University Research Papers: Recent submissions

  • Publishing success of marketing academics: Antecedents and outcomes 
    Plimmer, G. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between positive incentives (perceived organisational support) and negative incentives (publish or perish), on both academic publication productivity and ...
  • The Labour Party after 75 years 
    Clark, Margaret (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 1992)
    The 75th anniversary of the founding of the New Zealand Labour Party occurred in 1991. Needless to say the party itself was not in a notably celebratory mood, having just suffered a huge electoral defeat and all that that ...
  • A legacy of Lancashire: its chemists, biochemists and industrialists 
    Halton, Brian (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Preface Although he probably does not remember it, it was Roy Jackson of Monash University in Melbourne and from Bacup in Lancashire who asked me if I was aware of the number of chemists coming from our mutual county. ...
  • Resource sharing and government support in interagency working relationships 
    Makundi, Anna Hans (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2009-01-01)
    Interagency relationships such as joint measures to control and prevent HIV/AIDS address problems of human service fragmentations and duplications. However, for the joint working relationships to be effective, the partner ...
  • Beyond the Manager’s Moral Dilemma: Rethinking the ‘Ideal Type’ Business Ethics Case 
    Bridgman, T. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    Case teaching occupies a central place in the history of business education and in recognition of its significance, the Journal of Business Ethics recently created a new section for cases. Typically, business ethics cases ...
  • Assassins in academia? New Zealand academics as critic and conscience of society 
    Bridgman, T. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    This paper uses literature on the positioning of intellectuals in society to consider the enactment of the ‘critic and conscience’ role within New Zealand universities. The critic and conscience of society is a statutory ...
  • Reconstituting relevance: exploring possibilities for management educators’ critical engagement with the public 
    Bridgman, T. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    This paper considers the possibilities of, and threats to, the performance of a critical public role by business school faculty, based on an empirical study of UK research-led business schools. Its reference point is ...
  • Freedom and autonomy in the university enterprise 
    Bridgman, T. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Purpose - This paper explores notions of enterprise as an instance of organizational change within university business schools, using a theoretical approach drawn from the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal ...
  • Institutionalizing critique: A Problem of Critical Management Studies 
    Bridgman, T. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    This paper has as its starting point calls for critical management studies (CMS) to engage more actively with the public. CMS has been relatively successful in gaining an institutional foothold within university business ...
  • Empty talk? University voices on the global financial crisis 
    Bridgman, T. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    The global financial crisis (GFC) which began in 2007 with a liquidity squeeze in the US banking system and which continues to play out today has affected us all, whether through the collapse of the finance company sector, ...
  • Organisational identity and alcohol use among young employees: A case study of a professional services firm 
    Bridgman, T. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Abstract Background: Cultural influences on young people’s drinking have been the focus of much research and policy practice. Young people’s drinking is influenced by a range of institutions, including the workplace, yet ...
  • The construction of a myth: Bloody Mary, Aggie Grey and the optics of tourism 
    Thompson, Kirsten Moana (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This article examines the discursive circulation of stories in journalism and travel writing over the last fifty years that linked leading Western Samoan hotelier Aggie Grey to South Pacific’s iconic Tonkinese, Bloody Mary. ...
  • “Quick-Like a Bunny!” 
    Thompson, Kirsten Moana (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    From the 1920s through the 1960s, the animation industry was a labor force segregated by gender, in which women were almost entirely restricted to the Inking and Paint department. Indeed, despite notable exceptions like ...
  • Classical Cel Animation, World War Two and Bambi, 1939-1945 
    Thompson, Kirsten Moana (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 16/09/2014)
  • Animating Ephemeral Surfaces: Transparency, Translucency and Disney’s World of Color 
    Thompson, Kirsten Moana (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This paper examines the unusual theatrical and exhibition dimensions of Disney’s World of Color, an outdoor night time entertainment spectacle which screens animated films on ephemeral materials: the water spray and light ...
  • Managing Consumerization of Personal Cloud Storage: A New Zealand Perspective 
    Ky, Soklay (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Employees‟ behavior of using personal cloud storage at the workplace might put corporates at risk. This trend has been happening globally and known as consumerization of personal cloud storage. This research reports on the ...
  • Web Based Impact Measures for Institutional Repositories 
    Smith, Alastair G. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This study investigated webometric measures that could be used to evaluate the impact of institutional repositories, using Australasian university repositories as a case study. URL citation inlinks (occurrences of the ...
  • Partners in Pathways to Success: Subject Librarian Support to the University Learning, Teaching and Research at Victoria University of Wellington 
    Biradavolu, Rohini; Cargill, Justin (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Research and ‘learning and teaching’ form two of the eight key goals of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. To align the Library services with the University’s core values and future directions, a Library ...
  • Webometric Evaluation of Institutional Repositories 
    Smith, Alastair G. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    This research project investigated (a) whether there is a relationship between the Web Impact Factor (WIF) of an institutional repository, and conventional measures of research quality of the institution; and (b) whether ...
  • An Investigation into the Display of Potentially Offensive Salient Magazine Images 
    Sullivan, Max (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The Victoria University of Wellington Library is planning to publish the student magazine entitled Salient online as part of the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC). The NZETC is managed by the Digital Initiatives ...

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