RSS 1.0Business and Law: Theses and Dissertations
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Consumers' attitudes and behaviours toward the sponsors of a football club.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis aims to investigate whether people’s attitudes and behaviours toward certain types of commercial brands change when these, become a sponsoring partner of a well-known international football club. Specifically, ... -
Examining the perceived risks of contactless card acceptance in the New Zealand market
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Contactless payment is a modern addition to transaction technology and has gained traction in New Zealand through the advent of contactless bank cards. Consumers no longer require security PINs for low value transactions ... -
Post-catastrophe insurance supply and demand: theory and evidence
(University of Canterbury, 2017)In September 2010 and February 2011, the Canterbury region experienced devastating earthquakes with an estimated economic cost of over NZ$40 billion (Parker and Steenkamp, 2012; Timar et al., 2014; Potter et al., 2015). ... -
Quantitative materiality disclosure and the impact on investor decision making and perceptions of audit quality
(University of Canterbury, 2017)For publically listed New Zealand (NZ) companies with a balance date post-December 2016, the disclosure of Key Audit Matters will become mandatory. This requirement, aimed at enhancing the information value of audit reports, ... -
An exploratory study of the practice of corporate planning and programme budgeting in the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga: evidence from a central government agency
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Purpose – This research explores how corporate planning and programme budgeting are practised by the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga, focussing on their application by a central government agency, the Office of the ... -
Does cooperation enhance competitiveness? : assessing the impacts of collaborative business relationships
(University of Canterbury, 2000)Collaboration among firms is now a ubiquitous phenomenon. Many theoretical and managerial perspectives argue that firms that collaborate will outperform those firms that take independent approaches. This thesis reports the ... -
New Zealand’s look-through company regime: a tax practitioners’ perspective
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This research explores look-through companies (LTCs) from the perspective of tax practitioners. Specifically, LTCs are compared with their predecessor, loss-attributing qualifying companies (LAQCs), in order to evaluate ... -
The Foreign Exchange Carry Trade
(University of Canterbury, 2017)I examine the foreign exchange (FX) carry trade, using both single currency and portfolio construction techniques. Chapter I looks at the background, the mechanics of constructing the FX carry trade, and the returns ... -
Before/after : the governance of urban tourist spaces in the context of the Christchurch CBD recovery
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Research in the governance of urban tourist spaces is characterized by a lack of argumentative inquiry and scant use of critical theory. This is evident, particularly, in the study of tourism and post-disaster urban recovery, ... -
Modeling supply chain risks and ways to ameliorate negative effects on the supply chain performance and reputation of firm in the dairy industry
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Supply chain risk has become an issue of significance for many dairy firms across the globe. The complexity of the supply chain has increased due to various levels of raw material sourcing, uncertain market conditions, ... -
Product costing using activity-based costing : a case study
(University of Canterbury, 1990)As manufacturing enterprises have become less labour-paced the process of recovering overheads by allocation on the basis of direct labour costs has been challenged. It has been claimed by proponents of Activity-based ... -
The dynamics of strategic negotiations : a case study of the New Zealand Fire Service industrial dispute
(University of Canterbury, 2000)This thesis considers the effect of the increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment on employment negotiations. International trends in collective bargaining have resulted in unions and employers negotiating ... -
Health and income: replication, theoretical model, simulation, and empirical analyses
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Health plays an important role in the economic growth process and increasing productivity concurrently creates better health outcomes. The stock of an individual’s health increases as income rises as well as investment in ... -
Performance investigation of secure 802.11 wireless LANs : raising the security bar to which level?
(University of Canterbury, 2003)Wireless networks have gained popularity, providing users flexibility and mobility in accessing information. The IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) standard has become the dominant architecture in practice. ... -
Age-related differences in children's responses to television advertising : central versus peripheral routes to persuasion
(University of Canterbury, 2001)This thesis presents an empirical investigation of age-related differences in children's processing of advertising and subsequent persuasion. Limitations of paradigms used in past research on children's responses to ... -
Indian foodways in Christchurch - a study of Indian restaurants
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The aim of this thesis is to understand Indian restaurants‟ perception of authenticity and related attributes in its servicescape and menu elements that influence customer satisfaction. Existing studies have underlined the ... -
The electronic word-of-mouth effects of review valence, review volume, and product type on consumer purchase behaviour.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis aims to examine the mediating role of product type (i.e., product-luxury perceptions) on consumer response to online reviews and the subsequent effect on purchase behaviour. Specifically, this thesis explicates ... -
A Phenomenological study of venting about work on Facebook
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Purpose- To better understand what motivates employees to vent on the social media platform Facebook about work and why Facebook is selected by employees as a platform to vent. Methodology- This study used phenomenological ... -
Complementarity modelling of investment in electricity generation capacity
(University of Canterbury, 2015)Complementarity formulations offer the opportunity to thoroughly investigate and clarify the problem of investment in electricity generation capacity. While complementarity has been traditionally used in the sphere of ... -
Emergency notification on mobile devices : a trade-off between protection motivation, privacy concern and personalised notification.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The world today is increasingly being impacted by natural disasters and other threats with both human and natural causes. The number of natural disasters worldwide has increased by more than four times in the last few ...
