Volume 19 Issue 1 (2001)
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The Anatomy of an International Cartel: Cyanide, 1897-1927
The development of a new product or a new process, if adopted by the market, may generate a number of economic processes including secondary innovations to promote the exploitation of…
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Trends and Prospects in Venture and Angel Investments in New Media Companies
How do ‘new media’ or Internet-related companies raise external equity capital? In this paper, I analyze two markets that entrepreneurs of private Internet-related businesses use in the US to raise…
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The New Media Boom in Historical Perspective
The new media technologies that began to assert themselves in the 1990s – the Internet, networked computers, and the other hardware and software that make possible the new media –…
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Environmental Management, Structure, Networks and Information Exchange: The Case of a Tasmanian Pulp and Paper Mill
Pulp and paper is a major impact industry, in which environmental impacts can be seen to be complex, diverse and characterised by uncertainty and interdependence. A greening process within this…
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Why do People Pay for Information?
This paper investigates the situations where there are incentives for people to pay a premium over the channel costs for information content. It concludes that there are at least four:…
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The Future of Professional Engineers in the Public Service
The last two decades have not been kind to professional engineers in the public service. Numbers have been slashed, their status has declined and engineering advice does not carry the…