Internal seminars

28 April 2023
Dr Sumati Ahuja, Dr Alice Klettner and Dr Claire Wright are from the Management Department in the UTS Business School 

Research presented in this seminar:

• An ethnography of public hospitals in Southwestern Sydney implementing a new technology for intensive care units, Dr Sumati Ahuja
• Corporate purpose and stakeholder governance: evidence from B Corps, Dr Alice Klettner
• Capitalising equality: Firm-level drivers of women in corporate leadership, Dr Claire Wright
   

24 May 2023

Dr Najmeh Hassanli and Dr Marco Berti from the Management Department, UTS Business School and Visiting Scholar Dr Alberto Bertello from the University of Turin

Research presented in this seminar:

• Reflection on taking a sabbatical: research, engagement and professional/personal development, Dr Najmeh Hassanli
• How to reflect critically upon and improve paradox theory; the relationship between paradox and power; and how to employ a paradox lens for research, Dr Marco Berti
• Open innovation including use of hackathons as a new form of challenge-based collaborative innovation, Dr Alberto Bertello

21 August 2023

Dr Moira Scerri, Dr Maruf Chowdhury and Dr Pavlina Jasovska from the Management Department, UTS Business School

Research presented in this seminar:

• Extending social network analysis to geo-spatial and multi-level analysis, Dr Moira Scerri
• When and how to apply multi-method and multi-study research designs, Dr Maruf Chowdhury
• International market-making – how entrepreneurs take novel products or business solutions overseas to seek competitive advantage and simultaneously adhere to cultural-cognitive templates in the foreign location, Dr Pavlina Jasovska

19 September 2023

Associate Professor Kyoung-Hee Yu and Dr Mihajla Gavin from the Management Department, UTS Business School

• Observations from Participating in a University Promotions Committee, Associate Professor Kyoung-Hee Yu
• Centering empathy with lived experience in management education, Dr Mihajla Gavin

8 December 2022

Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury is from the Management Department in the UTS Business School

A method of analysis focusing on qualitative comparative analysis using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). This method is also known as a set-theoretic approach or a configurational approach. As opposed to net effect analysis (what we usually do in symmetrical/regression-based studies), a configurational analysis (i.e. asymmetrical analysis) examines the combined effect of factors influencing an outcome. fsQCA considers complex causal patterns among independent variables and equifinality and also addresses causal asymmetry. Using configurational analysis, the researcher presents a paper and shows the analysis method to determine the combination of supply-chain resilience strategies for managing supply chain performance during a pandemic.

19 July 2021

Dr Jennie Small is from the Management Department in the UTS Business School

Over time, tourism studies have come to acknowledge that the tourist's body is integral to the tourist experience. Yet we know little about how our physical appearance or body image contributes to the holiday experience. In this presentation, I report the findings from the studies of women's experience of their appearance on holiday. The research method was the feminist social constructionist method, memory-work, whereby, groups of women of different ages (20-29, 30-49, and 50-64) wrote positive and negative memories about their appearance on holiday and then met as a collective to discuss. The finding suggests that across all age groups, it is difficult for women to resist the gendered discourse of the 'body ideal' and, for the older women, the added age and health discourses. While some older women were more focused on what the body could do, rather than what it looked like, the overall conclusion was that appearance remains important throughout the life course. Whether or not women can challenge core societal beliefs about appearance has implications for whether they can experience the freedom, lack of constraints, and well-being popularly associated with a holiday. 

12 May 2021

Dr Sanjoy Paul, Dr Melissa Edwards and Associate Professor Hussain Rammal are from the Management Department in the UTS Business School

Research presented in this rapid research seminar:

• COVID-19 pandemic-related supply chain studies: a systematic review by Dr Sanjoy Paul
• Economic nationalism and Internationalization of services: review and research agenda by Associate Professor Hussain Rammal
• Systems perspectives in sustainable business and management by Dr Melissa Edwards

23 march 2021

Dr David Beirman and Associate Professor Daryl Adair are from the Management Department in the UTS Business School and Oliver Freeman is a UTS Industry Fellow.

