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Life Story Work: Optional extra or fundamental entitlement?
In Aotearoa New Zealand the importance of life story books is outlined in the policy of our statutory care and protection agency Child, Youth and Family. Many children in care do not have access to such a resource, however, ...
A lot of people are paying like $5 a week for 20 years: New Zealand lawyers, discounts, and payment plans
The unaffordability of legal assistance is a widespread problem in New Zealand, as it is in many other common law countries. One way legal assistance is made more accessible is by lawyers offering discounting and payment ...
Mountain places, cultural spaces: the interpretation of culturally significant landscapes
This paper presents an overview of how national park interpretation in New Zealand is incorporating Māori perspectives of cultural landscapes. Since the formation of the Department of Conservation in 1987, interpretive ...
Why it’s good to be bad: the role of conflict in contributing towards sustainable tourism in protected areas
This paper examines the historic and contemporary role of one Canadian environmental non-governmental organisation (ENGO) in the operationalisation of sustainable tourism. In particular, the extent to which the ENGO has ...
Tea-sippers or arsonists? Environmental NGOs and their responses to protected area tourism: a study of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
Environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) adopt a range of positions on the issue of tourism development within protected areas. While many ENGOs perceive tourism development as being extremely undesirable within ...
Genetically modified crops and perceptions of country image: implications for food exporters
Risk to country image in foreign markets for food products has been advanced as a reason for Australia, New Zealand and Asian countries to ban commercial production of genetically modified (GM) food crops. In order to ...
The influence of religion on attitudes towards the advertising of controversial products
In a constantly changing and increasingly globalized world, religion still plays a significant role in influencing social and consumer behavior. This study will analyze what influence religion and intensity of belief has ...
Cultural values and personal selling: a comparison of Australian and Hong Kong retailers’ promotion preferences
This paper compares the promotional practices and perceptions between two countries of disparate cultural backgrounds, namely Australia and Hong Kong. The paper argues that the preference for a particular promotional tool ...
Cultural values and advertising in Malaysia: views from the industry
When entering into a new country, marketers must be aware of various environmental differences that they may have to address, such as media restrictions and cultural and legal factors. This paper observes a study of Malaysian ...
Managing an effective promotion campaign: lessons from retail advertisers in New Zealand, Portugal and Hungary
The present study considers how clothing and shoe retailers in New Zealand, Portugal and Hungary manage promotion campaigns and looks at the objectives that are most important to these retailers as well as the marketing ...