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Major Area	Sub Discipline	Specific Areas of interest	Staff Member	Honours	Masters	Doctorate
Accounting		Internal Control Electronic Commerce	Glenn Hill	Yes	No	No
		International Accounting Accounting Theory Developments of Accounting Systems Corporate Governances in Developing Countries	Xu-Dong Ji	Yes	Yes	No
		Accounting – reporting and accountability in the public sector Social Reporting Governmentality and International Funding Agencies Accounting Education and Ethics	Sarah Williams	Yes	No	No
	Account- ability	Sustainability reporting & Sustainability reporting processes Social and Environmental Accounting Social and Environmental Auditing Corporate Social Responsibility Accountability and Governance Voluntary Reporting International Accounting Comparative Accounting Accounting in Lesser Developed Countries Performance Measurement Reporting on the Internet	Carol Adams	No	No	Yes
	Auditing	Financial Accounting Management Accounting Auditing Value for Money Auditing Government Accounting and Auditing	Sunil Dahanyake	Yes	Yes	No
		Economics of Auditing Audit Quality Auditor choice	Jane Hamilton	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Corporate Governance Governance and Accountability Directors’ Accountability Risk Management Corporate Social Reporting Social Reporting Issues Auditing Fraud Examination and Forensic Accounting Business Failure Accounting History	Julie Margret	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
	Financial Accounting	Corporate Financial Reporting In Emerging Nations Corporate Disclosure Policies Including Forecast Information Value Relevance Of Accounting Numbers Accounting Policy Choices And Corporate Governance Accounting For Intangibles Such As Research And Development, Patent, Copyrights And Brand Corporate Earnings Management International Harmonization And Cultural Issues	Kamran Ahmed	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Impact of service quality on financial performance Measuring financial performance	Liz Duncan	Yes	Yes
		Accounting Policy Choices And Corporate Governance Debt Covenants Accounting For Intangibles Corporate Earnings Management	Jane Hamilton	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Financial Reporting Practices Harmonization of Accounting and Reporting Practices Earnings Management Corporate Governance Social Responsibility Reporting	Jahangir Ali	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Financial Accounting Corporate Governance	Leo Langa	Yes
	Information Systems	Accounting information systems and ERP systems Management accounting systems and control Human-centred approach in accounting information systems	Petrus Usmanij	Yes
	International Accounting	Critical accounting theory Accounting profession in ASEAN Cross cultural issues in accounting Accounting in oil exporting countries Environmental accounting Accounting in emerging economies Public sector accounting	Prem Yapa	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Management Accounting	Organisational and Accounting Change Management Accounting and Control Systems Performance & Total Quality Management Accounting Control Systems in Not-for-profit Organisations Accounting in Developing/Emerging Economies Public Sector Accounting, Accountability & Performance Value for Money (or Performance) Audits Strategic Management Accounting Balanced Scorecard Performance Management Qualitative Research in Management Accounting Triangulation/Multiple Approaches to Management Accounting Research	Zahirul Hoque	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Performance measurement and management. Public sector accrual accounting. Qualitative research methods.	Joanne Lye	Yes	No	No
		Management Accounting and Control Systems Strategic Management Accounting Communication of Management Accounting Information	Suzanne Salmon	Yes	No	No
	Taxation	Issues related to Taxation including Income Tax, GST, CGT, FBT Administration of Taxation Tax Avoidance	Dianne Harvey	Yes	Yes	No
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Major Area	Sub Discipline	Specific Areas of interest	Staff Member	Honours	Masters	Doctorate
Economics		Urban Water Industry Choice Modelling Welfare Economics	Bethany Cooper	Yes	No	No
		Contemporary Australian Monetary policy Free Banking Regional events	David Reimers	Yes	Yes	No
	Applied Economics	Forecasting Empirical Economics and Finance Financial Institutions Sports Economics	Liam Lenten	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
