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Faculty of Business and Enterprise

The Faculty


Vision
To be Australia’s leading provider of high quality business degrees offering learning pathways into the professions, with an international reputation for teaching and research in entrepreneurship.

Mission
The Faculty of Business & Enterprise:

  • Offers students higher education pathways into business professions
  • Delivers business and entrepreneurship education of national and international standing
  • Contributes to the economic development of Melbourne’s eastern corridor
  • Undertakes focused research, which makes a major contribution to understandings of, and practice in, the business world


Values
We value:

Innovation and entrepreneurship
We encourage our staff and students to generate and capture opportunities for individual and social advancement.

Scholarship
We encourage research and learning that is judged to be of high quality by our peers or which has a demonstrable commercial, social or policy application.

Collaboration and teamwork
We encourage academics, professional staff and students to work together to enhance our well-being.

Openness and transparency
All decisions and the rules on which they are based will be open to all to scrutinise, subject to the legal limitations imposed by privacy legislation.

Respect and professional integrity
Staff, students and clients will treat one another respectfully, ethically and fairly.

Experiential learning
We encourage learner-centred approaches to education in which practice informs the bases of understanding and intellectual development.


Faculty Annual Report
bulletDownload the latest Faculty Report 2006

Faculty Organisational Structure
bulletView our organisational chart

Faculty Academic Groups

The Faculty has 110 academic staff employed who teach courses to approximately 3,500 students (about 2,200 equivalent full time students). Two thirds of our students are undertaking undergraduate studies.

The Faculty's postgraduate programs and research training activities are carried out within the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE).

The Faculty is organised into three academic groups, two research activity groups and a marketing and international group:

bullet Accounting, Economics, Finance and Law
Academic Leader:
Associate Professor Irene Tempone
phone: 03 9214 8424
email: itempone@swin.edu.au

bullet Management and Entrepreneurship
Academic Leader:
Professor Emeritus Murray Gillin
phone: 03 9214 5900
email: mgillin@swin.edu.au

bullet Marketing and International Studies
Academic Leader:
Associate Professor Siva Muthaly
phone: 03 9214 5885
email: smuthaly@swin.edu.au

bullet Academic Research Activities
Associate Dean (Research):
Professor Louise Kloot
phone: 03 9214 8475
email: lkloot@swin.edu.au

The Faculty currently operates two research centres:

bullet Business, Work and Ageing, Centre for Research
Director:
Professor Philip Taylor
phone: 03 9214 4501
email: ptaylor@swin.edu.au

bullet Philanthropy & Social Investment, Centre for Research
Director:
Dr Michael Liffman
phone: 03 9214 4405
email: mliffman@swin.edu.au

bullet Marketing and International
Associate Dean (International):
Associate Professor John Pidgeon
phone: 03 9214 8306
email: jpidgeon@swin.edu.au