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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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 ... -
The value and processes of partnerships in the English National Health Service: A study of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
Background The Long Term Plan for the English National Health Service (NHS) (2019) states that partnership structures, in the form of Integrated Care Systems (ICS), are to be developed by 2021. The Plan is preceded by a ... -
Exploration of canvas-based Chinese family office business model
Along with China's economic takeoff in the past four decades, a number of prominent family businesses and high net worth individuals have emerged in mainland China. The investible assets holding by high net worth individuals ... -
Drivers of ethical consumption: A cross-cultural comparison
Ethical consumption covers a diverse range of areas including environmental concerns, fair trade, consumer boycotts, voluntary simplicity and sustainable consumption. They are driven by motivations and values which vary ... -
Agent-based models of long-distance trading societies
Studying historical trading societies helps us to identify the institutions (e.g. rules) and characteristics that lead to their success or failure. Historically, long-distance trading societies, as a more particular example ... -
A critical analysis of tourism taught master's education
Can tourism education contribute to a better (tourism) world, in which business and societal needs are evenly prioritised? Global society faces myriad and unprecedented challenges, many of which, directly or not, are linked ... -
Removing spatial boundaries in immersive mobile communications
Despite a worldwide trend towards mobile computing, current telepresence experiences focus on stationary desktop computers, limiting how, when, and where researched solutions can be used. In this thesis I demonstrate that ... -
Geographical perceptions of terrorism and their influence on domestic tourists' travel intentions
Tourism by its very nature is susceptible to various forms of risk ranging from economic to environmental and political crises. Not only does the buyer (i.e., tourist) spend his/her disposable income to buy the tourism ... -
The influence of entrepreneurial desire and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intention: A study in the context of tourism and hospitality students
Tourism is one of the most important industries in New Zealand and is the country’s biggest export earner, employer, and its fastest-growing economic generator (Tourism Industry Aotearoa (TIA), 2017). The industry is ... -
Remote Working during COVID19
Our current research, prompted by the COVID19 pandemic, aims to understand employee experiences of remote working during these unprecedented times. We are interested in the adjustments made by both individuals and organisations ... -
In Search of Competitive Givers
Much of the theoretical and experimental research on charitable giving allows for three main types of donor: pure altruists, impure altruists, and pure warm-glow givers. For none of these types should donations be increasing ... -
Essays on retirement wellbeing in New Zealand
The thesis is motivated by the unique retirement provision system in New Zealand (NZ). NZ has a low replacement rate from its public pension provision, New Zealand Superannuation (OECD, 2015), lack of a public mandatory ... -
An exploration of appearance-driven fruit and vegetable waste through the eyes of children: A consumer socialisation perspective
“We need to find the beauty inside these vegetables, and not only on the outside.” ―Dana Cowin, Food & Wine Editor-In-Chief Food waste is a global issue with negative social, economic, and environmental consequences. ... -
SSE 50 ETF options
I have four chapters in this thesis, chapter one is the introduction of the paper. The abstract for chapter 2: Using Bakshi, Cao and Chen (2000), and Bakshi and Kapadia’s (2003) methodology, this paper study the Chinese ... -
Essays in corporate finance
This thesis studies the effects of CEO succession gaps (differences in personal traits between the predecessor and successor) on subsequent firm performance (Chapter 2), and firm future risk-taking (Chapter 3). Market ... -
Essays in empirical finance
We are all aware of the recent world health crisis, namely COVID-19. Every single person experiences the direct impact of this pandemic on their personal life and day-to-day activities. For the first time in our lives, we ... -
Experiencing place bonding: Exploring differences between migrants, refugees, and tourists
Rapid globalisation and increasing mobility result in the sameness in places’ architectural and commercial forms. Therefore, places begin to lose their cultural speciality, unique identities, characteristics, meanings and ...