	Comparative Economics	Asian-Australian Trade Issues Globalisation and E-Commerce Comparative Economic Systems	Li-Zhong Zhang	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Econometrics	Financial Econometrics & Risk Management Testing for Misspecifications & Models Selection Applied Statistics Quality Auditing	Ishaq Bhatti	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Empirical Econometrics and Statistics Economic Modelling Economic Development and Growth Income Distribution Market Research	Laszlo Konya	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Econometric Applications Time Series Applications Technical Analysis	John Shannon	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Economic History	Economic History Economics of Innovation & Technological Change Economic Growth Economic Development Globalisation	Gary Magee	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Economic History	Economic History	David Prentice	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Economic Theory	Auctions and Mechanism Design Evolutionary Game Theory Bounded Rationality	Suren Basov	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Economic Theory	Monetary Theory and Policy Political Economy Institutional Economics Game Theory	Jan Libich	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
	International Finance	International Finance Open Macroeconomics and International Trade International Monetary Economics Empirical Econometrics	Heidi Ryoo	Yes	Yes	Yes
	International Trade	Economic Integration and Regional Trade Agreements Computable General Equilibrium Modelling Tax and Optimal Tax Problems in General Equilibrium	Robert Waschik	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Macro- economics	Public Economics, such as: education, health and social security Economic Growth Income Distribution Education Economics and Policy	Buly Cardak	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Economic Theory and Modelling Economics of agents with social preference (including Islamic Economics) Econometric techniques and their accuracy in practice Macroeconomics of social issues (Ageing, institutional structures, poverty, corruption etc)	Hayat Khan	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
		Labour Market Policy Economic Aspects Of Industrial Relations Keynesian/Post Keynesian Macroeconomics History Of Economic Thought Marxian Political Economy Macroeconomic Policy & Theory	John King	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Monetary Policy Macroeconomics Exchange Rate Regimes	Shawn Leu	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Micro- economics	Game Theory Incentive Contracts Theory Of Conglomerate Mergers Australian Airline Industry Australian Automobile Producing Industry BHP-Billiton Merger Corporate Governance	Harry Clarke	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Microeconomic Theory Game Theory Industrial Organisation Applied Microeconomics	Damien Eldridge	Yes	Yes	No
		Empirical Industrial Organization Retial Market (market power, competition, retail pricing, marketing strategies) Applied Microeconometrics Policy and Program Evaluation Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Economics	Lan Li	Yes	No	No
		Industrial Economics Empirical Labor Economics	David Prentice	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Competition Strategy Market Power and Regulation Economic Development	Xiangkang Yin	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Resource Economics	Multi-Criteria Analysis Institutional Economics Public Participation and Environmental Governance Natural Resources Policy	Jayanath Ananda	Yes	Yes	No
		Water Policy and Management Agricultural and Resource Economics Choice Modelling Institutional Design and Transaction Costs	Lin Crase	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Resource And Environmental Management/Policy, eg. fisheries, forestry, oil, pollution, water, global warming Economic modelling using spreadsheets, simulation, linear and non-linear programming and dynamic programming Public Policy eg. energy supply, health programs, transport systems Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Projects, such as; electricity cables, communication cables: overground or underground? fire protection, freeways, channel deepening	John Kennedy	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Environmental, Ecological & Natural Resource Economics (economics of biodiversity, conservation, invasive species, optimisation in dynamic systems, risk & uncertainty ecological constraints to economic growth)	Anke Leroux	Yes	Yes	No
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Major Area	Sub Discipline	Specific Areas of interest	Staff Member	Honours	Masters	Doctorate
Finance		Capital - market – based Research Asset pricing models and Theory Mergers and Takeovers Corporate Governance and the governance Reform process Institutional investment strategies and shareholder activism Bankruptcy prediction models Capital structure and dividend policy decision-making Corporate restructuring activities General empirical corporate finance	Darren Henry	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Financial Risk Management Equity Securities and Markets Debt Securities and Markets	Greg Jamieson	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Corporate Governance Initial public offerings Asian Capital Markets	Larry Li	Yes	Yes	No
