Volume 18 Issue 3 (2000)
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Social Informatics: A New Perspective on Social Research about Information and Communication Technologies
Social informatics is the body of research that examines the design, uses and consequences of information and communication technologies in ways that take into account their interaction with institutional and…
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Towards a Knowledge Economy? Changes in New Zealand’s Information Work Force 1976‐1996
The New Zealand economy has undergone tremendous change since 1984, being transformed from one of the most regulated OECD economies to one of the most deregulated. Recently, the concept of…
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Innovation and Industry Development: A Policy-relevant Analytical Framework
Public attention is increasingly focusing on the role played by product and process innovation in the economic development of modern nations. There have been many studies of national innovation systems,…
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Rationality and Rhetoric in the Corporate World: The Corporate Annual Report as an Aristotelian Genre
This paper is part of a research programme into corporate annual reports. Reports do provide the information on the past performance, present state and future prospects which investors in listed…
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Pharmaceutical Patent Term Restoration in New Zealand
This paper draws attention to the 1998 legislation in Australia which introduced a drug – specific patent term restoration procedure called a supplementary protection certificate. After investigating effective patent life…
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Australian Universities in Crisis
That this book, having been recommended for publication by the editors of Melbourne University Press, was subsequently rejected through the intervention of the University authorities, is a symptom of the…