• Analysis of New Zealand Specific Electric Vehicle Adoption Barriers and Government Policy 

  Zhu, Jiayi (Jason) (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

  The New Zealand (NZ) Transport sector represents over 40% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector. Electric Vehicles (EV) are fast emerging globally as a viable alternative to traditional fossil ...
• Thinking about Thinking: Insights for Junior Officers in the New Zealand Defence Force 

  Margetts, Roger (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

  As military thinkers our thinking is influenced by cognitive shortcuts or heuristics, and flawed by the associated predictable errors or biases. We are largely unaware of these effects and how they influence our decision ...
• A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Styles in New Zealand and India 

  Gandhi, Mayur (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

  This research paper provides insight, analysis and comparison into commonly used Leadership styles and behaviours in New Zealand and India. Research was conducted via interviews with leaders in both countries and analysed ...
• Challenges of Public-Private Partnership in the Cultural Sector 

  Ganason, Vera (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

  The purpose of this business research project is to identify the challenges of public-private partnership in New Zealand, particularly in the cultural sector. With the baseline funding remaining static over the last few ...
• He Pāpori Hinonga Whakamoe: Exploring Contributions to the Indigenous Social Enterprise Network in New Zealand 

  Cowie, Janelle (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

  There is a misalignment between Māori Social Entrepreneurs believe social enterprise to be and the interpretation of Māori values from the support services perspective. Without the knowledge of why Māori choose social ...
• New Zealand public service leaders and organisational change inception: A framework for deciding what to change 

  Boone, David (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

  Organisational change in the public sector is important to keep pace with the external environment and increasing customer expectations in order to maintain and improve the effectiveness of public service. This study ...
• Awareness and Perception of Intellectual Property Rights and its processes in New Zealand – The disconnect between innovation and commercialisation, a study based on the Students at Victoria University’s School of Design 

  Hill, Martina (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

  In New Zealand intellectual property (IP) is seen as an economic driver, however in recent years patent applications have plateaued and design applications decreased in comparison to the previous years. A review of the New ...
• Laboratory employee’s reflections towards change in transitioning from a public to a private laboratory service 

  Topiwala, Priyanka (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  Laboratory testing plays a critical role in health-care, providing clinicians with information that enables disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. However like all public health care systems, laboratory services face ...
• An Activity Based Management study of LTC service provision in community pharmacy 

  Sharma, Utsav (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  New Zealand has undergone a period of previously unprecedented change to the community pharmacy sector. A new funding model was implemented in 2012 with the goal of rewarding pharmacists for patient contact and clinical ...
• Diversity is everywhere, inclusion isn’t: An explorative study into the ethical and diversity outcomes of social media recruitment in New Zealand 

  Rodani, Louisa Motamedi (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  New Zealand is known to be a socially diverse and inclusive nation. It was the first country to give women the right to vote in 1893, and has had 30 years of sex discrimination legislation. There are 213 different ethnicities ...
• Blue Oceans: Looking overseas for business success - How do New Zealand SMEs internationalise and manage branding in foreign markets? 

  Palazzetti, Daniele (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  The purpose of this study and its underlying research questions is to understand how New Zealand SMEs, that fall within knowledge intensive service industries, internationalise and manage branding in foreign markets. The ...
• Business Models: A Unit of Analysis for Company Performance 

  Ormrod, Nicholas George (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  Business models have been popularised in recent practitioner literature as a tool for summarising and representing how a company generates value. But academic consensus remains absent with a multitude of different definitions ...
• Future marketing and engagement considerations for the non-surgical cosmetic enhancement industry for educated and professional male and female millennial generation target audiences 

  Kadam, Sudipa (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  This paper examines the relationship between the cosmetic enhancement industry and the generation of people who were born after 1980. It describes how millennial target audiences represent a significant investment opportunity ...
• Perceived User Adoption Barriers in e-Government viewed from the practitioner’s lens 

  Chin, Hoe Wai (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  Going digital is a common fad shared amongst organisations today, in gaining the efficiencies by replacing tradition brick and mortar services with digital online services. There are a vast amount of different users we ...
• Equal Opportunities: Towards a greater understanding of the fulfilment of Women’s career aspirations in senior management 

  Syme, Bettena (Tina) (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  Firms are beginning to understand that a key to economic growth and competitive advantage lies in gender diversity within senior leadership positons, yet the number of women who hold senior managerial positions remains ...
• Innovation in professional services in a context of disruption 

  Bailey, Andrew (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  This research is focussed on how large professional services firms in New Zealand innovate in the context of and as a response to potential disruption. The theory of disruptive innovation describes how incumbents can be ...
• Enterprise App Adoption: An investigation of the key factors that affect the adoption of mobile apps by Commercial Bankers at a financial services organisation 

  Livingston, James (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  The purpose of this study is to examine the key factors that affect the adoption of mobile enterprise applications by Commercial Bankers. A review of technology acceptance literature relating to mobile apps for employees ...
• Innovation & the professional service firm: Insights into the Locus, Patterns, and Tensions of Innovation in a Fast-Growing Information Technology Consultancy in New Zealand 

  Lee, Darren (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  This research investigated the locus of innovation through a time-frame of ten years for a fast growing, privately-owned New Zealand information technology professional service consultancy firm. Emergent patterns related ...
• Is ride-sharing really as novel as it claims - Understanding Uber and its supply-side impacts in New Zealand 

  Chu, Yuet (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  In recent years, the emergence of multi-sided platforms has allowed peer-to-peer networks to grow exponentially, allowing individuals to form a collaborative economy by the sharing of underutilized resources. Within the ...
• Opportunity Assessment and Decision Making Processes Undertaken When Considering Offshore Vocational Education and Training 

  Wanhill, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

  Globally, as the number of students choosing international education continues to grow, we are also seeing the rise of a fast growing subsection of international education, referred to as Transnational Education. Transnational ...

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