Professor Brian Gibson
Professor, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy 2004, Master of Commerce 1989, Master of Business Administration 1980
Contact
| Email: | bgibson4@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W42 Room 211 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2838 (or +61 2 6773 2838 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3148 |
Affiliations
CPA AustraliaSmall Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand / International Council for Small Business (Wilford White Fellow)
Areas of Teaching
Teaching PhilosophyI am committed to research and the exchange of research knowledge as the substantial foundation of an academic’s ability to deliver quality teaching. Encouraging students to approach their studies with open and inquiring minds requires a similar mindset on the part of the teacher. I take very seriously my responsibilities to transfer discipline knowledge, and a willingness to question the foundation of that knowledge, through the classroom. In addition, my teaching obligations have always involved an approach that facilitates meeting the changing expectations of students in respect of delivery and assessment.
Research interests
Research Focus
As shown in the preceding publications’ list, my research has a multi-disciplinary breadth with an international orientation. With a focus on privately held firms and entrepreneurship, I have generated work within the theoretical frameworks of economic, accounting, finance and management disciplines and have published papers with both an empirical and conceptual focus. I have also successfully used a variety of research methods ranging from qualitative case studies to an array of multivariate statistical analysis methods.
Over time my research has been focused on different issues and the following provides an approximate chronological categorisation of those issues:
International Study of Collegiate Entrepreneurship.
This is the latest research project in which I have an involvement. It started in 2005 when I was approached to be the lead Australian researcher. It is an international study addressing student attitudes and intentions relating to entrepreneurship. The study is being led by a research team at St Gallen University, Switzerland and involves principal researchers in twelve other countries. Web based questionnaire development and web site hosting has been provided by sponsorship acquired by the lead researchers so it has been a low cost project to date. Difficulties in implementation restricted the Australian data collection and potential publication for the first phase in 2006 but plans are well advanced for participation in phase 2 in 2007/2008.
Quasi-equity and Accounting Reports.
This continuing project started in 2003 as a spin off from the financial structure research described below. It involves an exploration of the existence of quasi-debt and quasi-equity in small enterprises and the consequences of the lack of a clear distinction between debt and equity for the preparation of financial reports of such firms. This is a project conceived and managed personally but it also involved, as research assistants, graduate students from the University of Newcastle. I received a research grant of $5,000 from CPA Australia in 2003 and a University of Newcastle project grant of $11,860 in 2005 to fund data collection. Publications related to this project are J21, C41, C40 and P25. I have recently (2007) received a Murdoch REGS grant of $10,111 to extend this project in cooperation with colleagues in the accounting discipline within the Murdoch Business School.
Forecast Accuracy and Accounting Activity in Privately Held Firms.
This is another continuing project that started in 2003, on this occasion as a spin off of the planning and performance research discussed below. My co-researcher is Dr. Gavin Cassar from Wharton Business School (initially an honours student and then a colleague at the University of Newcastle before completing an accounting PhD at Berkeley). The project uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Business Longitudinal Study to assess the relationship between accounting activity (budgets and internal accounting reports) and forecast accuracy in privately held firms. Publications associated with this research are J25, J24, C32 and C30.
Community Entrepreneurship.
Also started in 2003 and ongoing, this project provides an examination of community engagement in entrepreneurial economic activity (including indigenous, ethnic, rural and disadvantaged rural communities). My contribution to date has been primarily conceptual but ongoing discussions are being held with Professor Robert Anderson of the University of Regina, Canada and Professor Michael Christie of Murdoch University about extending research from Canada and other countries into an Australian context. A research project for which an $8,389 project grant had been approved in 2005 did not eventuate because both Dr Dianne Wingham and I left the University of Newcastle before the funds could be acquitted. I was successful in gaining a visiting researcher grant of $5,332 to enable Professor Anderson to visit in 2005 and a $3,000 conference grant to organise the first CommEnt conference to coincide with his visit in Newcastle. Related publications are BP4, J19, C39, C31 and C29.
Financial Structures in Small Firms.
This continuing project started in 2000. It establishes the nature of a range of differences in the financial structures of privately held firms based on their financing choices. It commenced with an analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Business Longitudinal Study and a comparative analysis of a database on small firm finance made available by the US Federal Reserve Board. It developed into the basis of my PhD thesis, the results of which I am now reducing into a publishable journal article (possibly the Journal of Banking and Finance or Financial Management which have shown some interest in papers dealing with the financing of closely held firms). While not directly related, my experience in this area enabled me to gain, in 2005, an $11,500 research consultancy on financial institution relationships with small firms for CPA Australia. Publications already associated with this research are J16, C33, C28, C27, C26, C25, C22 and P27.
