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Why Australian supermarkets continue to look to the UK for leadership

  • Written by: Gary Mortimer, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology

The poaching of Tesco veteran Claire Peters by Australia’s largest supermarket Woolworths is the latest in a line of British trained retail executives who made their way to Australia. Sadly, the shortsightedness of Australian retail management and years of complacency has forced supermarket boards to look further afield for retail talent.

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Three theories for what's causing the global productivity slowdown

  • Written by: Roy Green, Dean of UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
imageWhy isn't new technology reflected in our productivity stats?Shutterstock.com

There is a wide recognition by economists and policy-makers that “the large differences in income per capita observed across countries mostly reflect differences in labour productivity”.

Further, “productivity is expected to be the main driver of...

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ASEAN countries should find a solution to end the persecution of Rohingya

  • Written by: Ahmad Rizky M. Umar, Research Fellow at the ASEAN Studies Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada
imageThe Rohingya are one the of the world’s most-persecuted ethnic minorities.Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

ASEAN’s non-intervention is aggravating the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslims suffering widespread abuse by the Burmese military in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The Rohingya are one the of the world’s most persecuted ethnic...

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Who will keep predatory science journals at bay now that Jeffrey Beall's blog is gone?

  • Written by: Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor, Monash University
imageThe number of predatory scientific journals has exploded in recent years.Shutterstock

For aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall was essential reading. Beall’s blog charted the murky world of predatory and vanity academic publishers, many of which charge excessive fees for publishing papers or...

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