FACULTY OF BUSINESS
RESEARCH NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 5 – JUNE 2014
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Welcome
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Did You Know?
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Current Projects
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Staff Profile:
Bede Harris
Rui Bi
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Recent Travel
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New RA Launch
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Congratulations
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Professional
Development
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WELCOME
This issue of the Faculty of Business Research Newsletter showcases the breadth of the
collaborative research being undertaken within the Faculty of Business. This newsletter
illustrates that projects are being undertaken between researchers within Schools,
between Faculties and across Universities. Several of the projects outlined in this issue
also demonstrate that an increasing amount of our research also involves international
collaborations.
This edition also introduces a new Faculty of Business Research Area (RA), The
Australian Indigenous Leadership and Entrepreneurship RA. The RA will be led by Dr
Michelle Evans who has recently come to CSU from the Melbourne Business School
(see the previous issue of the Research Newsletter for more information on Michelle).
The RA will focus on better understanding leadership and entrepreneurship, with a
particular interest in the convergence between entrepreneurship and leadership and its
implications for firm performance. I recently had the pleasure of attending and speaking
at the launch of the RA in Sydney which was attended by many Indigenous leaders and
entrepreneurs from both Sydney and Canberra. I also had the honour of listening to the
key note address given by African- American author and businessman Mr Clifton
Taulbert; the address was both motivating and inspirational. The launch certainly bodes
well for the future research activity of this Research Area.
This edition also features articles that can assist you with your research, developing
collaborations and other aspects of high-quality research. On that note, I encourage you
to take advantage of the assistance available to you from our newly appointed Grants
Liaison and Development Officer, Deborah Munns. Deborah is able to assist you with the
various aspects of the research grant process, including helping to find you a grant.
Don’t forget to check what is coming up in the area of professional development.
Professor Mark Morrison
Sub-Dean Research
Publishing in the
Right Journal
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CRO – What’s In It
For Me?
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Publications
Next Issue: The next issue will be published in September 2014. To contribute or
suggest a story, please email Deborah Munns of the Faculty of Business Research Office
at [email protected]
DID YOU KNOW?
Research Grant Development Assistance Now Available
The Faculty of Business (FoB) now employs a Grants
Liaison and Development Officer who will work with
researchers within the FoB to develop high quality
grant applications and help to build relationships with
funding bodies.
The FoB Grants Liaison and Development Officer can
help with most things that happen before the start of
the actual research project, including:
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Help with searching for funding opportunities,
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Help with liaising with granting agencies and
potential government or industry partners,
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Proposal development and preparation,
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Locating necessary information,
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Review of draft applications,
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Editing of applications,
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Negotiating/navigating funding body electronic
submission systems, and
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Budget advice and preparation.
However, The FoB Grants Liaison and Development
Officer cannot write the grant application for you.
Contact the FoB Grants Liaison and Development
Officer, Deborah Munns on [email protected] or
ext 86168.
Research Professional Development
CSU’s Research Office coordinates
a variety of professional
development programs for
Researchers, HDR Candidates and
HDR Supervisors. Many programs
can be completed on-line and most only take an hour
or two. Researchers can register on
[email protected] for a professional
development program.
Additional programs are continually being included in
the schedule. To make a suggestion for a future
workshop topic that may meet your particular need,
please contact the CSU Research Office.
Publication Hall of Fame
A Publications Hall of Fame
has been installed in each of
the buildings occupied by the
Faculty of Business. There
are two Hall of Fame boards
on the Bathurst and Wagga
Wagga campuses and one
board on the Albury campus.
The Hall of Fame aims to
showcase the high quality publications being published
by researchers within the Faculty of Business.
Publications that have a high journal ranking (or
equivalent) are eligible to be displayed on the Hall of
Fame.
If you have recently published a paper that may be
displayed on the Hall of Fame please send a PDF of
the journal article to [email protected]
CURRENT PROJECTS
Charmed by celebrity
Dr Abhishek Dwivedi, from the School of Management
and Marketing, along with Prof. Lester Johnson of
Charles Sturt University and Prof. Bob McDonald of
Texas Tech University (USA), has been investigating
the effects of celebrity endorsements.
Celebrity
endorsement activity is used globally to influence
consumer perceptions of brands. Specifically, the
team have been investigating the effects of celebrity
endorsers on consumer behavioural outcomes such as
perceptions of relationship quality as well as brand
equity. Some of the mechanisms that the team are
exploring have been mostly absent from the
advertising literature to date, and hence the team’s
studies are likely to yield interesting and useful
insights.
In the first phase of the
research the team collected
data in India, a country which
has a large market for
celebrity
endorsements.
Additionally, there are only a
few published studies which
have
investigated
the
perceptions of Indian consumers towards such
endorsements. In this phase, the team modelled the
effect of celebrities on consumers’ perceptions of
brand relationship quality, captured as trust,
commitment and social benefits.
The results
supported the team’s expectations, suggesting that
celebrity endorsers impact consumer’s perceived
relationships with an endorsed brand; a finding that is
novel in the literature.
In the second phase of the research, the team
collected data in the United States of America where
celebrities are regularly featured in advertisements.
