The Time Woven Rainbow
Ronald D. Francis (Monash University, Australia)
Published: April 2008
ISBN: 978-1-920889-28-9 (paperback),
978-1-920889-29-6 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback), AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
This book
stems from the author’s broad interest in the application of
behavioural principles to practical situations. The commonality, as
well as the variety, of the human condition is only to be understood
in the temporal context – the history, timing, and sequence of human
relationships. As the old legal maxim has it, 'time is of the
essence'. Our common humanity view, expressed here, is that that
which we have in common is more powerful than that which divides.
Innovation Translation in a University
Curriculum: a Study Informed by Actor-Network Theory
Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
Published: December 2007
ISBN: 978-1-920889-24-1 (paperback),
978-1-920889-25-8 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback), AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
This study draws on the sociology of translations, otherwise
commonly known as actor-network theory as a framework for its
analysis. It provides an example of how ANT can be used in a
research project investigating technological innovation, and fully
describes the data collection and analysis process. It shows how
innovation translation can usefully trace the progress of
technological innovations - in this case the adoption of the
programming language Visual Basic (VB) into a university curriculum.
The book is composed of eight chapters and three appendices. The study
itself is reported in four separate chapters: Discovery and
Exploration, Prior Claimants: Pick and Alice, The Merger, and
Surviving and Object-Oriented Challenge. The concept of 'real'
programming languages becomes very important in the study and this
book concludes with a chapter investigating what it is to become
'real' in the Information Systems curriculum.
Sixteen
Australian Managers Ten Years On: Rhetoric and Realities
Glenice J. Wood (University of Ballarat, Australia)
Published: December 2007
ISBN: 978-1-920889-26-5 (paper back),
978-1-920889-27-2 (hard cover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback), AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
This book tells a story about men and women in management in
Australia that has not yet been told. Its material has been drawn
from a research project which commenced in 1996 and spanned ten
years. One of the key areas of the early research explored the
aspirations of those who wished to continue on to a senior
management role in their careers, their confidence level that this
would be achieved, and their realistic expectations about the
probable time frame it would take to achieve their aspirations.
Subsequently, two further stages of the research followed up a small
group of managers who had participated in the original study. This
allowed these managers to be 'tracked' in terms of the outcome of
their promotion aspirations, their views on why they were successful
in achieving a senior management promotion and the strategies they
employed, or alternatively, their views on the barriers that impeded
them in achieving a senior management promotion.
Work Choices: Evolution and Revolution
Edited by Keith Abbott, Bruce Hearn
Mackinnon, Leanne Morris, Kerrie Saville and Di Waddell
(Deakin University, Australia)
Published: December 2007
ISBN: 978-1-920889-22-7 (paperback),
978-1-920889-23-4 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $75.00 (paperback), AUS $105.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
Never has a form of legislation created such
contentious and wide-reaching emotional debate in Australia. It has
divided the community and has resulted in extensive media activity.
To the forefront are Australian academics who have often been the
resource of expert comment and their reports have been prolific. In
this book, academics have taken to opportunity to write their own
perception of the impact of Work Choices in the workplace. The
question still remains: "Is Work Choices part of an evolutionary
process in workplace negotiations or a dramatic shift which is
destabilising relationships?" … readers will no doubt have their own
opinion.
Knowledge Management Integrated
Edited by
Yoosuf Cader
(Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Published: October 2007
ISBN: 978-1-920889-12-8 (paperback),
978-1-920889-13-5 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $75.00 (paperback), AUS $105.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
Knowledge management is practiced
globally in most organisations, but in some of these organisations
the practice is limited to isolated functional units. What is
important is to ensure the practice of knowledge management takes
place in all the functional units of an organisation wherever this
is possible. Moreover, the knowledge management practiced in all the
functional units of the organisation should be coordinated and
integrated, thereby promoting congruence where the force of the
'whole' is greater than the force of the 'disparate' functional
units.
This book addresses new research issues, theories and
concepts in Knowledge Management. It will contain about eight
chapters on knowledge management describing scholarly research on
issues related to Knowledge Management integrated with other
disciplines.
Achieving Goal Alignment with Healthcare Knowledge Workers through
ICT Use
Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Illinois
Institute of Technology, USA)
Published: August 2007
ISBN: 978-1-920889-17-3 (paperback),
978-1-920889-16-6 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback), AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
Goal
alignment and coordination might be the most pressing issues of the
U.S. healthcare system as it faces classic failure on all three
critical dimensions of cost, quality and access. Our science is
outstanding but our management leaves much to be desired as we spend
too much on unnecessary care while many are left out. As Professor
Wickramasinghe emphasises, this is less a failure of will than
reflective of deficiencies in systems, information and incentives.
