Volume 28 Issue 2 (2010)
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Shame, scientist! Degradation rituals in science
Reputations are crucially important to scientists, so it is valuable to examine processes by which reputations come under attack. One potent method is a degradation ritual, an event or process…
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Communities of management knowledge diffusion
A Communities of Practice approach is used to unravel the actions and activities that facilitate the diffusion of management knowledge among organizations. In so doing, the local embedded nature of…
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Can behavioural biases in choice under novelty explain innovation failures?
This paper proposes a new framework of ‘behavioural innovation economics’ as a synthesis of behavioural economics and innovation economics in the context of choice under novelty. The standard heuristics and…
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Unlocking the potential? – Australia’s digital strategy and major public libraries
This paper examines some implications for public libraries of the Australian government’s 2009 strategy for the digital economy. Many countries have produced national digital strategies in recent years, but these…
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The life and times of the Information Society
The assessment of scholarly literature on the Information Society provided in this paper sets out and distinguishes between the analytical foundations of mainstream and critical contributions from a selection of…