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Industry News

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IBISWorld provides valuable insights on Australian and global industries, companies and key business indicators. Included are Australian and global industry reports that cover key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance.

Journals & Trade Magazines

Australian Journal of Management
The Australian Journal of Management is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes research in accounting, applied economics, finance, industrial relations, political science, psychology, statistics, and other disciplines, provided the application is to management, as well as research in areas such as marketing, corporate strategy, operations management, organisation development, and decision analysis.
Harvard Business Review
Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
International Studies of Management and Organization
The journal focuses on international and cross-cultural research and it addresses students, scholars, practitioners and decision makers. The international scope of the journal calls for groundbreaking papers that contribute to the advancement of management and organization theory and practice.
Leading the Way
Australian Institute of Office Professionals
Available online from Informit Business Collection
Management Today
Australian Institute of Management
Available online from Informit Business Collection
Public Administration Today
Available online from Informit Business Collection
Review of Business
Available online from Business Source Premier database

Harvard Business Review

Managers Can't Do It All
Some organizations are reimagining the role of managers. This article looks at three—Standard Chartered, IBM, and Telstra—that have helped managers develop new skills, rewired systems and processes to support their work better, and even radically redefined managerial responsibilities to meet the new priorities of the era.
Reinventing Your Leadership Team
As companies strive to build competitive advantage in a world obsessed with digitizing, they find that what they need from their leaders is changing. Their top people must be able to reimagine the company’s place in the world and transform the organization to live up to a more ambitious purpose.
Rethinking Your Approach to Employee Experience
Companies should focus on not just what they give employees but also how their offerings make employees feel.
What is the Purpose of Your Purpose?
Despite its sudden elevation in corporate life, purpose remains a confusing subject of sharply polarized debate. The research indicates that a primary cause of this confusion is that “purpose” is used in three senses: competence, culture and cause.

Harvard Business Review

The "New You" Business
Enterprises should recognize the economic opportunity offered by a transformation business, in which consumers come to them with a desire to improve some fundamental aspect of their lives. Even though we’re all filled with hopes, aims, and ambitions, significant change is incredibly hard to accomplish on our own. This article offers an approach to designing a transformation business.
For Love and Money
This article reports on research regarding how employees who see their job as a calling rate on job performance and the possibility of raises.
How Incumbents Survive and Thrive
Research on the world’s biggest companies shows that digital disruption is less destructive than you might think.
How to Sell Your Ideas Up the Chain of Comand
According to the author’s research, two factors are crucial to a successful pitch: having the confidence to make your suggestion and knowing how to frame it to get the best reception from your boss. The key, the author says, is to understand the psychology of higher-ups—to get inside their heads.
Manage Your Organization as a Portfolio of Learning Curves
As people develop competence in a new domain of expertise, they move along an S Curve: Growth is slow and effortful at the outset, or launch point.It then progresses rapidly as people acquire new skills in a stretch known as the sweet spot. At the peak is mastery, when work becomes easier but the curve flattens. Understanding where your employees are on this S Curve of Learning will help you coach them appropriately, craft thoughtful succession plans, and build a team with diverse but complementary strengths.
Modesty Can Backfire
This article reports on research regarding the effect of being modest about personal success in interpersonal relations.
Persuade Your Company to Change Before it's too Late
How to make the case when the evidence isn’t yet clear.
Reinventing Your Leadership Team
What businesses need from their leaders is changing. Their top people must be able to reimagine the company’s place in the world and transform the organization to live up to a more ambitious purpose.

Harvard Business Review

Agility Hacks
How to create temporary teams that can bypass bureaucracy and get crucial work done quickly.
Building an Ethical Company
Create an organization that helps employees behave more honorably.
Don't Let Power Corrupt You
How to exercise influence without losing your moral compass.
Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making
Don’t Let Old Habits Undermine your Organization’s Creativity
How to Succeed Quickly in a New Role
Five ways to build a strategic network.
Rethinking Negotiation
A smarter way to split the pie.