The team is currently examining direct and indirect
mechanisms of how celebrity endorsers influence
brand equity. Within the context of sports drink
industry, the team has observed that celebrity
endorsers impact brand equity both directly and
indirectly. Furthermore, the effectiveness of celebrities
is contingent upon the degree of perceived matchup
between a celebrity and an endorsed brand. The
study is currently under review by the Journal of
Advertising.
A paper based on the Indian phase of the study was
recently accepted in the International Journal of
Advertising. The paper is expected to appear online
and in print later this year.
Dr Abhishek Dwivedi
Professor Lester Johnson
Project helps regional governments plan for the future
A group of economists led by Professor John Hicks, of
the School of Accounting and Finance, is conducting a
multi-pronged staged approach to analysing the
structural changes occurring in regional Australia. The
project aims to provide information that will be useful
for all levels of government and other stakeholders in
assessing the extent and nature of the structural
change that is occurring in regional areas throughout
Australia, especially those affected by a decline in
manufacturing.
The first stage of the project involves a shift share
employment analysis of the 105 sectors in the 46 SA4
non-metro regions of Australia for the census periods
of 2006 and 2011.
The second part of the study will utilise a key sector
analysis in an input-output framework using the SIRE
economic model. Once the key sectors are identified
then the overall performance and outlook for the region
can be assessed.
In combination the shift-share and key sector analysis
will provide a rigorous understanding of the structural
changes occurring in regional Australia. The Central
West Region of NSW is being utilised as a pilot case
study.
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Topical research attracts significant media attention
Associate Professor Yeslam Al-Saggaf, from CSU's
School of Computing and Mathematics, and Ms
Sharon Nielsen, Director of the Quantitative Consulting
Unit in the CSU Research Office recently published a
paper ‘Self-disclosure on Facebook among female
users and its relationship to feelings of loneliness’ in
the Journal of Computers in Human Behaviour.
"Revealing this information publicly on social
networking sites is a concern," Dr Al-Saggaf said.
"Coupled with other information, such as Relationship
Status and Favourite Movies, which 'lonely' people
also tended to disclose, the potential for harm from
stalking and harassment, for example, is real and
possibly serious" states Dr Al-Saggaf.
The research examined if there was a relationship
between loneliness and self-disclosure on social
networking sites. They studied data collected from
more than 600 female Facebook users whose profiles
were publicly available online. Half of the users were
categorised as ‘connected’ and the remaining half
were categorised as ‘lonely’ based on clearly stating
this feeling in their latest wall posting. The researchers
examined the amount of information that both groups
revealed and found that the 'lonely' users disclosed
more personal and relationship information publicly
than the 'connected' users.
The research has attracted significant media attention
with over 200 media outlets approaching Dr Al-Saggaf
for interviews and comments. The Journal has ranked
the article in the top 5% of all articles published in the
journal for attention received. Articles have been
published in over ten languages including Mandarin,
Spanish and Polish. Articles were published in the
Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, The
Daily Mail UK, and even the Australian Women’s
Weekly.
High performance computer broadens research capabilities
Dr Manoranjan Paul recently purchased a high
performance computer with extensive storage
capability with funding assistance provided by the
Executive Dean of The Faculty of Business. The
Macro Pro 3.0GHZ Apple system has significantly
broadened the research capabilities of Dr Paul and
those of his PhD students.
One area of expansion is hyperspectral imaging as it
requires a high degree of performance capacity and
large data storage capabilities. Hyperspectral imaging
collects and processes information from across the
electromagnetic spectrum. The analysis of spectral
signatures enables the identification of the materials
that make up a scanned object.
Handheld imagers are now quite affordable and can be
applied to research in a broad range of fields including
mineralogy, agriculture and pollution emission levels.
Dr Paul’s research will principally focus on two areas,
one is high performance compression, and the other
one is spectral un-mixing. The research will focus on
improving the hyperspectral imaging process itself by
reducing the problems involved in data transmission
and storage. Dr Paul and his team will work on image
compression through wavelet transformation and linear
prediction techniques. The team aims to develop
information theory to compress hyperspectral videos
with high compression without sacrificing the quality of
the data.
Spectrums of hyperspectral images (Zhou 2014)
After the initial investigatory work, Dr Paul and his
team plan to apply for Australian Research Council
funding to enable additional research in this expanding
field.
Dr Manoranjan Paul
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STAFF PROFILE
Dr Bede Harris
Dr Bede Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Law
Discipline Head, based at the Albury – Wodonga
Campus. Bede’s teaching areas are business and
corporations law.
Bede has very international qualifications having
received his first degree in History and Ancient History
& Archaeology from Trinity College, University of
Dublin. He then obtained an LLB from Rhodes
University in South Africa, followed by a DPhil from the
University of Waikato in New Zealand.
Bede’s academic career has also followed an
international path having begun at the University of
Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and continued
at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. In
Australia, Bede taught at the University of Canberra
prior to moving to CSU in late 2010.
book and a journal article based on a public survey he
commissioned about the attitudes of Australians to
constitutional reforms. The survey asked respondents
their views on key issues such as civics education,
proportional representation, a Bill of Rights, ministerial
responsibility, federalism and a republic. Bede has
been using his SSP to complete the analysis and
undertake additional research at the National Library in
Canberra. The book will predominantly discuss the
results of the survey and prospects for constitutional
reform.
