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Conference Proceedings
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Beyond
Fragmented
Government: Governance
in the Public Sector 15-17 August, 2005 Victoria
University City Campus, 12th
Floor, 300 Flinders Street
Refereed Conference Papers and Proceedings |
Pre-Conference Material
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The
Beyond Fragmented Government: Governance in the Public Sector Conference
was held on the 15th – 17th August 2005, at Victoria University Melbourne. The
conference was organised and hosted by the Centre
for International Corporate Governance Research (CICGR), within the Faculty of
Business and Law, Victoria University and sponsored by the Victorian Department
of the Premier and Cabinet. This was the second public sector conference
organised by CICGR, with the first one - Governance and Accountability: Under
the Spotlight - held on the 28th February 2003.
This
year’s conference included 39 Keynote speakers, presenters and authors.
Eighteen of the papers underwent a formal review/referee process. The papers
were reviewed by academics from two universities and were rated to be of
acceptable standard for publication. Any comments offered to authors by the
reviewers were acknowledged and authors undertook any necessary amendments. We
wish to thank all reviewers and authors for the result of this effort and hope
you enjoy reading these papers.
Vicky Totikidis
On behalf of Professor Anona Armstrong, Conference Convenor & Director of the Centre for International Corporate Governance Research and the Conference Organising Committee
Publication Details
Title:
Beyond Fragmented Government: Governance in the Public Sector. Refereed
Conference Papers and Proceedings.
Year of Publication:
2005
Editor:
Armstrong, Anona.
Publishers Name:
Centre for International Corporate Governance Research, Faculty of Business and
Law, Victoria University.
Address:
City Campus, PO Box 14428, Melbourne City, VIC, 8001.
Telephone Number:
(61 3) 9919 - 1315
Fax Number:
(61 3) 9919 - 1064
ISBN:
1 86272 659 0
CD Compilation & Design: Vicky Totikidis.
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Summary
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Location
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Monday 15th August 9am-5pm |
Keynote
speakers & presentations on the theme of Integration and Integrity |
Victoria University City Campus 12th
Floor, 300
Flinders St, Melbourne, Australia |
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Tuesday
16th August 9am-5pm |
Keynote
speakers & presentations on the theme New Models of Governance |
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Wednesday
17th August 9am-5pm |
Keynote
speakers & presentations on the theme of Global Integration |
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Centre for International Corporate Governance Research
http://www.businessandlaw.vu.edu.au/cicgr/
Biographies may be accessed by clicking on the speakers name (2nd column) with the third and fourth columns consisting respectively of power point presentations (PPT) or presenter notes; and refereed, non-refereed and transcribed papers where available
Tuesday 16th August
Wednesday
17th August
PRESENTER & KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Armstrong,
Anona
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Prof. Anona
Armstrong, BA(Hons), GradDip Public Policy, PhDMelb, FAPS, FAICD, CMAHRI,
MIMCCMC, IPAA, ANZAM Prof. Armstrong’s
research program includes research into governance in the public and
private sectors, university governance, performance management,
knowledge management, and community governance. She has supervised 31
postgraduate students. In addition to extensive consulting and research
experience, Prof. Armstrong has published books and numerous papers on governance and
evaluation. |
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Prof. Neil Andrews - BA (Hons)
LLB (Syd) SJD (Syd) Professor Andrews' career as a
university researcher and teacher commenced in 1993. For the previous 20
years he had been a legal practitioner since being admitted to practice
in 1974. During that time he worked for: the Deputy-Crown Solicitor (Cth),
Sydney; Sergeant & Collins, Solicitors, Scunthorpe, North
Lincolnshire; Allen & Overy, London; the Aboriginal Legal Service,
Cowra; the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Alice
Springs; the Central Land Council, Alice Springs; as an adviser in the
office of the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
and, subsequently, the Minister for Immigration and Minister assisting
the Prime Minister with Multicultural Affairs; and, for the Sydney
office of Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) on the recovery of
proceeds of crime and the prosecution of corporate and securities
offences. In 1993 he took up a position at the School of Law, University
of Canberra, and, in 2001, in the School of Law, Victoria University. He
has also been a consultant to the Hon Warren Snowdon, Parliamentary
Secretary for Territories and a member of the Cabinet subcommittee on
native title; the Australian Heritage Commission; the Central Land
Council; Deacon Graham James; and, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Commission. He has been a visiting scholar at the School of
Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, College of Law,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, School of Law, University of New
Mexico, Albuqerque and the Institute of Advanced Studies and the
Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science,
University of London. |
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Dr
John Casey John
Casey is currently a Senior Lecturer in Management at the Australian
Graduate School of Policing at Charles Sturt University in Sydney. From
1992 to 1998, he was the Executive Officer of the Masters in Public
Management program at a three university consortium in Barcelona, Spain
and a consultant to the European Union working on public sector
development in Eastern Europe. Previously, he had been the Director of
the Mayor’s Office of Adult Literacy for the City of New York, USA and
a social services manager in Sydney, Australia. |
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Professor Colin Clark Professor Colin Clark is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, Victoria University. He holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting), Diploma of Education, MBA, and PhD. He is a Fellow of CPA Australia, member of the institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration in Australia. His research interests are in the area of public sector management and accounting, in particular performance measurement and reporting. Recently he has been researching auditor general independence and accountability. |
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Dr.
