Alan Labas is a management lecturer in the Global Professional School, Federation University Australia. Alan’s research focuses on knowledge management with an emphasis on regional business advisory knowledge transmission. Specifically, he has examined the relationship between professional business advisor (PBA) knowledge and the knowledge transmission actions undertaken by such advisors when addressing the knowledge requirements of businesses. He has also collaborated on research in tourism, marketing, event management and circular economy solutions. Alan undertakes a practical application of the Critical Realist research paradigm to explain how human agency, social structures, and mechanisms interact in the process of causing an event.