International benchmarking has played a key role in the reform of Australia's infrastructure industries by promoting indirect or yardstick competition, in highlighting the need for further reform and building a consensus for implementing necessary changes. The international benchmarking of...

Background: This study aims to explore the views of women concerning their choice of long-acting method of contraception. Method: Two-hundred and eighty-six women who had either been sterilised or fitted with an etonorgestrel (ETN) implant or the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG IUS)...

The literature on innovation has been both rich and varied in approach and has provided much insight into the process of, and difficulties contained within, innovation. A number of important concepts including those of path dependency, technological trajectories, together with the plethora of...

Healthy forests and rangelands are resilient to disturbances within a certain range of variation. In eastern Oregon and Washington, USA, ecosystems have evolved in the presence of sporadic disturbances such as fire, floods, and insect and disease outbreaks. Ecological and human factors have...

We explore the impact of labour turnover on firm performance by analysing the predictions of an extension of the efficiency wage model of [Salop, S., (1979) 'A Model of the Natural Rate of Unemployment'. American Economic Review, 69, 117-125.] developed by [Garino, G. and Martin, C., (2008) 'The...

We investigate the role of financial advice in shaping the composition of household portfolios in Great Britain. Advice is associated with a reallocation of wealth away from real estate and towards bonds and stocks, especially when households seek financial advice "for investments". Having a...