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Editorial Board

Assoc Prof Peter Miller
Editor
Division of Business
Southern Cross University
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Prior to joining Southern Cross University in 1991, Peter had 18 years management experience in public and private sector organisations, most recently as Business Manager with a large public mining company. Previously, he worked as an industrial advocate and organisational analyst within New South Wales Government organisations.Peter holds a Bachelor of Business degree from the UTS and a Master of Business degree from UNE and a PhD in the area of managerial and organisational performance. He has been and continues to be involved in consultancy with a number of national and smaller organisations in the areas of leadership/management and organisational development
Prof Neil Leiper
School of Tourism & Hospitality Management
Southern Cross University
Neil Leiper is Professor of Tourism Managemement in the Business Division at Southern Cross University, where he teaches several subjects in Tourism and in Strategic Management, and also supervises post-graduate research students. He has two degrees from University of NSW and a PhD from Massey University. He is on the editorial boards for six international research journals. His most recent book is Tourism Management, 2nd edition, Pearson Education 2003.
Prof Phil Neck
Graduate College of Management
Southern Cross University
Philip Neck was appointed Professor of International Management and Development at Southern Cross University, NSW in 1994 and continues to serve the Graduate College of Management as an Adjunct Professor based at the Tweed Gold Coast Centre. He has experience in senior research management positions in private industry, universities and for international agencies, including the United Nations International Labour Organisation and the World Bank. His research interests include: Management Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Strategic Management and Small Enterprise Development. He is currently Senior Adviser (Management) and Chairman of the Editorial Board for the World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises based in India and is the Australian Co-ordinator for the World Academy of Productivity Science based in Canada.
Prof Don Scott
School of Commerce & Management
Southern Cross University
Don Scott is Professor of Management in the School of Commerce and Management at Southern Cross University where he lectures in Strategic Management, International Management, Marketing and Research Methods. His career has encompassed 22 years in business where he has held positions of technical manager, marketing director and managing director in multi-national businesses and 16 years in academe. He has been involved with postgraduate and undergraduate programmes at several different universities in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He has published numerous articles in international journals, in several different fields and has consulted to a number of large businesses and government organisations on strategic management, marketing and forecasting.

Editorial Advisory Board

Prof Steven Easton
Newcastle Business School
University of Newcastle
Steve Easton is Foundation Professor of Finance at the University of Newcastle where he has served as Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce. He is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a Senior Associate of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance. His work has been accepted for publication in a wide range of journals including The Journal of Futures Markets, Economica and the Journal of Banking and Finance.
Assoc Prof Allan Ellis
School of Social Sciences
Southern Cross University
Associate Professor Allan Ellis teachers post graduate coursework units in Adult Learning, Educational Technology, and Networked Learning and supervises Masters, DBA and PhD students. His current research interests are in the development of networked learning systems based on Internet and WWW technologies. This includes the underlying computer architecture and software as well as the psychological and instructional factors involved in the design and delivery of Web-based courseware in university, industry and community settings. He has published over 50 refereed book chapters, journal articles and conference papers and is currently President of the IW3C2 (http://www.iw3c2.org) and Conference Chair of the AusWeb conference series (http://ausweb.scu.edu.au)
Assoc Prof Michael Evans
Graduate College of Management
Southern Cross University
Michael Evans is an Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance in and Director of the Graduate College of Management at Southern Cross University in Australia. He teaches and researches in accounting, finance, management and strategic control, and strategic management in the MBA program and the executive development programs offered by the College. He has teaching experience across Australia, in Asia and in Europe through the Helsinki School of Economics. Michael has a wide range of business experience, with skills in managing, consulting, teaching and research. His current research focuses on venture capital, initial public offerings of shares, and privatisation with emphasis on strategies for value creation within organisations.
