School of Business
Accounting and Finance
Accounting
The effectiveness of interactive multimedia as a learning aid to accounting and finance students.Financial models for plantations of high value rainforest cabinet timbers in North Queensland.
Effects of reforestation on land values.
Timber marketing and resource rent allocation within the forestry sector.
Employer and student perceptions in the value and structure of work experience programs in accounting.
Environmental Accounting.
Issues in accounting for forestry assets.
Small Business and Government Policy.
Management Accounting in hotels.
Staff turnover in Queensland accounting firms.
Student motivations, learning strategies and course design.
Finance
Integration of national capital markets.Investors’ recognition of the multi-national dimension of Australian listed companies.
Operating exposure to Foreign Exchange Risk.
Efficiency of local markets.
Information Systems
The application of expert systems software to determine its robustness and value in the business environment.Changing employment structures for the IS Profession.
The impact of technology on the North Queensland Beef Industry.
A methodology for the determination of the separability of coral reef environmental features using image analysis techniques on digitised aerial photography.
Decision support systems for forestry investment.
Economics
Consumer finance
Buy Australian
Non-pecuniary aspects of valuation
Sustainable management of tropical savannas
Microeconomic reform and employment
Environmental economics
Comparisons of growth and living standards
Production under uncertainty
Environmental management charges and tourism
Microeconomic reform
Health economics
Economics of non-urban medicine
Economics of Australian Indigenous issues and communities
Theoretical economics
Management
Management staff have diverse
research interests in the area of management, including: marketing, human
resource management, corporate planning, strategic management, international
business, small business management and studies of women in management;
studies of the analysis of effective leaders of small groups; the
role of Total Quality management systems. Interests in entrepreneurship, organisational
theory and behaviour, regional development strategies and business
ethics are also prominent.
A research interest in the area of management education
and pedagogical issues is also being developed.
Tourism
Specific areas of research interest include:
tourist motivation
consumer behaviour
community attitudes/impacts
interpretation
ecotourism
industry training needs
specialist accommodation
cultural tourism (aboriginal
emphasis)
international tourism
(Korea and general Asian interests)
managing natural resources
government policy
market segmentation
special interest tourism
(including outback tourism)
tourist map design
reef and rainforest tourism.
Substantial research programs are under way in conjunction with the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management and the Cooperative Research Centre for Ecologically Sustainable Development of the Great Barrier Reef.
Recent research interests and support have been extended to Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas and Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism.
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