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;
Public sector accounting in Queensland;
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;
Implementing and creating e-commerce business systems.
Economics
Consumer finance;
Buy Australian;
Non-pecuniary aspects of valuation;
Sustainable management of tropical savannas;
Microeconomic reform and employment;
Microeconomic reform;
Economics of non-urban medicine;
Economics of Australian Indigenous issues and
communities;
Effects of GST on consumers.
Management
Employee empowerment programs;
Implementing e-business systems using demand change management;
Sports marketing;
Retailing atmospheres and consumer behaviour;
Effects of management practices on employee attitudes, motivation
and performance;
Industrial relations in non-unionised firms;
Human resource management in the hospitality and tourism
industries;
Technology innovation and implementation;
Environmentally sustainable business practices;
Gender aspects of leadership;
Strategic management in non-profit organisations;
Performance appraisal practices;
Organisational ethics and climate;
Public sector management;
Human resource planning;
Employee attitude survey design;
Foreign direct investment in Asian businesses;
Regional distribution and logistics in the Asian tourism industry;
International joint ventures in emerging markets;
Service quality.
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.