The objective of this paper is to review influential theories of regulation and corporate governance with a view to arriving at a rigorous inter-disciplinary framework for the analysis of centrally coordinated regional innovation and regional development policy.

James Juniper, Bill Mitchell and Jennifer Myers examine whether small businesses in Australia has higher rates of job creation than larger firms. They also consider whether so-called 'industrial relations' factors (wages, workers compensation, superannuation, union membership) retards rates of job creation in Australia. They find that larger firms are more dynamic in terms of job...