College of Business and Law: Recent submissions
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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, ... -
Replicating “Predicting the present with Google trends” by Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian (The Economic Record, 2012)
(2018)In this paper, the author describes different ways in which one can replicate a paper and illustrate them by applying them to the study by Choi and Varian (Predicting the Present with Google Trends, The Economic Record 2012). -
Simplification lessons from New Zealand: Can they be relevant to South Africa?
(2018)This paper describes the concept of tax simplification and outlines the need for tax simplification in South Africa (SA). In order to provide potential guidance, the paper provides an overview of what New Zealand (NZ) ... -
An Investigation of the Resource Curse in Indonesia
(RePEc, 2018)We investigate the effect of resource dependence on district level income in a rare within-country study for Indonesia, one of the largest resource producing countries in Asia. We follow 390 districts between 2006 and ... -
An analysis of the power of New Zealand courts to judicially review Crown Prosecution decisions not to prosecute with reference to Osborne v Worksafe New Zealand (NZSC).
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Almost seven years after the tragedy at the Pike River mine, the Supreme Court of New Zealand declared that an unlawful bargain had been made to stifle the prosecution of the mine’s CEO. This thesis analyses the issues ... -
Initial trust in emerging technologies and the effect of threats to privacy.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Purpose: This thesis seeks to identify what factors influence technology trust beliefs in emerging technologies, as opposed to non-emerging technologies, with which individuals have little prior knowledge or experience of. ... -
The role of social capital in building organizational resilience.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Organizational resilience refers to a firm`s capability of coping successfully following disruptions. Resilient firms are also able to improve themselves after the disruptive events. However, implementing coping strategies ...
