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90 Day Trial Periods in New Zealand - The Impact on Young Unskilled Workers

Finlay, Anthea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis examines the early work experiences of low skilled youth against the background of the recently introduced 90 day trial periods legislation. A mixed method research approach was employed to survey young people’s ...
Academic agency and leadership in Tourism higher education

Schott, C. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This paper explores the leadership agency of tourism faculty in higher education and recommends actions to enhance leadership for social change. Based on a review of literature grounded within an agency perspective, a ...
Adopting Agile Project Management Methods in Software Projects Involving Outsourcing

Warnakulasooriya, Nivarthana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

With the evolvement of how software was built, how quickly the initial requirements change, how fast new technologies were appearing in tech world and evolving innovation needs of dynamic businesses, the software industry ...
Adoption of digital technology in the New Zealand motion picture industry

McInnes, Rachel Gwendoline (Victoria University of Wellington, 1997)

This research applies Frambach's integrated model of the adoption and diffusion of innovations to the adoption of digital technology in the New Zealand motion picture industry. Previous models concerning innovation adoption ...
Adult career counselling using possible selves—A quasi-experimental field study in naturalistic settings

Plimmer, G. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study examined the effectiveness of an adult career development program designed to reflect the diversity and demands of career choices, the low level of comfort many have with career choices, and the limited resources ...
An affordance lens on the influence of incubators on firms’ strategy development

Douché, Jenny Patricia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Business incubators provide resources to help create successful new ventures (Hackett & Dilts, 2004b). However little is known about how the strategies of the incubated firms develop and the specific role of incubators in ...
Apple and the human costs of production

Bridgman, T. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016-10-19)

Apple is the world’s most valuable company. Based on market capitalisation value, it was worth over US$539 billion in early 2012, which makes it worth more than Google and Microsoft combined1. At the start of 2013, its ...
The Application of Metacognition to Business Decision Making

Turner-Walker, Evie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

One of the challenges facing managers in modern-day business is the ability to make effective decisions amidst complexity. Complexity manifests in many aspects of business, in particular the competitive environment. ...
The application of semi-automated gantry cranes in empty container depots

Ankenbruck, Corinne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Purpose – The storage and supply of empty containers is a bottleneck in the global supply chain. In the wake of increasing containerisation and globalisation, improving efficiencies of processing within empty container ...
The Application of Stakeholder Networking Theory for Strategic Planning in the New Zealand Public Sector

Proctor, Louise Anne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

The New Zealand public sector is facing an increasingly pluralistic stakeholder landscape due to a range of political, economic, social, and technological factors, all of which require public sector organisations to develop ...
Assassins in academia? New Zealand academics as critic and conscience of society

Bridgman, T. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

This paper uses literature on the positioning of intellectuals in society to consider the enactment of the ‘critic and conscience’ role within New Zealand universities. The critic and conscience of society is a statutory ...
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Have You Any Wool? Developing the RBV Through a Study of the New Zealand Merino Clothing Industry

Jackson, Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

This thesis explores how the traditional approaches to researching the Resource-Based View (RBV) do not fully address the heterogeneity within the participants of the research. Traditional approaches assume similar levels ...
The battle for ‘Middle-Earth’: The constitution of interests and identifies in the Hobbit dispute

Bridgman, T. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This article draws on an industrial dispute over the filming of The Hobbit in New Zealand in 2010 to contribute to the theorisation of the interplay between interests and identities and our understanding of mobilisation ...
Beyond the Manager’s Moral Dilemma: Rethinking the ‘Ideal Type’ Business Ethics Case

Bridgman, T. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Case teaching occupies a central place in the history of business education and in recognition of its significance, the Journal of Business Ethics recently created a new section for cases. Typically, business ethics cases ...
Building people up: Leadership and employee resilience

Franken, Esmé (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This mixed method research, in the area of HR and leadership, explores leadership behaviours that foster employee resilience. Resilience is a key capacity in contexts where job demands and challenges are often dynamic and ...
Business accelerators as learning environments: A mixed methods investigation

Harrison, Geoff (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This thesis is a study of business accelerators, and the efficacy of accelerators as learning environments. Accelerators are increasingly becoming a popular strategy for delivering a more authentic entrepreneurial learning ...
Can Gamification Increase Employee Engagement in a New Zealand Context?

McIntyre, Daniel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Gamification is the application of game principals in non-game contexts (i.e. the workplace). With unsatisfactory employee engagement in New Zealand, gamification is proposed as a possible solution in this thesis. ...
The CEO role in New Zealand: perceptions and interpretative schema tensions and paradoxes

McNally, Beverley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis examines the perceptions of the CEO role in large New Zealand organisations. The study is a response to calls from scholars for more empirical work on executive leadership specifically, as it pertains to the ...
The Challenges of Representing Rural Migrant Workers in China: Factors Influencing the Goals and Strategies of Labour NGOs in Beijing, Tianjin and Yunnan Province

Zhou, Ao (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Labour NGOs operating in mainland China have played the role of de facto representatives of rural migrant workers since their emergence in the 1990s. After their rapid development for almost two decades, the introduction ...
Chinese international students travelling with friends: Group decision-making and disagreement prevention

Zhu, Hanru (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis investigates the group decision-making process of Chinese international students travelling with friends in New Zealand. Focusing on groups of friends, a neglected decision-making unit, it explores models of ...