Governments in Australia increasingly rely on private sector service providers to improve efficiency in public service delivery and have entered into a range of business partnerships with those providers. This article considers the effectiveness of public-private partnership models used in...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise and validate a scale to capture entrepreneurship behaviour at the human resource management (HRM) functional level. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing from the HRM and entrepreneurship literature, this paper first conceptualises and...

This paper provides an account of Australian immigration in the late twentieth century focusing on labour market and industrial relations issues. The paper chronicles the changing immigration policy framework, from one premised on exclusion to one designed primarily to serve the needs of the...

Examines the range and changing nature of the initiatives implemented by Australian governments under the rubric of equal opportunity. Reviews the character and trends in the Australian labour market. Provides an account of the public policy framework, including industrial relations,...

<title>Abstract</title> In this paper we examine how different contextual factors influence the nature of new public management (NPM) reforms and the state of public accountability in Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It is notable that these countries fall into two distinct groups and that even...