Sujana Adapa

• PhD
• Lecturer at University of New England

There are various prima facie reasons for looking at the gratitude that citizens feel in response to government programs. Some relate to individual flourishing, others relate to moral virtue or social cohesion. We analyze survey data from 429 Australian participants (211 Indigenous and 218 non-Indigenous) in order to understand their levels of grat...

In this paper, we investigate the intricate relationship between boardroom gender diversity and financial constraints. Analysing a large sample of firms from 49 countries, our findings show a significant negative effect of gender diversity on the financial constraints of firms. We also find that both firm age and firm size have strong negative effe...

The world has witnessed many social changes in recent decades, one of the most significant being the progress in women’s education. Nonetheless, women continue to encounter barriers to acquiring leadership roles. This study aims to examine the perceptions of women in agricultural research regarding how women’s leadership development programmes (WLD...

A 125-word abstract with clear topic/aim and methodology—The overarching aim of this chapter was to critically understand the enablers and barriers to corporate success within the Indian apparel industry. The market leaders are identified through the financial metrics; however, little is known about the enablers and barriers that led to the corpora...

There are large numbers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in many countries. The role played by MSMEs in the Indian economy cannot be dismissed as they promote economic growth and employment. There is currently considerable discussion around achieving the UN’s SDGs by 2030, and the contribution that MSMEs make to achieving these...

Cyber security developers and threat-attackers have always had a reactive relationship. Developers spend time building secure defences only for attackers to exploit new vulnerabilities. Academic and practice literature revealed that human error and motivation plays a major role in the success of a cyber defence strategy and whilst technology and pr...

Entrepreneurship is an attractive concept and the number of entrepreneurs is on the rise. Entrepreneurial ventures are ever increasing as new business ideas are turned into new businesses. However, entrepreneurship is not viable without an enabling entrepreneurial ecosystem. The aim of this study is to understand the existing entrepreneurial ecosys...

Purpose Do women contribute to performance of companies on which they serve as board of directors? Many prior studies examine this issue, but no consensus is reached on the benefits of women taking on leadership positions. The present study considers this thorny issue from a slightly different perspective. Does the association between gender divers...

The fashion and apparel industry in India undeniably presents employment opportunities for many and adds to the national economy. Yet, the challenges presented by the fashion and apparel industry in India outweigh the benefits. Therefore, the overarching aim of this book chapter is to explore the communication of corporate social responsibility (CS...

Corporate risk has implications for investors, employees and other stakeholders. Previous studies from economics and psychology contend that women take fewer risks than men; therefore, the attempts to increase female representation in corporate boardrooms and improve the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of firms across the world for...

In discussions about the goals we should set for our policies and programs, there are some familiar moral reasons to think that hope and resilience should often be included. In particular, hope and resilience are both widely recognized as moral virtues, and they may be vital for social cohesion. To demonstrate the feasibility of modelling and measu...

This paper examines the relationship between informal competition and innovation. In particular, we are concerned with how informal firms affect the product and process innovations of formal firms of South Asia. We introduce the moderating variables of innovation time off and R&D intensity as components of absorptive capacity theory to analyse this...

Social norms influencing women's activities are recognised more widely in the entrepreneurship literature, but how these may affect innovation in developing countries' contexts has attracted limited attention. This paper addresses this gap by exploring how women to women interactions influence firm level innovation and value-added productivity, usi...

As noted in the previous chapters, Australia is recognised as a healthy environment for entrepreneurial activity, and it seems from the CAUSEE data that, at an aggregate level, women and men are starting businesses at similar rates in both urban and regional locations in Australia.

From the earlier chapters we have established that Australia’s national environment is generally supportive of entrepreneurial activity, and that the bioregions which we focus on, Tamworth and Armidale, while geographically proximate, have diverse physical and human capital, which inflect their local economies.

We now shift our attention to those established firms in which the owner-managers have no intentions to grow the business and are reflecting on the continuance or discontinuance of the business in the future (DeTienne & Cardon, 2012).

Underpinning this book is our assumption that place matters. In this chapter we consider Australia’s entrepreneurial activity in the context of the international stage. Drawing on the Global Competiveness Index (GCI) (Schwab, 2019), the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) (Bosma et al., 2020) and the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) (Acs et al...

It is clear that economic prosperity and a high standard of living are not the result of macroeconomic policies alone. The differences in economic outcomes we see across communities within a country point to the influence of local conditions, institutions and orientation in determining the economic performance of a place.

In setting the scene in Chapter 1 we noted that entrepreneurship in Australia and elsewhere is normally conducted in urban areas and largely neglects how entrepreneurship plays out in regional locations (Hanssens et al., 2015; Hassan et al., 2015; Obschonka et al., 2015), yet place matters. The geography and spatial dimensions of Australia are uniq...

