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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Accountancy and Finance [247]
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Economics [296]
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Management [150]
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Tourism [109]
Recent Deposits
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Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand: expectations, experiences and outcomes
Young people from Mainland China do not have many opportunities to embark on a working holiday journey compared to most Western countries, or even some other Asian regions, like Hong Kong or Taiwan. Nowadays, these ... -
The Resilience of Wildlife Tourism Operations to Environmental Change
Nature-based tourism operations are sensitive to environmental changes including climate change, yet little is known about their ability to adapt to these uncertain environmental conditions (Scott, Hall and Gössling, 2012). ... -
Allocation of overhead expenses for MAFTech South
This report shows that the overheads of service centres can normally be allocated to profit centres using the "cause and effect'' criterion, When this criterion is used, the overheads of a service centre are allocated in ... -
Interorganisational relations and sustainable tourism in Canada: an historical perspective of Federal National Park and tourism agencies and key interest groups
This thesis examines the role and extent of collaborative interorganisational relations in the operationalisation of sustainable tourism in Canadian national parks. A considerable body of work suggests that sustainable ... -
Indigenous Entrepreneurial Orientation: Exploring Entrepreneurial Orientation with Māori Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) refers to policies and business practices that are entrepreneurial and reflected through five dimensions: innovativeness, risk taking, proactiveness, autonomy and competitive aggressiveness. ... -
Wine Islands, British Columbia : an exploration of wine tourism network relationships
Despite recognition of the potential benefits of wine tourism development for businesses and regions, the wine and tourism industries are characterised by a substantial lack of cohesion, understanding and integration. If ... -
Some aspects of home-making
The home-maker, and similarly every other human being, has three scarce factors to consider – money, time and energy. Except in times of severe depression there are usually ways in which one may obtain more money – by ... -
Capturing the effect of personality on teams with agent-based modelling
Continuing advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have changed the landscape of project management. Now there are increasing occurrences of short-term projects staffed by ad hoc assemblies of temporary ... -
International Opportunity Discovery and Creation by Internationalising SMEs: Implications for Firm Performance
According to the International Entrepreneurship (IE) perspective, internationalisation is considered as exploration and exploitation of international opportunities, in which networking and learning from experiences play a ... -
In the inspection house
Since Dean MacCannell’s (1976) The Tourist the research field has held a hope that going beyond the tourist as the “modern man in general” is the Other whose differences and authenticity could help to break the tightening ... -
Connecting and changing places : globalisation and tourism mobility on the Otago Peninsula, Dunedin, New Zealand
Globalisation, localisation and tourism are processes that are closely interconnected. They relate to historical mobilities and non-mobilities of humans, ideas and capital that impact on environment, economy, culture, ... -
ICT in Dunedin 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 ... -
Role of political awareness in backpacker destination decision-making
This thesis examines the influence of political awareness on backpackers' destination decision-making by applying Burma as a case study. After Aung San Suu Kyi- Burma's democratically elected leader, who has been under ... -
Modelling cybercrime and risk for New Zealand organisations
The Internet is now fundamental to the global economy. Growing from an experimental and research network in the late 1960's, it is now the foundation of a wide range of economic, infrastructure support, communication and ... -
Creating a Modified Monopoly game for promoting students’ higher-order thinking skills and knowledge retention
While a deep understanding of basic accounting concepts is fundamental for students to fully comprehend the discipline, research has consistently found that students struggle with understanding accounting concepts and tend ... -
Determinants of Child Wellbeing and Human Capital in Ethiopia
Investment in early childhood health and education provide children with the resources necessary to develop the cognitive and social skills that enhance their productivity later in life, but unfortunately, most children ... -
Learning from open innovation in a context of a less-open country
Chesbrough first coined the term “open innovation” about 15 years ago. Since then, a growing number of studies have shown that openness to the environment can improve firms’ innovation. However, most of the previous studies ... -
How does international experience help New Zealand's SMEs internationalize?
The purpose of this research is to explore how the international experience of individuals help small firms in New Zealand internationalize. Although the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) indicates ... -
Performance evaluation, social influence and academics’ performance behaviours
The research detailed in this thesis analysed the performance evaluation (PE) of academics in eight New Zealand (NZ) universities. Academics are employees in these universities that are involved in teaching and research ... -
The Effects of The Cash Transfer Programme for Poor Students on Child’s Work Participation: Evidence from Java (Indonesia)
Cash transfer is considered as a relatively safe policy instrument to improve child welfare. Over the past ten years, Indonesia has made major progress in reducing the number of children involved in child work. It has done ...