Healthcare and Technology, ICT, Goal Alignment and
Knowledge Workers, Pure HMO, Best HMO, Extending Agency Theory,
Epilogue.
Behind Work Choices: How one Company Changed Australia's Industrial
Relations System
Bruce Hearn Mackinnon (Deakin University, Australia)
Published: August 2007
ISBN: 978-1-920889-20-3 (paperback),
978-1-920889-21-0 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback), AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
From CRA
to Rio, Theoretical Foundations /Justifications, The NZAS
Experiment: Promise of Things to Come, Hamersley Iron: How the West
Was Lost, Comalco: War on all Fronts, Black Coal: Management Meets
its Match, Hunter Valley No. 1 Mine: Turning the Tide, Conclusions.
Trade Unions
in
the Community: Values, Issues, Shared Interests and Alliances
Edited by by Donna Buttigieg, Sandra Cockfield, Richard
Cooney, Marjorie Jerrard (Monash
University, Australia) and Al Rainnie (University of
Leicester)
Published: May 2007
ISBN: 978-1-920889-14-2 (paper back),
978-1-920889-15-9 (hard cover)
Retail Price: AUS $75.00 (paperback), AUS $105.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
The
discussion and analysis in this book is distinguished by the fact
that it pays substantial attention to the issue of union organising
and its relation to union involvement in community issues, but
correctly regards union involvement in communities as variegated and
changing. Accordingly, this book is an important contribution to the
national and international literature on unions in the community.
Rethinking Causality: Pattern as the Science of Change
Linda Irene Glassop (Deakin University, Australia)
Published: August 2007
ISBN: 978-1-920889-18-0 (paperback),
978-1-920889-19-7 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $70.00 (paperback), AUS $99.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
In this
book, Linda Glassop describes an integrative framework referred to
as the SOP model of change. The SOP model is derived from the notion
that structures (S) are organised (O) by processes (P). The concept
of SOP is relevant to any real thing, at any level of analysis. A
numerical representation of the SOP model is offered. What becomes
evident from the numerical representation is that the SOP model is
coherent and able to incorporate ideas about chaos and order, about
determinism and indeterminism, and about the relationship between
closed and open systems. The SOP model is offered as a step towards
the general organising principle, or single conceptual framework,
sought by Barrow, Bak and Kauffman, as a contribution to a “Theory
of Everything”
Curriculum Cycles in the History of Information Systems in Australia
Arthur Tatnall (Victoria
University, Australia)
Published: December 2006
ISBN: 978-1-920889-10-4 (paper back),
978-1-920889-11-1 (hard cover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback), AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
Sixty five years ago there were no stored-program electronic
computers stored-program electronic computers in the world.
Suddenly, in the 1960s and 70s, everything changed and computers
began to become accessible. This book is primarily concerned with
the development of one type of computing course: Information Systems
Information Systems. It examines why a need developed for courses in
Information Systems, and what happened to promote the extremely
rapid adoption of such courses.
The Philosophical Notion of Property
Neil Nanovska
Published: August 2006
ISBN: 978-1-920889-08-1 (paperback), 978-1-920889-09-8 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback), AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
The Philosophical Notion of Property
is a deeper, thematic continuation on the topic of ‘the existence of
man’, examined through classical German philosophy. The
Philosophical Notion of Property reveals the being of man, not
through what people feel and experience in their inner life, but
through their deeds and actions. These deeds and actions are
examined as a synthesis of the relation of consciousness towards the
surrounding reality and the relation towards consciousness itself.
The meaning of man’s existence is determined by the possibility of
this active inner-outer relation of consciousness to facilitate the
process of self-determination, self-cognition and self-development.
Managing
the Family Business
Edited by: Linda Glassop and Dianne Waddell
(Deakin University, Australia)
Published: July 2005
ISBN: 978-1-920889-06-7 (paperback), 978-1-920889-07-1 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $49.95 (paperback), AUS $80.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
Managing the Family Business is a timely and thought provoking
book that should encourage greater debate about where family
businesses are going and what issues are paramount. The editors
have made a conscious attempt to invite and encourage academic and
industry practitioners to contribute chapters based on their
research and experience as it relates to family business topics.
Report
on the Study of Strategic Flexibility in Professional Service
Organisations
A report by Fran Pesich
Published: April 2005
ISBN: 978-1-920889-05-0 (paperback)
Retail Price: AUS $40.00 plus p+p.
