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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.

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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
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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.

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Faculty Organisational Structure

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

Accounting, Economics, Finance and Law

Academic Leader:
Associate Professor Irene Tempone
phone: 03 9214 8424
email: itempone@swin.edu.au

Management and Entrepreneurship

Academic Leader:
Professor Janice Langan Fox
phone: 61 3 9214 4619
email: jalanganfox@swin.edu.au

Marketing and International Studies

Academic Leader:
Dr Barbara Evans
phone: 03 9214 8389
email: bevans@swin.edu.au

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Academic Research Activities

The Faculty's research, research training activities and doctoral programs are run through the Faculty Research office.
Associate Dean (Research):
Professor Louise Kloot
phone: 03 9214 8475
email: lkloot@swin.edu.au

The Faculty currently operates two research centres:

Business, Work and Ageing, Centre for Research

Director:
Professor Philip Taylor
phone: 03 9214 4501
email: ptaylor@swin.edu.au

Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment & Philanthropy

Director:
Dr Michael Liffman
phone: 03 9214 4405
email: mliffman@swin.edu.au

Centre for Enterprise Performance

Director:
Professor Suresh Cuganesan
phone: 03 9214 8838
email: scuganesan@swin.edu.au

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