Since arriving at CSU Bede has published six journal
articles and a book. Bede has published in a variety of
areas including Indigenous legal issues and
corporations law.
In 2013, Bede’s book titled ‘Freedom, Democracy and
Accountability – A Vision for a New Australian
Constitution’ was launched at CSU’s Albury Wodonga campus by former High Court Justice
Michael Kirby. The Hon. Michael Kirby also wrote the
forward for the book. Bede commented ‘it was
amazingly generous of him, given the many demands
on his time. He was quite an amazing person to meet,
possessing a great intellect, but also kindly and with a
keen sense of humour”.
Bede’s childhood in Zimbabwe and his years living in
South Africa led to a keen interest in constitutional law
and human rights. Indeed, when Bede began his
lecturing career in South Africa it was during a period
of great political ferment where discussions were
dominated by what type of constitution a new South
Africa should have.
In 2001 Bede was awarded a Fulbright Senior
Fellowship and attended the American Studies
Institute at the Meyner Centre for the Study of
Government at Lafayette College in Easton,
Pennsylvania, where teachers of constitutional law
from a variety of jurisdictions studied US constitutional
law, before travelling in the south-west of the United
States to study Native American self-government.
Bede is currently on Special Studies Program (SSP)
leave until late June. He is in the process of writing a
Dr Bede Harris and The Hon Michael Kirby at the book launch of
Bede’s book in 2013.
Away from CSU, Bede loves to read history books,
and he also enjoys watching movies, particularly those
with a historic element.
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STAFF PROFILE
Dr Rui Bi
Dr Rui Bi is a Lecturer in Management with the School
of Management and Marketing based at the Albury
campus. She lectures in the areas of Strategic
Management, Strategic Practice and Business
Strategy.
Rui has been with CSU for two years having previously
taught at RMIT University as an Associate Lecturer
and Research Assistant in the School of Management.
Rui’s research interests focus on entrepreneurship, IT
innovation, e-business, supply chain management and
Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Since 2008, Rui has been involved in several research
projects investigating the role of entrepreneurial
leadership and strategy in enhancing Australian SMEs’
business success and succession. Rui has
collaborated with Mr Tom Brentnall, Flagships Editor,
Business Review Weekly (BRW), on a project titled
‘The BRW Fast Growth Company Survey, investigating
how Australian fast growth SMEs employed
information systems innovation to survive in the global
financial crisis and the leadership role of entrepreneurs
in managing business change and success.’
Rui has also worked with Dr Caroline Tan of RMIT on
a research project titled ‘Leadership and Management
Practices of Australia’s Fastest Growing SMEs’. She
has also worked with Dr Timothy James of RMIT on a
research project involving longitudinal data, exploring
how Australian SMEs achieve sustainable competitive
advantage under external environmental turbulence
over a two-year timeline.
Rui is currently working on a research project titled IT
and Entrepreneurism: A Love Affair or a Marriage. The
project explores the interrelationship of fit between IT,
entrepreneurship and SME performance. The research
is being conducted in collaboration with Professor
Kosmas Smyrnios at RMIT University. The project is
expected to take approximately 12 months to
complete.
In her spare time Rui loves to read and hike. Over the
warmer months, Rui took advantage of being located
in close proximity to the Australian Alps to undertake
some longer hikes in the region.
RECENT TRAVEL
In late May 2014, Dr Zahidul Islam of the School of
Computing and Mathematics, travelled to the Burwood
Campus of Deakin University in Melbourne to present
a seminar to the staff and students of the School of
Information and Business Analytics (SIBA). Dr Islam
was invited to present to the SIBA research group
about data mining and applications of data mining. His
presentation focused on data pre-processing and
cleansing through missing value imputation and
corrupt data detection.
This seminar follows on from an earlier presentation
made by Dr Islam at the Independent University of
Bangladesh (IUB) in February 2014 on the same
subject.
Dr Md Zahidul Islam
The seminar was well attended by academics and PhD
students from SIBA and was also relayed via video
conferencing to other Deakin campuses.
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RECENT TRAVEL
Professor Junbin Gao, of the School of Computing and
Mathematics, recently presented a paper titled
‘Gaussian Processes Autoencoder for Dimensionality
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Reduction’ at the 18 Pacific-Asia Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2014).
PAKDD 2014 was held at the Shangri-La’s Far Eastern
Plaza Hotel in Tainan City, Taiwan, on 13-16 May
2014.
PAKDD is a leading international conference in the
areas of knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD).
It provides an international forum for researchers and
industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original
research results and practical development
experiences from all KDD related areas, including data
mining, data warehousing, machine learning, artificial
intelligence, databases, statistics, knowledge
engineering, visualization, decision-making systems
and the emerging applications.
Professor Gao’s paper, co-authored with Dr Xinwei
Jiang (China University of Geosciences), Professor Xia
Hong (University of Reading) and Professor Zhihua
Cai (China University of Geosciences) was selected as
a long presentation at a conference session. Only 40
of 371 submitted papers were selected as a long
presentation. All papers were reviewed by at least 3
reviewers.
Professor Gao’s paper is based on one of the research
outcomes from his 2013 ARC DP project
(DP130100364). The purpose of the project is to
investigate better ways in learning low dimensional
manifold from highly nonlinear data of high
dimensionality.
