Volume 11 Issue 1 (1993)
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AUSTRALIA’S INFORMATION LANDSCAPES
New technologies and the infrastructure and industries that develop around them have continuously shaped and re-shaped physical and cultural landscapes throughout history. While the antecedents of the information and communications…
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ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION: OPENNESS AND INTEGRATION — BUT WHAT KIND?
In advanced industrial economies… managerial hierarchies have gained an increasing advantage over market mechanisms or multilateral negotiations in coordinating the flow of goods, monitoring economic activities, and allocating resources… By…
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TELEWORK: ISSUES FOR NEW ZEALAND
This paper reviews international trends and associated issues of telework (work that is performed remote from clients or employers assisted by electronic communication facilities). It examines whether telework in New…
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HIGH TECHNOLOGY AND FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION
Data from Australian manufacturing industries show that high technology industries are more intensively automated that other manufacturing industries and that the technological level and product complexity of an industry are…
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JAPAN’S MOVE UP THE TECHNOLOGY ‘FOOD CHAIN’
Japan is about to overtake the US to become No.1 in information technology, the key technology of our era. Starting four decades ago with transistor radios and televisions, the Japanese…
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COMMERCIALIZATION OF SCHOLARSHIP IN AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES
In their search for greater financial independence, Australian universities are encouraging academics to commercialize the application of their knowledge and research skills. While these commercialized scholarship (COS) activities generate significant…