Postgraduate Research Guide

Contemporary, relevant and authoritative. Notre Dame’s School of Business offers research programs that embrace today’s rapidly changing corporate environment while maintaining the highest levels of academic rigour. The research programs reflect the unique values of the entire University and include a range of disciplines led by professionals with extensive commercial and industry experience. The School is a leading contributor of specific research outcomes to the professions including accounting, finance, management, public relations, economics, human resource management and marketing. HIGHER DEGREES BY RESEARCH: › Master of Business › Master of Philosophy › Doctor of Business Administration › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) RESEARCH FOCUS Research within the School of Business extends to a wide range of sectors such as community, recreation, government and non-government including the following: › consumer research; › contemporary public relations applications and theories; › dynamic price fluctuations; › econometric modelling; › genealogy of political ideas; › history of economic thought and the economics of financial crises; › management theory and the technological revolution; › marketing and sustainability; and › the application of human resource and wider management skills to not-for- profit organisations. Today’s rapidly changing business environment calls for visionaries and entrepreneurs who are prepared to innovate and transform the global business landscape. RESEARCHER ‘DISCOVERS’ UNSUNG HERO To most Western Australians, early settler Charles Harper was an astute pastoralist, businessman, newspaper owner and politician. But as Notre Dame Business PhD graduate, Dr David Gilchrist, discovered as part of his thesis, he was also a brilliant and pragmatic economist. “Western Australia was struggling in the early 19th century as the first settlers tried to emulate the farming practices of the eastern states,” said Dr Gilchrist. “It was Charles Harper who was instrumental in establishing co-operatives (the biggest, Wesfarmers, remains highly successful today) as a means of overcoming the constraints of the large, low-yielding WA land mass. “That not only enabled the early settlers to survive and thrive, it was also instrumental in fending off the monopolistic enterprises that normally characterise such settlements,” said Dr Gilchrist. Postgraduate degrees by coursework are offered in Business, Catholic Leadership, HR Management, Accounting, Marketing and Business Leadership. See the Postgraduate Coursework Guide for details. 23 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS