Global perspectives on achieving success in high and low cost operating environments

Manufacturing in a high cost environment: basis for future success on the national level / Göran Roos -- Competing from a high cost economy: what is the challenge to Australian public policy? / Ian Marsh -- Foundations for industrial rejuvenation: lessons from international and national experience / John Spoehr -- The role of local and regional institutions / John Tomaney -- Putting clusters to work / Rodin Genoff, Graeme Sheather -- Confronting the productivity challenge in the high cost economy: evidence from the Australian oil and gas industry / Jerad A. Ford, John Steen, Martie-Louise Verreynne, Bradley Farrell, Gerald Marion, Seelan Naicker -- Strategic roadmapping as a policy tool for meso-level industrial transformation: the case of cellulosic fibre value chain in the Green Triangle, South Australia / Toni Ahlqvist, John Kettle, Ville Valovirta, Nafty Vanderhoek -- Business innovation: beyond technology / Don Scott-Kemmis -- Design-led innovation: overcoming challenges to designing competitiveness to succeed in high cost environments / Sam Bucolo, Cara Wrigley -- The effects of Six Sigma Quality (SSQ) on innovation and organisational ambidexterity in a high operating cost environment / Milé Terziovski -- Managerial practices in a high cost manufacturing environment: a comparison with Australia and New Zealand / Renu Agarwal, Christopher Bajada, Paul J. Brown, Roy Green -- Supporting entrepreneurship in high cost economies: what can governments do? / Allan O'Connor, Graciela Corral de Zubielqui, Mushui Huanmei Li, Manjula Dissanayake -- Manufacturing in a high cost environment: basis for success on the firm level / Göran Roos