UNE Business School Seminars 2015 - 2018 - University of New England (UNE)

2018

Presentation Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Seminar Title
16/01/2018	12.30PM	Incubator Room (former SR1), W42	Professor Alex Frino (University of Wollongong)	Does Social Media Cause Stock Price Volatility? A Re-Examination
16/02/2018	1.00PM	LT2	Dr Russell Wise (CSIRO)	Enabling decision making under uncertain and transformational change
21/03/2018	12:00PM	LT5	Associate Professor Gemma Pérez-López (University of Granada)	Conditional data panel efficiency in the refuse collection service in Spain
27/03/2018	11:00AM	Incubator Room (former SR1), W42	Professor Leopoldo Gutiérrez Gutiérrez	The Role of Human Resource-Related Quality Management Practices in New Product Development: A Dynamic Capability Perspective
6/04/2018	11:00AM	LT3	Professor Tõnis Mets (University of Tartu, Estonia)	Successful knowledge-based startups in Estonia – how to create an ICT company boom
14/05/2018	11:00AM	LT3	Professor Aldara da Silva Cesar (Fluminense Federal University)	What’s a waste! Food Waste in the Age of Plenty
25/05/2018	11:00AM	LT2	Dr Hugo Consciência Silvestre (UNILAB Center for Policy and Public Administration)	Challenges and bottlenecks of Brazilian local governments: Public-Public Partnerships and Intermunicipal cooperation as alternatives arrangements for public services delivery decreasing costs?
1/06/2018	11:00AM	LT2	Dr Masood Azeem (UNEBS, Centre for Agribusiness)	Drivers of innovation and firm performance: a cross country analysis of food manufacturing firms
20/07/2018	11:00AM	LT2	Dr Kanitsorn (Kathy) Terdpaopong (Rangsit University, Pathum Thani, Thailand)	The Stage of Management Accounting Evolution in Asia Pacific
23/07/2018	1:30PM	LT5	Assistant Professor Dr Lin Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)	Energy Efficiency Transition in China
7/09/2018	11:00AM	LT2	Associate Professor Nicholas McGuigan (Monash Business School, Monash University)	Navigating Worlds: A Creative and Exploratory Investigation of the Student's Lifeworld
20/09/2018	2:00PM	LT1	Ms. Kate Lorimer-Ward (Deputy Director General, AgricultureDepartment of Primary Industries New South Wales (DPI-NSW))	2018 Jack Makeham Memorial Lecture - Towards 2050 – Where to for Agriculture? (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
5/10/2018	2:00PM	LT4	Dr Beth Woods (Director-General) and Ms Sarah Goswami (Director of Biosecurity Investment) - (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries - Queensland)	2018 John Dillon Memorial Lecture - The Role of Economics in Policy Advice: An Agriculture Perspective (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
19/10/2018	11:00AM	LT2	Ms Eleanor Colla (Dixson Library, University of New England)	A Librarian’s Perspective of the Research Space: Publishing, Using Metrics, Engagement and Impact
2/11/2018	12:00PM	Red Lab, W42	Dr Belinda Gibbons, Dr Bonnie Amelia Dean and Dr Stephanie Perkiss (University of Wollongong)	Embedding the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals into the business curriculum: The case of WikiRate

