Very little research today has investigated the role of governance structure and three of its elements: shared knowledge, decision making and benefit sharing, in learning processes for innovation in member-serving nonprofit organizations (MSNPOs). This research project aims to develop a theory...

Projects ore a means of implementingstrategy; the relationship of project managementto strategic implementation inan orgonization is explored. Some of therecent project management literature isexamined and a case study from theeducation sector is used to consider howto effectively link project...

Approaches to the study of knowledge management (KM) strategies from within the management and information systems (IS) literature have traditionally relied on a resource-based view (RBV) of sources of competitive advantage. Recent studies on young, high-technology firms have highlighted that in...

In 1999, entrepreneur Bob Clifford entered the Business Review Weeklys Richest 200 Australians for the first time. Clifford is the founder and Chairperson of Incat Tasmania, an internationally competitive catamaran manufacturer located in Hobart. His far sightedness as a shipbuilder, alongside...

At present, the rate of small firm adoption of the Internet's ubiquitous World Wide Web (the web) far exceeds the actual exploitation its commercial potential. An inability to strategically acquire, comprehend and use external knowledge is proposed as a major barrier to optimal exploitation of...

The main objective of this research is to identify the factors associated with the performance of Australian home-based businesses (HBBs). The dimensions of performance considered are size and profit. Measures of HBB size used are number of equivalent full time employees and annual sales, and...