Ken Coghill, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Monash
University Dr
Ken Coghill is a Co-Director, Monash Governance Research Unit, Monash
University, where he directs and undertakes research on the
inter-relationships between the public, corporate and civil society
sectors as they affect the governance of the nation-state. A
former MP and Parliamentary Speaker, Dr Coghill teaches Governance and
Business & Government in the Master of Public Policy and Management
Program and supervises a number of research students. |
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Dr
Bronwen Dalton Bronwen
Dalton is a lecturer in the Community Management Program at UTS. In 2001
Bronwen completed a PhD at the University of Oxford focusing Korean
nonprofits’ role in democratisation. Prior to her appointment, she
worked in the area of social policy in the NSW Government. From 1992 to
1995 Bronwen was Assistant and Acting Director of the National Korean
Studies Centre. Bronwen has been employed as a consultant by several
non-profit organisations and consulted to Commonwealth and State
Governments on issues relating to nonprofits and social capital. |
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Bill Dee
Director
of Compliance and Complaints, Advisory Services Pty Ltd |
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Duckworth,
Mark
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Mr
Mark Duckworth Mark
Duckworth is the Director, Government in the Department of Premier and
Cabinet, State of Victoria, Australia.
The role of Government Branch includes providing advice to the
Premier and Secretary on intergovernmental relations and Victoria’s
relations with other countries, public sector governance and reform, and
industrial relations. The
Security and Emergencies Unit is also part of his responsibilities. He
is also a member of Australia’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee.
Mark served as a principal policy adviser intergovernmental relations in
The Cabinet Office of the State of New South Wales from 1995-2001. He worked at the University of Sydney Law School from
1993-95 and the Law Reform Commission of Victoria from 1989 to 1992. He
has an MA in history and an LLB from the University of Melbourne and is
admitted as a solicitor in Australia and England. |
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Ray H. Elliott, MAPS, FAHRI,Ray
Elliott is a Research Associate of CICGR and a
scientist-practitioner in the fields of leadership, ethics,
organisational behaviour as an Organisational Psychologist, Executive
and Senior Management Coach and Corporate Consultant. He is a Director
of OEC (www.oecy.com.au) and of MLQ Pty Ltd (www.mlq.com.au). His
diverse clients at Board, CEO and senior management levels come from the
retail, manufacturing, armed forces, legal, medical, education,
consulting and local government sectors, and have included Toyota,
Pirelli, Bakers Delight, the Australian Army and law firms. He has
served for seven years on the HREC of the DHS and in 2002-2003 founded
the APS Coaching Psychology Interest Group.
