Professor Martin Shanahan is Professor of Economic and Business History in the School of Business. From 2018 - 2023 he was the Elof Hansson Visiting Professor in International Business and Trade at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Prof Shanahan holds degrees in economics, politics and law and is a specialist in Australian economic and business history. His PhD was awarded the Butlin Prize in economic history in Australia and New Zealand. In 2023 he received the EOG Shann Award for distinguished service to economic history in Australia and New Zealand.
Prof Shanahan has written over a hundred peer reviewed articles, book chapters, books and conference papers on historical aspects of wealth and income distribution, business cartels, trade... Read more
About me
Professor Martin Shanahan is Professor of Economic and Business History in the School of Business. From 2018 - 2023 he was the Elof Hansson Visiting Professor in International Business and Trade at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Prof Shanahan holds degrees in economics, politics and law and is a specialist in Australian economic and business history. His PhD was awarded the Butlin Prize in economic history in Australia and New Zealand. In 2023 he received the EOG Shann Award for distinguished service to economic history in Australia and New Zealand.
Prof Shanahan has written over a hundred peer reviewed articles, book chapters, books and conference papers on historical aspects of wealth and income distribution, business cartels, trade practice law, and water use. He has also published extensively on university-student learning of economics, students’ research conceptions and threshold concepts. He was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009.
A successful grant winner, Prof Shanahan has been involved in several Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage grants, as well as British and European grants. He is currently participating in international studies on living standards and the life-course in Australia and international cartels.
For the past decade, the work of Prof Shanahan and his colleagues has seen first-year economic students being asked to think about how they learn, as well as what they learn. The software underlying this work has been licensed to several universities around the world.
Professor Shanahan co-edited the now named, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review for a decade, and is a currently a board member of Business History, the Asia Pacific Economic History Review and the International Review of Economic Education. He has served on the executive of the International Economic History Association and is a past President of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand. He is currently a research affilate of the Centre for Economic History at ANU and a member of the Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion at UniSA.
About me
Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
Cliometrics Society
European Business History Association
European Histrocial Economics Society
European Association for Learning and Instruction
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University
Bachelor of Arts The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Law The University of Adelaide
Professorial Lead, UniSA School of Business, 2020 -
Professor of Economic and Business History, University of South Australia 2013
Dean of Research, Business School, University of South Australia 2009-2014
Head, School of International Business, University of South Australia 2003-2004
Work in progress
Shanahan M.P. and P.van der Eng, Attracting manufacturing firms to South Australia: The case of Philips in Hendon, 1946-1980, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review (forthcoming).
Shanahan M ‘Australia in the global wheat trade’; in Marco Bertilorenzi, Carlo Fumian, and Giovanni Gozzini (eds) Daily Bread. The rise of the Global Wheat Market (1840-1914) Routledge (forthcoming)
Gaynor, A., L. Frost and M. Shanahan, Pernicious or prudent? Learning from the history of Australian urban sewage farms, History Australia (forthcoming)
Shanahan M., ‘Water’, in Madeleine Dungy, Audrey Gerrard and Espen Storli (eds) The Routledge Handbook on the Economic History of Natural Resources (forthcoming)
... Read moreResearch
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
The Role of Epistemic Community in developing agri environmental policies, Iwate University, 15/11/2017 - 30/06/2018
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant LP 200300843 ‘Putting death in its place’ with As. Prof Rebecca Kippen (Monash University); As. Prof Lionel Frost (Monash University; Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (University of New England); Dr Richard Tuffin (University of New England); Dr John Wilson (University of South Australia) Prof Kris Inwood (University of Guelph); Mr Ross Latham (Libraries Tasmania)
Handelsbank, Sweden ‘Understanding international cartels in the 20th century: tracing size and scope’ (with Professor Susanna Fellman, Dr Malin Dahlström, Dr Kristoffer Strandqvist, Dr Elin Åström Rudberg and Enrique de Gregorio, University of Gothenburg)
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
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2023 |
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2022 |
120
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2022 |
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2022 |
1
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Year | Output |
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2022 |
120
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2022 |
3
6
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2015 |
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Year | Output |
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2023 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
1
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2022 |
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2022 |
1
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2019 |
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2018 |
4
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2016 |
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2016 |
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2016 |
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2016 |
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2016 |
1
4
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2015 |
4
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2015 |
6
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2014 |
1
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2013 |
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2013 |
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2013 |
Open access
2
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2011 |
3
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2010 |
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2010 |
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2010 |
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2010 |
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2009 |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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2008 |
Open access
4
3
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Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
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2023 |
2
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2023 |
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2022 |
Open access
7
5
3
|
2021 |
Open access
2
1
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2021 |
