Computer-based models and Decision Support Systems have become standard tools for water quality management, and many are used by policy planners. Most models are developed in a research environment, have stringent input data requirements, and are becoming increasingly complex. In the early...

The paper proposes a framework of various tasks involved in the software maintenance process. The work reported in this paper disassembles the complex process of software maintenance into tasks as to aid in the allocation of resources, acquisition of appropriate tools, and distributing...

This PhD research will examine the development, performance and impact of Malaysian REITs in the local, Asian and global REIT investment market; particularly focusing on Islamic REITs in Malaysia. This issue is important as REITs have emerged as a topic of considerable interest to the academic...

This paper aims to identify key elements of innovative culture using innovation audit tools. The research seeks to determine if factors such as the ability to collaborate are important in building a culture that supports innovation. Many firms are continually scanning the environment for sources...

Many small manufacturing firms are becoming dislinked from their traditional client connections as those larger manufacturing clients strive to reduce costs by either moving production to lower cost countries or working with fewer, more capable suppliers. This paper explores learnings from a...

Research in this thesis deals with some unexplored, or only partially explored, issues relating to the information content of volatility of the idiosyncratic component of asset returns at the firm and industry-level, both in the context of developed and emerging stock markets. Specific issues we...

This thesis examines the sources for generating financial and social capital for ethnic small business owners, particularly for Sri Lankan ethnic small businesses in Australia. The results further our understanding of raising capital by introducing a model by generating capital for ethnic small...

One of the reasons for firms decentralising aspects of their operations is to enable managers to gain specialised knowledge of local conditions. For credit managers in a banking firm, this may take the form of knowledge of investment opportunities and the risk profiles of each of these...

Based on a fourteen-month period of ethnographic research conducted in an Australian Coastal hotel, this thesis explores the issues of management in a flexible organization. Using a textual approach to the study of organizations, the thesis focusses on the customer service discourse, its...

This paper focuses on supply-related functions in nontraditional areas, an innovative distribution marketing approach relating to nonprofit service organisations. Whereas most literature, in the past, has focused on the buying and selling of goods and services by commercial and profitoriented...