Barrett, Mary

Overview

Mary is a Professor of Management at the School of Management, Operations and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, Australia where she teaches general management, human resource management, business communication, and business research methods. She is currently supervising 5 doctoral students. Mary’s research interests include business communication, family business, gender in management and entrepreneurship. She speaks English as a first language, but also speaks French and some German.

Mary has research links with several academic research organizations in management, entrepreneurship, and gender issues in a variety of countries. She is also a board member of the New South Wales branch of Family Business Australia.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2013	Succession at Buchanan Transport Published in NACRA Case Research Journal

Research Areas

Research Overview

Mary's research interests include:
- Business communication
- Family business
- Gender in management
- Entrepreneurship

Member Of

Australian Family Business Network
Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) (Institute)
Australian Institute of Management (AIM)
Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) former member of the Executive (two terms, and former book review editor for JANZAM)
Fulbrighters Association (former Queensland Branch President 1996-2002, now an ordinary member)
International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) Former member of the Executive and of the IFSAM 6th International Congress Executive
Zonta Club of Brisbane (Board member for four years until 2002; ordinary member for 18 years)

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Does practice make micro-entrepreneurs perfect? An investigation of expertise acquisition using effectuation and causation Published In Small Business Economics: an international journal
2020	The what and how of Family business paradox: Literature-inspired distillations and directions Published In International Small Business Journal
2019	Conformance or evasion: Employment legislation and employment practices in self-contained tourist resorts Published In Employee Relations
2019	How Talent Capability Can Shape Service Analytics Capability in the Big Data Environment? Published In Journal of Strategic Marketing
2019	The Rewards and Risks of Rapid Ethnography: Researching How Microfinance Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka Make Business Decisions Published In Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
2018	Companies keep slashing jobs, but new technologies won’t replace good management Published In The Conversation
2018	Grappling With Grapes: Developing Strategy for the Poncini Vineyards Published In Wine Business Case Research Journal
2017	Five tips to get the most out of your workday Published In The Conversation
2017	The psychological contract of international volunteers: an exploratory study Published In Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research
2016	Advising a female leader in a family firm: a case study Published In The Practitioner
2016	Industrial relations changes in the Maldives: Critical events and actors Published In Industrial Relations Journal
2016	Planning in the Poncini family business Published In Wine Business Case Research Journal
2014	Revisiting women’s entrepreneurship: Insights from the family-firm context and radical subjectivist economics Published In International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
2013	Editorial: Family enterprise: Significant and different Published In Small enterprises research: the journal of SEAANZ
2013	Succession at Buchanan Transport Published In NACRA Case Research Journal
2012	Book Review: Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines Published In Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective
2011	Do they speak SNAG? Comparing male students' perceptions of workplace communication dilemmas with those of female students and female managers Published In Gender in Management: an international journal
2010	Hoffmann, F., Mary and Ford, J, Debra, Organisational Rhetoric: Situations and Strategies, Sage Publications, 2010, Price Not Mentioned, Soft Published In Vision: Journal of Business Perspective
2010	Women Leading Family Businesses Published In Family Business Wiki
2009	Book Review: The changing face of Vietnamese management: working in Asia series by Chris Rowley and Quang Truong (Eds.) Published In VISION¿The Journal of Business Perspective
2009	Book review: HRM strategic integration and organizational performance by Ashok Chanda and Jie Shen Published In Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective
2009	Fostering Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership in Family Firms: Ten Lessons Published In Management Online Review
2009	Have they learnt to interrupt?: Comparing how women management students and senior women managers in Australia perceive workplace communication dilemmas Published In Gender in Management: an international journal
2009	Spotlights and shadows: Preliminary findings about the experiences of women in family business leadership roles Published In Journal of Management and Organization

