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Making sense of ecopreneurs' decisions to sell up
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment, 2011)This article examines the phenomenon of values-based firms being sold to larger mainstream firms. Its focus is on the sensemaking rationale offered by a New Zealand ecopreneur who sold an organic beverage company after ... -
Management competence and incompetence: theory, training, and practice developing contextual intelligence through soft-skills competency training in nurturing the opposable minds
(The International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2011)This study examines pedagogical methods and their effectiveness (or lack thereof) in improving sense-making and decision-making competencies in graduate managers in MBA programmes. -
The Management Practice of Servant Leadership: A Levinasian Enrichment
(Springer, 2022)This paper applies Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy to the management practice of leadership. Specifically, it focuses on servant leadership, which is considered the most dyadic other-oriented style. While often viewed ... -
Managerial attitudes towards the incompleteness of performance measurement systems
(Emerald, 2017)Purpose Performance measurement systems (PMSs) are at the heart of most organisations. The aim of this study is to examine the attitudes of top-level managers towards the incompleteness of PMSs. Design/methodology/ap ... -
Managing scientists for entrepreneurship: sociological ambivalence, diversity, and scientific ethos in the public sector
(Swinburne University of Technology, 2011)Recent work examining entrepreneurial scientists demonstrate that different conceptualizations and types exist (Lam, 2010, Louis et al., 1989). The diversity of scientific types suggests that there are a range of adaptive ... -
Manufacturing quality and cultural values in China
(UUNZ Institute of Business, 2011)Popular and academic publications continually remind us that China has become the global manufacturing center for many international companies. However, quality problems appear to have increased in recent years, with many ... -
Market Niches As Dynamic, Co-created Resource Domains
(Elsevier, 2021)Competing in niches is a fundamental marketing strategy for SMEs in business-to-business markets yet how internationalizing SMEs come to compete in the niches they do is unclear. Using multiple case studies of competing ... -
Market Quality and the Connectedness of Steel Rebar and Other Industrial Metal Futures in China
(Wiley, 2019)We examine the market quality of China’s steel rebar futures, along with three other important industrial metal futures. Steel rebar futures are the most active metal futures contracts in China. Our analyses show that while ... -
Market timing ability and mutual funds: a heterogeneous agent approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This paper proposes a novel approach to determine whether mutual funds time the market. The proposed approach builds on a heterogeneous agent model, where investors switch between cash and stocks depending on a certain ... -
Maximizing the good and minimizing the bad: relationships in organizations
(Palgrave Macmillian, 2013)In this chapter we introduce the complexities of relationships in organizations, and outline why they are important to study. We discuss the main themes of this book providing a brief overview of the chapters and making ... -
Minor parties and employment relations policy change: the New Zealand experience
(Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), 2014)Employment relations is shaping up as an important point of differentiation between the two major parties (National and Labour) at New Zealand’s 2014 general election. Since the country adopted a proportional electoral ... -
Misconduct resistance: the management of restricted drugs in the Western Australian public health service
(British Academy of Management (BAM), 2013)We employ institutional theory to develop and present a framework – involving institutional drivers, organisational reactions, and outcomes – to examine and further understand misconduct resistance in public sector ... -
Mobility experiences in everyday life
(Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2013)Mobile technology has significantly transformed how, when and where work routines and personal activities are conducted. The wide acceptance and broad integration of mobile devices into work and non-work domains have brought ... -
Moderating Effects of Socio-cultural Values on Pro-environmental Behaviors
(Emerald, 2020)This paper aims to explain the discrepancy between pro-environmental intentions and behaviors with moderating effects of two socio-cultural values (espoused individualism and faith in others) on the link between intentions ... -
Momentum and market correlation
(New Zealand Finance Colloquium, 2016)This paper proposes that an important source of momentum profits is market information associated with correlation to general market movements. Empirical tests for U.S. stocks in the sample period 1965 to 2013 indicate ... -
Monopoly, power and politics in Fleet Street: the controversial birth of IPC Magazines, 1958-1963
(The Business History Conference, 2014)Britain’s newspaper and magazine publishing business did not fare particularly well during the 1950s. With leading newspaper proprietors placing their desire for political influence above that of financial performance, and ... -
Monopoly, power and politics in Fleet Street: the controversial birth of IPC Magazines, 1958-63
(Business History Conference, 2014)Britain’s newspaper and magazine publishing business did not fare particularly well during the 1950s. With leading newspaper proprietors placing their desire for political influence above that of financial performance, and ... -
More or less: a model and empirical evidence on preferences for under and over-payment in trade-in transactions
(American Marketing Association, 2011)Trade-in transactions typically involve an exchange of an old, used version for a new or newer version of the product. When consumers trade in their used model for a new model, the firm faces the choice of paying the ... -
A multi-criteria inventory management system for perishable & substitutable products
(Elsevier, 2015)Perishable products represent a vital area in the retail industry and our daily lives. However, when considered with product substitution (which provides more choices) the short lifetime of perishable products creates ... -
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 ...