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The Faculty of Commerce was formed in principle by Council at its meeting on 12 July 1954 (resolution 431i). The Faculty was then officially launched at the 11th March, 1957 meeting of Council (resolution 57/37). Professor David Culloden Rowan was the first Dean of the Faculty, with the initial schools being Accountancy, Economics and Hospital Administration. The inaugural meeting of the Faculty occurred on 5th June, 1957. In 1986 - 1987 a Committee organised by the Vice-Chancellor conducted a review of the Faculty. As a result, at the Council meeting on 11th July, 1988 the name of the Faculty was altered to the Faculty of Commerce & Economics effective 1 August 1988 (resolution 88/90). On 3 July 2006 Council approved the disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce & Economics, subject to the approval of the Academic Board. The Faculty was to be amalgamated with the Australian Graduate School of Management to form the new Faculty of Business. The Board approved this on 1 August 2006 (resolution AB06/91) and at the Board's 7 November 2006 meeting, it noted that the Faculty of Commerce & Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management should be considered to have ceased to have the functions and powers of faculties after [the first Faculty Board meeting of the Faculty of Business on Thursday 23 November 2006]' (resolution AB06/139). Subordinate agency: Graduate Studies Program Sub-Committee of the Higher Degree Committee of the Faculty of Commerce - 15/07/1980 - 31/12/1986 Subordinate agency: Dean's Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Commerce (? - 1988) / Commerce & Economics (1988 - ) - 26/01/1977 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Hospital Administration (1956 - 1969) / School of Health Administration (1969 - 1989) / School of Health Services Management (1989 - 2000) - 12/03/1956 - 31/08/1967 Subordinate agency: School of Accountancy (1955 - 1988) / Accounting (1988 - ) - 11/03/1957 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Librarianship (1959 - 1992) / School of Information, Library and Archive Studies (1992 - 1999) - 01/01/1997 - 07/06/1999 Subordinate agency: School of Information Systems - 01/08/1988 - 07/06/1999 Subordinate agency: School of Business Administration - 14/07/1958 - 11/11/1968 Subordinate agency: Graduate School of Business - 11/11/1968 - 31/01/1978 Subordinate agency: School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour - 01/08/1988 - 21/06/2004 Subordinate agency: Department of Marketing (1966 - 1970) / School of Marketing (1970 - ) - 09/05/1966 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of Finance - 01/05/1968 - 13/09/1971 Subordinate agency: School of Information Systems, Technology and Management - 07/06/1999 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Korea-Australasia Research Centre (KAREC) (2000 - 2011) / Korea Research Institute (2011 - ) - 20/06/2000 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Australian Centre for International Business - 12/02/1998 - 01/06/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Banking and Finance (1988 - 1991) / National Centre for Banking and Capital Markets (1991 - 1997) (NCBC) / Asia Pacific Financial Research Centre (ASPAC) (1997 - 2003) - 21/09/1988 - 13/01/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Advanced Empirical Software Research (CAESAR) (1995 - 2001) / Advanced Software Engineering Research (CAESER) (2001 - 2002) - 06/09/1995 - 02/12/2002 Subordinate agency: School of Organisation and Management (2004 - 2011) / School of Management (2012 - ) - 21/06/2004 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Asian Business and Language Studies (1995 - 1998) / International Business (1998 - 2004) - 05/06/1995 - 21/06/2004 Subordinate agency: Centre for Business Information Technology (CBIT) (1988 - c. 1990) / Information Technology Research Centre (ITRC) (c. 1990 - 1997) - 07/09/1988 - 01/10/1997 Subordinate agency: Japanese Economic and Management Studies Centre - 01/08/1979 - 31/12/1997 Subordinate agency: Department of Legal Studies and Taxation - 01/08/1988 - 05/06/1995 Subordinate agency: Centre for Applied Marketing (CAM) - 01/01/1998 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Economics - 01/06/1956 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of Behavioural Science (1970 - 1978) / Organisational Behaviour (1979 - 1983) / Organisational Behaviour Unit (1983 - 1988) - 14/07/1976 - 12/09/1983 Subordinate agency: Centre for Pensions and Superannuation (CPS) - 14/12/2001 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Tourism Policy Studies - 19/10/1998 - 13/02/2004 Subordinate agency: School of Banking and Finance - 01/08/1988 - 03/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Asian Studies Unit - 01/08/1990 - 05/06/1995 Subordinate agency: School of Business Law and Taxation - 05/06/1995 - 23/11/2006 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 12/07/1954-23/11/2006

In 1998, as part of the UNSW 2000 restructuring process, a working party was set up to investigate a possible merger between the schools of Information, Library and Archive Studies and Information Systems (SRF - UNSW - SILAS). Following the report of that working party and upon recommendation of the Academic Board Council at its meeting on 7 June 1999 disestablished the two schools and as a concomitant action established the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management (resolution CL99/33 (c)). Enrolment numbers for the Library, Information Management and Archives and Records disciplinary areas fell in this newly established school and following a restructure in 2000 the Archives and Records and Audio Visual Archives courses were withdrawn and no longer on offer from 2001 onwards. A continued decline in student numbers saw a renewed restructuring of the school in 2005 and amongst other changes the discontinuation of the Information Management Program (the former Library program) from January 2006 as soon as practicable. In 2006 the School described its three areas of expertise: Information Systems (IS) involves the planning, analysis, design and maintenance of computerised systems used to process information in commerce, industry, government and research organisations. Information Technology (IT) is the underlying mechanism that controls these systems. Information Systems and Information Technology are indispensable to the operations of most modern organisations...Information Management is about how people create, seek, find, categorise, represent, evaluate, use, and store information. (http://www2.fce.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=S_Schools#f) Accessed: 13 September 2006 As a result of the disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce & Economics, the school became part of the Faculty of Business from 23 November 2006. On 18 June 2007 Council noted the renaming of the Faculty of Business to the Australian School of Business at UNSW, as approved by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board (CL07/33). On 2 July 2014 the Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee approved a change in name of the faculty to the UNSW Australia Business School, effective from 23 July 2014. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 07/06/1999-