Planning and Performance in Small Firms.
My concern with planning and performance issues in small firms commenced around 1994 as an extension of my interpretive framework research. It gained momentum in 1999 when, with Gavin Cassar (then a colleague at the University of Newcastle and now an accounting professor at Wharton Business School), I began to explore planning and performance relationships empirically. This was possible using data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Business Longitudinal Study (collected by the ABS over 4 years at a cost in excess of $4,000,000). We have occasionally extended the focus to other management activities (such as strategic alliances) and have participated in some of the research with Dr Dianne Wingham (of Rowan University, New Jersey and then the University of Newcastle). Part of the research also involved an honours research student, Jan Nowlan. Publications include J22, J17, J14, C43, C42, C38, C37, C23, C19, C18, C17 and C10.
Strategic Alliances.
This project commenced in 1996 when, with support of a University of Newcastle research grant of $5,000, I collected NSW comparative data for a project being coordinated by Professor Mark Weaver (then of the University of Alabama). The project identified the use of business networks by small firms, a comparison of western and eastern Australian surveys, and integration into international comparisons. Relevant publications are J18, J13, C24 and C13.
Tax Compliance and Accounting Information Use in Small Firms.
This project started in 1992 when Associate professor Ian Wallschutzky (University of Newcastle) and I received a $100,000 research consultancy from the Australian Taxation Office to conduct a case study based analysis of issues associated with taxation compliance by small firms. We received a follow up consultancy of $5,000 from CPA Australia in 1999 to assess tax reform issues from a small firm perspective. Publications related to this tax compliance research are J12, J11, J10, C8, C7, P13 and P2.
As an adjunct to the compliance project, we were able to convince the funding authority to allow us to include discussion in the case study interviews related to the use of accounting information by small firms. Publications associated with this aspect of the research are J9, C6 and C5.
Interpretive (Austrian) Economic Research Framework.
This project commenced in 1990 and represented a series of papers that presented normative arguments for a research framework in small firm and entrepreneurship that focused on an experiential alertness rather than a rational structured search as the basis of economic decision making. The focus of the papers was initially financial management in small firms but was then extended to management accounting research, entrepreneurship education, and marketing research. Publications on this topic are J8, J6, C21, C12, C11, C9, C4, C3 and C2.
Accounting, Accountants and Small Business.
This project started in 1987 as my Masters of Commerce thesis. It analysed small firm owners’ attitudes to their relationship with practicing accountants. The data collection was supported by a CPA Australia grant of $2,000. Related publications are J4, J3, J2 and C1.
Other Research
I have also been involved in a number of shorter, usually collaborative, projects. These include a number of papers addressing theory development in small firms (see publications J20, J7, C35, C15, C14 and P24 plus a number of workshop type presentations on global developments in SME research). I have recently concluded a joint project on serial entrepreneurship with Professor Michael Schaper and Dr Gary Mankelow (see publications J23 and C36). Professor Scott Holmes and I received in 2001 an $8,500 research consultancy from the Small Business Coalition to analyse the literature and clarify inconsistencies in respect of the definition of small business (publication P20). In 1999 I, along with Associate Professor Jim Psaros, conducted an analysis of the use of e-commerce by small firms (publications J15 and C20). I also have a publication in 1990 on variance analysis (J5).
Publications
Book ChaptersBC2. Chapter 13 – Capital Structure (of 15 chapters) in:
Beal, Diana and Goyen, Michelle, (2005) Introducing Corporate Finance John Wiley and Sons, Brisbane.
BC1. Chapter 3 - Finance Theory and Small Enterprise; Chapter 4 - Theoretical Issues in Small Enterprise Financial Management; and, Chapter 6 - Financial Decision Influences And shared overall content and structure planning of the 10 Chapters in: Holmes, S., Hutchinson, P., Forsaith, D., Gibson, B., and McMahon, R. (2003), Small Enterprise Finance, John Wiley and Sons, Brisbane.
