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Process-based theory of value: a naïve approach to the axiomatic foundations of statistical activity cost analysis (SACA)

Botafogo, Frederico (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis revisits the axiomatic foundations of Statistical Activity Cost Analysis (SACA). This entails discussing the applicability of Representational Theories of Measurement to accounting with the view of revising ...
Lean Supply Chain Management in SMEs: A Case Study of a New Zealand Company

Chen, Gao (Thesis, Master of Commerce, 2017)

In the modern business world, the competition among companies has been generally becoming the competition among supply chains (SCs). Supply chain management (SCM) is playing an increasingly significant role in running a ...
Debt Sustainability, Fiscal Space, and Growth

Culling, Jamie (Thesis, Master of Science, 2017)

This paper investigates two overarching questions: how high can public debt rise before it becomes unsustainable; and, how do sustainable changes in public debt impact growth? We review fiscal performance using annual data ...
Cultivating Climate Consciousness: Agritourism Providers’ Perspectives of Farms, Food and Place

Cavaliere, Christina T. (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

The aim of this PhD research is to explore climate change perspectives of agritourism providers in New Jersey (NJ) located in the United States (US). Research objectives include the assessment of agritourism providers’ ...
Sustainable Water Management in the Hotel Sector: A Policy Network Analysis of Singapore

Hu, Xiao (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Tourism has become one of the most profound economic, social and environmental phenomena since World War II. Over-exploitation of resources in the tourism context, however, can lead to breakdown or collapse of the resource ...
A Framework for Implementing Software Measurement Programs in Small and Medium Enterprises

Mughal, Aftab Ahmad (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

The economies of numerous nations, including New Zealand, rely heavily on the contributions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In the last decade a shift to the provision and use of software services, rather than ...
Concentration and Capture in the News Media

Tal, Yochay (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

Median voter models imply that political agents will compete to satisfy the policy preferences of the median voter in a bid to win election. In a more realistic model, political information signals are filtered through the ...
Enabling Real-Time Shared Environments on Mobile Head-Mounted Displays

Cook, Matthew Guy (Thesis, Master of Science, 2017)

Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) are becoming more prevalent consumer devices, allowing users to experience scenes and environments from a point of view naturally controlled by their movement. However there is limited application ...
Authentic Leadership: An Empirical Assessment of the Ephemeral

Lux, Andrei Alexander (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis quantitatively examines how individual cultural differences impact on authentic leadership efficacy and isolates its key mediating mechanisms. Four major advances are presented. The first is a formula for ...
Connectionist-Based Adaptive Speech Recognition Systems

Ghobakhlou, Ali Akbar (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

It has been a long standing technical challenge to create machines that can perform human intellectual tasks such as speech processing. Speech recognition is important not only because it is the most common means of human ...
Image segmentation using superpixel ensembles

Gu, Xianbin (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Recently there has been an increasing interest in image segmentation due to the needs of locating objects with high segmentation accuracy as required by many computer vision and image processing tasks. While image segmentation ...
The inter-country diffusion of pharmaceutical products

Cullen, Ross (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1981)

A major debate has raged over the existence and causes of a phenomenon known as "drug lag". Protagonists in the debate have argued that the U.S.A. is typically late to receive new pharmaceutical products because of the ...
Housing, the ‘Great Income Tax Experiment’, and the intergenerational consequences of the lease

Coleman, Andrew (Discussion Paper, 2017)

This paper provides an analysis of how the New Zealand tax system may be affecting residential property markets. Like most OECD countries, New Zealand does not tax the imputed rent or capital gains from owner-occupied ...
The internationalisation of Chinese privately owned SMEs: From network and institutional perspectives

Xiao He, Cici (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis examines Chinese SMEs and focuses on their internationalisation. It explains how and why these SMEs internationalise with the influence of both networks and institutions. It contributes to the internationalisation ...
Gone with the Wind: International Migration

Aburn, Amelia; Wesselbaum, Dennis (Discussion Paper, 2017)

This paper adds to the literature on the determinants of international migration. First, we offer a joint analysis of the driving forces of migration capturing year-to-year variations and long-run effects. Second, we ...
Access to Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Ethiopia

Regasa, Dereje; Fielding, David; Roberts, Helen (Discussion Paper, 2017)

Using Ethiopian firm-level data, we model the effect of different types of financing on firm growth. The form of financing is potentially endogenous to firm growth, and one contribution of this paper is to introduce a new ...
The impact of climate change on crop production in Ghana: A Structural Ricardian analysis

Etwire, Prince M.; Fielding, David; Kahui, Victoria (Discussion Paper, 2017)

We apply a Structural Ricardian Model (SRM) to farm-level data from Ghana in order to estimate the impact of climate change on crop production. The SRM explicitly incorporates changes in farmers’ crop selection in response ...
Health Shocks and Child Time Allocation Decisions by Households: Evidence from Ethiopia

Dinku, Yonatan; Fielding, David; Genc, Murat (Discussion Paper, 2017)

Little is currently known about the effects of shocks to parental health on the allocation of children’s time between alternative activities. Using longitudinal data from the Ethiopian Young Lives surveys of 2006 and 2009, ...
A Bayesian approach for identifying international norms in politics

Patnaik, Suravi Prakashchandra (Thesis, Master of Science, 2017)

Whenever a protest takes place, a politician visits a foreign country, or two countries negotiate a deal; it takes almost no time for these events to be reported in the television, newspapers and more recently, the vast ...
The true significance of ‘high’ correlations between EQ-5D value sets

Ombler, Franz; Albert, Michael; Hansen, Paul (Discussion Paper, 2017)

High correlation coefficients for EQ-5D value sets derived from different samples, e.g. across countries, are conventionally interpreted as evidence that the people in the respective samples have similar health-related ...