cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Strategic Orientation and Innovation Performance Between Family and Non-Family Firms
Creators: name: Tanewski, George A.
name: Prajogo, Daniel
name: Sohal, Amrik
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A key concern in the family business literature is whether family firms differ from professionally managed firms. Some studies have found that there are no significant differences, whereas others have found that family firms differ from non-family firms in a number of key areas such as strategic posture. As such, this study examines the innovation performance between family and non-family enterprises, and expands our understanding of family firms by examining innovation in relation to strategy, organizational structure, and environmental hostility. Participants involve a random stratified sample of 2,000 small and medium size family and non-family owned businesses in manufacturing and service industry sectors in Australia. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), our findings reveal significant differences between family and non-family owned businesses on process innovation and strategic orientation. Notably, SEM estimates indicate that family firms are less innovative, emphasize industry leadership less, but have a greater prospecting orientation than non-family firms. SEM results demonstrate good fit for the hypothesized model ( 2 = 22.86, df = 6, p < .001; GFI = .969, AGFI= .893), and provide support to the hypothesized relationships between strategic orientation and innovation performance, and between strategic orientation and organizational structure. Findings from this study demonstrate that family and non-family owned firms not only differ in their innovation performance, but they also have different strategic orientations, which provide some support to findings that family businesses put less emphasis on industry leadership. Given that new product and service development is generally considered important for understanding a firm's entrepreneurial activities, this study assists in increasing our understanding of firm-level entrepreneurship and innovation.
Quantum Agriculture: A Comprehensive Framework for Enhancing Yield and Sustainability in Modern Farming through Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Ramon Moses
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum physics
subject: Quantum Farming
subject: Ramon Moses

description: This paper explores the revolutionary application of quantum mechanics in agriculture, introducing quantum computing, sensing, entanglement, coherence, and resonance as tools to advance precision farming, crop yield, resource efficiency, and ecological sustainability. Quantum technologies offer methods to address agricultural challenges by optimizing crop growth conditions, improving soil and plant health monitoring, and enhancing photosynthesis. This framework proposes a unified approach to integrating quantum principles into agricultural practices, highlighting potential increases in yield, resource efficiency, and natural resilience.
Contribution of strategic communication to stakeholder views of sustainability at Phillip Island Nature Park
Creators: name: Issaverdis, Jean-Pierre
name: Weiler, Betty
name: Ham, Sam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Phillip Island Nature Park`s (PINP) Mission and operational objectives include the conservation and protection of the flora and fauna of Phillip Island. This can only be achieved through economic success and working in partnership with various stakeholders. While PINP recognises the importance of communication with stakeholders, to date it has not systematically examined the extent to which stakeholders are receiving messages about how PINP contributes to sustainability of the park and of the Island. Using a mixed methods approach, the final outcome will be an exploration of the relationships between audiences (membership in a stakeholder group), communication media and sustainability messages received. Implications of the research will focus on how PINP and similar organisations might more precisely target important stakeholder groups with messages about their sustainability philosophy and practices.
An open-systems perspective on urban ports: an exploratory comparative analysis
Creators: name: Barton, John
name: Selsky, John W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Emery and Trist's Open-Systems Thinking (OST) school is identified as an important but underutilised approach in systems theory. The main features of OST are described, and the concepts are then demonstrated through application to a case concerning the complex social dynamics of urban port domains in New Zealand. An exploratory comparative exercise is then undertaken, in which the case is re-framed in terms of three other systems schools: system dynamics, soft systems methodology, and critical systems thinking. This exploration reveals some fundamental differences in their ontological underpinnings. It also illuminates some lacunae in the previous representation of the port domain case. The exercise helps us to begin to articulate a framework to aid in cross-referencing the four systems schools, and to situate OST concepts in relation to other systems approaches.
MOESM6 of Rewiring glycerol metabolism for enhanced production of poly-Îł-glutamic acid in Bacillus licheniformis
Creators: name: Zhan, Yangyang
name: Sheng, Bojie
name: Wang, Huan
name: Shi, Jiao
name: Cai, Dongbo
name: Yi, Li
name: Yang, Shihui
name: Wen, Zhiyou
name: Ma, Xin
name: Chen, Shouwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 6: Figure S2. The result of PCA and OPLS-DA with metabolome data of the WX-02 and BC4 strains cultivated in the glycerol medium.
