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Attributing consequences to accountancy: Pacific insights
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2009)
Purpose – The question is addressed of how types of consequences of accounting can be identified and classified. In doing so, an analysis is conducted of consequences for Kain Nikunau (i.e. indigenous persons of Nikunau ...
Systematically Biased Beliefs about Political Influence: Evidence from the Perceptions of Political Influence on Policy Outcomes Survey
(University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2011)
Retrospective voting circumvents many of voters' cognitive limitations, but if voters' attributional judgements are systematically biased, retrospective voting becomes an independent source of political failure. We design ...
Ethnic minority self-employment: An inter-group comparison of embeddedness
(University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2013)
This paper explores the antecedents of different rates of self-employment among selected ethnic minority groups in a developed and ethnically-diverse nation. The study captures the embedding characteristics of the Pacific ...
Co-worker relationships and organisational misfit
(University of Canterbury. Management, 2009)
Employees perform better, are healthier, happier, and stay longer in environments in which they fit (Kristof-Brown, Zimmerman, & Johnson, 2005). In line with this, organizations wish to improve fit, and research has typically ...
Stock Market Volatility around National Election
(University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2006)
In a sample of 27 OECD countries, this paper investigates whether the event of a
national election induces higher stock market volatility. It is found that the country-
specific component of index return variance can ...
Caring in Austerity Time in the EU post-financial crisis
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2014)
The importance of accessible, affordable and high quality childcare is acknowledged by the EU but legal development has been ad hoc, slow and lacks coherence. Since the financial crisis, the EU intervention on care issues ...
The EU and the Challenge of Eldercare
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2015)
This paper aims to explore how the law and policy of the European Union (EU) have engaged, with the challenges of an ageing population. It focuses on one of such challenges, namely the Long Term Care (LTC) requirements ...
What if... all women everywhere were treated the same as men?
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2015)
The influence of co-worker relationships on person-organisation misfit.
(University of Canterbury. Management, 2010)
Developing Local Partners in Emergency Planning and Management: Lyttleton Time Bank as a Builder and Mobiliser of Resources during the Canterbury Earthquakes
(University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2013)
This research examines a surprising partner in emergency management - a local community time bank. Specifically, we explain the role of the Lyttelton Time Bank in promoting community resiliency following the Canterbury ...
