Jerome Denis Donovan

• PhD
• Swinburne University of Technology

This manuscript investigates the factors influencing the selection of responsive corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes in the subsidiaries of Japanese manufacturing multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in Indonesia. With a significant and growing manufacturing sector funded by foreign direct investment—of which Japanese MNEs are a...

Of the significant foreign investment by Japanese multinationals within South-East Asia, the Philippines is a key recipient and location for the establishment of subsidiaries. While foreign investment is thought to bring significant benefits to host nations, the Philippines is considered ecologically vulnerable with extensive pollution and environm...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly expected to integrate sustainability into their core business activities, moving beyond philanthropy or public advocacy. In particular, the financial sector is expected to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as it plays a critical role in promoting sustainable development through its ke...

This paper focuses on exploring the key success factors for start-ups progressing to post-start-up phase. This research forms the foundation of a PhD thesis that is expected to be submitted around June'23. In this paper, a review of relevant literature is provided, followed by a brief methodology section, before examining the high-level preliminary...

The ‘as-a-Service’ (aaS) concept of the IT sector is suggested to reduce upfront and ongoing costs, enable easier scaling, and make for simpler system upgrades. The concept is explored in relation to the domain of land administration, with a view to examining its relevance, application, and potential adaptation. Specifically, these aspects are anal...

Food and beverage companies have a very significant environmental and social impact, and this has become a global issue. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the drivers and barriers to implementing sustainability in large food and beverage companies and their supply chains. A total of 21 semistructured interviews were undertaken with 16 large...

Purpose The food industry and its associated agricultural production have very significant global environmental and social impacts. The purpose of this study is to apply and evaluate the use of institutional theory and extended resource-based view (ERBV) to sustainability in food manufacturing and its supply chains. This will provide an understandi...

Managing sustainability in the food supply chain is critical given the very large environmental and social footprint that the food industry has globally. Food industry players have also become increasingly involved in these issues due to stakeholder pressures, and this highlights the importance in understanding what sustainability practices and bes...

Over the past several decades, an increasing series of global initiatives have been launched to direct the transition of businesses towards addressing sustainability. Corporate sustainability assessments have been identified as a process that can support businesses transitioning towards addressing sustainability, yet the field remains largely fragm...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate whether Japanese manufacturing multinational enterprises (MNEs) maintain local legitimacy in their host countries through adequate informing of local stakeholders with targeted corporate sustainability (CS) reporting. Design/methodology/approach The paper first identified specific CS activities that were cons...

The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda has further propelled the need for the private sector to engage with sustainable development. Corporate sustainability research seeks to specifically address this; however, extant literature highlights a paucity of research on how this occurs. In this study, we utilise an emerging process that has been identified to...

The private sectors' role in pursuing sustainability and supporting the global agenda towards sustainable development is broadly acknowledged. In recent years, corporate sustainability assessment has emerged as key for supporting business to address sustainability in their operations. However, there remains a lack of consensus on what sustainabilit...

This chapter explores the frugal innovation practices of an Indonesian start-up developing a health innovation targeting Base-of-the-Pyramid and middle markets. Looking specifically from a new product development process lens, this case study provides insights into a frugal innovator’s decision-making dilemmas, tools and techniques, for developing...

The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of 17 wide ranging goals that articulates the desired outcome of sustainable development. The private sector is a key factor in achieving these goals through actions of corporate sustainability. However, there is a paucity of research regarding the application of Sustainable Development Goals at the firm...

This study investigates what issues are considered by Japanese manufacturing multinational enterprises to be related to corporate sustainability when deciding on the location or significant expansion of their subsidiaries. Focusing on the developing countries of the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam where there are significant Japanese m...

Over recent decades, there has been a significant proliferation of types of impact assessments. While some argue that this is threatening future use of impact assessments, sustainability assessments have emerged as a potential approach to bridge these diverse approaches. This research focuses on examining sustainability assessments at the project l...

Sustainability assessment is a key method that offers a platform from which the private sector can implement systematic processes to address sustainability. While this presents a unique opportunity for broadening the use of sustainability assessments, this is constrained by the lack of commonly accepted processes and little empirical evidence on pr...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are key players in sustainable development. The ASEAN region represents an area of the planet of significant ecological value but hosting a large number of MNEs. Japanese MNEs are significant players in the region, with Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia (VTI) representing the top three host nations. This study looks a...