Linking Employees to Customers: Employee Involvement and Quality Mapping
Creators: name: Bennington, Lynne
name: Cummane, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Employee involvement and connecting employees to customers have both been acknowledged as important components of any service quality improvement program. In practice, though, many quality efforts fail. Quality mapping, a variation on service mapping and an innovative human resource management process, is proposed as a practical methodology to facilitate the involvement of employees in service delivery management and to link employees to customers and to business strategy. It requires changes to the traditional roles of both HRM and marketing.
DeepSTA: A Spatial-Temporal Attention Network for Logistics Delivery Timely Rate Prediction in Anomaly Conditions
Creators: name: Yi, Jinhui
name: Yan, Huan
name: Wang, Haotian
name: Yuan, Jian
name: Li, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prediction of couriers' delivery timely rates in advance is essential to the logistics industry, enabling companies to take preemptive measures to ensure the normal operation of delivery services. This becomes even more critical during anomaly conditions like the epidemic outbreak, during which couriers' delivery timely rate will decline markedly and fluctuates significantly. Existing studies pay less attention to the logistics scenario. Moreover, many works focusing on prediction tasks in anomaly scenarios fail to explicitly model abnormal events, e.g., treating external factors equally with other features, resulting in great information loss. Further, since some anomalous events occur infrequently, traditional data-driven methods perform poorly in these scenarios. To deal with them, we propose a deep spatial-temporal attention model, named DeepSTA. To be specific, to avoid information loss, we design an anomaly spatio-temporal learning module that employs a recurrent neural network to model incident information. Additionally, we utilize Node2vec to model correlations between road districts, and adopt graph neural networks and long short-term memory to capture the spatial-temporal dependencies of couriers. To tackle the issue of insufficient training data in abnormal circumstances, we propose an anomaly pattern attention module that adopts a memory network for couriers' anomaly feature patterns storage via attention mechanisms. The experiments on real-world logistics datasets during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2022 show the model outperforms the best baselines by 12.11% in MAE and 13.71% in MSE, demonstrating its superior performance over multiple competitive baselines.
description: Accepted by CIKM 2023
Put-Call Parity with Futures-Style Margining
Creators: name: Easton, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Lieu (1990) derived the put-call parity relationship for futures and futures option contracts where futures-style margining occurs on the option contracts. The Sydney Futures Exchange uses futuresstyle margining for options and hence provides a suitable market to test this relationship. Further, since January 1993 time-precise transactions data have been maintained by the exchange. This paper uses all contracts for which futures options are traded on the Sydney Futures Exchange. The study period is from January 1993 to December 1994. After allowing for the effects of non-simultaneity, it is found that in-the-money put and call options are underpriced by a small amount when compared with the parity relationship.
Estimating Daily Volatility from Intraday Data
Creators: name: Bollen, Bernard
name: Kofman, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study proposes a new approach to the estimation of daily volatility. This approach is efficient (in the sense of using all available intraday price data) and unbiased (in the sense of accounting for the high levels of autocorrelation found in intraday price data). Empirical analysis of this new estimator on All Ordinaries Index Futures shows that it is less biased and more efficient than traditional volatility estimators. Furthermore this new approach confirms the GARCH(1,1) specification of the time series behaviour of daily volatility; namely that daily volatility follows an ARMA( 1,1) process through time.
Hierarchical forecasts for Australian domestic tourism
Creators: name: Athanasopoulos, George
name: Ahmed, Roman A.
name: Hyndman, Rob J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper we explore the hierarchical nature of tourism demand time series and produce short-term forecasts for Australian domestic tourism. The data and forecasts are organized in a hierarchy based on disaggregating the data for different geographical regions and for different purposes of travel. We consider five approaches to hierarchical forecasting: two variations of the top-down approach, the bottom-up method, a newly proposed top-down approach where top-level forecasts are disaggregated according to forecasted proportions of lower level series, and a recently proposed optimal combination approach. Our forecast performance evaluation shows that the top-down approach based on forecast proportions and the optimal combination method perform best for the tourism hierarchies we consider. By applying these methods, we produce detailed forecasts for the Australian domestic tourism market.
