The path to commercialisation is fraught for all innovating businesses. This is as true for businesses developing the much research high-tech innovation as it is the less frequently studied low-technology innovation. In this case study we explore the pathway to commercialisation of a low-tech,...

Conventional practice in modelling requires checking that the model implementation is correct with respect to its conceptualisation (verification) and that corresponds to and explains the real world phenomenon modelled (validation). Agent-based models (ABM) have been applied in many scientific...

The Australian pharmaceutical industry is an important and vibrant part of the National economy and has features that distinguish it from other industries such as advertising restrictions, government subsidies, stringent government and industry regulations and the decision maker not necessarily...

B2B e-marketplaces leverage the internet?s capabilities to efficiently connect buyers and sellers, resulting in lower transactional costs and improved communications. Academic research into the effect of e-marketplaces on the buying decision is limited. This case study used an adapted version of...

Cross-case analysis is a qualitative methodology widely used in social science. However, systematic and rigorous analysis techniques that consistently produce objective and reliable findings need to be identified. This paper adapts Porter?s Strategic Group Mapping principles to form an analysis...

The ?networked organisation? has a myriad of meanings ? from those organisations that have acquired sophisticated communication technology enabling high(er) levels of functionality, to firms who join together so that each can provide a component or components of an integrated product and/or...