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The role of refundable accommodation deposits in financing aged care capital expenditure: Views from the sector Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Megan Gu, Henry Cutler, Mona Aghdaee, Yuanyuan Gu, Anam Bilgrami
Residential aged care providers rely on refundable accommodation deposits (RADs) to finance capital expenditure, but changing consumer accommodation payment preferences may reduce their access. Our study evaluated the potential impact of a significant reduction in provider RAD balances. We surveyed 300 providers across Australia in 2020 and conducted focus groups and interviews with stakeholder executives
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Latent profiles of challenge, hindrance, and threat appraisals on time pressure and job complexity: Antecedents and outcomes Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Arian Kunzelmann, Thomas Rigotti, Monique F. Crane
This research challenges the a priori classification of time pressure and job complexity as challenge stressors and seeks to illuminate the emergence of different appraisal configurations using a latent profile approach. The sample consisted of 629 employees (66.1% male). Employees who appraised time pressure and job complexity as challenges reported higher job satisfaction and work engagement and
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Improvement in sustainability: Evidence from the mergers and acquisitions market Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Duy Thanh Nguyen, David Michayluk, Gerhard Van de Venter, Scott Walker
One approach to improve a firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) rating is to acquire a target with a higher relative ESG rating. We explore changes in an acquirer’s ESG rating around merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements and provide empirical evidence of a positive relationship between the change in an acquirer’s ESG rating and the target’s relative ESG rating. Of the three components
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Organizational culture and revenue-raising strategies in social service not-for-profits Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Lu Jiao, Graeme Harrison, Jinhua Chen
Using survey and archival data, we investigate the relations between organizational culture and revenue-raising strategies of diversification and concentration in not-for-profit organizations (NFPs). We find that both a respect for people culture and a stability culture positively influence diversification, while an outcome orientation culture positively influences concentration. An innovation culture
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CEO cognitive competencies in managing turnaround: Complexity and focus Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Xin Liang
This study examines the knowledge structures (KSs) of CEOs of firms that attempted turnaround from performance decline. We developed and tested a theoretical model that describes how two cognitive ...
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Silent victims: Negative effects of observing workplace deviance on employees’ emotional exhaustion and workplace thriving Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Mamoona Arshad, Muhammad Abdur Rahman Malik, Shoaib Amjad Hussain
Building on previous studies on third-party observations (TPOs) of mistreatments, in this study, we investigate the effects of TPO of workplace deviance (TPO-WD). Drawing on conservation of resourc...
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The role of digital technology in communication and information flow in the Australian Superannuation industry Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Janin K Hentzen, Arvid OI Hoffmann, Rebecca M Dolan
Successful retirement planning critically depends on access to accurate and up-to-date information. In this paper, we focus on the Australian Superannuation industry to examine the influence of dig...
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Did outside directors’ firm-specific accumulated knowledge benefit the firm’s stock performance during COVID-19? Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Dharmendra Naidu, Kumari Ranjeeni
We examine whether outside directors’ firm-specific accumulated knowledge in the forms of human and internal social capital benefitted the firm during COVID-19. Using a sample of 754 US firms durin...
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Make a good impression: Recommend different products for self-presentation Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Lili Wang, Hanyu (Yuki) Chen, Xuan Zhang
Word-of-mouth (WOM) has become one of the most important ways consumers obtain and deliver self-image. However, little research has investigated how product type influences consumers’ WOM intention...
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The Whiteboard: Decoupling of ethnic and gender diversity reporting and practice in corporate Australia Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Claire E F Wright, Corinne Cortese, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Searat Ali
Diversity of company leadership is an important governance issue for corporations globally, yet the uneven treatment of diversity priorities remains a major challenge. We explore the extent and cha...
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Digital transformation enablers in high-tech and low-tech companies: A comparative analysis Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Titov Sergei, Trachuk Arkady, Linder Natalya, RD Pathak, Danny Samson, Zafar Husain, S Sushil
Digital transformation (DT) is a complex, socio-technical, strategic, and often radical change influenced by various aspects, among which non-technological, organizational factors play significant ...
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Discrimination by avoidance: The underrepresentation of Indigenous Australians in leadership positions within the Australian Football League Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Mahsa Khatibi, Gabriella Elgenius, Paul Turner, Justine Ferrer
This article explores the career development and underrepresentation of Indigenous Australians in leadership and management positions within the Australian Football League (AFL); it explains the co...
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Does leadership gender diversity drive corporate social responsibility and organizational outcomes? The role of organization size Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Muhammad Ali, Mirit K Grabarski, Sana Ahmed, Nazish Imtiaz
Corporate scandals, environmental damages, and employment conditions have highlighted the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR). However, little is known about (1) the simultaneous ef...
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Why isn’t my professor Aboriginal? Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Mark Jones, Pauline Stanton, Mark Rose
This article focuses on the lived experience of a Karajarri Yawuru, First Peoples Doctoral candidate and his interactions with the Academy. This article draws on three vignettes and highlights firs...
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Managing digital assets on death and disability: An examination of the determinants of digital asset planning literacy Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Adam Steen, Chris Graves, Steven D’Alessandro, Henry X. Shi
Despite its increasing importance, digital financial literacy (DFL) is yet to be adequately understood. This article reports on one aspect of DFL, namely, digital asset planning literacy (DAPL) whi...
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Strategic deviation and investment inefficiency Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Dinithi Ranasinghe, Ahsan Habib
We examine the association between strategic deviation and investment inefficiency. We conceptualize strategic deviation as the extent to which the pattern of a firm’s resource allocation deviates ...
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Adjustment speed of capital structure: A literature survey of empirical research Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Ha Thanh Nguyen, Balachandran Muniandy, Darren Henry
We synthesize empirical studies on the determinants of the heterogeneity in the adjustment speed (speed of adjustment; SOA) of capital structure. These determinants are categorized into six groups,...
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Re-imagining anti-racism as a core organisational value Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Amanuel Elias, Jehonathan Ben, Kiros Hiruy
Racism and anti-racism have received widespread attention in academic debates and public discourse. Having universal features, racism manifests differently nationally and locally, and has been met ...
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Predicting ETF liquidity Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Son D Pham, Ben R Marshall, Nhut H Nguyen, Nuttawat Visaltanachoti
Substantial transaction costs are incurred in exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading each year. This article examines a vector autoregressive (VAR) model’s performance and other trading schedules to ti...
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Enterprise risk management and investment efficiency: Australian evidence from risk management committees Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Haiyan Jiang, Jing Jia, Larelle (Ellie) Chapple
This study investigates whether and how effective risk management committees (RMCs) improve corporate investment efficiency. Using a sample of listed companies included in the Australian Securities...
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Should online reviews include pictures? The impact of fit between product type and online review presentation format Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Qing Yao, Yixuan Han, Defeng Yang
This article investigates the influence of including pictures in online consumer reviews on review helpfulness perceptions for different types of products (hedonic vs utilitarian). Based on the dua...
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Sustaining innovation during downsizing strategy through knowledge coupling, business process digitization, and market capitalizing agility Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Sayed Muhammad Fawad Sharif, Naiding Yang, Atiq ur Rehman, Omar Alghamdi
COVID-19 has developed chaos and uncertainty for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) causing mass downsizing. Under such uncertainty, innovation is key to survival and agility to growth. This study...
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Underwriting in the Australian IPO markets: Determinants and pricing Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Alastair Marsden, Zoltan Murgulov, S Ghon Rhee, Madhu Veeraraghavan
We examine the factors that explain the underwriting decision and underwriting fees for Australian initial public offerings (IPOs). Using a sample of Australian IPOs, spanning the period 1999–2019,...
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Earnings management: Who do managers consider and what is the relative importance of ethics? Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Paul Coram, James R. Frederickson, Matthew Pinnuck
Using responses from Australian CFOs and CEOs to a case-based survey and interviews, we provide insights into managers’ earnings management (EM) decisions. Ethics has the greatest explanatory power...
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Superannuation fees, asset allocation and fund performance Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Andrew Ainsworth, Shumi Akhtar, Adam Corbett, Adrian Lee, Terry Walter
Superannuation fees have come under public scrutiny in recent years with the belief they are too high. We examine the determinants of fees and their relationship with fund performance. Superannuati...
