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Higher education institutions and digital transformation: building university…
"The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered to enterprises in a desirable form as a key to innovation and development as well as the basis of…
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- -
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- 9781003363132
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- xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Routledge open business and economics
- Call Number
- 378.1 LIS h
Population ageing and Australia's future
This volume provides evidence from many of Australia’s leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines to support policies that address challenges presented by Australia’s ageing population. It builds on presentations made to the 2014 Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. The material is in four parts: Perspectives on Ageing Population Ageing: Glob…
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- 9
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- 9781760460662
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- xvi, 240 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 304.610994 HAL p
Dilemmas of development : the social and economic impact of the Porgera gold …
The Porgera gold mine in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea is technically one of the most sophisticated and successful mines of recent times. In its second year of operations (1992) it was the third largest gold producing mine in the world. Socially, though, the mine has brought a range of massive changes for the local Ipili community-both positive and negative. Dilemmas of Development is a …
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- 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922144423
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.274109953 FIL d
Social cost-benefit analysis in Australia and New Zealand : the state of curr…
All is not well with the evaluation of government programs and projects. Resources available to any society are limited. If governments are to increase the well-being of their citizens, they must be able to select and implement the socially most beneficial projects and policies. But many government agencies lack the expertise to carry out a cost-benefit analysis, or even to commission one…
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- 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760460198
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- -
- Series Title
- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
- Call Number
- 352.439 DOB s
The social sciences in the Asian century
In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transc…
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- 9781925022582
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- xi, 191 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 300.95 CAR t
Broadband economics : lessons from Japan
Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention. In this book the author introduces the current status of broadband services in Japan and their recent development in competition policy. An econometric model is proposed and discussed to analyse access demand. The pur…
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- 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415860741
- Collation
- xvii, 320 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 384.330952 TAK i
The German Chambers of Commerce and Industry : Self-governance, Service, the …
This open access book examines a particular factor in the enduring international success of German companies. Beyond industrial specialization, peaceful labor relations, local financial markets and the “miracle of the Mittelstand”, it focuses on a characteristic aspect of governance within the German economy: The Chambers of commerce and industry. Important characteristics of the Chamber sy…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030707996
- Collation
- XIII, 385p. ill.
- Series Title
- Practical Wisdom for Sustainable Organizations
- Call Number
- 381.060943 EBE t
Information systems foundations: the role of design science
This volume presents papers from the fourth biennial Information Systems Foundation Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 2–3 October, 2008. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others in the series, the foundations of Information Systems as an academic discipline. The emphasis in this workshop was on the movement known as ‘Design Science’ and its impo…
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- -
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- 9781921666353
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- 318 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.4038 HAR i
China 2002 : WTO entry and world recession
In 2002 China enters the WTO. Long awaited by the world’s trading economies, it now comes in a year of global recession. What effect will China’s entry into the WTO have at a difficult time? The rapid expansion of China’s trade has required large adjustment in its trading partners, and the expansion and adjustment will accelerate with WTO entry. The internal adjustment pressures in China …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922144539
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- -
- Series Title
- China Update Series
- Call Number
- 382.920951.GAR
Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific
Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses Japan’s successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures in macro-economic policy. Japan’s diplomatic and economic integration strategies are also examined for their impact on East Asia and on Australia. The collectio…
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- 23
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921313622
- Collation
- 293
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 337.52.PAN
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