This paper employs structural vector autoregression and local projection methods to examine the impacts of the deterioration in US-China political relations on Australia-China bilateral trade. By imposing a recursive identification scheme with different assumptions, the empirical results...

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has recently attracted global attention. The aim of BRI is to enhance bonding relations between China and the Belt and Road (BR) countries in terms of socioeconomic cooperation through investment in the construction of basic infrastructure. A growing number...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore reasons behind meat consumption. It aims to find out what motivates meat consumers and explore the opportunities of social marketing to counteract negative environmental and health trends. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory Australian...

Venture capital (VC) is usually invested in high risk technology companies at their early stages of development. In response to the industry risk environment, the VC fund managers have developed a set of risk management practices appropriate for the industry which include Investment syndication....

Growing awareness about sustainability among consumers and investors is rapidly changing the investment management practices in Australia. Until 2000, the size of fund under management in socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolios was less than $1 billion which by the end of 2012 totaled...

The paper aims to evaluate the viability of the Australian venture capital industry using a system approach and life-path assessment of multiple data sources, academic literature and public documents. Like any other system, the venture capital industry has a unique life path and viability...

Inter-firm collaboration and networking have significantly increased in the context of technological innovation, changing the business environment and contributing to rapid and global integration. Being at the heart of technological innovation and commercialization, the venture capital (VC)...