Our academic seminars are a forum for our academic staff to collaborate, share and discuss relevant research and trends with their peers and broader academic community.
UQ Business School’s Process & Practice Studies (PPS) and Business Sustainability Initiative (BSI) presents a one-day workshop taking process and practice perspectives to address grand challenges.
The editorial team of the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) invites applications for a Paper and Idea Development Workshop to be hosted by The University of Queensland Business School in Brisbane on Thursday 2 April 2020.
‘They complain but they don’t do anything’: Complaining and complying in a university. In this seminar we address the common but rarely studied phenomenon of organizational complaining.
The course aims to develop the participants’ knowledge and skills in conducting qualitative research through exploring how various ideas on reflexivity can increase the quality and creativity of investigations.
The Business Sustainability Initiative at the University of Queensland in partnership with the Centre for Circular Economy at the University of Exeter would like to invite you to a workshop on applying circular economy principles to water usage in Australia.
UQ staff and higher degree by research students are invited to register for an exciting career development and networking session, hosted by the UQ Women in Business, Economics and Law (BEL) Network.
Publishing in high-profile, high-impact, academic journals has become increasingly challenging. Despite the conventions about what constitutes a strong theoretical contribution, it inevitably takes a long time for many academics to excel at publishing academic research.
We analyse the impact of cross-audits between companies and mutual funds on auditors’ reporting decisions. We document that companies are more likely to receive favourable audit opinions when they appoint the same auditor as their mutual fund blockholders.
Aim and background
Developing novel ideas are among the most significant and difficult parts of research. This workshop discusses different frameworks for novel theorizing, particularly for the generation of new, original and impactful ideas.
The efficient market hypothesis assumes that stock prices are solely dependent on the rational processing of information and, thus, cannot be predicted.
The paper shows, based on a case study of the production of a strategic plan at a fairly traditional university, the problems and potential meaninglessness of working with strategic plans in this type of setting, and possibly some others.
