Professor Mary Barrett's research interests focus broadly on the learning organisation, in two senses of the term: learning OF and learning BY organisations. Under learning 'of' organisations, Mary researches career development and leadership issues, especially family business management and leadership, women in family business, women in management (including academic managers), and women entrepreneurs. Under learning 'by' organisations, Mary researches how members of organisations learn through their organisational communication processes, so perpetuating the organisation's culture(s), identity(ies), and values. The two areas of organisational learning are regularly linked, eg via her work on communication and gender issues at work.
Articles
Book Review: Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
This volume of insights from US scholars of leadership provides an interesting and eclectic addition...
Gender diversity and family firm governance: Towards a research agenda (with Ken Moores), Family Business Australia (FBA): Family business research & education symposium (2011)
Diversity has recently become an important topic in the context of corporate governance, particularly in...
Paradoxes and pathways to learning family business leadership (with Ken Moores), 11th Annual IFERA World Family Business Research conference. Intelligence and courage for the development of family business: Theory, practice, policy (2011)
The paper reports on a qualitative analysis of case studies and learning narratives of CEOs...
Educating Teachers about the Complex Writing Processes of Preschool Students (Project), Honorable Mentions (2011)
Preschool teachers traditionally view young children’s written literacy development as a linear continuum that progresses...
Australia: the challenge of father-daughter succession in family business: a case study from the land down under (with Ken Moores), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Books
BCOM Asia Pacific Edition (with Carol M. Lehman, Debbie D. DuFrene, Joy Cameron-Dow, and Wayne Murphy), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
BCOM Asia Pacific Edition is specifically aimed at business students studying communication skills in a...
Learning family business - Paradoxes and pathways (with Ken Moores), Learning family business - Paradoxes and pathways (2010)
Women in family business leadership roles: Daughters on the stage (with Ken Moores), Women in family business leadership roles: Daughters on the stage (2009)
‘Barrett and Moores delve into the real essence of women in leadership roles, specifically but...
Contributions to Books
New theoretical perspectives on family business entrepreneurial behavior (with Ken Moores), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
Family business leaders are often characterized as entrepreneurs (Aldrich and Cliff 2003 ; Shepherd and...
Australia: The challenge of father-daughter succession in family business: A case study from the land Down Under (with Ken Moores), Father-daughter succession in family business: A cross-cultural perspective (2011)
This chapter examines the case of an Australian woman, Roz, who succeeded her father as...
Women learning business leadership: Journeys in the family firm (with Ken Moores), Business papers (2008)
The family-business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points...
Presentations
Informal Flexibility? Issues for Accountants Working Part-time in Small Firms (with Glenda Strachan), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Do they speak SNAG? Comparing male students' perceptions of workplace communication dilemmas with those of female students and female managers, Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (2009)
Barrett (2004, 2009) found senior women managers and female management students evaluated the effectiveness and...
Information and computer technology security: Furthering the research agenda (with K. Garrety), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
Despite the development of advanced technical devices and procedures, the information held in computer systems...
ICT professionals’ perceptions of responsibility for breaches of computer security (with K. Garrety and Jennifer Seberry), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2006)
With ubiquitous computer use and networking, concerns about security breaches have intensified. However the human...
Down the pipeline? Are women reaching senior positions in law and accounting firms? (with Glenda Strachan), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
Legislation in Australia since the 1980s has been designed to promote equal employment opportunity for...