Showcasing our research, engagement and impact
Welcome to the Department of Management's showcase of high-impact research. Explore our research summaries, industry impact projects, and recent high-ranking journal articles below to delve into examples of our work and how it reflects our commitment to excellence innovation and addressing pressing societal challenges.
Could I have served my follower better?
Training leaders to serve through counterfactual thinking.
Proverbs as a force in CSR dialogue: Lessons from Vietnam
How proverbs reshape Corporate Social Responsibility communication in the global south.
Ultra-fresh fashion: Creating demand with freshness and agility
Freshness boosts firm profit, consumer surplus, but damages the environment.
An explainability-oriented approach to manage dependent supply chain risks
Developing a fit-for-purpose solution that improves supply–demand accuracy through real-time visibility of material flows.
Gig-workers and supply chains
Investigating the shift of work out of organisations and into gig-work in supply chains.
Ready-made garment procurement and supply chain responsibilities
Examining international sourcing practices and working conditions in the ready-made garment industry.
Breaking the Chain: How unethical practices damage supplier relationships
Unethical customer practices harm supplier relationships despite dependency dynamics.
7 ways employers can respond to help calm the fear of COVID-19
How did employers respond to the fear of COVID-19 to create inclusive workplaces?
Adapt, or learn to live in a dirty economy?
The clean economy. Will it be possible, or is it a myth we like to tell ourselves?
Burnout: The advent of the modern brain drain?
Understanding how people can recover from career burnout may be just as difficult as unravelling the root cause.
Catching the polluters
A new study shows how company financial reports may hold the answers to identifying polluters.
Do friends matter at work?
High-quality friendships at work help create thriving employees.
Empowering South Asian women as entrepreneurs to close the gender gap
Could entrepreneurship help Sri Lankan women battle the gender pay gap?
Five ways to reboot your organisation and develop diverse leaders
Following the disruption of COVID-19, organisations should resist returning to leadership as usual.
Four ways companies can remain competitive
Need to offer more innovative services? Here’s how companies can do it.
Global garment industry bears the brunt of COVID supply chain woes
Examining how vulnerable workers in developing nations have been impacted by COVID-19 interrupting global supply chains.
Great expectations: How gender bias is limiting women in leadership
Are women leaders receiving the same support as their male counterparts? No, says PhD candidate Karryna Madison.
Guaranteed basic income from the perspective of self‐determination theory
Addressing the myths of universal basic income using self-determination theory.
How a Machiavellian approach could boost your career
Handling your emotions at work may help you navigate the complex political waters in office environments.
How do we fix STEM’s brain drain?
Why do our best and brightest continue to leave the STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and maths?
How to avoid envious hostility in the workplace
What happens when your team feel envious of your working relationship with your manager?
Is good leadership bad for the wellbeing of leaders?
Employees like leaders who put the needs of their teams first. But this can take an emotional toll.
Mental health – two small words, one very big cost
Uncovering the economic and human cost of mental illness and suicide.
Moving towards a circular economy
Uncover what's driving the move from the linear economy towards a more sustainable circular economy.
Operational decisions to curb emissions
Material efficiency and cleaner production technologies play a significant role in helping to curb industrial emissions and pollutants.
Rethinking what talent looks like
Two of the world's largest economies are supported by a young workforce that is eager to succeed.
Securing future jobs for those with autism depends on what we do next
A world-first global study investigates future employment opportunities for people diagnosed on the autistic spectrum.
Selection, experience and satisfaction with ISO 9001 certification body and auditors
This research investigates how firms seeking ISO 9001 certification select an appropriate certification body.
Shifting the conversation on workplace gender equality
A ground-breaking program includes male leaders and harnessing the power of allyship to bridge the gender gap.
Surviving or thriving? Beyond the daily grind
We investigate what it takes for both individuals and organisations to flourish.
The inside story of how the AFL tackled its racism
The AFL used collaborative governance to address the racial vilification of Indigenous players.
The power of subsidiary initiatives: Balancing autonomy and accountability in global corporations
Unravelling the mysteries of subsidiary initiatives within multinational enterprises (MNEs).
The truth about workplace revenge
We explore the various reasons people spread potentially harmful rumours at work.
The ‘truth’ about ‘bullsh*t’ and why we do it at work
Studying why people lie reveals a lot about motivations, particularly in the workplace.
Tightly managing hospital beds during the pandemic helped those most in need
During the COVID-19 pandemic, patient care was improved by dynamically steering bed allocation and a subsidy scheme.
Unearthing the hidden emissions lurking in supply chains
Can manufacturers and suppliers identify greenhouse gas emissions in a way that is mutually beneficial for their businesses?
Volunteering is declining. How can we reverse the trend?
An innovative industry partnership with tech start-up VOLI could hold the key to saving our struggling volunteer sector.
Want to build an ethical work culture? Try backing off
Research reveals ethical behaviour thrives in environments of trust, not constant surveillance.
