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Hovey, Delia. "Idiosyncratic Risk and Corporate Governance: An Empirical Analysis of Australian Listed Firms." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366089.

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The primary focus of this study is on the relationship between idiosyncratic risk and corporate governance, and the first research question is based on this. A secondary focus of the study is on the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance, and the second research question is based on this. Then, a potential corporate governance-to-idiosyncratic volatility-to-firm performance link is considered. In this study, corporate governance is approached in the context of internal governance controls, based on board structure and composition, and also ownership and ownership stru

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Harijono, 1970. "Capital structure decisions of Australian family controlled firms." Monash University, Dept. of Accounting and Finance, 2005. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5133.

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Rankine, Tim. "Building a theory about change in Australian software firms." Thesis, View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/37753.

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This thesis describes the development of a body of theory explaining why the principals of Australian software firms have difficulty in changing the organizational structures of their businesses. The need for change is predicated on the view that availability of capital is an essential prerequisite for sustainable growth in Australian software firms and that firm principals, in the main, have not implemented organizational structures preferred by Australian investors. A grounded theory approach is used, drawing upon personal knowledge of the software industry using sense making and self ethnog

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Rankine, Tim. "Building a theory about change in Australian software firms." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/37753.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2008.<br>A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Business, School of Management, in partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references.

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Sun, Lan. "An investigation of earnings management practices in Australian firms." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2113.

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Earnings management is an area in which managers are able to exercise discretion over financial reporting to achieve various objectives. Researchers have been investigating the pervasiveness of earnings management and incentives that induce earnings management. However, the evidence is mixed and studies of using Australian data are scarce. This thesis is an empirical investigation of earnings management in the Australian context addressing if and why Australian firms engage in earnings management.Based on a sample covering all ASX listed firms during the period of 2000 to 2006, this study exam

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Tabart-Gay, Julie, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Firms as adaptive organizations: The case of Australian trading banks." Deakin University. School of Accounting and Finance, 1993. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050902.142733.

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The conventional accounting notion of going concern that a firm will continue its business operations in the same manner indefinitely has underpinned accounting practice for over one hundred years. This idea has provided a rationale for spreading costs over accounting periods and for deferring costs as assets in balance sheets. An alternative idea that is widely regarded as reliable in the literatures of economics and deliberate action is that firms continually adapt to changes in market and economic conditions. That is economic behaviour. The implications of that view of a firm for acco

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Wong, Kathryn L. "The activities of securities firms in the Australian equities market." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27999.

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This dissertation investigates the research and investment banking activities of securities firms in the context of the Australian equities market. It comprises of three related essays that examine the stock recommendations of securities firms' research analysts and the aftermarket behaviour of securities firms that assist in raising capital for companies via an initial public offering (IPO). The fust essay focuses on the market's general reaction to research analysts' recommendations. The buy and sell-type recommendations of research analysts are observed to significantly impact prices and

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Gacic, Dragic. "The choice of international entry mode : an empirical investigation of Australian firms." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36334/1/36334_Gacic_1998.pdf.

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Over the last few years, considerable publicity has been generated about the need for increasing the international expansion of Australian firms. The existing literature about foreign activities of Australian firms is mainly descriptive in its scope and therefore a number of aspects have remained empirically unexplored. To shed light on this issue, this study empirically examines the international entry mode behaviour of Australian manufacturing firms. In particular, the research problem addressed in this paper is: RP: How do Australian firms make selection among entry mode alternatives

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Hetterich, Elisabeth Anna Maria. "Promotion and succession management and associated retention issues in Australian law firms." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/54735/1/Elisabeth_Hetterich_Thesis.pdf.

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The focus of this research was promotion and succession management in Australian law firms. Two staff retention issues currently faced by the Australian legal industry were identified as suggesting possible failures in this area: 1) Practitioners are leaving law firms early in their careers, 2) Female representation is disproportionally low at partnership level. The research described current Australian law firm promotion and succession practices and then explained their possible relevance to the two retention issues. The overall aim of the research was to uncover key findings and p

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Van, Ruth Frances. "The Internationalisation of Australian firms : how networks help bridge the psychic distance between a firm and a market /." Connect to thesis, 2008. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/4285.