Focusing on nascent firms, established growing firms and established plateaued forms within the northern inland New South Wales regional locations in Australia, this book explores the manifestation of entrepreneurship. In particular, the authors examine the state and status of regional entrepreneurship in the bioregions and investigate how gender p...

Entrepreneurship is a critical activity for enhancing economic growth and creating new market opportunities and jobs (Alvarez et al. in Academy of Management Review 39: 227–231, 2014). Beyond the economic, it can also contribute to the social capital of a region, ‘in that it creates trust, maintains social relations and provides meeting places’ (De...

Entrepreneurship is as important in regional Australia as it is in cities. In both academic and business circles regional entrepreneurship is largely neglected. Entrepreneurship literature has shown a tendency to disproportionately emphasise initial public offerings (IPOs) and venture capital (VC) financing in examining entrepreneurial intentions a...

Australia is distinct internationally for the share of its small business firms that are less than two years old. On the international stage, Australia stands out for its level of start-up activity. In this chapter, we explore the challenges for regional firms who have passed the nascent stage and are established, with intentions to keep pursuing o...

While increasing numbers of women pursue careers in accounting in Malaysia, women remain under-represented in senior roles in Malaysian accounting firms. This paper explores women’s career progression to senior roles in Malaysian small and medium-sized accounting firms. In the context of the wider literature on women’s representation in paid work a...

This chapter explores leadership practices undertaken by owner-managers of small and medium-sized accounting firms in India. The overarching aim of the study is to identify whether or not owner-managers of accounting firms in India undertake inclusive leadership practices as a strategic orientation for their employees in the small and medium-sized...

Examining perceptions of leaders which are dependent on social and cultural contexts, this edited collection argues that in order to thrive and to understand the future business landscape, leaders must be inclusive and create followership. With existing research tending to conflate leadership roles with notions of masculinity and agency, this study...

The need to focus on smart city initiatives across the globe seems to vary, as modern cities today are identified as complex ecosystems grappling with the management of several social, economic and environmental issues. Smart city development needs to embrace cleaner production initiatives to balance the demands placed on the key sectors of health,...

This study sets out to investigate the factors that influence Australian consumers’ post-adoption behaviour towards Internet banking. By integrating the research streams of technology adoption, diffusion of innovations and continuance theory of information systems, technology factors, channel factors, social factors and value-for-money factors were...

This study examines Intentional Innovation Communities (IICs) as a strategy for catalyzing community-wide innovation at the grassroots level. IICs are a type of learning and innovation network blending social theories of human interaction with intentional innovation strategies supported in the entrepreneurship literature. IICs are intended to stimu...

The World Airline Report states several reasons such as rapid globalization, increased fuel prices, occurrence of natural disasters, threat of accidents, increased security insurance and deregulation policies to impact the world’s airline industry (Flint 2010). The ever changing landscape of world’s airline industry coupled with the existing tough...

Accounting firms in India are still largely male-dominated, and women are particularly under-represented in senior roles as partners, principals, and associates. However, there is a perceptible change with more and more women now pursuing an education in accountancy and aspiring to start off accounting firms of their own. In-depth interviews of wom...

The aim of this research is to explore the utility of collaborative innovation landscape within the government Family and Community Services (FACS) organisation in Australia. Exploring the presence or absence of the collaborative innovation landscape within public sector organisations is important, as the organisation's objectives combined with the...

While the majority of accounting graduates have been women for 15 years, women remain underrepresented in senior roles in regional accounting firms. This paper explores women's absence from senior roles in small and medium sized accounting firms in regional Australia. The intersectionality of their regional context and the gender stereotyping of th...

This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study conducted at University of New England, Australia during 2010 that measured the perceptions of management students regarding their online learning experiences, particularly the development of social presence by lecturers in this environment. An online survey was emailed to postgraduate, off-c...

This case study provides information related to the Australian retail-banking sector and specifically about the electronic banking service delivery channels. As a Western nation, Australia is classified as a developed country with well-developed infrastructure, gross domestic product, per capita income, and economic status. A cross-sectional mall i...

The goal of this study was to investigate the factors that influence how consumers continue to use, and how frequently they use, internet banking in Australia. Patterns of continued use and frequency of use of internet banking have been neglected as most of the existing studies focus on either consumer adoption or acceptance of internet banking. Ho...

The current research paper examines the adoption of internet shopping patterns exhibited by Indian women currently residing in India and Australia emphasizing on the prevailing cultural dimensions. A conceptual framework has been developed based on the theoretical background which links intention to shop over internet and Hofstede's cultural dimens...

One of the basic elements of the marketing theory is the concept of customer perceived value (CPV) and is often regarded as essential for the success of any business. The concept of CPV has been a growing interest among both marketing academics and practitioners in the marketing literature. Though CPV plays a pivotal role within the exchange concep...