Volume 19 Issue 2 (2001)
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The Drive to Codify: Implications for the Knowledge-based Economy
This paper critically explores the forces driving the codification of knowledge, together with the implications of codification for the evolution of the knowledge-based economy. It is argued that tacit knowledge…
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Learning from Management Consultants: The Lesson for Management Researchers
The forces pushing management researchers inexorably closer to the managers they study are strong, strengthening and generally welcomed. This paper sees disadvantages in such proximity and common interest. Much of…
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Gender and the Information Work Force: New Zealand Evidence and Issues
This paper documents the growth and gender composition of New Zealand’s information work force over the period 1976‐96. By 1996, about 55% of the female work force was employed in…
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Kalgoorlie as the Global Centre for Gold Metallurgical Innovation 1902-1907
Faced with the problem of how to process valuable refractory sulphide ore in the early 1900s, Kalgoorlie mining engineers and metallurgist, and their consultants, borrowed ideas from a variety of…
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Cultural Diversity and Australian Commercial Television Drama: Policy, Industry and Recent Research Contexts
Media studies research in the 1990s illustrated an incongruity between cultural diversity in the Australian community and the representation of that diversity on commercial television screens. Australian drama in particular…