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Modeling transitions in nation brand equity: An empirical assessment of the nation equity power grid Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Katariina Juusola, Abdelmounaim Lahrech
The purpose of this study is to assess longitudinal nation brand performance by modeling transitions in nation brand equity and to develop a method for nation brand performance assessment. This stu...
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How Fact Sheets affect retirement income product knowledge, perceptions and choices Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Hazel Bateman, Inka Eberhardt
Using an online experimental survey, we test how Fact Sheets presenting standardised information on retirement income products – Average Annual Income, an Income security Product Rating, Potential ...
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Do shifting practices vary across the firm life cycle? Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Manish Bansal
Prior research documents that managers engage in revenue shifting and expense shifting to report inflated operating performance of firms. This study extends this research in a new direction by inve...
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Liquidity shocks and pension fund performance: Evidence from early access Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 James Brugler, Minsoo Kim, Zhuo Zhong
We study how expectations of fund flows causally affect fund performance by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the Australian pension system where an unexpected policy change temporarily allo...
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Insurance in the Industry 4.0 environment: A literature review, synthesis, and research agenda Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Ritu Srivastava, Anupama Prashar, S.Veena Iyer, Piyush Gotise
Commodification and thinning margins of insurers have increased competition in the industry. Accessing accurate data and its meaningful analysis is becoming vital. The rise of digital technologies ...
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A collision of strategic orientations: Entrepreneurial orientation and customer relationship orientation in a collectivist cultural context Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Liem Viet Ngo, George A Shinkle, Paul G Patterson
Drawing upon strategic orientation logics and culture theory, this article proposes that entrepreneurial orientation and customer relationship orientation are generally complementary but become con...
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Disclosure policy choice, stock returns and information asymmetry: Evidence from capital expenditure announcements Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Jianguo Chen, David Smith
This article investigates whether firms commit ex-ante to higher levels of investment transparency and the impact of transparency on stock returns and information asymmetry. We construct a novel me...
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The audit market for listed Australian companies from 2012 to 2018: A state of play Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Elizabeth Carson, Yi (Dale) Fu, Ulrike Thürheimer, Yang Xu
Motivated by recent regulatory scrutiny of auditing in Australia, we provide an overview of the audit market for Australian listed companies from 2012 to 2018. Using descriptive analyses, we explor...
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Social connections, CEO turnover and corporate policy change Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Prabashi Dharmasiri
We examine how social connections between successive CEOs influence policy changes enacted by incoming CEOs. Using forced turnovers, we document fewer policy changes when incoming CEOs are connecte...
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Business school doctoral programs and the future of business research Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Stephen Taylor, James Wakefield
We apply a neo-institutional theoretical lens to interpret the extent of any significant similarities or differences in doctoral programmes across business schools in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ...
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Capital budgeting and Kelly betting Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 David J Johnstone
Capital investments are easily interpreted as bets and vice versa. The mathematical theory of betting, often known as ‘Kelly betting’, has implications for all financial decision-making under uncer...
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Stochastic modelling of the home equity access scheme Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Tyson Lamarra, Aaron Bruhn, Michael Miller
The housing wealth of elderly homeowners is emerging as a key asset to support Australians in retirement. The Australian government's Home Equity Access Scheme allows elderly Australians to access ...
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State ownership, sustainable supply chain management, and firm performance: A natural experiment of the US–China trade conflict Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Yunting Feng, Yusi Jiang
Under the increased global uncertainty, this study extends prior research on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and firm performance by investigating the divergent performance outcomes betw...
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The impact of business model workforce configurations on value creation and value appropriation in the Australian aged care sector Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 David A Brown, Nelson Ma, Jin Sug Yang, Nicole Sutton, Gillian McAllister, Deborah Parker, Olivia Rawlings-Way, Rachael L Lewis
This article examines the influence of business model workforce configurations on value creation and capture in a skills-based service setting, extending previous research on business model perform...
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A daily diary study on the affective path between leadership practices and leaders’ personal helping Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Phoenix HH Chan, Herman HM Tse, Joshua Howard, Nathan Eva, March L To, Jing Qian, Aijing Xia
While anecdotally we know that leaders vary in their willingness to help followers depending on the time of a day, this within-person variability is not well-understood in the leadership literature...
