Austasia Aquaculture Trade Directory 2008

Complete guide for supplier & buyers in the aquaculture industry.

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Innovation to the core : a blueprint for transforming the way your company innovates [book]
Authors: Peter Skarzynski & Rowan Gibson

"How to create a cultural environment in which breakthroughs can happen ... how to minimize risk in the new opportunities and maximize your return on innovation ... [and] how put the necessary systems and processes in place to drive innovation." - cover.

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Australia’s fiscal straightjacket : eight myths about tax and public debt which are holding us back [book]
Author: Fred Argy, Centre for Policy Development

Argues against the assumptions that low tax rates and low public debt are always good for the economy and the community.

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Future options for north Australia [book]

Authors: Stephen Garnett et al.

Considers the eleven drivers that will influence the region’s development, then outlines possible future scenarios, including ’chronic underdevelopment’, ’industrial powerhouse’, and ’Indigenous community utopia’.

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Can Australian Local Governments have a Role in Local Economic Development?: Three Cases of Evidence (journal article)
By Stephen Jones
from Urban Policy and Research Vol 26 Iss 1 March 2008 , pp. 23 - 38
"Local economic development provides an excellent policy context to examine Australian intergovernmental relations. In Australia, policies impacting on economic development have traditionally been the preserve of Commonwealth and state governments. Economic restructuring, particularly since the early 1980s, has seen the rise of local government as a more active participant in promoting economic development at the local level. Individual local councils that establish economic development policies place themselves in a scenario that is outside the statutory parameters of their legislative frameworks and often well beyond their resource capacity. This article presents the findings of research into the economic development policies of three Australian metropolitan local governments during the 1980s and 1990s. This research informs the debate surrounding the capacity of individual local governments that seek to establish local economic development policies. It also discusses the constraints experienced by these local governments as they sought to work with the other spheres of government to improve economic conditions and create new job opportunities for local residents. "

The Federal Government's Response to the Banks Report: An Assessment of its Recommendations and the Government Response(journal article)
By Peter Carroll
from Australian Journal of Public Administration Vol 67 Issue 1 Mar 2008 , pp. 57–68
"The aim of this article is to assess the Report of the Commonwealth Government's Taskforce on Reducing the Regulatory Burden on Business (the Banks Report), released in April 2006, and the government's response to the Report . It focuses on the report's recommendations in regard to the system for making regulation in regard to business, particularly the regulation impact statement process (RIS), contained in chapter seven. This focus is chosen since it is the chapter in the report that addresses the underlying causes of over-regulation."

What Do We Mean by ‘Rethinking Regulation’? (journal article)
By By Rex Deighton-Smith
from Australian Journal of Public Administration Vol 67 Issue 1 Mar 2008 , pp.41–56
"This article identifies and discusses several different conceptions of regulatory reform. It subsequently looks at available evidence on trends in regulatory burdens and on the results of regulatory reform activity undertaken over the past 30 years. Thirdly, it identifies and briefly discusses the range of tools that are typically employed in implementing regulatory reform policies. It then examines some of the regulatory problems that implementation of the reform agenda has itself brought forth. It concludes with some comments which seek to assess the report of the Better Regulation Taskforce in the context of the broad overview of regulatory reform set out in the preceding sections of the article."

An Estimated New Keynesian Policy Model for Australia (journal article)
By Daniel Buncic and Martin Melecky
from Economic Record Vol 84 Issue 264 Mar 2008, pp. 1-16
"An open economy New Keynesian policy model for Australia is estimated in this study. We investigate how important external shocks are as a source of macroeconomic fluctuations when compared to domestic ones. The results of our analysis suggest that the Australian business cycle and domestic inflation are most affected by domestic demand and supply shocks, respectively. However, domestic output also appears to be strongly affected by foreign demand shocks and domestic inflation by exchange rate shocks. Domestic variables do not seem to be significantly affected by foreign supply and monetary policy shocks. "

A case for taxing education(journal article)
By Tomer Blumkin and Efraim Sadka
from International Tax and Public Finance Vol 15, No 2 April 2008 pp. 145- 163
"In this paper we establish, contrary to conventional wisdom, a case for taxing education, as a supplement to the labor income tax, by drawing on some informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the informational constraint faced by the government. "

