• Essays on the impact of microcredit on women’s empowerment. 

  Vo, Diem Thi Hong (2022)

  This thesis consists of four studies exploring whether microcredit alleviates poverty and enhances women’s empowerment. The first three main chapters carefully replicate two influential studies in the field: Pitt and ...

• A meta-analysis of the effect of robotics upon labour employment 

  Tier, Mitchell Stephen (2022)

  Using 2438 estimates collected over 32 studies, I conduct a meta analysis to investigate the relationship between robotics and employment. Using both fixed and random effects weighted least squares regressions, I find ...

• The magnitude of base erosion and profit shifting of multinational enterprises with their business operations in New Zealand. 

  Chen, Siew Yee (2022)

  The concept of base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) was first introduced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2013. BEPS refers to tax avoidance practices employed notably by multinational ...

• Cultural influences on strategising in a Dutch-Vietnamese shipbuilding international joint venture. 

  Nguyen, Thai Chuyen (2021)

  Despite the considerable increase in research on international joint ventures (IJVs) related to both the performance and success of strategic alliances over the last couple of decades, studies suggest that this business ...

• Empirical evidence on readability of key audit matters in NZ audit reports. 

  Tuan Besar, Syarifah Nur Sakinah (2021)

  This thesis provides empirical evidence on the readability of Key Audit Matters (KAMs) and its determinants. The analyses are based on the New Zealand publicly listed companies with its audit reports in 2017 and 2019. This ...

• Rise of technomoral virtues for artificial intelligence-based emerging technologies’ users and producers : threats to personal information privacy, the privacy paradox, trust in emerging technologies, and virtue ethics. 

  Bilal, Adil (2022)

  In terms of communication and internationalization, global openness is a defining characteristic of this era due to the revolution in advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs). While these emerging ...

• Generation Z and their managers : experiences and expectations of interactions in contemporary workplaces. 

  Jensen, Jake Thomas (2021)

  Generation Z are the latest cohort to join the workforce, presenting managers with the challenge of managing four generations simultaneously. A growing body of literature has identified the defining characteristics of Gen ...

• What factors influence Pacific Island restaurants to offer wine? 

  Mika-Zahidi, Catherine Mary (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  Although wine is generally available in restaurants in most of the world and especially in international tourist destinations, there is little available research on restaurant wine offers in tropical countries and particularly ...

• Holistic modelling of car rental sub-problems 

  Howson, Sean (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  The car rental fleet management literature from its inception has made bounds in identifying key sub-problems which are faced by car rental companies in operating sustainably in the industry such as pool segmentation, fleet ...

• Reporting and measuring environmental impacts of dairying: perceptions and practices 

  Zamri, Inani Husna (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  The growing importance of environmental challenges, the majority of which are tied to businesses' continual use of resources, energy, and groundwater, as well as the buildup of environmental-related expenditures, mandates ...

• Essays on the general determinants of consumption and savings 

  Song, Zhongchen (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This thesis consists of 4 studies linked together by my attempts to study the determinants and behavior of consumption and savings. Chapter One provides an introduction and background for this thesis. Chapter Two replicates ...

• Understanding how education affects students’ attitudes towards tax evasion and tax avoidance in New Zealand. 

  Zhang, Ye (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  Previous scholars have come to conflicting conclusions on the relationship between tax education and taxpayer attitudes towards tax evasion. In addition, the impact of tax education on taxpayers’ tax avoidance attitudes ...

• Chinese thinking, foreign strategy : the administrative heritage of Chinese multinational enterprises. 

  van Bommel, Roland (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  The study of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) entering foreign markets has been a widely researched topic in International Business (IB) for over sixty years. Internalisation theory and the Uppsala model became leading ...

• Social marketing through the fog of smoking : a systematic review investigating social marketing feature use. 

  Watson, John N. R. (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This thesis presents the findings of a systematic literature review addressing the use of social marketing indicators within studies directed towards tobacco cessation that self-identifying as social marketing. Globally, ...

• A systematic review of social marketing interventions of men’s help seeking for intimate partner violence. 

  McKegg, Tessa Marie (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This thesis presents the findings of a systematic literature review on the social marketing interventions and campaigns targeting male victims of intimate partner violence, and its key subgroups; domestic violence, sexual ...

• Adoption of H&S practices in shipbreaking operations : an empirical investigation of shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh. 

  Tanha, Moutushi (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  In many contexts where resources are finite, the recycling of different waste products has proved to be economically valuable. This is certainly true for the dismantling of large ocean- going ships at the end of their ...

• Essays on the relationship between the research achievements of academics and student outcomes. 

  Khurana, Swati (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This study assesses how being taught by “research-active” university departments affects the learning of undergraduate university students. No direct measures of teaching output exist, which makes this research challenging. ...

• Consumer perceptions of artificial intelligence avatars : linking cognitive evaluations to behavioural responses. 

  Ryan, Josh Mark (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  The purpose of this research was to understand the direct effects of multiple AI (artificial intelligence) genders, purchase types, and anthropomorphised levels (environmental stimuli), on consumers’ cognitive, and behavioural ...

• Does attachment to a third place influence individual behaviours across different geographical scales?: The case of the Imagination Station. 

  Huang, Yuying (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  Civil society requires the provision of distinctive public places for informal public gatherings in order to nurture human associations and relationships. Such spaces are often described as ‘third places’. Growing evidence ...

• Factors that influence employee participation in workplace mental wellbeing initiatives : the role of leadership. 

  Little, Sarah Hazel Jane (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This study examines the factors that influence employee participation in workplace mental wellbeing initiatives. Extant research consistently shows that employee participation rates are low, typically between 1–50 percent. ...

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