At the conference, Professor Gao also chaired one of
the 21 technical sessions. Chairing the ‘Data
Clustering’ session gave him an additional opportunity
to talk with researchers from the USA, France, Japan,
China and Australia regarding current research on
subspace clustering which is an area of particular
interest to Professor Gao.
Professor Gao was impressed with the keynote
address on big data by Professor Jian Pei from Simon
Fraser University. The talk which was titled ‘Being a
Happy Dwarf in the Age of Big Data’ was the hot topic
at the conference.
Professor Jian Pei’s keynote session
Professor Gao was also able to talk to several key
scholars and researchers in the area of KDD at the
various social events organized by the conference. He
was able to meet Professor Zhihua Zhou from Nanjing
University, Professor Vincent Tseng from National
Cheng Kung University Taiwan, Professor Hiroshi
Motoda, Osaka University, Professor Vipin Kumar from
the University of Minnesota, and Professor Joshua
Huang from Shenzhen University. Professor Gao was
also able to catch up with Professor Longbin Cao from
University of Technology Sydney and Dr Graham
Williams from the Australian Taxation Office. There
have already been some discussions about
collaborating on future research projects.
Professor Gao’s paper has been published in the
conference proceedings which will be available
through the CSU library.
Professor Junbin Gao
Visiting Professor: Professor Xia Hong from University of Reading, England, will be visiting CSU Bathurst
campus from 9 June to 6 July 2014. Prof. Hong is the Partner Investigator (PI) on the ARC DP project led by
Professor Junbin Gao. Professor Hong is also working closely with Professor Junbin Gao on numerous research
projects. Professor Hong will give a seminar on Data Based Nonlinear Model Construction Algorithms and
Applications on Wednesday 18 June 2014. All Faculty of Business staff are welcome to attend the seminar.
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LAUNCH OF NEW RESEARCH AREA
The new Faculty of Business research area of
Australian Indigenous Leadership and
Entrepreneurship was recently launched in Sydney
with a research symposium.
Led by Dr Michelle Evans, the research area, within
the Faculty of Business, will focus on producing
fundamental knowledge in the nascent area of
Australian Indigenous leadership and
entrepreneurship.
The launch was attended by a number of influential
Indigenous leaders and entrepreneurs in addition to
researchers from a range of educational institutions.
The launch included a plenary session about the gaps
in the current knowledge about Indigenous leaders and
entrepreneurs.
There were a number of other presentations at the
launch mostly about the research and findings from
ARC Linkage and Discovery funded projects including:
The research cluster will focus on better understanding
leadership and entrepreneurship, with a particular
interest in the convergence between entrepreneurship
and leadership and its implications for firm
performance.
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Dr Michelle Evans (CSU) – Australian
Indigenous entrepreneurial leadership,
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Professor Mark Morrison (CSU) – Australian
Indigenous businesses and success factors,
At present there is a relatively limited knowledge of
Australian Indigenous leadership as well as Australian
Indigenous entrepreneurs and their businesses. The
research members will seek to better understand the
activities, practices, identities, leadership, values and
contributions made by Australian Indigenous
entrepreneurs.
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Sonya Pearce (UTS) – Indigenous women and
entrepreneurship,

Tracey Trudgett-Gale (CSU) – Indigenous
business and marketing, and

Faye McMillan (CSU) – Indigenous women
leaders.
The researchers within the cluster acknowledge that a
lot of early stage research requires investigation of
success factors and the barriers and challenges faced
by Indigenous entrepreneurs and leaders in their work
practices.
Mr Clifton Taulbert was the key note speaker at the
launch. Mr Taulbert is an American Pulitzer nominated
author and CEO and founder of the Building
Community Institute, a consulting company focused on
human capital development and organisational
effectiveness. Clifton is committed to maximising the
power of the community and entrepreneurial thinking.
He is also the CEO of the African-American Bean
Company which produces ROOTS JAVA from beans
produced in the African country of Rwanda.
Dr Michelle Evans and Mr Clifton Taulbert
In his key note address, Clifton spoke on the
importance of entrepreneurial thinking and personal
resolve. His presentation focused on the tremendous
changes that workplaces have undergone in recent
years and the need for entrepreneurial thinking and
personal resolve to overcome such obstacles as
financial restraints, increased global competitiveness
and in some cases a lack of employee commitment
and accountability. The presentation was extremely
well received by all those who attended the launch.
For further information about the Australian Indigenous
Leadership and Entrepreneurship Research Area
please contact Dr Michelle Evans by email
[email protected]
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CONGRATULATIONS
Our congratulations go to the following students and their supervisors within the Faculty of Business who have been
advised that their thesis has passed. It is a tremendous achievement to have reached completion.
Name
Chung Ming Wong
Degree
Topic
Supervisors
DBA
An analysis of the adaptation of
organisational control in Hong Kong
SMEs in a globalised environment.
Dr Leo Fredericks and Professor
Kishor Sharma
Highly Commended Paper
Congratulations to Dr Dianne McGrath and Danny
Murphy, of the School of Accounting and Finance, for
receiving the Highly Commended Paper Award from
the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy
Journal for their article ‘ESG reporting –class actions,
deterrence, and avoidance’. The paper was one of
only three papers selected by the journal’s editorial
team as a Highly Commended Paper for 2013.
