- Title
- Regional small business perceptions of the Internet: the case of Wyong Shire
- Creator
- Flint, Jacqueline A.; Herbert, Ric D.; Leeves, Gareth D.
- Relation
- Australasian Journal of Regional Studies Vol. 8, Issue 1, p. 67-81
- Relation
- http://www.anzrsai.org/index.pl?page=9
- Publisher
- Regional Science Association, Australian and New Zealand Section
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- This paper examines the use of the Internet by small and medium-sized businesses in the Wyong Shire, a rapidly growing region of the NSW Central Coast for which policy makers have considered use of the Internet as a business tool to encourage employment in the region. Survey data are used to focus on how businesses perceive the importance of the Internet for their future and the extent to which they appear strategically organised and able to take up the potential of the Internet. It finds that the average business does not consider the Internet to be important for its future, nor does it evidence much strategic organisation. There is some indication of the presence of very small, young start-ups ready to grow via the Internet platform. If regional development policy is to focus on the Internet as a development vehicle, it needs also to understand how and why the Internet is being used, not just whether it is being used by businesses.
- Subject
- internet; Wyong Shire; business perceptions; future growth; economic development
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34892
- Identifier
- uon:3744
- Identifier
- ISSN:1324-0935
- Language
- eng
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