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Mrs. Asoka
Fernando, PhD Student
Asoka
is a PhD student at Monash University specializing regulatory
arrangements with privatization of telecommunications sector taking a
case of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT). She has completed her Masters degree in
Public Policy and Management at Monash University in 2000. She was
attached to the Sri Lankan civil service for about 17 years and most of
her career has been under the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Sri
Lanka. She has an extensive experience in public policy making process
in Sri Lanka and was closely engaged in preparation of poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper of Sri Lanka which was completed in 2002. Public policy
and governance related issues are my research interests. |
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Ms
Maree Fitzpatrick Maree
Fitzpatrick is in the final write up phase of her doctoral research –
an ethnographic study of corporate governance in a public sector health
agency. She has already
authored two book chapters from this research: Corporate Governance: In
Sickness and Health in the publication, Courageous Research and A
Profile of Governance in the Victorian Public Sector: A Healthy
Approach, for Standards Australia International. Her research interests
include: corporate governance, corporate social responsibility reporting
and stakeholder engagement. She
has served on several public sector boards and stakeholder advisory
committees. She is a keen
sailor and is the first woman to be elected as the President of the
Mirror Class Association of Victoria. |
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Francis,
Ronald
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Prof. Ronald Francis, MA (NZ), PhD (Melb), DipCrim (Cambridge) |
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Professor
Geoffrey George
Victoria Graduate School of
Business, Victoria University of Technology
Professor George’s Professional experience includes: 1987 - Foundation Head, School of Business at Western Institute, St.Albans 1989 - 1991- Associate Director, School of Business at Western Institute, St.Albans Foundation Principal, Werribee Campus, Victoria University. 1997 - Head, Department of Legal & Executive Studies. Currently - Director, International Programs in the Faculty of Business & Law & Professor within Victoria Graduate School of Business. Professor George has also held positions as Visiting Professor at the Reims Management School, France, The University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and has held appointments in Sweden, Norway, Malta, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. |
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Prof.
Elizabeth Harman
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Professor
Brian Head Brian
Head is Professor of Governance at Griffith University. He has held
senior positions in the governmental sector, leading the policy division
in three agencies and the public sector management function for the
Queensland government. He has worked in several university research
centres with a focus on public policy and management, and is
contributing to two ARC-funded collaborative research networks. He has
written or edited ten books, together with numerous government and
consultancy reports. He is currently researching aspects of
collaboration, community consultation, integrity systems,
inter-governmental policy relations, and new partnership and network
models. He is a Fellow of the AICD, the AIM, and the IPAA. |
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Professor
Sardar M. N. Islam Professor
of Welfare and Environmental Economics Sardar M. N. Islam is Professor and Director, Sustainable
Growth Program at the CSES, Victoria University. He is also associated
with the Financial Modelling Program and the Law and Economics Program.
He has taught for more than 15 years at different universities in
various countries. He has published 15 books and monographs and more
than 150 technical papers His research has gained him an international
reputation. He has interest in different academic fields in Finance,
Economics, Business and Law where he has expertise or experience in
teaching (at doctorate level), supervision, or research. |
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Jia,
Xinting
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Ms
Xinting Jia - B.Eng. (Hons) MBA (Melb.) PhD Candidate (VU) Research
Officer, Centre for International Corporate Governance Research, Faculty
of Business and Law, Victoria University |
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Mr
Peter Johnstone, Peter
has worked for local, State and Federal governments.
He pursues strong interests in change management, public policy,
social justice, aged care, and corporate governance.
He co-edited and contributed to the 1996 publication ‘Governing
Local Communities – the future begins’.
He wrote the Public Sector chapter for the National Standards
Association’s Handbook ‘Applications of Corporate Governance’. |
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David
Kimber David Kimber is a visiting fellow at the Indian Institute of
Management – Bangalore and the IESEG Business School, France.
He was the former Associate Dean and Director of Post Graduate
Studies and joint program co-ordinator of the Doctor of Business
Administration at RMIT’s Business Faculty. His teaching and research
interests are in areas of business
ethics, corporate governance and citizenship, international alliances,
cross cultural studies, business/society relationships and values in
management and leadership. He has taught at universities and colleges in
China, Malaysia, Singapore, France, India and Australia. He was the
chief investigator on the “Business Integrity Systems in Australia”
research project auspiced by Transparency International and has been
undertaking research in India in corporate social responsibility.
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Ellen
Kittson Manager,
Biotechnology and Ethics Program, Department of Human Services In
her seventeen years of public service, Ellen Kittson has extensive
experience in implementing legislative reform impacting on three tiers
of Government policy. She has significant experience working with and
supporting the operation of a variety of advisory bodies, committees and
councils. In addition, Ellen has represented Australia in international
policy forums and undertaken the role as the independent adviser on
policy formulation. Ellen will explore the dynamic relationship between
a public entity and the Government with special consideration on the
expectations surrounding how policy is or should be impacted from the
perspective of the adviser and the advised. |
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Dr Ron
Kluvers
Dr. Kluvers has
been an academic for eleven years.