We’re cut off, but how deep should this moat be?
Caught between one very tetchy trade partner and another flailing superpower. We’re lost in the world.
What kind of leaders will Generation Z want?
Are authoritarian, charismatic leaders right for the future? Or will the coming generations call for something different?
What motivates people to volunteer and how do you manage them?
What drives Australian volunteers to contribute over 700 million hours of labour every year?
Why wicked CEOs prevail: Dark personality traits of the executive suite
Why do narcissistic, wicked CEOs seem to win?
Work process change in hospital services
How process re-engineering in hospitals in Australia and Canada impact staff and patient care.
You got that pay rise – so why are you disappointed? Here are four reasons
Why don't high-performing employees always react with joy when they receive a pay increase?
Boosting food security: Reducing food loss and waste
Growing populations coupled with urbanisation have changed food trade and consumption patterns.
Building climate resilience through agroecology
Empowering agroecology practitioners globally to address urgent climate change warnings and ensure livelihood security through climate-resilient agriculture.
Building resilience in agri-food systems in Asia
Building resilience in agri-food systems in Asia through sustainable and equitable practices.
Driving change in workplace health and safety through collaborative research
Partnering with WorkSafe Victoria and the Institute for Safety to improve workplace safety and support workers in high-risk industries.
Inspiring sustainable careers: Bridging the gap between education and workplace practices
Bridging sustainability education and workplace action to empower students and benefit businesses through real-world experiences and industry engagement.
Lean, green and digital hospital practices
How we’re helping Indian hospitals meet growing demand through lean, green and digital practices.
Mobilising trade unions: Building equity in the garment supply chain workplaces in Bangladesh
We are collaborating with unions and NGOs to advocate for women's rights in the garment sector.
Reducing manufacturing waste: Accelerating the adoption of circular economy practices
Empowering Victoria's manufacturing industry to adopt circular economy practices, cutting waste by 29%.
Sparking the circular economy in Melbourne's manufacturing industry
Supporting circular economy adoption in plastics, textiles, general engineering and food manufacturing.
Transforming management education: Developing students’ coping through transition pedagogy
Pioneering transformative teaching methods to ease students' transition to university and improve academic performance and recognition.
A data-driven optimisation approach for reusing electric vehicles batteries
Revolutionary data models are being developed to enhance the accuracy of quality estimations for recycled batteries EV batteries.
An integrative review of management research on caste: Broadening our horizons
A framework defining caste as a hierarchy, inherited membership, and social practices, to help understand caste’s impact.
Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities
This study explores how higher crime rates in Australian communities significantly reduce the inclination for entrepreneurship.
Developing and harnessing historical sensibility to overcome the influence of dominant logics: A pedagogical model
Breaking the cycle of mistakes by teaching how to evaluate, select, and analyse historical documents.
Does FDI have a social demonstration effect in developing economies? Evidence based on the presence of women-led local firms
Establishing the effect foreign companies have on the proportion of entrepreneurial women.
Global work in a rapidly changing world: Implications for MNEs and individuals
Examining the post-COVID trends and challenges affecting work being conducted by multinational enterprises.
Good intentions, bad behavior: A review and synthesis of the literature on Unethical Prosocial Behavior (UPB) at work
Critically reviewing the literature on unethical prosocial behaviour in the workplace.
Guaranteed basic income from the perspective of self-determination theory
Exploring the controversial idea of providing every citizen with an unconditional living wage.
Impact of the US–China trade war on the operating performance of US firms: The role of outsourcing and supply base complexity
Showing how trade friction impacts firms' performance and offers insights for supply chain and trade policy.
Intimate partner violence and business: Exploring the boundaries of ethical enquiry
This paper argues that gender equality research should be context-sensitive accounting for cultural traditions and institutional arrangements.
Managerialist control in post-pandemic business schools: The tragedy of the new normal and a new hope
Questioning why academic leaders reimposed controls post-COVID.
Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research
Addressing challenges in researching corruption due to its secretive and illegal nature.
Responsible audit and consumer awareness under collusion risk
Revealing how collusion between suppliers and auditors affects firms' contracting strategies and supply chain compliance.
Seduced by technology? How moral agency is mediated by the invisibility of everyday technologies
Introducing postphenomenology to organisation studies to explore how moral agency is influenced by everyday technologies.
Social comparison inside business groups and strategic change: Evidence from group-affiliated Chinese firms
How companies compare their performance against their group peers, rather than against industry peers.
Sustainable Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, employee resilience and employee outcomes: Toward common good values
Exploring how sustainable HRM practices enhance employee resilience, leading to greater work engagement and improved performance.
The face of wrongdoing? An expectancy violations perspective on CEO facial characteristics and media coverage of misconducting firms
CEOs with lower facial width-to-height ratios are seen as more trustworthy and attract greater media attention and criticism.
The impact of communist ideology on the patenting activity of Chinese firms
We explore why Maoist communist ideology influences the behaviour of Chinese leaders who are Communist Party members.