This qualitative study investigates the extent, purposes, and outcomes of environmental communications (hereafter ECs) produced by ski areas on New Zealand’s South Island. Researchers have examined why ski areas participate ...

This thesis examines how people in the coastal environment of the Akaroa area of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand are doing at building adaptive capacity for local approaches to natural resource management. Adaptive capacity ...

This thesis explores how the notion of responsible business practice unfolds in a developing country context, Tanzania. The research provides important insights into how the socio-cultural environment shapes the uptake and ...

This research begins and ends with a concern for the environment, in particular with unease about current constitutions of the organisation/environment relationship. This thesis explores the discourse of organisational ...

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, ...

The consequences related to the loss of the worlds indigenous languages are not fully understood–the warnings as to the urgency of this issue largely unheeded, due in part to the enormity and challenges of regaining lost ...

Cluster actors have the advantage of face-to-face interaction due to geographical proximity, which allows knowledge exchange with universities within clusters. The co-location of cluster actors provides an environment that ...

This thesis investigates the role of wine awards in influencing consumer decision-making, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. Firstly, four focus groups and an online questionnaire were conducted, to explore ...

This dissertation develops an approach to solving a job-shop scheduling problem with a limited buffer capacity. The research problem is derived from solving a container unloading and loading problem at Port Otago. By ...

Social network sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, are one of the fastest-growing types of websites on the Internet. They have attracted millions of Internet users around the world. Social network sites provide a fast and an ...