Dr Jennifer Harrison
School of Commerce & Management
Southern Cross University
Dr Jennifer Harrison lectures in the School of Commerce and Management at Southern Cross University and has taught in the areas of accounting, finance, economics and research methods. Jennifer obtained her undergraduate degree from Southern Cross University with first class honours and was awarded the University Medal. Her recently completed PhD research, undertaken through the University of New England, compared universalistic, contingency and configurational theories of information use in small service firms. As methodological consultant and data analyst, Jennifer has been actively involved in a wide range of consulting projects covering banking, agricultural and sporting industries.
Dr Nerilee Hing
School of Tourism & Hospitality Management
Southern Cross University
Dr Nerilee Hing (B.Bus. Tourism, M.App.Sc., Ph D Gambling Studies) is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Southern Cross University. Her teaching relates to food and beverage management, strategic management, entrepreneurship, gambling, and club management. She is on editorial boards for the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management and the International Gambling Studies journal. Nerilee has published widely in tourism and hospitality journals and has conducted numerous consulting and research projects for industry. She is an active researcher into gambling-related issues, principally focusing on responsible provision of gambling and the management of problem
gambling.
Prof Ken Parry
Graduate School of Management
Griffith University
Ken Parry is a Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management at Griffith University. Prior to this position he was Director of the Centre for the Study of Leadership at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The Centre is a joint venture with the New Zealand College of Management. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and of the Australian Human Resources Institute. Ken has authored numerous refereed publications, conference papers and professional articles and reports on leadership, HRM and organisational behaviour. Prior to entering academia, Ken worked for 9 years in private industry with the Hunter Douglas group of companies as an inventory manager in the manufacturing sector.
Prof Philip Poh
Singapore Instiute of Purchasing and Materials Management
Professor Poh is an adjunct Professor of Southern Cross University and the current chief executive of the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management. He is the Editorial Advisor to the World Markets Research Centre, which publishes the Global Business Briefings. Dr Poh is the Vice-Chairman of the World Purchasing Research Institute and has been a board member of the International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management since 1997. Dr Poh is a renowned academic researcher and is currently an External Examiner at the University of Wales (UK). He had previously served on the ISO Certification Council at the International Standards Certification.
Assoc Prof Elisabeth Porter
University of Ulster
Northern Ireland
Associate Professor Elisabeth Porter is editor of Ethic Conflict Research Digest. She has taught Politics, Sociology and Women's Studies in Northern Ireland and in three Australian Universities. She has three books, Feminist Perspectives on Ethics (1999), Building Good Families in a Changing World (1995), and Women and Moral Identity (1991). Additionally, she has published chapters, articles and reports in the areas of feminist political theory, citizenship, the challenges of dialogue across difference, and women, peace and conflict zones.
Assoc Prof Shankar Shankaran
Graduate College of Management
Southern Cross University
Shankar comes to academia with more than thirty years of experience in management positions in Asia, the Middle East and Austrlaia. His doctoral research was an action research study of Management Learning in a Japanese MNC in Singapore where he was a Director. He is the Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research at the Graduate College of Management and the College of Action Research, the academic coordinator for the IT specialization for the MBA courses and member of the Management Committee of the Aged Services Learning and Research Collaboration at SCU.Shankar teaches knowledge management, project management, management information systems and supervises PhD, DBA and Masters students in his areas of teaching and research. Shankar has presented and published refereed papers, acts a doctoral examiner for several Universities in Australia, peer reviews papers for journal and conferences and is on the editorial board of the Action Research International and the editorial advisory board of the Action Research Journal published by Sage.
Assoc Prof Keith Sloan
School of Commerce & Mangement
Southern Cross University
Keith Sloan is an associate professor in the School of Commerce and Management at Southern Cross University. His research has an emphasis on logistics and supply chain innovation, small business and entrepreneurship. This includes influencing the establishment of the World Purchasing Research Institute that provides development and support of research and new courses in logistics and supply chain management.
His other teaching and research interests range from environmental management and the recreation use of national parks to the evolution and operation of international financial markets. He also has a keen interest in investment appraisal and funds management.
