Martin Shanahan

Research Interests

Business and Labour History Economic History Environmental history History Inequality studies Urban Analysis and Development Water policy (incl. water allocation) Welfare Economics

Prof Martin Shanahan

Professor

School of Economics

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Professor Martin Shanahan is Professor of Economic and Business History in the School of Business. From 2018 - 2023 he was the Elof Hansson Visiting Professor in International Business and Trade at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Prof Shanahan holds degrees in economics, politics and law and is a specialist in Australian economic and business history. His PhD was awarded the Butlin Prize in economic history in Australia and New Zealand. In 2023 he received the EOG Shann Award for distinguished service to economic history in Australia and New Zealand.
Prof Shanahan has written over a hundred peer reviewed articles, book chapters, books and conference papers on historical aspects of wealth and income distribution, business cartels, trade practice law, and water use. He has also published extensively on university-student learning of economics, students’ research conceptions and threshold concepts. He was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009.
A successful grant winner, Prof Shanahan has been involved in several Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage grants, as well as British and European grants. He is currently participating in international studies on living standards and the life-course in Australia and international cartels.
For the past decade, the work of Prof Shanahan and his colleagues has seen first-year economic students being asked to think about how they learn, as well as what they learn. The software underlying this work has been licensed to several universities around the world.  
Professor Shanahan co-edited the now named, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review for a decade, and is a currently a board member of Business History, the Asia Pacific Economic History Review and the International Review of Economic Education. He has served on the executive of the International Economic History Association and is a past President of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand. He is currently a research affilate of the Centre for Economic History at ANU  and a member of the Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion at UniSA. 

Work in progress

Shanahan M., ‘Water’, in Madeleine Dungy, Audrey Gerrard  and Espen Storli (eds) The Routledge Handbook on the Economic History of Natural Resources forthcoming

Shanahan M, “Australia and New Zealand”  in Frankema E. and T. Roy, (eds) The Handbook of Economic History of Colonialism  forthcoming

Monika Schwarz, Michael Charleston, Isabelle Cherkesly, Trudy Cowley, Lionel Frost, Peter Gunn, Heidi Ing, Kris Inwood, Rebecca Kippen, Ross Latham, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Ann Owen, Martin Shanahan, Tony Stagg, Richard Tuffin, John Wilson and Paul Wilson, “Death in a penal colony and beyond: the history, digitisation, cleaning, coding and linking of Tasmanian death registrations, 1838–1969’ submitted to GREATLEAP Special Issue: Sources and Databases on Causes of Death in Historical Societies (1800–1950) of Historical Life Course Studies

Heidi Ing, John Wilson, Trudy Cowley, Kris Inwood, Rebecca Kippen, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Monika Schwarz, Martin Shanahan, “ Missing Links: an examination of algorithmic and manual methodologies and those who remain unlinked” submitted  

Shanahan, Martin, “A Permanent State of Affairs? Australian Industry Policy’  in (eds) Cecilia Lara and Svante Prado (eds) Industrial policy lessons from economic history, 

Shanahan, Martin “ The oil multinationals’ cartel in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s’ in Oil, oligopolies, and state responses: a global and local history of oil markets,1860s-1939  (eds) Pal Thonstad Sandvik and Espen Storli

Wilson J.,  M. Shanahan, H. Maxwell-Stweart, L. Frost and D. Ostapenko, “Urban-rural penalties revisited: Infant mortality and real wages in colonial Tasmania" in submission

Date Position Institution name
2019 - 2025 Elof Hansson Visiting Professor in International Business and Trade University of Gothenburg
2013 - ongoing Professor of Economic and Business History University of South Australia

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2023 Recognition E.O.G Shann Award for distinguished service to Economic History in Australia and New Zealand Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Australia -
2012 Nomination World Congress Business History Association founding member International Business History Association Australia -
2009 Teaching Award Australian Learning and Teaching Council: Award for Teaching Excellence Carrick Institute Australia -
2009 Nomination Executive Member, International Economic History Association International Economic History Association Australia -
2006 Teaching Award Carrick Institute Citation: Outstanding contribution to student learning Carrick Institute Australia -
1993 Research Award Butlin Prize for best PhD thesis in economic history in Australia and New Zealand Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Australia -

Language Competency
German Can read, speak and understand spoken

Date Institution name Country Title
1989 - 1995 University of Adelaide Australia LLB (Hons)
1986 - 1992 Flinders University Australia PhD
1978 - 1982 University of Adelaide Australia BA (Hons)

