For Business and Industry
With the Faculty's highly respected researchers and their students on your team, business, industry and government have access to leading-edge research skills, knowledge and commercial expertise to:
- Identify innovative, practical solutions tailored to your needs
- Provide insight and the knowledge to inform decisions for success and social good
- Make discoveries that can put your business ahead of competitors.
Our research is focussed on:
1. Enterprise Performance & Efficiency
2. Workforce Ageing and Diversity Management
3. Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy
4. Language and Cultural Research
5. Business Education
6. Social marketing and corporate social responsibility
7. International business and development
8. Entrepreneurship and Innovation research
9. Human Resource Management
Industry Partner Case Studies
In the case studies profiled on this site, you will read about just a few of our many industry and community-linked research activities.| Australian Crime Commission, Victoria Police |
| Management Control Systems and Structures for Flexibility, Reliability and High Performance in Law Enforcement. This ARC Funded Linkage Project examines how law enforcement organisations can manage for greater flexibility and reliability in dynamic and uncertain contexts, and specifically, in the targeting of serious and organised crime. The research investigates the management practices that allow law enforcement agencies to be more flexible and perform more effectively in resource constrained environments. |
| Contact Person: Professor Suresh Cuganesan |
| Department of Transport Victoria, Victoria Police |
| Management Control Systems for Effective Information Sharing and Security in Government Organisations. This ARC funded project investigates how government agencies can achieve effective information sharing and security practices through management control systems that include the latest information technology developments. The project will help government agencies to improve their information sharing and security practices by using better control systems. Both partner organisations have agreed to act as real-life research sites and 'test-beds' for the researchers to investigate and trial new practices and methods that allow enhanced management of information sharing and security. |
| Contact Person: Professor Suresh Cuganesan |
| Victoria Centre for Advanced Materials Manufacturing (VCAMM) |
| Investigating innovation processes, networking and incubation responsibilities, this Researcher in Business (RIB) grant is co-sponsored by Enterprise Connect and VCAMM. Innovators, start-up firms, nascent entrepreneurs, corporate firms, incubators and orchestration networks will be interviewed to identify key activities, competencies and specific requirements in the innovation process. The project examines the innovation process, by identifying processes and capabilities particular to innovation incubation. The research identifies networking processes, activities and capabilities from the perspective of start-up entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and incubators. From the analysis, opportunities will be identified for how VCAMM can build dynamic networks of entrepreneurs and SMEs and engage with them. |
| Contact Person: Associate Professor Alex Maritz |
| The Big Issue |
| The Big Issue Australia is one of Australia's leading social enterprises providing creative solutions to the issue of homelessness. We achieve this by using different mechanisms to connect people with the community, such as The Big Issue Street Magazine Enterprise (a fortnightly independent current affairs magazine sold on the street by our authorised vendors), the Community Street Soccer Program (a national initiative using the positive power of sport to change lives), and The Big Issue Classroom (that challenges primary and secondary students to break down stereotypes surrounding homelessness and encourage tolerance and empathy towards all people). Researchers at the Asia Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy (ACSIIP) are working with the Big Issue to develop a research project. This project aims to measure the social and economic impact of one of the Big Issues major school based programs. |
| Contact Person: Professor Mike Donnelly, Dean, Faculty of Business & Enterprise |
| Ian Potter Foundation |
| Case Study: This mixed methods research project explored employment barriers and success factors for skilled immigrants in the Melbourne public sector. Focussing on four organisational case studies, the study included interviews and focus groups with managers and employees, policy analysis and examination of 2006 Census data. The ABS analysis showed strong indications that the share of Australian public sector employment held by non-English speaking background (NESB) employees is statistically lower than expected, particularly in local government. The qualitative research findings shed significant light on why this might be the case and what interventions may be needed. The findings are being disseminated to the Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA), the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV), Vichealth and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and will set the foundation for larger studies in the future. |
| Contact Person: Professor Santina Bertone |
| METEOR - Matching Employees to Training to Ensure Ongoing Recruitment and Retention (See METEOR) |
| The Business Work and Ageing Centre for Research is working with residential aged and home care organisations, vocational trainers, employment services providers and a range of other community organisations to develop pathways towards longer working lives for a sustainable aged care workforce. The project has been implemented since 2006 and is funded by VicHealth and J.O & J.R Wicking. The workability workforce development framework project provides training for managers and staff and is being rolled out within aged care employment and in health workforces applying a quality assurance framework.The Redesigning Work for An Ageing Society project funded by the Australian Research Council (2006-08) and partner organisations, Qantas, Laminex , ACU and RACV aimed to apply the work ability construct in the Australian context to retain the older workforce. The four case study organisations indicate both the need for comprehensive, structurally based interventions, to cope with pervasive changes in work environments. In all organisations the work environment was changing in ways indicating the need for long-term career management across the life course to ensure a continuing supply of workers with competences appropriate to new technologies and restructured workplaces. |
| Contact Person: Associate Professor Libby Brooke |