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Adoption of artificial intelligence in auditing: An exploratory study Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Ravi Seethamraju, Angela Hecimovic
Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to transform the audit profession. This exploratory study, by utilising the technology–organisation–environment (TOE) framework and data from semi-structured ...
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Frontline managers’ task-related emotion regulation, emotional intelligence, and daily stress Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Ashlea C Troth, Keith Townsend, Rebecca Loudoun, Matt Burgess
Research has focused on employee emotion regulation as a stable dispositional tendency. Yet effective and healthy emotion regulation requires flexibly choosing between different regulation strategi...
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How aging affects opportunity-necessity entrepreneurship: Demographic and perceptual view Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Yu-Yu Chang, Daniel A Sanchez-Loor, Hui-Ching Hsieh, Wei-Shiun Chang
Drawing upon the social-cognitive view and the intentionality-based entrepreneurial behavior model, this study investigates how individuals’ demographics and perceptions affect entrepreneurial inte...
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Editorial: A Call for Policy Relevant Research Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Andrew B Jackson
The importance of evidence-based research in informing practice is of vital importance. Academic researchers are in a unique position to contribute to this, having the mix of skill sets, objectivity, and time to consider the issues at hand. Indeed, regulators such as the Australian Accounting Standards Board continually welcome evidence-based research to help inform the development of accounting standards
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Nonlinear hedge fund index clones? Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Mikhail Walden, Paul Lajbcygier
Cloning hedge fund indexes circumvents the many challenges associated with direct hedge fund investment. Theoretically, hedge fund indexes could have nonlinear exposures to the economic risk factor...
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Corporate governance, market conditions and investors’ reaction to information signals Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Nawaf Almaskati, Ron Bird, Danny Yeung, Yue Lu
We examine and compare the extent to which the reaction of investors to earnings announcements is influenced by a firm’s governance profile and prevailing market conditions. We find that firms with better governance characteristics experience a larger initial reaction to both good and bad earnings announcements regardless of the prevailing sentiment and uncertainty conditions. However, the influence
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Effective coordination and innovation-facilitating role of science parks: The place-based approach with paradoxical outcomes Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Ying Zhu, Ryan W Tang, Ke Xing
The place-based regional industrial strategies provide a novel approach to examining the role of science parks in enhancing regional innovation with place-based policies. With qualitative interviews and case analyses, this study investigates how a place-based science park affects innovation activities of technology-focused companies. Our research findings demonstrate paradoxical nature with both positive
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The danger of feeling sorry for oneself: How coworker incivility diminishes job performance through perceived organizational isolation among self-pitying employees Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Inam Ul Haq, Dirk De Clercq, Muhammad Umer Azeem
The study examined how employees’ experience of resource-draining coworker incivility might undermine their job performance, with a focus on how this harmful process might be explained by perceptions of organizational isolation and moderated by susceptibility to self-pity. Three-wave survey data, collected among employees and their supervisors in various industries, indicated that an important reason
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Abnormal audit fees and audit quality: Australian evidence Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Sarowar Hossain, Jenny Jing Wang
We examine the association between abnormal audit fees and audit quality using Australian data. We find that audit quality, measured by auditors’ propensity to issue going concern opinions for financially distressed companies, discretionary accruals, and clients’ propensity to meet or beat earnings benchmarks, declines as positive abnormal audit fees increase in magnitude. Our findings support an economic
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Sustainable institutional investment in the COVID-19 pandemic Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Lai T Hoang, Joey Wenling Yang
This article examines institutions’ investment strategies towards environmental and social (E&S) stocks in the first quarter of 2020, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Backed with both institutional- and firm-level analyses, we find that institutional investors shift towards stocks with higher E&S performance. The high E&S portfolios exhibit lower risk and return characteristics, outperforming
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Creditor protection, shareholder protection, and cost of debt financing around the world Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Thi Huong Dao, Quoc Trung Tran, Thi Mai Nguyen, Tran Sy Nguyen
Debt financing plays an important role in corporate financial decisions. Therefore, the cost of debt is an interesting topic in corporate finance. Using a sample of 153,784 observations across 30 countries from 2003 to 2016, we find that creditor rights positively affect the cost of debt. In addition, the effect of shareholder rights is weaker in countries with stronger creditor protection. JEL Classification:
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Workforce education and corporate innovation Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Lingwei Li, Linlu Liu, Hai Wu
The average workforce education near firms’ research centers facilitates firms’ matching with innovation talents and acquisition of knowledge. This study documents a positive association between the average education level in the metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) where firms’ research centers are located and the quantity and quality of innovation outputs. The results are confirmed by controlling
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Does bitcoin liquidity resemble the liquidity of other financial assets? Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Rui Ma, Ben R Marshall, Nhut H Nguyen, Nuttawat Visaltanachoti
Bitcoin is becoming a popular financial asset and means of transacting. However, little is known about an important aspect of the bitcoin market: its liquidity. We consider whether various dimensions of liquidity evident in other asset classes are present in bitcoin spot and futures liquidity. We find variations in spot liquidity across bitcoin exchanges and a strong commonality in bitcoin spot and
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The importance of relational work design characteristics: A person-centred approach Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Caroline Knight, Matthew J W McLarnon, Ramon Wenzel, Sharon Parker
Adopting a person-centred approach, we integrate the job demands-control-support model with relational work design theory to investigate employee work design profiles involving autonomy, workload, social support and prosocial characteristics (representing the combined influence of task significance and beneficiary contact). For a sample of Australian not-for-profit employees (N = 2421), we identified
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Sustainable supplier selection and order allocation for multinational enterprises considering supply disruption in COVID-19 era Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-01-22 Yifan Shao, David Barnes, Chong Wu
The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 has left many multinational enterprises facing extremely severe supply disruptions. Besides considering triple-bottom-line requirements, managers now also have to consider supply disruption due to the pandemic more seriously. However, existing research does not take these two key objectives into account simultaneously. To bridge this research gap, based on the
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Sustainable sourcing and agility performance: The moderating effects of organizational ambidexterity and supply chain disruption Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Lingjia Li, Shuo Shan, Yongyi Shou, Mingu Kang, Young Won Park
Sustainable sourcing is an important sustainability practice yet its impact on the firm’s agility performance remains unexamined. Combining the extended resource-based view and contingency theory, this study hypothesizes that sustainable sourcing improves agility performance and this effect is enhanced by organizational ambidexterity and supply chain disruption. Using a sample of 790 manufacturing
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Managing gender diversity and board dynamics: The role of male chairpersons of large listed firms Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Terrence W Fitzsimmons, Victor J Callan
To better understand the links between gender diversity and board dynamics, 45 male chairs of large Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) firms were interviewed to identify the impacts of the appointment of women on board functioning. Chairs held very positive perceptions about the influence of women board members, including improved dynamics around reflexivity, communication and debate which assisted
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The differential effects of integral pride and gratitude on divergent moral judgment for the self versus others Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Felix Septianto, Fandy Tjiptono, Denni Arli, Jian-Min (James) Sun
Individuals tend to have divergent moral judgment when judging oneself versus others, which is termed moral hypocrisy. While prior research has examined different factors that might influence moral hypocrisy, there are limited insights on the influences of different, discrete emotions. The present research seeks to address this gap and examines the differential influences of pride and gratitude on
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How an idiosyncratic (zero-beta) risk can greatly increase the firm’s cost of capital Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2021-12-05 Andrew Grant, David Johnstone, Oh Kang Kwon
The celebrated capital asset pricing model (‘CAPM’) brought numerous appealing insights and spawned a new theory of capital budgeting. One key intuition is that there is ‘no penalty for diversifiable risk’ – that is, any risky payoff that has zero-correlation with the wider economy, and hence zero-beta, is treated as ‘risk-free’. Does that mean that managers can bet the firm on a spin of the roulette
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Research on unhealthy food and beverages advertising targeting children: Systematic literature review and directions for future research Aust. J. Manag. (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Ritu Srivastava, Parul Gupta
The rising level of childhood obesity across the globe has escalated the worries of World Health Organization (WHO), health practitioners, policymakers, and regulators. One of the most prominent factors that promote unhealthy eating habits of children is the heavy advertising of food and beverages (F&B) targeted at children. This has deepened the concerns of stakeholders about the persuasion ethics