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This research explores the internationalisation of Australian firms in Latin America. Latin America attracts seven per cent of worldwide inward foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks but accounts for less than one per cent of Australian FDI stocks abroad. This discrepancy led me to ask why and how some Australian firms have entered the region when most of those that have gone abroad went elsewhere. Drawing on constructs from the Uppsala model and the network perspective of internationalisation I created an integrated research framework that encompassed both the internal and the external driver

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Heniro, Joshua. "Mandatory accounting compliance by Australian mineral resources firms: the affect of auditor independence and specialisation." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/830.

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The two objectives of this thesis are to investigate the magnitude of compliance with AASB 6 Exploration for and Evaluation of Mineral Resources and AASB 136 Impairment of Assets; and to examine the influence of audit quality on the compliance levels utilising data from 305 Australian mineral resources public listed firms. Consistent with agency theory auditor independence and audit specialisation are considered pivotal determinants of the magnitude of a disclosure compliance index that comprises 62 mandatory disclosure items.Findings reveal there is 76% compliance rate with both AASB 6 and AA

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Taylor, Grantley J. "Determinants of financial instrument disclosure patterns of Australian listed resource firms pre- and post-IFRS adoption." Thesis, Curtin University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/516.

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This thesis investigates the pattern of Financial Instrument Disclosures (FIDs) within the annual reports of Australian listed extractive resource companies (mining and petroleum) over a four year longitudinal period encompassing the 2003 to 2006 financial years. This is an important period to investigate FID patterns as it encompasses those years leading up to and immediately following formal adoption of the Australian equivalents to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).Using an index (FIDI) comprising 120 items of financial instrument information to measure the extent of FI

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Andeobu, Lynda. "Managing risk and enhancing corporate sustainability in the Australian extractive sector : An exploratory study of leading mining and oil & gas firms in Australia." Thesis, Federation Business School, 2016. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/157613.

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Risk is an unavoidable issue in most activities of life, including business. Risk-management is increasingly a hot-button issue for stakeholders and the general public. As such, it is of rising importance in the high-risk extractive industries of mining and oil & gas. Specifically, risk-management can help firms reduce business failure-rates and enhance corporate sustainability. However, the integration of risk-management and corporate sustainability within planning, financing, and operations remains a key challenge for the sector. This research seeks to fill this gap by investigating and eval

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Hefferan, Michael. "An examination of the interface between commercial property assets and contemporary knowledge-intensive firms - demands, responses and priorities." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16411/1/Michael_Hefferan_Thesis.pdf.

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Economic and other forces over recent years have resulted in the rise, in size and importance, of a group within the business community known as &quotknowledge-intensive firms". These organisations typically operate in such sectors as information and communication technology, specialist engineering and other services, consulting, research spin-out companies, multimedia, advertising and education and, in effect, trade in the development, management and adaptation of contemporary knowledge. They are often small-to-medium enterprises and use new business and operational models drawing together

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Hefferan, Michael. "An examination of the interface between commercial property assets and contemporary knowledge-intensive firms - demands, responses and priorities." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16411/.

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Economic and other forces over recent years have resulted in the rise, in size and importance, of a group within the business community known as &quotknowledge-intensive firms". These organisations typically operate in such sectors as information and communication technology, specialist engineering and other services, consulting, research spin-out companies, multimedia, advertising and education and, in effect, trade in the development, management and adaptation of contemporary knowledge. They are often small-to-medium enterprises and use new business and operational models drawing together

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Hutchinson, P. J. "The financial profile of growth of small firms : An analysis of the accounting ratios of Australian companies at and after flotation 1964/5 - 1983/4." Thesis, University of Bath, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378486.

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Wang, Xiaojiao. "An Empirical Investigation into Compliance by Australian Firms with the Disclosure Requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16359.

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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are widely recognized as having higher quality than most national accounting standards. Commentators have suggested that the information provided under IFRS not only improves the reliability and understandability of financial information, but also allows financial statement users to make better comparisons across companies and countries. Those benefits of IFRS can only be fully achieved if all companies comply with the requirements of IFRS. However, on the matter of disclosure requirements, prior literature indicates that compliance with IFRS

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Wong, Susan So Shan. "Development of international business networks : a comparative analysis of internationalizing Australian and Chinese firms in creative industries." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28821.

