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Reality and Myth: The New Zealand Media and the Chilling Effect of Defamation Law
(University of Canterbury. Law, 2008)
In 2001, I began the field work in an empirical study of the laws of defamation in New Zealand. This study involved a comprehensive mail-out survey of the New Zealand media, and an adapted survey of defamation lawyers, ...
New Zealand Media Law Update
(University of Canterbury. School of Law, 2008)
It has been a typically busy period for New Zealand media law in the year or so under review. In defamation, the High Court decision which appeared to extend the constitutional qualified privilege defence with little ...
Corporate social responsibility: environmental concern in New Zealand's wine industry
(University of Canterbury. Management, 2008)
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a worldwide issue as organizations are under increasing pressure to behave in socially responsible ways. Environmental responsibility as a part of CSR is often connected ...
South East Asian Tax Administration Issues in the Drive to Attract Foreign Direct Investment: Is a Regional Tax Authority the Way Forward?
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2015)
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is of growing importance to foreign investing New Zealand
businesses. Under the umbrella of a case study focussing on Vietnam, this paper utilises interviews ...
Enlarged Europe, shrinking relations? the impacts of Hungary's EU membership on the development of bilateral relations between New Zealand and Hungary
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2008)
The background to this study lies in the discrepancy between the special economic and
foreign-political importance of the EU for New Zealand and New Zealand’s low foreignpolitical
interaction and visibility in the 12 new ...
Re-inventing New Zealand: Institutions Output and Patents 1870-1939
(Department of EconomicsUniversity of Canterbury. Economics., 2008)
New estimates of commodity output and patenting are used to explore New Zealand’s transition from extensive to intensive growth. By investigating the cointegrating and causal relationships among the output of 25 industries ...
National Policies for the Internationalisation of Higher Education in New Zealand: A Comparative Analysis
(University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2009)
Research has observed an ever-increasing emphasis which is placed on the international dimension in higher education. This thesis is particularly interested in the question, why internationalisation? It constitutes a case ...
Does tenure review in New Zealand’s South Island give rise to rents?
(College of Business and EconomicsUniversity of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2010)
Under “tenure review,” the ongoing privatization of South Island Crown pastoral leases, a pastoral lessee surrenders part of his leasehold, and acquires a freehold interest in the remainder. In order to determine whether ...
Developing alternative SCDDP implementations for hydro-thermal scheduling in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury. Business and Economics, 2014)
In a hydro-dominated system, such as New Zealand, the continual improvement and development of effective optimization and simulation software to inform decision making is necessary for effective resource management. ...
The Price of Everything, The Value of Nothing: A (Truly) External Review Of BERL’s Study Of Harmful Alcohol and Drug Use
(University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2009)
In March 2009, Business and Economic Research Limited ("BERL") published “Costs of Harmful Alcohol and Other Drug Use,” a report jointly commissioned by the Ministry of Health and ACC. BERL was asked to measure the costs ...
