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Queensland connects: Accelerating Queensland's innovation-driven entrepreneurs Open
This report provides an overview of the key issues for developing innovation-driven entrepreneurship in Queensland that were identified from the evidence based assessment. Team Queensland’s work has attempted to extend the REAP framework t…
Digital dividends in the phase of falling productivity growth and implications for policy making Open
Purpose Despite the rapid pace of digitalization, aggregate productivity growth rates in most advanced countries have slowed down consistently in recent years. It creates a “puzzle”, as investment in information technology (IT) has often b…
Logics and rationalisations underpinning entrepreneurial decision-making Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the logics that expert entrepreneurs use when faced with a critical incident threat. Design/methodology/approach Attempts have been made to define “entrepreneurial logic”. This paper is influ…
Managing Environmental Risk in Small Business: an Agenda for Research Open
In recent times the call for corporate social responsibility has become louder and protecting the environment is one aspect for organisations to address if they are to behave in a socially responsible manner. Environmental management is a …
Industrial Relations in the Latrobe Valley: Constructing Myths and Confounding Realities Open
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Small Firm Industrial Relations: Evidence from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Open
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Industrial relations and management style in small firms Open
In Australia the bulk of firms are small, while over one third of the Australian workforce is employed in small firms (ABS, 1996). The Australian case is consistent with that which occurs in many other economies. There are, however, only a…
Performance related pay in the Australian public service Open
Governments must strive to do things better, with fewer resources, and above all, differently' (OECD, 1995:6). Public sector reform seeks to develop a performance-oriented culture in an effort to increase efficiency and effectiveness in th…
Managed decentralism: performance related pay in the Australian public service Open
Public sector reform seeks to develop a performance-oriented culture in an effort to increase efficiency and effectiveness in the provision and delivery of public services. The implementation of performance related pay as part of an overal…
The Process of Enterprise Bargaining in Context: A Case Study Open
In this paper a case study of enterprise bargaining at Billanook College is used to illustrate the idea that organisational change is a messy and complex process rather than an event. A contextualist methodology is adopted to provide a des…
'Freedom of Choice' or 'Freedom from Choice'?: Bargaining and Individual Contracts in the Victorian Public Sector Open
John Howard went to the last federal election saying "Employees will have the choice to remain in the current award system....employees will have the choice of entering into workplace agreements." 'Freedom of choice' underlies the federal …
Innovation Rhetoric and Reality: An Introduction to the TIM Review's Special Issue on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Australia Open
IntroductionIt is rumoured that the word "innovation" was barred from ministerial lexicons during Tony Abbott's terms as Prime Minister of Australia. Now, with Malcolm Turnbull as Australia's Prime Minister, by way of total contrast, it is…
Innovation Rhetoric and Reality: An Introduction to the TIM Review's Special Issue on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Australia Open
IntroductionIt is rumoured that the word "innovation" was barred from ministerial lexicons during Tony Abbott’s terms as Prime Minister of Australia. Now, with Malcolm Turnbull as Australia’s Prime Minister, by way of total contrast, it is…