This study investigates the impact of the New Tax System and other factors on the capital structure of the Australian listed real estate property enterprises. Hypotheses utilising Static Trade-off, Pecking Order and Market Timing theories are empirically examined using a series of the taxes...

The small and medium sized business sector plays a significant economic and social role in Australia. A large number of these businesses suffer from abrupt financial crises resulting from manmade or natural disasters such as fire, flood, storm, etc, which affect all business sectors in the...

Boards of directors are integral to modern corporations and, consequently, receive much attention from regulators, researchers and stakeholders. Although this domain is receiving increased scrutiny, most studies have been based on relating various dimensions of board structure and composition to...

Emerging Web service and business process technologies have provided technological support for business collaboration across organisation boundaries. However, security concerns have become one of the main barriers that prevent its widespread adoption. The aim of the research is to develop a...

Using the framework of the business model developed in Rasmussen (2007b) this paper presents an outline of the traditional pharmaceutical company business model, and how it has responded to the new biotechnology. Biotechnology is a radical innovation which has a very different technological...

The concept of a business model facilitates analysis of the way in which a firm derives economic value from a newly developed technology. Indeed Chesbrough and Rosenbloom (2002) have argued that it is the business model adopted, more so than the technology itself, which is critical to the...

The resource based view of Wernerfelt (1984), Barney (1986, 1991) and Deirickx and Cool (1989) suggests that firms can achieve sustainable competitive advantage through the accumulation of strategic assets that are hard to imitate, substitute or trade (Amit and Schoemaker 1993). It is also...

This study addresses mergers and acquisitions in Australia, particularly fluctuations in the merger rate, the role of the business cycle in such fluctuations, the reasons for mergers and their role in explaining any cyclical variability and the parallels between the timing of merger fluctuations...

Business intelligence, as a decision support tool in many organisations, has offered the ability to gather, store, access and analyse huge amounts of data so that better decisions can be made regarding customers, suppliers, employees, logistics and infrastructure. Prior empirical studies of...

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in the Australian economy. The OECD (2000) reports that SMEs are the core to a nation?s future economic growth and account for 95 percent of enterprises and 60 to 70 percent of jobs. The existing literature on small business...