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Due to increasing globalization, firms nowadays, especially growth-oriented SMEs, tend to increase their reliance on network linkages to compete successfully in the international market. Although knowledge access/transfer through network linkages has been regarded as a source of competitive advantage, views on the optimality of network structure that brings maximum benefits for firms are still diverse. This may due to the different contexts and theoretical perspectives that the previous studies are based on. Therefore, this study seeks to explore the mechanisms whereby network structures can b

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Hassan, Mohamat Sabri. "The information quality of derivative disclosure in corporate annual reports of Australian firms in the extractive industries." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15962/1/Mohamat_Sabri_Hassan_Thesis.pdf.

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Recent events in the business world have focused attention on the importance of high quality financial reporting. Of particular interest is where the collapse of prominent companies such as Baring Plc. was due to the company's involvement with derivative instruments. In Australia, some derivative instruments are not recognised in the balance sheet. However, the Australian accounting standard AASB 1033 Presentation and Disclosure of Financial Instruments requires extensive disclosures to overcome the lack of guidance with regard to the recognition and measurement. Therefore, AASB 1033 may be re

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Hassan, Mohamat Sabri. "The information quality of derivative disclosure in corporate annual reports of Australian firms in the extractive industries." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15962/.

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Recent events in the business world have focused attention on the importance of high quality financial reporting. Of particular interest is where the collapse of prominent companies such as Baring Plc. was due to the company's involvement with derivative instruments. In Australia, some derivative instruments are not recognised in the balance sheet. However, the Australian accounting standard AASB 1033 Presentation and Disclosure of Financial Instruments requires extensive disclosures to overcome the lack of guidance with regard to the recognition and measurement. Therefore, AASB 1033 may be re

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Nair, Gordon S. "Market entry of Australian firms into South-East Asia : a study of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia markets." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998.

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Mirzay, Fashami Ashkan. "Auditor Switch, Audit Fees, and Audit Quality: Evidence from the ASX 500 Firms." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/394683.

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This thesis is comprised of two studies. The first study investigates the incidence and magnitude of low-balling in the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) top 500 firms. In auditing, low-balling refers to the provision of audit services below their actual costs during the early years of an audit engagement (DeAngelo, 1981a). Indeed, low-balling is the ‘bait to catch’ for non-audit services or continuity of office. It has been the focus of regulatory bodies, practitioners, and academics because of its potential adverse influence on auditor independence and audit quality (Levin, 2002; Ramsay,

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Wilson, Geoffrey David. "Strategies for designing and implementing knowledge management systems: An interpretive case study of two Western Australian house-building firms." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/406.

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Knowledge management is a relatively new concept that has received substantial attention in the academic and industry literature particularly in the information systems field. Proponents of knowledge management argue that it has been driven by the desire of organisations for greater innovation, cost reduction and process improvements (Wilson. Jackson & Smith 2003). Little research, though, has been conducted from a knowledge management perspective into how Western Australian house-building enterprises develop and implement information systems. The WA house-building industry forms part of the w

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John, Peter K. "Facets of managerial evaluation of foreign direct investment in a developing country an investigation of Australian firms investing in India /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/71423.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, 2002.<br>Bibliography: p. A291-A332.<br>Overview and problem definition -- Theoretical context -- Facets of firm's evaluation of FDI and IJV formation -- Analytical framework and results -- Summary.<br>This dissertation investigates managerial evaluation of FDI and IJV formation in a developing country. The assessment is likely to be influenced by a country's factor endowments, created assets and policy framework. The efficiencies of the processes relating to decision-making, IJV formation and FDI implementation in a

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Burns, Caroline Mary. "Corporate Real Estate as a Performance-enhancing Organisational Resource in a Knowledge Work Context: A Study of Top Australian Law Firms." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9995.

