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The 2003 New Zealand wineries’ survey
In 1997/98 a survey was conducted of New Zealand wineries with respect to their attitudes towards wine tourism and their relationship to key wine and food tourism stakeholders (Hall & Johnson, 1998). The survey was the ... -
2007 New Zealand computer crime and security survey
The New Zealand Computer Crime and Security Survey is conducted by the Security Research Group (SRG) of the University of Otago, in partnership with the Government Communications Security Bureau, Centre for Critical ... -
2009 Global Network Interconnectivity (GNI) Symposium
Telecommunications technologies and Internet services are experiencing unprecedented growth. Technological advances together with the growing scale of deployments are driving rapid change in the telecommunications arena. ... -
2010 New Zealand computer crime and security survey
The New Zealand Computer Crime and Security Survey is conducted by the Security Research Group (SRG) of the University of Otago, in partnership with the NZ Internet Task Force (NZITF), New Zealand Police, and the Computer ... -
A Bayesian approach for identifying international norms in politics
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Cognitive-Relational Approach to Leadership Studies: Finding a Middle Ground For Leadership Research
This thesis uses the New Zealand Police as a case study to answer the question “how can a cognitive-relational theoretical perspective provide a middle ground between the conventional Objectivist and Subjectivist polarities ... -
A critical analysis of the trade union movement in the Nepalese tourism industry
This research examines factors that influence trade union movements in the Nepalese tourism industry. In contrast to global trends, the last twenty-five years have seen a remarkable growth in the power and influence of ... -
A Framework for Implementing Software Measurement Programs in Small and Medium Enterprises
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 ... -
A Macro View on Tourists' Emotional Experiences
The study aims to explore tourists’ emotional experiences as a process, from an objective perspective. Experience as a subjective-objective phenomenon between the tourist and the world comes from a direct encounter with ... -
A multiphase analysis of the personal benefits derived from cultural educational tour experiences.
In recent years, educational tourism has been established as an alternative to conventional mainstream tourism with a focus on learning through travelling. Cultural educational tourism is a type of tourism engaged in by ... -
A New Understanding of Brand Development through Social-Actor Engagement
Recent years have seen a growing scholarly call for a new conceptualization of brand development as an interactive, co-creative and network-based process, in which customers adopt more active roles. These active roles are ... -
A Patent on Innovation: the Case of Sydney’s Digital Start-ups
Ever since laws were formed to protect intellectual property, disputes have raged over their impact. The rapid onslaught of “patent wars”, where companies turn to intellectual property litigation as a means to attack rivals, ... -
A reduction in FODMAP intake correlates strongly with a reduction in IBS symptoms – The FIBS study.
Background: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) affects 7-10% of the population. Patients have identified that food is a trigger for their symptoms. There is emerging evidence that a diet low in fermentable oligosaccharides, ... -
A representation theory for spatial feature based Spatial Information Systems, a figurative re-interpretation of Piaget’s theory of cognitive systems
The current conceptual model for data representation in spatial information systems (SISystems) has been challenged by various problems. In this thesis, a new theory of representation is presented based on the study on how ... -
A Study of Labour Negotiators: Orientation and Behaviour
This exploratory study examined individual negotiator social value orientation (preferences for the distribution of negotiated outcomes) and individual negotiator behaviour (strategies and tactics) in a labour relations ... -
A Study on Software Testability and the Quality of Testing in Object-Oriented Systems
Software testing is known to be important to the delivery of high-quality systems, but it is also challenging, expensive and time-consuming. This has motivated academic and industrial researchers to seek ways to improve ... -
A two-screen approach to facilitate communication and collaboration in the context of distance education
For the past decades, many academic institutions avoided, or tried to avoid physical travel in favour of Video Conferencing Systems (VCS). With VCS, the real-time two-way visual and verbal interaction of the traditional ... -
Access to Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Ethiopia
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 ...