The use of Team Based Learning (TBL) as an instructional strategy in undergraduate health science curricula has been identified as one way to improve student learning outcomes. However, comparative study of the use of TBL in the business subjects in different countries are rare. This research is a first step to provide comparative quantitative empi...

This article was written to develop a teaching portfolio that helps lecturers maximize the benefits of blended learning, a combination of in-person and online learning, through the use of Team-Based Learning (TBL) teaching and learning approach. Studies show that TBL can provide opportunities in developing teamwork capabilities and enhancing active...

The recent introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for an understanding of how multinational enterprises (MNEs) engage with sustainable business practices and how the SDGs may be better implemented by the private sector. Through an examination of 112 MNEs operating in the region of the Association of South-East Asian Nations,...

The use of Team-Based Learning (TBL) as an instructional strategy in undergraduate health science curricula has been identified as one way to improve student learning outcomes. However, comparative study of the use of TBL in the business subjects in different countries are rare. This research is a first step to provide comparative quantitative empi...

This chapter examines the issue of entry modes as a component of international marketing strategy in higher education. With more and more Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) establishing foreign campuses overseas as part of their international marketing strategies aimed at raising overseas brand awareness and boosting international student recruit...

Using an interdisciplinary approach combining international relations and Middle Eastern studies, this research examines the Iran–Iraq war using the concepts of strategic interaction and reciprocity as theoretical anchors to illuminate more fully than previous investigations how these two states arrived at the point of war in 1980. Through a case s...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the synergies, similarities and differences between entrepreneurship and innovation education and training programs, with the aim of challenging the context of such programs. Design/methodology/approach – This study utilises an extensive review of extant literature in the fields of innovation, entr...

Social Impact Assessments (SIAs) have played an increasingly important role in the conduct of planned interventions, providing proponents the capacity to assess and manage the social consequences of their activities. Whilst the SIA field has experienced significant conceptual and practical development over the last decade, efforts at consolidating...

This study describes the introduction of digital models and team-based learning (TBL) for teaching science; in this case, the teaching of the magnetic induction portion of a physics class. This new approach required students' active construction of knowledge as both an individual and team. Students were asked to begin their studies through the view...

Economic growth and development remain embedded in the very core of our current international economic system and the so called “material economy”. However, depleting natural resources and environmental degradation, which now threaten the well-being of future generations, has challenged this premise, and placed sustainable development as a necessar...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the changing cultural values that influence the perception of managers to leadership excellence in their organisations in Singapore. Design/methodology/approach – Summated scales for the importance of excellent leader, personal qualities, managerial behaviours, organisational demands and environmen...

Foreign direct investment is considered an important driver of economic development, particularly through its potential transfer of knowledge, know-how and technology to host countries which may enable industrial or economic upgrading. This study explores the internationalisation process of a technological-intensive Multinational Enterprise (MNE) a...

Innovation has emerged as a core driver for the future profitability and success of the manufacturing sector, and increasingly both governments and the private sector are examining ways to support the development of innovation capabilities within organisations. In this research, we have evaluated a government-funded innovation training course desig...

In this paper, we explore excellence in leadership in Thailand, a nation that has strong roots in Theravada Buddhism. Summated scales and a structural model were constructed to explain the relationships between the excellences in leadership constructs. A sample frame of 401 Thai managers employed in organizations in Bangkok, North Thailand, and Eas...

A number of studies across a variety of disciplines call for further research investigating the factors that influence performance measurement (PM) systems and practices. Despite management control systems (MCS) comprising performance measurement as one of its elements, the influence of MCS on PM systems and practices has received little attention....

Surveying students to garner feedback on teaching and subject quality is a common occurrence in many universities globally. Despite the criticisms surrounding whether measures associated with these surveys are indeed valid, university managers continue to utilise them in key decision making. These surveys mirror business practices where measuring c...

In a tradition that dates back to the time of Thucydides, and the Peloponnesian War, the systematic examination of conflict and war has long been a preoccupation of political scientists seeking to resolve the enduring question: Why do wars occur? This study directly engages this question with a specific focus on explaining the conflict between Iran...

In this study, we examine the relationship between organisational factors and the performance measurement (PM) practices of 87 Australian organisations. In doing so, a literature review is conducted with four organisational factors identified including organisation size, ownership, management focus and the development source of their PM system. The...