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2025 Gaynor, A., Frost, L., & Shanahan, M. (2025). Seeking a circular economy of human nutrition: sewage farming in four Australian cities. History Australia, online(3), 1-20.
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2025 Frost, L., O'Hanlon, S., & Shanahan, M. (2025). Special issue: Manufacturing and the Australian City. Asia Pacific Economic History Review, 65(3), 303-311.
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2025 Shanahan, M., & van der Eng, P. (2025). Attracting manufacturing firms to South Australia: The case of Philips in Hendon, 1946–1980. Asia Pacific Economic History Review, 65(3), 376-396.
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2025 Frost, L., & Shanahan, M. P. (2025). Water and the urban metabolism: essays on the remaking of urban water regimes since the eighteenth century-introduction. Journal of Urban History, 51(3), 485-488.
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2023 Alshorman, S. A. A., & Shanahan, M. (2023). Singing from the same hymn sheet: are the chair and CEO 'on the same page' in their annual letters to shareholders?. Corporate Communications, 28(4), 655-670.
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2023 Shanahan, M. (2023). Resources, nation states, and the globalised world. Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Aluminium, 69-70(2), 15-23.
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2022 Alshorman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2022). The voice of profit: exploring the tone of Australian CEO's letters to shareholders after the global financial crisis. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 27(1), 127-147.
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2021 Alshorman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2021). "Look on the bright side": CEO optimism and firms' market valuation. Pacific Accounting Review, 33(3), 274-300.
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2021 Frost, L., & Shanahan, M. (2021). Domesticating water: how initial choices shaped water networks in three Australian cities. Australian Historical Studies, 52(2), 171-188.
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2021 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2021). Shifts in government business relations: assessing 
change using the restrictive business registers in the OECD, 1945-1995. Business history, 63(8), 1253-1272.
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2020 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2020). Beyond the market: broader perspectives in cartel research. Scandinavian Economic History Review, 68(3), 195-203.
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2019 Barjot, D., Carreras, A., Galambos, L., Huang, C., Lanciotti, N. S., Schorr, M., . . . Yago, K. (2019). To what extent are European development theories on industrialization valid from a world point of view?. French Economic History Review (Revue Française d’Histoire Économique), 1-2(11-12), 262-288.
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2019 Shanahan, M. (2019). Australia's industrial development: the importance of importing capital and ideas. French Economic History Review (Revue Française d’Histoire Économique),, 1-2(11-12), 226-242.
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2018 Shanahan, M. (2018). Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance. AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, 58(2), 212-214.
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2018 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2018). Sectoral influence on competition legislation: evidence from the Cartel Registers, 1920-2000. Business history review, 92(4), 633-660.
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2017 Shanahan, M. (2017). On academic debate: a comment on the discussions between Leonhardt, Roelevink and Berghahn. Zeitschrift für unternehmensgeschichte, 62(2), 299-301.
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2017 Shanahan, M. (2017). How economics professors can stop failing us. The discipline at a crossroads. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS EDUCATION, 26, 30-31.
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2016 Shanahan, M. P. (2016). Threshold concepts in economics. Education training, 58(5), 510-520.
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2016 Banerjee, R., & Shanahan, M. (2016). The contribution of wheat to Australian agriculture from 1861 to 1939. Australian economic history review, 56(2), 125-150.
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2016 Shanahan, M., & Banerjee, R. (2016). Aspects of productivity. Australian economic history review, 56(2), 115-124.
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2015 Shanahan, M. (2015). Discipline identity in economic history: reflecting on an interdisciplinary community. Arts and humanities in higher education: an international journal of theory, research and practice, 14(2), 181-193.
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2014 Shanahan, M. P., & Round, K. (2014). Transforming Australian business attitudes to competition: responses to the Trade Practices Act 1965. Business history, 56(3), 434-455.
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2014 Shanahan, M. P., & Round, K. (2014). Creating the "secret register": The background to the register of trade agreements in Australia, 1967-1974. Entreprises Et Histoire, 76(3), 72-91.
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2014 Shanahan, M. P., & Round, K. (2014). Creating the 'Secret Register': the background to the register of trade agreements in Australia, 1967-1974. Entreprises et histoire, 76(3), 72-91.
2013 Shanahan, M. P., Round, D. K., & Round, K. A. (2013). Cartel resilience in Australian markets 1901-1967. Revue economique, 64(6), 1011-1042.
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2012 Round, K., & Shanahan, M. P. (2012). From protection to competition : the politics of trade practices reform in Australia and the Trade Practices Act 1965. Australian journal of politics and history, 58(4), 497-511.
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2012 Wilson, J. K., & Shanahan, M. P. (2012). Did good institutions produce good tariffs? Evidence from tariff protection in colonial victoria. Australian Economic History Review, 52(2), 128-147.
