Browsing Masters Dissertations by Title
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A qualitative descriptive study of youth with Crohn's disease
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)This qualitative descriptive study explores the experience of four youth between the ages of 16-21 years who were diagnosed with Crohn’s disease within 18 months of commencement of this study. Patients with Crohn’s disease ... -
Reading Food in Boys’ Love Manga: a Gastronomic Study of Food and Male Homosexuality in the Manga Work of Yoshinaga Fumi
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Gastronomy is the study, not of food itself, but the relationship between food and our world. This study aims to investigate the relationship between food and homosexuality in the realm of Boys Love (BL) manga, a Japanese ... -
Rebranding of Professional Services: Three Case Studies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)In recent decades, corporate rebranding has been receiving a lot of attention by the organizations which tend to strive on achieving a competitive advantage by developing a distinguished brand identity in the minds of their ... -
Receipts from personal exertion: mere gifts or gross income?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)This paper explores the gaps that exist with regard to the taxation of receipts from personal exertion. This research examines both the New Zealand legislation and leading cases in New Zealand and other jurisdictions in ... -
The relationship between Chinese expatriates job satisfaction and turnover intentions: An empirical study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)The high expatriate turnover experienced by multinational corporations (MNCs) has long been observed throughout the literature. Many factors have been identified to explain expatriate failure. Various facets of job ... -
The Relationship Between Corporate Governance Quality and Sustainability Reporting: An Analysis of Top Performing Companies and Financially Distressed Companies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)The aim of this study is to examine to what extent corporate governance quality influences the sustainability reporting of companies listed in Malaysia. I was motivated to find out whether companies comply with the ... -
The relationship between female directorship and organizational performance: evidence from China
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The influence of female board members on organizational performance has been an area of significant research, with some researchers finding a positive correlation between the two variables, some finding no correlation and ... -
The Relationship Between Investment and Free Cash Flow: Evidence From New Zealand Firms
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Free cash flow plays an important role in explaining firms’ investment activities. The aim of this Master dissertation is to determine whether and how free cash flow affect firm-level investments in New Zealand (NZ) listed ... -
Religion/spirituality as a stress coping mechanism for international students
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)The purpose of this study was to examine if religion/spirituality acts as a stress coping mechanism for a sample of international tertiary students who are often subjected to significant stressors related to acculturation ... -
Religious Diversity: The Work Experiences of Muslims in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)New Zealand is a society with growing diversity and has reached the stage where it is truly a multi-cultural society. This includes those from other cultures and countries as well as religions. One such group that has grown ... -
Repositioning: a case study of McDonald's New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)Repositioning is one of the strategic decisions commonly undertaken by today’s businesses. The purpose for businesses to reposition themselves is to close or minimise the gap between the firm’s offering and the demand from ... -
Researching the Self, the Other and their relationship in physiotherapy: a theoretical and methodological exploration of autoethnography
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This dissertation sets out to explore the theoretical and methodological feasibility of an autoethnography situated within a theoretical framework that draws on my personal philosophical background. In doing so, the study ... -
A review, critique, and analysis of the literature concerning the likelihood of women being employed in expatriate international business management positions
(Auckland University of Technology, 2005)A gap has been identified in that women were found to have been under-represented in international business since the 1980s, when compared to their male counterparts. As international business becomes more important, the ... -
The Risk-adjusted Performance of KiwiSaver Funds
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The New Zealand government introduced a national superannuation scheme named KiwiSaver to its citizens on 1 July 2007. However, until now, KiwiSaver funds’ performance is still an under-researched topic. This study ... -
Roadnoise: The old friends tour
(Auckland University of Technology, 2006)My thesis a project that researches the part memory has on recollecting and recounting memoryas narratives, using the road trip and Jack Kerouac’s beat novel On the road (1955) as a motivation to translate Kerouac’s ... -
The Role of Big Data in Smart City Planning
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)With the development of urbanization, the rapid growth of urban population density has brought a raise in different types of services and higher demand for up-to-date infrastructures. In order to provide high-quality ... -
The Role of Gender and Culture in Business Negotiations: A Thematic-synthesis Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Negotiation is a social and economic process people engage in daily. Business negotiations may involve negotiating as an employee to justify tasks or remuneration while a personal negotiation might include negotiating with ... -
Role of Human Resources in Developing Organizational Trust in Public Sector Organizations of India
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Global economy has given rise to strategic human resource management (SHRM) in recent times. On account of this, the HRM systems have been identified as one of the crucial aspects of any organization since last few decades ... -
The role of product involvement and sensory brand experience on customer engagement behaviour
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The Marketing Sciences Institute’s 2006-2008 and 2010-2012 Research Priorities highlight the need for further research addressing the customer engagement behaviours, as it is a key research area for understanding customer ... -
The Role of Religious Beliefs and Practices in Disaster: The Case Study of 2009 Earthquake in Padang City, Indonesia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The number of disasters is increasing worldwide as the result of both the increase of hazards and people’s vulnerability. Vulnerability relates to the conditions of society making a hazard likely to turn into a disaster; ...