In that time he has taught management accounting and advanced
management accounting. Currently
he teaches management control systems.
His research has been in the areas of budgeting and performance
measurement in the Not-For-Profit and Public sectors.
A number of his papers have been published in academic journals
and presented at a number of international conferences. |
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Dominic Lai Yew Hock Dominic graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand with a Bachelor of Laws Degree in 1985. He is a practicing advocate, a Commissioner for Oaths, a Notary Public, and an Accredited Mediator in Malaysia. He is a DBA candidate with University of South Australia. |
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Moran,
Terry
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Dr Terry Moran Secretary
to the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet Terry
has enjoyed a varied career within the public service, working with
successive federal and state governments as a policy adviser and
manager. He was previously Director-General of Education in Queensland,
Chief Executive of the Australian National Training Authority, and held
a number of positions in Victoria, including Director of the Victorian
Office of Training and Further Education, and General Manager of the
State Training Board. |
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Dr Justin
O’Brien, School of Law
Queen’s
University, Belfast
Dr
Justin O’Brien runs the corporate governance program at the School of
Law, Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of Wall Street on
Trial (2003), and the editor of Governing the Corporation: Corporate
Governance and Regulation in Global Markets (2005). He has recently
received a major grant from the Economic and Social Research Council to
examine the international implications of the United States
Sarbanes-Oxley legislation on increased corporate liability following
corporate governance scandals. A former investigative journalist and
television editor, he holds a doctorate in political science from
Queen’s University, Belfast. |
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Dr
Kok-Boon. Oh Graduate School
of Management K
B is a chartered accountant and has hands-on management experience in
the Asia Pacific region. He held finance and regional management
positions with American and Asian multinational corporations. Positions
held in these multinational companies include directorships on their
boards, finance director, and general manager. He has been a successful
Country Manager of a |
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Siobhan O'Sullivan Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Siobhan
is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Siobhan specialises in
issues pertaining to modern industrial animal use and animal welfare
policy. Siobhan teaches the history, philosophy and politics of animal
protection across a number of different disciplines at the University of
Sydney and has recently begun teaching the history of animal welfare
legislation at the University of New South Wales’ Masters of Animal
Law course. Siobhan has been a member of the Animal Research Review
Panel; the statutory body which oversees the use of animals in research
and teaching in NSW, since 2003. |
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Ms
Sandi Rahaju SANDI RAHAJU was born in Rembang, Indonesia in 1968. She
got her BA in education, LLB and MBA from Indonesian universities and is
currently doing her SJD at the University of Technology, Sydney. Under
the supervision of Prof Sam Blay and Prof Judith Johnston she is
finishing her comparative thesis research on corporate governance of
state-owned enterprises.
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Roy,
Achinto
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Achinto Roy - B.Com (Bom), A.C.A. (India); B.Com. (Hons)-Bus Adm,
Canterbury M.Mgt. (Canterbury-NZ) Achinto
is a chartered accountant with more than 18 years of professional and
consultancy experience in Bombay (India) and Christchurch (New Zealand).
Currently he is finishing his doctorate at the University of Canterbury.
His research interests include international business and business
ethics, management strategy and corruption-related decision-making. |
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Dr Martin Rush Martin
Rush has had a range of experience in both the Australian and Victorian
Public Services, much of it in central personnel agencies. He is
currently responsible for the
regional offices of the Australian Public Service Commission which
service the APS in all the states and territories, and until recently
was the primary delegate for the Merit Protection Commissioner's
functions in the southern and western states of Australia. He also has
had a long term involvement on the IPAA-Vic Council, and chairs the
Local Leadership Group for the Public Sector Management Program. |
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Mr Michael Segon - B Comm Melbourne, Dip Ed Melbourne, Grad Dip Bus Ad Swinburne, MBA Swinburne Michael Segon is the Director of MBA Programs at RMIT Graduate School of Business. He leads core MBA courses Leadership and Management, Managing Relationships and the elective stream in Ethics, Social Responsibility and Governance. Michael's research interests are in business ethics, integrity social responsibility and organisational structure. |
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Prof. Peter Sheehan Founding
and current Director of Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria
University Peter
has made a substantial contribution to the field of studies of the
global knowledge economy, and of its Australian and international
ramifications, since 1994. He has also contributed to both the analysis
of new technologies and their application in Australia, and to policy
and commercial developments related to the commercialisation of such
technologies in Australia, over two decades. He has previously been
senior researcher at the Institute of Applied Economic and Social
Research at Melbourne University and Director General of the former
management and budget department in the Victorian Government. He has
also held a wide range of board positions with Australian companies,
particularly in high-technology areas. |
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Prof.
