Claims have been made about the role of ICTs in regional sustainability for some time. However, ICT initiatives have … realistic models of the role of ICTs in regional development? From the participatory action research we have conducted in two … rural communities in Queensland, Australia, we suggest that more realistic and potentially effective models must: • Achieve …

The realistic approach to the rural development requires primarily a consensual definition of a rural area. The … selection of tools to be applied and measures to be taken to influence rural areas as well as the setting up the institutional … framework would be difficult without defining the object of interest. The adequate definition of rural areas is therefore one of …

playwright. The issues of marketing and career progression are considered in a regional context. The thesis comprises the … analysis of that journey in the context of regional theatre practice in Queensland. Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of the …-making in regional Australia. The paper establishes strategies by which the playwright, when also undertaking the role of …

conditions. This requires a consideration of the nature and causes of regional economic disparities in the UK, and how these … transmitted to the different regions. The possibility is considered that there may be regional differences in how a particular … monetary policy is translated into different financial conditions in different regions. In other words there may be a regional …

regional firm. These models are used to develop a typology of firms that attempts to explain the fit between a small firm and … its regional location. The standard theories based on "industry organization", "resources", and "dynamic capabilities …" explain much of the variation observed in the case studies , however a more complete coverage of the regional effects on the …

regional firm. These models are used to develop a typology of firms that attempts to explain the fit between a small firm and … its regional location. The standard theories based on "industry organization", "resources", and "dynamic capabilities …" explain much of the variation observed in the case studies , however a more complete coverage of the regional effects on the …

of residence, and provides a better understanding of the process of rural labor adjustments in a country in transition …

In the United States, low-income people are not evenly distributed across the rural-urban landscape. Does this … phenomenon partly reflect that people who "choose" to live in rural areas have unmeasured attributes related to poverty? To …-being and rural/urban residential choice among a sample of 6,461 householders. A series of multivariate regression models are …

in this study to compare the financial characteristics of urban and rural small businesses.Overall, rural small … when comparing dollar values of urban and rural small businesses because normality assumptions were violated due to the … high concentration of small firms.On average, rural and urban small businesses were strong financially and profitable …

enhancement services, but there is little documentation on the impacts of these services on small and medium rural and … agricultural firms. The objectives of this project were to 1) analyze the export assistance needs of small and medium rural and …