Better ways for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to do business with the department of defence /
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2011
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Paz, Germain,
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The Australian defence sector presents researchers with an example that is very different from conventional business environments. Firstly, the sector is essentially a monopsony, with the Australian Defence Organisation playing the role of the single buyer. Secondly, the sector is highly visible from the publicity perspective, due to the combination of large-costs projects and the scrutiny and politicisation of the Defence portfolio performance it receives in the media. Thirdly, the sector is essentially a two-tier structure, consisting of a small number of foreign owned prime contractors in uneasy and often fractious relationships with a large number of local small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These small companies, particularly in the area of defence high-technology, are often intensely specialised. This thesis aims to address the third of these points. By investigating the position and nature of high-technology SMEs in the Australian defence sector, the thesis will define the meaning of success for these SMEs and identify the characteristics that these SMEs should possess to meet that definition. Finally, the thesis aims to develop a group of methods and tools to enable these SMEs to evaluate, monitor, and improve their performance against these characteristics.
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University of South Australia. Defence and Systems Institute
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Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2011.
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Copyright 2011 Germain Paz. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Australia 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)
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xviii, 369 pages :
colour illustrations.
Includes bibliographic references (pages 261-296).
colour illustrations.
Includes bibliographic references (pages 261-296).
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