John Ward, director of the IBM Havant Plant in the UK outlines a brief history of the Plant's progression in quality improvement since 1981. Critical to this development has been the role of people within IBM audits suppliers. Their involvement and initiative for change has resulted in a highly...

The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of different policy options for encouraging the large scale NRM actions required for achieving stated regional resource condition targets for NRM. To achieve this, the concept of systematic regional planning is developed to identify geographic...

Irrigated agriculture often leads to recharge to local and regional groundwater systems greater than what the systems can absorb, resulting in the development of shallow watertables causing salinity and waterlogging. Policy based on emissions trading offers one option for effective management of...

This paper describes a comprehensive method to design, test and then implement a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) framework to combat the environmental consequences of extensive native vegetation clearance in Australia. Clearing of vegetation, primarily due to the expansion of farming...

In recent decades, the involvement of economists as consultants and expert witnesses in civil tort actions has grown rapidly. In this article, the authors discuss the reasons for this phenomenon and the extent to conflicts of interest to arise in the practice of what is frequently called...

This article describes implementation and outcomes of a credit trading trial focussed on dryland salinity in Victoria, Australia. In lieu of extant specified property rights, participants were invited to agree to obligations to provide groundwater recharge credits in exchange for pecuniary...

This research examines information systems strategic planning (ISSP) in multinationals from the perspective of the subsidiaries. The research was carried out through interviews with the IT and business managers in subsidiaries of nine large American, European, and Japanese multinationals. The...

The majority of IT projects across various countries and industries fail or do notrealise all their intended benefits. Despite previous research into this area and thedevelopment of various project success models, IT projects continue to fail at analarming rate. This research examines the...

Surveys continue to highlight that most senior business executives aredissatisfied with the value they believe their organizations are deriving frominvestments in information technology. What is often forgotten is that IT initself has no inherent value. This value must be unlocked, and only...

This research analysed factors and sets of factors that affect and explain the varying levelsof success in the adoption and use of IS/IT (Information Systems/Information Technology)in Portuguese manufacturing SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises). The study setout to fill a gap in knowledge...