Dr Dianne McGrath
Mr Danny Murphy
Best Student Paper Award at ECMS 2014
Congratulations to Luisa Perez-Mujica, an ILWS PhD
student, who has won the Best Student Paper Award
from the European Council for Modelling and
Simulation at ECMS 2014 which was held in Brescia,
Italy from May 27 - 30 2014. The paper ‘Use of Agent
Based Modelling to Simulate Complex Ecological
Systems in Contexts with Poor Information: The Case
of the Winton Westland in Victoria, Australia was coauthored with her PhD supervisors Terry Bossomaier,
Roderick Duncan and Max Finlayson. Professor
Bossomaier and Dr Duncan are both academics within
the Faculty of Business. Luisa received a lifetime free
registration to the ECMS conference and a book from
Springer.
Best Paper Award at AusDM 2013
Congratulations to Dr Zahidul Islam and PhD student
Md Geaur Rahman of the School of Computing and
Mathematics who received the best paper award at
The Eleventh Australasian Data Mining Conference
AusDM 2013 held in Canberra. The paper was titled ‘A
Novel Framework Using Two Layers of Missing Value
Imputation’.
Dr Md Zahidul Islam
Md Geaur Rahman
Textbook of the Year Award
Congratulations to Elizabeth Christopher, an adjunct
academic with the School of Accounting and Finance,
who recently received the 2013/2014 Award for
Management and Leadership Textbook Book of the
Year from the Chartered Management Institute (UK), in
association with the British Library. Elizabeth’s book
International Management: Explorations across
cultures was judged as the book which most effectively
was able to support a course of
study on a management and
leadership topic.
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Best Papers Publication
Congratulations to Geoff Bull, of the School of
Computing and Mathematics, for the selection of his
paper ‘Delineation of Rock Fragments by Classification
of Image Patches using Compressed Random
Features’, that he presented at VISAPP 2014 in
Lisbon, in the Springer Best Papers Book in the series
of CCIS – Communications in Computer and
Information Science. This book will include updated
and extended versions of only a short list of selected
papers from VISAPP 2014.
Certificate of Excellence
Congratulations to Dr Abhishek Dwivedi, of the School
of Management and Marketing, for receiving a
Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing from the
Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ).
The award is in recognition of an outstanding
contribution to the quality of the journal during 2013.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty of Business lunch time seminar series
The lunch time seminar series are continuing. A range of internal and external guest speakers
are scheduled for 2014, please check the Faculty of Business webpage
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/business/faculty-research/activities/seminar-series for up-to-date
information.
Business Seminar Series usually run from 1pm – 2pm on a Wednesday in the School Meeting Rooms on
each campus (1411 - 431 in Bathurst, 764-205 in Thurgoona and 28-214 in Wagga). A light lunch is provided
starting at 12:30pm on each campus. The seminars for Session 2 are currently being finalised, please refer to
FoB Research web page for information.
Enquiries about the Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor: Dr Rod Duncan, on 6338 4982 or
[email protected]
School of Computing and Mathematics Seminars usually run from 12 – 2pm on Wednesdays in the School
Meeting Rooms on each campus (771 in Bathurst, 780 in Albury and 766 in Wagga). A light lunch is served prior to
the seminar. Upcoming seminars include:
6 July 2014
30 July 2014
3 Sept 2014
Professor Junbin Gao
CSU
Machine Learning.
Dr Manoranjan Paul
CSU
Multiview Video plus Depth Coding
A/Prof Dianhui Wang
La Trobe
University
Computational motif discovery using fuzzy
self-organising maps.
Professor Manzur Murshed and Dr Gour Kamakar of Federation University will also speak at seminars in August with
the dates to be confirmed.
Enquiries about the Computing and Mathematics Seminar Series should be directed to the convenor:
Dr Manoranjan Paul on 6338 4260 or [email protected].
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Faculty of Business Workshops and Retreats
The Faculty of Business offers a range of workshops and retreats throughout the year.
Both students and staff are welcome to attend the workshops and retreats. For further information regarding these
events please contact Louise Cleary or Wendy Smee, Research Administrative Officers on 6338 6680 or
[email protected] /[email protected]
Topic
Date
Location
Writing Retreat
25 – 28 August
TBA
Writing Retreat
3 - 6 November
TBA
ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference 2014: Call for abstracts for papers is now
open
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The Australian Consortium of Social and Political Research Incorporated will host a conference on the 7 – 10 of
December at the University of Sydney.
The goal of the conference is to provide a forum on current and emerging issues in
social science methodology nationally and internationally.
The conference is organised around 3 themes:
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Research paradigms and designs;

Research methods, techniques, technology and tools;

Datasets and data collections.
Each theme will have a plenary, panel or keynote session where papers are presented;
There will be two types of papers:
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Full papers where the full paper is blind peer reviewed (full paper in the conference proceedings);
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Work in progress papers where an abstract is reviewed (abstract in the conference proceedings).
More details are available on the conference website: http://conference2014.acspri.org.au/
The call for abstracts of papers closes on 14 July 2014.
