Co-opetition, corporate responsibility and sustainability: why multi-dimensional constructs matter

Amit Kumar is based at Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia. He is currently working as a Lecturer at Newcastle Business School. Recently, he was awarded with PhD at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Prior to this, Amit joined the Fellow Program in Management in the area of Strategic Management at the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi, India. His research interests include co-opetition, CSR and sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation. He actively participated and presented papers and case studies in many national and international conferences (like SMS, ICMC) and published journal articles and book chapters in IEEE Xplore, Emerald, Inderscience and IGI Global. He has completed his Bachelor study in Computer Science Engineering, Master in Commerce and Post Graduate Diploma in International Management. He has over eight years of experience in both industry and academics and around seven years in management research.

Julia Connell is Executive MBA Director at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia. She is currently Assistant Dean Research Training, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle, Australia. Julia has published over 100 refereed journal articles/book chapters, co-edited 16 special issue journal volumes and co-edited 7 books with number 8 in progress – Fourth Industrial Evolution in the Asia Pacific Region: What is the Future for Work and Workers? for Routledge: London. Many publications have focussed on employment-related issues, change/people development, industry organisational effectiveness, vulnerable workers/precarious jobs and also issues related to higher education. Julia has consulted for a number of different public and private sector organisations taught various programs in 11 different countries and lived in 4. She has been an invited expert for the ILO and for the NCAAA in Saudi Arabia on two occasions and has been a keynote conference speaker on nine occasions in six different countries. Julia has worked on a number of funded research projects, including a project on the Quality of Work in Australia for the Australian Workplace and Productivity Agency (where she was project leader).

Asit Bhattacharyya is Associate professor at the Department of Accounting, School of Business and Law, CQ University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a Senior Lecturer of Accounting at the CQ University Sydney, Australia. Asit previously taught at the University of Newcastle, Monash University (Singapore) and the University of New England for over 18 years. His main research interest areas are corporate social and environmental accounting, reporting and accountability, accounting education and learning. His teaching expertise is in Financial Accounting, Cost and Management Accounting and Financial Management. His PhD is on corporate social and environmental accountability from Macquarie University.