Papers Published in Books
BP4. Indigenous Economic Development: A Tale of Two Wineries (with R. Anderson, D. Wingham, and R. Giberson), in Campbell, G (editor), The Golden Grape-Wine, Society and Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Wine Industry, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, In Press (revised version of paper in Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 11, 2, 2003, 49-62).BP3. Best Practice Management Activities and Forecast Accuracy (with G. Cassar), in Gillin, L M et al. (editors), Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2004, Swinburne Press, 2004, 433-446 (reprint of paper presented at Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2004, AGSE-Babson, Melbourne, February 2004).
BP2. Methodological Individualism as the Economic Core of the Small Firm Marketing Interface, in Hills, Gerald E, Hansen, David J, and Merrilees, Bill (editors), Research at the Marketing/Entrepreneurship Interface, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002, 2-14 (reprint of paper initially presented at the UIC/AMA Research Symposia on Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Newcastle, Australia, June 2000).
BP1. Small Business Cost of Tax Compliance, (with I.G. Wallschutzky), in James, Simon (editor), Taxation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, Routledge, London, 2002, 161-188 (reprint of paper in Australian Tax Forum, 10, 4, 1993, 511-543).
Refereed Journals
J25. Budgets, Internal Reports and Manager Forecast Accuracy, (with G. Cassar), Contemporary Accounting Research, (forthcoming)
J24. Forecast Rationality in Small Firms, (with G Cassar), Journal of Small Business Management, 45, 3, 2007, 283-302.
J23. Are Serial Entrepreneurs Different? An Examination of Australian Microfirms, (with M Schaper and G Mankelow), Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 20, 1, 2007, 15-24.
J22. Longitudinal Analysis Of Relationships Between Planning And Performance In Small Firms, (with Gavin Cassar), Small Business Economics, 25, 3, 2005, 207-222.
J21. Quasi-debt and Quasi-equity in the Financial Statements of Small Firms, (with Phillip McClellend and Gregory Phillip), Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 12, 2, 2004, 72-78.
J20. From What We Know to How We Use It: Five Principles for Turning Entrepreneurship Research into Practitioner Action Guidelines, (with K Hindle and R B Anderson), Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 12, 1, 2004, 93-97.
J19. Indigenous Economic Development: A Tale of Two Wineries, (with R B Anderson, D W Wingham and R J Giberson), Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 11, 2, 2003, 49-62.
J18. Being Uncertain: The Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Orientation And Environmental Uncertainty, (with K M Weaver, P H. Dickson and A Turner), The Journal Of Enterprising Culture, 10, 2, 2002, 87-105.
J17. Planning Behaviour Associations In Small Firms, (with G Cassar), Journal of Small Business Management, 40, 3, 2002, 171-186.
J16. Financial Structure Clusters in Australian Small Firms, Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 10, 1, 2002, 59-74.
J15. Electronic Commerce and Australian Small Firms, (with J Psaros), Practitioners Notes, Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 7, 2, 1999, 87-92.
J14. Reappraising The Link Between ‘Best Practice’ and Performance in Small Firms: A Research Note, Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 5, 2, 1997, 61-67.
J13. Strategic Alliance Use, Firm Size, Outcome Satisfaction, and Partner Behaviours, (with K M Weaver and P H Dickson), Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 5, 1, 1997, 3-15.
J12. Taxing Small Business, (with IG Wallschutzky), Australian Accountant, March 1994, 14-22.
J11. Small Business Cost of Tax Compliance, (with I.G. Wallschutzky), Australian Tax Forum, 10, 4, 1993, 511-543.
J10. How Can Revenue Authorities Help Small Business? (with I.G. Wallschutzky), APTIRC Bulletin, Journal of the Asian-Pacific Tax and Investment Research Centre, 11, 11/12, 1993, 458-465.
J9. The Use of Accounting Information in Decision Making in Small Firms: A Case Study Based Review, (with I. G. Wallschutzky), Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 2, 1/2, 1993, 52-60.
J8. The Alternative to Assuming ‘Rational’ Use of Financial Information Within Small Firms, The Journal of Small Business Finance, 2, 2, 1993, 163-174.
J7. Extending the Economic Framework of Small Enterprise and Entrepreneur Based Research, Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ, 1, 1, 1992, 7-12 [Guest Editorial].
J6. Financial Information for Decision Making: An Alternative Small Firm Perspective, The Journal of Small Business Finance, 1, 3, 1992, 221-232.
J5. Determining Meaningful Sales Relational (Mix) Variances, Accounting and Business Research, 21, 81, 1990.