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Management theory and literature has to date paid little attention to the effects on firm performance of corporate real estate (CRE) as a potentially value-adding resource. Further, CRE has traditionally been examined in terms of its tangible attributes, and few academic studies have taken account of the intangible and interactional dimensions. The thesis adapts the insights offered by the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm to examine the interaction of CRE with other valuable resources to influence performance outcomes. Both organisational and individual levels of analysis are employe

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Raja, Ahmad Raja Adzrin. "Corporate philanthropic discourse." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/182.

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This thesis derives important insights concerning the corporate philanthropic discourse of Australian listed firms. Corporate philanthropic discourse is analysed in two phases: (i) corporate philanthropic communication (Phase I) and (ii) corporate philanthropic involvement (Phase II). The first phase examines the noncommunication of corporate philanthropy. The second phase details the types and factors of corporate philanthropic involvement. In Phase I, a model on philanthropic communication is presented to better understand this (non-) communication and how such gift-giving is (or is n

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Hanna, Bronwyn Planning UNSW. "Absence and presence: a historiography of early women architects in New South Wales." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Planning, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18217.

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Women architects are effectively absent from architectural history in Australia. Consulting first the archival record, this thesis establishes the presence of 230 women architects qualified and/or practising in NSW between 1900 and 1960. It then analyses some of these early women architects' achievements and difficulties in the profession, drawing on interviews with 70 practitioners or their friends and family. Finally it offers brief biographical accounts of eight leading early women architects, arguing that their achievements deserve more widespread historical attention in an adjusted canon

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Smaill, Belinda 1972. "Amidst a nation's cultures : documentary and Australia's Special Broadcasting Service Television." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8644.

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Armstrong, Elizabeth Kate, and n/a. "Tourism destination recovery after the 2003 Canberra fires." University of Canberra. n/a, 2008. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20081218.091856.

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The tourism industry is vulnerable to crises and disasters and increasingly government and industry stakeholders are turning their attention to how to prevent, manage and recover from shock events. In the last decade there has been increasing interest in tourism research on crises and disasters, prompted in part by recognition of the tourism industry's vulnerabilities and what appear to be more frequent shock events. The beginning of this century has been marked by a series of crises and disasters including the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in the United Kingdom, the 2001 terrorist hija

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Zarea, Fazlelahi Forough. "Spinoff's Early Alliance Portfolio Development: A Longitudinal Study in an Alliance-Intensive Industry." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/133821/1/Forough_Zarea%20Fazlelahi_Thesis.pdf.

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Due to high costs and high failure rates of mining projects, companies frequently enter strategic alliances to share risks and pool resources. This need is even more pronounced for new firms due to liabilities of newness and smallness. This thesis is a step toward extending our understanding of the alliance portfolio emergence in newly founded firms. I have studied the parental imprinting influence on the antecedents, dynamics and outcomes of alliance network growth in young spinoff firms. I have conducted longitudinal analysis using a panel data of 10 years by a synthesis of multiple datasets

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Hegedus, Peter. "Towards a Model for Autobiographical and Socially Conscious Cinematic Documentary in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365761.

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The Australian film and television industry is currently undergoing a major transformation, which ultimately will have significant impact on its practitioners. As an Australian filmmaker whose interest and ambition lie in more idiosyncratic and autobiographical films for cinema, I believe a close examination of these filmmaking aspirations in relation to the current codes and practices of the Australian film industry is necessary. Apart from some festivals and media interviews, for filmmakers there is little room for self-reflection. Having the opportunity to conduct a critical and in-depth e

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Crilly, Shane. "Representations of aboriginalities in Australian feature films /." Title page and introduction only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arc929.pdf.

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Lobb, Alexandra E. "Two studies of the Australian Wheat Board : a traditional price discrimination model, and the privatisation process and pricing behaviour of a risk averse firm." University of Western Australia. School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2004.0071.

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This thesis is motivated by the impacts of contemporary political and economic issues such as microeconomic reform and regulatory control on the Australian wheat industry. Firstly, the suggestion of whether the AWB (International) Ltd commands market power and secondly, that the objectives of the AWB Ltd have changed since semi-privatisation of the Australian Wheat Board under the Wheat Marketing Act, 1989. The AWB (International) Ltd’s ability to price discriminate is a key component to the retention of the single desk regulatory arrangement for the export of Australian wheat. Due to data res

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Price, Gareth James. "Explaining the Australian multinational enterprise : a firm comparison /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EC/09ecp9451.pdf.

