Browsing AUT Business School by Title
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Knowledge resources for university spinoffs: the role of the academic entrepreneur
(Academy of Management, 2007)The article discusses the commercialization of the scientific and technological knowledge that originates at universities. While this commercialization has been credited as fostering economic growth, innovation, and wealth ... -
Knowledge sourcing: how board intellectual capital improves organisational performance via the executive
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2013)Based on anecdote, the board’s collective and individual ability to add value to the organisation it governs can be summarised as being a function of the depth and breadth of its directors' skills, experience and knowledge ... -
Labour Market Effects of Activating Sick-listed Workers
(Elsevier, 2018)Using data from a large-scale randomized controlled trial conducted in Danish job centers, this paper investigates the effects of activating sick-listed workers on subsequent labour market outcomes. Comparing treated and ... -
Labour market regulation in Denmark during and beyond the economic crisis
(The International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), 2013)No abstract. -
Large class teaching
(AUT University, 2012)Discussion Outline Attendance Traditional lectures (“passive”) vs interactive (“engaging”, “active”) approaches (e.g., case & problem methods) Delivery Modalities – 1/2/3 hour lectures? Large lecture + small class ... -
Legitimacy theory or something else? The audit of environmental matters: a New Zealand study
(AUT University, 2009)The research presented in this paper examined the audit of „environmental matters‟ and asks the question whether legitimacy theory provides an explanation for the observed audit phenomenon. This task is important because, ... -
"Lifestyle choice": the racially discriminatory treatment of remote indigenous communities
(The Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA), 2015)No abstract. -
A Longitudinal Study of E-government Maturity
(Elsevier, 2016)We assembled a panel data set for the period 2002–2008 and fitted a mixed-effects regression model to study how the maturity of e-Government around the globe was influenced by changing levels of affluence, information ... -
Machinations in Fleet Street: Roy Thomson, Cecil King, and the creation of a magazine monopoly
(University of Central Lancashire, 2013)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 ... -
Macro-social marketing
(Macromarketing Society, 2015)The theoretical underpinnings for the concept of macro-social marketing are provided in this article. Macro-social marketing seeks to use social marketing techniques in a holistic way to effect systemic change, as opposed ... -
Macroeconomic news announcements and price discovery: evidence from Canadian-U.S. cross-listed firms
(Elsevier, 2014)This study employs macroeconomic news announcements as a proxy for new information arrivals and examines their impact on price discovery. We compare the price discovery of 38 Canadian companies listed on the Toronto Stock ... -
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. -
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 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 ...