Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

Prometheus

Volume 9, Issue 1

Issue date: 01 June 1991

Journal: Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

ADVANCES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE INNOVATION STRATEGIES OF FIRMS Gerhard Rosegger	5
CHANGING MARKETS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES OPPORTUNITIES AND HAZARDS FOR CONSUMERS Jeremy Mitchell	21
THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UPON ECONOMIC SCIENCE Paul A. David, W. Edward Steinmueller	35
PAPUA NEW GUINEA'S EXPORT-CROP RESEARCH: PAST RETURNS AND EXPECTED ECONOMIC EFFECTS George Antony, Kevin A. Parton	62
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF TWO AUSTRALIAN WOMEN SCIENTISTS TO ITS WOOL INDUSTRY Nessy Allen	81
KNOWLEDGE AS CAPITAL: INTEGRATED QUALITY MANAGEMENT Milan Zeleny	93
ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND THE REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GASES Anthony D. Owen	102
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF TELEPHONE USE IN AUSTRALIA Grant Noble	122
AUSTRALIAN, US AND UK TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS Julian Lowe, Martin Atkins	138
The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State by Peter K. Eisinger (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1989), pp. ix + 378, $US 17.50, ISBN 0-2990-11874-6 (pbk.) Jane Marceau	147
Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R&D, 1902 – 1980 by David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988), pp. xx + 756, $99.00, ISBN 0-521-32767-9 Laurie Hammond, Pete Saunders	150
A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics and the Strategic Defense Initiative by Sanford Lakoff and Herbert F. York (University of California Press, Berkeley, USA, 1989), pp xv + 409, $US35.00, ISBN 0-520-06650-2 Keith Hartley	153
Science, Technology and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany by John Gimbel (Stanford Universit y Press, California, 1990), pp. xv + 280, $US28.50, ISBN 0-8047-1761-3 Stuart Macdonald	155
Technology Strategies in Australian Industry by The Centre for Technology and Social Change, University of Wollongong (Ron Johnston, Don Scott-Kemmis, TerryDarling, Fran Collyer, David Roessner and John Currie) , (AGPS, Canberra, 1990), pp. vii + 89, ISBN 0-644-12441-5	156
Setting Directions for Australian Research by the Australian Science and Technology Council (AGPS, Canberra, 1990), pp. xvi + 94, ISBN 0-664-12379-6	156
Small Country, Big Science by the Australian Science and Technology Council (AGPS, Canberra, 1990), pp. viii + 60, ISBN 0-644-11982-9 Peter Hall	156
Travel and Tourism Report by Industries Assistance Commission (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1989), $AUS24.00 Linda K. Richter	160
Science and Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry by Helen E. Longino (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1990), pp. ix + 262, $USI3.95, ISBN 0 86287 836 4 (pbk.) Helen Verran-Watson	161
Economics of Tourism: Case Study and Analysis edited by Clem A. Tisdell, Colin J. Aislabie and P.J. Stanton (Institute of Industrial Economics, Newcastle, Australia, 1988), pp. vii + 378, ISBN 0-7259-0538-3 Pascal Tremblay	164
Pollution and the Struggle for the World Product: Multinational Corporations Environment and International Comparative Advantage by H. Jeffrey Leonard (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1988), pp. 254, $US42.50 ISBN 0-521-34042-X Joseph H. Vogel	167
When Knowledge is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations by Ernst B. Haas (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990), pp. xii + 266, $US29.95, ISBN 0-520-06646-4 D. McL. Lamberton	169
Frameworks of Power by Stewart R. Clegg (Sage, London, 1989), pp. xix + 297, £25, ISBN 0-8039-8161-9 Mitchell Dean	171
In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century by Rosemary Stevens (Basic Books, New York, 1989), pp. xii + 432, $US 24.95, ISBN 0-465-03223-0 D. P. Doessel	174
The Mind Has No Sex: Women in the origins of modern science by Londa Schiebinger (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989), pp. viii + 347, ISBN 0-674-57623 D. Russell	177
A Future of Lousy Jobs? edited by Gary Burtless (The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1990), pp. xiv + 242, $USlO.95, ISBN 0-8157-1180-8 Noel Whiteside	179
American Science Policy since World War II by Bruce L R Smith (The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1990), pp. ix + 230, ISBN 0-8157-7998-4, 0-8157-7997-6 (pbk) Fred Jevons	181
A Fragile Power Scientists and the State by Chandra Mukerji (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1989), pp. xxiii + 253, ISBN 0-691-08538-2 Fred Jevons	181
Cognitive Economy: The Economic Dimension of the Theory of Knowledge by Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1989), pp. x +168, $US29.95, ISBN 0-8229-3617-8 D. McL. Lamberton	184
Technology and the Tyranny of Export Controls: Whisper Who Dares by Stuart Macdonald (Macmillan, London, 1990), pp. xi + 206, £35, ISBN 0-333-49374-5 William B.T. Mock	187
Economics and Sociology. Redefining their boundaries: conversations with economists and sociologists by Richard Swedberg (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990), pp. viii + 361, $USI2.95, ISBN 0-691-00376-9 (pbk.) Cyril Belshaw	189
British Technology and European Industrialisation. The Norwegian Textile Industry in the Mid Nineteenth Century by Kristine Bruland (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989), pp. x + 193, $76.50, ISBN 0521 35083 2 Stuart Macdonald	191
Deciphering Science and Technology — The Social Relations of Expertise edited by Ian Varcoe, Maureen McNeil and Steven Yearley (Macmillan, London, 1990), pp. xi + 256, $12.99, ISBN 0 333 46555 5 (pbk.)	193
In Science We Trust? Moral and Political issues of Science in Society edited by Aant Elzinga, Jan Nolin, Rob Pranger, Sune Sunesson (Science and Technology Policy Studies, 2, Chartwell Bratt, Kent, UK), pp. 392, ISBN 0 86238 261 0 Helen Verran-Watson	193
Beyond The Technology Race: An Analysis of Technology Policy in Seven Industrial Countries by Annemieke J.M Roobeek (Elsevier Science Publishing, New York, 1990), pp. xiii + 269, $US92.25, ISBN 0-414-86637-0 Meheroo Jussawalla	196
Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation by Alan Wolfe (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989), pp. xvii + 371, ISBN 0-520-06551-4 John Wiseman	198
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day by David R. Roediger and Philip S. Foner (Greenwood Press, New York, 1989), pp. xii + 380, $US39.95, ISBN 0-313-26062-1 Belinda Probert	199
Electronic Highways for World Trade: Issues in Telecommunication and Data Services edited by Peter Robinson, Karl P. Sauvant and Vishwas P. Govitrikar (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado 1989), pp. xiii + 367, $AUS55.00, ISBN 0-8133-7764-1 Chee-Wah Cheah	201
The Australian Institute of Health (AIH) Publications	203
Scitech Technology Directory, 1991 Edition compiled by Jane Ford (Scitech Publications, Canberra, 1991) pp. 250, $A110 plus $A5 postage and handling, ISSN 1030-4649	203
Australian Science and Technology Communicators Register by Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1990), pp. 219, ISBN 0-644-13740-1	204
CIRCIT Working Papers Series edited by D. McL. Lamberton (Centre for International Research on Communication Technologies (CIRCIT), Melbourne), ISSN 1035-5537	204
CIRCIT Policy Research Paper Series edited by William H. Melody (Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (CIRCIT), Melbourne), ISSN 1034-2117	205
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INTERCOMMUNICATION OF NEW IDEAS	206