Stock, Klemens, La Liturgia de la Palabra. Comentarios a los Evangelios dominicales y festivos – Ciclo C (Lucas), col. «Caminos», San Pablo, Madrid, 2006
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
The impact of entrepreneurial orientation on the Australian wine industry
Creators: name: Griffin, Tim
name: Coulthard, Max
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study examined the entrepreneurial environment of the Australian wine industry using Lumpkin and Dess' (1996) Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) dimensions: innovation, risk taking, proactiveness, autonomy and competitive aggressiveness. A review of existing literature and previous studies which used Lumpkin and Dess' (1996) EO dimensions was conducted. A questionnaire was then developed and sent to selected companies in the Australian wine industry. Follow-up, using semi-structured interviews, was undertaken with some respondents from the first stage. This multi-method approach assisted in making the results more robust. This study demonstrated that a strong entrepreneurial orientation within a firm in the Australian wine industry could lead to improved business performance. Though the findings were related to this industry, the EO dimensions approach appears to be a worthwhile tool in entrepreneurship research. However, further studies will be required in other industries to validate this conclusion.
Repatriation in Australian organisations: why is it not considered critical to internationalisation?
Creators: name: Newton, Sarah
name: Hutchings, Kate
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Research has suggested that organisations that do not successfully repatriate their employees lose financially and developmentally from high rates of repatriate turnover and the loss of repatriates' international experience. While research has demonstrated that intense repatriation programs are the most effective means of countering these trends many organisations continue not to utilise repatriation programs or provide any tangible work or social support for repatriates and their families. This paper investigates factors that influence how likely Australian organisations are to utilise repatriation programs. The research was based on a quantitative survey of 52 organisations and follow-up in-depth semi-structured interviews with 10 HR managers. The findings reported herein refer specifically to the qualitative research in order to highlight not what organisations are doing in respect to repatriation, but why they make certain repatriation choices. The research concludes that while organisations theoretically recognise the importance of repatriation, they actually continue to provide insufficient support. Moreover, the findings suggest that the willingness of organisations to provide support for repatriates is directly related to the value that they place on internationalisation and the international experience.
Purchasing Power Parity In Sri Lanka During The Recent Float: Some Empirical Evidence Using Recent Econometric Techniques
Creators: name: Wickremasinghe, Guneratne B
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper investigates the purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis in Sri Lanka using exchange rates for six currencies during the recent float. Both univariate (Enders and Granger and Ng and Perron unit root tests) and multivariate techniques (asymmetric cointegration and error-correction models) are used in the empirical analysis. Enders and Granger unit root tests strongly support the PPP hypothesis for both CPI and WPI-based UK pound real exchange rates and weakly support the French franc real exchange rates. While results for the German mark are mixed, the real exchange rates for the Japanese yen, the US dollar and the Indian rupee provide no support for the PPP hypothesis. Ng-Perron tests provide strong support for the PPP hypothesis only for the UK pound for WPI-based real exchange rates. In the multivariate analysis, a PPP relationship is found only for the French franc and UK pound exchange rates. These results are consistent with univariate test results. It is also found that these two exchange rates have different adjustment patterns for positive and the negative gaps from the long-run PPP. However, the adjustment of the domestic and foreign price levels to positive and negative gaps from the long-run PPP is not statistically significant.
The challanges facing service exporters: lessons from the Victoria based transportation and travel sectors
Creators: name: Chan, Diana Chin Yen
name: Coulthard, Max
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research looked at the challenges facing service exporters. In a follow up to a larger survey, four organisations in the transport and travel sectors were interviewed. It was found that maintaining strategic competitiveness was their main reason for internationalisation. The organisations identified that exporting a service was fraught with difficulties. Whilst internal issues such as marketing objectives, staff and quality of service could be managed, many external factors such as changing customer needs, currency fluctuation and world events required implementing effective systems. None of the organisations were found interested in obtaining the assistance of government agencies to help their internationalisation. This research developed a framework on how governments could assist new service exporters to achieve international success.
Automatic time series forecasting: the forecast package for R
Creators: name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Khandakar, Yeasmin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Automatic forecasts of large numbers of univariate time series are often needed in business and other contexts. We describe two automatic forecasting algorithms that have been implemented in the forecast package for R. The first is based on innovations state space models that underly exponential smoothing methods. The second is a step-wise algorithm for forecasting with ARIMA models. The algorithms are applicable to both seasonal and non-seasonal data, and are compared and illustrated using four real time series. We also briefly describe some of the other functionality available in the forecast package.
Xavier, São Francisco, Obras Completas, Introd. de Mário Martins, SJ, Edições A. O., Edições Loyola, Braga, São Paulo (Brasil), 2006
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Non-standard Employment - when Even the Elite Are Precarious
Creators: name: McKeown, Tui
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Overall, themes of marginalisation and disadvantage dominate much of the literature on non-standard employment and the studies which underlie these themes are generally restricted to the temporary, casual and part time workforces. This paper presents results from a survey of 240 professional workers who have moved into arrangements of contract employment. A key focus of the paper is the establishment of the Push/Pull Matrix, a tool which analyses individuals' movement into non-standard employment in a way which explicitly recognises and deals with the relationship between both personal and situational factors. The survey results suggest that themes of marginalisation and disadvantage are just as relevant to the professional contractor as they are to other forms of non-standard employment.
Potential Applications of 2D Nanomaterials in Aerospace Engineering
Creators: name: Larson, Luin
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Graphene
nanomaterial
graphene applications

description: This paper identifies some of the exceptional qualities of graphene, examines potential applications, and performs a calculation of the relaxation deformation when the graphene is bonded to a substrate. Graphene is a two-dimensional lattice made of carbon atoms that can be formed into plates, ribbons, or coatings which exhibit extreme strength, low density, impermeability, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and increased fracture toughness. The many impressive qualities lend themselves to applications across the aerospace industry, including boil-off prevention, alloy strengthening, lightning strike protection, superconductivity, deicing, and toughness increasing. In order to be used, graphene must be bonded to its substrate correctly. For this reason, a model was created to examine graphene's relaxation deformation with varying shear traction, mismatch strain, and length. The model distinguished three types of bonding: mostly commensurate, Moiré superlattice, and incommensurate. For each set of variable values, the mode was noted, which enabled the creation of phase diagrams that outlined the parameters for achieving each type of bond.
Ladaria, Luis F., Jesucristo, salvación de todos, col. «Teología Comillas» 1, San Pablo, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, 2007
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Exporting Costs: A Key Factor in FDI Decisions for Australian Multinationals
Creators: name: Edwards, R. W.
name: Buckley, P. J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Australian industry has quickly extended its reach into international markets over the last fifteen years. Foreign Direct Investment has grown particularly quickly. This paper focuses on four questions: What motivates Australian multinationals to invest abroad? Why do they find the UK to be the most attractive location? Do the investments lead to a reduction in exporting? Does foreign production follow an export mode? Survey research showed exporting costs to play an important role in all these issues.
Moral, José Luis, Ciudadanos y cristianos. Reconstrucción de la Teología Pastoral como Teología de la Praxis Cristiana, col. «Pensar y creer», San Pablo, Madrid, 2007
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Coward, Harold (Ed. e Introd.), Los escritos sagrados en las religiones del mundo, col. «Biblioteca Manual Desclée» 52, Desclée de Brouwer, Bilbao, 2006
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Cruz, Juan de la, Subida del Monte Carmelo, Intr. de José Vicente Rodríguez, col. «Biblioteca clásicos cristianos», San Pablo, Madrid, 2007
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Fernández, Gonzalo – Jiménez, Gallardo, (Ed.), Los Franciscanos Conventuales en España, II Congreso Internacional sobre el Franciscanismo en la Península Ibérica, Asociación Hispánica de Estudios Franciscanos, Franciscanos Conventuales, Madrid, 2006
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Ratzinger, Joseph (Benedicto XVI), Fe y futuro, col. «Cristianismo y sociedad», Desclée de Brouwer, Bilbao, 2007
