| Dr. Mita Bhattacharya (Economics) |
Mita’s research interests include industrial organisation , applied economics, international trade, industrialisation and competition policy in Asia. Mita has researched the relationship between industrialisation in Asia and its effects on trade, growth and income. In 2001 Mita spent part of her OSP visiting Doshisha University in Japan and in 2002-03 she was a visiting scholar at the Australia-Japan Research Centre at ANU.
Contact: Mita.Bhattacharya@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Dr Ergun Dogan (Economics) |
Ergun's research fields include Financial Institutions and Services and Corporate Finance and Governance. His current research interests are productivity and efficiency of financial institutions in East and South East Asia ; consolidation in banking sectors of Asian countries; corporate governance issues in South East Asia.
Contact: Ergun.Dogan@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Associate Professor Ron Edwards (Management) |
Ron's research area is international business where he specialises in multinational corporation and subsidiary strategy, especially as it relates to environmental changes such as regional trade groups. These themes are reflected in publications relating to Thailand, China and Malaysia.
Contact: Ron.Edwards@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
| Professor Mike Ewing (Marketing) |
Mike’s current research interests include advertising effects, e-Marketing strategy, cross-cultural measurement equivalence, agency-client relations and global brand management. He has a particular research interest in the countries of the Pacific Rim. His earlier work in this regard focused on cross-national comparisons of advertising and consumer behaviour-related issues between consumers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. He then examined organisational-level differences between Australia and Singapore (in the advertising industry). Following this he began to investigate the consequences of guanxi from a Sino-Singaporean perspective. His current research focuses on brand management in Asia and China. He is currently studying brand management practices in China – both in their own right, and as part of a larger (6-country) comparison. Mike is an Adjunct professor at Tongji University in Shanghai where he teaches the marketing module on the Ecole Nationale Ponts et Chaussees 'Shanghai International MBA' (SIMBA).
Contact: Mike.Ewing@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Professor Dietrich Fausten (Economics) |
Dietrich is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research interests revolve around the financial sector and open economy macroeconomics, including Malaysian banking; nature and composition of cross-border capital movements, and errors and omissions in balance of payments reporting.
Contact: Dietrich.Fausten@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Professor Peter Forsyth (Economics) |
Peter has published extensively on the economics of tourism, and especially on the determinants and effects of global and Asian tourism flows. Recent work has included a suite of papers on measuring international competitiveness of countries in tourism, and measures of the impact and benefits from international tourism to a country. Other work has included exploring the international dimensions of taxing tourism.Peter is also an internationally recognised expert in aviation. His recent papers have included several on trade and competition in airline services and moves to open skies, as well as linking international airline regulation and tourism. His earlier work examined the international competitiveness of airlines, especially in the Asia Pacific region.
Contact: Peter.Forsyth@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Dr. Susan Freeman (Management) |
Susan’s research interests include globalisation and internationalisation, small and medium-sized enterprises and internationalisation, internet technologies and internationalisation and supply chain management and internationalisation.
Contact: Susan.Freeman@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Colin Jevons (Marketing) |
Colin’s research interests include branding, internet marketing and communications. He has published widely on marketing issues in Vietnam.
Contact: Colin.Jevons@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Janine Pascoe (Business Law and Taxation) |
Janine’s research interests are in the area of Malaysian Company Law, with a particular focus on recent reforms concerning directors’ duties and corporate governance. She has presented conference papers and published a number of journal articles on these topics. Janine has visited Malaysia on a number of occasions, including a visit to Monash’s Malaysia campus during while on OSP in semester 1 of 2001. Her co-authored book on Malaysian Company Law (with Shanthy Rachagan and Anil Joshi) has been very successful, going into a second print within 2 months of its initial publication.
Contact: Janine.Pascoe@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Assoc. Prof. Bob Rice (Economics) |
Bob has published extensively on all aspects of the Indonesian economy. He has acted as a consultant for the International Labour Organisation in Indonesia. From June 1999 to February 2001 he was Small and Medium Enterprise Advisor to the Department of Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of Indonesia with the Partnership for Economic Growth Project, focusing on the impact of globalisation on exporting opportunities for small and medium enterprises.
Contact: Robert.Rice@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
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| Professor Russell Smyth (Economics) |
In addition to his research on China (see China program web page) Russell has published on the transaction costs of doing business with Malaysia, the transaction costs incurred by Malaysian exporters and corporate governance of listed firms in Malaysia. He has recently supervised Ph.D research into property rights and deforestation in Sarawak.
Contact: Russell.Smyth@BusEco.mionash.edu.au |
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| Professor Marika Vicziany (Monash Asia Institute) |
In addition to her research interests on South Asia and western China (which are outlined on the China and South Asia web pages), Marika has researched the economic links between Australia, Malaysia and Indian companies and conducted case studies and surveys of business attitudes of Australian firms in India and Malaysia. She has also researched regional security in the Asia-Pacific region light of 9/11.
Contact: Marika.Vicziany@adm.monash.edu.au |
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| Dr James Ang |
James Ang's research interests include Finance and Development, Financial Liberalization, International Finance, Macroeconomics and Southeast Asian Economies.
Contact: James.Ang@BusEco.monash.edu.au |