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Doctoral Workshop – Management and Marketing/Accounting and Finance
Doctoral students in the Schools of Management and Marketing and Accounting and Finance are invited to an
upcoming Doctoral Workshop to be held on October 23 (pm) and October 24 (am) in Wagga Wagga The focus of the
workshop is on student presentations. Students at all stages of the candidature should attend and develop a
presentation.
The presentation can be a set of early thoughts on where the research is going, a full research proposal, an outline of
some results, a report on progress made or the conclusions reached. The workshop seeks to provide high quality
feedback on presentations by inviting two external Professors to the workshop (one a quantitative and the other a
qualitative expert) who will be assigned as discussants to provide feedback on
presentations.
The workshop also provides an opportunity to network with other doctoral students and
supervisors. A workshop dinner on the night of October 23rd will also be held.
The external professors will also deliver presentations to support Doctoral research
and also participate in a Q&A session to answer any questions you may have about
your research.
For further details contact Eddie Oczkowski ([email protected]).
School of Computing and Mathematics HDR Research Symposium
The SCM Annual Research Symposium provides Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students with the opportunity to
network with other HDR students and academics in the school, present their research and seek broader feedback on
their progress.
All HDR students in the School are invited to submit a short paper of not more than 4 pages which will be reviewed by
at least one other HDR student and one academic. The feedback will be provided to students and final short papers
will be published in a CD or print. Students will be invited to present their short papers in the Symposium. A
published program will be provided to all attendees. As usual, the Symposium will include keynote address by a
distinguished guest speaker and presentations by senior academics.
All HDR students are invited to peer-review at least one other short paper which will also be reviewed by one
academic. The review process will be anonymous.
There will be two awards presented in the
Symposium:
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Best Short Paper Award
•
Best Presentation Award
All HDR students will receive a Certificate of Participation.
The Symposium will be held at the Wagga Wagga RSL Club on 20 – 21
October 2014. Initial submission of papers is due by 25 July 2014.
For further details contact Jodie Mitchell at [email protected]
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PUBLISHING YOUR RESEARCH IN THE
‘RIGHT’ JOURNAL!
Selecting the most appropriate journal in which to
publish can make a big difference to the impact of your
research. The ARC and the Australian, Department of
Education have specific criteria for what they
recognise as ‘research publication’ for the purposes of
ERA and HERDC reporting. It is also important to
publish your research in a journal that is respected and
widely read by the intended audience. The ‘right’
journal may also be one in which potential readers can
discover your research, e.g. one that is indexed in a
major database in your discipline, e.g. ERIC, Scopus,
SocINDEX, Medline, PsycINFO.
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Find and interpret journal metrics, including
journal impact factors.
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Access information about publisher policies
with respect to open access and depositing in
CSU Research Output (CRO).
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Establish your Research Id in services such as
Scopus, WoS and ORCID, to distinguish
yourself from other researchers and ensure
that your research is correctly attributed to
you.
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Promote your research output in CRO, and
services such as Academia.edu,
Altmetric.com, impactstory.org.
Information librarians will also be able to help you
identify predatory publishers and journals who attempt
to exploit open access publishing, by charging
publication fees to authors, without providing the
expected editorial and publishing services associated
with legitimate academic journals.
Library Information Services staff can help you:

Locate relevant peer reviewed journals in your
subject area – particularly useful for cross
disciplinary research, where you may not be
familiar with publications in that area.
Kindly reproduced with permission from the Research Office
- Posted in the Research Office Bulletin on May 1, 2014
Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List
A good starting point for determining a publication’s quality is a journal quality list. In 2007, the Australian Business
Deans Council (ABDC) established the ABDC Journal Quality List for use by its member business schools. The aim of
this initial list was to overcome the regional and discipline bias of international lists. An independent chair and
discipline-specific panels reviewed the ABDC Journal Quality List in 2013, with the next review expected to occur in
2016-17.
The ABDC Journal Quality List 2013 comprises 2,767 different journal titles, divided into four categories of quality, A*:
6.9%; A: 20.8%; B: 28.4%; and C: 43.9% journals. In each Field of Research (FoR) group, journals deemed NOT to
reach the quality threshold level are not listed.
The 2013 list can be downloaded from the ABDC website in an excel format.
http://www.abdc.edu.au/pages/abdc-journal-quality-list-2013.html
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CRO– WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
One of the main purposes of CRO (CSU Research
Output) is to showcase your research outputs – journal
articles, conference papers, books and book chapters.
CRO opens your publications to the world. If your
publications are open access your papers can be
found by other researchers, including those using
Google and Google Scholar. Thus, CRO means more
researchers can cite your paper. Indeed, Institutional
Repositories such as CRO have been shown to
increase citation rates by 50 - 300%. CRO is also a
valuable way of potential research collaborators finding
you.
to ensure that your
publication meets the
publisher’s requirements.
CRO has added benefits such as ensuring that your
publications are ‘backed up’ just in case of a hard drive
crash. Additionally, you can create a link to your
publications for your email signature. CRO is a useful
tool to use when you are going for promotion.
The four publication categories included for the
HERDC are:
HERDC Each year the
publications that you
enter into CRO are given
‘points’ for new research. This is for the Higher
Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) which
brings in important funds to the University. It is
therefore essential that all researchers submit their
publications to CRO.
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o
o
Does Open Access cost the researcher? CRO is the
free (GREEN) Open Access option at CSU. The ‘Gold’
or ‘Hybrid’ models ask you to pay to make the papers
open access.
