Volume 6 Issue 2 (1988)
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THE ‘COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION’ AND THE HOUSEHOLD: SOME THOUGHTS FROM THE JAPANESE EXPERIENCE
In recent years there has been much debate on the likely impact of new communications media on the household. In Japan, where progress in the development and application of communications…
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THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF A LABORATORY: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY
Technologies are often presented and perceived as being inevitable, natural and necessary, as if they were the products of some inner logic. As a result, there has been a tendency…
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THE ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL COUNTRY RISKS: OPERATIVE PROSPECTS OF POLITICS AND BUSINESS IN THE TELEMATICS AGE
The paper provides an outline of recent progress in the advancement of telematic infrastructures in relation to foreign trade and foreign policy. By means of political risk analysis techniques, the…
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STRATEGIC COMMITMENT, UNKNOWLEDGE AND THE NATURE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY
This paper argues that the essence of entrepreneurial activity is ‘strategic commitment’, which encompasses strategic thought and decision, together with commitment based on that strategy. Three distinct types of commitment…
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TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON MEDIA POLICY PLANNING
In the media there is a complex interaction between technological change, markets and policy. The policy questions that arise are complex but not insoluble. Who should provide the technological infrastructure?…
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FRENCH TELEMATICS: HISTORY, POLICY AND PROJECTS
Telematics dates from 1978 when it was used to designate the growing overlap between computers and telecommunications. The initial phase was the provision of an electronic substitute for the telephone…
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA: NEW TRENDS AND OLD MODELS
This paper reviews the operation of the science and technology (S&T) for development strategy in the developing countries of Asia since its introduction in the 1960s. It is particularly concerned…
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HOSPITAL COSTS AND INFORMATION THEORY CASE MIX INDEXES: RESULTS FOR QUEENSLAND
The use of information theory as a basis for the construction of scalar case mix indexes for hospitals is well established but to date no results arising from an application…
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TECHNOLOGY IN TURMOIL
The paper evaluates and extrapolates the theory of techno-economic pulses to suggest that the world is unlikely to see major technological innovations on a broad front until the end of…
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THE ADVANCED INFORMATION SOCIETY: A SUITABLE UTOPIA FOR AUSTRALIA?
This paper considers the nature of the information society and its perception as utopia or anti-utopia. Australia is already an information society, and in technological terms, is moving towards an…