• Refining an entrepreneurial orientation and its impact on driving markets behaviours 

  Zortea, Elisabeth

  Firms adopting an entrepreneurial orientation (EO) can be described as firms that take risks, are proactive in pursuing opportunities, compete aggressively with their industry rivals, launch products that change market ...

• Some aspects of the retail grocery trade in New Zealand 

  Poole, William Arthur

  When l commenced this study l had two major objectives. The first was to find the factors which hold the trade associations together. It is amazing that any large group of retailers can retain its cohesionbeyond the immediate ...

• Essays on the current state of climate change research, top management’s role and market responses associated with voluntary climate change disclosure 

  Ali, Khurshid

  In this thesis, I first explore whether research related to climate change is finding the right platform in leading accounting and finance journals, since dissemination of scientific findings will help raise awareness and ...

• An evaluation of flow and clutch optimal psychological states in adventure recreation 

  Boudreau-Alguire, Patrick

  Adventure recreation participants, such as rock-climbers, skydivers, and free-style skiers have reported that one of the most important reasons for continued participation in adventure recreation is a state of mind focused ...

• Towards supporting long-term physical activity with information systems: A self-determination theory perspective 

  Wlasak, Wendy

  Physical activity apps and devices offer manifold opportunities for users to increase their activity levels and have gained growing popularity. However, people worldwide still struggle to reach sufficient levels of physical ...

• Essays in investors’ trading behaviour 

  Kongahawatte, Sampath Deepthi Lanka

  This thesis consists of three standalone studies on investor heterogeneity and asset pricing. The first study investigates investors’ trading behaviour and prospect theory value in the Korean equity market. It shows that ...

• Board gender diversity and private firms 

  Sattar, Mahnoor

  Given the ongoing demand for gender equality in business leadership and the scarcity of literature on private firms, this thesis explores the impact of board gender diversity on the observable outcomes of private firms. ...

• Novel machine learning approaches for wildfire prediction to overcome the drawbacks of equation-based forecasting 

  Ismail, Fathima Nuzla

  Predicting wildfires using Machine Learning (ML) models is relevant and essential to minimize wildfire threats to protect human lives and reduce significant property damages. Mixed results have been found in this domain, ...

• Professionalism or human virtues?: On what makes a 'good' Chinese tour guide in New Zealand 

  Zhu, Xi

  The tour guide is a key figure in the tourism industry and plays an important role, especially in group tourism. Overshadowed by the obvious importance of the tourists, tour guides have to a lesser extent entered the tourism ...

• Antecedents and consequences of theme park tourists’ satisfaction with IP as a moderator: An empirical study on Wuhu Fantawild 

  Chen, Zuyao

  Thanks to the sustainable and rapid development of China’s economy, the tourism industry in China has developed rapidly in the past years. Theme Park, as an important part of the cultural tourism industry, has become more ...

• The influence of community-based homestay tourism on the dynamics of local food culture 

  Chitrakar, Kishor Kumar

  This thesis examines how community-based homestay tourism has influenced the host community’s local food culture in a developing country context, specifically in Nepal. Local food cultures keep changing, and tourism has ...

• Public art in commercial space and its value in the context of the experience economy 

  Zheng, Ping

  This thesis discusses the value of public art in commercial spaces. It examines how public art creates value in commercial spaces in the context of the development of public culture, the promotion of consumer cultural ...

• A Brand a Minute – An observational study of children’s exposure to marketing in an era of overconsumption. 

  Watkins, Leah; Gage, Ryan; Smith, Moira; McKerchar, Christina; Aitken, Robert; Signal, Louise

  Background Marketing promotes values of consumerism and overconsumption, and negatively affects children's wellbeing and psychological development. The threat marketing poses to planetary health is just being realised. ...

• Standardisation and Data Augmentation in Genetic Programming 

  Owen, Caitlin; Dick, Grant; Whigham, Peter

  Genetic programming (GP) is a common method for performing symbolic regression that relies on the use of ephemeral random constants in order to adequately scale predictions. Suitable values for these constants must be drawn ...

• Data transformation and knowledge retrieval for humanitarian crisis response 

  Shamoug, Aladdin Ahmed Mohammed

  Humanitarian crises are unpredictable and complex environments, in which access to basic services and infrastructures is not adequately available. Computing in a humanitarian crisis environment is different from any other ...

• Research on the influence of the government department's unfair behavior on social investor's performance in the process of PPP project 

  Zhao, Guohua

  How to enhance social investor’s partnership with government departments and improve its economic and social performance in PPP(Public-Private Partnership) projects has been the focus of research. Based on the equity theory ...

• Rethinking tourism and hospitality loyalty programmes: The role of agency, communion, and self-construal 

  Su, Yu

  A loyalty programme (LP) is a subjective and multidimensional construct, offering a wide range of benefits including financial (e.g., discounts), social (e.g., human contact), and psychological (self-image). Yet, the ...

• Customer service experience of AI-based organisational frontlines 

  Fakhimi, Arezoo

  Technological change, particularly the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), is challenging traditional structures of organisational frontlines, especially in the service sector. Customers are increasingly interacting ...

• A comparative examination of virtual and intercultural competence in the context of global virtual teams 

  Cathro, Virginia Ilene

  More so than ever before, global virtual teams (GVTs) are endemic as an organisational work form within international business. Organisations, especially multinational enterprises seek to recruit, select, train and develop ...

• Knowledge transfer, collaborative innovation and firm performance: The case of university science and technology parks 

  Huang, Nan

  University Science and Technology parks play a very important role in the national innovation system. They serve as a platform for universities to transfer and apply their scientific research outcomes to industry and help ...

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