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Mena Salas, Enrique, «También a los griegos» (Hch 11,20). Factores del inicio de la misión a los gentiles en Antioquia de Siria, col. «Plenitudo temporis», Publicaciones Universidad Pontificia, Salamanca, 2007
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
title: Hunting for emerging polyfluorinated pollutants: from theoretical prediction to experimental detection
Creators: name: Li, Xiaolei
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: A large number of chemicals are manufactured, used, and ultimately released to the environment every year, but only a few are regulated. Some chemicals are recognized as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that are persistent, bioaccumulative, and can undergo long-range transport. Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) have continued to attract attention since perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonate were first identified as POPs. However, the environmental behaviors of other polyfluorinated chemicals, such as longer chain (mixed) halogenated n-alkanes (PXAs), have never been investigated, although these chemicals are widely used. The lack of experimental data has hindered the assessment of these chemicals. We have developed two strategies to better estimate the environmental fate of an unknown compound without sufficient experimental data. The first strategy presented is an approach using quantitative structure-property relationships, density functional theory (DFT), chemical fate models, and partitioning space to prioritize all possible PXAs. The results suggest that PXAs with elemental compositions characterized by a more significant number of carbon and fluorine atoms but fewer chlorine and bromine atoms may pose a risk. These chemicals are likely constituents of substances used as lubricants, plasticizers, and flame retardants. In the second strategy, we analyzed the potential of conceptual DFT descriptors (global electronegativity, electrophilicity index, hardness, and polarizability) to predict a chemical's environmental behavior. The model shows that chemicals with POPs potential tend to possess a discrete zone in spaces defined by these descriptors from those with less or no POPs potential. Fluorinated chemicals tend to have a higher hardness than other compounds, which may explain their potential to bind with proteins. The results of PXA research also underline the urgent need to identify and monitor these suspected pollutants, most appropriately using mass spectrometry. We demonstrated that the novel cyclic ion mobility-mass spectrometer (cIMS-MS), coupled with gas chromatography atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (GC-APCI), can reveal the presence of unknown PFASs based on the ratio of their mass and collision cross section. PFASs compounds are revealed without prior knowledge of their occurrence in dust samples using cIMS-MS data. The method also indicates the presence of chlorofluoro n-alkanes as an emerging class of "forever chemicals" that contaminate the indoor environment.
Some properties of tests for possibly unidentified parameters
Creators: name: Forchini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It is well known that confidence intervals for weakly identified parameters are unbounded with positive probability (e.g. Dufour, Econometrica 65, pp. 1365-1387 and Staiger and Stock, Econometrica 65, pp. 557-586), and that the asymptotic risk of their estimators is unbounded (Pötscher, Econometrica 70, pp.1035-1065). In this note we extend these “impossibility results” and show that uniformly consistent tests for weakly identified parameters do not exist. We also show that all similar tests of size 1/2α< concerning possibly unidentified parameters have type II error probability that can be as large as 1α−.
How do we read annual reports? A critical visual analysis
Creators: name: Greenwood, Michelle
name: Haylock, Brad
name: Uhlenbruch, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Despite recognition that companies intentionally use the visual design of their annual reports to rhetorically influence their readers, an integrated framework for critically analyzing the visual design of annual reports is yet to be realized. Preston, Wright and Young (1996, 2000) and Davison (2002, 2007) mark progress, but are limited to analysis of single rhetorical elements. Drawing from Roland Barthes' seminal Camera Lucida and Rhetoric of the Image, this study develops and applies a framework which enables a multifaceted critical analysis of the visual presentation of annual reports by considering, not only photography, but non-photographic images and the relationship between image and text.
Multicultural Tourism: the Need to Define and Develop the Globally Competent Manager
Creators: name: Townsend, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Globalisation and diverse populations have created the need for international business and multicultural management education. This paper reviews the changes required in management theory as it incorporates this ethnic market and the search for a paradigm relevant to the satisfaction of these students who have profoundly different cultural beliefs and traditions. Specifically, it considers the competencies required for multicultural management and methods for developing these competencies.
Novas tecnologias: meios de transmissão ou educação «paralela»?
Creators: name: Pereira, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Baseados na nossa experiência e formação contínua, enquanto docentes de Educação Moral e Religiosa Católica, no segundo e terceiro ciclos do Ensino Básico, exploramos algumas potencialidades e limitações de três ferramentas de comunicação on-line: edublog, podcast e plataforma e-learning moodle.
description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
In Defense of Contributory Negligence
Creators: name: Brito, Dagobert
name: Hartley, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The contributory negligence rule in tort law absolves an injurer from liability if the victim also was negligent. It has been replaced in many jurisdictions by a comparative negligence rule that attempts to assign liability in proportion to the lack of care. The change was originally motivated on equity grounds. However, it has recently been claimed that comparative negligence can encourage more appropriate levels of care. We argue that comparative negligence is likely to be less efficient than contributory negligence. In addition, the most efficient contributory negligence rule may also promote equity in the form of equal treatment of individuals in equivalent circumstances.
Muñoz León, Domingo, Apocalipsis, col. «Cometarios a la Nueva Biblia de Jerusalén», Desclée de Brouwer, Bilbao, 2007
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Trade Liberalisation and Productivity Growth: Time-Series Evidence From Australian Manufacturing
Creators: name: Chand, Satish
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper uses historical annual data for 27 years from 1968-9 on eight two-digit ANZSIC industries to assess the impact of the changes in industry assistance on economic efficiency. The empirical analysis shows that a one percent decline in the nominal rate of assistance leads to between 0.18 and 0.56 percent gain in multi-factor productivity, the latter our measure of economic efficiency. This finding has strong policy ramifications for the future of tariff reform in the manufacturing sector.
States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia
Creators: name: Lukito, Josephine
name: Cui, Zhe
name: Hu, An
name: Lee, Taeyoung
name: Ozawa, João V.S.
Publisher: name: Cogitatio
Year: 2022
Subjects: Asia
political repression
propaganda
protests
social movements

description: This study considers how governments use state‐sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so doing, exacerbate polarization. We specifically focus on cases in young and non‐democracies in East and Southeast Asia: China and Hong Kong, the Free Papua Movement in Indonesia, and Myanmar’s more recent coup. Using a time series analysis, our analysis reveals a temporal relationship between state propaganda and violence; however, we do not find much evidence that these state actions Granger‐cause social movement activities. The exception to this is in Myanmar, where we find that repressive state actions decrease activity in Facebook groups criticizing the Tatmadaw, which in turn increases offline protest activities.
Raising brand equity to generation Y
Creators: name: Lazarevic, Violet
name: Petrovic-Lazarevic, Sonja
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper points to the relevance and possible ways of increasing perception of brand equity for generation Y consumers. Generation Y is a cohort in today's market who does not accept traditional marketing methods; it is disloyal to brands; and has been largely ignored in current academic literature. We propose a theoretical framework to raise brand equity of this young generation based on importance of building relationships with the individuals, using integrated marketing communications to connect with the generation Y consumers emotionally, and segmenting the market properly to ensure that the messages are targeted to the right consumers.
Success to the Successful: the Use of Systems Thinking Tools in Teaching OB
Creators: name: Bardoel, E. Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper discusses the use of two systems thinking tools to the teaching of organizational behavior (OB) concepts and case studies. It is contended that the use of causal loop diagramming techniques and archetypes are a useful tool in assisting students to understand interdependencies, difficulties of implementation, impacts of assumptions, and to be provide further insights into OB concepts. This paper demonstrates the insights that systems thinking tools can provide by using the "Success to the successful" archetype as an example.
An assessment of alternative state space models for count time series
Creators: name: Snyder, Ralph D.
name: Martin, Gael M.
name: Gould, Phillip
name: Feigin, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper compares two alternative models for autocorrelated count time series. The first model can be viewed as a ‘single source of error’ discrete state space model, in which a time-varying parameter is specified as a function of lagged counts, with no additional source of error introduced. The second model is the more conventional ‘dual source of error’ discrete state space model, in which the time-varying parameter is driven by a random autocorrelated process. Using the nomenclature of the literature, the two representations can be viewed as observation-driven and parameter-driven respectively, with the distinction between the two models mimicking that between analogous models for other non-Gaussian data such as financial returns and trade durations. The paper demonstrates that when adopting a conditional Poisson specification, the two models have vastly different dispersion/correlation properties, with the dual source model having properties that are a much closer match to the empirical properties of observed count series than are those of the single source model. Simulation experiments are used to measure the finite sample performance of maximum likelihood (ML) estimators of the parameters of each model, and ML-based predictors, with ML estimation implemented for the dual source model via a deterministic hidden Markov chain approach. Most notably, the numerical results indicate that despite the very different properties of the two models, predictive accuracy is reasonably robust to misspecification of the state space form.
