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In the nude: factors determining the employment status of sex workers
(2018)This article analyses critically the 2018 Christchurch Employment Relations Authority’s (the Authority) decision in Hamilton-Redmond and Clifford v Casino Bar Limited, which found that two strip dancers were independen ... -
Prediction of Sphingosine protein-coding regions with a self adaptive spectral rotation method
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)© 2019 Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ... -
Accessing court files as a feminist endeavour: Reflections on the Feminist Judgments Project Aotearoa: Te Rino, the two-stranded rope
(2018)In this piece, we reflect on the significance of accessing court records for feminist endeavours. We discuss two examples that illustrate the value of accessing and critiquing court processes. Feminist judgment writing, ... -
Does practice make micro-entrepreneurs perfect? An investigation of expertise acquisition using effectuation and causation
(Springer Verlag, 2019)The paper reports on a study testing whether effectuation (means-driven thinking) and causation (predictive thinking) influence the use of deliberate practice during business start-up by microfinance borrowers (‘micro-en ... -
What counts for quality in interdisciplinary accounting research in the next decade: A critical review and reflection
(2019)The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the focus and changing nature of measuring academic accounting research quality. The paper addresses contemporary changes in academic publishing, metrics for determining research ... -
Male-biased sex ratios in Australian migrant populations: a population-based study of 1 191 250 births 1999-2015
(2018)Background: The naturally occurring male-to-female (M/F) ratio at birth is 1.05. Higher ratios found primarily in countries across Asia have been attributed to prenatal sex selection due to son preference. There is growing ... -
Conceptualisation and Measurement of the Dimensionality of Place Attachment
(University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2014)To extend the discussion and application of place attachment to tourism-relevant contexts, this article proposes two neglected dimensions: place memory and place expectation. Combining these dimensions, a six-dimension ... -
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, ... -
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) ... -
Tax Design and Administration in a Post - BEPS Era: A Study of Key Reform Measures in 18 Countries
(2018)The OECD’s Base erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative is undergoing what may be the most challenging phase, namely ratification and implementation by countries and jurisdictions. In this paper we provide a ... -
Organizational resilience and financial performance
(2018)Organization resilience has two dimensions – planned and adaptive (Lee, Vargo & Seville, 2013). Planned resilience occurs pre-disaster, whereas adaptive resilience typically emerges post-disaster and requires leadership, ... -
¿Necesitan derechos los ríos? Comparando estructuras legales para la regulación de los ríos en Nueva Zelanda, Australia y Chile
(2018)Este artículo aborda lo que el otorgamiento de “personalidad jurídica” a los ríos puede ofrecer a las opciones institucionales para la regulación medio ambiental del agua. Se examina esta pregunta al estudiar la ... -
Midterm elections’ stock market surge – an unintentional gift from US politicians
(2018)The paper provides evidence for the existence of a midterm election effect on the US equity market. By examining the quarterly total returns on the S&P 500 Index between 1954 and 2017, we show that, nine times out of 10, ...
