Faculty Staff Profile

Editorial Board, Japan Anthropology Workshop Series, RoutledgeCurzon

Editorial Board, Asia Pacific Business Review

Editor, Transnational Social Review: A Social Work Journal

Associate Editor, Institutions and Economies, University of Malaya

MGC2130

MGC3120

MGX5120

MGC2430

Japanese management transfer;

Managing religious diversity;

Islamic work ethics;

Gender and work in Asia;

Japanese and Malaysian human resource management;

Globalized new religions;

Social protection in Malaysia;

Cross-cultural management;

International education and capacity building in Malaysia

Nakamaki, H. and Smith, W. (eds.) (2012) Global-ka suru Asia-kei Shukyo: Keiei to Marketing [Globalizing Asian Religions: Management and Marketing] Osaka: Toho Shuppan

Manderson, Lenore, Smith, Wendy and Tomlinson, Matt (eds.) (2012) Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific Dordrecht: Springer

Nakamaki, H. and Smith, W. (2012) Global-ka suru Asia-kei Shukyo no Keiei to Marketing [The management and marketing of globalizing Asian religions] ] in Nakamaki, H. and Smith, W. (eds.) Global-ka suru Asia-kei Shukyo: Keiei to Marketing lGlobalizing Asian Religions: Management and Marketing] Osaka: Toho Shuppan, pp. 17-30

Smith, W. and Ramsay, T. (2012) Hiromari yuku reikon no jikaku: BKWSU ni okeru keiei to Global na kakudai [The overseas diffusion of soul consciousness: the management and global expansion of the BKWSU] in Nakamaki, H. and Smith, W. (eds.) Global-ka suru Asia-kei Shukyo: Keiei to Marketing lGlobalizing Asian Religions: Management and Marketing] Osaka: Toho Shuppan, pp. 247-282

Manderson, Lenore, Smith, Wendy and Tomlinson, Matt. (2012) Beliefs Beyond Borders and Communities of Faith in Manderson, Lenore, Smith, Wendy and Tomlinson, Matt (eds.) Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 1-12.

Ramsay, T. Smith, W. and Manderson, L. (2012) Brahma Kumaris: Purity and the Globalization of Faith in Manderson, L., Smith, W. and Tomlinson, M. (eds.) Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific, pp. 51-70

Smith, W. (2012) New Religious Movements as Transnational Providers of Social Support the case of Sukyo Mahikari in Adrienne Chambon, A. Schrer, W. and Schweppe, C. (eds.) Transnational Social Support London: Routledge pp. 63-77.

Ramsay, T., Manderson, L. and Smith, W. (2010) "Changing a Mountain into a Mustard Seed: Spiritual Practices and Responses to Disaster among New York Brahma Kumaris." Journal of Contemporary Religion Vol. 25 no. 1 pp. 89-105

Cuthbert, D., Smith, W. and Boey, J., (2008) What do we really know about the outcomes of Australian international higher education? A critical review and prospectus for future research Journal of Studies in International Education (vol. 12, pp. 255 - 275)

Chung, M. and Smith, W., (2007) Overseas Chinese s Expatriate Managers in China: is their recruitment a solution to cross-cultural management problems for multinationals operating in China? The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Volume 7 (online)

Chung, M. and Smith, W., (2007) The importance of overcoming cultural barriers in establishing brand names: an Australian company in China Innovative Marketing, vol. 3 no. 2 pp. 33-42

Smith, W. (2007) "Sukyo Mahikari in Australia and Southeast Asia - a Globalized Japanese New Religious Movement outside the Japanese Diaspora" in Ronan A. Pereira and Hideaki Matsuoka (eds.) Japanese Religions in and Beyond Japanese Diaspora Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley/Institute of East Asian Studies, pp. 45-78

Smith, W.(2006) Japanese management and Japanese miracles: the global sweep of Japanese economic and religious organisations in Hendry, J. and Wong, Dixon (eds) Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy: Views from Japanese Anthropology London: RoutledgeCurzon, JAWS Series, pp.74-80

Ragayah Haji Mat Zin and Smith, W. (2005) Malaysia - unemployment in the midst of full employment in Benson, J. and Zhu, Y. (eds.) Unemployment in Asia, London: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Growth Economies of Asia Series) pp. 133-158

