Note: The following article contains spoilers about “Squid Game.” In the hit Netflix series Squid Game, players participate in deadly children’s games in order to win prize money. By some fishy calculation, the players’ lives […] The magical realism of ‘Squid Game’ shows the contradictions of funny money and dodgy contract […]
As it hits new highs, there is no shortage of bold predictions about Bitcoin reaching US$100,000 or more. Often these are based on not much more than extrapolations by people with vested interests: the price What is Bitcoin’s fundamental value? That’s a good question […]
The ‘specialness’ that entrepreneurs bring to their companies is often lost, bringing dire consequences. When John Ilhan – the highly successful founder of Crazy John’s mobile phone chain – died suddenly in October 2007, the business was Can a company survive the sudden death of an entrepreneur? […]
A new RMIT report says business needs more support to achieve net zero emissions, including more stringent and consistent reporting, re-introducing carbon pricing, and reforming the carbon credit systems. Key points: Australian businesses are calling Four ways to guide Australian businesses to net zero […]
Guest Editors: Vincent Chong (University of Western Australia, Australia) Zuraidah Mohd Sanusi (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia) Jan Alpenberg (Linnaeus University, Sweden) Organizations continue to face issues and challenges on unethical behaviours such as corruption, fraud, Call for Papers: Special Issue on Unethical Behaviours and Management Controls: Issues and Challenges to Management Accounting […]
At first Europeans believed that black swans did not exist. When they sighted a black swan for the first time in Australia, it was seen as an extremely rare but perhaps predictable event. Today, a Back to the Future! Reversing the Plastic Pollution Pandemic […]
The past year has been one of excitement for Australia’s fintech eco-system, which saw a significant level of M&A activity from incumbent local and offshore financial services providers. This excitement and validation for larger players Corporate M&A activity buoys Australian fintech sector […]