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...

As new and old technologies generally co-exist in the complex production methods that characterise major sectors of modern developed economies, it is important for policy makers to analyse them together in order to take full advantage of complementarities and optimise outcomes for entire...

Current recommendations in Australia and some other economies identify independentdirectors as a key component of effective corporate governance. The research on theempirical link between board characteristics and firm performance, matching the trendtowards greater board independence, is...

The escalating casualisation of the Australian workforce appears to be accompanied by increasing worker resentment of the employment relationship. This paper examines the extent of psychological contract violations perceived by casual workers. It follows an earlier paper in this journal which...

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...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the dynamics of IJV inter-partner cooperation andexamines the critical determinants of maintaining ongoing cooperative intern-partner relationshipbetween IJV partners.Design/methodology/approach The research is based on a dataset collected through a survey...

Purpose The paper aims to explore how large firms might leverage entrepreneurial marketing processes to gain and renew competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies past research on entrepreneurial marketing and entrepreneurship with examples from a long-term case study of...