Roman Tomasic BA, LLB (Syd), MA, PhD, SJD (Syd) Chairman,
CICGR Advisory Committee
Professor Tomasic is a Research Professor in the Faculty of
Business and Law, and Head of City Campus, Victoria University. He has
served as Dean of Faculty of Business and Law (July 1999 - August 2004)
and Acting Pro Vice Chancellor (International) at Victoria University
and has been a Professor of Law at Victoria University (since 2001). He
was previously Chair of the University Academic Board and a Professor of
Law (1989-1999) at the University of Canberra. Professor Tomasic had
been the Director of the National Centre for Corporate Law and Policy
Research at the University of Canberra and served as Head of the School
of Law and as Head of the Law Discipline at the University of Canberra.
He played leading roles in the establishment of professional Law Schools
at the University of Canberra and Victoria University. He has been an
Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Canberra (since 1999) and
is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the China University of Politics and
Law in Beijing, (since 2000) and an Advisory Professor of the Beijing
Jiaotong University in Beijing, PRC (since 2002). He has served as the
President of the Corporate Law Teachers Association and as a Member of
the Executive of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of
Australia. He has been Editor of the Australian Journal of Corporate Law
since 1991. Professor Tomasic has served as the interim Director of the
Centre for International Corporate Governance Research (CICGR) and is
currently the Chairman of the CICGR Advisory Committee. |
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Totikidis, Vicky
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Ms
Vicky Totikidis - BA(Hons) VU, MApp (Community) PsyVU
Research
Officer, Centre for International Corporate Governance Research, Faculty
of Business and Law, Victoria University Vicky is currently involved in a project relating
to the community governance of crime prevention and community safety in
Victoria. She has worked in research and practice settings in the areas
of community well-being, ethnic health promotion, disability and mental
health and has tutored in psychology, health science and social research
methods. Her major interests are in community governance, community
health, safety and well-being, community diversity and
development/building. |
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Dr Shann
Turnbull http://www.aprim.net/associates/turnbull.htm
is the Principal of the International Institute for Self-governance and
was a founding author in 1975 of the first course in the world to
provide a qualification for company directors.
His PhD research into the science of governance was used to: (i)
Create a MBA course for designing and evaluating how private, public and
non-profit organizations are governed (ii) Rate the largest 100
organisations by turnover in Australia and (iii) Write “A New Way to
Govern: Organisations and society after Enron”. He has been chairman
and/or CEO of publicly traded companies including some he has founded. |
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Dr
Bernadine VanGramberg Bernadine
has experience in project management and equal employment opportunity
with the Public Transport Corporation of Victoria and has consulted in
dispute resolution for 10 years. Her research program includes public
sector reform, alternative dispute resolution, and industrial relations.
She has written more than 40 articles in books, journals and conference
proceedings. Her first book, ‘Consulting in Conflict’ will be
published by Federation Press in August. |
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Mr Greg
Vines
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Dr Ian
Watt
Dr Watt has been
Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration since January
2002. He was previously Secretary of the Department of Communications,
Information Technology and the Arts. Prior to that, he was Deputy
Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and
Executive Coordinator of the Economic, Industry and Resources Policy
Group until March 2001. |
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Ms Aster
Yong
Centre for
International Corporate Governance Research (CICGR). Faculty of Business
and Law, Victoria University After
her undergraduate studies (majoring in psychology and sociology), Aster
proceeded to do a Masters program in Applied Social Research. She has
just submitted her PhD thesis for examination. Even though her thesis
concentrated on the subject of foreign labour employment, Aster’s
research interests are primarily with culture and its dynamics on
attitudes, ethics and behaviours. |
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Dr. Quamrul Alam, Lecturer, Department of Management, Monash University |
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Ms Jenny
Jian Rong FU LLB (Canberra).
Master of Legal Studies (Canberra). PhD Candidate (Victoria University).
Research Officer, Centre for International Corporate Governance Research |
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Christine Mak Research Scholar |
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*Biographies and photos for the
above authors were not available at the time of printing
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Contact: vicky.totikidis@vu.edu.au