J4. Accounting for Taste, Charter, June, 1990.
J3. Servicing Small Business: An Accountant's Perspective, Accounting Forum, September 1988.
J2. Differential Reporting for Small Business Entities, The Chartered Accountant in Australia, September, 1987.
J1. Employee Communication: Trade Union Attitudes, (with R.Craig), Work and People, 6, 2, 1980.
Publication Quality
Contemporary Accounting Research (J25) is internationally ranked in the top 5 accounting journals. Small Business Economics (J22) and the Journal of Small Business Management (J17 and J24) are both ranked in the top five leading journals in the small business and entrepreneurship area. Small Enterprise Research: The Journal of SEAANZ (nine publications) is the only Australian based journal focusing on small business and entrepreneurship issues.
Conference Paper Publications and Presentations
C43. Relationships Between Innovative Activity and Performance in Small Firms, 52nd ICSB World Conference, Turku, Finland, June 2007
C42. Determining Indicators Of Performance In Small Firms, 4th AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Brisbane, February 2007.
C41. Accounting Standards and Small Firm Debt and Equity: An International Research Agenda, Rencontre de St-Gall 2006, Switzerland, September 2006.
C40. Owner Wealth – The Hidden Alternative to Venture Capital and Debt, 51st ICSB World Conference, Melbourne, Australia, June 2006.C39. Community Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research, Second Annual CommEnt Research Symposium, Hanmer Springs, New Zealand, February, 2006.
C38. Relationships Between Network Activity And Performance In Small Firms, (with D Wingham and G Cassar), Managing in a Global Economy, Conference of the Eastern Academy of Management, Cape Town South Africa, June 2005.
C37. The Ratio Dependence Problem in Financial Ratio Analysis for Small Firms: An Australian Perspective, (with J Nowlan) 50th ICSB World Conference, Washington, USA, June 2005.
C36. Serial Entrepreneurship: An Exploratory Analysis of Australian Firms, (with M Schaper and G Mankelow) 50th ICSB World Conference, Washington, USA, June 2005.
C35. The Entrepreneurial ‘Discipline’, (with D Wingham), Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2005, AGSE, Melbourne, February 2005.
C34. The Value of Intangibles in Privately Held Firms, Proceedings of the Rencontre de St-Gall 2004, Switzerland, September 2004.
C33. The Importance of Short Term Financing Sources in Small Firms, Proceedings of the 49th ICSB World Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2004.
C32. Best Practice Management Activities and Forecast Accuracy, (with G. Cassar), Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2004, AGSE-Babson, Melbourne, February 2004.
C31. The Indigenous Wine Industry: A Meeting Place for Traditional and 21st Century Small Business, (with D, Wingham, R. Anderson, and R. Giberson), 18th Annual USASBE National Conference Proceedings, Dallas, January 2004.
C30. Small Firms’ Rationality Forecasts, (with G Cassar), Proceedings of the 48th ICSB World Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 2003.
C29. Wine as a Small Business: A Cross Regional Preliminary Study of Cellar Door Sales Issues, (with D. Wingham), 17th Annual USASBE National Conference Proceedings, Hilton Head, January, 2003.
C28. An Exploratory Analysis of Patterns of Movement in the Financial Structure of Australian Small Firms, Proceedings of the Rencontre de St-Gall 2002, Switzerland, September 2002.
C27. An International Comparison of Small Firm Financial Structure, Proceedings of the 47th ICSB World Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2002.
C26. A Cluster Analysis Approach to Financial Structure in Small Firms in the United States, 16th Annual USASBE National Conference Proceedings, Reno, January 2002.
C25. Financial Structure in Australian Small Firms, Proceedings of the SEAANZ Annual Conference 2001, Wellington, NZ, September 2001.
C24. Local Differences Influencing Outcome Satisfaction With Strategic Alliances In Australian Regional Firms, (with D Wingham), Proceedings of the 46th ICSB World Conference, Taipei, PROC, June 2001.
C23. Longitudinal Analysis of Relationships between Planning and Performance in Small Australian Firms, (with G Cassar and D Wingham), Second Annual USASBE/SBIDA Joint National Conference Proceedings, Orlando, Fl, USA, February 2001.
C22. Understanding Small Enterprise Debt and Equity Structure, CCSBE – CCPME 2000 Conference, Ottawa, Canada, November 2000.
