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 [145]
Collections in School of Business Departments
-
Accountancy and Finance [251]
-
Economics [308]
-
Management [158]
-
Office of Dean [11]
-
Tourism [125]
Recent Deposits
-
Dynamic ideologies : insights from the Slow Food movement
Ideology is the framework in which all consumer decisions are made and as such, an understanding of ideology is important for marketers. There is however, little research which conceptualises either what ideology actually ... -
Seasonality in New Zealand : perceptions of tourism operators in Queenstown
Although the effects of seasonality on the tourism industry and associated businesses are well known, research into the causes, characteristics, and implications of seasonality as it pertains to tourism remains very much ... -
'Back of the envelope'? : small and medium tourism enterprises and strategic planning
Small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) form the backbone of New Zealand’s tourism industry. They are pivotal to a destination and important vehicles of regional economic development. However, they are characterised ... -
Community involvement in tourism planning in the Catlins, New Zealand
This study examines residents’ attitudes towards tourism and tourism planning within the Catlins, New Zealand. This rural peripheral area on the lower coast of the South Island has received significant tourist growth over ... -
Student experiences of tourism education and nurturing the 'spirit of service'
The importance of service quality management has been well documented in the tourism and hospitality literature. To achieve this service quality goal, the role of the employee cannot be over emphasised. Successful tourism ... -
Empirical Essays on Finance and Economic Development in Ethiopia
Access to financial services has been shown to be associated with faster growth and the promotion of economic development. However, most developing countries have a fragile and under-developed financial sector that provides ... -
A comparative case study of crisis communication strategy between ZTE and Huawei within China’s telecommunications industry
This study analyzes the crisis communication strategies of two Chinese multinational technology enterprises and tests the effectiveness of their crisis response. This study conducts a quantitative analysis, embedded in a ... -
Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes
There is an increasing interest in activity recognition analysis due to the tremendous growth of sensors and devices that have recently brought significant attention to smart homes research which promotes inhabitants' ... -
How Close to Home Does Charity Begin?
This paper uses a field experiment to analyse the extent to which people are more inclined to support a charity focused on people or causes in their own region, compared to regions in other parts of the country. New Zealand ... -
Consumers' hotel choice: revising the role of online user-generated ratings
With the advent of Web 2.0 and rapid growth of Tourism 2.0 applications, today travellers have access to an enormous volume of online user-generated content in the form of user reviews and ratings for nearly every single ... -
The construction of a disaster destination : rebuilding Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
The popular tourist destination island of Koh Phi Phi Don, Thailand was heavily affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami in December 2004, which resulted in a destroyed tourism infrastructure and complete downturn of tourism. ... -
The Efficacy and Maturity of Quality Improvement Approaches in the New Zealand Healthcare System
Purpose The purpose of this research is to critically evaluate the quality improvement (QI) phenomenon in healthcare providing organisations (clinics, hospitals, etc.) and propose an agenda for system-wide continuous ... -
Human resources, the dilemmas of education and training, strategies and practice with focus on the Pacific
This research explores human resource issues in the tourism industry within the context of the Pacific with focus on New Zealand and Samoa, analysing the effectiveness of education and training. This is referenced to human ... -
Fuel Poverty in New Zealand — Implications for Policy
Fuel poverty, or the inability to access or afford energy, impacts on the capabilities of households to attain a socially and materially needed level of energy services to participate in society. Fuel poverty is a significant ... -
A perspective on industrial relations in nursing in New Zealand.
This thesis investigates attitudes expressed by nurses on industrial relations issues which have arisen, or may possibly arise, within the nursing profession in New Zealand. It is impossible to over-emphasise the critical ... -
One Size Does Not Fit All: Longitudinal Research into Immigrant Professionals' Perceived Lived Experience of Cross-Cultural Adjustment: A Comparative Study of Three Ethnic Groups in the New Zealand Context
Despite their perceived significance for national economies (based on various countries' immigration policies), the adjustment of immigrant professionals to their host culture – with an eye to understanding their own, ... -
The Malaysian visiting friends and relatives (VFR) market initiated by the Malaysian students in South Island, New Zealand
In addition to the traditionally dominating countries within the international education market, the United States and the United Kingdom, new providers of educational products and recipients of student‐generated VFR have ... -
The relative information content of fair values and historic costs reported by U.S. banks 1986 – 2013
This thesis examines the difference in value and risk relevance of historical cost and fair value accounting information pertaining to banks in the United States of America (U.S.) between 1986 and 2013. Under U.S. Generally ... -
Migration Fears, Policy Uncertainty and Economic Activity
Motivated by the recent European migrant crisis, Brexit, and President Trump's immigration priorities, we provide new evidence into how migration fears and migration policy uncertainty affect macroeconomic outcomes across ... -
What Has New Zealand Gained From The FTA With China?: Two Counterfactual Analyses
New Zealand (NZ) was the rst developed country to have signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with China. We investigate the e ects of the 2008 NZ-China FTA on (i) exports from NZ to China, and (ii) real GDP per capita in ...