Book

Year	Title
2017	Contemporary Management Publisher http://www.mheducation.com.au/catalog/product/view/id/230125/
2012	BCOM Asia Pacific Edition
2011	Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways
2010	Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways
2009	Women in Family Business Leadership Roles: Daughters on the Stage Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	Effectuation thinking and the manifestation of socio-cultural complexities in Sri Lankan female entrepreneurs’ business decisions Published In Contextual Embeddedness of Women’s Entrepreneurship Publisher Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom
2015	Talking yourself into work: insights from sociolinguistics about gender and the employment interview Published In Handbook of Gendered Careers in Management: Getting In, Getting On, Getting Out Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2014	Case study: Transfield and Tenex: endurance and weakness in two migrant family businesses in Australia Published In Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses: Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics Publisher http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472402394
2014	Case study: the al-Awadhi brothers: the story of two Emirati entrepreneurs Published In Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses: Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics Publisher http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472402394
2012	New theoretical perspectives on family business entrepreneurial behavior Published In Understanding Family Businesses: Undiscovered Approaches, Unique Perspectives, and Neglected Topics Publisher New York
2011	Australia: the challenge of father-daughter succession in family business: a case study from the land down under Published In Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
2011	Corporate governance and the family business: Managing the paradoxes Published In Understanding Family Enterprise: A Book of Readings
2011	Understanding tensions and conflict: A phases of learning approach for leading family businesses Published In Understanding Family Enterprise: A Book of Readings
2008	Women Learning Business Leadership: Journeys in the Family Firm Published In Culturally-Sensitive Models of Gender in Family Business - A Compendium using the Globe Paradigm

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2017	Deliberate practice and entrepreneurial decision-making among micro-entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka Published In Australian Center for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (ACERE)
2016	Expertise and entrepreneurial decision-making in business start-up: evidence from Sri Lankan micro-entrepreneurs Published In 30th ANZAM Conference
2016	Microfinance & effectuation/causation thinking: evidence from Sri Lankan micro-entrepreneurs Published In 29th Annual SEAANZ Conference Papers
2016	The link between repatriation assistance and international volunteer’s psychological contract in Australian aid/charity/mission organizations Published In Proceedings of the Universal Academic Cluster International Spring Conferences, April 2016
2011	Disaster communication governance and public trust: the case of TEPCO Published In Abstracts of the 2nd International Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management: Reframing Disasters and Reflecting on Risk Governance Deficits
2011	Informal Flexibility? Issues for Accountants Working Part-time in Small Firms Published In 4th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference
2011	Paradoxes and pathways to learning family business leadership Published In 11th IFERA Annual World Family Business Research Conference
2011	Unorganised professional workers: Experiences of women accountants in small firms Published In Women, Work and Collectivism Symposium
2010	Looking anew at women’s entrepreneurship: How the family firm context and a radical subjectivist view of economics helps reshape women’s entrepreneurship research (Women Entrepreneurs in Family Business: A Radical Subjectivist View) Published In WORKSHOP ON FAMILY FIRMS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
2010	Men always get more money than women? Perceptions of pay and advancement in small accounting firms Published In AIRAANZ 2010: 24th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Conference
2009	Do they speak SNAG? Comparing male students' perceptions of workplace communication dilemmas with those of female students and female managers Published In Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
2009	Emergence, change and precarious systems: A new lens on people and organisation Published In Social Innovation Network Conference
2008	Inside the 'black box': women accountants in small firms Published In Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
2008	Just don't call me a feminist: Senior and junior women managers' perceptions of communication dilemmas at work Published In Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
2007	Information and computer technology security: furthering the research agenda Published In Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Are Transformational Leaders Influencers in the Acceptance and Use of Technology in Customer Experience Teams?	Greenough, Hugh
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Covid communication strategies with UOW students - cultural implications	Murray-Smith, Rebekah
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Perceptions of Leadership Intelligence	Pitsi, Safoora
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	The Experience of Employee Misfit: Forms, Causes, Presentation, and Consequences	Subramanian, Sandhya
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	HRM Practices in Multinationals from Developing Countries	Tran, Thi Cam Trang

Keywords

Gender and communication at work, family business, women in management.

