• A Grounded Theory exploration of the role of relationships beyond the formal contract in public sector construction management 

  Cotter Tait, S. K. (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This research explores the differing understandings of the concept of relationships and the associated approaches used by construction managers in delivering public sector projects. Relationship-based social processes ...

• The Corporate Governance Role of Audit Committees: Through the Lenses of New Zealand Institutional Investors 

  Wu JY; Feehily R; Lord, Beverley; wu (Wiley, 2021)

  This paper explores how directors of New Zealand institutional investor entities perceive the role of audit committees in their investee firms. We find that perceptions of audit committee mechanisms by directors of ...

• 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 ...

• Red flags for IPO downfalls in New Zealand 

  Dang H; Jolly M (Emerald, 2017)

  Purpose: The strong performance of New Zealand’s equity market and the Government’s efforts to encourage small investors to invest in initial public offering (IPO) firms raises two questions: should retail investors invest ...

• 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 ...

• Problem-Based Learning and International Commercial Dispute Resolution in the Indian Ocean 

  Feehily R (Informa UK Limited, 2018)

  One of the primary challenges for a law lecturer is to take students beyond their own assumptions about the parameters of a subject and provide them with new oppor tunities for exploration and a broader vision to enhance ...

• After the earth moved : accounting and accountability for earthquake relief and recovery in the early twentieth-century New Zealand 

  Vosslamber R (SAGE Publications, 2015)

  There has been little discussion of what archival accounting evidence can contribute to an understanding of a society’s response to a natural disaster. This article focuses on two severe earthquakes which struck New Zealand ...

• Ethnicity and engagement in first year New Zealand Law programmes 

  Taylor L; Brogt E; Cheer U; Baird N; Caldwell J; Wilson D (Informa UK Limited, 2017)

  This paper investigated the extent to which the engagement levels of a self-selected cohort of students enrolled in first-year law programmes at three New Zealand universities varied according to ethnicity. When viewed in ...

• 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. ...

• Australia, Wet or Dry, North or South: Addressing environmental impacts and the exclusion of Aboriginal peoples in northern water development 

  O'Neill L; Godden L; Macpherson EJ; O'Donnell E (2016)

  In view of the drive in policy circles to develop northern Australia and the concomitant dependence on water resources this will involve, this article argues that environmental and distributive justice considerations are ...

• Research on Digital Inclusion: narratives for connecting outcomes with indicators 

  Sharma R; John B; Kankanhalli A (2019)

• Editorial 

  Sawyer A; Tan LM (2020)

• Contemporary issues of rural family entrepreneurship: Case of Russian indigenous family businesses. 

  Polbitsyn S; Earl A; Bagirova A; Kluev A (2020)

  Purpose: The study focuses on the research of rural family businesses of indigenous people in Russia. The social problems that these people face are related to ensuring the stability of the rural family business, which ...

• Biosecurity hazards and the duty of care 

  Todd S (2020)

• Sourcing product quality for foreign market entry 

  Koska OA (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019)

  This study employs a differentiated Cournot model with both horizontal and vertical product differentiation. It scrutinizes the implications of frictions over manufacturing high quality (upstream market power) on the ...

• Essays on commodity markets 

  Koeman, Jan (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  Agricultural Commodities are a large portion of the New Zealand Economy, and a better understanding of commodity markets is useful for New Zealand market participants, especially in the dairy sector. This thesis studies ...

• DOES THE TEA MARKET REQUIRE A FUTURES CONTRACT? EVIDENCE FROM THE SRI LANKAN TEA MARKET 

  Bialkowski J; Perera D; Bohl MT (2020)

  Tea is one of the most popular beverages in the world. Its consumption exceeds the consumption of milk, coffee and orange juice. Despite its importance, tea has not been considered a commodity on financial markets and ...

• Empowering Vulnerable Microfinance Women Through Entrepreneurship: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way forward 

  Tanima FA; Ranabahu, Nadeera (2021)

  Purpose: This review explores how vulnerabilities arising from physical impairments, age, widowhood, forced displacement due to war or natural disasters, and sexual orientation affect women’s microfinance related ...

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