The Faculty of Business and Government recognises the importance of research, not only in order to make a contribution to knowledge in the relevant disciplines, but also to underpin the teaching of all our courses, thereby ensuring that our curriculum is relevant to the modern world. Our position in the Australian Capital Territory enables the development of research that supports our focus upon Business and Government as interrelated and complementary areas of study.

Consequently, the Faculty supports research by its academic staff and postgraduates in a wide range of discipline related areas including: Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Government, Human Resources Management, Marketing, Politics, Tourism and Strategic Management. The research covers private, public and not-for profit sectors from Australia and overseas and there is emphasis upon cross disciplinary research that generates new ideas and understandings in a range of topic areas which include: 

• public sector reform in developed and developing countries,
• corporate governance,
• workplace relations in the Australian Public Service,
• equity and diversity management,
• performance management, 
• public policy,
• political theorising in the new millennium,
• organisational commitment,
• organisational learning and knowledge management,
• outsourcing and public-private partnerships and,
• technological change. 

The Faculty also collaborates and participates with other institutions and organisations as part of a wider research community. We are members of the editorial panels of, amongst others, the Accountability and Performance, Accounting, Advances in Management Accounting, Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting, Agenda, Asian Review of Accounting, Accounting, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Complicity a journal of complexity and education, Economic Papers, Evidence and Policy, the Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship & Sustainability , the Journal of Tourism: An International Research Journal, Management Learning, the International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, the International Journal of E-Adoption, the International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management, the International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion, the International Journal of Value Chain Management, Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, The Learning Organisation and the Tourism Development Journal. We have an expanding cohort of Higher Degree by Research Students who contribute to the body of knowledge through regular seminar and paper presentations. 

The Faculty is home to several research groups and centres which are seen as indicators of strategic direction:

ANZSOG Institute for Governance

(incorporates the Governance Research Group and the Centre for Public Sector Management)

The Institute’s defined research strengths are:

• Comparative Public Management
• Core Executive Studies
• Corporate Governance
• Governance and Development
• Integrity in Public Administration
• Justice Environments
• Local Government Studies
• Policy Learning and Innovation
• Public Policy Analysis
• Creating and Delivering Public Value 

Socioeconomic & Policy Research

Members of the economic and marketing staff are active in socio-economic research and policy, one of the Division's Areas of Research Strength

(ARS) which consists of the Economic Development and Policy Group and: 

The Centre for Labour Market Research 

The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling

Tourism & Services

Please visit the Tourism & Services Research pages and the Centre for Tourism Research website.