Full Name

Prof. Mary Barrett

Mailing Address

School of Management, Operations and Management, UOW

Northfields Ave

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Top Publications

Year	Title
2013	Succession at Buchanan Transport Published in NACRA Case Research Journal

Research Areas

Research Overview

Mary's research interests include:
- Business communication
- Family business
- Gender in management
- Entrepreneurship

Member Of

Australian Family Business Network
Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) (Institute)
Australian Institute of Management (AIM)
Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) former member of the Executive (two terms, and former book review editor for JANZAM)
Fulbrighters Association (former Queensland Branch President 1996-2002, now an ordinary member)
International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) Former member of the Executive and of the IFSAM 6th International Congress Executive
Zonta Club of Brisbane (Board member for four years until 2002; ordinary member for 18 years)

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Does practice make micro-entrepreneurs perfect? An investigation of expertise acquisition using effectuation and causation Published In Small Business Economics: an international journal
2020	The what and how of Family business paradox: Literature-inspired distillations and directions Published In International Small Business Journal
2019	Conformance or evasion: Employment legislation and employment practices in self-contained tourist resorts Published In Employee Relations
2019	How Talent Capability Can Shape Service Analytics Capability in the Big Data Environment? Published In Journal of Strategic Marketing
2019	The Rewards and Risks of Rapid Ethnography: Researching How Microfinance Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka Make Business Decisions Published In Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
2018	Companies keep slashing jobs, but new technologies won’t replace good management Published In The Conversation
2018	Grappling With Grapes: Developing Strategy for the Poncini Vineyards Published In Wine Business Case Research Journal
2017	Five tips to get the most out of your workday Published In The Conversation
2017	The psychological contract of international volunteers: an exploratory study Published In Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research
2016	Advising a female leader in a family firm: a case study Published In The Practitioner
2016	Industrial relations changes in the Maldives: Critical events and actors Published In Industrial Relations Journal
2016	Planning in the Poncini family business Published In Wine Business Case Research Journal
2014	Revisiting women’s entrepreneurship: Insights from the family-firm context and radical subjectivist economics Published In International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
2013	Editorial: Family enterprise: Significant and different Published In Small enterprises research: the journal of SEAANZ
2013	Succession at Buchanan Transport Published In NACRA Case Research Journal
2012	Book Review: Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines Published In Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective
2011	Do they speak SNAG? Comparing male students' perceptions of workplace communication dilemmas with those of female students and female managers Published In Gender in Management: an international journal
2010	Hoffmann, F., Mary and Ford, J, Debra, Organisational Rhetoric: Situations and Strategies, Sage Publications, 2010, Price Not Mentioned, Soft Published In Vision: Journal of Business Perspective
2010	Women Leading Family Businesses Published In Family Business Wiki
2009	Book Review: The changing face of Vietnamese management: working in Asia series by Chris Rowley and Quang Truong (Eds.) Published In VISION¿The Journal of Business Perspective
2009	Book review: HRM strategic integration and organizational performance by Ashok Chanda and Jie Shen Published In Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective
2009	Fostering Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership in Family Firms: Ten Lessons Published In Management Online Review
2009	Have they learnt to interrupt?: Comparing how women management students and senior women managers in Australia perceive workplace communication dilemmas Published In Gender in Management: an international journal
2009	Spotlights and shadows: Preliminary findings about the experiences of women in family business leadership roles Published In Journal of Management and Organization