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Ryan, Mark David. "A dark new world : anatomy of Australian horror films." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/18351/1/Thesis.pdf.

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After experimental beginnings in the 1970s, a commercial push in the 1980s, and an underground existence in the 1990s, from 2000 to 2007 contemporary Australian horror production has experienced a period of strong growth and relative commercial success unequalled throughout the past three decades of Australian film history. This study explores the rise of contemporary Australian horror production: emerging production and distribution models; the films produced; and the industrial, market and technological forces driving production. Australian horror production is a vibrant production sector co

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Ryan, Mark David. "A dark new world : anatomy of Australian horror films." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18351/.

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After experimental beginnings in the 1970s, a commercial push in the 1980s, and an underground existence in the 1990s, from 2000 to 2007 contemporary Australian horror production has experienced a period of strong growth and relative commercial success unequalled throughout the past three decades of Australian film history. This study explores the rise of contemporary Australian horror production: emerging production and distribution models; the films produced; and the industrial, market and technological forces driving production. Australian horror production is a vibrant production sector co

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Ali, Searat. "Corporate Governance and Firm Risk in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368178.

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This thesis, structured around three interrelated empirical essays, investigates the relationship of corporate governance with firm risks—default, stock liquidity, downside and upside—for a large sample of Australian listed firms (more than 1,000) over the period from 2001 to 2013. Seven reasons were found that make it imperative to empirically investigate such relationships: (i) a series of corporate collapses in early 2000s (such as HIH and OneTel) due to improper governance structures, (ii) a massive economic and social default cost to the stakeholders, (iii) a proliferated attention of reg

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O'Donnell, David O'Donnell, and n/a. "Re-staging history : historiographic drama from New Zealand and Australia." University of Otago. Department of English, 1999. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070523.151011.

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Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing emphasis on drama, in live theatre and on film, which re-addresses the ways in which the post-colonial histories of Australia and New Zealand have been written. Why is there such a focus on �historical� drama in these countries at the end of the twentieth century and what does this drama contribute to wider debates about post-colonial history? This thesis aims both to explore the connections between drama and history, and to analyse the interface between live and recorded drama. In order to discuss these issues, I have used the work of theatre and

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Finlay, Christine School of Sociology &amp Anthropology UNSW. "Smokescreen : black/white/male/female bravery and southeast Australian bushfires." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23006.

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Black/white/male/female struggles over knowledge correctness and who is brave are examined inductively in the field of bushfires. The paradoxes of a white male icon are linked to contradictions in gender theories in disaster. In mainstream literature, assumptions of innate white male superiority in bravery justify white women???s diminution and white male domination. In feminist theory, women???s diminution is the problem and their bravery for struggling against hegemony applauded. Philosophies of bravery are explored in 104 semistructured interviews and 12 months??? fieldwork as a volunteer b

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Laughren, Pat. "Picturing Politics: Some Issues in the Documentary Representation of Australian Political and Social History." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366409.

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This submission groups together four 'TV Hour' documentaries - Red Ted and the Great depression 1994, The Legend of Fred Paterson 1996, The Fair Go: Winning the 1967 Referendum 1999, and Stories from the Split: the Struggle for the Souls of Australian Workers 2005 - researched, developed and produced between1990 and 2005. Each of the submitted documentary films treats an event or individual that made a decisive and lasting contribution to Australian political and social history in the course of the 20th Century. The projects also had the good fortune to win support from institutions such as th

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Candy, Katherine. "Mapping fire affected areas in northern Western Australia - towards an automatic approach." Thesis, Candy, Katherine (2004) Mapping fire affected areas in northern Western Australia - towards an automatic approach. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/500/.

