Senior Research Fellow in Value Chain Innovation Research
PhD
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Life Sciences Building |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 7460 |
| Laurie.Bonney@utas.edu.au |
Laurie is one of an emerging group of meta-professionals with the wide range of knowledge, skills and experience necessary to manage the uncertainties of the twenty-first century business environment. Training in strategic foresight, change management and value chain innovation underpins his work in researching agrifood value chain management and developing sustainable competitive advantage in businesses and adaptive rural communities.
As a consultant, he has had clients across Australia, New Zealand and S.E. Asia in agriculture, agribusiness, biotechnology, private forestry, property development, funds management, health, indigenous affairs, justice, private and public education and training sectors, media, gas transmission, and water utilities.
At the University of Tasmania he researches agrifood value chain innovation and conducts research for development in agrifood chains in PNG and Vietnam.
University of Tasmania
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Agricultural Science
2007 – 2011
Research Topic: : “How are employees, managers and firms incentivised to co-innovate in agrifood value chains?”
This exploratory, qualitative research analysed three case studies in Australia and North America using a multi-disciplinary, multi-level approach. The investigation found that achieving a value chain’s goals requires complex behaviours at firm, executive and employee levels in a dynamic environment. Multiple forms of incentives need to be employed and managed purposefully to align corporate co-innovativeness and motivate individual effort. The analysis also provided support for the conceptualisation of four conditions that influence co-innovation: relational competence, cultural compatibility, a co-innovation architecture and co-innovation competence. The study highlights possible future research in agrifood value chain incentivation and suggests that managers in value chains should adopt multi-level strategies with multiple forms of incentives to achieve co-innovation.
Swinburne University of Technology
Master of Science(Strategic Foresight)
2003 – 2005
Strategic Foresight is the process of creating and maintaining a high-quality, coherent and functional forward view by analysing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in order to develop foresight, map alternative futures and to use the insights arising in organizationally useful ways.
The University of Western Australia
MEdMan(Hons), Change Management, Strategic HRD, Educational Management
1996 – 2000
This research investigated how eleven Australian private and public organisations managed transformational change. The findings identified that because of the complexity of the environment and the mix of the drivers of change, organisations seek to realign with their environment using a situational approach. The drivers of change broadly reflect the nature of the mis-alignment, and appear to determine to some extent the strategies and processes selected to implement change.
University of Western Sydney
Grad Dip Agric, Plant Protection, Vegetable Agronomy
1981 – 1983
In majoring on weed control, Laurie researched the efficacy of seven new herbicides in the control of weeds in hand harvested broccoli in NW Tasmania. His minor was Vegetable Agronomy.