		Financial Institutions Management Technical Analysis Evolutionary Computing	Tony Martin	Yes	No	No
		Corporate Finance and Governance Asset Pricing Market Microstructure Emerging Markets	Xiangkang Yin	Yes	Yes	Yes
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Major Area	Sub Discipline	Specific Areas of interest	Staff Member	Honours	Masters	Doctorate
Manage- ment		Work Design and Performance Management and Information Systems Work and Family Stress Transmission Management Competencies and Performance	David Brown	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Employee perceptions of the work environment including issues relating to stress, workload and its effects The importance of factors such as trust and expertise of individuals in the professions including services such as financial advice and planning Leadership	Lynne Leveson	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
		Economics of education Choice modelling Economic and psychological models of decision making	Sue O’Keefe	Yes	Yes	No
		Business Ethics Quality of Work Life Organisational Democracy	George Sansbury	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
	Human Resource Management	Human Resource Management Organisational Behaviour Workplace behaviour (e.g., bullying)	Nick Djurkovic	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
	Human Resource Management	Incentive Pay Schemes Human Resource Management Workplace behaviour (e.g., bullying)	Darcy McCormack	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Industrial Relations	Work Intensification in the education sector Community campaigns/responses to WorkChoices Trade Union revitalisation: community and union collaborations; the organising model; ideology and values in unions Issues in Critical Management Studies, in particular the interface between organisations and identity, gender, sexuality and relationships, emotions and psychoanalysis Organisational Strategy Organisational Effectiveness/Performance Management Issues In Non-Profit Organisations	Rosaria Burchielli	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Industrial Relations	Industrial Relations	Malcolm Rimmer	Yes	Yes	Yes
	International Management	Cross-cultural management Ethnic (diaspora) networks and international business activity	Terri Joiner	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Management Information Systems	Emotional Intelligence Knowledge Management E-Commerce/ E-Business, E-Government Human-centred Systems Context-aware Emotion-based Systems ERP Systems Recruitment and Benchmarking Systems Human-Centred E-tourism Systems Environmental Benchmarking Systems Affective Computing Soft Computing Mult-agent Systems Ontologies Management Information Systems Data Mining in Banking Marketing and Accounting Web Mining of Customer Buying Behaviour on the Internet, Web Personalisation Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction	Rajiv Khosla	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Management Information Systems	Information Technology & Information Systems	Selena Lim	Yes	No	No
	Organ- isational Theory	Organisation design and organisational effectiveness Management control systems and organisational effectiveness Behavioural interdependence and organisational consequences	Terri Joiner	Yes	Yes	Yes
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Major Area	Sub Discipline	Specific Areas of interest	Staff Member	Honours	Masters	Doctorate
Marketing	International Marketing	Small firm internationalisation International entrepreneurship International business Business strategy Australian wine industry	Peter Lamb	Yes	Yes	No
		International Marketing Social & Environmental Marketing Consumer Behaviour Entrepreneurship	Clare D’Souza	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Consumer Behaviour; brand personality Personality and self image/concept Tourism marketing and consumer Behaviour Fame, market mavens OL, emotions	John Gountas	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Services Marketing Consumer/Life Satisfaction Emotions and Social interaction Consumer Behaviour	Sandra Gountas	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
		Organisational strategy Organisational theory work-life integration	Nicola McNeil	Yes	No	No
		Sustainable agriculture Green and Environmental Marketing Consumer Behaviour Community engagement: events based research evaluation E-business in Australia and developing countries	Marthin Nanere	Yes	Yes	Co-sup. only
		Consumer loyalty Virtual community Well-being and holidays Consumer behaviour (esp. in tourism) Crisis management Branding a destination	Outi Niininen	Yes	No	No
		Doing business in former Soviet Union International Marketing	Roman Peretiatko	Yes	No	No
		Service provision, marketing and management	Rhett Walker	Yes	Yes	Yes

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