Dr Marguerite Kolar is a Senior Partner Relationship Manager in UniSA Business. Dr Kolar holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from UniSA, and has extensive industry experience, having worked in senior consulting and management roles for a range of organisations including CSC and Motorola. Dr Kolar is an experienced manager in higher education, focusing on academic program management, research management, and industry engagement. She has held various positions at UniSA, including Future Industries Institute Manager, Business School Program Director: Research Education, Business School... Read more
About me
Dr Marguerite Kolar is a Senior Partner Relationship Manager in UniSA Business. Dr Kolar holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from UniSA, and has extensive industry experience, having worked in senior consulting and management roles for a range of organisations including CSC and Motorola. Dr Kolar is an experienced manager in higher education, focusing on academic program management, research management, and industry engagement. She has held various positions at UniSA, including Future Industries Institute Manager, Business School Program Director: Research Education, Business School Director: External Engagement, and Acting Dean of Graduate Studies, and has achieved outstanding results in providing transparent interactions and solutions that meet the needs of all parties while mitigating the risk to the organisation. Dr Kolar has been Chair or Dean’s representative on several committees to develop, update and implement research education policies. She has managed offshore doctoral programs for business professionals located in SE Asia, and uses her extensive industry and academic experience to manage complex student cases to achieve positive outcomes and identify strategies for improving the student experience.
About me
Doctor of Business Administration University of South Australia
Master of Business Administration University of South Australia
Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics) University of California
Graduate Certificate in Education (University Teaching) University of South Australia
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| A conceptual framework to determine the relationship between motives, supplier-customer relations and customer perceived value in service outsourcing | Completed |
| A study of moderating and mediating factors influencing sales technology use on relationship quality and sales performance | Completed |
| A study on the pump-and-dump price behavior in the Hong Kong private placement market of seasoned stocks for the period 2001 to 2003 | Completed |
| Adoption and use of collaborative technologies for project-based learning | Completed |
| An assessment of feng shui impacts on high-rise residential property values in Hong Kong | Completed |
| An inquiry into the consumer-enterprise dyad in subcultures of consumption: the luxury wristwatch community in Singapore | Completed |
| Consumer risk framing of financial investments: a study on the roles of emotion, self-efficacy, servicescape and trust | Completed |
| Does green lead to green? an exploratory study of influence of corporate environmental reputation on investor decision making | Completed |
| Effect of organisational climate on organisational learning in hotel industry: an empirical study of hotels in Guangzhou, China | Completed |
| Expatriation and the role of international human resource management: a case study of a German multinational company in the automotive sector | Completed |
| Formal and informal communication: an organisational investigation | Completed |
| Government policy & critical success factors of small and medium-sized enterprises: an exploratory prediction model for Singapore | Completed |
| Impact of culture on the Indian insurance broker - a study on the cultural values that sustain a long term client-insurance broker relationship in India | Completed |
| Mise-en-scène in the workplace: a photo-ethnographic study of the employees' workplaces in the non-profit organizations | Completed |
| Motivations behind momentum investing in Asia: an integrated analysis using quantitative and qualitative methods | Completed |
| Nonprofit organizations' survival through love, resources and capabilities activation: the integrated effects of organizational love climate, marketing culture & marketing strategy making on marketing effectiveness | Completed |
| Technology acceptance within organizations: improving understanding of failing technology projects using social network analysis and the technology acceptance model | Completed |
| Technology scanning in high-tech SMEs | Completed |
| The adoption of knowledge management systems : an organizational citizenship behavior perspective | Completed |
| The emotional energy availability model of goal commitment | Completed |
| The impact of customer relationship management on the intention to adopt electronic commerce | Completed |
| The influence of collectivism on customers' cross-buying intentions : focusing on the banking services of Korea and Taiwan | Completed |
| The moderating effects of knowledge management systems on IT service performance | Completed |
| The procurement unit's involvement in services procurement : the case of Danish municipalities | Completed |
| The view from within: understanding medical officers' adaptation to hospital demands | Completed |
| The viewpoint/safety first (V/SF) theory as a rival theory to myopic loss aversion to explain the equity premium puzzle | Completed |
| Towards sustainable ISO 9000 quality management system maintenance: understanding the effects of human factors | Completed |
| Understanding learner adoption behavior in e-learning | Completed |
| Why are some firms more successful than others in commercial adoption of technologies licensed from public research institutes in Singapore? | Completed |