Reducing the incidence of adverse events in Australian hospitals: an expert panel evaluation of some proposals
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
name: McKie, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objective: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a method for identifying policy options for reducing adverse events in Australia’s hospitals, which could have been adopted, but was not adopted, in the wake of the landmark 1995 ‘Quality in Australian Health Care’ study, and to indicate the lapse time before these measures could be expected to have a major effect. Method: The study used a quasi Delphi technique that first elicited options for reducing adverse events from an expert panel and then collated and returned them for re-consideration and comment. Results: Completed responses from both stages were obtained from 20 experts selected on the basis of their expertise, position and publications in the area of adverse events and quality assurance. Forty-one options were identified with an average lapse time of 3.5 years. Hospital regulation had the least delay (2.4) years, and out of hospital information the greatest (6.4 years). Conclusion: Following identification of the magnitude of the problem of adverse events in the ‘Quality in Australian Health Care’ study a more rapid response was possible than occurred. Viable options for reducing adverse events remain.
Novo Presidente da Comissão Instaladora do Centro Regional de Braga da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e novo Director Adjunto da Faculdade de Teologia-Braga
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Tomás de Aquino, Suma Teológica, vol. IV: Seção I, Parte II, Questões 49-114; vol. V: II Seção da II Parte, Questões 1-56; vol. VI: II Seção da II Parte, Questões 57-122; vol. VII: II Seção da II Parte, Questões 123-189; vol. IX: III Parte, Questões 60-90
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Puig i Tàrrech (a cura de), Imatge de Déu, Associació Biblica de Catalunya – Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, Tarragona, 2006
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
From strategic alliances to learning alliances - the key to a sustainable competitive advantage
Creators: name: Morrison, Michael
name: Mezentseff, Larissa
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Strategic alliances are becoming an important means for survival for organization experiencing economic and or market decline. Strategic relationships guide firms to compromise between doing something themselves and achieving it through another organisation. Alliances provide opportunities for partners to cooperatively come together and create greater value rather than a basic commercial transaction. However, the key to future success may be within learning alliances. Learning alliances are strategic relationships which are based on creating an environment that encourages mutual and reflective learning between partners. This climate enhances the cooperativeness between partners which encourages a higher level of trust and commitment. Alliances that incorporate a conducive learning environment encourage partners to come together and effectively transfer knowledge, resources and information. Learning alliances are more likely to achieve sustainable long-term competitive advantages in a market place that is becoming more competitive and volatile. We present a learning framework which encourages the formation of successful cooperative strategic partnerships and discuss transaction cost minimisation as one of the implications of this relationship.
The Challenge Of Public Services In Private Ownership
Creators: name: Townsend, Peter
name: Mariappanadar, Sugumar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research examines empirically the relationship between organisation effectiveness, financial efficiency, work environment and structure in public and private organisations. The objective is to examine whether it is the public or private ownership that influences organisational effectiveness and financial efficiency or the contingency factors. Limited research exists, discerning the relationship between these essentially conceptual variables, and the subsequent lack of empirical data. Data was obtained from sixty-nine employees, in twelve private and eight public companies in Victoria, Australia, who completed organisation effectiveness and financial efficiency questionnaires. The relationship of the contributing factors for each major variable has been examined independently using regression analysis. Essentially, the findings support the academic basis of the presently espoused employment relations theories that private organisations will be more financially efficient and less centralised than public organisations, but question the conceptual theories concerning the relationship of effectiveness, efficiency, structure and work environment. Results do show that formalisation is a significant variable, but pointing different relationship directions in public and private companies.
Enterprise management in China's transitional economies
Creators: name: Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper is focused on changes in Chinese enterprise management during the transition from a centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. It reviews the management evolution in the industrial sector during Mao's regime (1949-78) and the revolution of management system and practices since the post-Mao economic reforms (1979 onwards). The impact of the Maoist Chinese model and economic reforms on the evolution and revolution of Chinese enterprise management is analysed and its implications for international business are briefly discussed.