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Wildfires across northern Australia are a growing problem with more than 2.5 million hectares being burnt each year. Accordingly, remote sensing has been used as a tool to routinely monitor and map fire histories. In northern Western Australia, the Department of Land Information Satellite Remote Sensing Services (DLI SRSS) has been responsible for providing and interpreting NOAA-AVHRR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) data. SRSS staff utilise this data to automatically map hotspots on a daily basis, and manually map fire affected areas (

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Candy, Katherine. "Mapping fire affected areas in northern Western Australia - towards an automatic approach." Candy, Katherine (2004) Mapping fire affected areas in northern Western Australia - towards an automatic approach. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/500/.

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Wildfires across northern Australia are a growing problem with more than 2.5 million hectares being burnt each year. Accordingly, remote sensing has been used as a tool to routinely monitor and map fire histories. In northern Western Australia, the Department of Land Information Satellite Remote Sensing Services (DLI SRSS) has been responsible for providing and interpreting NOAA-AVHRR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) data. SRSS staff utilise this data to automatically map hotspots on a daily basis, and manually map fire affected areas (

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Skoufa, Lucas A. "A strategic management framework for reformed electricity generation firms in eastern Australia /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060713.152047/index.html.

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Cooney, Mary Rose. "Seasoned equity offerings in Australia : the market performance of rights issuing firms /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16203.pdf.

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Salvo, Aires Felipe. "Effects of woody weeds on fuels and fire behaviour in Eastern Australian forests and woodlands." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12839.

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Fire is a common feature in most ecosystems in Australia. Much of the native flora is well adapted to occasional fire and recovers over time in a variety of ways. Invasive species or ‘weeds’ are also a common feature in most Australian ecosystems, particularly in forests and woodlands close to urban settlements. Many invasive species have the potential to recover or recolonise more rapidly following disturbance than native species and may change the fuel load and structure of invaded areas. Invasive species can alter the fuel load and structure providing the fine fuel necessary for initiation

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Pascoe, Caroline Myra. "Screening Mothers: Representations of motherhood in Australian films from 1900 to 1988." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/385.

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Although the position of mothers has changed considerably since the beginning of the twentieth century, an idealised notion of motherhood persists. The cinema provides a source of information about attitudes towards mothering in Australian society which is not diminished by the fact that mothers are often marginal to the narrative. While the study recognises that cinematic images are not unconditionally authoritative, it rests on the belief that films have some capacity to reflect and influence society. The films are placed in an historical context with regard to social change in Australia

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Pascoe, Caroline Myra. "Screening Mothers: Representations of motherhood in Australian films from 1900 to 1988." University of Sydney, History, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/385.

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Although the position of mothers has changed considerably since the beginning of the twentieth century, an idealised notion of motherhood persists. The cinema provides a source of information about attitudes towards mothering in Australian society which is not diminished by the fact that mothers are often marginal to the narrative. While the study recognises that cinematic images are not unconditionally authoritative, it rests on the belief that films have some capacity to reflect and influence society. The films are placed in an historical context with regard to social change in Australia

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Garonne, Christophe. "Business planning in emerging firms : uses and effects." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/72949/1/Christophe_Garonne_Thesis.pdf.

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Business planning is at the core of entrepreneurship as it has implications for opportunity discovery and exploitation. This thesis' objectives are to disentangle the relationships between business planning and venture emergence to reconcile previous inconsistent findings. It reveals that the formalization of planning, the effort invested in the venture and the revision of the plan influence success for entrepreneurs in the process of launching their firm. This thesis provides generalizable results about the phenomenon of business planning by using a longitudinal random sample of emerging f

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Bondarew, Veronica. "Small firm growth in the Australian biotechnology industry a study of obstacles to the commercialisation of Australian biotechnology research /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22345.

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Thesis (DBA) -- Macquarie University, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, 2007.<br>Bibliography: p. 209-223.<br>Introduction -- The biotechnology industry -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Case studies -- Discussion -- Conclusion.<br>Australia has a strong record of medical science research. Of the country's seven Nobel Prize winners, six have been within the bioscience sector. But Australia has been struggling to produce an FDA-approved blockbuster drug. The high level of research output in biotechnology is inconsistent with the low level of commercialisation of products resulting f

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Pascoe, Caroline. "Screening mothers representations of motherhood in Australian films from 1900 to 1988 /." Connect to full text, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/385.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1999.<br>Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 16, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of History, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 1999; thesis submitted 1998. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

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