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In/formalization
No full textAddressing a variety of locations and subjects across several social contexts and countries, this forum intends to stimulate novel ways of conceptualizing the inevitable interpenetration and entanglement of formalization and informalization as two interlinked social processes. Rather than proposing a new coherent definition of “informality”, we propose to consider “in/formalization” as a space of practice and reflection which is crucial for engaging with contemporary economy, law and politics and their current local and global articulations and scenarios. The forum features contributions by Stamatis Amarianakis, Lenka Brunclíková, Dolores Koenig, B. Lynne Milgram, Sarah Muir, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Alan Smart, Mechthild von Vacano, Filippo M. Zerilli & Julie Trappe
First Smart Spaces
No full textThis document describes the Gloss software currently implemented. The description of the Gloss demonstrator for multi-surface interaction can be found in D17. The ongoing integration activity for the work described in D17and D8 constitutes our development of infrastructure for a first smart space. In this report, the focus is on infrastructure to support the implementation of location aware services. A local architecture provides a framework for constructing Gloss applications, termed assemblies, that run on individual physical nodes. A global architecture defines an overlay network for linking individual assemblies. Both local and global architectures are under active development
Towards a smart home framework
No full textWe present our Smart Home Framework (SHF) which simplifies the modelling, prototyping and simulation of smart infrastructure (i.e., smart home and smart communities). It provides the buildings blocks (e.g., home appliances) that can be extended and assembled together to build a smart infrastructure model to which appropriate AI techniques can be applied. This approach enables rapid modelling where new research initiatives can build on existing work
Mr Ian Macdougall and Alan Smart
No full textThese photos were NOT used in reporter.Mr. Ian Macdougall, Visitor ANU. One year music board fellowship. Mr. Macdougall was previously a science teacher at Canberra High School. 2nd man with curly hair is Alan Smart.
Event: The university is providing facilities for involvement in concerts for students.
Photographer: David Brooks, O'Connor, ACT
Petty capitalists and globalization : flexibility, entrepreneurship, and economic development
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-305) and index.edited by Alan Smart and Josephine Smart.Introduction / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- Petty production : the enduring alternative / Hill Gates -- Movers and fixers : historical forms of exploitation and the marketing of a regional economy in Spain / Gavin Smith and Susana Narotzky -- Flexibility for whom? : small-scale garment manufacturing in rural Mexico / Frances Abrahamer Rothstein -- Capitalism from below? : small firms, petty capitalists and regional transformations in Eastern Europe / Adrian Smith -- Global market and local concerns : petty capitalists in the Brianza / Simone Ghezzi -- They were promised a rosegarden : reunification and globalization in small- and medium-sized firms in eastern Germany / Hans Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler -- New firm formation and technical upgrading in the Taiwanese semiconductor industry : is petty commodity production still relevant to high-technology development? / Jinn-yuh Hsu -- Toward a (proper) postwar history of Asian petty capitalism : predation, the state, and Chinese small business capital in Malaysia / Donald M. Nonini -- Labour standard regulation and the modernization of small-scale carpet production in Kathmandu, Nepal / Tom O'Neill -- Fair(er) trade for global markets : capitalizing on work alternatives in crafts in the rural Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram -- The moral significance of petty capitalism / Michael Blim
Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights by Alan Smart and Josephine Smart
No full textReview of Alan Smart and Josephine Smart’s Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights
The role of e-procurement in purchasing management
No full textThis exposition summarises research published in several academic articles, in order
to meet the requirements of PhD by publication. The focus of the work is on the role
of electronic procurement in management of the purchasing function.
From the late 1990s a number of independent e-procurement mechanisms were
launched which offered potential benefits such as increased order accuracy,
transaction efficiency and greater integration between trading partners. At the outset
of this programme of research, e-procurement was therefore an emerging
phenomenon with little academic research and presented an opportunity to
investigate a largely unexplored area. Edmondson and McManus (2007) suggest that
for nascent, as opposed to mature areas of research, where few formal constructs or
measures exist, an exploratory, qualitative approach is required. This research
followed such an approach through the use of case studies, involving observation,
participation and interviews with key organisational actors. Each paper makes use of
several cases in order to compare and contrast results from different organisations
and to draw conclusions from multi-case analysis.
The published articles focus on the impact of core applications within e-procurement,
including online reverse auctions, electronic marketplaces, online catalogue sites,
and buying systems covering the ‘requisition to pay’ cycle. The findings from the
papers address a number of core themes in purchasing management. In considering
buyer-supplier relationships, it was observed that such dyads are driven by traditional
buyer negotiation factors such as segmentation, power and price and that use of eprocurement
applications tended to enforce such traditional behaviours. In relation to
the potential for integration, the study found that integration between firms was barely
affected, as the concept of integration was neither an objective nor a business case
driver for e-procurement adoption. This situation reflects the finding that procurement
managers pursue functional targets rather than supply chain-level objectives.
However, other significant effects from e-procurement adoption were noted such as
the tendency by buyers to reduce supplier numbers and a move to re-engineer the
procurement function in buying firms, through automating transactional processes.
The research finds that e-procurement does not have a deterministic impact on
purchasing management, and that it acts as an enabler to more effective
management of the function though the way its different mechanisms are deployed.
The exposition establishes that e-procurement is used in relation to supply conditions
which are characterised by both ‘markets’ and ‘hierarchies’, but that it is the predefined
purchasing strategy of the firm, rather than available technology solutions,
which determines when markets and hierarchies are used. Additionally, an original
model is introduced, focusing on developing an e-procurement policy which can
support strategic purchasing goals. This model extrapolates findings from stages in
the research, and marries together elements from various papers and frameworks
therein, to produce some guidelines for adoption of this technology
"Sorry to bother, but I was wondering if you've seen a chap called Bin Laden and his motley crew in these hereabouts?" [smart bomb looking for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; "20.04.2002, trouble finding Bin Laden in Afghanistan" -- Printed in ink on verso.; Published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 20 April 2002.; Part of the Moir collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3079423
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