Faculty Profile

Dr. Bella Butler

Extensive teaching experience in Russian and Australian universities including Assistant Professor. Taught units: Business Policy, Business Strategy and Corporate Culture, Cross-cultural Management, Logistics, Management of International Business, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour, and Strategic Management.

Worked as a tutor in the units: Consumer Behaviour, Decision Making, Foundations of Electronic Commerce, and International Management.

Regular intensive teaching trips to offshore locations in institutions – partners of Curtin University of Technology in Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. Regular online coordination of local facilitators in Indonesia, Kenya, Mauritius, Ruanda, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania.

Publications

1. Butler, B. Purchase, S. (2006). The use of social capital among Russian managers of a new generation, Industrial Marketing Management, under review.
2. Pick, D. Butler, B. Dayaram, K. (2006). A research agenda for improving regional development, sustainability and social capital: the case of the Pilbara region of WA, Environment, Development and Sustainability, under review.
3. Butler, B. Purchase, S. (2005). The use of social capital in Russian business networks, IMP Group Conference Building Social Capital in Networks, 10 - 14 December 2005, Phuket.
4. Butler B. (2005). The new sector of Russian business – strategies for dynamic growth, Asian Forum of Business Education, 29 November - 1 December 2005, Bangkok.
5. Butler, B. (2005). Trust as the key value of successful Russian business leaders. The conference Global Business and Economic Development, 25 - 28 May 2005, Seoul.
6. Butler, B. (2004). Personal networking and Russian managerial values. The conference of the American society of Business and Behavioural Science, 6 – 8 August, 2004, Cairns.
7. Butler, B Purchase, S. (2004). Personal networking in Russian post-soviet life, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, Vol. (12), Issue 1, July 2004, 19-32.
8. Purchase, S., Butler, B. and Singh, T. (2002) Discrimination in Australian Company Internet Usage, ANZMAC Conference, Melbourne, Deakin University.

Seminar Presentations

1. Dayaram, Kandy, David Pick, and Bella Butler. "Regional development: The workings of market forces or state actors?" Seminar presented in The 1st Services Management Symposium, Curtin University of Technology, November 14, 2006. (PUB-CBS-SOM-YL-38368 Z2 entered)

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