C21. Methodological Individualism as the Economic Core of the Small Firm Marketing Interface, UIC/AMA Research Symposia on Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Newcastle, June 2000.
C20. Computer and Electronic Commerce Use in Australian Small Firms, (with J Psaros), in Aisbett J and Gibbon G [editors], Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Managing Enterprises, Newcastle, NSW, November 1999.
C19. Performance Relationships in Australian Small Firms, (with G Cassar), Proceedings of the 44th ICSB World Conference, Naples, Italy, June 1999.
C18. A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Planning and Performance in Australian Small Firms, (with G Cassar), Babson College – Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Columbia, SC, USA, May 1999.
C17. Planning Frequency in Australian Small Firms, (with G Cassar), Small Business Smart Business: Proceedings of the SEAANZ Annual Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, May 1999.
C16. Financing – Should Small Firms Receive Financing Support? Proceedings 25th International Small Business Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 1998.
C15. The Continuing Importance of SME Research, Proceedings of the SEAANZ Annual Conference, Burnie, Tasmania, September 1998.
C14. Global Developments in SME Research, in Havenga, K and Ahwireng-Obeng, F [editors], Entrepreneurship at the Threshold of the 21st Century: Proceedings of the ABSA and SAESBA 11th Annual Conference, Sun City, South Africa, May, 1998.
C13. Attitudes to Strategic Alliances: International Comparisons with a NSW Regional Centre, (with K M Weaver and P H Dickson), in Gibson B., Newby, R., and Morris, R. [editors], Changing Business Relationships - Small Business Growth and Other Challenges: Proceedings of the Joint SEAANZ and IIE Small Enterprise Conference 1996, IIE, The University of Newcastle, 1996.
C12. Methodological Individualism As The Economic Core of Small Firm Financial Management, The Seventh Annual International Research Symposium on Small Business Finance, Florida State University, Tallahassee, April 1995.
C11. Reconsidering the Economic Framework for Small Enterprise and Entrepreneur Based Research and Education, in Monroy, T, G., Reichert, J and Hoy, F. [eds.], The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship Education, Volume III, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference, Boulder, USA, January, 1995.
C10. A Challenge to Mainstream Research Through Alternative Interpretations of the Link Between Planning and Performance in Small Firms, ICSB 39th Annual World Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 1994.
C9. Putting ‘Neo-Austrian’ Economic Concepts in Place of the Orthodox Assumptions Underlying Extant Management Accounting Practice, EAISM Workshop on Accounting and Economics, Graz, Austria, June, 1994.
C8. A Case Study Exploration of Taxation Compliance Issues in Small Business, (with I.G. Wallschutzky), Taxpayer Compliance Research in Australia: The State of Play, The 1993 Australian Taxation Office Research Conference, Canberra, December 1993.
C7. Taxation Compliance: Issues Identified in Small Business Case Studies, (with I. G. Wallschutzky), in Renfrew, K.M., Gibson, B., Hutchinson, P.J. and Holmes, K.S. [editors], Fostering Small Enterprise Growth: Proceedings of the Joint SEAANZ and IIE National Small Enterprise Conference 1993, IIE, The University of Newcastle.
C6. A Case Study Based Review of the Use of Accounting Information in Decision Making in Small Firms, The Fifth Annual Small Firm Financial Research Symposium, California State University, Long Beach, California, April 1993.
C5. The Use of Accountants and Accounting Information in Small Firms: A Multiple Case Study Review, (with I. G. Wallschutzky), in Renfrew, K.M. and Hutchinson, P.J. [editors], Australasian Small Enterprise Research: Selected Proceedings from the SEAANZ and Institute of Industrial Economics National Small Enterprise Conference 1992, IIE, The University of Newcastle.
C4. The Alternative to Assuming ‘Rational’ Use of Financial Information Within Small Firms, Fourth Annual International Research Symposium on Small Firm Finance, Waco, Texas, April 1992 [Received Distinguished Paper Award].
C3. Interpreting Financial Information Needs for Decision Making in Small Organisations, in Bensch, D. and Mugler, J. (editors), Small Business and Partnership: Proceedings of the 36th ICSB World Conference, Department of Small Business Management, University of Economics, Vienna, June, 1991, [Received Award of Excellence].
C2. An Alternative Economic Framework for Assessing Accounting Information Needs in Small Firms, in Renfrew, K.M. and McCosker, C. (editors), The Growing Small Business: Proceedings of the Fifth National Small Business Conference, Institute of Industrial Economics, The University of Newcastle, September, 1990.
