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Gerard Ilott 13 July |
Topic: IT governance: A study of forces and conversations. Abstract: This presentation takes issue with the prevailing narratives in the IT governance literature. A recent publication epitomises the problems with our knowledge of IT governance. An extensive survey of IT governance, the publication proceeded to do no more than to construct a typology of concepts, using the CObIT management framework for reference. In the interests of theory development, this approach represents nothing more than rearranging deck chairs. IT governance came to the prominance in 1997, and has since enjoyed a strong presence in academic publications, in fields as diverse as information systems, information technology, accounting and corporate governance. However, in all of that time, there has been no serious theoretical review of the concept, particularly its ontology. What is its form and nature? What does it mean for IT governance to exist? At what point does IT governance end and IT management begin? Before typologies of iT governance mechanisms or components, it is useful to first examine whether they are indeed governance mechanisms and not management mechanisms. This presentation draws upon Foucault's ideas on discourse and power to show how our understanding of IT governance can be strengthened. In doing so, a discourse theory of IT governance offers a cogent point of difference with the concept of management and offers other useful insights into the form and nature of IT governance.
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Ananda Wickramasinghe 13 July |
Strategy Under Attack: Changing Paradigms in Strategic Management It is evident that strategic management has been under atttack in recent times as its knowledge is heavly based on rational and simple step by step processes in planning and implementation of strategies. This paper attempts to taking stock of current developments and explose the changing nature of paradigms in strategic management. Paradigm means understanding the world and a basis for informing action. There are three major paradigms in strategic management: Modernist, Postmodernist and Mew Modernist paradigm. Modernist paradigm evolved with green and industrial revolution, and fueled by Taylorism, and later Ansoff's Corporate strategy (1968) incorporated those ideas with process of analyzing hard data for strategy formation analytical justification depending on techniques of listing, classifying, rating and evaluating them. This paradigm celebrates the notions of privilege of senior managers, the corporate future is programmable: future is knowable and change is controllable, and planning and implementation are separated. Postmodernism came as an alternative approach and salvation to this practice as continuous attack on rational and processual approach to strategy. It promotes diversity and prefers emotional rather than formally rational strategic responses. Peter & Waterman's in search of excellence was a pioneer of this paradigm (importance of shared values and experimentation does not accord with postmodernist view). They pointed out old management is not working and called for empowerment of organizational participants. Some work of Mintzberg and Stacey, who reject the positivist dictation of strategy and management contributed to nurture this paradigm. This paradigm appreciates the creation of the conditions in which the creativity of others will be exercised and supported, and also discovery of strategic direction in periods of chaos through intuition/insight and capacity to learn quickly as the key to survival. New modernist paradigm emerged managers as proactive and purposeful, but not guided by the rational-analytical systems of strategic planning supported by competing for the future (Hamel & Prahalad,1994), industry leadership in envisioning the future Impact of turbulent environments and discontinuities makes organizational responses more difficult (Ansoff & McDonnell, 1990). This paradigm has further enlighten by the concept of crafting an emerging strategy rather than programming a strategy like the modernists, or discovering one, as in postmodernist approaches. Further, managers must nurture and develop strategies and successful change involves learning from experimentation and incrementalism as a purposeful technique of strategy formation and implementation (Quinn). Organizational members can be included in the sense of commitment (Mintzberg) and competencies to become industry leaders (Hamel & Prahalad). Complexity and chaos theory has cast doubt on the certainty about any corporate system towards a preconceived future. The constraints of cultural heritage, which may encourage passivity is a paramount feature of the new modernist paradigm. Resurgent incrementalism and emergent strategy are also embedded in this paradigm. Gaddis (1997) argues that strategy under attack on reactive powerlessness, proactive purposefulness, and creative responsiveness. |
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Lee Yao 27 July |
Ethics education in accounting, medicine and law The purpose of this paper is to offer accounting educators additional perspectives for ethics education by considering teaching approaches from medicine and law. It takes the form of literature review and argument. The paper finds that ethics education in accounting shows deficiencies in terms of code-bound content, less systematic formal training, less informal hands-on training, and less usage of partnering in comparison to ethics education in medicine and law which produces students with higher moral cognitive capabilities and thus provides some recommendations for improvement. PowerPoint Slides: Slides
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17 August |
Scott Richardson, US tourism and hospitality students' perceptions of tourism and hospitality careers. PowerPoint Presentation - Slides Sue Davis, Revisioning activity theory to explore creative practice and the cybernetics of self" Key Words PowerPoint Presentation - slides
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Denis Cryle and Leslie Walker 31 August |
FABIE Grant application workshop - FULL HOUR At the request of staff, the Faculty will be running a grants application workshop as part of the seminar series for those interested in applying to the current University round which closes on the 6 October. A number of senior Faculty researchers have offered to attend this workshop in a mentoring capacity, and Leslie Walker in the office of research will also be available to address budgetary issues. Intending participants are advised to should present briefly on their topics (10 minutes max) with discussion to follow. The Co-ordinators especially welcome young researchers who will require assigned Mentors or Co-Researchers for the purposes of the Seed or Merit schemes.