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2012 Shanahan, M. P., Wilson, J. K., & Becker, W. E. (2012). Following Zahka : using Nobel Prize winners' speeches and ideas to teach economics. Journal of economic education, 43(2), 190-199.
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2010 Round, K. A., Shanahan, M. P., & Round, D. K. (2010). Anti-cartel or anti-foreign? Australian attitudes to anti-competitive behaviour before the first World War. Australian journal of politics and history, 56(4), 540-559.
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2010 Round, D. K., & Shanahan, M. P. (2010). The economics degree in Australia : down but not out?. Journal of economic education, 41(4), 425-435.
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2010 Morgan, S., & Shanahan, M. P. (2010). The supply of economic history in Australasia : the Australian economic history review at 50. Australian economic history review, 50(3), 217-239.
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2010 Wheeler, S., Bjornlund, H., Zuo, A., & Shanahan, M. (2010). Erratum to "The changing profile of water traders in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia" by Wheeler et al. [Agric. Water Manage. 97, (2010), 1333-1343]. Agricultural Water Management, 98(1), 222-225.
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2010 Wheeler, S. A., Bjornlund, H., Zuo, A., & Shanahan, M. (2010). The changing profile of water traders in the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district, Australia. Agricultural Water Management, 97(9), 1333-1343.
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2009 Wheeler, S. A., Bjornlund, H., Shanahan, M. P., & Zuo, Z. A. (2009). Who trades water allocations? : evidence of the characteristics of early adopters in the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district, Australia 1998-1999. Agricultural economics, 40(6), 631-643.
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2009 Bjornlund, H., & Shanahan, M. P. (2009). Comparing implicit and explicit water prices during the early years of water trading in Australia. Pacific rim property research journal, 15(3), 278-302.
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2009 Shanahan, M. P., & Round, D. K. (2009). Serious cartel conduct, criminalisation and evidentiary standards : lessons from the Coal Vend case of 1911 in Australia. Business History, 51(6), 875-906.
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2008 Wheeler, S. A., Bjornlund, H., Shanahan, M. P., & Zuo, Z. A. (2008). Price elasticity of allocations water demand in the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district of Victoria, Australia. Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics, 52(1), 37-55.
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2007 McLean, I., & Shanahan, M. (2007). Australasian economic history: Research challenges and big questions. Australian Economic History Review, 47(3), 300-315.
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2007 Meyer, J., Shanahan, M. P., & Laugksch, R. (2007). Students' conceptions of research. 2 : an exploration of contrasting patterns of variation. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 51(4), 415-433.
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2007 Shanahan, M. P., & Wilson, J. K. (2007). Measuring inequality trends in colonial Australia using factor-price ratios: the importance of boundaries. Australian economic history review, 47(1), 6-21.
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2006 Shanahan, M. P., Foster, J. R., & Meyer, E. (2006). Operationalising a threshold concept in economics : A pilot study using multiple choice questions on opportunity cost. International review of economics education, 5(2), 29-57.
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2005 Round, D. K., & Shanahan, M. P. (2005). Perspectives on teaching economics from around the globe. The Journal of Economic Education, 36(3), 203-204.
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2005 Meyer, E., Shanahan, M. P., & Laugksch, R. (2005). Students' conceptions of research. 1: a qualitative and quantitative analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 49(3), 225-244.
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2004 Meyer, E., & Shanahan, M. P. (2004). Developing metalearning capacity in students: actionable theory and practical lessons learned in first-year economics. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 41(4), 443-458.
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2004 Van Der Eng, P., & Shanahan, M. P. (2004). The current and future role of AEHR: editorial reflections. Australian Economic History Review: An Asia-Pacific Journal of Economic, Business & Social History, 44(2), 113-117.
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2003 Shanahan, M. P. (2003). Tracing the crimson thread : United Kingdom residents holding probated South Australian assets, 1905-1915. Australian Economic History Review, 43(3), 215-229.
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2003 Meyer, E., & Shanahan, M. P. (2003). Dissonant forms of "memorising" and "repetition". Studies in Higher Education, 28(1), 5-20.
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2003 Lewis, M., Shanahan, M., Barreto, R., & D'Arcy, P. (2003). Selected papers from the 31st National Conference of Economists, Adelaide Sept 30-Oct 4, 2002. Introduction. Economic Record, 79(SpecialIssue), S1.
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2003 Shanahan, M. P., & Meyer, E. (2003). Measuring and Responding to Variation in Aspects of Students' Economic Conceptions and Learning Engagement in Economics. International Review of Economics Education, 1(1), 9-35.
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2002 Meyer, E., & Shanahan, M. P. (2002). On variation in conceptions of 'price' in economics. Higher Education, 43(2), 203-225.
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2001 Meyer, E., & Shanahan, M. P. (2001). A Triangulated Approach to the Modeling of Learning Outcomes in First Year Economics. Higher Education Research and Development, 21(1), 127-145.
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2001 Shanahan, M. P., & Donato, R. (2001). Counting the cost. Child abuse and neglect, 25(4), 541-555.
