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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Recent Deposits
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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 ... -
Handicrafts-enacted tourism realities in Bangladesh
Within the panorama of ethnic tourism, cultural elements of distinctive ethnic groups are the primary attraction for tourists. Within this tourismscape, handicrafts have received significant popularity, and consequently, ... -
Optimal coalition structure generation on large-scale renewable energy smart grids
Most renewable energy sources are dependent on unpredictable weather conditions, which have considerable variation over space and time. The intermittent nature of this production means that any renewable energy prosumer ... -
Culture integration in post-M&A: The case of Chinese healthcare companies
While the adjustment of the financial, capital and market structure ensures firms’ control rights after merger and acquisition (M&A), organizational culture as an informal system can profoundly affect the control rights ... -
The New Zealand red meat industry: Defined by the past, embedded in the present, blind to the future. An investigation into marketing myopia and its links to poor performance and profitability
Marketing Myopia is a theory developed by the late, great, Theodore Levitt, an influential economist and marketing innovator born to a Jewish family in Vollmerz, Schlüchtern, Germany. The family emigrated to the United ... -
Consumers' informed decision-making in response to direct to consumer advertising of prescription medicines
Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines (DTCA), a disputed health communication strategy, has been legally developed only in New Zealand and the United States. DTCA has raised significant concerns in New ... -
Yoga experiences of New Zealand men
Modern yoga is an activity that is intertwined with notions of transformation, personal growth and the enhancement of the mind, body and spirit. Intrigued by the growing number of men doing yoga in rural New Zealand and ... -
Integrated reporting in Sri Lanka: An exploratory study
This thesis explored the journey of integrated reporting (IR) of the publicly listed companies (PLCs) in Sri Lanka with four main purposes: • To explore the extent and nature of IR disclosures published by the Sri Lankan ... -
Ecological restoration and environmental philosophy: International visitor experiences at Aotearoa (New Zealand) eco-sanctuaries
Ecological restoration projects have been developed in various regions in Aotearoa (New Zealand) to address biodiversity loss and to provide human-assisted recovery of damaged, destroyed and degraded ecosystems. While the ... -
Are Mental Health and Addiction Services Leaning Towards People Centred Care?
This thesis focuses on the use of Lean Thinking in the mental health and addictions sector. It considers the directions in which the sector is trying to improve and the suitability of Lean Thinking approaches to assist the ... -
Investigating Cultural Dimensions via Developers Artefacts: The Utility of Repository Mining
A growing body of research is using artefacts from online development communities to explore the impact of developers’ behaviours on the software development process. Although this research has produced many insights, ... -
Water footprint management - theory to reality. Water management and performance of New Zealand livestock agribusiness
The livestock industry in New Zealand has seen remarkable growth in recent times, in terms of farm outputs and an increase in the farming area. This has put increased pressure on water resources around the country. In this ... -
Managerial overconfidence and corporate investment decisions - Research based on Chinese listed companies
Managerial overconfidence refers to a manager’s strong belief in their management ability, their ability to choose better investment opportunities, and the richness of their perceived knowledge level. That is, overconfident ... -
Food Heritagisation and Tourism. Following the Cheese in the Italian Dolomites
The Italian writer Italo Calvino in his book Mr. Palomar describes a scene when the title character is standing in line in a cheese shop and in front of him are displayed cheeses of every form, smell and taste. While ...