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Why multinationals are emerging as post-COVID winners

Why multinationals are emerging as post-COVID winners

Globalisation is far from over, with multinational firms coming out winners.

Hue Hwa Au Yong

Department of Banking and Finance

Five ways to reboot your organisation and develop diverse leaders

Five ways to reboot your organisation and develop diverse leaders

Following the disruption of COVID-19, organisations should resist returning to leadership-as-usual.

Julie Wolfram Cox

Karryna Madison

Nathan Eva

Department of Management

How a food charity ‘made sense’ of the COVID crisis and thrived

How a food charity ‘made sense’ of the COVID crisis and thrived

The much-maligned meeting plays a pivotal part in helping people 'make sense' of a crisis.

Paul J Thambar

Ralph Kober

Department of Accounting

When worlds collide: What happens when you return from an extraordinary experience?

When worlds collide: What happens when you return from an extraordinary experience?

Some people love the other-world experience of LARP – live action role play – until the line between reality and fantasy start to ‘bleed’.

Davide Orazi

Department of Marketing

As airlines stir back to life, can we safeguard lower carbon emissions?

As airlines stir back to life, can we safeguard lower carbon emissions?

During the pandemic, aviation's carbon emissions dropped to lows comparable to taking around 100 million cars off the road.

Jadranka Petrovic

Department of Business Law and Taxation

Is ‘local shock’ the key to overcoming vaccine hesitancy?

Is ‘local shock’ the key to overcoming vaccine hesitancy?

Members of close-knit ethnic communities who resisted vaccinating against COVID-19 changed their minds when the virus struck close to home. 

Yves Zenou

Department of Economics

Tightly managing hospital beds during the pandemic helped those most in need

Tightly managing hospital beds during the pandemic helped those most in need

Dynamically steering bed allocation, along with a subsidy scheme at different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, improved the effectiveness of patient care.

Xin Ma

Department of Management

Post-COVID-19, can women demand more workplace flexibility?

Post-COVID-19, can women demand more workplace flexibility?

Businesses should seriously consider allowing female workers the flexibility to structure their work arrangements around family demands.

Dominique Allen

Adriana Orifici

Department of Business Law and Taxation

Global garment industry bears the brunt of COVID supply chain woes

Global garment industry bears the brunt of COVID supply chain woes

The pandemic has revealed the previously invisible nature of global supply chains. Research is now underway into how vulnerable workers in developing nations have been impacted.

Amrik Sohal

Department of Management

The grim reality for older Australians during COVID-19

The grim reality for older Australians during COVID-19

While public health issues have been foremost in the global fight against COVID-19, public policies are only now exposing the full consequences of this international scourge. And for more than a third of older Australians, isolation – not health concerns – was the biggest problem.

Gang Chen

Centre for Health Economics

How COVID-19 changed the way we shop…again

How COVID-19 changed the way we shop…again

Snap lockdowns, closed stores, increased online shopping and supply chain disruptions were all part of 2021's 'new normal’ for consumers and retailers.

Stephanie Atto

Department of Marketing

A tourist drawcard and an economic lifeline – but a threat to health

A tourist drawcard and an economic lifeline – but a threat to health

Exotic to tourists, essential for local low-skilled workers, Indian street food vendors also peddle another ware: the risk of contaminated food.

Denni Tommasi

Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics