Thesis (MBus) -- University of South Australia, 1994

In recent years, industrial finance has experienced and is continuing to experience significant changes brought about by the development of venture or risk capital. Venture capital is now well-known as a means of providing good financial backup for innovative enterprises, in particular for information technology and communications technology. The technology-based venture capital enterprise, focusing on communication technology and the cellular market in China, is the primary focus of this research. / PhD Doctorate

The Theory of Disruptive Technologies put forward by Clayton Christensen in 1997 has attracted significant attention. This case study tests the hypothesis that the theory is generalisable to new situations. It uses datasource triangulation by using document, statistical and interview analyses (including investigator triangulation) to apply the Theory to Australian Digital Theses Program (ADT) and finds that the Program may indeed be a disruptive technology in relation to academic libraries, universities and to the publishing industry. However, it has greater potential to be disruptive in the latter, and to be a sustaining technology, as defined by the Theory, in relation to libraries and universities.

This thesis analyses the material and ideological dimensions of the knowledge economy with particular reference to New Zealand. The emergence of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of transnational capitalism precipitates the co modification of information, communication and knowledge. This process is obscured by the ideological construction of techno-futurism. Techno-futurism is a combination of technological determinism and futurism that appropriates notions of progress. In the pages which follow, historical analyses of this ideology inform the subsequent critique of knowledge economy discourse. In New Zealand knowledge economy discourse contained techno-futurist elements and deflected attention from the global absorption of national capitalism. In this context the Catching the Knowledge Wave Conference (KWC), held in Auckland in the first days of August 2001, is examined. I argue that the instigators and organisers of the conference were enmeshed within the business culture of finance capital and ICTs. Textual analysis of keynote addresses reveals the ideological dimensions to knowledge wave and knowledge economy talk. These dimensions are; entrepreneurialism, knowledge as (economic) progress, and globalism.

This case study, conducted in a vocational and technical education institution at post secondary level, was concerned with the effects of an organization development intervention on the ability of an organization to implement a planned change initiated by itself. More specifically, the study hypothesized that organization development, or change to the organization itself, could enhance the process of planned change by the organization. The study develops at length the concept and theory of implementing planned change, of the critical importance of common understandings and shared expectations to this process, and of the centrality of resocialization and social interaction in successful implementation. The study also lists in detail the events and procedures used in this particular organization development intervention, as well as the concept and theory underlying organization development. A number of principles which guided the author's intervention activities are also listed and examined. Data on organizational change induced by the intervention were collected over a period of two years through a questionnaire, used for repeated measures, and through participant observation. These data are presented both quantitatively and qualitatively in the study. The qualitative data are presented in the form Eisner (1979) has described as "educational criticism". Data on the implementation of planned change were collected through a questionnaire, used for repeated measures, a structured interview technique closely based on the Levels of Use methodology (Ha22 et aZ, 1975), and through participant observation data. Data were again collected over a period of two years and are presented both quantitatively and qualitatively. The study indicates clearly that the organizational intervention was successful in bringing about organizational change across a broad range of variables. These changes included organizational elements which research has identified as determinants of the implementation process, The study also indicates that during the period of the intervention the education institution concerned enhanced its ability to implement planned change, and that this enhanced ability was closely related to the organizational changes which had occurred as a result of the organization development intervention.

Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Lincoln University, 2007.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, School of Communication, 2007. / "December, 2007." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 02/22/2008) Advisor, Young Lin; Committee members, Carolyn Anderson, Heather Walter; Interim School Director, Carolyn Anderson; Dean of the College, James Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-140).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Seton Hall University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-112).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: C.T.P. Diamond.