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Economic Value of Freshwater Recreational Angling in Otago: A Travel Cost Method Approach
Otago is renowned internationally for offering some of the most pristine and exciting freshwater trout and salmon fishing in the world. However, many freshwater fishing sites in Otago are showing signs of environmental ...
Recruiting youth consumers for suicide research: A mental health clinician's dilemma
Background
This thesis investigated the perceived barriers among mental health clinicians towards introducing research participation to young male consumers presenting with suicidal behaviours. The need for the present ...
Electronic Ratification: the Collective Bargaining Implications
The ratification procedure is the last phase in the negotiation of a collective agreement, in which the union membership is given the opportunity to vote to accept or reject the proposed agreement. Traditionally, union ...
Implications of Internet Usage Policy on Personal Web Usage from the Perspective of Senior Management and Other Staff Members
The use of the Internet has increased exponentially for the past three decades. In many organisations, the Internet has been the backbone of communication and dissemination of information. Personal web usage (PWU) is an ...
Conceptualising the nature of learning in volunteer tourism
Volunteer tourism is an increasingly popular and commercialised holiday experience that blends the activities of tourism and volunteering. While on holiday either domestically or abroad some individuals choose to volunteer ...
Creating a Modified Monopoly game for promoting students’ higher-order thinking skills and knowledge retention
While a deep understanding of basic accounting concepts is fundamental for students to fully comprehend the discipline, research has consistently found that students struggle with understanding accounting concepts and tend ...
Disclosure of the Persuasive Intent behind the Placement of Risky Products in Movies: Consequences for Cognitive and Affective Processing
The placement of ‘risky’ products, such as alcohol and tobacco, and their brand imagery in movies is used by some of their sellers for promotional campaigns. Drawing upon the extant literature on persuasion and product ...
Digital Channels in Healthcare Service Provision: A study of midwives and women's understanding of and engagement with information and communication technologies (ICT)
This study is about pregnant women, midwives, and information and communication technologies (ICT) during the provision of primary maternity services. It explored (n=35) midwives and (n=55) pregnant women’s perceptions and ...
Leadership Philosophies and Practices through a Bourdieusian lens: Case Studies of Chinese and Indian Leaders in New Zealand
This research examines the relationship that is known to exist between leadership and culture.
In an increasingly seamless world where boundaries are constantly being renegotiated on a number of levels, such an investigation ...
The social phenomenon of climate change: contextual vulnerability, risk perception and adaptation in the ski industry of Queenstown, New Zealand
Climate change has evolved from its natural science origins to become simultaneously a physical and a social phenomenon (Hulme, 2009). While climate change can be measured, quantified and modelled, it can also be perceived ...