School of Business Departments
The University of Otago School of Business is committed to enriching the commercial, economic, cultural and social development of New Zealand and the wider international community through its business research and education.
With numerous centres of research excellence, strong postgraduate research programmes, particular strengths in tourism and economics research, and close engagement with the business world, the School takes pride in its many contributions to the community. Find out more about School of Business Research activities.
For further information go to the School of Business.
Sub-communities within School of Business Departments
-
Marketing [165]
Collections in School of Business Departments
-
Accountancy and Finance [264]
-
Economics [322]
-
Management [166]
-
Office of Dean [11]
-
Tourism [138]
Recent Deposits
-
"All you can heat? Welfare implications of high fixed charge tariffs for electricity"
This research investigates the implications of residential electricity tariffs with high daily fixed charge or fixed-like components, like ‘all you can eat’ or ‘uncapped’ tariffs which are common for access to internet ... -
A firm grip on nature: The economic case for environmental personhood.
Nature is declining at unprecedented rates. We posit that the external effects of ecosystem degradation can be understood as a lack of property rights of stakeholders advocating on behalf of future generations and the ... -
ECG Classification with Patient-Dependent Normalization and Multi-step Classifier.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important tool for monitoring abnormal heartbeats. Machine learning has been used to facilitate the process of identifying the beats from the ECG data. In this research, we undertook the ... -
Economic insecurity and income inequality in the wellbeing debate
This thesis explores two key measures of economic wellbeing - economic insecurity and income inequality. Chapters 2 and 3 present an Economic Security Index (ESI) for New Zealand, a new measure of economic wellbeing. An ... -
Demand for schooling in rural Senegal
This thesis aims to understand the determinants of household demand for schooling in rural Senegal. Using an original dataset including 504 households living in the North of Senegal and based on the results of a literature ... -
A business model for an accessible adventure hub in Dunedin, New Zealand
Our thirst for outdoor adventure is growing, with participation rates in adventure recreation and sport increasing exponentially across the globe (Brandt & Buckley, 2018; Breivik, 2007, 2010; Brymer & Gray, 2009). There ... -
People and processes during decision-making in open source software communities: A case study of Python
Open Source Software Development (OSSD) communities are often able to produce high quality software comparable to proprietary software. The success of an OSSD community is often attributed to the underlying governance ... -
Prioritisation of requests, bugs and enhancements pertaining to apps for remedial actions. Towards solving the problem of which app concerns to address initially for app developers
Useful app reviews contain information related to the bugs reported by the app’s end-users along with the requests or enhancements (i.e., suggestions for improvement) pertaining to the app. App developers expend exhaustive ... -
Factors affecting young Chinese tourists' use of Airbnb and the impact of personal values: A motivation-based segmentation study.
The rise of the peer-to-peer accommodation service such as Airbnb has represented a transformational innovation in the tourism and accommodation industry. Guttentag and fellow researchers (2017) stated that limited research ... -
The effects of catalytic innovation on the creation of social impact
Social innovation (SI) is increasingly being appraised to possess the potential to provide innovative interventions to confront complex and interdependent social problems in both developing and developed economies. SI has ... -
The role of emotions in the experiences of commercial high-altitude mountaineering guides who have guided above the death-zone
The body of tour guiding research has identified the importance of emotions and emotion management to guide’s experiences. However, there is a far less granular understanding of why, when, and how at each stage of a trip ... -
Research on the relationship between organizational transformation and employee perception and commitment - A case example on the overseas education college of Shanghai Jiaotong University
The vigorous development of China's education industry under the transition system has brought many opportunities and challenges to Chinese education organizations. Organizational change and transformation have become an ... -
The heterogeneity of women entrepreneurial spirit and the influence on strategy making
As one of the important driving forces of innovation, entrepreneurship is of vital significance to enterprises' development and strategic decision-making. However, the current research has been focusing on the broad concept ... -
The Role of Fundamentals and Policy in New Zealand’s Carbon Prices
New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment (MfE) explicitly recognizes that the New Zealand Units (NZUs) price is set by a flexible unlimited supply of units, as well as demand for units. This thesis explores NZU pricing ... -
The study on Chinese SMEs' internationalization speed
Enterprise internationalization, as one of the key strategies for companies to increase business opportunities and expand their business territory, is not only the core driving factor of economic globalization, but also a ... -
Testing a theory of Islamic corporate reporting : the case of Malaysia
This study examines the validity of a theory of lslamic Corporate Reporting proposed by Baydoun and Willett (1994). Specifically, the theory suggests that Islamic communities would be better served by a corporate reporting ... -
Polarisation and Poverty Reduction in Africa: The Devil is in the Choice of Equivalence Relation
The focus of this paper is the low observed mean consumption elasticity of poverty in Africa, and the suggestion that polarisation of national distributions, specifically the non-parametric ‘relative distribution’ method, ... -
Cost-(in)effective public good provision: An experimental exploration
This paper investigates the determinants of cost-(in)effective giving to public goods. We conduct a pre-registered experiment to elucidate how factors at the institutional and individual levels shape individual contributions ... -
Identity construction in online dating
Online dating has emerged as one of the most widely used opportunities provided by the internet, yet only a small number of studies have focused on online daters who have met and developed successful relationships with ... -
State history and political instability: The disadvantage of early state development
This paper establishes that long-term exposure to statehood is detrimental to building politically stable regimes outside Europe. It argues that accumulated statehood experience impeded the diffusion of European institutions ...