My graduation thesis was entitled, ‘Family Business Engagement’. It examines reported reluctance among family business people to seek external advice on family business challenges. It finds more willingness than had been widely assumed, mainly because the extent of peer advice has not been appreciated. Use of professional advice is often deterred by practitioners' lack of essential soft skills.
In 2014 I jointly organised the School's professional development program on external engagement with industry
Previously I was the (sole) family business adviser with the South Australian government. Before that I had been a senior public servant in UK and Australia; a senior manager in the National Economic Development... Read more
About me
My graduation thesis was entitled, ‘Family Business Engagement’. It examines reported reluctance among family business people to seek external advice on family business challenges. It finds more willingness than had been widely assumed, mainly because the extent of peer advice has not been appreciated. Use of professional advice is often deterred by practitioners' lack of essential soft skills.
In 2014 I jointly organised the School's professional development program on external engagement with industry
Previously I was the (sole) family business adviser with the South Australian government. Before that I had been a senior public servant in UK and Australia; a senior manager in the National Economic Development Council, London; a researcher at the Bureau of Industry Economics, Canberra; a research team leader at RMIT University; a researcher at the National Institute for Economic and Industry Research, Melbourne; a manager in the UK foundry industry; and director of a UK joint industry council.
About me
Fellow, Governance Institute of Australia, Fellow, Chartered Institute of Secretaries, Fellow, Energy Institute, Member, Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics
Family business, Business philanthropy, Industry development policies
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included.
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2019 |
Open access
5
5
1
|
| 2015 |
16
11
|
Conference papers
2013 Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management Annual Conference, entitled Family Business, Self-sufficient Entity: Do they seek advice?
2016 Association for Professional & Applied Ethics Annual Conference, entitled Virtue Rewarded
2017 with Dr Rouxelle de Villiers, Meditari Accounting Research Conference 2017, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan, entitled, ‘Soft Skills, Listening Skills and Deaf Accounting Schools’ .
2019 Accounting Educators's Conference, RMIT Umiversity, Accountants' listening skills.
Research
Family business, Business philanthropy, Industry development policies
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