There are no black and white rules about how to make
your work Open Access. Each publisher decides what
they will allow. Many publishers allow the final
accepted manuscript to be available for download from
an Institutional Repository, such as CRO. This is the
version without the publisher mark-up. Sometimes the
publishers allow their version to be open. Sometimes
they don’t allow any version. CRO staff always check
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A1: Books - authored research (5 points)
B: Book Chapter (1 point)
C1: Journal Articles - refereed article in a
scholarly journal (1 point)
E1: Conference Publications - full written
paper refereed (1 point)
In late 2014, the University will change from CRO to
Research Master as the system to submit research
papers. The information that comes in for each
publication will be processed and will be uploaded to
CRO.
If you are in doubt about any aspect regarding CRO
contact [email protected]
TIPS ABOUT YOUR CRO SUBMISSIONS
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Everything you need to know about making submissions to CRO (what can/should be entered for HERDC) can be
found at CSU’s Research Office web page:http://www.csu.edu.au/research/performance/herdc
http://www.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/657254/HERDC-WHAT-YOU-NEED-TO-KNOW.pdf
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It is best practice to enter your publications into CRO at the time they are accepted for publication, rather than
waiting until the annual HERDC submission deadline retrospectively. A publication can be entered as
‘forthcoming’ and CRO staff alerted once it is actually published.
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It is important to provide as much detail as possible – providing only basic information such as the publication title
and CSU author details will require CRO staff to follow up with you to provide the missing information.
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Once a submission is made to CRO, it cannot be altered by you. Any alterations to a CRO record (e.g. advising
that a previously forthcoming publication has now been published) need to be made by CRO staff.
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed papers
Al-Saggaf, Y. & Nielsen, S. (2014). Self-disclosure on
Facebook among female users and its relationship to
feelings of loneliness, Computers in Human Behaviour,
36, 460 – 468.
Sar, R.K.& Al-Saggaf, Y. (2014). Contextual Integrity's
decision heuristic and social network sites tracking.
Ethics and Information Technology, 16(1), 15-26.
D’Alessandro, S. and Winzar, H. (2014) ‘From iphone 3G to i-phone 4G: A two-stage complex
systems model of the two stage diffusion process’,
Special issue on Complexity, Australasian Journal of
Marketing, 22(1), 69 - 72.
Ang, L., D’Alessandro, S. and Winzar, H. (2014) ‘A
visual approach to the mapping of generic skills in
marketing’, Higher Education Research and
Development, 32(4), 181-197
Demskoi, D. (2014) ‘Quad-equations and autoBacklund transformations of NLS-type systems’,
Journal of Physics A: Mathematics and Theoretical, 23
(47).
Guo, Y., Gao, J., and Li, F. (2014) Spatial subspace
clustering for drill hole spectral data, Journal of Applied
Remote Sensing, 8 1-19.
Guo, Y, Berman, M and Gao, J, (2014) Group Subset
Selection for Linear Regression Computational
Statistics and Data Analysis, Computational Statistics
and Data Analysis, 75, 39 – 52.
Jabbarpour, MR., Noor, R Md., Khokhar, RH., and Ke,
CH., (2014) ‘Cross-layer congestion control model for
urban vehicular environments’, Journal of Network and
Computer Applications, 44, 1 – 16.
Boroumand, L., Shiraz, M., Gani, A. and Khokhar,
R.H., (2013). ‘Virtualization Technique for Port
Knocking in Mobile Cloud Computing’, International
Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and its
Application. 6 (1), 1 - 25.
Hine, D., Reser, J., Morrison, M., Phillips, W., Nunn,
P.,and Cooksey, R. (2014) ‘Audience segmentation
and climate change communication: conceptual and
methodological considerations’, WIREs Climate
Change. Wiley Online Library.
Rahman, A. and Harding, A. (2014), ‘Spatial analysis
of housing stress estimation in Australia with statistical
validation’ Australasian Journal of Regional Studies 20
(3)
Rahman, A. and Kuddus, A. (2014), ‘A new model to
study on physical behaviour among susceptible
infective removal population’, Far East Journal of
Theoretical Statistics, 46 (2)
Rahman, M. G., and Islam, M. Z. (2014): ‘FIMUS: A
Framework for Imputing Missing Values Using Coappearance’, Correlation and Similarity Analysis,
Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 56, pp. 311 – 327.
Accepted and forthcoming papers
Al-Saggaf, Y. & Islam, Z.(accepted and forthcoming).
‘Data Mining and Privacy of Social Network Sites
Users: Implications of the data mining problem’.
Science and Engineering Ethics.
Bhattacharya, M., Islam, R., and Abawajy, J.
(accepted and forthcoming) ‘Evolutionary Optimisation
A Big Data Perspective’, Journal of Network and
Computer Applications.
Gong, S, D’Alessandro, S, Winzar, H and Johnson, L
(accepted and forthcoming) ‘Do we measure what we
expect to measure? Culture measuring in consumer
research’, International Marketing Review.
D’Alessandro, S, Johnson, L, Gray, D and Carter, L
(accepted and forthcoming – available on-line)
‘Consumer Satisfaction versus churn in the case of
upgrades from 3G to 4G cell networks’, Marketing
Letters.
