Staff

Academic staff and their interests

Professor Oscar Hauptman (Leader): management of R&D and technical professionals; science and technology based entrepreneurship; technology strategy, planning and forecasting; the role of technology and knowledge in operations and new product development

Professor Steve Keen: nonlinear modelling of economic dynamics; economic theory; the history of economic thought 

Professor Louise Young: evolution and management of business relationships and networks; psychology of the individuals participating; methods of case study, deep qualitative interview and lexicographic analysis and agent-based modelling in complexity theory

Adjunct Professor Ron Beckett: management of innovation; multi-partner collaborations; the acquisition and leverage of knowledge to provide competitive advantage; issues for small manufacturers from the globalisation of business

Adjunct Professor Tim Turpin: processes for producing, managing and diffusing knowledge, especially organisational and industrial change within higher education, research institutions and other organisations involved in the production of knowledge

Associate Professor Partha Gangopadhyay: applied game theory and local public goods; public policies, globalisation and regional economics; economics of conflict; development and peace; economic and financial dynamics

Dr Ann Dadich: health and mental health service systems; social policy; community psychology; youth mental health; non-government organisations; research methodologies; qualitative research methods

Dr Henry Lau: logistics and supply chain management, operations research, engineering management and artificial intelligence systems

Dr Kenan Matawie: statistics – applied and methodology, particularly modelling; linear/generalised linear mixed models, variance-covariance structure and efficiency

Dr Dilupa Nakandala: innovation, innovation systems, technology transfer, firm learning and technological development, decision support systems Teaching expertise: Project management, organisational behaviour, organisational analysis and design, managing people at work

Dr Hugh Pattinson: future studies/foresight, with emphasis on scenario planning; technological innovation and entrepreneurship; E-Marketing and Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing; application of storytelling methods to complex systems

Dr Prem Samaranayake: enterprise resource planning; supply chain management; business process management

Dr Hao Tan: cyclical industrial dynamics; diffusion and substitution of technologies; industrial development of renewable energies; industrial ecology; internationalisation of Chinese firms; international trade and its environmental implications; best management practices; econometrics

Dr Kathy Tannous: financial literacy; access to finance; labour economics; economics of ageing; health economics; economics of development

Adjunct Fellow Dr Robert Dalitz
: analysis of innovation; the relationship between skills and innovation; sectoral dynamics; technological innovation

Adjunct Fellow Dr Phillip Toner: economics of technical innovation; labour market analysis; comparative national skills formation systems

Adjunct Fellow Dr Richard Woolley: formation and mobilization of scientific and technical human capital; knowledge creation and use in the fields of science, research organizations and industrial R&D; ethnographic research

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