1
3
|
2021 |
Open access
4
2
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2020 |
Open access
8
3
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2019 |
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2019 |
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2018 |
Open access
9
8
2
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2016 |
3
2
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2016 |
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2016 |
8
5
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2015 |
5
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2014 |
1
|
2014 |
2
1
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2013 |
1
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2012 |
6
3
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2012 |
1
2
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2012 |
3
3
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2010 |
15
15
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2010 |
6
7
|
2010 |
12
16
|
2010 |
42
36
|
2009 |
3
|
2009 |
12
9
|
2009 |
43
37
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2008 |
Open access
75
69
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Year | Output |
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2012 |
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2010 |
Open access
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2009 |
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2008 |
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2008 |
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Shanahan, M and S. Fellman (eds) 2022, A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour, Routledge, UK,
Frost L. and M.P. Shanahan, 2020 Urgent History through an Economic History Lens, Economic historians respond to History Australia special issue on ‘urgent histories.’ https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/current
Gaynor A., L. Frost, J.Gregory, R. Morgan, M.Shanahan & P. Spearrit 2019 Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s-2010s, Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society (LMU Munich and Deutsches Museum) http://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/drought-mud-filth-and-flood
Research
Work in progress
Shanahan M.P. and P.van der Eng, Attracting manufacturing firms to South Australia: The case of Philips in Hendon, 1946-1980, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review (forthcoming).
Shanahan M ‘Australia in the global wheat trade’; in Marco Bertilorenzi, Carlo Fumian, and Giovanni Gozzini (eds) Daily Bread. The rise of the Global Wheat Market (1840-1914) Routledge (forthcoming)
Gaynor, A., L. Frost and M. Shanahan, Pernicious or prudent? Learning from the history of Australian urban sewage farms, History Australia (forthcoming)
Shanahan M., ‘Water’, in Madeleine Dungy, Audrey Gerrard and Espen Storli (eds) The Routledge Handbook on the Economic History of Natural Resources (forthcoming)
Seltzer, A., M. Shanahan and C. Wright, The Rise and Fall and Rise (?) of Economic History in Australia, in Diebolt C and M. Haupert (eds) The State of Economic History: A Global Perspective. Frontiers of Economic History Series, Springer, forthcoming
‘Economy’ (with W. Sinclair); ‘Retail Trade’ and ‘Wealth’ In W. Prest, K. Round and C. Fort (eds) 2nd ed., The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, 2nd Edition, Wakefield Press, Adelaide
World Congress of Business History - Committee member 2024-
EOG Shann Award for distinguished service to economic history in Australia and New Zealand 2023
Elof Hansson Visiting Professor Programme in International Business and Trade - Gothenburg University, Sweden 2018 - 2023
Special Issue with Lionel Frost, Monash - Journal of Urban History 2025
with S. Fellman - Gothenburg University - Scandinavian Economic History Review 2020
with R Banerjee & P. Sharp University of Southern Denmark- Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, 2017
International Economic History Association - Audit committee member 2016 -
Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand - President - (2011 - 2017)
Trondheim - Dept. of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), International Advisory Board (2016-
Editor of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review 2003-2013
Current Editorial Board member of
Comite Scientifque, Revue Française d’Histoire Économique
Australian Learning and Teaching Council: Award for Teaching Excellence (with J.H.F. Meyer, P. Kershaw and K. Adams)
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation | AUSTRALIA |
Johns Hopkins University | UNITED STATES |
La Trobe University | AUSTRALIA |
Lakehead University | CANADA |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
Moscow State University | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
National University of Rosario | ARGENTINA |
National University of San Martin | ARGENTINA |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
Renmin University of China | CHINA |
Sorbonne University (France) | FRANCE |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra | SPAIN |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Bergen | NORWAY |
University of Calgary | CANADA |
University of California | UNITED STATES |
University of Gothenburg | SWEDEN |
University of Johannesburg | SOUTH AFRICA |
University of Lethbridge | CANADA |
University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières | CANADA |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of the Sunshine Coast | AUSTRALIA |
University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Waseda University | JAPAN |
Yarmouk University | JORDAN |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Audit Committee MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2018 |
Board MemberAustralian Economic History Review |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralian Economic History Review |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberBusiness History |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2018 |
International Advisory Board MemberDepartment of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
2018 |
Audit Committee MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2017 |
Board MemberAustralian Economic History Review |
2017 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralian Economic History Review |
2017 |
Editorial Board MemberBusiness History |
2017 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2017 |
International Advisory Board MemberDepartment of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
2017 |
PresidentEconomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand |
2017 |
Audit Committee MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2016 |
Co-Editor, Special Issue June 2016Australian Economic History Review |
2016 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2016 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralian Economic History Review |
2016 |
Editorial Board MemberBusiness History |
2016 |
International Advisory Board MemberDepartment of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
2016 |
MemberEconomic History Association |
2016 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2016 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2016 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2016 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2016 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2016 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2016 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2016 |
PresidentEconomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand |
2016 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2015 |
