This fourth volume in the Studies of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia series focuses on regional and sectoral dimensions in a number of regional economies and economic sectors. The contributors place special emphasis on the importance of SME networking and clustering initiatives...

<P>1. High Performance in the Australian Banking and Financial Services Industry 2. Micro and Meso-level Drivers of High Performance 3. Research Context and Data Collection at a Large Australian Financial Institution 4. High performance in a large Australian Financial Institution -- Key Findings 5....</p>

The Contributions to Economic Analysis series consists of a number of previously unpublished studies. The term economic analysis is used because it covers the activities of the theoretical economist and the research worker

The paper aims at a joint analysis of inter-firm and intra-firm diffusion of technology, taking as an example E-selling and E-purchasing. The analysis is based on an encompassing model of diffusion, drawn from the literature, which is extended by considering technology-specific obstacles and...