Professor Andrew Griffiths (Chair in Business Sustainability and Strategy) |
| Andrew Griffiths is a Professor at UQ Business School. He is one of Australia's leading experts in Sustainable Business Strategy. His areas of research include: the impact of climate change on business strategy; management of corporate sustainability change and strategic issues relating to the pursuit of corporate sustainability. Andrew is a recipient of the UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award and the UQ Business School Research Excellence Award. He has published three books, The Sustainable Corporation (1998), Sustainability (2000) and Organisational Change for Sustainability (2007). Andrew has worked with a range of organisations in the public and private sectors in the areas of strategic approaches to climate change and the implementation of corporate sustainability. |
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Alexander Stathakis (Project Manager) |
| Alexander is the project manager with the Sustainable Business Unit. His areas of specialisation include corporate sustainability and strategic management. In addition to his German degree in International Business Administration, Alexander holds a Master of Business and a Master of Technology and Innovation Management from UQ, and is a graduate member of the AICD. Prior to joining the Sustainable Business Unit, Alexander had tenures in leading European organisations and held consulting positions in Brisbane, delivering advice on business planning and strategy in-house and onsite for clients. |
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Professor Raymond Zammuto |
| Raymond Zammuto is a Professor of Management at the University of Queensland Business School. He teaches in the areas of strategic management, organization design and technology management. He has consulted on and conducted workshops about organization culture, organization redesign and strategic management for a variety of service and manufacturing organizations, ranging from hospitals and universities to insurance companies and computer firms. His research focuses on how organizations adapt to changing industry conditions, including studies of how organizations' cultures can impede or enhance the ability to change and to implement new technologies. He has published three books, Business Driven Information Technology, Assessing Organizational Effectiveness: Systems Change, Adaptation and Strategy, and Organizations: Theory and Design, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. |
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Dr Lucas Skoufa |
| Lucas Skoufa is a lecturer in Strategic Management at UQ Business School. Originally from an engineering background, Lucas has historically worked in the electricity industry as both a business manager and engineer. His key focus is the strategic behaviours of privatised/reformed electricity companies and what strategies are useful for electricity firms as they face increasing competition in restructured electricity supply industries. His current research looks at carbon trading schemes as they relate to the electricity sector and how these firms can still be strategically competitive in light of regulatory uncertainties. |
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Associate Professor Kathy Herbohn |
| Kathy Herbohn is part of the accounting cluster at UQ Business School. Her key focus is full cost environmental accounting and financial and non-financial environmental performance reporting. She has written reports on the feasibility and outcomes from attempts to implement Triple Bottom Line (TBL) or sustainability reporting, the feasibility of accounting and reporting systems that incorporate financial and non-financial data, the Dissemination of TBL reporting in the Queensland State Government: Systemic change or greenwash?, and Sustainable small-scale forestry. |
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Dr Polly Parker |
| Polly is the Director of the MBA and postgraduate programs and a senior lecturer in the UQ Business School, Brisbane. Her expertise is in the area of Career Management, Executive Coaching and Leadership Development and she has recently linked this work with corporate social responsibility. Her career management work is at the forefront of research and practice internationally and is complemented by strong links with the business community. Polly also has a keen interest in Executive Coaching and Team Development and corporate social responsibility as a means to develop leadership skills. |
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Dr Darren Lee |
| Darren Lee is a Finance lecturer at UQ Business School with expertise in the fields of finance and sustainable business and investment practices. He is able to combine and synthesise both the academic and practical applications of finance across many areas including: socially responsible investing (SRI), corporate sustainability, environmental, social and governance (ESG)/sustainability implementation, financial management, funds management and behavioural finance. Prior to working in academia Darren worked in industry in the areas of treasury, financial planning and funds management. Darren was a United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative panel member looking at the integration and performance of ESG to firm and portfolio performance. He is uniquely placed to assist organisations with the Principles of Responsible Investment. |
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Dr Lance Newey |
| Lance Newey is a lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UQ Business School. His research focuses on business models for sustainable financial performance, with a particular focus on how firms manage the tensions between short and long term performance objectives. Lance is currently investigating the problems of short-termism, including the human cost to organizations of talent exodus and executive burnout and how more sustainable financial and human outcomes can be achieved. |
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Martina K. Linnenluecke |
| Martina Linnenluecke is a doctoral candidate at UQ Business School. Her research explores organizational strategic adaptation and resilience to global climate change, specifically to the expected increase in the number and severity of extreme weather events. Martina is recipient of the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award (Academy of Management, 2008) for her research paper entitled "Organizational Adaptation and Resilience to Extreme Weather Events" (with Andrew Griffiths and Monika Winn). Martina is also the recipient of a University of Queensland International Research Award and of a Smart State Ph.D. Research Grant from the Queensland State Government, Department of the Premier and Cabinet. |
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