Teaching Innovation & Enterprise in the Creative Industries

AUS $20,000

Chief Investigator: Richard Seymour

Action Research in Social Entrepreneurship

AUS $12,000

Chief Investigator: Richard Seymour

Human Resource Information Systems and the Strategic Significance of the HR Function.

Australian Research Council Linkage Project
AUS $186,000

Chief Investigators: David Grant, Richard Hall, Nick Wailes, Kristine Dery, University of Sydney

Collaborating / Partner Organisation(s):
Australian Senior Human Resource Roundtable; Getronics Australia Pty Ltd; CSR Ltd; Baulderstone Hornibrook Pty Ltd; Australian Customs Service.

A large number of Australian organisations have invested in computer based HRIS. Used effectively, HRIS can allow HR to realise its strategic potential and to contribute to improved organisational performance. This project will contribute to the national research priority on frontier technologies, by enhancing understanding of the conditions that allow for smart information use, thereby contributing to the nation's economic competitiveness.

Designing organizational structures and management control systems to achieve flexibility and consistency in the achievement of strategic objectives.

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant.

$750,000

Chief Investigators: Richard Dunford (The University of Sydney), Suresh Cuganesan (Swinburne University) and Ian Palmer (UTS).

Older Workers in a Youth-Focused Labour Market

Faculty of Economics and Business Research Grant

AUS $11,200

Chief Investigators: Susan Ainsworth and Leanne Cutcher

Research Workshop on Resistance in Organisations.

The University of Sydney, International Development Fund (IDF)

AUS $5,600

Chief Investigators: David Grant, Grant Michelson, Nick Wailes, Richard Hall, Leanne Cutcher and Ann Brewer.

Funding for the Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change Group.

The University of Sydney, School of Business Research Grant

AUS $110,000

Chief Investigators: David Grant, Richard Hall, Nick Wailes, Grant Michelson, Arlene Harvey, Susan Ainsworth, Leanne Cutcher and Ann Brewer.

The Impact of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Australian Organizations.

Australian Research Council Discovery Programme

AUS $131,000

Chief Investigators: David Grant, Richard Hall, Nick Wailes, University of Sydney; Cynthia Hardy, Bill Harley, University of Melbourne; Chris Wright, University of New South Wales.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation is one of the most pervasive sources of technological change in contemporary Australian enterprises. ERP systems are computer-based technologies that are designed to increase efficiency and achieve major cost savings across the entire organization. Their implementation has significant implications for the structure, nature and management of organizations. This project’s innovative application of an organizational change model to eight detailed case studies across a range of organizational types will generate important new insights into the effects of ERP implementations at Australian organizations and help explain why some implementations are more successful than others.