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Accommodation Providers’ Responses to Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Rising global concerns over climate change are one of today’s major challenges to the tourism sector and its subsectors, such as the accommodation industry. Given the limited progress in understanding climate change in the ... -
Do Lawyers make a Distinctive Contribution to Tax Policy-making?: Reflections on the Contributions of Lawyers to Tax Policy-making in New Zealand
(2017)Lawyers play an important part in tax policy making in New Zealand (NZ). This paper briefly reviews NZ’s Generic Tax Policy Process (GTPP), and then turns it focus on the important contributions legal practitioners and ... -
Social development and language development : what is the relationship?
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Research has demonstrated that delays in social development and academic development tend to correlate in the teenage years. In light of this, the present study aimed to explore the nature of the relationship between social ... -
Promise fulfilled?: a yin-yang opportunity-outcome-process (O-O-P) framework for the individual-opportunity (IO) nexus.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis submits its conceptual opportunity-outcome-process (O-O-P) framework to complement and operationalize the dualistic individual-opportunity (IO) nexus notion (Venkataraman, 1997) as an integrated theory of startup ... -
Essays on static panel data models with dependent errors : simulation and application.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This research aims to study the performance of a sample of linear static panel data estimators. Many panel data estimators are incorporated in econometric packages, readily available to researchers. They use different ... -
Productivity-real exchange rate nexus : revisiting the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis for emerging Asia.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)This dissertation deals with the economics of equilibrium real exchange rates in the context of Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis. For developing economies of East and South Asia (ASEAN and SAARC), trend deviations in real ... -
How is a social licence represented in the context of New Zealand?
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The Social Licence to Operate (SLO) concept was introduced in the late 1990’s as a means by which mining companies could prevent opposition from communities and stakeholders to their operations. The employment of the SLO ... -
”It’s all for attention” : exploring the forms of online anti-social behaviour.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Anti-social behaviour online is an under-researched form of consumer misbehaviour, despite its wide-spread prevalence on social networking sites (hereafter, SNSs). It appears that misbehaving consumers are adopting anti-social ... -
Flagships and visual merchandising : effect of retail store type on shopper response to visual merchandising in the fashion clothing industry.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis aims to investigate the possible effect of retail store type on shopper response to visual merchandising. Specifically, this thesis uses the context of the fashion clothing industry to examine, in the flagship ... -
Organisational IS resilience: A pilot study using Q-methodology
(2013)Organisational resilience has gained increasing attention in recent years. This paper focuses on an aspect of organisational resilience, i.e., on IS resilience. Given the potentially devastating implications of disruptions ... -
An investigation into enterprise resource planning implementation success: Evidence from private and public sector organizations
(2014)Enterprise resource planning systems are adopted to improve productivity and overall business performance in organizations. Implementation of these systems requires considerable financial and labour investment and ... -
Does organizational identification lead to user involvement?
(2014)User involvement in information system development has long received research attention due to its significant effects on information system success. Prior studies have tended to focus on the consequences of user ... -
Examining the effect of social media tools on virtual team conflicts: A process model
(2015)This research investigates how the use of social media tools affects virtual team conflicts. The novel concept of “feature richness”, which is understood as affordances of social media tools, is theorized. Feature ... -
How CEOs of small firms make decisions to ensure information systems resilience?
(2015)Information Systems are essential for successful organisation. If Information System interrupts, the whole business continuity is compromised. Organisational resilience has gained increasing attention in recent years. ... -
Governing information systems resilience: a case study
(2016)Organisational resilience has gained increasing attention in recent years. This research focuses on an aspect of organisational resilience, i.e., on Information Systems (IS) resilience. To the best of researchers’ ... -
Top management team decision priorities to drive IS resilience: lessons from Jade Software Corporation
(2016)In this paper, we adopt Agency Theory and Weill’s IT Governance framework to investigate the decision priorities of senior executives in the context of IS resilience planning, which falls under the broader umbrella of ... -
When the shaking stops, the thinking starts : a grounded theory of turnover decision making in the context of a significant extra-organisational shock.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Voluntary turnover has been the subject of scholarly inquiry for more than 100 years and much is understood about the drivers of turnover, and the decision-making processes involved. To date most models of voluntary ... -
Understanding Malaysian food retailers’ perception of and attitude towards organic certification.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)This research focuses on Malaysian retailers' perception of and attitude towards organic certification. Organic certification is one type of food certification that is used to demonstrate product attributes in order to ...