Smith, W. and Asma A. (2004) "HRM Changes in Malaysia after the Asian Financial Crisis" in Asia Pacific Business Review (Vol. 10 nos. 3-4, pp.402-421)

Smith, W. A. (2004) "Industrial Production Technologies and Culture in a Malaysian Workplace: When Japanese management software encounters Islam" in Marika Vicziany (ed.), "Cultures and Technologies in Asia: the paradigm shifts (Proceedings of the conference held on 9-13 February 2004 in Mumbai", Maharashtra State, India, Monash Asia Institute, 2004, ISBN 1876924 31 4 , Monash University Press.

Bouma, G, Haidar, A., Nyland. C and Smith, W. (2003) "Work, religious diversity and Islam" AsiaPacificJHR, Vol 41, no. 1 pp.51-61

Shamsul A.B. and Smith, W.A.(2003) "Serious Issues, Popular Desire: Paradoxes of Mahathir's Morality", in Bridget Welsh (ed.) Reflections: The Mahathir Years. Washington, DC: Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS pp. 40-47

Smith, W. (2003) Management in Malaysia, in Malcolm Warner (ed.) Management and Culture in Asia, London: Curzon pp. 115-134

Smith, W. (2002). The corporate culture of a globalized Japanese New Religion, Senri Ethnological Studies, 62, (Special Issue "The Culture of Association and Associations in Contemporary Japanese Society"), pp. 153-176

Smith, W., Nyland, C. and Ahmad, A. (2001). Islamic identity and work in Malaysia: Islamic work ethics in a Japanese joint venture in Malaysia. In Nyland, C, Smith, W. Smyth, R. Vicziany, M. (eds) Malaysian Business in the New Era, Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US Edward Elgar pp. 189-202

Nyland, C., Smith, W., Smyth, R., Vicziany, M. (2001). Economic and social adjustment in Malaysia in the 'new' business era. In Nyland, C, Smith, W. Smyth, R. Vicziany, M. (eds) Malaysian Business in the New Era Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US Edward Elgar pp. 1-10

Bouma G., Smith, W. and Finlay, S. (2000). Japanese Religion in Australia: Mahikari and Zen in a Multicultural Society", in Clarke, Peter (ed.), Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective, London: Curzon Press, pp. 74-112

Smith, W. (2000). Japan's contribution to the impact of globalization on Malaysian industrial workers" in Edwards, R., Nyland, C. and Coulthard, M. (eds.) Readings in International Business - An Asia Pacific Perspective, Pearson Education Australia Pty Ltd, pp.123-148

PhD and MA supervision (8 completions, 5 on-going)

Dr Dorothea Filus (2000) Social Stratification and Religious Affiliation in Japan

Dr Naomi Tsunematsu (2001) "An Examination of Power and Identity Construction among Japanese Women in a Local Community from a Feminist Perspective"

Dr Endang Soesilowati (2005) "Indonesian Women's Employees' Career Development in Manufacturing"

Dr Mona Chung (2006) "Cross-cultural differences a case study of an Australian business in China"

Dr Abdulmajeed Alhussein (2008) "Acceptance of I.T. in Saudi Arabian organizations"

Dr Tamasin Ramsay (2009) Spiritual Preparation for Disaster a Study of the Brahma Kumaris

Dr Frithjof Arp (2012) "Foreign Executives in Local Organizations (FELOs)"

Dr Janice Boey (2013) "Addressing gender blindness in research on international education: an analysis of the education experience and career outcomes of Malaysian graduates from Monash University Australia"

David Chin "Servant leadership in organizations: A cross-national study of Australia and Malaysia" (PhD)(submitted)

Murray Rees "The innovation roles and personal characteristics of those involved in SME export initiation a longitudinal study of Victorian SME first exporters" (PhD)

Juna Liau "Social inclusion and identity following road traffic injuries (RTI)" (PhD)

Saadiah Majeed "Re-framing disaster risk: Developing a disaster risk management framework for Bangladesh" (PhD)

Trevor Walsh "An anthropological study of the impact of Yoga in Australian society" (MA)

Assessor - Australian Research Council

Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (MUHREC) member

Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work (ACREW)

International Society for the Sociology of Religion