The purpose of this paper is to examine how research teams serve as building blocks for collaboration at a field level, and how these building blocks are assembled by a network of interacting organizations. The field setting is a medical sciences consortium in Australia established to encourage...

1. Introduction : why this book and who for? / Rafael Ramirez, Kees van der Heijden and John Selsky -- 2. Conceptual and historical overview / Rafael Ramirez, John W. Selsky and Kees van der Heijden -- 3. How do scenario practices and search conferences complement each other? / Jaime Jimenez --...

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...