• The impact of mental health campaigns on attitudes and help-seeking behaviours in New Zealand rugby union players. 

  Loader, Joshua Sidney James (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  This research aimed to investigate the impact of mental health campaign messages on rugby union players’ attitudes and behavioural intentions. This thesis used the context of New Zealand rugby players to explore whether ...

• Post-disaster psychological capital and organisational resilience : a narrative analysis of small business owners’/managers’ experiences. 

  Fang, Shupin (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  Two minutes after midnight on 14 November 2016, a magnitude 7.8 (Mw) earthquake struck the town of Kaikoura, New Zealand. The earthquake resulted in two deaths, over $900 million in insurance claims, significant damage ...

• The legal implications of bioprospecting in the Antarctic region 

  Rogan-Finnemore, Michelle (University of Canterbury, 2005)

  The term ‘bioprospecting’ was only coined within the past few decades. Today, it is still difficult to find consensus on its legal meaning. What it appears to represent is the range of activities associated with searching ...

• Iconic branding as a strategy for private and national fast moving consumer good brands 

  Duncan, John William (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  This thesis looks at iconic branding in the context of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) in New Zealand. Iconic branding has been studied in a broad overall context but has not yet been considered for individual brand ...

• Predicting intentions to seek health information online : an integrated model. 

  Zhu, Xiuxuan (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  As a society, there is a growing trend towards health wellness and proactive health behaviours, one fundamental health behaviours is health information seeking. In the recent years, individuals have increasingly turned to ...

• An exploratory case study analysis of implementation of six sigma in a New Zealand organisation. 

  O’Neill, Padriac (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  Since its inception at Motorola during the late 1980s Six Sigma has steadily risen in popularity and reputation as a worldwide standard for manufacturing quality through its objective of increasing quality through the ...

• Comparing the predictive performance of the logit and discriminant analysis models in bankruptcy prediction 

  Ono, Mari (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  This research assesses the sensitivity of ratio analysis in bankruptcy prediction. I challenge the usually applied criterion in bankruptcy analysis where a model outperforms another model based on their classification ...

• The role of entrepreneurial intuition in making sense of strategic opportunities. 

  Walsh, Christian (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  With the increasing amount of data and analytic tools now available, how do strategists actually utilise intuition in the opportunity sensing process? The existing literature in this area highlights the multi-faceted nature ...

• The regulation of complementary and alternative medicine in New Zealand. 

  Harris, Peter J. (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  There is little understanding of, or information about, CAM products, their use, or multifarious issues surrounding them in New Zealand. It is therefore unsurprising that NZ has lacked effective CAM product regulation for ...

• Comparing the worldviews of marketing and sustainability. 

  Kemper, Joya A. (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Sustainability has entered the vernacular of many disciplines and marketing seems to be no exception. However, the construct, both within and outside marketing, is still contested. Given the growing importance of ...

• Attitudes toward sustainable New Zealand wine held by millennials in the United States. 

  Karl, Annabelle (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  The aim of this thesis is to investigate Millennial consumers’ intentions, perceptions, and attitudes toward sustainably produced New Zealand wine. This research direction was informed by a thematic literature review which ...

• Consumers' attitudes and behaviours toward the sponsors of a football club. 

  Balcazar Cruz, Rodrigo Sebastian (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 

  McMillan, James (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 

  Mumo, Richard Kitati (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 

  Douglas, Regan (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 

  Ma’afu, ‘Ana T. (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 

  Ryan, Nicholas Paul (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 

  Waddell, Harry (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 

  Carrodus, Mark (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 

  Amore, Alberto (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, ...

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