Richard Cooney

Senior Lecturer, DipEd LaTrobe BA PhD Melbourne

Research Interests:

Business process design; product and process innovation; teamworking; workforce development and quality management.

Recent Publications:

Cooney, R., & Sewell, G. (2008).  From lean production to mass customisation.  Recent developments in the Australian automotive industry.  In Pulignano, V., Stewart, P., Danford, A., & Richardson, M. (Eds.), Flexibility at Work: Critical Developments in the International Automobile Industry (pp. 127-149).  Houndmills, Basingstroke: Palgrave-MacMillan.

Cooney, R., & Gospel, H. (2008).  Inter-firm cooperation in training.  Group training in the UK and Australia.  Industrial Relations Journal, 39(5), 411-427.

Cooney, R. & Sewell, G. (2008).  Shaping the other: Maintaining expert managerial status in a complex change management program. Group and Organization Management, 33 (6), 685-711.

Cooney, R., & Long, M. (2008).  Inter-firm Cooperation in Training.  Adelaide: National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Jerrard, Marjorie; Donohue, Ross; Kimberley, Nell & Cooney, Richard (2008).  Reinventing meatworkers: Old skills but new careers for the twenty-first century? Employment Relations Record, 8(1), 51-67.

Buttigieg, D., Cockfield, S., Cooney, R., Jerrard, M., and Rainnie, A. (Eds.).  (2007).  Trade Unions in the Community: Values, Issues, Shared Interests and Alliances.  Melbourne: Heidelberg Press.

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