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Machiavelli, political marketing and reinventing government
Niccolo Machiavelli is used as a guide to some of the key issues facing modern government and applies his insights into the effective management and development of civic society. Political Marketing, Good Governance, ... -
Machiavellian marketing: justifying ends and means in the modern politics
Niccolo Machiavelli is used as a guide to some of the key issues facing modern government and applies his insights into the effective management and development of civic society. Political Marketing, Good Governance, ... -
Management and decisions in a Tongan business context
Management and decision-making are functions that enable an organisation to perform effectively and efficiently. In addition, performance measures are the means for determining how effective and efficient the organisation ... -
Management of university research: A grounded theory exploration
This thesis explores the conduct and outcomes of individual research projects where the focus of interest is the influence of administrative procedures on the research process. Data is from interviews with researchers and ... -
Management ownership and firm value revisited
The relationship between management ownership and firm value is investigated in an attempt to reconcile the conflicting findings in Morck, Shleifer and Vishny (1988) and McConnell and Servaes (1990) using a sample of Fortune ... -
Managerial Incentives Behind Fixed Asset Revaluations: Evidence from New Zealand Firms
This study investigates the underlying management incentives of the upward fixed asset revaluation behaviour of New Zealand listed companies over the period 1999 to 2003. Prior research conducted in Australia (e.g. Whittred ... -
Managerial Incentives, Risk Aversion and Corporate Policy Decisions
I examine the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) incentives and the risk exposure generated through important corporate policy decisions: investment intensity, firm focus and leverage. Conditioning this ... -
Managerial ownership and firm value: Evidence from New Zealand
The relationship between managerial ownership and firm value is examined for 79 listed companies in New Zealand Consistent with theoretical prediction in Jensen and Meckling (1976), ownership and firm value are positively ... -
Managers perceptions and attitudes to service quality and kiwihost in the Dunedin retail sector
The aim of this research was to examine Dunedin retail managers' perceptions of service quality and to determine whether or not this was linked to the fact that Dunedin retail managers were not utilising the courses that ... -
Managing a complex environment — Social cultural perspectives the case of Indonesia
The study explores social institutions of Chinese-managed organisations in Indonesia as products of their social-cultural values and historical trajectory developments using information (knowledge) management perspective. ... -
Managing an effective promotion campaign: lessons from retail advertisers in New Zealand, Portugal and Hungary
The present study considers how clothing and shoe retailers in New Zealand, Portugal and Hungary manage promotion campaigns and looks at the objectives that are most important to these retailers as well as the marketing ... -
Managing Emotions: White-Water Rafting Guides And The Emotional Labor Theory
In 1983 Arlie Russell Hochschild published a book approaching the management of emotions in flight attendants and bill collectors. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling discussed the relationship between ... -
Managing New Zealand-China Business Collaboration at the Personal (and Personnel) Level
How can New Zealand businesses best manage collaborative relationships with Chinese partners so as to contribute to competitive advantage? Business interaction between New Zealand and China has become a focus for the New ... -
Managing tourism in Antarctica : A framework for the future
Antarctic tourism has been the subject of significant debate in recent years, not only within the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) but also in the wider community. A relatively recent but now well-established industry, tourism ... -
Maori and Mining
A multi-disciplinary study on how mining in New Zealand relates to and impacts on Maori - Iwi, hapu and whanau. The book covers a myriad of topics: resource extraction issues (including fracking), Treaty of Waitangi issues ... -
Maori Business Networks in Dunedin: Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa: Let us keep close together, not far apart
This report is the result of a partnership and consequent research brief established between the University of Otago School of Business, Te Kupeka Umaka Maori Ki Araiteuru Inc. (KUMA), the Dunedin City Council, Te Runanga ... -
Maori disadvantage in the labour market
This paper is a preliminary report on research that is ongoing. Using unit record data from Statistics New Zealand's Income Survey for the June quarters of 1997 to 1999, we estimate wage regressions taking into account the ... -
Mapping Medieval and Modern Chauvinism in England
There is evidence for the long-run persistence of geographical variation in tolerance towards other ethnicities. However, existing studies of tolerance use data from countries with long-standing patterns of ethnic diversity, ... -
MAPPING PROCESSES TOWARD STRATEGIC LEVERAGE
Although corporate strategy helps in differentiation, positioning, and aligning the organisation to align itself internaly to be competitive, it is not enough. A separate enterprise information system (EIS) strategy must ... -
Market integration, choice of technology and welfare
This paper develops an international trade model where firms in a duopoly may diversify their technologies for strategic reasons. The firms face the same set of technologies given by a trade-off between marginal costs and ...