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2001 Shanahan, M. P., & Meyer, E. (2001). A Student Learning Inventory for Economics Based on the Students' Experience of Learning: a Preliminary Study. Journal of Economic Education, 32(3), 259-267.
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2001 Donato, R., & Shanahan, M. P. (2001). The economics of child sex-offender rehabilitation programs : beyond Prentky and Burgess. American journal of orthopsychiatry, 71(1), 131-139.
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2001 Shanahan, M. P. (2001). Personal wealth in South Australia. Journal of interdisciplinary history, 32(1), 55-80.
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2001 Viney, R., Haas, M., Shanahan, M., & Cameron, I. (2001). Assessing the value of hospital-in-the-home: Lessons from Australia. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 6(3), 133-138.
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2001 Linden, M. V. D., Palmer, D., Shanahan, R., & Shannahan, M. (2001). Australian Labour History Reconsidered. Labour History, (80), 231.
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2001 Howe, R. (2001). David Palmer, Ross Shanahan, and Martin Shanahan, eds., <b><i>Australian Labor History Reconsidered</i></b>. Adelaide: Australian Humanities Press, 1999. ix + 244 pp. $29.95 cloth.. International Labor and Working-Class History, 60, 222-224.
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2001 Farrell, F., & Palmer, D. (2001). Ross Shanahan, and Martin Shanahan, eds. Australian Labour History Reconsidered. Labour / Le Travail, 48, 320.
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2001 Meyer, J. H. F., & Shanahan, M. P. (2001). A Triangulated Approach to the Modelling of Learning Outcomes in First Year Economics. Higher Education Research &amp; Development, 20(2), 127-145.
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2000 Friedman, M., Laurent, R. D., De Long, J. B., Bredon, G., Shanahan, M., Bonham, C. S., & Cohen, R. H. (2000). Correspondence. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(4), 225-230.
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2000 Shanahan, M. P., & Correll, M. (2000). How much more unequal? Consistant estimates of the distribution of wealth in th US between 1774 and 1860.. Journal of Income Distribution.
2000 Shanahan, M. P., & Correll, M. (2000). How much more unequal? Consistent estimates of the distribution of wealth in the United States between 1774 and 1860. Journal of Income Distribution, 9(1), 27-37.
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1999 Shanahan, M. P., & Donato, R. (1999). The economic of implementing intensive in prison sex offender treatment programs. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice.
1999 Shanahan, M. P. (1999). Australian labour market instituteions through time; a perspective from the new insitutional economics. Australian economic history review, 39(3), 213-238.
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1997 Shanahan, M., Findlay, C., Cowie, J., Round, D., McIver, R., & Barrett, S. (1997). Beyond the "input-output" approach to assessing determinants of student performance in university economics : implications from student learning centred research. Australian Economic Papers: Australian Economics Education Special Issue, 36(Supple.), 17-37.
1997 Shanahan, M. (1997). Poverty, inequality and social welfare in Australia - Johnson,DT. ECONOMIC RECORD, 73(220), 91-93.
1995 Shanahan, M. (1995). The distribution of personal wealth in South Australia, 1905-1915. Australian Economic History Review, 35(2), 82-111.
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1995 SHANAHAN, M. (1995). LABOR-MARKET EVOLUTION - THE ECONOMIC-HISTORY OF MARKET INTEGRATION, WAGE FLEXIBILITY AND THE EMPLOYMENT RELATION - GRANTHAM,G, MACKINNON,M. ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, 48(3), 641.
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- Shanahan, M. P., & Meyer, J. H. F. (n.d.). A student learning inventory for economic based on the students' experience of learning: A preliminary study. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION, 32(3), 259-267.
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- Bredon, C., & Shanahan, M. (n.d.). Economics cybercourses. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES, 14(4), 227-228.
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- Meyer, J., & Land, R. (2006). Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding.
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Year Citation
2022 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2022). A history of business cartels, international politics, national policies and anti-competitive behaviour. M. Shanahan, & S. Fellman (Eds.), UK: Routledge.
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2022 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2022). A history of business cartels, international politics, national policies and anti-competitive behaviour. M. Shanahan, & S. Fellman (Eds.), UK: Routledge.
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2022 Cook, M., Frost, L., Gaynor, A., Gregory, J., Morgan, R. A., Shanahan, M., & Spearritt, P. (2022). Cities in a sunburnt country: water and the making of urban Australia. UK: Cambridge University Press.
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2015 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2015). Regulating competition: cartel registers in the twentieth century world. M. Shanahan, & S. Fellman (Eds.), UK: Taylor and Francis.
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2015 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2015). Regulating competition: cartel registers in the twentieth century world. M. Shanahan, & S. Fellman (Eds.), UK: Taylor and Francis.
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2015 Round, K., & Shanahan, M. (2015). From protection to competition: the politics of trade practices reform in Australia. Australia: Federation Press.
2003 Shanahan, M. P., & Treuren, G. J. M. (Eds.) (2003). Globalisation: Australian regional perspectives (First edition. ed.). Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press.
2000 Shanahan, M. P., & Burns, M. E. (2000). Labour Market Models and their use in projecting education and training requirements (First edition ed.). Adelaide, South Australia: NCVER.

