Networks and student involvement

Ongoing collaboration with a growing list of national and international research organisations ensures dynamism in research is a permanent feature of CEEM.

Securing a permanent base funding for the team will enable maximum research effort and allow for the establishment of core research assets such as proprietary databases, customised software and a specialised library of research materials. The development of these assets is already advanced and will underpin an increasing research productivity.

2007 ITS Regional Africa-Asia-Australasia Conference

CEEM hosted the International Telecommunications Society Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference, held on Bentley campus, August 26-28. The conference theme was, ‘Corporate Strategy and the Path to a New Economy’. As this conference is an enormous undertaking, Gary Madden enlisted help from CBS co-ordinators. The local co-ordination team comprised: Alistair Brown (Accounting), Sandy Chong (Marketing), Peter Dell (Information Systems), Ashley Lloyd (Information Systems), Dale Pinto (Business Law), Mohammed Quaddus (Graduate School of Business), Ruhul Salim (Economics and Finance) and Joachim Tan (Economics and Finance).

In response to the Call for Papers 70 Parallel Session papers, after refereeing, were accepted for presentation. 19 Plenary Session papers were also presented. The Conference attracted 108 delegates from 19 countries. Delegates were from academia (56), business (13), regulatory agencies (9), research institutes (22) and international organisations (8).

The Conference Program

Invited Business Sessions: Department of Communications, Information Technology, and the Arts Special Session – Future Internet; Telstra Wireless Technology Session; Special Business Session – Business Strategy for Mobile Markets.

Invited Academic Sessions: Keynote Address – Creating ‘Consumer Trust’ in Internet Relationships; Scientific Symposium – Competition Policy, Regulation and Future Communications Networks; Scientific Symposium – The Economics of New Business Models; Scientific Symposium – Productivity and the New Economy.

Tracks included in the Parallel Sessions: Corporate Strategy and Analysis; Business Forecasting and Mobile Market Dynamics; Internet-Enabled Commerce; Market Innovation and Economic Development; Technology and R&D; Real Options, Productivity and the New Economy; Intellectual Property, Security and Regulation; Industry Policy and Governance.

Sponsorship and Endorsements

The conference received local, national and international sponsorship and endorsements. In particular the conference received sponsorship from: Analysis Group (USA based Consultants), CRA International, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, NERA Economic Consulting, Telstra, Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea) and Global Competition Review (The International Journal of Competition Policy and Regulation), and by the Conference Host—the Curtin Business School. We also wish to acknowledge Conference endorsement by the Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, Info, Journal of Media Economics and Telecommunications Policy. On behalf of the ITS, the Conference Organising Committee acknowledge ITS Corporate Sponsors—Analysis Group (USA), Arnold & Porter LLP (USA), France Telecom, IDATE (France), NERA Economic Consulting (USA), NTT DoCoMo (Japan), Telecommunications Authority of Turkey (Turkey), Telecom Italia (Italy) and Telus (Canada), also ITS members BAKOM (Switzerland), BT (UK), Deutsche Telecom (Germany), InfoCom Research Inc. (Japan), KT (Korea),

Best Student Paper

Another educational feature of the conference was the 'Best Student Paper' award. The ITS Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference in association with Edward Elgar Publishers offers the James Alleman Best Student Paper Prize to support and encourage excellence in communications and electronic market and related area research. Criteria for the award include research quality and originality. Judgement is not biased by technical orientation, such as extensive use of mathematics or skewed toward particular disciplines.

The award was presented at the Conference Dinner to Hyeongjik Lee from the Information and Communications University in Daejeon, Korea. Mr Lee's paper, written in collaboration with Seongcheol Kim, Changi Nam and Seung Hun Han was titled "Earnings management of acquiring firms in stock-for-stock takeovers in the telecommunications industry".

Honourable mention awards were also made to Wojtek Szewczyk of Macquarie University in Sydney and Khwaja Shan-ul-Hasan Ghori of Curtin University of Technology, School of Information Systems.

Post-graduates of excellence and student activity: CEEM has a demonstrated ability to encourage and support graduate student research activity. This ability is enhanced through CEEM's widened research focus and international resource base.

Publication

The Conference Proceedings are published in compact disc format and entitled, 'Conference Proceedings – Corporate Strategy and the Path to a New Economy’, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley Campus, Perth, August 26-28 2007. Kimble, Warren and Gary Madden, (eds). (ISBN: 987-1-74067-474-4).

Edward Elgar Publishers conference volume

A volume of papers drawn from the Conference is to be published in 2008 as:

THE ECONOMICS OF DIGITAL MARKETS
Editors: Gary Madden (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) and Russel Cooper (Macquarie University, Australia).