Diffusion of corporate social responsibility in the airline industry

Bedanand Upadhaya has recently completed a PhD in Management Accounting from the Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include corporate social responsibility, performance measurement systems, management control systems, organisational culture and developing countries. For over a decade he has worked in a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company.

Dr Rahat Munir is a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney. Prior to joining Macquarie University he worked with various academic, training and banking institutions. His notable projects include training of bankers in East Asia conducted in collaboration with various international institutions, including the International Finance Corporation. His teaching experience includes undergraduate and postgraduate management accounting, performance measurement systems (PMS), management control practices and related units. He has published extensively on the topics of management accounting, PMS, management control practices and related topics.

Dr Yvette Blount joined Macquarie University in 2005. Prior to her academic career, Dr Blount worked in senior and consulting roles in the banking and IT industries. Dr Blount’s areas of expertise include how telework provides organisations with sustainable competitive advantage by enhancing service quality and the implications for employee management when implementing new technologies in the service sector. Dr Blount’s research programme utilises multidisciplinary approaches to investigate how information systems are utilised by organisations to achieve their business objectives. Other research areas include employee management, information systems theory and technologies in learning and teaching. This combination of research and industry experience provides a strong basis for teaching the real-world contexts of information systems. Dr Yvette is a Member of two research centres at Macquarie University: the Centre for Workforce Futures and the Centre for the Health Economy.

Dr Sophia Su has taught Financial and Management Accounting units over the last seven years. Her research areas include management control systems, organisational life cycle, employee organisational commitment and management innovation. She has presented her research in both domestic and international conferences, and her research papers have been published in peer-reviewed, top-ranking academic journals. Sophia is currently supervising PhD students in the Management Accounting discipline.