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An Investigation into the Role of Collaboration in the Development of a Regional Brand
Much literature exists on collaboration amongst competitors who are geographically proximate in a business cluster environment. Network studies likewise maintain that collaboration is critical to successfully develop and ...
Specially Designated Dividends: Signalling or Free Cash Flow?
This study jointly examines the signalling and free cash flow hypotheses as applied to announcement-period reactions around specially designated dividend (SDD) announcements. Results support the presence of both theories ...
Volumetric Hand Reconstruction and Tracking to Support Non-Verbal Communication in Collaborative Virtual Environments
The success of future teleconferencing solutions will depend on their ability to support a wide range of expressions and interactions. Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) represent a class of promising technologies ...
Lean Thinking in New Zealand Emergency Departments
Quality and costs of healthcare have become a focus for the public and governments alike. Not only are the public rightly concerned with the relative risk to them of both of these issues; governments and insurers are ...
Varying the Image Quality of Multiple Television Commercials and the Impact on Evaluation and Recall: An Exploratory Study
The media plays an important role in the delivery of marketing communications messages to consumers, and changes to the mode of transmission and formatting options permitted by different media influence the way messages ...
Socially-Inspired Mechanisms for Restricting Exploitation in Artificial Agent Societies
Human societies have long cultivated the ability to organise themselves into groups and have also established formal or informal rules of behaviour that are expected within these groups. In the field of multi-agent systems, ...
Grounded in Heritage: An Exploration of Traditional Cultural Clusters in China – The Case of the Jingdezhen Porcelain Cluster
“Grounded in Heritage” is a Master’s project derived from part of the researcher’s Post-Graduate Diploma research based on the Jingdezhen porcelain cluster, which challenges Michael Porter’s “Competitive Advantage of ...
Improving GIS use in City Retail Planning: A Look at the Dunedin City Council's Geographic Information System
The paper explores the history of Geographical Information System (GIS) use in order to understand what problems can be faced by city retail planners utilizing the technology. Different GIS software packages and system ...
The paepae: spatial information technologies and the geography of narratives
Indigenous peoples around the world face similar challenges pertaining to their ancestral territories in planning, protection, policy, and advocacy. For Maori, of Aotearoa New Zealand, issues related to mana whenua, mana ...
The Grass is Greener on the Other Side: What Motivates Backpackers to Leave Home and Why They Choose New Zealand as a Destination
This research explores why backpackers decide to leave home and why they choose New Zealand specifically as a destination. While there has been some prior research focusing on backpacker motivations, very little has looked ...