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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Determinants of foreign investment and divestment
This thesis investigates determinants of bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign divestment (FDiV), based on different theoretical models of these capital flows and a variety of estimation methods. It consists ... -
Closing Price Manipulation and Market Quality
This thesis examines the impact of closing price manipulation (“marking the close”) on several dimensions of equity market quality, including both the efficiency and integrity of equity markets. Marking the close is an ... -
Cooking with Gas: Māori and the coming energy transition
This paper presents an Indigenous and Māori perspective about the need for urgent energy transitions by examining three areas: • Climate change transition, which I define as an energy transition to a largely non-fossil-fuel ... -
The Role of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Accounting Education
This thesis presents the findings from three studies which investigate the role of self-efficacy beliefs within accounting education. Non-cognitive variables including self-efficacy have been shown to improve learning ... -
Industrial service design: an examination of Chinese choice preferences for shipping services
During the last three decades the Asia-Pacific region has grown rapidly. In close parallel, the reliance on maritime transport has also grown significantly to keep pace with the regions rapid economic growth. Yet, despite ... -
The Effect of Information Disclosure on Corporate Governance and Mutual Funds
This thesis consists of three empirical essays that investigate the impact of information disclosure on firm corporate governance and mutual fund investment. The first essay studies the direct association between media ... -
Antecedents of Employee Guardianship Behaviour within the Retail Context
Retail crime has a significant financial impact on the supermarket retail sector which results in economic, social and psychological loss. In New Zealand alone, in 2017 the financial losses were estimated to be at $1.1 ... -
A belief in karma and its influences on marketing decisions: Perceptions of marketing managers in a Western context
“What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.” (Oprah Winfrey) This thesis explores the constitution of karmic beliefs that drive marketers’ ethical perceptions and behaviours. It hypothesises that a belief ... -
Dynamic ideologies : insights from the Slow Food movement
Ideology is the framework in which all consumer decisions are made and as such, an understanding of ideology is important for marketers. There is however, little research which conceptualises either what ideology actually ... -
Seasonality in New Zealand : perceptions of tourism operators in Queenstown
Although the effects of seasonality on the tourism industry and associated businesses are well known, research into the causes, characteristics, and implications of seasonality as it pertains to tourism remains very much ... -
'Back of the envelope'? : small and medium tourism enterprises and strategic planning
Small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) form the backbone of New Zealand’s tourism industry. They are pivotal to a destination and important vehicles of regional economic development. However, they are characterised ... -
Community involvement in tourism planning in the Catlins, New Zealand
This study examines residents’ attitudes towards tourism and tourism planning within the Catlins, New Zealand. This rural peripheral area on the lower coast of the South Island has received significant tourist growth over ... -
Student experiences of tourism education and nurturing the 'spirit of service'
The importance of service quality management has been well documented in the tourism and hospitality literature. To achieve this service quality goal, the role of the employee cannot be over emphasised. Successful tourism ... -
Empirical Essays on Finance and Economic Development in Ethiopia
Access to financial services has been shown to be associated with faster growth and the promotion of economic development. However, most developing countries have a fragile and under-developed financial sector that provides ... -
A comparative case study of crisis communication strategy between ZTE and Huawei within China’s telecommunications industry
This study analyzes the crisis communication strategies of two Chinese multinational technology enterprises and tests the effectiveness of their crisis response. This study conducts a quantitative analysis, embedded in a ... -
Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes
There is an increasing interest in activity recognition analysis due to the tremendous growth of sensors and devices that have recently brought significant attention to smart homes research which promotes inhabitants' ... -
How Close to Home Does Charity Begin?
This paper uses a field experiment to analyse the extent to which people are more inclined to support a charity focused on people or causes in their own region, compared to regions in other parts of the country. New Zealand ... -
Consumers' hotel choice: revising the role of online user-generated ratings
With the advent of Web 2.0 and rapid growth of Tourism 2.0 applications, today travellers have access to an enormous volume of online user-generated content in the form of user reviews and ratings for nearly every single ... -
The construction of a disaster destination : rebuilding Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
The popular tourist destination island of Koh Phi Phi Don, Thailand was heavily affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami in December 2004, which resulted in a destroyed tourism infrastructure and complete downturn of tourism. ... -
The Efficacy and Maturity of Quality Improvement Approaches in the New Zealand Healthcare System
Purpose The purpose of this research is to critically evaluate the quality improvement (QI) phenomenon in healthcare providing organisations (clinics, hospitals, etc.) and propose an agenda for system-wide continuous ...