Business leaders Project: A comparative survey of the Cosmopolitan and Local Orientations of Australian Businessman in Queensland and Victoria.

The business leaders project involved interviews with 90 chief executive officers or heads of regional subsidiaries (or divisions) of large private companies operating in Brisbane and Melbourne. The respondents' companies were chosen as a stratified sample of local, interstate and multinational companies operating in resource, manufacturing and service industries. The project was based in the school of Humanities at Griffith University and the three principal investigators were; Dr. Malcolm Alexander, Ms Rhondda Nicholas and Dr. James Walter. Computing assistance was provided by Mr. John Houghton. The project was funded by the Australian Research Grants Scheme (A282/15784) the Griffith University Research Committee and the Griffith University School of Humanities Research Sub-Committee. The interviews were conducted by the three investigators during the later part of 1984 and early 1985. The major part of the questionnaire was administered directly but respondents were also asked to fill in and return an annexe giving details of their education, background, employment career and a range of attitude items. Ten respondents declined to complete these annexes and nine of the interviews were pilot interviews. The final data base comprises 71 records therefore. The computer database was constructed using 1022; the database management system available on the DEC 10. It comprises 4 different datasets due to the size limitations of this programme. They are: AINPUT.DMI, BINPUT.DMI, CINPUT.DMI, DINPUT.DMI. These files correspond to the four sections of the original questionnaire. (The annexe is section D). The 1022 programme, TRANS.DMC is also supplied. This converts the four separate files into a single file, MAIN.DMI, with the abbreviations for each variable subsequently from V001 to V604. Topics covered include details of the size of the company; company strategies for the future; corporate planning and management; attitudes towards the business and economic climate of each state; the company personnel structure and assessment of its effectiveness; opinions on industrial relations issues, contact with government and government handling of economic issues, at a state and federal level; involvement with academic and industry organisations; views on economic development in Australia; foreign investment; attitudes to political parties and their leaders; and respondent's personal career advancement. Background variables include income, education, employment history, membership of clubs and associations, birthplace, education level and birthplace of parents, occupation of father, marital status, religion, and number of siblings and own children.

商业领袖项目对布里斯班和墨尔本地区运营的大型私营企业的90位首席执行官或区域子公司（或部门）负责人进行了访谈。受访者所在企业为分层抽样选取，涵盖本地、州际及跨国企业，涉及资源、制造与服务行业。

该项目由格里菲斯大学人文学院主导，三位主要研究者为：Malcolm Alexander博士、Rhondda Nicholas女士及James Walter博士。计算支持由John Houghton先生提供。项目资金来源于澳大利亚研究资助计划（Australian Research Grants Scheme，A282/15784）、格里菲斯大学研究委员会及格里菲斯大学人文学院研究分委员会。

访谈由三位研究者于1984年末至1985年初开展。问卷主体部分为直接发放，但受访者亦需填写并返回一份附件，提供其教育背景、职业经历及一系列态度题项的详细信息。10位受访者拒绝完成附件填写，另有9次访谈为试点访谈，因此最终数据库包含71条记录。

计算机数据库通过DEC 10系统上的数据库管理程序1022构建。受该程序规模限制，数据库分为4个数据集：AINPUT.DMI、BINPUT.DMI、CINPUT.DMI、DINPUT.DMI，分别对应原始问卷的四个部分（附件为D部分）。同时提供1022程序的TRANS.DMC文件，可将四个独立文件合并为单一文件MAIN.DMI，各变量缩写依次为V001至V604。

涵盖主题包括企业规模详情、未来战略、企业规划与管理、对各州商业及经济环境的态度、企业人员结构及其有效性评估、劳资关系问题看法、与政府的接触及政府在州和联邦层面对经济问题的处理、与学术及行业组织的参与情况、澳大利亚经济发展观点、外国投资、对政党及其领导人的态度，以及受访者个人职业发展。

背景变量包括收入、教育、就业史、俱乐部及协会成员身份、出生地、父母教育水平与出生地、父亲职业、婚姻状况、宗教信仰、兄弟姐妹及子女数量。