Year Citation
2025 Shanahan, M. (2025). Australia in the global wheat trade. In M. Bertilorenzi, C. Fumian, & G. Gozzini (Eds.), Source details - Title: A History of the Global Wheat Trade: Actors and Dynamics (1840-1914) (pp. 243-257). US: Routledge.
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2025 Seltzer, A., Shanahan, M., & Wright, C. (2025). The Rise and Fall and Rise (?) of Economic History in Australia. In Frontiers in Economic History (Vol. Part F9342, pp. 111-138). Springer Nature Switzerland.
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2023 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2023). An historical account of cartel enforcement. In P. Whelan (Ed.), Source details - Title: Research Handbook on Cartels (pp. 45-72). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2022 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2022). International cartels in the real world: business, politics and diplomacy. In M. Shanahan, & S. Fellman (Eds.), Source details - Title: A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour (pp. 1-24). UK: Routledge.
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2022 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2022). Lessons from history: Insights from historical case studies. In M. Shanahan, & S. Fellman (Eds.), Source details - Title: A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour (pp. 321-325). UK: Routledge.
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2022 Shanahan, M. (2022). An economic history of Australia. In Source details - Title: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (pp. 1-29). US: Oxford University Press.
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2022 Gaynor, A., Cook, M., Frost, L., Gregory, J., Morgan, R., Shanahan, M., & Spearritt, P. (2022). Urban water policy in a drying continent. In C. Holbrook, L. Megarrity, & D. Lowe (Eds.), Source details - Title: Lessons from History. Leading Historians tackle Australia's Greatest Challenges (pp. 69-82). Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
2022 Cook, M., Frost, L., Gaynor, A., Gregory, J., Morgan, R. A., Shanahan, M., & Spearritt, P. (2022). Twenty-First Century Australian Cities. In CITIES IN A SUNBURNT COUNTRY (pp. 198-230). CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS.
2019 Brunkova, Z., & Shanahan, M. (2019). The Australian gold rushes 1850-1900: elites, mineral ownership and democracy. In A. R. D. Sanders, P. T. Stadnik, & E. Storli (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015 (pp. 23-44). Canada: UBC Press.
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2018 Shanahan, M. (2018). Can economics assist the transition to a circular economy?. In R. Crocker (Ed.), Source details - Title: Unmaking waste in production and consumption: towards the circular economy (pp. 35-48). UK: Emerald Publishing.
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2016 Shanahan, M. (2016). The secret register and its impact in advancing competition in Australia, 1900-2010. In S. Fellman, & M. Shanahan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Regulating competition: cartel registers in the twentieth century world (pp. 166-182). UK: Routledge.
2016 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. P. (2016). Conclusion. In S. Fellman, & M. Shanahan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Regulating competition: Cartel registers in the twentieth-century world (pp. 282-285). UK: Routledge.
2016 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2016). Regulating capitalism - the rise and fall of 'cartel registers' in the twentieth-century world. In S. Fellman, & M. Shanahan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Regulating competition: cartel registers in the twentieth century world (pp. 20-32). UK: Routledge.
2016 Shanahan, M. (2016). Pre-history, ancient and classical periods of Southeast Asia. In B. Baten, & J. J (Eds.), Source details - Title: A History of the Global Economy: From 1500 to the Present (pp. 308-309). UK: Cambridge University Press.
2016 Shanahan, M. (2016). Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand. In J. Baten (Ed.), Source details - Title: A history of the global economy: 1500 to the present (pp. 282-307). UK: Cambridge University Press.
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2016 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2016). Regulating competition of the Swedish insurance business The role of the insurance cartel registry Conclusion. In S. Fellman, & M. Shanahan (Eds.), REGULATING COMPETITION (pp. 271-275). ROUTLEDGE.
2016 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2016). Regulating competition - the rise and fall of 'cartel registers' in the twentieth-century world Introduction. In S. Fellman, & M. Shanahan (Eds.), REGULATING COMPETITION (pp. 1-13). ROUTLEDGE.
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2015 Shanahan, M. (2015). The secret register and its impact in advancing competition in Australia, 1900-2010. In Regulating Competition Cartel Registers in the Twentieth Century World (pp. 152-168). Routledge.
