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Location Quotients And Shift-Share Analysis: A Low Cost Approach To Regional Development Planning, Ann Hodgkinson
Location Quotients And Shift-Share Analysis: A Low Cost Approach To Regional Development Planning, Ann Hodgkinson
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Location quotient and shift-share analysis are traditional and somewhat old fashioned methods for regional development analysis.
Changing Forms Of Organising In Regional Intergovernmental Cooperative Network: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Matthias P. Ngui, Michael Zanko
Changing Forms Of Organising In Regional Intergovernmental Cooperative Network: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Matthias P. Ngui, Michael Zanko
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The organizational theory literature suggests that organisations should adapt to highly competitive business environments by strategically replacing or transforming the traditional with more innovative forms of organising. These innovative and more flexible forms of organizing are often portrayed as dichotomous and antithetical. Recent research by Pettigrew, Fenton, Palmer, DiMaggio and others discovered that one of the emergent themes in contemporary firms is that they engage in apparently contradictory practice, where the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ changes are practiced simultaneously. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), one of the major regional intergovernmental cooperative networks in the Asia Pacific region is investigated …
Electronic Commerce Adoption And Strategic Alliance Membership: A Study Of Regional Smes In Sweden, Robert C. Macgregor, Lejla Vrazalic
Electronic Commerce Adoption And Strategic Alliance Membership: A Study Of Regional Smes In Sweden, Robert C. Macgregor, Lejla Vrazalic
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The changes brought about by electronic commerce have had a profound effect on small to medium enterprises (SMEs). To manage these changes, SMEs have been encouraged to form strategic alliances. Yet despite the proclaimed advantages of such alliances, little research has been carried out to determine whether these structures have any impact on an SME’s decision to adopt e-commerce. There has also been a lack of research into comparing e-commerce adoption in those SMEs that are members of a strategic alliance to those that have opted to remain outside such arrangements. This paper aims to correct the situation by presenting …
The Impact Of Unilateral And Regional Trade Liberalisation On The Intra-Asean 5 Founding Nations' Exports And Export-Gdp Nexus, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Elias Sanidas
The Impact Of Unilateral And Regional Trade Liberalisation On The Intra-Asean 5 Founding Nations' Exports And Export-Gdp Nexus, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Elias Sanidas
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Five countries, Malaysia, Indonesia, thailand, the Philippines and Singapore, formed the ASEAN-5 group in 1967 to promote cooperation in economic, social and cultural aeas to promote regional peace and stability.
Designing A Regional E-Logistics Portal, Adrian Collins, George Ditsa, Aditya K. Ghose, Peter N. Hyland, Sim K. Lau
Designing A Regional E-Logistics Portal, Adrian Collins, George Ditsa, Aditya K. Ghose, Peter N. Hyland, Sim K. Lau
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
A variety of optimization and negotiation technologies hold the promise of delivering value to the logistics processes of businesses both small and large, yet they tend to remain inaccessible to SMEs (largely due to price and complexity concerns). This paper describes the early-phase steps in a project to develop a regional e- logistics portal. The project seeks to make constraint-based optimization and automated negotiation technologies accessible to SMEs within a portal that also serves their information needs. The paper highlights several novel aspects of the design of the portal, as well as a novel requirements gathering process involving community consultation.
Impact Of Economic Policy Reform And Regional And Global Shocks On Trade And Growth In East Asia: Econometric Evidence For China, Van Hoa Tran
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The paper introduces the generalised gravity theory (Tran Van Hoa 2004) to construct a simply flexible simultaneous-equation econometric model of growth and trade of China and its five major trading countries or blocs (Japan, ASEAN-6, the European Union, the US, and Austrralia).
Are The Standard Drivers For E-Commerce Adoption In Regional Smes Really Standard: A Comparison Of Australian, Swedish And Us Regional Smes, Robert C. Macgregor, Lejla Vrazalic, Deborah Bunker
Are The Standard Drivers For E-Commerce Adoption In Regional Smes Really Standard: A Comparison Of Australian, Swedish And Us Regional Smes, Robert C. Macgregor, Lejla Vrazalic, Deborah Bunker
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The sluggish pace of E-commerce diffusion in the SME sector is well documented. In response to this, one area that has given rise to continued research is the development of criteria (drivers) for Ecommerce adoption in the SME sector. This research has given rise to a 'standard' set of drivers that has become the basis upon which research into E-commerce adoption in SMEs is carried out. While a number of studies have attempted to develop models of E-commerce adoption, little has been done to discover whether, indeed, these criteria are universal to the sector. This paper presents the findings of …
The Contribution Of Micro-Enterprises To Regional Economic Recovery And Poverty Alleviation In East Asia, Charles Harvie
The Contribution Of Micro-Enterprises To Regional Economic Recovery And Poverty Alleviation In East Asia, Charles Harvie
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The economic and social crisis theat afflicted East Asia from mid-1997 produced the biggest setback to poverty reduction in the region for several decades.
Regional Economic And Monetary Integration - A Modelling And Policy Analysis, Charles Harvie
Regional Economic And Monetary Integration - A Modelling And Policy Analysis, Charles Harvie
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This chapter is concerned with developing a two-country model, a large country and a small country, with the objective of identifying the circumstances under which it would be conducive to conduct coordinated macroeconomic policy with the objective of minimizing volatility in terms of key macroeconomic varibles usch as domestic prices, the exchange rate, the domestic interest rate and domestic output.