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Consuming experience - Reconsidering the Nature of Tourists’ Experiences
Experiential marketing and the quest to create memorable and extraordinary customer experiences have become central to tourism, an industry concerned with experiential products. However, the theory of experiential marketing ...
Modeling VXX Price
We study the VXX Exchange Traded Note (ETN) that has been actively traded on the New York Stock Exchange in recent years (Whaley, 2013). We confirm the puzzling phenomenon of the significantly negative returns of the VXX ...
Increasing capacity at Monarch Wildlife Cruises and Tours: a case study approach
Monarch Wildlife Cruises and Tours is a small eco-tourism business providing tours of the Otago Peninsula and an unrivalled wildlife cruise around Taiaroa Head. This company has continued to grow since its inception in ...
Heritage and Tourism in a 'Living Cultural Landscape': Role Perspectives of Multiple Stakeholder Groups in the Conservation of the Ifugao Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras World Heritage Site
Recognised for their unique characteristics that are considered of outstanding universal value, World Heritage Sites (WHSs), which usually constitute a primary tourism resource in their geographical locations, are generally ...
Pay-Performance Sensitivity and Firm Risk: The New Zealand Evidence
The study finds evidence that CEO pay-performance sensitivity decreases in the variance of stock returns for NZ publicly listed firms during 1997 to 2005. Furthermore, CEOs in firms with more volatile stock prices have ...
Explaining the geographical variation in firm births across industries in New Zealand
Previous studies have shown that firm births are linked to productivity growth and that birth rates are high in New Zealand compared to many other OECD countries, largely as a result of low barriers to entry and low costs ...
Corporate culture as normative control: A study of Hong Kong employees in a team-based organisation
Corporate culture is a form of normative control (Fleming & Stablein, 1999; Kunda, 1992).
Normative control can be described as a system of control that "works internally by engendering people with subjective attributes ...
Improving inflation targeting in New Zealand: An investigation of the Reserve Bank's inflation errors
In this project, we investigate New Zealand's rate of inflation and its deviations from target using two new methods. Firstly, Rowe's (2002) method of examining the correlations between inflation deviations from target and ...
Analysis of spatial distortions in a mental map using GPS and GIS
Mental maps are a cartographic illustration of a person's internal representation of the spatial environment in which they live. They are often used to provide an insight into how different ethnic or social groups perceive ...
Automatic mood detection from electronic music data
Automatic mood detection from music has two main benefits. Firstly, having the knowledge of mood in advance can allow for possible enhancement of the music experience (such as mood-based visualizations) and secondly it ...