Volume 21 Issue 1 (2003)
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The Global Impact of the Internet: Widening the Economic Gap Between Wealthy and Poor Nations?
Does the Internet have the potential to accelerate development in poor nations? Or is it an innovation that will widen the gap between wealthy and poor countries? This paper places…
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Power, Rules of the Game and the Limits to Knowledge Management: Lessons from Japan and Anglo-Saxon Alarms
Much of the Knowledge Management (KM) literature assumes that all relevant knowledge can be represented as information and ‘managed’. But the meaning of information is always context-specific and open to…
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The Digital Future of Terrestrial Advertiser-supported Television 1
The digital transmission of signals greatly increases the channel carrying capacity of the broadcast spectrum and provides scope for a substantial increase in the number of television channels transmitted terrestrially…
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Top Manager and Institutional Effects on the Adoption of Innovations: The Case of Teleworking 1
In spite of the advances in information and communication technologies, the implementation of teleworking is still behind early expectations. The slow adoption of teleworking may be explained by different organizational…
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Cultural Dimensions of Website Design and Content
The proposition that the technology of the Internet and Web offers a basis for culturally-neutral, computer-mediated communication was tested through a content analysis of 100 Mainland Chinese and American websites.…
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Extending the Knowledge-based View: An Examination of Intellectual Property Strategies in Australian Biotechnology Firms
Knowledge management (KM) approaches have developed traditionally from the knowledge-based view (KBV), a derivative of the resource-based view (RBV). Drawing on the relational and industry structure views, this paper presents…
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The ‘Self-service’ Student: Building Enterprise-wide Systems into Universities 1
This article investigates the take-up by universities of enterprise-wide computer systems and the development of a new module for the management and administration of students. Having its origins in Electronic…