Book

Year	Title
2017	Contemporary Management Publisher http://www.mheducation.com.au/catalog/product/view/id/230125/
2012	BCOM Asia Pacific Edition
2011	Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways
2010	Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways
2009	Women in Family Business Leadership Roles: Daughters on the Stage Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	Effectuation thinking and the manifestation of socio-cultural complexities in Sri Lankan female entrepreneurs’ business decisions Published In Contextual Embeddedness of Women’s Entrepreneurship Publisher Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom
2015	Talking yourself into work: insights from sociolinguistics about gender and the employment interview Published In Handbook of Gendered Careers in Management: Getting In, Getting On, Getting Out Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2014	Case study: Transfield and Tenex: endurance and weakness in two migrant family businesses in Australia Published In Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses: Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics Publisher http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472402394
2014	Case study: the al-Awadhi brothers: the story of two Emirati entrepreneurs Published In Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses: Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics Publisher http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472402394
2012	New theoretical perspectives on family business entrepreneurial behavior Published In Understanding Family Businesses: Undiscovered Approaches, Unique Perspectives, and Neglected Topics Publisher New York
2011	Australia: the challenge of father-daughter succession in family business: a case study from the land down under Published In Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
2011	Corporate governance and the family business: Managing the paradoxes Published In Understanding Family Enterprise: A Book of Readings
2011	Understanding tensions and conflict: A phases of learning approach for leading family businesses Published In Understanding Family Enterprise: A Book of Readings
2008	Women Learning Business Leadership: Journeys in the Family Firm Published In Culturally-Sensitive Models of Gender in Family Business - A Compendium using the Globe Paradigm

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2017	Deliberate practice and entrepreneurial decision-making among micro-entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka Published In Australian Center for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (ACERE)
2016	Expertise and entrepreneurial decision-making in business start-up: evidence from Sri Lankan micro-entrepreneurs Published In 30th ANZAM Conference
2016	Microfinance & effectuation/causation thinking: evidence from Sri Lankan micro-entrepreneurs Published In 29th Annual SEAANZ Conference Papers
2016	The link between repatriation assistance and international volunteer’s psychological contract in Australian aid/charity/mission organizations Published In Proceedings of the Universal Academic Cluster International Spring Conferences, April 2016
2011	Disaster communication governance and public trust: the case of TEPCO Published In Abstracts of the 2nd International Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management: Reframing Disasters and Reflecting on Risk Governance Deficits
2011	Informal Flexibility? Issues for Accountants Working Part-time in Small Firms Published In 4th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference
2011	Paradoxes and pathways to learning family business leadership Published In 11th IFERA Annual World Family Business Research Conference
2011	Unorganised professional workers: Experiences of women accountants in small firms Published In Women, Work and Collectivism Symposium
2010	Looking anew at women’s entrepreneurship: How the family firm context and a radical subjectivist view of economics helps reshape women’s entrepreneurship research (Women Entrepreneurs in Family Business: A Radical Subjectivist View) Published In WORKSHOP ON FAMILY FIRMS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
2010	Men always get more money than women? Perceptions of pay and advancement in small accounting firms Published In AIRAANZ 2010: 24th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Conference
2009	Do they speak SNAG? Comparing male students' perceptions of workplace communication dilemmas with those of female students and female managers Published In Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
2009	Emergence, change and precarious systems: A new lens on people and organisation Published In Social Innovation Network Conference
2008	Inside the 'black box': women accountants in small firms Published In Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
2008	Just don't call me a feminist: Senior and junior women managers' perceptions of communication dilemmas at work Published In Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
2007	Information and computer technology security: furthering the research agenda Published In Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Are Transformational Leaders Influencers in the Acceptance and Use of Technology in Customer Experience Teams?	Greenough, Hugh
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Covid communication strategies with UOW students - cultural implications	Murray-Smith, Rebekah
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Perceptions of Leadership Intelligence	Pitsi, Safoora
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	The Experience of Employee Misfit: Forms, Causes, Presentation, and Consequences	Subramanian, Sandhya
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	HRM Practices in Multinationals from Developing Countries	Tran, Thi Cam Trang

Keywords

Gender and communication at work, family business, women in management.

Full Name

Prof. Mary Barrett

Mailing Address

School of Management, Operations and Management, UOW

Northfields Ave

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Geographic Location

Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Located In Facility

40.152

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0221-0979 (confirmed)

Overview

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Geographic Location

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Geographic Location

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas