Wendy Smith

Senior Lecturer. BA (Hons) PhD

Research Interests:

Cross-cultural management; employee relations in Asia; Japanese management transfer; international business; social protection in Malaysia; globalised religious organizations; managing religious diversity in the workplace; Islamic work ethics.

Recent Publications:

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

Smith, W. & Asma, A. (2004). HRM changes in Malaysia after the Asian financial crisis. Asia Pacific Business Review, 10(3-4), 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.), Culture 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. ISBN 1876924 31 4, Monash University Press.

Shamsul, A.B. & Smith, W.A. (2003). Serious issues, popular desire: paradoxes of Mahathir's morality. In Bridget Welsh (Ed.), Reflections: The Mahathir Years. (pp. 40-47). Washington, DC: Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS.

Smith, W. (2003). Management in Malaysia . In Malcolm Warner (Ed.). Management and culture in Asia. (pp15-134). London: Curzon.

Bouma, G., Haidar, A., Nyland, C., & Smith W. (2003) Work, religious diversity and Islam. AsiaPacificJHR, 41(1), 51-61.

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