Professor Peter Steane B.Theol(UniMelb) GradDipEd(ACU) MEd(UNE) PhD(Griffith) 

PLEASE NOTE: Peter Steane was Professor of Management in the Graduate College of
Management but is no longer employed at Southern Cross University. Peter's Personal
Researcher Page is no longer being updated. 

Peter Steane's research interests include cross-cultural leadership, intellectual
capital assessments, workplace well-being, board governance and public private
partnerships. He has preiviously conducted studies on joint ventures in Australia. His
current reasearch is focused on the area of Australia's ageing demographic and its
implications for health care and hospitals. 

He has been engaged as a consultant by a variety of business and not-for-profit
organisations to help build strategic thinking skills and fraud prevention systems, and
to develop strategic reviews, ethical and governance audits and cross-cultural
leadership. 

Peter Steane's teaching experience covers Master of Business Administration (MBA)
and Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) courses in strategic thinking and management,
organisational behaviour, cross-cultural management, ethics and governance and DBA
literature review. 

Professor Steane was previously Deputy Dean and Director International at the Macquarie
Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Macquarie University, where he remains an Emeritus
Professor. 

Journal articles

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Customer management strategies using internet commerce in the Australian energy industry (with Peter Maher and Yvon Dufour), Customer management strategies using internet commerce in the Australian energy industry (2007)

The application and performance of Internet Commerce (IC) strategy has become a critical success factor...

 

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Historical origins and development of economic rationalism (with Donald K. Gates), Journal of Management History (2007)

The purpose of this paper is to trace the development of economic theory to the...

 

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Implementing knowledge management: a more robust model (with Yvon Dufour), Journal of Knowledge Management (2007)

The purpose of this paper is to show that knowledge management (KM) practitioners usually describe...

 

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Non-profit boards in Australia: a distinctive governance approach (with Michael John Christie), Corporate Governance: An International Review (2001)

This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The...

 

Conference publications

An inductive investigation of the driving people management issues of a third sector health care organisation (with J Rodwell, A Noblet, and A Allisey), 7th Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference (2007)
 

Against the tide: The distinctive governance approach of Australian nonprofit boards (with Michael John Christie), American Academy of Management (2000)