An undeniable shift in focus from traditional production companies to Knowledge-Intensive Firms (KIFs) poses challenges for academics and practioners alike. In particular, effective management of an organization's human resources has become a critical issue for ensuring sustained innovation...

There is renewed interest in mobile technologies in aged care. While the technologies themselves emerged some decades ago, it is only now that some of the barriers to adoption are being overcome and implementation is seen as more practical and cost-effective. The interest in mobile technologies...

The purpose of this paper is to describe business-to-business (B2B) communication and the characteristics of an open standard for electronic communication within the Australian timber and wood products industry. Current issues, future goals and strategies for using business-to-business...

This paper explores the issues surrounding the e-readiness of the Australian timber and wood products industry. A business organisation's e-readiness is a measure of its e-business environment, and a collection of factors that indicate how amenable a business is to information communications and...

The paper deals with the factors affecting the failure of IT outsourcing and introduces new concept referred to as relative failure factor complexity (RFFC). The RFFC takes into consideration the gap in perception of both outsourcing partners; customer organisations and IT providers. The paper...

The use of wireless hand held devices is becoming popular in healthcare applications for flexibility and mobility. While the concept is attractive, difficulties encountered by health professionals included the small size of the device, problems in fitting current data collection forms into one...

Organisational boundaries can be analysed via a variety of lenses – organisational design principles, transaction cost economics, property rights and agency theory, amongst others. We review these before taking a knowledge-based perspective to firstly explain how the boundaries of the firm are...

Established industries, which constitute by far the largest share of the manufacturing and service sectors in most developed economies, are on balance reasonably innovative. They engage in frequent changes in both product and process technologies which, although perhaps less spectacular (in a...

This paper takes a fresh and comprehensive look at how intellectual property rights (IPR) interact with formal standardisation activities. The interaction of these two institutions is integral to the working of the innovation infrastructure. Since the 1980s, this has especially been true for...

It is frequently claimed that innovation is essential to economic performance, but such claims are usually quite general and abstract. Often they apply indistinguishably to economic growth generally, to the competitiveness of national economies, to the profitability, survival and growth of...