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Dr Paul Shum

Position: Research Associate: CAGS Dr Paul Shum
Division/Portfolio: Division of Business
School/Unit: School of Commerce
Campus: City West Campus
Office: WL4-60
Telephone: +61 8 830 27197
Fax: +61 8 830 20992
Email: Paul_dot_Shum_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Paul.Shum


Paul Shum has more than fifteen years business experience in mining (BHP), energy (Santos), utility (SA Water), broadcasting (ABC) industries. His research focuses on modelling the driving forces of innovation, entrepreneurial, and quality performance.


Teaching interests

  • Operations management; Integrated logistics management; Manufacturing strategy; Management accounting; Quality management; Innovation and technology management; Economic decisions; Accounting information systems; Financial accounting; Small business accounting; Auditing

I teach the following courses

MFET 5024Operations Management Systems
MFET 5018Manufacturing Systems and Strategies
MENG 4016Product Design and Economic Decisions
ACCT 2006Management Accounting


Professional associations

Fellow, CPA Australia


Qualifications

PhD (UniSA); Grad Cert Research Commercialisation (UniSA); MBA (Adel); Grad Dip in Engineering (UniSA); Ass Dip in Computing & IT (UniSA); Grad Dip in Accountancy (UniSA); B Ec Hon. (Flinders); B Ec (ANU)


Research interests

  • Driving forces of innovation, entrepreneurial, and quality performance
  • Balance scorecard, resource-based view, dynamic capability, market-based view
  • CSR and sustainability
  • Global currency
  • Change management
  • Shared service centre
  • Macroeconomic modelling

Research publications

Shum, P & Lin, G 2010 ‘A resource-based view on entrepreneurship and innovation’, to be published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

Shauki, E, Djakman, C, & Shum, P 2009 ‘Stakeholders’ perceptions on disclosures of poverty alleviation in Indonesia’, Journal of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Accountability, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 17-30

Shum, P & Lin, G 2007, 'A world class new product development best practices model', International Journal of Production Research, vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 1609-1630

Shum, P & Lin, G 2006, 'Knowledge and innovation culture as determinants of financial performance in new product development', International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 95-108

Shum, P, Burritt, R 2009, ‘Sustainability reporting and assurance in OECD countries’, paper to be presented at the 7th Spanish Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, Gran Canaria, Spain, 10-12th September

Shum, P, Chen, H & Burritt, R 2009, ‘A cross-country study of the determinants of sustainability reporting and assurance’, paper presented at the 1st South American Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research – CSEAR, Rio, Brasil, South America, 27-28th July

Shum, P, Burritt, R & Chen, H 2009, ‘Sustainability Reporting and Assurance in Developing Countries’, paper presented at the 1st South American Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research – CSEAR, Rio, Brasil, South America, 27-28th July

Reinhard, L, Ratnam, A & Shum, P 2009 ‘A uniform and universal currency system and its effect on corporate value’, paper presented at the Campus for Finance Research Conference, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany

Shum, P, Chen, A & Burritt, R 2008, ‘The political economy of sustainability reporting and assurance’, paper presented at the A-CSEAR Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 8-9th December

Shauki, E, Djakman, C & Shum, P 2008, ‘CSR and poverty alleviation in Indonesian companies’, paper presented at the A-CSEAR Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 8th to 9th December

Shum, P & Parker, L 2008, ‘An empirical study of performance management and balanced scorecard’, paper presented at the GAOC Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 9-11th July

Shum, P & Lin, G 2007, 'An empirical model for the resource-based theory on entrepreneurship and innovation', paper presented at the European Symposium on Innovative Management Practices, Bidart (Biarritz) - France, 15-16th March

Shum, P, Lin, G & Bensley, R 2006, 'Impact of TQM and innovation organisational cultures on NPD and TQM performance', paper presented at the FAIM Conference, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 26-28th June

Shum, P, Lin, G & Bensley, R 2005, 'A diagnostic tool for assessing innovation readiness', paper presented at the IMLF Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 27th February to 2nd March




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