Dr Mary Bambacas

Adjunct Research Associate UniSA Business

City West Campus (EM2-24)
tel +61 8 830 27337

email Mary.Bambacas@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

I have been in business for many years and have now come to the university to research areas of interest

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Orcid
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Research

Research focus

Business and Management
Education Systems
Marketing
Specialist Studies in Education
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services

Highlights

Employee retention using job embeddedness to enmesh employees in the organisation,Employee career and life stage - how it affects work adjustment and mobility,How can we engage and embed segments of the workforce that are difficult to retain? - women and racial minorities or other employees through acquisitions?,Employee commitment to the organisation

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2022	Mukhtar, A, Zhu, Y, Lee, Y-i, Bambacas, M & Cavusgil, ST 2022, Cross-cultural challenges of managing 'One Belt One Road' projects: the experience of China-Pakistan economic corridor, Routledge, UK.
2017	Min, M, Bambacas, M & Zhu, Y 2017, Strategic human resource management in China: a multiple perspective, Routledge, US. 3

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2022	Mukhtar, A, Zhu, Y, Lee, Y-i, Bambacas, M & Cavusgil, ST 2022, 'Challenges confronting the 'One Belt One Road' initiative: social networks and cross-cultural adjustment in CPEC projects', International Business Review, vol. 31, no. 1, article no. 101902, pp. 1-16. 3
2020	Min, M, Zhu, Y & Bambacas, M 2020, 'The mediating effect of trust on the relationship between high-performance work systems and employee outcomes among Chinese indigenous firms', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 399-426. 9 9 1
2018	Min, M, Zhu, Y & Bambacas, M 2018, 'Implementing HPWS among the indigenous companies in China: analysis from both managers' and employees' perspectives', Journal of General Management, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 175-187. Open access 5 5
2013	Bambacas, M & Kulik, CT 2013, 'Job embeddedness in China: how HR practices impact turnover intentions', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 1933-1952. 56 50 1
2011	Bambacas, M & Sanderson, GB 2011, 'Instructional preferences of students in transnational Chinese and English language MBA programs', Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-12. Open access 2
2010	Bambacas, M 2010, 'Organizational handling of careers influences managers' organizational commitment', Journal of Management Development, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 807-827. 12 10
2009	Bambacas, M & Bordia, P 2009, 'Predicting different commitment components: The relative effects of how career development HRM practices are perceived', Journal of Management and Organization, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 224-240. 15 12
2009	Bambacas, M & Patrickson, MG 2009, 'Assessment of communication skills in manager selection: some evidence from Australia', Journal of Management Development, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 109-120. 8 10
2008	Bambacas, M & Patrickson, MG 2008, 'Interpersonal communication skills that enhance organizational commitment', Journal of Communication Management, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 51-72. 53 45
2008	Bambacas, M, Sanderson, GB, Feast, VD & Yang, S 2008, 'Transnational MBA students: understanding their instructional preferences', Journal of International Education in Business, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 15-28.
2008	Kee, D, Patrickson, MG & Bambacas, M 2008, 'Perceived Fairness and HRM: A Study of Management in the Australian Banking Industry', International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 179-192.

Conferences

Year	Output
2019	Vishnu, V, Treuren, GJ, Sandhu, S, Manoharan, A & Bambacas, M 2019, 'The job search experience of former international student migrants in Australia. Does a local qualification make a difference to skill discounting?', 33rd Annual Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM, pp. 549-564. Open access
2015	Bambacas, M 2015, 'The embedding factors that retain employees in organisations', 29th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing for Peak Performance (ANZAM), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-20. Open access
2013	Bambacas, M 2013, 'Developing managerial and professional talent: their embeddedness and retention', in M Grimmer & R Hecker (eds), 27th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing from the Edge, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-27. Open access
2012	Bambacas, M 2012, 'Developmental HR practices that embed managers: an Indonesian study', in R Pillai et al. (eds), 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, ANZAM, pp. 1-20. Open access
2011	Bambacas, M 2011, 'Employees well-being and job embeddedness: a Malaysian study', 25th ANZAM Conference 2011, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-21. Open access
2011	Bambacas, M 2011, 'Job embeddedness and employee adjustment contribute to employee retention', 25th ANZAM Conference 2011, ANZAM - Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-20. Open access
2010	Bambacas, M 2010, 'Embeddedness: the process of embedding employees in organizations and communities in China', in B Gurd (ed.), 24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2010), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. Open access
2010	Bambacas, M 2010, 'HR practices and the way they embed employees in organizations', in B Gurd (ed.), 24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2010), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-19. Open access
2009	Bambacas, M 2009, 'Managers' preferences influence their perceptions and commitment to the organization', in Dr. Nicholas Beaumont, Sustainability Management and Marketing, Monash University. Open access
2008	Bambacas, M 2008, 'Career development practices valued by managers: their influence on affective commitment', in Prof Marie Wilson, University of Auckland, pp. 1-17.

Reports

Year	Output
2016	O'Keeffe, V, Kavanagh, P, Tuckey, M & Bambacas, M 2016, Designed with care: improving job design in the SA aged care industry: final project report, University of South Australia, Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Georgia State University	UNITED STATES
International Islamic University	PAKISTAN
University of Science, Malaysia	MALAYSIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Editorial Board Member (Asia-Pacific Region) The International Journal of Human Resource Management	2018

Other

Australian Institute of Management,Academy of Management USA,Australian Human Resources Institute,International Employment Relations Association,Retail SA,Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

Human Resource Management,Organisational Behaviour

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Migrant's employee engagemnet: the impact of skill discounting	Current
Crafting an effective strategy for organisational identification	Completed
Social networks and cross-cultural employee adjustment: case studies of China Pakistan Economic Corridor projects	Completed
Underlying strategic human resource management and high performance work system in China	Completed

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