Stewart Loane, S., Webster, C and D’Alessandro, S.
(accepted &forthcoming – available on-line) ‘Identifying
Consumer Value Co-created through Social Support
within Online Health Communities’, Journal of
Macromarketing,
Dwivedi, A., McDonald,R. and Johnson, L. (accepted
and forthcoming) Celebrity endorsements, self-brand
connection and relationship quality, International
Journal of Advertising.
Liu, R, Lin, Z, Su, Z and Gao, J. (accepted and
forthcoming) Linear Time Principal Component Pursuit
via l1-Filtering, Neurocomputing.
Hong X., Gao J., Jiang X. and Harris, C., (accepted
and forthcoming) Estimation Of Gaussian Process
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Regression Model Using Probability Distance
Measures, Systems Science and Control Engineering.
Proc of ETHICOMP 2014 Conference, UPMC, Paris.
25 to 27 June 2014.
Zhang, H., Lin Z., Zhang C., and Gao J, (accepted and
forthcoming) ‘Robust Latent Low Rank Representation
for Subspace Clustering’, Neurocomputing.
Mirzaei,A., D’Alessandro, S., Gray, D., Baumann, C.,
and Johnson, L.W. (2014) European Marketing
Academy (EMAC), Valencia, Spain, 3 – 6 June.
Yin, Ming., Gao, J., Tien, D., and Cai, S. (accepted
and forthcoming) Blind image deblurring via coupled
sparse representation, Journal of Visual
Communication and Image Representation, 25, 5.
Padilla, R., Milton, S. and Johnson, L.W. (2014)
Annual Meeting of the Service Management and
Science Forum, Beijing, China, 6-8 June 2014..
Paul, M., Lin, W., Lau, C. T, and Lee, B.–S. (accepted
and forthcoming), ‘A Long Term Reference Frame for
Hierarchical B-Picture based Video Coding,’ IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology.
Parvez, M. Z. and Paul, M. (accepted & forthcoming),
‘Detection of Pre-stage of Epileptic Seizure by
Exploiting Temporal Correlation of EMD Decomposed
EEG Signals’ Journal of Medical and Bioengineering.
Rahman, M. A., Islam, M. Z., and Bossomaier, T.
(accepted and forthcoming): ModEx and SeedDetective: Two Novel Techniques for High Quality
Clustering by using Good Initial Seeds in K-Means,
Journal of King Saud University - Computer and
Information Sciences, Elsevier.
Books
Zikmund, W, D’Alessandro, S, Lowe,
B., Winzar, H., and Babin, B. (2014)
Marketing Research Asia Pacific
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Edition,3 Edition, Cengage
Learning, Melbourne, Australia.
Conference papers
Al-Saggaf, Y. & Burmeister, O.K. (2014). Australian
ICT professionals’ perceptions regarding
professionalism in the workplace: A mixed method
approach. Proceedings of ETHICOMP 2014
conference, UPMC, Paris. June 25 to 27, 2014.
Bhattacharya, M., Islam, R. and. Mahmood, A. N.
“Uncertainty and Evolutionary Optimization: A Novel
Approach”, published in the Proceedings of the 9th
IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and
Applications (ICIEA 2014), 9-11 June, 2014.
Burmeister, O.K., Phahlamohlaka, J. & Al-Saggaf,
Y. (2014) ‘National security governance exemplified by
South Africa's cyber security policy implementation’.
Gil, L., Johnson, L.W. and Dona, G. (2014) The impact
of self-construal on materialism among Brazilian
teenagers, Association for Consumer Research (ACR)
Latin American Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico, 24 –
26 July 2014..
Fletcher, S., and Islam, M. Z. (2014) ‘Quality
Evaluation of an Anonymized Dataset’, In Proc. of the
22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition
(ICPR 2014), Stockholm, Sweden, 24-28 August 2014.
Adnan, M., Islam, M. Z., and Kwan, P. (2014)
‘Extended Space Decision Tree’, In Proc. of the 13th
International Conference on Machine Learning and
Cybernetics (ICMLC 2014), Lanzhou, China, 13-16
July, 2014.
Boroumand, L., Shiraz, M., Gani, A., Khokhar, R. H.,
(2013). ‘Impact of Port Knocking Authentication on
Security and Performance: A Mobile Cloud Computing
Perspective’. The 5th International Conference on
Internet (ICONI), Pattaya, Thailand, 12-16 December,
2013.
Shahriyar,S., Ali, M., Murshed, M. and Paul, M.
(2014), ‘Inherently Edge-Preserving Depth-Map
Coding Without Explicit Edge Detection and
Approximation’, IEEE International conference on
Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME-14), Chengdu,
China, 14 - 18 July 2014.
Chakraborty, S., Paul, M., Murshed, M., and Ali M.
(2014), ‘An efficient video coding technique using a
novel non-parametric background modelling,’ IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
(IEEE ICME-14), Chengdu, China, 14 - 18 July 2014.
Rahman, M. A., Islam, M. Z. and Bossomaier, T.
(2014) ‘DenClust: A Density Based Seed Selection
Approach for K-Means’, In Proc. of the 13th
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Soft Computing (ICAISC 2014), Poland, 1 - 5 June
2014.
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