Individualization and Public Sector Leadership(journal article)
By John Lawler
from Public Administration Vol 86 Iss 1, Mar 2008 pp. 21–34
"This is a conceptual paper whose aim is to relate the development of ‘individualization’ (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2002) to organizational leadership. It does this by examining individualization alongside the implicit assumption on which orthodox approaches to leadership are founded, namely that leadership is an individualized phenomenon. Despite the expanding literature on these topics, particularly that on leadership, these concepts have not been examined in relation to one another. This paper seeks to do this in two ways. Firstly, it highlights the increased attention given to leadership in the UK public sector, locating leadership as a continuation of public sector managerialism. Secondly, it discusses the development of the trend of individualization more broadly. The paper’s main discussion focuses on leadership as an individual activity and of the consequences of that approach. In particular, it argues that individualized leadership presents a restrictive perspective which does not allow for exploration of a broader range of leadership approaches, particularly that of distributed leadership, which have especial relevance for public sector organizations."

Rethinking the Governance Implications of Globalization for Economic Development (journal article)
By Richard C. Feiock, M. Jae Moon and Hyung Jun Park
from Public Administration Review Vol 68 Issue 1 Jan/Feb 2008, pp. 24 - 35
"This article is a discussion of the conflicting views of the impact of globalization on economic development and how governments deal with it. "

Born to be global : a closer look at the international venturing of Australian born global firms [book]

Author: Australian Business Foundation

Our eighteen case studies suggest that Australian born global firms are characterised by their ability to anticipate new global wants or to satisfy existing wants more adequately. They are uncommonly agile, persistent, and adept at managing a range of business functions and risks.

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The Three ways of getting things done : hierarchy, heterarchy & responsible autonomy in organizations [book]

Author: Gerard Fairlough
Considers what organisations really need to function well: leadership, organisational culture and coordination, and why hierarchical structures are not necessarily the best way for organisations to achieve their goals.

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The Search for stability : Boyer Lectures 2006

Author: Ian MacFarlane

The former governor of the Reserve Bank comments on successive federal governments’ economic policies and questions whether it is really possible to deliver economic stability.

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Who’s your city? : how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life [book]

Author: Richard Florida

"Shows how a new economic unit - the mega-region - is the real driver of the global economy ... [and] provides detailed rankings of the best places to live for every major stage of life." - cover.

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Detox your desk : declutter your life and mind [book]

Authors: Theo Theobald & Cary Cooper

“Helps you fight back by purging your system of office toxins, so you can take control of the everyday stuff and calmly field whatever lands in your intray ... starts with the physical clearing out of all the rubbish that litters your life and then gives you practical tips to help free up your thinking.” - cover.

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OECD framework for the evaluation of SME and entrepreneurship policies and programmes [e-book]

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

"Provides a forum for the international exchange of knowledge on best practice evaluation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship policy ... [and] seeks to be concrete, explicit, practical and accessible, drawing upon examples from a wide range of OECD countries." - page 9.

Through the looking glass : the future of domestic tourism in Australia [e-book]

Tourism Research Australia

Examines why the domestic tourism market has slumped in recent years, and proposes ways to make the industry more internationally competitive.

Tourism in OECD countries 2008 : trends and policies [e-book]

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

"Reviews some of the key economic challenges faced by developed economies to remain competitive in the global tourism market ... then examines the effects of the increasing globalisation of the international travel and tourism industry on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)." - page 3.

Resolving conflicts on the job [book]

Authors: Bill Withers & Jerry Wisinski

Chapters include: Why people fight at work, Five ways to engage conflict, Ways to listen, Ways to give (and receive) feedback, Conflict styles, Staying cool in a conflict, and Ways to engage conflict on the job: up, down, and sideways.

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Authenticity : what consumers really want [book]

Authors: James H. Gilmore & B. Joseph Pine II

Explains "that availability, cost, and quality no longer suffice. Today’s consumers seek the authentic where and when they buy ... [the authors] examines how successful enterprises identify themselves with their customers’ self-images and desires." - cover.

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