College of Business and Law: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1-20 of 1344
-
Gendering Economic and Financial Governance through Positive Action Measures: The Compatibility of the French Real Equality Measure with the European Union Framework
(SAGE Publications, 2015)© 2015 SAGE Publications. The number of female directors on the boards of large listed companies in the European Union (EU) is very low and progress towards equal participation and representation of women and men on company ... -
Voice, power and legitimacy: the role of the legal person in river management in New Zealand, Chile and Australia
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)© 2018, © 2018 Engineers Australia. In 2017, rivers in New Zealand, India and Colombia received legal rights and were granted the status of legal persons. The increased legal powers, often a result of groundbreaking ... -
Consumers’ attitudes towards purchasing wine : the link between purchasing channels and perceived benefits.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis aims to investigate different motivations of adopting an online versus in-store channel when buying wine. Specifically, it examines consumers perceptions of these channels based upon the benefits they associate ... -
Cross-cultural interest groups’ values and desired states inform biocultural management of wetlands in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The unprecedented level of threat currently affecting many of the world’s natural and cultural systems calls for the collaboration of multiple interest groups to engage in coordinated and aligned environmental action. ... -
Introduction to Polar Law
(Edward Elgar, 2020)This introductory Chapter identifies the key questions that frame the fast-changing arena of Polar Law and which set the tone and parameters of this Research Handbook. The most fundamental question is ‘what is “Polar ... -
Prisoners' Voting Rights
(2016) -
Self-employment as a strategy for Indian immigrants' settlement in New Zealand
(University of Canterbury, 2020)As the research on immigrant entrepreneurship has evolved, so too has immigrants' profile, many of whom wish to become entrepreneurs. In contrast to ‘traditional’ immigrants, more recent immigrants typically have new ... -
Constitutional Law
(2018) -
Investigating Australian and New Zealand Fairtrade representatives’ and blockchain technology experts’ attitudes towards blockchain technology as a potential to improve Fairtrade certification
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis investigates New Zealand and Australian Fairtrade (FT) representatives’ and blockchain technology (BCT) experts’ attitudes towards BCT as a potential to improve FT certification. After reviewing literature on ... -
Employment law
(2020)The election of the New Zealand Labour-led coalition government in 2017 has contributed to a number of developments in the area of employment law. This is reflected in this employment law review, which contains a summary of ... -
False Dichotomies in Administrative Law: From There to Here
(2016)This article critiques nine judicially-constructed dichotomies that dominated administrative law following the war. These dichotomies were fixed and unforgiving, portraying administrative law as rigorous and analytical. ... -
The Effectiveness of Tax Reviews in New Zealand: An Evaluation and Proposal for Improvement
(Centre for Commercial and Corproiate Law Inc, 2020)To improve the quality of recommendations arising from regular reviews of the tax system, a permanent oversight body that is ‘independent’ of the Government is developed. Drawing from earlier work, as well as ... -
Personal liability, vicarious liability, non-delegable duties and protecting vulnerable people
(2016)A policy concern underlying the imposition on defendants of a liability in tort which influences the courts, sometimes expressly and sometimes implicitly, is a need to protect and assist persons who may be seen to have ... -
When Retirement is not Golden: A Classic Torrens Tale with Twists and Turns. The Value of a Risk Analysis Approach
(2016)This article traces almost a decade of litigation involving a retired couple who were lured into a scam that involved their unencumbered property in a seaside town in New Zealand. Its primary focus is on the importance ... -
Declarations of Inconsistency under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
(2018)This commentary examines one of Taylor’s cases decided by the Supreme Court in 2018. In AttorneyGeneral v Taylor, the question was whether or not the courts have jurisdiction to grant declarations of inconsistency where ... -
Rape Myths as Barriers to Fair Trial Process: Comparing adult rape trials with those in the Aotearoa Sexual Violence Court Pilot
(Canterbury University Press, 2020) -
Experiential pedagogy and the moral duty of business schools
(Academy of Management, 2019)To support the types of learning outcomes that management students need in today’s organizations, business schools increasingly call for faculty to engage in experiential pedagogy. However, teaching practices that are ... -
A critique of the Leader-Member Exchange construct: Back to square one
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Nearly all of the scholarship in the area of leader-follower relationships hinges on one construct: Leader-Member Exchange (LMX). Given the central role of this construct in leadership and organizational studies, it is ... -
The glass scaffold : women in construction responding to industry conditions
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Exploring women’s experiences of entering, working in, or leaving the Christchurch construction industry between 2010 and 2018 led to the creation of the theory of “deferential tailoring.” Deferential tailoring explains ...