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2015 Shanahan, M. P. (2015). Wealth and welfare. In S. Ville, & G. Withers (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Cambridge economic history of Australia (pp. 489-510). UK: Cambridge University Press.
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2015 Shanahan, M. (2015). The secret register and its impact in advancing competition in Australia, 1900-2010. In S. Fellman, & M. Shanahan (Eds.), Regulating Competition Cartel Registers in the Twentieth Century World (pp. 152-168). ROUTLEDGE.
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2015 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2015). Introduction: Regulating competition - the rise and fall of ‘cartel registers’ in the twentieth-century world. In Regulating Competition Cartel Registers in the Twentieth Century World (pp. 1-13). Routledge.
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2015 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2015). Cartel registers around the world. In Regulating Competition Cartel Registers in the Twentieth Century World (pp. 113-132).
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2015 Shanahan, M., & Fellman, S. (2015). Cartel registers around the world. In Regulating Competition Cartel Registers in the Twentieth Century World (pp. 113-132). UK: Routledge.
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2015 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2015). Conclusion. In Regulating Competition Cartel Registers in the Twentieth Century World (pp. 271-275). Routledge.
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2015 Fellman, S., & Shanahan, M. (2015). Conclusion. In Regulating Competition Cartel Registers in the Twentieth Century World (pp. 271-275).
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2014 Di Matteo, L., Emery, J. C. H., & Shanahan, M. P. (2014). Natural resource exports and development in settler economies during the first great globalization era: Northwestern Ontario and South Australia, 1905–15. In Smart Globalization the Canadian Business and Economic History Experience (pp. 108-132).
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2014 Matteo, L. D., Emery, H., & Shanahan, M. P. (2014). Natural resource exports and development in settler economies during the first great globalization era. In D. Anastakis, & A. Smith (Eds.), Source details - Title: Smart globalization: the Canadian business and economic history experience (pp. 108-132). Canada: University of Toronto Press.
2013 Shanahan, M. P., & Wilson, J. K. (2013). Labor market outcomes in settler economies between 1870 and 1913: accounting for the differences in labor hours and occupations. In C. Lloyd, J. Metzer, & R. Sutch (Eds.), Source details - Title: Settler economies in world history (1 ed., pp. 345-370). Leiden: Brill.
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2013 Shanahan, M. (2013). Income and wealth. In J. Spoehr (Ed.), Source details - Title: State of South Australia: turbulent times (pp. 225-239). South Australia, Australia: Wakefield Press.
2013 Shanahan, M. P. (2013). The economics of climate change: the Stern and Garnaut reports and their implications for business. In Source details - Title: Sustainable business: theory and practice of business under sustainability principles (pp. 268-280). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2012 Zuo, A., Wheeler, S., Bjornlund, H., & Shanahan, M. (2012). The association between farm management strategies and irrigators’ farm profits over time in the Murray-Darling Basin. In H. Bjornlund, C. A. Brebbia, & S. Wheeler (Eds.), Sustainable Irrigation and Drainage IV: Management, Technologies and Policies (Vol. 168, pp. 447-458). UK: WIT Press.
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2011 Shanahan, M. P. (2011). Colonial sisters and their wealth: the wealth holdings of women in South Australia, 1875-1915. In D. R. Green (Ed.), Source details - Title: Men, women, and money: perspectives on gender, wealth, and investment, 1850-1930 (pp. 99-124). United Kingdom UK: Oxford University Press.
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2010 Shanahan, M. P., Wheeler, S., & Bjornlund, H. (2010). Towards more sustainable irrigation: factors influencing allocation and entitlement prices and demand in the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District of Australia. In H. Bjornlund (Ed.), Incentives and instruments for sustainable irrigation (pp. 91-105). UK: WIT Press.
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2010 Shanahan, M. P., Jones, D., & Hughes, S. (2010). A history of water in the city. In C. B. Daniels (Ed.), Source details - Title: Adelaide : water of a city (pp. 155-156). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
2010 Shanahan, M. P. (2010). What price water?. In C. B. Daniels (Ed.), Source details - Title: Adelaide : water of a city (pp. 289-291). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
2010 Shanahan, M. P., & Hughes, S. (2010). Water-carting. In C. B. Daniels (Ed.), Source details - Title: Adelaide : water of a city (pp. 159-160). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
