Focusing on nascent firms, established growing firms and established plateaued forms within the northern inland New South Wales regional locations in Australia, this book explores the manifestation of entrepreneurship. In particular, the authors examine the state and status of regional...

Chapter 1.Setting the scene -- Chapter 2. How does Australia rate? -- Chapter 3. Australian entrepreneurship: distinguishing by region and gender -- Chapter 4. Setting the scene for the bioregions -- Chapter 5. Place-based entrepreneurs -- Chapter 6. Nascent firms -- Chapter 7. Established...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine whether there is potential for political parties to use flawed financial figures in performance measures designed to assist them in determining the viability and autonomy of New South Wales (NSW) local councils (NSW is the largest of Australia's...

The purpose of this study is to better understand the negative image associated with public education as compared to catholic and independent schools in Australia. This is done by examining parents' attitudes toward the three school sectors to determine the brand image parents perceive of...

An inquiry into water and wastewater in NSW recommended the 'regionalisation' of water services away from local councils. However, these recommendations have yet to be implemented. This paper argues that any 'regionalisation' of water services will have disastrous results on the financial...