Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference

The Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) was founded in 1985 to advance management education, research, and practice in Australia, New Zealand, and beyond.  ANZAM is the primary professional body for management educators, researchers and practitioners in Australia and New Zealand, with about 600 individual members and 50 institutional members (representing most Australian and New Zealand universities) as well as members from other countries.

ANZAM offers Professional and Associate Membership to individuals who are management educators, researchers or practitioners, and Institutional Membership to tertiary providers of management education and research.

The 2014 ANZAM conference is the latest forum where we disseminated our project on mining and gender equity in Lao PDR and Thailand. Our team presented two papers from the project. The main paper entitled "How Mining MNCs promote Gender Equity: Modus Operandi?" focuses on gender-related CSR strategies from mining companies in this study as well as the impacts of international mining industry on women, family, community, and the locals. 

                                                   With keynote speaker, Bob Carr

The presentation was well attended by academicians and researchers in international business, sustainability and development.  The key questions after the presentation include:

1) What will be the key strategies for mining MNCs to promote women?

2) Why MNCs need to focus on equity?

3) What are the roles of local governments in the research process?

4) What I am interested to do after this phase of the project? Why?

These questions are relevant to what we are doing and what we plan to achieve. Since we are approaching the final stage of this project, we hope that we can proceed to the analysis of the project and ways to transfer findings from this project into policies and meaningful practices.