The purpose of this paper is to invoke a Foucauldian frameworkin order to re-thinkthe development of community-based tourism by focusing on the relationship between intermediaries and rural and isolated area communities ...

In 2007 the Australian wine industry is at a crossroads, both organizationally and culturally. Having achieved considerable success over the past three decades, the industry is now operating in the shadow of that success. ...

This paper proposes a consistent approach to discrete time valuation in insurance and finance. This approach uses the growth optimal portfolio as reference unit or benchmark. When used as benchmark, it is shown that all ...

This paper describes an empirical study on the outsourcing of the staff catering function in a sample of Australian businesses. It surveys 112 companies with steff catering facilities, and uses Tichy's (1982) TPC model ...

Call centre development has been extensive and ongoing across the industrial world. These developments have resulted from an ongoing process of consolidation and restructuring ofservice work that has been facilitated by ...

This article presents the results of a survey undertaken in mid 2009, the first of its type in Australia, that explored how organisations implement new or amended regulations and what influences their approach, particularly ...

Accurate scenario simulation methods for solutions of multi - dimensional stochastic differential equations find application in stochastic analysis, the statistics of stochastic processes and many other areas, for instance, ...

This paper examines whether a rule-based expert system is capable of outperforming the general property market, as well as randomly constructed portfolios from the market. While neural network expert systems have been ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of self-congruence on consumer satisfaction with services and to develop and test a conceptual model of the antecedents and consequences of consumer satisfaction ...