The indirect benefits of a commercial tree crop for greenhouse gas and groundwater recharge abatement are analysed. Oil mallees are introduced into a whole-farm linear programming model as a source of income, an offset to greenhouse gas emissions from the mixed sheep and cropping enterprises and...

The existing literature has given little consideration to social values of information technology in general or of wireless technology in particular. The purpose of this paper is thus to shed new light on this issue. Based on an interpretive case study, we examine two healthcare organisations...

Books reviewed: Michael A. Hitt, Raphael Amit, Charles E. Lucier and Robert D. Nixon - Creating Value - Winners in the New Business Environment Michael A. Hitt, R. Edward Freeman and Jeffrey S Harrison (eds.) - The Blackwell Handbook of Strategic Management OECD Proceedings - Innovative Networks...

Operations Strategy -- Materials Control, Supply Chain Management and Logistics -- Flexibility in Operations Systems -- Computer-Aided Management of Operations -- Work Organization -- Human Factors -- Managing the Implementation of Technology -- Design, Process Planning and ‘Time to Market’...

This note presents a contingent-claims approach to strategic capacity planning. We develop models for capacity choice and expansion decisions in a single firm environment where investment is irreversible and demand is uncertain. These models illustrate specifically the relevance of...

Three policy options for greenhouse gas abatement in the predominantly grazing systems of Western Australia are analysed. The two taxation policies (a tax on total emissions, and a tax on methane emissions only) are only effective at extreme tax rates ($85/t CO2 equivalents)where farming systems...

The results of this analysis show that a long-term tree crop plantation is effective at reducing carbon emissions from a predominantly grazing farming system. However, if the plantations are destumped, much of the carbon will be returned to the atmosphere in time, in which case benefits are...

A digitally represented watershed landscape (ARC/INFO GIS) is merged with farm optimization (linear programming) and sediment and chemical transport (AGNPS) models. Enhanced targeting of non-point source pollution to remedial policy and management initiatives result. The implications of which...