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Martin Turner 21 September |
Assessment and Intrinsic MotivationBackground Aim This study examines how to use assessment to support accounting students to experience intrinsic motivation. Method Phenomenography, using 10 assessed learning tasks for each student (as well as a focus group and student surveys) to measure their experience of how they learn. Results A key finding is that it is possible to support a large proportion of students to experience intrinsic motivation through use of assessed learning tasks (as part of an integrated set of interventions) that are individualised (different for each student), authentic (involve the real world), include regular formative feedback and generally do not have 'right' answers but involve the use of personal judgement. Conclusions Assessment design can support students to experience change in motivation and thus significantly impact learner outcomes. Video Link: Video presentation please click here link
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Martin Turner 14 September |
Change in Conception of Learning: A Missing Ingredient to Support Deep Learning There is evidence a large proportion of accounting students experience low-level conception of learning when studying accounting at university (Lord and Robertson, 2006), which has a strong relationship to surface learning. This study examines how to support accounting students to experience high-level conception of learning. Phenomenography is used to study the experience of learning of students in a third year undergraduate accounting course. A key finding of this study is that it is possible to support a large proportion of students to experience high-level conception of learning; and such a change is needed to be undertaken for offerings to first year students. Video Link: Video presentation please click here link
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Errol Vieth 28 September |
Dispute Resolution in Australian Universities In an industrial context, dispute resolution in universities is a relatively recent subject. In times past it must have been the case that disputes were not the topic of management action and that the resolving of them was something best left to the protagonists, which probably meant that seniority or some other arguable criterion was the basis for solution to the problem. However, a paradigm shift has occurred in the industrial world in general and now the resolving of disputes is seen to be of such importance that clauses pertaining to such resolution are included in industrial agreements. In addition, policies relating to dispute resolution are significant for university employees outside the areas covered by industrial agreements. But have these changes been successful? In this paper I examine the emergence of dispute resolution mechanisms in Australian universities and their context and detail some of the paradoxes and weaknesses in policy and practice.
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Roshnee Ramsaran-Fowdar 28 September
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Analysing the Potential Market for Hybrid Cars- A Survey of Car Dealers in Mauritius Purpose - The aim of the study was to know how car dealers view the car market in Mauritius and what are their opinions and attitudes towards the introduction of the hybrid car in the economy. Design/methodology/approach - After conducting a thorough literature review, a descriptive research design was adopted to carry out a quantitative study. The methodology used in this study consisted of a survey carried out amongst car dealers in Mauritius. There were 59 authorized car dealers for second hand cars and 14 dealers of brand new cars in Mauritius at the time the study was performed and personal interviews were held with all the car dealers. The data were collected and analysed using SPSS. Findings - The car dealers expressed their optimism regarding the many benefits consumers will gain from hybrid cars given the soaring prices of fuel these days but thought the car was affordable to only a minority of the customer market. They also thought the government and politicians would be the key players to promote any new technology. Originality/value - The contribution of this study is that it surveyed car dealers' views regarding the introduction of the hybrid car in a developing country. It can be a valuable study for Mauritius and other countries which have not yet introduced the new technology locally. Moreover, there are few academic papers on the marketing of the hybrid car and this study thus hopes to contribute to the scanty literature. Powerpoint Presentation: Hybrid Cars
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