... Pharmaceutical supply chain Qualitative Australia A healthcare system is contingent upon an efficient and effective pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) which ensures the provision and supply of life saving drugs, equipment and healthcare products with minimal delays, shortages and error (Mehralian et...

... modelling (SEM) Partial least squares (PLS) Interrelationships among antecedent Australia System quality is an important attribute, an enabler for information system success and necessary for achieving performance goals (DeLone and McLean, 2004). It is one of the key contributing factors to adoption...

... for innovation adoption (Chau and Hui, 2001). Typically, government can play a vital role for encouraging technology adoption by raising awareness, training, and support, including funding (Chong and Ooi, 2008). There is a paucity of research concerning HRIS adoption in the public sector in Australia...

...Maruf Hasan; Nga T. Trinh; Felix T.S. Chan; Hing Kai Chan; Sai Ho Chung Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons for implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in Australia and the issues encountered during the course of implementation. Design/methodology...

... Relationship marketing Construction industry Australia Relationship marketing (RM) embodies international, industrial and services marketing and in a business context is superseding traditional marketing theory (Gummesson, 1999). RM's relevance to construction supply chains can be attributed to two...

... in this paper investigates whether coping and affect (both negative and positive) influence adjustment (anxiety, depression and stress) among IT personnel. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 100 IT personnel from Australia completed a questionnaire, which contained measures for adjustment, affect state...

... quality Manufacturing industries Australia Much has been written about quality as a source of competitive advantage in the last decade; however, little attention has been given to examine how quality performance can be effectively employed as a base for realising firms' competitive strategy...

... to commercial web site owners and designers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Worldwide web Commercial services Australia Forrester Research Institute (2000) reported that business‐to‐consumer (B2C) business over the internet reached US$518 million in USA in 1996, and in 1997...

... and fully into a number of Siemens' regional companies. In Asian Pacific areas, eight Siemens companies have adopted the system. In September 2002, Siemens (Australia) decided to join in the waves of rollout to replace its obsolete SAP R/2 with SAP R/3. Siemens (Australia) has an employee team of over...

... offices throughout Australia. Approximately 100 staff are IT professionals, most of whom are located at the head office. Representatives from each stakeholder group defined in the framework were interviewed about their perceptions of selected data quality issues in accounting information. Additional...

.... They diversified into such services as interior design, environmental design, and landscape architecture. They invested in calculated risks by developing the first solar house (Solar I) in Australia. They have also pioneered in efforts to use “environmentally friendly” building design and management processes...

... (be it in goods or services). Marketing’s universally accepted wisdoms ‐ those that are the basic building blocks for its textual meta‐narratives ‐ find variation in their applicability to different kinds of organisations. Two consumer retail industries in Melbourne, Australia that have been the subject of recent...

... in a recent review by Still and Mortimer[ 3 ],concerns have been expressed as to the ability of Australia′s manufacturing sector to respond to growing international competition for almost 20 years, with the Jackson Report of 1975 representing an early example. A consistent theme of the earlier reports...

... on the other unions representing small groups in a host of supplier firms. Attempts are in train to address these structural difficulties too, but they have been greeted with some scepticism. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Australia Labour disputes Motor industry Just‐in‐time Product management 8...