cultural tour in Shanghai and Beijing being held in April 2007.
Special thanks go to John Kerr and the Division's IBW Marketing
team for their role in making the event a success. For more
information Professor Alfred Huang can be contacted on:
alfred.huang@unisa.edu.au
or on 8302 9111.
- Associate Professor Bruce Gurd presented a seminar at South West
Jiaotong University "Long term orientation and the diffusion of
innovation in Australian hospitals" co-authored with Gao Tian.
- Associate Professor Bruce Gurd gave a lecture to the doctors and
management of Jinan Hospital and was conferred as Adjunct Professor of
Shandong University by the President and Chair of the medical school
to be involved in research on the balance scorecard.
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