Purpose – The effect of corporate governance on firm performance has long been of great interest to financiers, economists, behavioural scientists, legal practitioners and business operators. Yet there is no consensus over what constitutes an effective corporate governance mechanism that...

Nanotechnology is the latest in a series of general purpose technologies (GPT), earlier examples of which, have transformed household life, industry structure and firm performance. This paper traces the development to date of one of the first uses of nanotechnology to synthesise a new drug....

This article develops a perspective of fashion as a complex, multi-dimensional form of knowledge and as a technology of garment mass production. It identifies the various modalities of fashion knowledge and characterises their different rates and extents of transmission across space and time in...

By applying the strategies of international anti-sweatshop campaigns to the Australian context, recent regulations governing home-based clothing production hold retailers responsible for policing the wages and employment conditions of clothing outworkers who manufacture clothing on their behalf....

This paper uses Australia?s 1980s shift to a new accumulation strategy of ?international competitiveness? to examine the role of failure in shaping state strategic projects. The paper argues that the Australian strategy?s gradual shift from an interventionist to a market-led orientation played...

This paper explores how different modalities, spatialities and scales of power operate in a geopolitical context. By tracing the dynamic and shifting economic geographies of state and firm power in the events leading up to the collapse of a major Australian firm, Ansett Airlines, it reveals the...

This study addresses the ongoing implications of the realignment of the pharmaceutical industry knowledge base ? from small molecule methods to new biomedical technologies ? for the competitive positions of traditional pharmaceuticalcompanies and biopharmaceutical start-ups. The theoretical...

Heavy economic dependence on oil revenues has come under scrutiny in most oil producing countries, including the Sultanate of Oman. The main catalysts for this have been the gradual decline of oil production, depletion of oil reserves, fluctuations in oil price and high rates of population...

Sustainability means capable of being continued. Sustainable transport means finding ways ofmeeting transportation needs that are environmentally sound, socially equitable, andeconomically viable in the long term.To be economically sustainable, transport must be cost-effective and continuously...

This paper argues that there is a new wave of globalisation, with international investment flows increasingly focussing on developing economies such as China and India, on services rather than manufacturing and, in particular, on a range of information and business services, including R&D,...