College of Business and Law: Recent submissions
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Active Learning in IS Education: Choosing Effective Strategies for Teaching Large Classes in Higher Education
(1999)This study investigates teaching with active learning techniques, as a means of enhancing student motivation and learning in large IS classes. The combination of traditional lectures with active learning techniques to ... -
An Integrated Perspective on Factors Influencing Online Health-Information Seeking Behaviours
(University of Wollongong Faculty of Business, 2016)Today medical practice has turned to the development of online health systems and models aimed at helping people to become more independent in managing their well-being and care. Healthinformation seeking is a key aspect ... -
Emergency Notification on Mobile Devices – A Trade -off between Protection Motivation and Privacy Concern
(2017)Worldwide, natural disasters are increasing. In 2016 alone there was over $175 billion in damages and 8900 lives lost. To mitigate the impact of these events on people, countries are turning to location-based mobile emergency ... -
Either you control social media or social media controls you : a multi-paradigmatic approach to understanding excessive social media use.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Social media has created new ways to engage in social interaction. Notwithstanding its positive impact, researchers have warned that excessive social media use undermines personal well-being. Apart from this, recent studies ... -
Exploring behaviours of zero waste consumers.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Zero waste consumers are investigated in the context of alternative consumption lifestyles, in order to generate both an understanding of how one becomes a zero waste consumer, the barriers, facilitators and motivators ... -
When crime pays : “environmental civil prosecutions” and the Resource Management Act 1991.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is a significant piece of legislation, aimed at promoting the sustainable management of natural and physical resources in New Zealand. However, it can only achieve this goal if it is ... -
Democratic legitimacy and the recognition of governments in international law.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Recognition of governments is one of the essential principles of international law that confirms the lawful status of an authority holder in a state. It is also one of the murkiest principles of international law with lots ... -
Understanding food waste produced by tertiary students living in student flats : implications for marketers and policy makers.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis aims to investigate the global issue of food waste and how tertiary students living in student flats in Christchurch deal with the issue. Moreover, it examines the implications their behaviours and attitudes ... -
Entrepreneurial growth Intention : the role of effectual logic.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The significance of entrepreneurial venture growth in entrepreneurship research has attracted scholarly attention for decades. More recently, policymakers have also shown a keen interest, not just in venture creation, but ... -
Nonconvex network optimisation : solution methods and applications.
(University of Canterbury, 1998)Nonconvex network flow models are used in a wide variety of problem domains involving discounting or economies of scale. Examples include network design, facility location, production planning, physical distribution, ... -
Disaster recovery of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) – a case of recovery from Canterbury earthquakes 2010-11.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The initial goal of this research was to explore how SME business models change in response to a crisis. Keeping this in mind, the business model canvas (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010) was used as a tool to analyse SME ... -
The role of social capital on proactive and reactive resilience of organizations post-disaster
(Elsevier BV, 2020)With disruptive events of higher magnitudes increasing globally, building resilience has become a priority for many organizations. Existing studies have prioritized the contribution of internal factors to building ... -
National Report of New Zealand
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Value creation from IT-based knowledge management : a theory of symbiotic relationships
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Knowledge management systems (KMS) support the acquisition, codification, transfer and application of organisational knowledge as part of KM initiatives to generate organisational value. Current research on the value of ... -
Stateless Person
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Embedding Accounting Courses in Entrepreneurship Education
(2020)This project is aimed to fill the gap of explicitly adapting accounting education for future entrepreneurs by investigating the current status of embedding accounting courses in the entrepreneurship curriculum; and ... -
Surrogacy and Human Rights in New Zealand : Rethinking Surrogacy Laws Te Kohuki Ture Kopu Whangai
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Digital Resilience for Directors
(2020)In New Zealand, a study conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Canterbury (UC) Business School appears to confirm the relationship between leadership and digital capability. The study, focussing on ...