Australian Journal of Management articles from June 2004

Australian Journal of Management archives from June 2004

The state of the journal.(Editorial)(Editorial)
June 1, 2004... Now in its twenty-ninth year, the Australian Journal of Management has been part of the Australian Graduate School of Management since the earliest times; indeed, Volume 1 Number 1, edited by Ray Ball, appeared in April 1976, almost a year...

Emeritus Professor Dennis Turner.(Editorial)
June 1, 2004... The papers presented in this volume go some way toward documenting the contributions that Emeritus Professor Dennis Turner has made to management practice and thought within Australia. Through his teaching and his research, Dennis has...

Dennis Turner and the power of one.
June 1, 2004... Biographers often play a central role in the recording and transmission of experience and knowledge. We turn to their records as sources of insight into how individuals have changed the course of events. They shed light on how we can learn from...

Emeritus Professor Dennis Turner: researcher.
June 1, 2004... Dennis Turner is always responding to a challenge. His typical response has four core characteristics. One is that his understanding and framing of that challenge is grounded in his experience of the world. Having defined his goals and...

Practical experience, observation and research.
June 1, 2004... The history of science contains numerous instances where the observation of spontaneous natural or social phenomena by thoughtful practitioners and researchers have triggered profound insights that have then been articulated and tested as a new...

Capabilities for sustainable business success.
June 1, 2004... I met Professor Dennis Turner in 1990 while attending an Executive Program at The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM). During the program, Professor Turner referred to his research into organisational capabilities, the research that...

Reflections on Dennis' research.
June 1, 2004... I have been fortunate to have Dennis as a colleague for all the time I have been at the AGSM. I have taught with him, sat on committees with him, perhaps most importantly, often sought his wise, practical advice. Dennis has been an exceptional...

Professor Dennis Turner: a tribute to his contributions to management thought and education.
June 1, 2004... As Foundation Director of the Centre for Corporate Change at the AGSM, I had a close association with Professor Turner throughout the research he and Dr Michael Crawford carried out in the Centre. This research led to their book Change Power."...

Avoiding front-runner's bias.
June 1, 2004... In an uncertain world, managers should distinguish between good decisions and good outcomes, however define& Let me explain. A diligent manager might make the most prudent decision she could, but through bad luck find that she is confronted...

Capabilities: a different perspective.
June 1, 2004... In their research collaboration over ten years, Dennis Turner and Michael Crawford focussed on the management of change. The questions of critical interest, set out in the introduction to their major book Change Power (1998), were three: ...

Loss aversion for quality in consumer choice.
June 1, 2004... Abstract: A reference price is an internal price that consumers are believed to use to compare actual prices. Reference effects for price have been demonstrated in many settings. Reference effects for quality also have been demonstrated...

Returns to Australian investment newsletter recommendations.
June 1, 2004... Abstract: We investigate the recommendations made by four high profile Australian investment newsletters during 2001. Five issues are investigated: (1) The clarity of newsletter recommendations; (2) the return that might have been earned...

Australian managed fund ratings and individual investors.
June 1, 2004... Abstract: This paper examines the use and understanding of managed fund ratings in Australia. A survey of individual retail investors suggests information source and selection criteria constructs are more useful in explaining the role of...

Betas and industry weights.
June 1, 2004... Abstract: This paper explores the impact on industry betas of changes to the industry weights in the market index against which betas are defined. The exploratory analysis in the paper suggests that the effect can be substantial. This...

Computer-intensive time-varying model approach to the systematic risk of Australian industrial stock returns.
June 1, 2004... Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the form of systematic risk of Australian industrial stock returns. We suggest using four stochastic state-space models for the analysis. The stochastic properties of systematic risk are studied by...