Volume 20 Issue 2 (2002)
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Following Successfully: Followership and Technology Adoption
Most firms in most countries find themselves taking up new technology in the wake of pioneers or first-movers. A central question is how (and whether) such firms can make a…
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The Internet and the Consumer: Countervailing Power Revisited
The Internet is a tool with the potential to enable consumers to effectively participate in collective bargaining in the marketplace. The purpose of this paper is to address the viability…
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Raising the Standard of Management Education for Electronic Commerce Professionals
The teaching of electronic commerce in universities has become a growth industry in itself. The rapid expansion of electronic commerce programmes raises the question of what actually is being taught.…
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A Failure of Intelligence
Recent events have made the inadequacies of intelligence services in even the most powerful countries glaringly obvious and various causes for these failures have been canvassed. Many of these problems…
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Australian University-Industry Research Links: Researcher Involvement, Outputs, Personal Benefits and ‘Withholding’ Behaviour
Using data from two surveys of science and technology academics in major Australian research universities, an assessment is made of researcher involvement in industry-research partnerships, the outputs and personal benefits…
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The Venetian Moment: New Technologies, Legal Innovation and the Institutional Origins of Intellectual Property
The role of the Venetian republic in the history of intellectual property is not well known although the innovations which were later codified into law by the British Crown, and…