2010 Shanahan, M. P. (2010). The politics of water: a brief history of the governance of the Murray River and Murray-Darling Basin. In C. B. Daniels (Ed.), Source details - Title: Adelaide : water of a city (pp. 264-266). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
2010 Shanahan, M. P., Foster, J. R., & Meyer, E. (2010). Threshold concepts and attrition in first-year economics. In J. Meyer, C. Baillie, & R. Land (Eds.), Source details - Title: Threshold concepts and transformational learning (pp. 207-226). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
2010 Shanahan, M. P., & Hughes, S. (2010). The dams of Adelaide. In C. B. Daniels (Ed.), Source details - Title: Adelaide: water of a city (pp. 167-168). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
2009 Shanahan, M. P. (2009). Income and wealth. In J. Spoehr (Ed.), Source details - Title: State of South Australia: from crisis to prosperity? (pp. 114-130). Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press.
2009 Shanahan, M. P. (2009). Economic policy of the Hawke years. In G. Bloustien, A. Mackinnon, & B. Comber (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Hawke legacy (pp. 167-179). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2008 Shanahan, M. P., Foster, J. R., & Meyer, E. (2008). Associations among prior acquisition of threshold concepts, learning dimensions, and examination performance in first-year economics. In Source details - Title: Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines (pp. 155-173). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
2008 Wheeler, S. A., Bjornlund, H., Shanahan, M. P., & Zuo, Z. (2008). Factors influencing water allocation and entitlement prices in the Greater Goulburn area in Australia. In Y. V. Esteve, C. A. Brebbia, & D. P. Rico (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sustainable irrigation- management techonologies and policies II (Vol. 112, pp. 63-72). Southampton, UK: WIT press.
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2006 Shanahan, M. P., & Meyer, J. (2006). The troublesome nature of a threshold concept in economics. In J. Meyer, & R. Land (Eds.), Source details - Title: Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (pp. 100-114). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
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2006 Shanahan, M. P. (2006). The employer-employee relationship in Australia. In Source details - Title: How organisations connect (pp. 123-146). Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing.
2006 Shanahan, M. P., & Bredon, G. (2006). Teaching and learning economics at a distance. In W. Becker, M. Watts, & S. Becker (Eds.), Source details - Title: Teaching Economics: More Alternatives to Chalk and Talk (pp. 133-150). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2003 Shanahan, M. P., & Treuren, G. J. M. (2003). Introduction: The processes and consequences of globalisation - a regional perspective. In M. P. Shanahan, & G. Treuren (Eds.), Source details - Title: Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives (pp. 1-12). Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press.
2003 Shanahan, M. P. (2003). Globalisation and inequality: examining how economic global forces impact on South Australian labour markets. In M. P. Shanahan, & G. Treuren (Eds.), Source details - Title: Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives (pp. 120-143). Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press.
2001 Shanahan, M. P. (2001). Globabilisation in history: issues in definition and process identification. In Source details - Title: Global Business Regulation: Some Research Perspectives (pp. 38-51). Australia: Prentice Hall.
2001 Shanahan, M. P., & Juniper, A. J. (2001). Issues of regulation in a global framework. In G. Turner, & K. Thorne (Eds.), Source details - Title: Global Business Regulation: Some Research Perspectives (pp. 113-131). Australia: Prentice Hall.
2001 Meyer, E., & Shanahan, M. P. (2001). Making teaching responsive to variation in student learning. In C. Rust (Ed.), Source details - Title: Improving Student Learning No 8. Improving Student Learning Strategically (pp. 296-313). United Kingdom: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.
1999 Shanahan, M. P., Palmer, D., & Shanahan, R. (1999). Introduction - Australian labour history reconsidered. In D. Palmer (Ed.), Source details - Title: Australian labour history reconsidered (pp. 1-15). Unley, South Australia: Australian Humanities Press.
1999 Shanahan, M. P. (1999). No paradise for workers: the personal wealth of labourers prior to world war 1. In D. Palmer, R. Shanahan, & M. Shanahan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Australian Labour History Reconsidered (pp. 132-144). Unley, South Australia: Australian Humanities Press.
1999 Shanahan, M. P. (1999). Financing Growth and Prosperity. In J. Spoehr (Ed.), Source details - Title: Beyond the Contract State: ideas for Social and Economic Renewal in South Australia (pp. 191-205). Adelaide, SA: Wakefield Press.

