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.
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Accountancy and Finance [249]
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Management [155]
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Tourism [115]
Recent Deposits
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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 ... -
International tourists' environmental orientation and willingness to pay for conservation : implications for New Zealand's tourism and conservation policy
Through books such as Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), environmental disasters such as Chernobyl (1989) and increased scientific evidence of climate change and its consequences (IPCC 2007, UNWTO and UNEP 2008) people have ... -
Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: An Analysis of the Sundarbans World Heritage Area
Examining the understandings of and responses to anthropogenic climate change is important to help climatically vulnerable communities enhance their resilience. Lack of climate change understanding is an obstacle to ... -
Dynamic Demand Response in Residential Prosumer Collectives
This research aims at exploring how smart grid opportunities can be leveraged to ameliorate demand response practices for residential prosumer collectives, while meeting the needs of end-users and power grids. Electricity ... -
Understanding Chinese tourist experience of the Māori villages in New Zealand
Māori cultural tourism in New Zealand has been traditionally developed to cater to the interests of Western tourists, who had been the major patrons of the New Zealand tourism business long before the emergence of Chinese ... -
Indigenous knowledge and practices for marine ecotourism development in Misool, Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
This doctoral study examines the complexities of integrating Indigenous knowledge and practices into sustainable marine ecotourism development, with a focus on the case study of Misool, Raja Ampat, in West Papua Province, ... -
High Value Manufacturing in New Zealand to 2040
The Work Futures Otago project analyses and forecasts the trends, future projections and potential disruptions in New Zealand with a time horizon of 2040. We utilise the power of a narrative approach to construct scenarios ... -
The evolution of the business case for corporate social responsibility : construction and development in Europe
Although ideas and discussions about the social responsibility of business have a long history, the debate over what is known under the label of CSR (corporate social responsibility) has only escalated worldwide in the ... -
A new tool for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets, including valuing ‘dead’
A new online tool for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets was recently developed and trialled in New Zealand (NZ). Health state values for each participant are determined using the PAPRIKA method – in the ... -
How Do US Options Traders "Smirk" on China? Evidence from FXI Options
Motivated by the rising attention to the Chinese equity and equity options markets, we investigate the shape and dynamics of the implied volatility (IV) curve of options written on the FXI, the FTSE/Xinhua China 50 Index ... -
Taxing capital income in New Zealand: an international perspective
In the 1980s and 1990s New Zealand undertook a large number of tax reforms designed to improve the performance of the economy. Top marginal income-tax rates were reduced, a value-added tax (GST) was introduced, a system ... -
The knowledge-capital model: The case of intra-Asian foreign direct investment
Employing a panel dataset of bilateral inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for 31 Asian countries and territories over the period 2001-2012, we estimate the knowledge-capital (KK) model to find the dominant ... -
Effects of Social Capital on Start-up Outcomes
This thesis explores the effects of social capital on start-up outcomes. Entrepreneurs’ ability to access and utilise social capital, through bonding and bridging relationships of various types, facilitated by trust, is ... -
Value co-creation: role of actor's competence and motivation
Value co-creation has received considerable attention in marketing theory over the past decade. Scholars argue that value co-creation is a multi-actor phenomenon. Multiple individuals in their varied roles contribute towards ... -
An Adaptable Long-term Condition Workload Prediction Model for Primary Health Care
The primary health care (PHC) system must manage the growing demand for care due to patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. Population-based care can help address this workload ... -
What Screams Are Made Of: Exploring how imagery and language in fright tourism promotional materials invokes affective responses in visitors
Besides creating awareness of the operational elements of tourism attractions (e.g. location and opening hours), tourism promotional materials often communicate to potential visitors what the overall guest experience would ... -
Stock Market Reaction to A Buyer’s Supply Chain Sustainability Management: An event study examining the consequence to buyers and their suppliers
In response to increasing stakeholder pressure on firms to improve environmental and social performance, firms increasingly adopt supply chain sustainability management (SCSM) that place new requirements on their suppliers. ... -
Essays on Gender and the Macroeconomy
The discourse on gender equality is one that has become increasingly popular in economic research and policy considerations. A large strand of this discourse appeals to the ideals of human dignity, societal welfare, fairness ... -
The Determinants of Injury Compensation Claims in a Universal Claims Environment
Injury compensation claims data are frequently used to measure injury trends; however other factors can influence claiming behaviour, such as the financial incentives within the insurance setting. Previous studies have ...