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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 ... -
Organisational IS resilience: A pilot study using Q-methodology
(2013)Organisational resilience has gained increasing attention in recent years. This paper focuses on an aspect of organisational resilience, i.e., on IS resilience. Given the potentially devastating implications of disruptions ... -
An investigation into enterprise resource planning implementation success: Evidence from private and public sector organizations
(2014)Enterprise resource planning systems are adopted to improve productivity and overall business performance in organizations. Implementation of these systems requires considerable financial and labour investment and ... -
Does organizational identification lead to user involvement?
(2014)User involvement in information system development has long received research attention due to its significant effects on information system success. Prior studies have tended to focus on the consequences of user ... -
Examining the effect of social media tools on virtual team conflicts: A process model
(2015)This research investigates how the use of social media tools affects virtual team conflicts. The novel concept of “feature richness”, which is understood as affordances of social media tools, is theorized. Feature ... -
How CEOs of small firms make decisions to ensure information systems resilience?
(2015)Information Systems are essential for successful organisation. If Information System interrupts, the whole business continuity is compromised. Organisational resilience has gained increasing attention in recent years. ... -
Governing information systems resilience: a case study
(2016)Organisational resilience has gained increasing attention in recent years. This research focuses on an aspect of organisational resilience, i.e., on Information Systems (IS) resilience. To the best of researchers’ ... -
Top management team decision priorities to drive IS resilience: lessons from Jade Software Corporation
(2016)In this paper, we adopt Agency Theory and Weill’s IT Governance framework to investigate the decision priorities of senior executives in the context of IS resilience planning, which falls under the broader umbrella of ... -
It might never happen, or will it? The process of rendering (un)accountability in the deep-sea oil exploration arena
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2016)Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the diverse expectations and manifestations of accountability for risk in the deep sea petroleum exploration arena of Aotearoa New Zealand. Methodology – The arena framework developed ... -
Investigating the potential of applying theories on rebound effects and mechanisms in climate change adaptation and mitigation research
(University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2016)Little attention has been given to the rebound effects within climate change mitigation and adaptation literature. Still, a growing attention has been given to the need of avoiding mal-mitigation and mal-mitigation to take ... -
An Enigma Set to Remain a Fizzer? On the Absence of Social and Environmental Reporting in New Zealand
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2016)The uptake of sustainability reporting in New Zealand has been pretty dismal. While a few companies produced social and/or environmental reports in the early 1990s, and the practice diffused a little during the 2000s, New ... -
Values and Ethical Judgments: A Study of the Adequacy of Students as Surrogates for Practicing Accountants
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2016)Based on survey data of accounting practitioners and accounting majors, significant differences are revealed in both the structure of personal values and in ethical judgments between practitioners and students. Life-stage ... -
Brand new: A case of brand-led business start-up
(2010)Objectives: The literature on brand-led new business ventures is extremely scant (Merrilees, 2007). Typically entrepreneurs have a product or service concept that drives their enterprise development initiative. Corporate ... -
Using enterprise development stories to understand and encourage Maori entrepreneurship.
(2012)In 1734 Richard Cantillon introduced the term ‘entrepreneur’ (Cuevas, 1994) as a label for a trader who undertook risk by buying at a certain price and selling at an uncertain price. This definition has evolved in ways ... -
SRI Funds: Investor Demand, Exogenous Shocks and ESG Profiles
(University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2016)We provide evidence that investor demand for socially responsible or sustainable and responsible (SRI) mutual funds differs from that of conventional funds in that flows to SRI funds have shown greater growth and more ... -
The Gold Price in Times of Crisis
(University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2014)Motivated by the recent gold price boom, this paper investigates whether rapidly growing investment activities have caused a new asset price bubble. Drawing on gold's role as dollar hedge, inflation hedge, portfolio ... -
Financial Markets in the Face of the Apocalypse
(University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2016)This paper brings together two strands of the literature: Quantifying the impact of apocalyptic risk on capital markets, and the correct computation of the equity risk premium. For the former, we use events in four ... -
Kia kaha Europe: Teaching and Learning European Union Law in New Zealand
(University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2016)
