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The Masters Dissertations collection contains digital copies of AUT University masters dissertations deposited with the Library since 2007 and made available open access. From 2007 onwards, all dissertations for masters degrees awarded are required to be deposited in Tuwhera Open Theses & Dissertations unless subject to an embargo.
Dissertations submitted prior to 2007 are usually recorded in the AUT Library catalogue where the full text, if available, may be accessed with an AUT password. Other people should request an Interlibrary Loan through their library.
Dissertations are protected by the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand). The dissertation may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use:
- Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person.
- Authors control the copyright of their dissertation. You will recognise the author’s right to be identified as the author of the dissertation, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate.
- You will obtain the author’s permission before publishing any material from the dissertation.
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The Relationship Between Sustainable and Ethical Supply Chain Disclosures and Competitive Advantage in the Apparel Manufacturing Sector
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Purpose – The objective of this research is to assess whether supply chain disclosures increase the values and competitive advantages for firms in the apparel manufacturing industry in Generalised Systems of Preferences ... -
The Evolution of Sustainability Assurance: The Case of Fortune Global 500
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Purpose: The purpose of the research is to examine the current state of the practice of sustainability assurance and to understand how the practice of sustainability assurance has changed, if at all, over time. Design/m ... -
Implications of Circular Product Design for Business Model and Supply Chain Management: A Thematic Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The Circular economy (CE) concept has gained much attention in recent years as an alternative economic model to the dominant take-make-dispose linear model. Product waste has been identified as a leading contributor to the ... -
Supporting Cultural Awareness for Teaching Staff in a Polytechnical Institute
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)How academic staff and leadership show cultural awareness to students in a tertiary education environment can be highly beneficial to students of diverse cultures, and may help them to succeed in their studies. Students ... -
Virtual Potential Spaces: A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Bridge Between Winnicott and Virtual Reality
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Virtual reality (VR) is a new and exciting technology which shows great potential and promise in fields such as entertainment, health, education, business, public safety, and the military sectors. The highly immersive ... -
The Disobedient Game
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This dissertation is an exploration into the future of school. In order to explore the future of school it engages with the concepts of living life with infinite game values (Harré, 2017) and productive disobedience in ... -
Exploratory Research on the Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction of Luxury Cruise Ship Passengers
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction has received a lot of attention from research. Previous studies related to customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction have concentrated on hospitality products, such as hotels, ... -
Ecotourism in New Zealand: A Catalyst for Sustainable Development
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Since the 1980s, when ecotourism had emerged, a paradigm shift has occurred from mass tourism towards ecotourism. This shift indicates an increase in travellers’ decision making based on environmental awareness and an ... -
Breathing and Relating: Exploring a Therapist's Heuristic Experience
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)What is my experience of consciously breathing while in sessions with clients? This research question sparked a year of exploration into breathing and relating as a beginning psychotherapist. Following a heuristic self-search ... -
Supporting Older Adults to Access Healthcare Services to Enable Them to Age-in-place: A Literature Review
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The world is experiencing unprecedented growth among older adults (World Health Organisation (WHO), 2005). New Zealand is also seeing an increase in older adults. New Zealand government policy favours the notion that ... -
Lost in Wonderland: Policy, Education and Māori Realities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The history of Māori society and education shows how Māori identity and culture have not remained static, but have been subject to ongoing processes of change. Despite many decades of policy initiatives, Māori underachievement ... -
Authenticity of Yum Cha in Auckland, New Zealand, As Compared With Guangzhou, China, the Country of Origin
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Food authenticity has become an important topic in recent years. Especially when a food is found far from the place of origin, its authenticity is doubted and argued over. Yum cha is the art of drinking Chinese tea and ... -
Impact of Conversational Agents on Customer Service Employees
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Many organisations are implementing conversational agents (CAs) such as chatbots and virtual assistants to perform customer service functions due to the technology’s cost-effectiveness and ease of use for customers. The ... -
'Gāpatia i Fa’anoanoaga': An Art Installation Reflecting on Burden and Loss Through a Migrant Experience
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)Gāpatia i Fa’anoanoaga is a general Samoan expression which literally means ‘burden with sadness’, which encompasses all aspects of loss and grief in relation to the burden of obligation to reciprocity. This project has ... -
How Are Green Human Resource Management Practices Promoting Employees’ Pro-environmental Behavior in the Workplace Within the New Zealand Wine Industry?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Over the last few decades, the activities of organisations and their impact on the environment have received increasing attention as well as social, political and economic pressure to both address and improve their overall ... -
Investor Sentiment and Property Prices: The Relationship between Sentiment and Auckland Property Prices
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)A body of literature has shown that investor sentiment has a role in influencing financial asset prices. This dissertation will investigate the role of sentiment, as measured by the tone of media articles, on aggregate ... -
Planned Manufactured Capital Investment Disclosures in Annual and Integrated Reports: Evidence From New Zealand and Australian Organisations
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This research examines organisations planned manufactured capital investment (PMCI) disclosure practices. This disclosure constitutes primarily forward-looking information of both a qualitative and quantitative nature. ... -
User Satisfaction With Xero Accounting Software in Auckland, New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Xero has been rated as one of the top 10 accounting software in the world (Forbes, 2016). However, there has been very little research undertaken to evaluate the cloud-based accounting software using a structured end-user ... -
The Lived Experiences of Student Representatives in a New Zealand Institute of Technology and Polytechnic: A Critical Examination
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)A common form of student voice within higher education is democratically elected student representation. These students represent the voices of their peers and participate in institutional decision making. There has been ... -
Understanding the Mental Models of Employers in the Boutique Accommodation Industry in Tonga
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Human resource management (HRM) has been traditionally viewed as an administrative function and a personnel management through policies and practices (Ulrich, Brockbank, Johnson, Sandholts, & Younger, 2008). Contrasting ...