College of Business and Law: Recent submissions
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Indian foodways in Christchurch - a study of Indian restaurants
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The aim of this thesis is to understand Indian restaurants‟ perception of authenticity and related attributes in its servicescape and menu elements that influence customer satisfaction. Existing studies have underlined the ... -
The electronic word-of-mouth effects of review valence, review volume, and product type on consumer purchase behaviour.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis aims to examine the mediating role of product type (i.e., product-luxury perceptions) on consumer response to online reviews and the subsequent effect on purchase behaviour. Specifically, this thesis explicates ... -
Māori values, care and compassion in organisations: a research strategy
(2017)While significant attention has been given to theorising care and compassion in workplaces, much of the research on Māori (Indigenous New Zealand) values in organisations (MVO) and their relationship with well-being ... -
A Phenomenological study of venting about work on Facebook
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Purpose- To better understand what motivates employees to vent on the social media platform Facebook about work and why Facebook is selected by employees as a platform to vent. Methodology- This study used phenomenological ... -
Complementarity modelling of investment in electricity generation capacity
(University of Canterbury, 2015)Complementarity formulations offer the opportunity to thoroughly investigate and clarify the problem of investment in electricity generation capacity. While complementarity has been traditionally used in the sphere of ... -
Emergency notification on mobile devices : a trade-off between protection motivation, privacy concern and personalised notification.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The world today is increasingly being impacted by natural disasters and other threats with both human and natural causes. The number of natural disasters worldwide has increased by more than four times in the last few ... -
Sustainability reporting: Insights from the websites of five plants operated by Newmont Mining Corporation
(2017)Purpose – Sustainability reporting serves as a means of communication between corporations and their stakeholders on sustainability issues. This study aims to identify and account for the contents of sustainability ... -
Essays on meta-regression analysis : two empirical studies on tax and economic growth and a simulation.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis consists of three essays linked together by the methodology of meta-regression analysis. The first two essays address a long standing question of interest to both economists and policymakers which is whether ... -
Hong Kong’s Involvement with International Tax Reform: What’s the ‘BEPS’?
(2017)The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was initially a reluctant participant in major international tax reforms initiated by the OECD, including (automatic) exchange of information (AEOI). In more recent times, ... -
Accommodation Providers’ Responses to Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Rising global concerns over climate change are one of today’s major challenges to the tourism sector and its subsectors, such as the accommodation industry. Given the limited progress in understanding climate change in the ... -
Do Lawyers make a Distinctive Contribution to Tax Policy-making?: Reflections on the Contributions of Lawyers to Tax Policy-making in New Zealand
(2017)Lawyers play an important part in tax policy making in New Zealand (NZ). This paper briefly reviews NZ’s Generic Tax Policy Process (GTPP), and then turns it focus on the important contributions legal practitioners and ... -
Social development and language development : what is the relationship?
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Research has demonstrated that delays in social development and academic development tend to correlate in the teenage years. In light of this, the present study aimed to explore the nature of the relationship between social ... -
Promise fulfilled?: a yin-yang opportunity-outcome-process (O-O-P) framework for the individual-opportunity (IO) nexus.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis submits its conceptual opportunity-outcome-process (O-O-P) framework to complement and operationalize the dualistic individual-opportunity (IO) nexus notion (Venkataraman, 1997) as an integrated theory of startup ... -
Essays on static panel data models with dependent errors : simulation and application.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This research aims to study the performance of a sample of linear static panel data estimators. Many panel data estimators are incorporated in econometric packages, readily available to researchers. They use different ... -
Productivity-real exchange rate nexus : revisiting the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis for emerging Asia.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)This dissertation deals with the economics of equilibrium real exchange rates in the context of Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis. For developing economies of East and South Asia (ASEAN and SAARC), trend deviations in real ... -
How is a social licence represented in the context of New Zealand?
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The Social Licence to Operate (SLO) concept was introduced in the late 1990’s as a means by which mining companies could prevent opposition from communities and stakeholders to their operations. The employment of the SLO ... -
”It’s all for attention” : exploring the forms of online anti-social behaviour.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Anti-social behaviour online is an under-researched form of consumer misbehaviour, despite its wide-spread prevalence on social networking sites (hereafter, SNSs). It appears that misbehaving consumers are adopting anti-social ...