Dr Terry Sloan
College of Law & Business
University of Western Sydney
Dr Sloan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, College of Law & Business, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Dr Sloan' s major areas of research are manufacturing management, quality management, technology management, business communications and networking. Recent research has concentrated on quality management with an emphasis on statistical quality control and manufacturing management. Terry has also undertaken several consulting projects in the areas of business communications/training and quality systems development for both manufacturing and service industries.
Emeritus Prof Sandra Speedy
Southern Cross University
Sandra Speedy is an Emeritus Professor of Southern Cross University. Her experience in the higher education sector spans 26 years, teaching, publishing, researching and administering a range of educational programs at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society, registered with the New South Wales Psychologists' Registration Board; and a Fellow of the College of Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Nurses.Her current research interests include leadership, particularly that which is dysfunctional, women in management, organisational cultures and organisational change, power and politics within organisations, the ethical dimensions of organisations; bullying behaviour and emotions in organisations.
Dr Carmen Tideswell
Graduate College of Management
Southern Cross University
Carmen Tideswell is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing in the Graduate College of Management at Southern Cross University. She currently teaches in the areas of marketing; services marketing and retail marketing and management. She has taught in, and managed, academic programs in universities over the past ten years in marketing, tourism, hospitality, business planning and entrepreneurship. Her PhD was in tourism marketing. Her industry experience has included marketing positions in the hotel industry and consulting projects for the tourism and hospitality industry. Her current research interests include marketing and consumer behaviour issues, particularly relating to consumer loyalty; tourism marketing; and consumer online shopping behaviour.
Mr Peter Vitartas
School of Commerce & Management
Southern Cross University
Peter Vitartas is a marketing lecturer in the School of Commerce and Management at Southern Cross University. His research interests are in the areas of consumer behaviour, marketing research, non-profit and services marketing and community and economic development. Peter's PhD investigated patterns of time use and media consumption. He has a Master of Business by research in which he investigated changes in the level of perceived risk across the goods-service continuum and an undergraduate degree in marketing. Prior to joining Southern Cross University Peter worked in marketing and product management for both consumer and industrial companies in Australian and England.
Prof Robert Waldersee
School of Management
Queensland University of Technology
Robert Waldersee is Professor of Management at Queensland University of Technology. Previously he was Director of the Australian Centre in Strategic Management (ACSM) in the School of Management, Faculty of Business at QUT and research fellow at the Australian Graduate School of Management. He completed his PhD studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Robert's research work in the US and Australia has focused on the leadership of knowledge and service organisations undergoing change. He has published numerous chapters, and papers in international journals on leadership and the management of service quality. Robert has consulted on strategic leadership and change to several international organisations in Australia and in the United States (for example, Southern Pacific Hotels, Telstra, Fairfax, Australian College of Health Services Executives, Burger King), as well as to Federal and State government agencies (for example, RAAF, National Industry Extension Service, Department of Primary Industries and Energy).
Assoc Prof Michelle Wallace
Graduate College of Management
Southern Cross University
Michelle Wallace has had thirty years continuous experience in education and human resource development. Michelle's recent research has encompassed human resource development and labour market issues, aged services needs in relation to regional and rural Australia, organisational change in local government, women in management, career development of professionals and cross cultural teaching and learning.
Dr Jun Xu
Graduate College of Management
Southern Cross University
Dr Xu is a lecturer of information systems in the Graduate College of Management at the Southern Cross University, Australia. Jun earned his Bachelor of Engineering (1992) from University of Petroleum, China, and received his MBA (1999) and PhD (2003) degrees from Curtin University of Technology, Australia. He has various working experience in teaching, research, IT support, administration, sales and management in Australia and Asian countries. His research interests are generally in Knowledge Management & Knowledge Management Systems, Diffusion of IS/IT, Electronic Business/Electronic Commerce, Enterprise Systems, and Cross-cultural IS/IT management.
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