College of Business and Law: Recent submissions
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Male-biased sex ratios in Australian migrant populations: a population-based study of 1 191 250 births 1999-2015
(2018)Background: The naturally occurring male-to-female (M/F) ratio at birth is 1.05. Higher ratios found primarily in countries across Asia have been attributed to prenatal sex selection due to son preference. There is growing ... -
How did that happen? : an investigation of organisational outcomes when technology is used for knowledge sharing.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This research set out to investigate a specific instance of knowledge sharing in an organisation to contribute to theoretical and practical understanding of use of a knowledge sharing technology (Microsoft SharePoint). The ... -
Conceptualisation and Measurement of the Dimensionality of Place Attachment
(University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2014)To extend the discussion and application of place attachment to tourism-relevant contexts, this article proposes two neglected dimensions: place memory and place expectation. Combining these dimensions, a six-dimension ... -
Devising Classificatory Frameworks of Accountings’ Consequences: An illustrative Pacific study of the economic, social, cultural and natural
(2016)Purpose: Applications of accounting ideas and practices invariably have consequences. The people in any way responsible for these applications cannot know all possible consequences; however, this predicament is yet more ... -
Supply chain resilience elements – the case of the dairy sector.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Supply chain resilience refers to the ability of a supply chain to prepare, respond, recover and grow in the face of a disruption. This study aims to identify the elements that build a resilient supply chain in the context ... -
The rule of Law in the Maldives and the tax regime’s contribution to its failure.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis was inspired by my work as an international tax adviser to the Maldives on behalf of the Asian Development Bank from 2011 to 2015. The Maldives had just transitioned from what was an autocracy to a supposed ... -
Public implementation of Blockchain Technology
(2018)This paper discusses the avenues through which a public implementation of blockchain could deliver efficiency gains in the running of a government. We discuss some of the current inefficiencies in recordkeeping and the ... -
Corporate social responsibility in higher education : a study of the institutionalisation of CSR in Malaysian public universities
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Internationally, the tertiary education sector has faced strong institutional pressures to embrace Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In Malaysia, the government mandated CSR in 2009 and universities had to comply with ... -
Women in the Workforce: Still Unequal after all these Years?
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Accountability of charities on websites
(2017)Purpose – This research shows the extent of accountability and transparency of a charity on its web pages. Methodology – A disclosure index is derived from recent literature on website transparency of not-for-profit ... -
Uncovering wicked problem’s system structure : seeing the forest for the trees.
(Emerald, 2017)Purpose: This article uses systems thinking, systems theory, and Camillus’ (2008) framework for responding to wicked problems to provide social marketers with a theoretically based framework for approaching strategy formation ... -
Upstream social marketing strategy.
(Emerald, 2018)In the case of complex social problems such as obesity and environmental degradation, structural change is needed to provide people with the ability to change (Andreasen, 2006). Strategic social marketing has identified ... -
Towards a Non-Essentialist Approach to Management Education: Philosophical Underpinnings from Phenomenography
(2018)The classic approach to management education is manager-centric and assumes there is an essential nature to management. Drawing on ideas from interpretivist epistemologies, the social construction of leadership, phenomenography, ... -
Reform and development : Chinese accounting history research, 1927-1937.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)History is just like a chain in that the individual parts cannot be separated from the continuum, and current development is based on lessons from the past, which makes historical research quite meaningful. The period of ... -
Te ao tūroa and Aotearoa’s adherence to the indigenous self-determination norm : past, present and future.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)In the wake of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), self-determination has emerged as a norm applying to indigenous peoples globally. This is a positive step forward ... -
Resource Dependence and the Causes of Local Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation
(PePEc, 2018)Previous research has found that in Indonesia, a resource giant in South East Asia, resource dependence is positively associated with economic growth, contrary to a ‘resource curse’ hypothesis. We test four potential ... -
Searching for profit-shifting in China
(2018)This paper investigates profit-shifting behavior among multinational corporations (MNCs) in China. The authors exploit the flat-rate structure of China’s corporate income tax, along with its system of targeted, preferential ... -
Creating Europe through culture? The Impact of the European Song Contest on European identity
(2018)The UK's Brexit vote marked a major institutional crisis for the EU and re-opened both the scholarly and the popular debate about the importance and drivers of a "European identity". We use quasi-experimental data to ... -
Robots, Job Characteristics and Job Insecurity
(2018)In this paper, I use data from a recent Pew survey to analyse the reasons behind people's fear of losing their job to robots. I find that more people fear losing their job to other people than fear losing it to robots, ...
