Volume 23 Issue 4 (2005)
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The Internet, Organisational Change and Community Engagement: The Case of Birmingham City Council
This article examines the extent to which the implementation of Internet technology by Birmingham City Council (BCC) is facilitating new forms of engagement with the communities it serves. The case…
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Institutional Breakdown? An Exploratory Taxonomy of Australian University Failure
Australian higher education has undergone radical change aimed at transforming universities into commercial enterprises less dependent on public funding. Despite some significant successes, including dramatic increases in the numbers of…
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Making Sense of Organizational Failure: The Marconi Debacle
Organizational failure is usually explained with linear causality, attributed to either environmental change or managerial behavior. This paper attempts to capture the dynamic interplays of human actions in changing environments,…
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Global Landscapes: A Speculative Assessment of Emerging Organizational Structures within the International Wine Industry
As a rapidly evolving sector the international wine industry represents an interesting subject for analysis. Over the past two centuries the industry has experienced a number of major innovations and…
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An Ethno‐linguistic Approach to the Role of Services in Knowledge Transfer: The Case of the Innovation Relay Centre of Southern Italy
Given the recent resurgence of interest in the economics of language, this paper develops an original model addressing the issue of services role in knowledge transfer by merging economic literature…