Browsing Doctoral Theses by Title
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Intellectual capital reporting in Malaysian companies: a multidimensional analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)This Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) research examines the status of intellectual capital (IC) reporting in Malaysian companies’ annual reports with a view to contributing to the understanding of IC reporting practices and the ... -
Intellectual capital reporting in New Zealand: refining content analysis as a research method
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)This study examines voluntary intellectual capital reporting (ICR) in New Zealand firms' annual reports, with a view to contributing to understanding ICR practice. This study also reflects on content analysis with a view ... -
Intelligent collision detection and avoidance techniques for autonomous agents
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Collision is one of the main problems in distributed task cooperation involving multiple moving agents or robots. The collision avoidance problem arises when the environment is dynamic and to reach their destination agents ... -
Intensive Care Nurse Work Wellbeing: A Mixed Methods Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Intensive care nursing is a professionally challenging role. This is elucidated in the body of research focusing on nurses’ illbeing, including aspects such as burnout, stress, moral distress, and compassion fatigue. In ... -
Inter-organisational cooperation and network influences in destination marketing: the case of www.purenz.com
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)Individual businesses from a variety of sectors network and work together to create a successful tourist experience. The interdependencies of organisations producing this experience make cooperation a necessity in destination ... -
Intercultural relationships: assessing East and South East Asian international students' adaptation levels at universities in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)“Everywhere is home, if you know enough about how things work there” (Bennett, 2011, p. 5). This thesis critically assesses the relationships formed by East and South-East-Asian international students as they sojourn in ... -
Interethnic Mothering - A Narrative Inquiry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This narrative inquiry research brings to the larger field of motherhood studies particular experiences of migrant mothers, mothering in interethnic relationships. It presents a contextualized insight to interethnic mothering ... -
International education, student migration and government policy: a comparative study of Australia and New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This research sought to understand the relationship between international education, student migration and government policy from the experiential perspectives of international students and education professionals on the ... -
International negotiation styles: a perspective of Malaysian diplomats
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)Negotiation competency is an important focus of all countries as negotiation is a core event in international relations and diplomacy. Malaysia is no exception. Existing literature indicates that there has never been any ... -
Internationalisation of New Zealand civil construction firms - opportunities and challenges in Asia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The development experienced by China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, amongst other emerging markets, has brought a rapid growth in the urban population. However, the speed of urbanisation poses an unprecedented infrastructure ... -
Interpersonal and extrapersonal coordination in high-performance rowing
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Rowing presents a unique perception–action problem. The challenge is not for rowers to try to couple their actions together, as thought by many, but rather, it is to coordinate their actions with that of the boat. This ... -
Interpretable Deep Learning Architectures for Mortality Prediction Inside the Intensive Care Unit
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)To improve the performance of Intensive Care Units (ICUs), the field of bio-statistics has developed scores which try to predict the likelihood of negative outcomes. These help evaluate the effectiveness of treatments and ... -
Interrogating Women's Activism in the Age of Neoliberal Democratization in Mongolia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This thesis interrogates the emergence and evolution of a small number of women-led Mongolian NGOs committed to human rights, women’s rights, substantive democracy and social justice. It relied on a feminist activist ... -
Introduction of the Growth Assessment Protocol at Counties Manukau Health, New Zealand: Effect on Detection of Small for Gestational Age Pregnancy, and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Timely identification of the small for gestational age (SGA) fetus is pivotal in high quality antenatal care. Non-detection of poor fetal growth multiplies the risk of morbidity, stillbirth, and neonatal death amongst these ... -
Investigating Academic Literacy Challenges on Undergraduate Programmes: A Focus on Arabic-speaking Students in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The challenges facing non-native English-speaking students (NNESSs) in their attempts to adapt to the conventions of academic writing at tertiary level in English-medium institutions have been canvassed in scholarly research. ... -
Investigating the determinants of training transfer in enterprise systems
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The advent of information systems (IS) has improved the face of the global business environment. Faced with increasing competition, expanding markets and rising customer expectations, companies have sought to improve their ... -
Investigating the Effectiveness of Adopting Building Information Modelling for Refurbishment of Complex Buildings; Case Study of Auckland
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The adoption of building information modelling (BIM) is relatively new to the refurbishment of existing building projects. As a result, the uptake and delivery have been recently reported to be slow for refurbishment ... -
Investigating the Effectiveness of BIM-BMS Integration on Managing Existing Building Facilities: A New Zealand Educational Building Case
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Nowadays, the building sector and people’s activities in buildings account for nearly 60% of the world’s electricity consumption. Wherein, the operation accounts for 87% of total costs in the whole building lifecycle. ... -
Investigating the Social-ecological Trade-offs Between Removing and Preserving Mangroves in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)How we perceive and interact with the natural world will govern our future in times of great environmental change. In New Zealand, the indigenous mangrove species Avicennia marina (subsp.) australasica has expanded within ... -
Investigating the Stress-and-coping Model of Self-forgiveness, Self-compassion, Affect and Psychological Health
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Background Historically many authors have written about the restorative influence that self-compassion and affect can have upon the process of self-forgiveness in promoting psychological health (e.g. Dalai Lama, & Chan, ...