COVID‐19‐related public health measures have severely impacted the Australian higher education system (AHES). This paper examines the resilience of the AHES, particularly its past reliance on onshore international students to generate revenue that cross‐subsidises operational and research expenses. By our measure, ten universities are at risk of financial default. With a different approach on the part of the Government and university leadership, surplus monies could have contributed to building a more resilient AHES. Our findings correct widely held misconceptions about the state of the AHES and aim to provide valuable learnings to individual universities and the sector more broadly.
This paper provides a systematic review of literature pertaining to CEO characteristics and firm performance. The CEO of a firm provides critical leadership, social capital, and legitimacy, and as such exerts significant influence on firm performance. By using a bibliographic mapping approach, we identify the fifty‐one most influential publications on CEO characteristics. This field has developed from a few Upper Echelon Theory publications into four distinct categories. We review each of these to identify the main contributions to this research area and to outline research gaps and future research trends.
This paper considers the effects of different CEO demographic factors on firm performance in Australia. We investigate the impact of CEO characteristics on firm performance for the period January 2003 to December 2018 via panel regression models and the event study methodology. The results highlight that the CEO characteristics of gender, CEO–chairperson duality, CEO education level and CEO location have significant managerial effects on firm performance following debt‐ and equity‐related announcements. The CEO characteristics findings add support for the Upper Echelon Theory and provide important implications for board members and human resource departments investigating the efficiency and fairness of CEOs.
This paper presents a systematic literature review using HistCite TM in the context of gambling. After several iterations of data cleaning, the final dataset comprised 265 articles. Four key themes are identified: profiling gamblers; gambling markets; gambling motivation and fallacies; and societal effects. Further, this study identifies four key emerging research themes and associated directions for future research: adolescent gambling, health conditions and problem gambling, dark nudging. Gambling is economically and socially significant, both in Australia and globally. Whilst gambling taxes are utilised by governments for the social good, the academic literature largely focuses on the issue of problem gambling.
This paper provides a systematic review of literature pertaining to the future of work. Since the early 1990s, scholars have been engaged in research to better understand workplace culture change. By conducting a state‐of‐the‐art literature review, we identify the 32 most influential publications in the field that have developed into four distinct categories and we review each of these to identify the main contributions of these research areas. With a highlight on possible pathways for future research, this paper outlines these emerging trends to integrate on existing knowledge and pursue innovative research opportunities to expand the research frontier.
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