Browsing by Degree Name "Master of Commerce"
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A Study of Labour Negotiators: Orientation and Behaviour
This exploratory study examined individual negotiator social value orientation (preferences for the distribution of negotiated outcomes) and individual negotiator behaviour (strategies and tactics) in a labour relations ... -
Aged Care Institutions Management: A study of management’s engagement strategies to support migrant careworkers’ delivery of quality elderly care.
One of the most significant phenomenon in Western industrialised societies today is a demographic shift towards an ageing population. Improved access to better nutrition, medical care, and a growing awareness of the ... -
An Analysis and Comparison of Real Option Approaches for Project Valuation under Uncertainty
Several different real option valuation approaches appear in the literature to address valuation problems under uncertainty. This diversity, however, has created a confusion regarding their applications across different ... -
Atmosphere, Value Propositions, and Co-Creation in a Unique Service Environment: An Exploratory Study
The purpose of this thesis was to explore the role, processes and functions associated with the creation of an atmosphere in the unique service environment of a bar. This exploratory research began with a literature review ... -
Barriers to export trade and investment in Latin America
In recent years, Latin America has been identified as a region that offers significant potential for New Zealand business. However, for many New Zealand firms there are a number of factors that make conducting business in ... -
Building customer-based-brand-equity through packaging
A review of the literature indicated a lack of an acceptable definition for customer-based brand equity and lack of consensus regarding its measurement The literature also pointed to a lack of empirical evidence as to the ... -
A constructivist model for management education: An integrated experiential and holistic framework
A Constructivist model for management education has been developed to generate discussion and assist education professionals to deliver management subjects with a greater understanding of the processes they employ in the ... -
Consumer response to Genetically Modified Salmon: A study on benefit importance in the adoption process
Genetic modification (GM) can provide benefits for consumers, producers, and the environment; however, general opposition towards the use of GM in food continues, especially GM-animals. This opposition seems to be a ... -
Consumption of Organic Fruits and Vegetables in Chennai, India
India’s booming population and the high amount of pesticide produced and used in agriculture to meet the demands of the growing population, has led to the contamination of the air, water, and soil. Organic food products ... -
Customer preferences and service design in the New Zealand-North Asian industrial shipping market
The North Asian countries of Japan, Korea and China are becoming increasingly important overseas trading partners of New Zealand, whose imports and exports are predominantly shipped by sea. The industrial shipping market ... -
Customer preferences and service design in the New Zealand-North Asian industrial shipping market
The North Asian countries of Japan, Korea and China are becoming increasingly important overseas trading partners of New Zealand, whose imports and exports are predominantly shipped by sea. The industrial shipping market ... -
Decomposition of Sovereign Credit Risk: International Evidence
This thesis examines to what extent systemic, systematic and idiosyncratic risk drive sovereign credit risk and how these risk components vary over time during the pre-Global Financial Crisis (GFC), GFC and post-GFC periods. ... -
Diversification and Corporate Governance: The New Zealand Case
I find that diversified firms in New Zealand are valued at a discount of 18.8% to 41.7% compared with their focused counterparts. The results also show that these firms tend to be valued less negatively during crisis times ... -
Do monetary shocks cause regional prices to go bananas?
This thesis intends to investigate the asymmetric effects of monetary policy on regional prices within Fiji. The monetary policy shocks are generated by removing any systemic response to future economic conditions from the ... -
Economic Value of Freshwater Recreational Angling in Otago: A Travel Cost Method Approach
Otago is renowned internationally for offering some of the most pristine and exciting freshwater trout and salmon fishing in the world. However, many freshwater fishing sites in Otago are showing signs of environmental ... -
Electronic Ratification: the Collective Bargaining Implications
The ratification procedure is the last phase in the negotiation of a collective agreement, in which the union membership is given the opportunity to vote to accept or reject the proposed agreement. Traditionally, union ... -
Employment Ideology and Grievance Adjudication: An Empirical Examination of Adjudicators' Ideological Predispositions, Other Characteristics, and Personal Grievance Case Determinations
Employment adjudicators are charged with the task of determining personal grievance cases on the merits of each case and with regard to both statute and common law. Scholarly interest in their decision making is widespread ... -
Evaluating the relative efficiencies of Morningstar mutual funds using @RISK — A stochastic data envelopment analysis approach
Institutional and individual investors have always been interested in identifying those mutual funds that appear to outperform the market more often than not. Identification of such funds is not difficult as a simple ... -
An exploration of global sourcing in the New Zealand manufacturing industry – A case study analysis
Global sourcing and its impact upon organisational competitiveness is an issue which has yet to be examined in the New Zealand context. The aim of this research project is to investigate the effect of global sourcing for ... -
Exploring career: A study of career meanings in changing workplaces
The concept of career by its very nature has evoked a variety of responses and involves study across disciplines. Despite the various approaches, most discourse regarding career is often taken from an external or objective ...