Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Awards & Achievements
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Research Funding
Publications
Professional Associations
Community Engagement

Dr Robyn Davidson

Telephone	+61 8 8303 8373
Position	Senior Lecturer
Email	robyn.davidson@adelaide.edu.au
Building	10 Pulteney Street
Floor/Room	13 29
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Business School

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Biography/ Background

Dr Robyn Davidson graduated from Flinders University of South Australia with a BCom (majoring in accounting & computer science) degree in 1998. She subsequently completed an Honours degree while working part-time tutoring in both the School of Commerce and School of Informatics and Engineering. Robyn was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award and completed a PhD while continuing to work part-time, mainly tutoring in Financial Accounting. In 2005 she commenced full time teaching for the Flinders Business School (formally School of Commerce). In her time at Flinders she held various roles including BCom Combined Degrees Coordinator and BCom Director of Studies as well as being responsible for first year accounting topics.

In Robyn’s PhD research she devised a way of identifying and measuring electronic service quality gaps. She tested the method on Australian wineries. Her ongoing research involves collecting data from Australian winery websites and an ongoing longitudinal study is currently in its 7^th year. Robyn is also involved in research in the fields of e-Collaboration and business models.

Qualifications

2005 PhD (Electronic Commerce)

Thesis: Electronic Service Quality Gaps in Australian Wineries

2001 BCom (Hons 1st class)

Thesis: Information Systems Risk Analysis for Smaller South Australian Public Accounting Practices

1998 BCom

1996 Adv Dip Acc

Awards & Achievements

Flinders University

2006 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

2005 School of Commerce Auditor-General’s Department Prize for Research and Publishing

2001 Australian Postgraduate Award

2000 University Medal

2000 Chancellor's Letter of Commendation

1999 Golden Key Honour Society Scholarship

1998 The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia Prize in Accounting

1998 The Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants' Prize in Accounting

1998 Chancellor's Letter of Commendation

1997 Chancellor's Letter of Commendation

Teaching Interests

Intermediate Financial Reporting (M)

Research Interests

Electronic Service Quality
Website effectiveness
Business models
e-Collaboration

Research Funding

2009 ARC Linkage Grant, “Increasing Australia's Competitive Position: A Framework to encourage Innovation through Small and Medium Enterprise eCollaboration Adoption” currently under review
2008 Flinders University Transition Grant of $4000
2007 Flinders University Early Career Researcher Grant of $8000

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Davidson, R.A. (2009) "A Longitudinal Study of Australian Winery Websites", Asian Pacific Management Review, Vol.14, No.4.

Tilt, C. Davidson, R. & Tilling, M. (2008) "NGO Communication and Activism via Electronic Media: Australian Evidence", Third Sector Review, Vol. 14, No.2, pp.75-96.

Davidson, R.A. & Lambert, S.C. (2004) "Applying the Australian and New Zealand Risk Management Standard to Information Systems in SMEs", AJIS Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 12, No.1, September, pp. 4 - 17.

Refereed Conference Papers

Lambert, S.C. & Davidson, R.A. (2009) "What Do We Know About e-Business Models in Practice?", In proceedings of iNCEB2009, Oct. 28-30, Bangkok, Thailand.

Davidson, R.A. (2008) "Changes in Australian Winery Websites Over a Five Year Period ", In proceedings of Bled e Conference: Overcoming Boundaries through Multi-Channel Interaction, June 15-18, Bled, Slovenia.

Davidson, R.A. (2007) "Five Year Longitudinal Study of Australian Winery Websites", In proceedings of The 13th Asia Pacific Management Conference, Melbourne, Nov 18 – 20.

Davidson, R.A. (2007) "Australian Winery Websites: Moving Towards Satisfied Customers", In proceedings of e-CASE (electronic commerce, administration, society, and education), Hong Kong, August 15 – 17.

Tilt C.A., Tilling M.V. and Davidson R. (2006) "NGO Activism via Websites", paper presented at the Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, Wellington, New Zealand, 22-24 November.

Davidson, R.A. & Lambert, S. (2005) "An Australian Winery B2C Website Design Framework and Contributing Factors to the e-SQ Gaps", Proceedings of CollECTeR Australia 2005, July 13, Sydney.

Davidson, R.A. (2005) "Measuring Electronic Service Quality Gaps", Proceedings of CollECTeR Europe 2005, June 12-13, Furtwangen, Germany

Davidson, R.A. & Cooper, J. (2005) "Electronic Service Quality Gaps in the Australian Wine Industry", Proceedings of Bled E-Commerce Conference, June 6-8, Bled, Slovenia.

Davidson, R.A. (2004) "A Study of Australian Winery Websites", Proceedings of CollECTeR 2004, May 7-8, Adelaide.

Davidson, R.A. (2003) "A Business-to-Consumer Internet Commerce Model for Australian Wineries", Proceedings of PACIS 2003 Doctorial Consortium, Adelaide 10 July.

Davidson, R.A. (2002) "Development of an Industry Specific Web Site Evaluation Framework for The Australian Wine Industry", Proceedings of CollECTeR2002, December 1-2, Melbourne.

Davidson, R.A. & Lambert, SC (2002) "Information System Security and Risk Management for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises", Proceeding of SEAANZ Conference, June 22-24, Adelaide.

Professional Associations

Member of National institute of Accountants (PNA)
Member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS)

Community Engagement

University Representation

2009-2012 Member of the SACE Accounting Curriculum Leaders Group.
2008-09 Future SACE Accounting Reference Group Committee. Designing the curriculum for the new Stage 1 and 2 SACE Accounting subject.
2008 Flinders University representative at the annual CPA Joint Universities Committee Meeting held in Sydney.
Member of the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology (DFEEST) panels for assessing applications. The most recent (2009) was for accreditation for Bradford College to deliver the course Bachelor of Business. A previous panel involved re-registration to deliver the Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Conference Organisation & Reviewing

Member of the International Committee Board, The 2007, 2008 International Conference on electronic Commerce, Administration, Society, and Education, (eCase2007, eCase2008).
Member of Programme Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Information Management and Business (IMB2006), 13-16 February, 2006, Sydney, Australia. Organised by University of Western Sydney and Australian Computer Society.
Reviewer for the international Bled eCommerce conference and CollECTeR (Collaborative Electronic Commerce Technology and Research) conferences in Australia and Europe since 2005.
Reviewed numerous articles for the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology.
Reviewed text books for various publishers and contributed teaching materials to supplement the text “Accounting in Context” by Potter, Libby, Libby and Short (2009) published by McGraw Hill.

Entry last updated: Thursday, 22 Oct 2009

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