Business and Law: Journal Articles

Sustainability reporting: Insights from the websites of five plants operated by Newmont Mining Corporation

Amoako KO; Lord BR; Dixon K (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 ...

The Contractual Interpretation of Tipping J

Barber MK (2016)

Developing countries and the automatic exchange of information standard - a "one-size-fits-all" solution?

Sadiq, K.; Sawyer, A. (University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2016)

Recently, the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD), at the invitation of G20 countries, developed what it refers to as the new single global standard for the automatic exchange of information (AEOI) ...

Kia kaha Europe: Teaching and Learning European Union Law in New Zealand

Masselot, A. (University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2016)

How do we as teachers make European Union law obviously relevant to students studying at a university level in New Zealand? The relationship between New Zealand and the European Union is strong and important – from our ...

Experiences of high-growth technology firms in Malaysia and New Zealand

Ng, P.Y.; Hamilton, R.T. (University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2016)

What to Aim for? The Choice of an Inflation Objective when Openness Matters

Froyen, R.T.; Guender, A.V. (University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2016)

Inflation targeting countries generally define the inflation objective in terms of the consumer price index. Studies in the academic literature, however, reach conflicting conclusions concerning which measure of inflation ...

False Dichotomies in Administrative Law: From There to Here

Joseph, P.A. (University of Canterbury. School of Law, 2016)

This article revisits our administrative law journey since the Second World War (1939-1945). It is a journey worth recounting because it reveals how starkly our administrative law has changed over a short, finite period ...

Constitutional Law

Joseph, P.A. (University of Canterbury. School of Law, 2016)

The review will examine seven public law developments from 2013-2015: three statutory, two judicial, one statutory inquiry and one non-statutory inquiry. The topics are: • the report of the Constitutional Advisory ...

The predictive ability of a risk-adjusted yield spread for economic activity in Europe

Guender, A.V.; Tolan, B. (University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2016)

This paper examines whether the pricing of risk is important for macroeconomic activity at the country level. We design a risk-adjusted yield spread and test its predictive content for economic activity on the periphery ...

The Performance Advantages for SMEs of Product Innovation and Marketing Resource?Capability Complementarity in Emerging Economies

Sok, P.; O'Cass, A.; Miles, M.P. (University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2016)

Research focusing on SMEs has in many respects been dominated by a developed-economy perspective (Bruton, Ahlstrom, and Obloj 2008). As such, theory and research on SMEs underpinned by a developed economy perspective may ...

Protecting Student Intellectual Property in the Entrepreneurial Classroom

Katz, J. A.; Wright, S. L. (University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2015)

At the 2015 AOM conference I met up with Jerome A. Katz, one of the authors of the original paper on protecting student IP in university settings. Jerome A. Katz holds the Coleman Professorship of Entrepreneurship and is ...

Strategising practices in an informal economy setting: A case of strategic networking

Darbi, W.P.K.; Knott, P. (University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2016)

Despite the increasing interest in strategy as situated practice, studies that examine strategising practices in the informal economy are lacking. This article draws on Bourdieu's theory of practice to understand strategic ...

Are bureaucrats really paid like bureaucrats?

Boyle, G.; Raddemaker, S. (University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2016)

In an influential paper, Hall and Liebman (QJE, 1998) ask if senior corporate executives are really paid like bureaucrats, and conclude that they are not. In this paper, we ask if senior public service bureaucrats are ...

Information and knowledge of public sector decision makers: experimental research in the context of a local government hospital in Indonesia

Bawono, I.R.; Halim, A.; Lord, B.R. (University of Canterbury. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, 2015)

This research aimed to test the previous result of experimental research on decision making by Dilla and Steinbart (2005), and to internalize the result in the context of a local government hospital in Indonesia. The ...