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Dr Ian Austin

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5284
Email: i.austin@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.357  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6133-9313

Dr Ian Patrick Austin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law. Ian is Member of the International Business program team and the School's representative on the University Library Committee.

Key Research Areas

  • Australian Trade and Commercial Relations with Asia
  • The United States of America – Asia Trade and Strategic Relations
  • United State of American Banking and Financial History
  • Asian and American affairs, particularly their interaction
  • Asian and American corporate and strategic affairs: particularly how commercial and strategic interest intersect
  • Banking and Financial Affairs in the United States of America and Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore)
  • Trade and Business History
  • The Global Economy and Trade with a focus on banking and trading institutions, histories, and crises.
  • Hamiltonian Studies and Scholarship
  • Australian Political Economy and Business sector– including Western Australian and Queensland specifically.
  • Australian and The United States of American Political Economy and Economies
  • Japan, South Korean and Singapore Political Economy and Economies

Biography

My current areas of research are: Western Australia’s Asian Engagement Strategy 2019-2030, Australia’s broader policy and commercial connections with Asia and the broader world, United States of American and Asian financial and trading institutions and systems, and, my long-term pursuit of Hamiltonian public policy and financial thinking.

ECU Research Themes

Theme Two: Individual, economic, organisational, political and social transformation

Professional associations
  • Academy of International Business
  • The Australian Institute of International Affairs
  • The Australia New Zealand International Business Association
  • The Japanese Business Association
  • The Australia New Zealand American Studies Association

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland, 2001.
  • Master of Social Science, The University of Queensland, 1995.
  • Bacherlor of Arts, The University of Queensland, 1992.

Research Outputs

2022

Journal Articles

  • Best, A., Austin, I. (2022). International Sports Diplomacy in Action–An Investigation of AUS+RALLY: An Australian Sports Diplomacy Campaign in Japan. Japanese Studies, 42(2), 111-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2022.2096581.
  • Austin, I., Best, A. (2022). Early Meiji Japan and Public History: Ports, Public Memory, Gateways to Understanding through Photography. Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 20(14), article number 5721.
  • Austin, I., Danny, NG. (2022). Is the human resources management qualification required? An observation of human resources executives in Singapore and Macau integrated resorts and hotels. Journal of Asia Business Studies, 16(5), 713-728. https://doi.org/10.1108/JABS-06-2020-0253.

2019

Books

  • Austin, I. (2019). Ulysses S. Grant and Meiji Japan, 1869-1885: Diplomacy, Strategic Thought and the Economic Context of US-Japan Relations. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429275104.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Duarte Alonso, A., Austin, I. (2018). Entrepreneurial CSR, managerial role and firm resources: a case study approach. Competitiveness Review, 28(4), 368-385. https://doi.org/10.1108/CR-10-2016-0064.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Duarte Alonso, A., Austin, I. (2017). The significance of organisational learning in a global context: A stakeholder and knowledge-based approach. International Journal of Commerce and Management, 27(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-09-2016-0054.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Ng, D., Austin, I. (2016). Integrated resorts and hotel (gambling) service enterprises in Singapore, Macau and Australia: the changing policy landscape. Asian Journal of Political Science, 24(1), 42-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/02185377.2015.1110529.
  • Duarte Alonso, A., Austin, I. (2016). I see the future: Associations between innovation and resources in the case of an exporting Western Australian regional family firm. International Journal of Commerce and Management, 26(3), 314-333. https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-04-2016-0023.
  • Duarte Alonso, A., Austin, I. (2016). Entrepreneurial CSR in the context of a regional family firm: A stakeholder analysis. Annals in Social Responsibility, 2(1), 48-62. https://doi.org/10.1108/ASR-06-2016-0005.

2015

Journal Articles

  • Austin, I. (2015). Becoming a Wealth Management Centre and International Relations Implications: The Singapore Policy Approach and Global and Regional Responses. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 16(4), 532-552. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1468109915000298.

Conference Publications

  • Austin, I. (2015). Singapore as a Global City: Governance in a Challenging International Environment. A New Paradigm for International Business: Proceedings of the Conference on Free Trade Agreements and Regional Integration in East Asia (171-192). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-499-3_9.

2012

Conference Publications

  • Austin, I. (2012). Singapore, Diversification Theory and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The Eighth Asia Academy of Management Conference: A Theory of Asian Management versus an Asian Theory of Management (300). Asia Academy of Management.

2011

Books

Book Chapters

  • Austin, I. (2011). Introduction: Australia-Singapore Relations - Diplomatic, Strategic, Commercial and Cultural. Australia-Singapore Relations: Successful Bilateral Relations in a Historical and Contemporary Context (1-12). Select Publishing.
  • Austin, I. (2011). Australia-Singapore Commercial Relations. Australia-Singapore Relations: Successful Bilateral Relations in a Historical and Contemporary Context (63-101). Select Publishing.
  • Austin, I., Han Cheong, Y. (2011). Australia-Singapore Civil Aviation Relations. Australia-Singapore Relations: Successful Bilateral Relations in a Historical and Contemporary Context (133-142). Select Publishing.
  • Austin, I., Minaee, S. (2011). The Proposed ASX-SGX merger - An Australian perspective. Australia-Singapore Relations: Successful Bilateral Relations in a Historical and Contemporary Context (221-238). Select Publishing.

Conference Publications

  • Austin, I. (2011). Alexander Hamilton and Asian Capitalism. Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History (APEBH) Conference (35). Wordpress.

2009

Books

  • Austin, I. (2009). Common Foundations of American and East Asian Modernisation: from Alexander Hamilton to Junichero Koizumi. Select Publishing.

Journal Articles

  • Austin, I. (2009). The Treasury of the United States of America and the Asian Financial Crisis: A Decade in Review. Australasian Journal of American Studies, 28(1), 50-73.

Conference Publications

  • Austin, I. (2009). The Singapore Recession of 2008-2009:The Global Paradox and Policy Options. The Future of Asia-Pacific Business: Beyond the Crisis. Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy Conference 2009 (14p.). RMIT University.

2008

Conference Publications

  • Austin, I. (2008). Singapore In Transition: Economic Change And Political Consequences. Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the ASAA (18). Monash University.

2004

Books

  • Austin, I. (2004). Goh Keng Swee and Southeast Asian Governance. Marshall Cavendish Academic.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, How do national employment policies influence human resource practices? A comparative study of the integrated resort and hotel industry in macau and Singapore

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, How to exit successfully via ipos: An insight into the listing requirements of the emerging growth enterprise market of China.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, An exploratory examination of the factors influencing Indonesian SMEs' sustainability practices.
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