2017

Presentation Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Seminar Title
17/01/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Professor Alex Frino (University of Wollongong)	The Relationship between Board Independence and Stock Price Performance: Australian Evidence
30/01/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Mr. Bao H. Nguyen (Australian National University)	Macroeconomic Effects of Energy Price Shocks in China
23/03/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Dr. Nkhanedzeni (Baldwin) Nengovhela (South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF))	Integrating Animal Science and Psychology to Incubate Smallholder Value Chains: Beef and Poultry Case Studies in South Africa (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
30/03/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Professor Anis Chowdhury (Former Director of UN-ESCAP and Chief of UN-DESA)	The Intellectual Contribution of the UN to Economic thought and Development Discourse
10/04/2017	12:00AM	LT3	Mr. Kapil Kulkarni (Pacific Environment Limited)	Valuing the benefit of using odour monitoring and forecast data to optimise sewage treatment works operations: A real options framework (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
21/04/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Associate Professor Julie Fisher (Monash University)	Gender and IT why it is an issue for business
12/05/2017	1:00pm	LT4	Dr. John Dixon (ACIAR)	2017 John Dillon Memorial Lecture - Sustainable Intensification: Future Opportunities and Constraints (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
31/05/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Associate Professor Mariah Ehmke (University of Wyoming)	The Economics of Food Fraud Policy: Determining Consumer Willingness to Pay to Inform Policy (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
21/07/2017	11:00AM	LT3	Professor Oscar Cacho (UNE Business School)	Combining evidence and modelling to contribute to climate adaptation by smallholders (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
24/07/2017	3:00PM	Lewis Lecture Theature	Mr. Lachlan Feggans (Brambles)	MM200 Guest Lecture - CHEP Australia: Creating Business Value through Sustainability
04/08/2017	11:00AM	LT3	Emeritus Professor Amarjit Kaur (UNE Business School)	The Good Housemaid: Indonesian and Filipina Domestic Workers in Malaysia and Singapore
15/09/2017	11:00AM	LT3	PhD(c) Can (Tsan) Wang (UNE Business School)	The impacts of land degradation and land use change on agricultural production and rural income in China (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
06/10/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Dr Scott Harrison (University of Siegen, Germany)	Labour Market Dynamics, Skills Requirements and Research Funding Opportunities in Europe
16/10/2017	2:30PM	LT4	Dr. Scott Hansen	2017 Jack Makeham Memorial Lecture - Mice, Gazelles and Accelerators - Agtech's role in The Farming Game (Joint Seminar with AARES New England Branch)
23/11/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Professor Ellie (Larelle) Chapple (Queensland University of Technology)	Company Secretaries, Board Practices and Financial Reporting
5/12/2017	11:00AM	LT2	Dr Keith Pond (Loughborough University)	Student engagement with Lecture Capture: Providing evidence for research informed policy
6/12/2017	10:00AM	SMART Region Incubator	Centre for Agribusiness	Brands and lands, waste and waists, farms and forks, glasshouses and throwing stones: work at the Centre for Agribusiness 2017-18

2017 AARES New England Branch Seminars 2017

Presentation Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Seminar Title
27/04/2017	12:00PM	LT3	Dr. David Godden	Economics of Collections
4/05/2017	1:00PM	LT3	Emeritus Professor Euan Fleming	Reducing the costs of food waste: An economic assessment of alternative approaches
14/06/2017	1:00PM	LT2	Dr Masood Azeem	Do Social Protection Transfers Reduce Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Pakistan? Household Level Evidence from Punjab
21/06/2017	1:00PM	LT2	Dr Susie Hester	What about the incentive properties of biosecurity inspection rules?
28/06/2017	1:00PM	LT5	Franklin Soriano	Drivers and Dynamics of Innovation in Small Business Food Industry in Australia

2016

Presentation Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Seminar Title
11/02/2016	12:00PM	LT2	Professor Martin Odening - Humboldt University, Berlin	Abandonment of Milk Production Under Uncertainty and Inefficiency
26/02/2016	12:00PM	LT5	Assistant Professor Sanjit Kumar Roy - University of Western Australia	Fairness in Service Relationships
04/03/2016	12:15PM	LT2	Associate Professor Julia Henker - Bond University	The Aggregate Impacts of Tournament Incentives in Experimental Asset Markets
11/03/2016	12:15PM	LT2	Professor Anneke Fitzgerald - Griffith University	From Theory to Practice: The Road to a New Normal
29/04/2016	12:15PM	LT2	Professor Harry Clarke - University of Melbourne	Climate Policy Decisions under Uncertainty: Regrets and Policy Failures
01/07/2016	2:00PM	LT2	Associate Professor Fernanda De Paiva Duarte	Rekindling the Sociological Imagination to Understand Challenges Facing Academics from an Australian Business School
22/07/2016	12:00PM	LT2	Dr Katrina Davis	Scale Heterogeneity and its Implications for Discrete Choice Analysis - or "Who are you Calling 'Normal' Anyway?"
12/08/2016	11:00AM	LT2	Associate Professor Christopher Collet	Training Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs: One Person's Journey
17/08/2016	12:00PM	LT2	Professor Nicole Ballinger and Mr Thomas Foulke	An Overview of Wyoming Agriculture and Natural Resources
02/09/2016	11:00AM	LT2	Associate Professor Ravi Pappu	How Does Brand Innovativeness Affect Brand Loyalty?
07/09/2016	11:00AM	LT1	Dr Johannes Simons	Implementing Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in Fruit and Vegetable Chains in Germany
09/09/2016	11:00AM	LT2	Professor Gerhard Schiefer	Food Security and Sustainability: A Challenge for Food Sector and Food Chain Cooperation
12/09/2016	1:00PM	LT1	Professor David Hughes	Future Food, Real Retail, Going Global and Profit Prizes
16/09/2016	11:00AM	LT2	Dr K Balasubramanian	Win-Win Model for Small Farmers, Business and Financial Institutions: Lifelong Learning for Farmers (L3F) and its Relevance to the Pacific
14/10/2016	11:00AM	LT3	Dr. Natasja Steenkamp	Top 10 South African Companies’ Disclosure of Integrated Thinking, Materiality Determination Process and Material Issues in Integrated Reports
27/10/2016	11:00AM	LT2	Professor Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti	CSR and Empire Building: Evidence based on Acquisitiveness of US Firms
04/11/2016	11:00AM	LT2	Dr Helena Liu	Leadership for a White Gaze: Strategic Self-Orientalism among Chinese Australians

2015

Presentation Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Seminar Title
12/01/2015	11:00AM	LT3	Professor Alex Frino	"CEO Narcissism and Earnings Management "
6/03/2015	12:30PM	LT5	Professor Robert Faff	"Pitching Research"
19/03/2015	3:00PM	LT1	Dr. Ray Collins	"Value in Collaboration: Opportunities for Closer Links between Schools of Business and Schools of Agriculture"
20/03/2015	12:30PM	LT5	Dr. Michael Kortt	"Population size, density and urban government expenditure: Evidence from the Sydney metropolitan area"
27/03/2015	2:00PM	LT5	Professor Lin Crase and Dr. Bethany Cooper	"Understanding and Measuring the Amenity and Ecological Value of Urban Waterways"
8/04/2015	1:00PM	LT5	Professor Rui Marques	"Sustainability of Urban Water Services: Scorecards and Roadmaps"
8/05/2015	12:00PM	LT5	Professor Gabriel Donleavy	“The General Theory of Accounting Project - A Progress Report"
15/05/2015	12:00PM	LT5	Professor John Rice	"The Determinants of CEO Support for Board Decisions in the Not-for-profit Context"
29/05/2015	1:00PM	LT5	Professor Oscar Cacho	"Designing Effective Policies for Climate-Smart Agriculture by Combining Evidence and Modelling"
24/07/2015	10:30AM	LT5	Dr. Shawn Leu	"Financial Integration in Asia"
7/08/2015	10:30AM	LT5	Professor Balasingham Balachandran	"Powerful CEO and Stock Price Crash Risk"
10/09/2015	2:00PM	LT3	Professor Abbas Valadkhani	"Self-Exciting Effects of House Prices on Unit Prices in Australian Capital Cities"
11/09/2015	1:00PM	LT4	Professor Christopher O'Donnell	"John Dillon Memorial Lecture - Is Productivity Growth Bad?"
18/09/2015	10:30AM	LT5	Mr Kodjo Kondo	"Count Model Selection and Post-Estimation to Evaluate Composite Flour Technology Adoption in Senegal (West Africa)"
2/10/2015	10:30AM	LT5	Mr Jim McFarlane	"Is Technological Unemployment in Australia a Reason for Concern?"
12/10/2015	12:00PM	LT5	Professor Steve Hall	"Communities, the Mining Industry and Government – The Need to Find Common Ground"
6/11/2015	12:00PM	LT2	Associate Professor George Battese	"Jack Makeham Memorial Lecture - Factors Influencing the Productivity and Efficiency of Wheat Farmers in Punjab, Pakistan"
19/11/2015	12:00PM	LT2	Professor Arye L. Hillman	“Protecting ideology: Belief in the benevolence of government and the challenge of politically assigned rents”
4/12/2015	12:00PM	LT2	Professor Garry Griffith	"Developing New Value Chains for Small-Scale and Emerging Cattle Farmers in South Africa"
11/12/2015	11:00AM	LT2	Professor Jacques Trienekens	“Organisational Innovation in Agriculture and Food Chains: Towards Sustainable and Market Orientated Business Networks”

UNE Business School Seminars 2015 - 2018

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