Research presented in this rapid research seminar:

• Athlete activism: voices and gestures by Associate Professor Daryl Adair
• Tourism risk, Crisis and recover: a thematic approach (PEP Report) by Dr David Beirman
• What will be the role of national borders and globalisation after COVID-19? by Oliver Freeman (UTS Industry Fellow)

23 February 2021

Professor Jenny Onyx is from Management Department in the UTS Business School

Collective memory work (CMW) involves the collective analysis of a set of focused memories. It is a qualitative research method with a strong feminist base. The seminar presentation will include a brief history of the method, a summary of a recently published example involving the collective analysis of women's reflections on aging, and then an interrogation of the method from a complexity theory paradigm. The method is unique in that the control of the whole research process remains with the participants. It nonetheless establishes a rigorous and valid alternative approach to many social issues, often challenging existing taken-for-granted positions.  

11 November 2020

Dr Anna Stephens, Dr Najmeh Hassanli, Dr Alice Klettner and Professor Thomas Clarke are from the Management Department in the UTS Business School

Research presented in this rapid research seminar:

• A lifecycle approach to gender diversity by Dr Alice Klettner and Professor Thomas Clarke
• Strategic (dis)integration: a multilevel study of integration practices in a pluralistic organisation by Dr Anna Stephens
• The contribution of SMEs to a sustainable tourism industry by Dr Najmeh Hassanli

27 August 2020

Dr Ruth Weatherall is from the Management Department in the UTS Business School

Ethnography is a holistic research approach to understanding and writing about the everyday practices, customs, and cultures of individuals within a particular social context. The emphasis is on understanding the social context from the position of an insider: understanding what 'normal' looks like to someone else. Ethnography is a rich methodology and utilises a range of ethnographic methods including participant observation, interviews, arts-based methods, and document analysis. Over the past few decades, organizational or industrial ethnographies have become increasingly common, although these new forms of ethnography sit within a long anthropological tradition that has frequently focused on how society and work are organized. In this seminar, I discuss the potential of organizational ethnography while highlighting some of the contentions surrounding the use of this methodology. I'll also offer an overview of how ethnography or ethnographic methods might enrich your future research.

19 August 2020

Dr Anja Hergesell and Dr Stephen Schweinsberg are from the Management Department in the UTS Business School

The research presented in this rapid research seminar

• Measuring environmental friendliness: using Item response theory for scale development and review by Dr Anja Hergesell
• Tourism academics : agenda setting in a post COVID-19 world by Dr Stephen Schweinsberg

9 July 2020

Dr Helena Liu is from the Management Department in the UTS Business School

Autoethnography is an autobiographical form of research and writing involving the study of personal documents that offer insights into the author's consciousness concerning their sociocultural context. In this seminar, I'll talk about how I used autoethnography to analyse my experiences working as a research fellow at a leading research centre during which I was seduced into my own making as a postfeminist subject. I'll also offer an overview of autoethnographic methods, their processes and risks to offer some guidance on how you may use autoethnography in your future research.

20 May 2020

Dr David Beirman, Dr Simone Faulkner, Dr Marco Berti and Professor Simon Darcy all are from the Management Department in the UTS Business School

The research presented in this rapid research seminar

• A process theory of 'Paradox': sources of Interdependent contradictions in social, material and logical organizing by Dr Marco Berti
• Engaging volunteer tourism in post-disaster recovery in Nepal by Dr David Beirman and Dr Simone Faulkner
• Professional experience program report: access, inclusion and human rights by Professor Simon Darcy

19 February 2020

Dr Adam Cohen, Dr Sumati Ahuja and Ece Kaya are from the Management Department in the UTS Business School 

The research presented in this rapid research seminar

• 'Feelings' as identity work: a case of AI and patent attorneys in Australia by Dr Sumati Ahuja
• Shifting gender perceptions of male participants in a coed non-traditional sport by Dr Adam Cohen
• Urban transformation and place-making by Dr Ece Kaya

22 November 2019

Dr Helena Liu, Professor Thomas Clarke and DR Helena Li are from the Management Department in the UTS Business School 

The research presented in this rapid research seminar

• Disrupting the disrupters? Creative destruction, technology disruption and Innovation by Professor Thomas Clarke
• Redeeming leadership: an anti-racist feminist intervention by Dr Helena Liu
• Stay Inside or step outside? The impacts of negative performance feedback and top management team's experience with the novelty of foreign entries by Dr Helena Li