Editorial Board MemberBusiness History |
2015 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralian Economic History Review |
2015 |
Executive MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2015 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2015 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2015 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2015 |
MemberEconomic History Association |
2015 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2015 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2015 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2015 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2015 |
PresidentEconomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand |
2015 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2014 |
Executive MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2014 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2014 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2014 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2014 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2014 |
MemberEconomic History Association |
2014 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2014 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2014 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2014 |
MentorInternational Economic History Association - Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen |
2014 |
PresidentEconomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand |
2014 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2013 |
Executive MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2013 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2013 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2013 |
MemberEconomic History Association |
2013 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2013 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2013 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2013 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2013 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2013 |
MentorInternational Economic History Association - Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen |
2013 |
PresidentEconomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand |
2013 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2012 |
Executive MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2012 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2012 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2012 |
MemberEconomic History Association |
2012 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2012 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2012 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2012 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2012 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2012 |
MentorInternational Economic History Association - Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen |
2012 |
PresidentEconomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand |
2012 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2011 |
Editorial Board MemberEducation, Knowledge and Economy |
2011 |
Executive MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2011 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2011 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2011 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2011 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2011 |
MemberEconomic History Association |
2011 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2011 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2011 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2011 |
MentorInternational Economic History Association - Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen |
2011 |
PresidentEconomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand |
2011 |
Editorial Board MemberEducation, Knowledge and Economy |
2010 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2010 |
Executive MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2010 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2010 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2010 |
MemberEconomic History Association |
2010 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2010 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2010 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2010 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2010 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2010 |
Award for Teaching ExcellenceAustralian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) |
2009 |
Editorial Board MemberEducation, Knowledge and Economy |
2009 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2009 |
Executive MemberInternational Economic History Association |
2009 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2009 |
MemberEconomic History Association |
2009 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2009 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2009 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2009 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2009 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2009 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2009 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Review of Economic Education |
2008 |
Editorial Board MemberEducation, Knowledge and Economy |
2008 |
MemberEconomic History Society |
2008 |
MemberEuropean Business History Association |
2008 |
MemberCliometrics Society |
2008 |
MemberEuropean Historical Economics Society |
2008 |
MemberEducation Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2008 |
MemberAmerican Economic Association |
2008 |
MemberEuropean Association for Research on Learning and Instruction |
2008 |
Trondheim - Dept. of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), External Phd co-supervisor
In recent years I have taught Macroeconomics to first-year students, Economic Principles to masters students and International Trade. I have successfully supervised a number of PhD students. Together with colleagues I have received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence and a Carrick Award for outstanding contribution to student learning . This was for our work on 'Learning to Learn' in Economics. My former PhD students have gone on to work in universities, regulation authorities and overseas in the private sector.
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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CEO tone, earnings management, and the moderating effect of CEO power | Completed |
Commercialising aviation biofuels: a study of entrepreneurial challenges | Completed |
Corporate income tax aggressiveness in China: regulatory environment, ownership impact and market valuation | Completed |
Corporate social performance (CSP) and stewardship: assessing takaful fund operators' investment management performance | Completed |
Innovation and regulation in high-risk medical device markets | Completed |
Keeping up with the capital: how regional Australia has responded to economic and demographic change since the 1990s | Completed |
Optimising resource deployment within the firm: overcoming theoretical problems with a practical application | Completed |
The association between corporate governance reform, ownership structure and earnings management: empirical evidence from a unique regulatory environment | Completed |
The emergence of independent brewing in Australia: population and innovation dynamics | Completed |
The political economy of cross-border merger regulation | Completed |
The role of tourism in a post-conflict region: contested representations of key actors | Completed |