Contents:
Strategic flexibility is an important
factor for practice success. A study of responses received from over
60 architectural practices around Australia indicated that it was
the ability to choose from an array of strategies that was important
for the practice to improve on its performance. Some 11% of a
practice’s success may be attributable to the number of strategic
options available to the practice. In this study, it was found that
process-based strategies were more generally possible than
market-based strategies or organisation/management-based strategies.
Small
Business and Information Technology: Research Techniques and
International Case Studies
Edited by: M. Gordon Hunter
(Lethbridge University, Canada), Stephen Burgess (Victoria
University, Australia), Andrew Wenn (Victoria University,
Australia)
Published: March 2005
ISBN: 978-1-920889-03-6 (paperback),
978-1-920889-04-3 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback),
AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:
Many IS research projects have
tended not to differentiate businesses based upon size. This book is
intended to redress this, and presents a showcase of research from
around the world in Information Technology and Small Business.
Section 1 contains a series of chapters relating to an international
project, while Section 2 presents research from various regions.
Knowledge Management: Theory and
Application in a Twenty-First Century Context
Edited by: Yoosuf Cader
(Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Published: April 2004
ISBN: 978-1-920889-01-2 (paperback),
978-1-920889-02-9 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback),
AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents:In the past, land, labour, and capital were the limiting factors of
production in organisations. In the 21st century a fourth factor is
increasingly being acknowledged as the limiting factor responsible
for the success or failure of organisations. This crucial factor is
known as “knowledge”. Managing knowledge or leveraging an
organisation’s knowledge asset in today’s global economy is so
fundamental, that ignoring it is at the detriment of the
organisation’s corporate performance.
For Ethical Politics
Andy Blunden
Published: September 2003
ISBN: 978-0-9579737-9-4 (paperback),
978-0-9579737-8-7 (hardcover),
978-1-920889-00-5
(student edition)
Retail Price: AUS $68.00 (paperback),
AUS $90.00 (hardcover), plus p+p.
Student Edition AUS $37.50, plus p+p.
Contents: The Social and Political Landscape of the
Twenty-First Century, From Secret Society to Identity Politics,
Alliance Politics, The Fight for Justice in the 21st Century. Also
included are reviews of Amartya Sen’s Commodities and Capabilities,
Rawls’ Political Liberalism, Fukuyama on Trust and
Recognition, On Social Capital, Mark Latham’s Civilising Global
Capital. (The Student Edition contains only some of these
reviews)
Managing E-Business in the 21st Century
Edited by: Sushil K. Sharma (Ball State University, USA) and
Jatinder N.D. Gupta (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Published: June 2003
ISBN: 978-0-9579737-6-3 (paperback),
978-0-9579737-7-0 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $125.00 (paperback), AUS $150.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents: New business models and electronic markets, managing security concerns, managing
records and information in web environments, managing legal and intellectual property concerns,
managing supply chains, managing information overload, e-business strategies to success, managing
technology infrastructures, managing organisational issues, managing risks, managing customers,
managing trust and reputation.
Mobile Phone Uptake: a Review of the Literature and a Framework for Research
Michael Arnold and Matthew Klugman
(Melbourne University)
Published: January 2003
ISBN: 978-0-9579737-3-2 (paperback),
978-0-9579737-2-5 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $65.00 (paperback), AUS $95.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents: This research monograph covers issues including an overview of mobile phone uptake
in Australia, background of mobile telephones in Australia, technology and society, review of
Australian and international literature on wired phones and wireless phones, motivations for use of
each type of phone, and user profiles, uptake of wired and wireless telecommunication, conceptual
framework, theoretical perspectives, the mobile telecommunications device, conclusions and further
research.
Skilling the E-Business Professional
Edited by: Andrew Wenn (Victoria University, Australia)
Published: December 2002
ISBN: 978-0-9579737-4-9 (paperback), 978-0-9579737-5-6 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $75.00 (paperback), AUS $105.00, (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents: The rapidly growing use of Electronic Business applications on the World-Wide-Web
is apparent to all. Successful use of e-Business, however, requires many changes to business
practices and relationships. For someone working in an e-Business environment certain skills are
required, but what exactly are they? Are old skill sets applicable in this new environment? Do they
need to be adapted or updated? What new skills need to be developed? These questions are addressed
in this book.
E-Commerce Diffusion: Strategies and Challenges
Edited by: Mohini Singh (RMIT University, Australia) and
Thompson Teo (National University of Singapore)
Published: October 2001
ISBN: 978-0-9579737-0-1 (paperback),
978-0-9579737-1-8 (hardcover)
Retail Price: AUS $70.00 (paperback), AUS $100.00 (hardcover) plus p+p.
Contents: Overview of e-commerce opportunities and challenges, Internet-related technologies,
e-commerce diffusion, legal and tax issues in e-commerce.
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