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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 ...
Dependant Reproduction of Alternative Modes of Agriculture: Organic Farming in New Zealand
Recent studies of organic agriculture are characterized by an assumption that it is relatively easy for agribusiness to transform the meaning of organic food and marginalize the position of small-scale organic producers. ...
'Green Protectionism' and Organic Food Exporting from New Zealand: Crisis Experiments in the Breakdown of Fordist Trade and Agricultural Policies
The exporting of organic produce from New Zealand is a response to the ongoing breakdown of Fordist regulatory measures for agriculture in destination markets. The unambiguous neoliberal revolution in New Zealand has ...
Sustaining the physical and social dimensions of wilderness tourism: the perceptual approach to wilderness management in New Zealand
The dynamics of the tourism industry are well illustrated by the case of New Zealand’s tourism development over the last decade. The number of international tourists visiting New Zealand has doubled in the last ten years ...
Determinants of shoe retailers' perceptions of promotion tools
This study is concerned with the retailers' perceptions of promotion tools, and with what determines their perceptions. The database is based on the application of postal questionnaires involving 104 retail stores located ...
Rethinking collaboration and partnership: a public policy perspective
Issues of coordination, collaboration and partnership are now at the forefront of much tourism research on finding new solutions to resource management and destination development problems. However, despite the value of ...
Textual territories: Gendered cultural politics and Australian representations of the war of 1914–1918
If, having passed through the long courtyard where the walls are inscribed with the names of thousands of Australian war dead, you enter the inner sanctum of the Australian War Memorial, the Hall of Memory (quietly, as you ...
Community family tenure - An Examination of Scotland's Crofting and Zimbabwe's Communal Area Tenure.
This paper summarizes legislation in Scotland (some in place for over a century) and Zimbabwe (some in place for fifteen years) relating to Crofting and Communal Areas - both of which are forms of what in this paper has ...
Talking About 'My Place'/My Place: Feminism, Criticism and the Other's Autobiography
A few years ago I edited an autobiography written in 1936 by a working- class New Zealand woman, Mary Lee's The Not So Poor. Setting out on a project of "restoring a voice," allowing the as yet unpublished speech of a ...
Poverty, Dependence and ‘Women’: Reading Autobiography and Social Policy from 1930s New Zealand
This essay explores the construction of ‘women’ in New Zealand during the 1930s, when the social legislation of the First Labour Government was being formulated and enacted. It examines the documentation produced by the ...