Thursday 25 January 2007
UQ Business School PhD student, Martina Linnenluecke
UQ Business School student Martina Linnenluecke has been awarded a grant of $12,000 under the Growing the Smart State PhD Funding Program.
Supervisor Associate Professor Andrew Griffiths said Linnenluecke was the third PhD student to win funding from the Queensland Government in the last two years.
He said, "Martina and her fellow students Sally Russell and Nardia Haigh are directly contributing to the stock of knowledge we have about the impacts of climate change on business."
Linnenluecke said her research would compare organisational responses to global climate change in two different cultures.
She said, "By researching both Australia and Germany, I hope to be able to identify how the institutional environment affects the way organisations respond to climate change."
"The potential impacts of climate change include rising temperatures, sea level changes, and changes in rainfall patterns."
"These changes will inevitably affect businesses and industries, opening up significant risk factors and probably increasing the cost of doing business."
Linnenluecke will present a concept model of her research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland at the end of February.
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