Year Citation
2012 Shanahan, M. (2012). History, measurement and varieties of capitalism. In The XVIth World Economic History Congress (pp. 1-18). Stellenbosch, South Africa: Stellenbosch University.
2010 Wilson, J. K., & Shanahan, M. P. (2010). The structure of tariff protection in colonial Victoria and New South Wales. In Proceedings of Asia-Pacific economic and business history conference (pp. 1-17). Online: Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand.
2009 Wheeler, S. A., Bjornlund, H., Shanahan, M. P., & Zuo, Z. A. (2009). To trade or not to trade: decisions of irrigators in an early water market in Australia. In P. Pincus, & J. J (Eds.), Australian conference of economists Adelaide 2009. Surrey Hills, NSW: Professional Association Management Services.
2008 Wheeler, S. A., Bjornlund, H., Shanahan, M. P., & Zuo, Z. (2008). Modelling the demand for Water entitlements in the Goulburn-Murray irrigation District of Australia. In Proceedings of water down under 2008 (pp. 170-178). Adelaide: Engineers Australia.
2008 Bjornlund, H., Wheeler, S. A., & Shanahan, M. P. (2008). Supply and demand elasticity of irrigation water - implications for water markets. In Proceedings from the 14th Annual Conference of the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (pp. 1-12). Australia: Pacific Rim Real Estate Institute.
2007 Bjornlund, H., Wheeler, S. A., & Shanahan, M. P. (2007). Demand and supply elasticity in Australian water markets : the impact of water scarcity. In Managing water scarcity-the role of economic instruments at the joint conference of the American, Western and Canadian Agricultural Economics Societies. Portland, Oregon, August.
2007 Bjornlund, H., & Shanahan, M. P. (2007). Comparing implicit and explicit water prices in three Australian states. In Proceedings from the 13th annual conference of the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society. Perth, Australia: Pacific Rim Real Estate Society.
2006 Meyer, J., Shanahan, M. P., Norton, L., Walters, D., Ward, S., & Hewertson, H. (2006). Developing students' - metalearning capacity : a grounded assessment framework. In R. Rust, & C. C (Eds.), Improving Student Learning Through Assessment : the proceedings of the 13th Improving Student Learning symposium. Oxford Brookes University: OCSLD.
2005 Shanahan, M. P., & Wilson, J. K. (2005). Labour market outcomes in settler economies between 1870 and 1913: Accounting for differences in labour hours and occupations. In 20th Interntional Congress of Historical Sciences Vol. 9 (pp. 345-368). Sydney Australia: International Committee of Historical Sciences.
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2004 Round, D. K., & Shanahan, M. P. (2004). What we teach and how we teach it: Perspectives on economics from around the globe. In Economics Education Conference. Adelaide, SA: University of South Australia.
1999 Shanahan, M. P. (1999). A transactions cost review of Australian labour market institutions. In The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australian and New Zealand Proceedings Volume 2 Non Refereed Papers. Adelaide: AIRAANZ.
1998 Shanahan, M. P. (1998). The Market Mechanism. In D. Allen, & M. McBride (Eds.), Eco Teacher Vol 3 Proceedings from the 3rd Annual Year 12 Student Conference; Adelaide.
1998 Shanahan, M. P., & Correll, M. (1998). In search of Kuznets' Curve: a re-examination of the distribution of wealth in the US between 1650 and 1950. In Trends in income inequality during industrialization. Madrid, Spain: Fundacion Fomento de la Historia Economica.
1998 Shanahan, M. P. (1998). The Role of Government. In D. Allen, & M. McBride (Eds.), Eco Teacher Vol 3 Proceedings from the 3rd Annual Year 12 Student Conference, Adelaide.
1997 Shanahan, M. P., Cowie, J., & Meyer, J. (1997). Measuring Learning Process in First Year Economics. In Fifth Annual Teaching Economics Conference. University of Southern Queensland, Queensland.
1997 Shanahan, M. P., Cowie, J., & Meyer, J. (1997). Measuring Learning Processes in First-Year Economics: Preliminary Results. In Proceedings of the 1997 Annual Conference of the Higher Education and Research Development Society (HERDSA). Jamison, ACT: HERDSA.
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Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2018 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Optimising resource deployment within the firm: overcoming theoretical problems with a practical application Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nils Roos
2016 - 2019 Co-Supervisor The role of tourism in a post-conflict region: contested representations of key actors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Jayani Andrahannadi
2016 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Keeping up with the capital: how regional Australia has responded to economic and demographic change since the 1990s Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Fiona McKenzie
2016 - 2024 Co-Supervisor The emergence of independent brewing in Australia: population and innovation dynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Michael Kroehn
2016 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Corporate social performance (CSP) and stewardship: assessing takaful fund operators' investment management performance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Amirul Afif Muhamat
2014 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Commercialising aviation biofuels: a study of entrepreneurial challenges Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Tracey Dodd
2014 - 2017 Principal Supervisor The association between corporate governance reform, ownership structure and earnings management: empirical evidence from a unique regulatory environment Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mohammad Azzam
2014 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Corporate income tax aggressiveness in China: regulatory environment, ownership impact and market valuation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Guodong Yuan
2012 - 2017 Principal Supervisor CEO tone, earnings management, and the moderating effect of CEO power Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Salah Aldain Alshorman
1997 - 2008 Co-Supervisor Losing power: the struggle for control of South Australia's electricity industry Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr John Spoehr

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2011 - 2017 President Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Australia
2003 - ongoing Board Member Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Australia

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2016 - 2021 Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Historical Studies - Norway

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2024 - ongoing Board Member Asia Pacific Economic History Review Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Australia
2015 - ongoing Board Member Business History European Business History Association Australia
2008 - ongoing Board Member International Review of Economic Education Council for Economic Education Australia
2003 - 2013 Editor Australian Economic History Review Economic History society of Australia and New Zealand Australia

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