C1. Practising Accountants as Advisers to Small Business: A Survey of Australian Accountants, ICSB 34th Annual World Conference, Quebec City, Canada, June 1989.
Other Publications Conference And Symposia Presentations (Non Refereed Journals, Commissioned Reports and External Working Papers)
P27. Financial Institutions Relationship Research, Commissioned Discussion Paper for CPA Australia, July, 2005.
P26. A Research Framework for Community Entrepreneurship, Workshop panellist (with D Wingham and R Anderson), 19th Annual USASBE National Conference, Indian Wells, January 2005.
P25. Quasi-Debt and Quasi-Equity in the Financial Statements of Small Firms, Research Supported Discussion Paper for CPA Australia, December, 2004.
P24. Small Business and Entrepreneurship Policy in Australia, Commissioned Discussion Paper for the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand, May, 2004.
P23. Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References Committee, Small Business Employment, August 2002, Sydney.
P22. Small Firm Financial Structure in the United States, Poster presentation, Babson College – Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Boulder, CO, USA, June 2002.
P21. A Global Perspective on SME Research, Workshop, Faculty of Business, Inter American University, San German Campus, April 2002.
P20. Definition of Small Business, (with Scott Holmes), Commissioned Report prepared for the Small Business Coalition, Australia, April 2001.
P19. Structural Equation Modeling In SME Research, PC-ABS Workshop on BLS Research, Melbourne, 20th June 2000.
P18. Benefits of International SME Support Networks, Key note presentation, ICSB-ROC Conference, Taipei, 18 Feb 2000.
P17. The International SME Support Environment, Panel Presentation, Entrepreneurship Summit, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2000.
P16. Emerging Issues in International SME Research, Graduate School of Small Business, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, January 2000.
P15. Australian SME E-Commerce, Panel Presentation - Small Business Information on Line, 26th International Small Business Congress, Toronto, Canada, October 1999.
P14. Global Developments in SME Research, International Issues for Small Business Development Seminar, Luton Business School, Putteridge Bury, England, June 1999.
P13. Tax Reform Issues for Small Business, (with I G Wallschutzky), A Discussion Paper prepared for the Australian Society of CPA's, February 1999.
P12. SME Support Networks, Invited Symposium Presentation, Small & Medium Enterprise Administration (SMEA), Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taipei, Republic of China, January 1999.
P11. Modelling The Relationship Between Firm And Industry Attributes Entrepreneurial Orientations And Environmental Uncertainty: A Multi-Country SME-Based Analysis, Workshop panellist (with K M Weaver and P H Dickson), 43rd ICSB World Conference, Singapore, June, 1998.
P10. The Role of Small Firms at the End of the Millenium, Invited Presentation at Symposium, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy, November, 1997.
P9. SME-Based Alliance Use: A Three Country Comparison of Environmental Determinants and Individual Level Moderators, Workshop panellist (with K M Weaver and P H Dickson), ICSB 42nd World Conference, San Francisco, USA, June 1997.
P8. Multi-Country, Multi-Industry Entrepreneurship Research, Workshop panellist (chaired by K M Weaver), ICSB 42nd World Conference, San Francisco, USA, June 1997.
P7. An Alternative Economic Framework for Management Accounting, Workshop, School of Accountancy, University of Alabama, Al., USA, May 1997.
P6. Key Issues in Developing a Multi Country Research Agenda: The Case of Strategic Alliances – A Synergistic Choice for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises, Workshop co-chair with K M Weaver, ICSB 41st World Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1996.
P5. Redefining the Micro Economic Framework for Small Enterprise Research, Workshop Chair, USASBE Annual Conference, Atlanta, USA, January 1996.
P4. New Issues in the Burden of Compliance on SME's, Workshop Chair, USASBE Annual Conference, Boulder, USA, January 1995.
P3. Maintaining Quality in Small Firm Case Study Research, Workshop Chair, ICSB 38th Annual World Conference, Las Vegas, USA, June 1993.
P2. Small Business Cost of Compliance Project, (with I G Wallschutzky), Commissioned report to the Australian Taxation Office, May 1992.
P1. A Different Perspective For Evaluating Financial Information Needs in Small Firms, Department of Accounting and Financial Management Working Paper 91/06, University of Essex, May, 1991