Faculty of Business, Economics and Law: Recent submissions
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Efficiency of New Zealand's District Health Boards at Providing Hospital Services: a Stochastic Frontier Analysis
(Seoul National University, 2018)The majority of secondary and tertiary healthcare services in New Zealand are provided through public hospitals managed by 20 local District Health Boards (DHBs). Their performance were measured by a set of indicators ... -
The Impact of Social Workers in Schools: a Preliminary Investigation Using Linked Administrative Data
(Ministry of Social Development; Auckland University of Technology, 2018)No abstract. -
Factor-analysis-based Directional Distance Function: The Case of New Zealand Hospitals
(School of Economics. AUT University, 2019)This paper develops a new factor-analysis-based (FAB) approach for choosing the optimal direction in a directional distance function (DDF) analysis. It has the combined merits of factor analysis and slacks-based measure ... -
South Auckland Sikhs and Punjab Issues: Justice, Identity Work and Development
(Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development (IPAID), 2018)In South Auckland, New Zealand, we surveyed under three hundred Sikhs on how they used their internet-connected mobile phones to gather and share news on the 2019 Punjab elections. Survey participants identified “Punjab ... -
Women in Sports: Double Standards a Double Fault
(The Conversation Media Group Ltd, 2018)No abstract. -
Woke Washing: What Happens When Marketing Communications Don't Match Corporate Practice
(The Conversation Media Group Ltd, 2018)No abstract. -
A Multi-level Exploration of Organisational Climate and Well-Being: a Mediated Analysis within New Zealand Tertiary Education Institutions
(British Academy of Management (BAM), 2018)Higher education institutions have undergone massive changes, which leads to a greater focus on accountability, effectiveness, and efficiency. Hence, institutional staff face heightened burdens due to external and internal ... -
Share Pledges and Firm Value
(Massey University, 2018)Share pledging occurs when investors use their shareholding as collateral to obtain personal loans. In China, the practice of share pledging has grown exponentially in recent years, with potentially significant impacts on ... -
Filling the Land Tax Void: New Zealand Standpoint
(2016)This paper investigates land taxation from a New Zealand perspective and examines the principles of economic efficiency and equity behind three common property valuation methods for taxation. The primary question is whether ... -
Individual Values and Motivational Complexities In Mobile Shopping Consumption
(Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC), 2016)With the expansion of mobile shopping (m- shopping) consumption, there is an increased need to understand the variety of consumer motives for consumer engagement in such behaviour. For the rapidly growing area of m-shopping, ... -
Accounting for Risk: The Advent of Capped Conveyancing Title Insurance
(LexisNexis, 2015)Title insurance companies originating from America, have, in the past 15 years become part of the Australian conveyancing landscape. However for most residential freehold owners, their activities would be a mystery. A ... -
Online Opinion Leadership in Negative eWOM Dissemination
(Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC), 2016)With the rise of online media channels, negative electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) can damage a well-established brand within a short time frame. Departing from the past research that focuses on positive WOM and offline ... -
To Be Heard, Speaking Softly: Building Resistance to Attitude Change
(Sichuan University Strategy and Development Research Center, 2016)Although there are several attitude resistance techniques, attitude inoculation most effectively serves the purpose of withstanding attacks from conflicting arguments.[1] Inoculation treatment methods are comparable to ... -
Double Jeopardy, Alive and Well: A Preliminary Assessment of Price Expectations in the Republic of Korea and New Zealand
(Sichuan University Strategy and Development Research Center, 2016)This preliminary research is concerned with seeking price expectation differences in response to market share information in Korea and New Zealand. A qualitative approach is taken and the research proposition is that South ... -
How Social and Leadership Resources and Reconfiguration Activities Lead to Relational, Stakeholder, and Operational Outcomes Post-disaster
(International Council for Small Business (ICSB), 2018)No abstract. -
Net Buying Pressure and Informed Trading in the Options Market: Evidence From Earnings Announcements
(Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance (VSBF), 2018)Informed investors use options market to exploit their private information advantage to trade on the direction and volatility of underlying asset values. This paper tests whether informed trading occurs around quarterly ... -
The Persistent Accounting Stereotype: Why Is It so Resistant to Change?
(Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealan (AFAANZ), 2018)Research suggests that not only are perceptions of accounting and accountants very negative, but that they may also be inaccurate and difficult to change. There is growing concern that these perceptions are discouraging ... -
The Concatenation of Meaning and Power: a Photo-essay of Asymmetries in the Communication Process
(Association for Information Systems, 2016)Informed by the assumption that meaning and power constitute an inextricable dyad, this photo-essay scrutinizes their influence on the communication process. The investigation relies on pictorial evidence of individuals, ... -
Race and Tax Policy: The Case of the Chinese Poll Tax
(The Journal of Australian Taxation (JAT), 2018)The Chinese poll tax was introduced in English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, during the nineteenth century. Though this tax was justified on social and economic grounds, ...