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Impending Doom: The Loss of Diversification before a Crisis
(2017)We present four methods of assessing the diversification potential within a stock market, and two of these are based on principal component analysis. They were applied to the Australian stock exchange for the years 2000 ... -
Consumers' attitudes and behaviours toward the sponsors of a football club.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis aims to investigate whether people’s attitudes and behaviours toward certain types of commercial brands change when these, become a sponsoring partner of a well-known international football club. Specifically, ... -
Financial Insights from the Last Few Components of a Stock Market PCA
(2017)We show that the last few components in the principal component analysis of the correlation matrix of a group of stocks may contain useful financial insights by identifying highly correlated pairs or larger groups of ... -
Examining the perceived risks of contactless card acceptance in the New Zealand market
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Contactless payment is a modern addition to transaction technology and has gained traction in New Zealand through the advent of contactless bank cards. Consumers no longer require security PINs for low value transactions ... -
Emerging issues in digital marketing
(2017)This Special Issue of the Journal of Consumer Marketing (JCM) represents a selection of best papers presented at the 2016 Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) annual conference in Christchurch, New Zealand. ... -
Circumstances of a Pacific atoll people in diaspora: a retrospective analysis of I-Nikunau
(LMU Munich, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2017)Life for people on many atolls is undoubtedly hard, frequently affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions to name a few. It is little wonder then that kinship is the foundation of many atoll ... -
Post-catastrophe insurance supply and demand: theory and evidence
(University of Canterbury, 2017)In September 2010 and February 2011, the Canterbury region experienced devastating earthquakes with an estimated economic cost of over NZ$40 billion (Parker and Steenkamp, 2012; Timar et al., 2014; Potter et al., 2015). ... -
Supply Chain Management in New Zealand: Practices, Strategy and Performance.
(Q21 Research Group, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2017)Supply chain management is an important part of New Zealand (NZ) economy yet relatively little empirical evidence is available about the practices of NZ firms and their impact on supply chain performance. In this study, we ... -
Quantitative materiality disclosure and the impact on investor decision making and perceptions of audit quality
(University of Canterbury, 2017)For publically listed New Zealand (NZ) companies with a balance date post-December 2016, the disclosure of Key Audit Matters will become mandatory. This requirement, aimed at enhancing the information value of audit reports, ... -
An exploratory study of the practice of corporate planning and programme budgeting in the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga: evidence from a central government agency
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Purpose – This research explores how corporate planning and programme budgeting are practised by the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga, focussing on their application by a central government agency, the Office of the ... -
Does cooperation enhance competitiveness? : assessing the impacts of collaborative business relationships
(University of Canterbury, 2000)Collaboration among firms is now a ubiquitous phenomenon. Many theoretical and managerial perspectives argue that firms that collaborate will outperform those firms that take independent approaches. This thesis reports the ... -
New Zealand’s look-through company regime: a tax practitioners’ perspective
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This research explores look-through companies (LTCs) from the perspective of tax practitioners. Specifically, LTCs are compared with their predecessor, loss-attributing qualifying companies (LAQCs), in order to evaluate ... -
The Foreign Exchange Carry Trade
(University of Canterbury, 2017)I examine the foreign exchange (FX) carry trade, using both single currency and portfolio construction techniques. Chapter I looks at the background, the mechanics of constructing the FX carry trade, and the returns ... -
Before/after : the governance of urban tourist spaces in the context of the Christchurch CBD recovery
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Research in the governance of urban tourist spaces is characterized by a lack of argumentative inquiry and scant use of critical theory. This is evident, particularly, in the study of tourism and post-disaster urban recovery, ... -
Modeling supply chain risks and ways to ameliorate negative effects on the supply chain performance and reputation of firm in the dairy industry
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Supply chain risk has become an issue of significance for many dairy firms across the globe. The complexity of the supply chain has increased due to various levels of raw material sourcing, uncertain market conditions, ... -
Product costing using activity-based costing : a case study
(University of Canterbury, 1990)As manufacturing enterprises have become less labour-paced the process of recovering overheads by allocation on the basis of direct labour costs has been challenged. It has been claimed by proponents of Activity-based ... -
Rethinking terrorist financing; where does all this lead?
(2015)Purpose - The approach taken by international laws and standards to impede terrorism treats terrorist financing as another form (predicate crime) of money laundering. This approach justifies the integration of terrorist ...
