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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Sub-communities within School of Business Departments
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Marketing [143]
Collections in School of Business Departments
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Accountancy and Finance [249]
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Economics [306]
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Management [155]
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Office of Dean [11]
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Tourism [117]
Recent Deposits
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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 ... -
In Search of Effective Altruists
The effective altruism movement argues that people wanting to do the most good they can should donate to charities fighting poverty in poor countries overseas, rather than to charities helping people in need in wealthy ... -
Accountability for Practical Reasoning Agents
Artificial intelligence has been increasing the autonomy of man-made artefacts such as software agents, self-driving vehicles and military drones. This increase in autonomy together with the ubiquity and impact of such ... -
The symbolic consumption of music
Although it is a widely accepted notion that music can be used as a tool to communicate symbolic meaning, very little is known about how and why people symbolically consume music. This thesis sought to provide a detailed ... -
Two-Stage Exchange: Extending a Model of Decentralised Bi-lateral Exchange for a Limited Model of Labour, Profit, and Endogenous Production
When a private transaction takes place without publically observable prices, how might that information leak into the public domain and coordinate demand and supply sides of the economy? The Walrasian model of general ... -
Tourism, Livelihood Diversification and Food Security in Ethiopia
The tourism-food security relationship is an essential research consideration that lies at the heart of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Despite the claim that food insecurity situations can be alleviated through ... -
Entrepreneurial Responses to Disruptive Transformations: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Hospitality Industry of Post-Quake Christchurch, New Zealand
Disaster-induced crises in business operations have become an increasingly complex phenomenon and continue to become more frequent and destabilising. Far-reaching socio-political and economic consequences of globalisation, ... -
Parents’ decision-making regarding international secondary education provider
Viewing education as a product helps to investigate education from a marketing perspective. Specifically, researching choice in education in an economic methodology produces social and private benefits. While there are ... -
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 ...