Keynote Speakers

  • Distinguished Professor Piyush Sharma

    Curtin University, Australia

    Professor Piyush Sharma serves as John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the School of Management and Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University in Australia. He is ranked among the top 0.2% researchers in the world across all fields of research, top 60 business researchers in the global P-rankings based on publications in ABDC journals since 2013 and top 90 business researchers in Research.com rankings based on discipline-specific D-index. He was also recognised as the only Rising Star from marketing area among Australia’s Top 40 researchers across all disciplines in 2019.
    He currently serves as a member of the prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts (2022-2024) and Associate Editor (Marketing and International Business) for Journal of Business Research. He has also served as Regional Editor (Asia) for Journal of Knowledge Management, Senior Editor (Marketing) for International Journal of Emerging Markets, Co-Editor of Marketing Intelligence & Planning and Associate Editor for Journal of Services Marketing in the past. He also serves on the editorial boards of many top journals, such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Industrial Marketing Management and European Journal of Marketing, among others.
    Professor Sharma is a multi-disciplinary researcher and his research covers services and international marketing, cross-cultural consumer behaviour, self-regulation and regulatory failure, branding and marketing strategy, marketing-finance interface, and emerging digital technologies, among others. He has published 134 articles in top international journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Marketing (all ABDC-A* ranked), Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Management, Psychology & Marketing, and other ABDC-A ranked journals.
    He has presented his work at more than 135 international conferences, delivered more than 100 keynote speeches and invited talks, and conducted dozens of research workshops around the world. He has also earned more than A$1.2 million as research income from both internal and external sources, including recent Discovery and Linkage grants from Australian Research Council (ARC) and an industry grant from CPA Australia. He advises many private, public and not-for-profit industry partners in community care, higher education, financial and healthcare services, and international business sectors, in Australia and overseas. He has also successfully supervised and continues to supervise dozens of HDR students besides mentoring many early and mid-career researchers in Australia and overseas.

    You may see his full profile here: https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/Piyush.Sharma/

    Abstract: In this keynote talk, Professor Piyush Sharma would share his research on the challenges and opportunities faced by international business-to-business partners in managing their relationships with each other. Specifically, he would share the learnings from the following four articles published by him and his co-authors in the last five years, in the top journal Industrial Marketing Management, ranked A* by ABDC with a high impact factor (10.3).

    • Kingshott, Russel P.J., Piyush Sharma and Henry Chung (2018), “The impact of relational versus technological resources on e‐loyalty: A comparative study between local, national and foreign branded banks”, Industrial Marketing Management, 72(July), 48‐58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.02.011
    • Kingshott, Russel P.J., Piyush Sharma, Herbert Sima and David Wong (2020), “The impact of psychological contract breaches within east-west buyer-supplier relationships”, Industrial Marketing Management. 89(Aug), 220-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.03.008
    • Kingshott, Russel P.J., Henry Chung, Martinus Parnawa Putranta, Piyush Sharma and Herbert Sima (2021), “Religiosity and psychological contracts in Asian B2B service relationships”, Industrial Marketing Management. 98(October), 138-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2021.07.010
    • Nguyen, Tuyet Mai, Piyush Sharma, Russel Kingshott and Ashish Malik (2024), “Culturally diverse teams and knowledge sharing behavior with B2B partners: The roles of perceived morality and relationship orientation”, accepted for publication in Industrial Marketing Management.
     

  • Professor Gary Monroe

    University of New South Wales, Australia

    Professor Gary Monroe is an internationally renowned researcher in auditing with an emphasis on audit judgment and the economics of auditing. His main research area of interest is auditing, but he also conducts research in CSR, banking and finance, financial accounting, business ethics and management accounting. With respect to research methods, Gary has published papers using archival, experimental, survey and qualitative research methods. He has published articles in: AAuditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting,Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, The British Accounting Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Abacus, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Accounting and Finance, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, The International Journal of Accounting, International Journal of Auditing, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research,Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Australian Accounting Review, Accounting Education, International Journal of Business Studies, Accounting Research Journal.

    He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for Accounting and Finance [ABDC rank A]. He was also an editor for Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory [ABDC rank A*] from 2016 - 2020 and the Finance Section Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics [ABDC rank A / FT50] from 2011 - 2015. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of international journals.

    He was Chair of the Accounting Panel for the Australian Business Deans Council 2019 Journal Quality List Review.

    He has received awards for his research and teaching awards for his undergraduate teaching and PhD supervision.

    In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the accounting academic profession in Australia, he was made a Life Member of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand in 2013.

    Abstract: In this presentation, I will review three of my recent papers that demonstrate the usefulness of auditors searching SEC filings through the EDGAR system. The first study (Dai, Han and Monroe 2024) examines the usefulness of searching Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) online filings for auditors to resolve their clients’ comment letter issues. We hypothesize and find that audit firms can facilitate the resolution of SEC comment letters for their clients through searching SEC filings of industry peers as a benchmarking strategy to justify their client’s treatments of issues raised in comment letters. In the second study (Dai, Han and Monroe 2024), we investigate the effect of M&A-related information search of SEC filings by the acquiring firm’s auditor on post-M&A audit quality. We predict and find greater M&A-related information search by the acquirer’s auditor through accessing the target firm’s online SEC filings in the M&A process is associated with better post-acquisition audit quality.  In the third study (Qin, Dai and Monroe 2024), we examine the relation between auditors’ information acquisition along the supply chain and audit quality. We predict and find that auditors’ searching of the SEC filings of their clients’ major customers has a positive association with audit quality. Taken together, this stream of papers demonstrates the benefits of auditors searching SEC filings on the EDGAR system to assist them in conducting high quality audits and to assist clients in resolving issues with regulatory bodies.