Structured Analogies for Forecasting
Creators: name: Green, Kesten C.
name: Armstrong, J. Scott
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: When people forecast, they often use analogies, but in an unstructured manner. We propose a structured judgmental procedure that involves asking experts to list as many analogies as they can, rate how similar the analogies are to the target situation, and match the outcomes of the analogies with possible outcomes of the target. An administrator would then derive a forecast from the experts' information. We compared structured analogies with unaided judgments for predicting the decisions made in eight conflict situations. These were difficult forecasting problems; the 32% accuracy of the unaided experts was only slightly better than chance. In contrast, 46% of structured-analogies forecasts were accurate. Among experts who were independently able to think of two or more analogies and who had direct experience with their closest analogy, 60% of forecasts were accurate. Collaboration did not improve accuracy.
González Fabre, Raúl, Ética y Economía, col. «Ética de las profesiones», Desclée de Brouwer, Bilbao, 2005
Creators: name: Sepúlveda, A.
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
We're all ethical aren't we? A reflection on researcher values in organizational and management research
Creators: name: Lindorff, Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In recent years, relatively little organizational or management research has focused on personal welfare detached from economic or organizational performance. Similarly, the mainstream management literature has tended to overlook the social role and impact of organizations. This suggests the values underlying much of this research relate to the economic interests of capital rather than the "public interest" at individual, group, or societal level. Yet there has been little discussion or debate on this, or the relationship between the personal values of researchers and the context in which they work, and the researchers' ethical obligations to participants, organizations, and society. This paper discusses some of these issues, and reflects upon how this may have occurred.
Significance of recognition of Australian and Singaporean cross-cultural differences in the decision-making process
Creators: name: Grant, Sarah Germaine
name: Petrovìc-Lazarevìc, Sonja
name: Berrell, Mike
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A new phenomenon facing multi-national organizations in the new millennium today is globalisation. Globalisation implies that, in order to remain a prospective position in the world market, an organization has to sustain a competitive advantage. Many factors influence competitive advantage. One is an appropriate procedure for decision-making processes; that is to respond in time to actual situations in the world market. The appropriateness of the decision processes depends on the understanding of the cross-cultural differences of those who participate in the decision process. It seems to be of particular importance that managers understand how national culture supports an employees' decision. This paper is an attempt to clarify similarities and differences between Australian and Singaporean participants in decision processes. In this respect, the research has been done among Australian and Singaporean students of Monash University Faculty of Business and Economics. The conceptual framework is based on Hofstede's national culture dimensions, and Janis and Mann's conflict model. It introduces the correlation of cultural dimensions and dimensions of the conflict model. The results show that while national culture does play a part in the role of decision-making, each dimension of culture affects a different dimension of the conflict model.
Álvarez Tejerina, Ernestina y Pedro, Te ruego que me dispenses. Los ausentes del banquete eucarísitco, Nancea Ediciones, Madrid, 2006
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
Industrial Relations in the Latrobe Valley: Constructing Myths and Confounding Realities
Creators: name: Rainnie, Al
name: D'Urbano, Tina
name: Barrett, Rowena
name: Paulet, Renee
name: Grobbelaar, Mardelene
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No abstract supplied
Paternalism and corporate responsibility
Creators: name: Jonson, Elizabeth Prior
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper begins with the important philosophical distinction that has been made between strong and weak paternalism. It argues that strong paternalism and the "narrow" view of corporate social responsibility are incompatible. It argues (contra Crossley (1999), this journal) that the "wide" view of corporate social responsibility does not require that corporations act in a paternalistic manner. More interestingly, it argues that the "narrow" view presupposes the acceptance of a weak paternalism.
Stochastic dominance analysis of australian income distributions
Creators: name: Valenzuela, M. Rebecca
name: Lean, Hooi Hooi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We apply stochastic dominance tests to investigate trends in inequality in Australia over the period 1983 to 1998. Results show significant levels of inequalities in the income and expenditure distributions for the population as a whole as well as within population groups. We further find that the impact of the government’s tax and transfer redistribution scheme varied greatly among the different demographic groups. After tax and transfers are made, significant gains in welfare levels were observed for migrant and single-parents households compared to their non-migrant and couple-parent counterparts respectively. In contrast, welfare levels of male-headed households continue to dominate those of female households post tax and that there is limited government capacity for closing the existing gap in incomes and expenditures among households without children