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Recent Deposits
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Customer-based brand equity in a digital age: An analysis of brand associations in user-generated social media content.
In the academic research of branding, the construct of customer-based brand equity (CBBE) was cultivated to summarize the incremental value provided to a product or service by the brand knowledge structures or associations ... -
Orientations to Happiness and Sustainable Consumption: A Developing Country Perspective from Vietnam
Purpose This thesis applied the theory of Orientations to Happiness (Peterson, Park and Seligman, 2005) to study the motivation to sustainable consumption in Vietnam. From a developing country’s perspective, realising ... -
Does Pollution Affect Crime? Evidence from U.S. Cities
In this paper we study the relationship between air pollution and crime. We construct a city-level, hourly data set with 2.4 million crimes and link each crime to data on pollution and controls, e.g. weather variables. ... -
Interaction and Emotional Response in Immersive Virtual Reality Learning Environments
Virtual Reality (VR) is seen as a promising tool for effective education. The flexibility, controllability, and interactive capabilities of VR allow for a range of immersive experiences. This presents an opportunity for ... -
Tourism boycott calls by Twitter users due to concerns for the welfare of animals
There has been an increase in tourism boycotts from 2008, especially with the introduction of the Internet and social media. Despite this increase, there is a dearth of knowledge about tourism boycotts. Behaviours that ... -
An Analysis of Public Spending on Education
The substantive part of this thesis comprises three empirical chapters on national-level (total) public spending on education. It encompasses three related topics in Comparative Public (Education) Finance with Wagner’s law ... -
Energy efficiency: modelling and performance analysis of self-powered sensors
The idea of employing harvested energy from human motion to run electronic devices such as self-powered sensors in fitness gadgets is attracting increased attention of many researchers. However, there is still limited ... -
Impact of Consumer Optimism and Consumer Pessimism on the Adoption of Pro-Environmental Consumption Behaviour
The present study investigates the impact of consumer optimism and consumer pessimism on the adoption of pro-environmental consumption behaviour. It also measures the direct and indirect effect of consumer optimism and ... -
Advocacy and community leadership in destination management
Destination management is undergoing substantial change. Recent literature suggests that current destination management practices, in the context of the global expansion of tourism and volume oriented approaches, are not ... -
Does institutional quality foster economic complexity?
This paper examines the extent to which the quality of institutions, measured by the Economic Freedom of the World index, helps shape cross-country differences in economic complexity. To this end, I employ the intensity ... -
Informing the development of evidence-based and theory-driven alcohol counter-marketing campaigns
Alcohol is the most widely used psychoactive drug (Crocq, 2003; Global Drug Survey, 2018), responsible for approximately 3.3 million deaths each year (World Health Organization, 2014), and a large global burden of disease, ... -
Building Resilience in Turbulent Environments: The Role of Relationship Marketing
As firms’ environment become more turbulent, complex, and uncertain, managing relationships as strategic resources becomes increasingly vital. However, managing relationships in changing conditions poses significant ... -
Consumers and Their Brand Love Relationships
This thesis contributes to the concept of consumer brand love relationship building. This thesis frames the consumer-brand love relationships in two forms: Firstly, the brand love relationship is similar to a close ... -
Determinants of foreign investment and divestment
This thesis investigates determinants of bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign divestment (FDiV), based on different theoretical models of these capital flows and a variety of estimation methods. It consists ... -
Closing Price Manipulation and Market Quality
This thesis examines the impact of closing price manipulation (“marking the close”) on several dimensions of equity market quality, including both the efficiency and integrity of equity markets. Marking the close is an ... -
Cooking with Gas: Māori and the coming energy transition
This paper presents an Indigenous and Māori perspective about the need for urgent energy transitions by examining three areas: • Climate change transition, which I define as an energy transition to a largely non-fossil-fuel ... -
The Role of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Accounting Education
This thesis presents the findings from three studies which investigate the role of self-efficacy beliefs within accounting education. Non-cognitive variables including self-efficacy have been shown to improve learning ... -
Industrial service design: an examination of Chinese choice preferences for shipping services
During the last three decades the Asia-Pacific region has grown rapidly. In close parallel, the reliance on maritime transport has also grown significantly to keep pace with the regions rapid economic growth. Yet, despite ... -
The Effect of Information Disclosure on Corporate Governance and Mutual Funds
This thesis consists of three empirical essays that investigate the impact of information disclosure on firm corporate governance and mutual fund investment. The first essay studies the direct association between media ... -
Antecedents of Employee Guardianship Behaviour within the Retail Context
Retail crime has a significant financial impact on the supermarket retail sector which results in economic, social and psychological loss. In New Zealand alone, in 2017 the financial losses were estimated to be at $1.1 ...