Dr Andre Sammartino
Profile
Career History
2003- - Lecturer - Department of Management, University of Melbourne
2000-2002 - Research Fellow and Deputy Director (Programme for the Practice of Diversity Management) - Australian Centre for International Business, University of Melbourne
1998-1999 - Lecturer (part-time) - Department of Management, University of Melbourne
1997 - Lecturer (part-time) - Department of Business Development and Corporate History , University of Melbourne
Research Interests
- Regionalisation and globalisation of firms
- Internationalisation of Australian firms
- Internationalisation of retailers
- Transformation of subsidiary roles
- Vertical scope and competitive advantage
- Business history
- Internal labour markets
Qualifications
BCom (Hons) Melb
PhD (Melb)
Research Centre Membership
Melbourne Centre for International Business
Consultancies
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines
Department of Treasury
Local Government Association of Queensland
Professional Memberships
Academy of International Business
Australia New Zealand International Business Academy
Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
Research
Refereed Journals
2009: 'Internal labour markets: evidence from two large Australian employers', Australian Economic History Review, 49(2), pp. 107-137 (with Andrew Seltzer) download here
'Subsidiaries in Motion: Assessing the impact of sunk vs. flexible assets', Advances in International Management, Volume 22,pp.55–83, (with Elizabeth Maitland)
2008: 'Reassessing (Home-) Regionalisation', Journal of International Business Studies, 39(2), pp. 184-196 (with Tom Osegowitsch)
2003:' 'The employer perspective on Indigenous (un)employment', Economic Papers, 22(4), (with Janine O’Flynn and Stephen Nicholas)
2002: ‘Working with personnel records: outcomes of research with a large historical database’, New Zealand Economic Papers, 36(1)
Book Chapters
2007:‘Retail’, in Dick, H. & Merrett, D. (eds.), “The Internationalisation Strategies of Small-Country Firms: The Australian Experience of Globalisation”, Edward Elgar, pp.175-194 Download here
'The Westfield Group’, in Dick, H. & Merrett, D. (eds.), The Internationalisation Strategies of Small-Country Firms: The Australian Experience of Globalisation”, Edward Elgar, pp.308-318 (with Frances Van Ruth)
'Exploring Trends in Regionalisation', in Rugman, A.M. (ed.), Regional Aspects of Multinationality and Performance: Research in Global Strategic Management, Vol. 13, Elsevier, pp.45-64 (with Tom Osegowitsch)
Recent Conference Papers
2008: ‘Liabilities of Foreignness and Regional vs. Global Expansion: A Longitudinal Approach’, Academy of International Business, Milan, Italy, 30 June-3 July (with Tom Osegowitsch & Christian Geisler Asmussen)‘Subsidiaries in Motion: Assessing the Impact of Sunk vs. Flexible Assets’, Academy of International Business, Milan, Italy, 30 June-3 July (with Elizabeth Maitland)
2007: ‘The international expansion of smaller scale retailers’, European International Business Academy, Catania, Italy, 13-15 December
‘Assessing the impact of sunk versus flexible assets on subsidiary role change’, European International Business Academy, Catania, Italy, 13-15 December (with Elizabeth Maitland)
2006: ‘A geographically isolated economy’s experience of the international expansion of retailing’, National University of Singapore-University of Melbourne Joint Symposium, Melbourne, 14-15 December
‘Subsidiaries in Motion: Assessing the impact of sunk versus flexible assets’, New Perspectives on Multinational Subsidiary Research Workshop, Newcastle, Australia, 13-15 November (with Elizabeth Maitland)
'Is regionalisation all there is? Revisiting the empirical evidence regarding the extent of internationalisation by large firms’, The Academy of International Business, Beijing, China, June 23-26, (with Tom Osegowitsch)
2005: ‘Multiple labour contracting responses within one organisation’, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Barcelona, Spain, September 22-24 (with Andrew Seltzer)
‘MNE subsidiaries in Australia: drivers of growth or harbingers of increasing disengagement?’. The Academy of International Business, Quebec City, Canada, July 9-12, (with Elizabeth Maitland and Stephen Nicholas)
2004: ‘A Resource-Based Analysis of Diversity Management: Evidence from Australian Firms’. The Scandinavian Academy of Management (SAM) and the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM), Göteborg, Sweden, July 5-7, (with Janine O’Flynn and Stephen Nicholas)
Recent Seminar Papers
2007: 'Subsidiaries in Motion: Assessing the impact of sunk vs. flexible assets', Seminar to Center for Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School, Oct. 5th (with Elizabeth Maitland)Teaching
Honours Research Project options (2009)
Teaching Responsibilities 2009
- 325-409 Advanced Strategic Management (Semester 2)
- 325-664 Strategic Management (Semester 2)