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Defects in affordable housing projects in Klang Valley, Malaysia
(American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2012)Several affordable housing programs have been introduced by the government to achieve the objectives of several Malaysia Plans; however, the success of the housing programs has been reduced due to readily reported quality ... -
Defects in affordable housing projects in Klang Valley, Malaysia
(American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2012)Several affordable housing programs have been introduced by the government to achieve the objectives of several Malaysia Plans; however, the success of the housing programs has been reduced due to readily reported quality ... -
Defects of tensioned membrane structures (TMS) in tropics
(American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2013)The wide use of tensioned membrane structures (TMS) becomes prominent in many designs because of its aesthetic, ergonomic, and economical nature. Recently, TMS has been applied in the tropics with zone success,fully yet ... -
Design for compliance: what would a strategic compliance operation look like?
(Tangible Media, 2014)The following article is a summary of a research project that sought to understand what strategic compliance at Auckland Council would be, as a part of the Auckland University of Technology Master of Business Administration ... -
Design perspective on the role of advanced bots for self-guided learning
(CGPublisher (http://www.cgpublisher.com), 2014)Virtual worlds are rapidly gaining acceptance in educational settings; with bots play an important role in these environments to help learners. Authentic learning can be significantly supported by bots to help self-guided ... -
Developing Endogenous Innovations: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Effectuation
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019)We empirically explore the process of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) through the conceptual lens of effectuation, a theory describing how entrepreneurs innovate. In particular, we investigate how endogenous innovations ... -
Did the earth move for you too? Understanding post-earthquake changes in retail shopping behaviour
(Academy of Marketing, 2013)Christchurch, the second largest city in New Zealand, was rattled by three major earthquakes in a span of six months from September 2010. With significant loss of life, collapsed buildings and damaged infrastructure, ... -
Dimensions of autotelic personality and their effects on perceived playfulness in the context of mobile internet and entertainment services
(Australian Computer Society (ACS), 2010)Autotelic Personality represents an important individual construct in flow theory yet little is known about its underlying dimensions. Csikszentmihalyi (1988) suggested that the higher the autotelic nature of an individual, ... -
Disengagement From Risk Management Practices in Software Development Projects: Framing Effects
(Australasian Association of Information Systems (AIS), 2021)Many software projects fail: they take more time than they were intended to, go over their budgets, and do not achieve the intended functionalities. Software project failures occur, in part, because software project managers ... -
Distraction, distrust, enemies, and selfishness: social liabilities at work
(The Australian Psychological Society Limited, 2015)Aim We propose a higher order construct termed Employee Social Liability (ESL), incorporating four clusters of employee “bad” behaviour and integrating them under a common latent variable. The key contribution of this paper ... -
Do criminal sanctions deter insider trading?
(Wiley, 2013)Many developed markets have taken what appears to be a tough stance on illegal insider trading through the use of criminal sanctions. Although criminal sanctions represent a much greater penalty than civil sanctions, the ... -
Do Gender Diversity Recommendations in Corporate Governance Codes Matter? Evidence from Audit Committees
Motivated by two opposing views, the limited supply view and the discrimination view, we examine the impact of gender diversity guidelines on the strength of the association between the presence of female audit committee ... -
Do good starts make good finishes? The case of CEO pay
(The Faculty of Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology, 2014)We study the effects of job market conditions at the start of future CEOs' careers. We find no evidence of persistent rewards for US public firms' CEOs for starting their career in more successful firms, or for the luck ... -
Do good starts make good finishes? The case of CEO pay
(International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS), 2014)We study the effects of job market conditions at the start of future CEOs’ careers. We find no evidence of persistent rewards for US public firms’ CEOs for starting their career in more successful firms, or for the luck ... -
Do New Zealand regulators listen to their charitable stakeholders?
(The International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), 2012)The study examines the empirical evidence of the submissions received from charitable organisations and their stakeholders in response to proposed changes to the New Zealand financial reporting framework. The study aims ... -
Do Our Introductory Accounting Textbooks Reflect Current Accounting Practice?
(American Accounting Association (AAA), 2016)Many researchers have found that accounting education contributes to the narrow and stereotypical perceptions students have of accounting, further supporting claims that the profession may be attracting graduates who lack ... -
Do significant environmental matters relevant for financial reporting present concerns for auditors? Evidence from interviewing New Zealand auditors
(AUT University, 2010)The question for this study is whether significant environmental matters relevant for financial reporting raise concerns for auditors. 18 New Zealand audit partners and managers from the North and South Islands were ... -
Do the initial job market conditions really matter for CEO pay?
(Auckland Center for Financial Research (ACFR), Auckland University of Technology Business School, 2013)This paper complements the literature on CEO compensation by studying the effects of job market conditions at the start of future CEOs' careers. We also contribute to research on cohort eff ects in compensation by taking ... -
“Do You want New Zealand to be taken seriously?”: the clash of crisis narratives in environmental debates
(New Zealand Political Students Association, 2012)Political actors construct and deploy crisis narratives both to describe existing reality and to implore action. In general terms, such narratives tend to serve an anti-political function as they seek to de-legitimate ... -
Does buyer-seller similarity affect buyer satisfaction with the seller firm?
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)With the increased reliance on diverse markets in multi-cultural contexts, the role that similarity can play in the relationship between a salesperson and a buyer is receiving increased attention. Similarity is regarded ...