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Song, Ke Dong, Peng Fei Wen, Tian Qing Liu, Li Li Jiang i Guan Yu Mei. "Fabrication, Surface Modification and Analysis of Biocompatibility of Biologic Chitosan Scaffold". Key Engineering Materials 373-374 (marzec 2008): 654–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.373-374.654.
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In this study, the surface modification and biocompatibility of the biologic chitosan scaffold were investigated. The chitosan scaffold with excellent reticular structure was attained after being purified, emulsionized, cross-linked, molded and freeze-dried step by step by using the native materials, coming from such as lobster shell, crab shell etc.. After that, its surface modification was operated with film coating by using gelatin. Then the bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) derived from New Zealand rabbits were used as the seed cells and were inoculated onto the modified biologic chitosan scaffolds at 3×105 cells/ml to investigate the biocompatibility and bone conductive efficiency of this kind of scaffold in static culture for one week. As a control, the cell suspensions with same densities were inoculated onto the chitosan scaffold without being treated. During the whole culture process, the cellular adherence and expansion were observed under inverted microscope. After culture, the biological properties of the fabricated cell-scaffold tissues were detected by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and HO/PI fluorescent double staining. The results showed that the biologic chitosan scaffold treated with gelatin or rat-tail collagen promoted a higher adhesion and proliferation of BMSCs in comparison to the untreated samples. Besides, the BMSCs within the treated scaffold were more regular and well-distributed than those in untreated one. It is concluded that this kind of surface modification can be used to change the physicochemical properties of chitosan scaffold. The improved biologic chitosan scaffold is suitable to be an ideal biomedical scaffold for tissue engineering.
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Burn, P. J. "POLYIMIDE (MP-1) AS A BEARING IN TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY: RESULTS OF THE FIRST 100 CASES". Orthopaedic Proceedings 105-B, SUPP_2 (luty 2023): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/1358-992x.2023.2.090.
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Polyimide (MP-1, MMATech, Haifa, Israel), is a high performance aerospace thermoplastic used for its lubricity, stability, inertness and radiation resistance. A wear resistant thin robust bearing is needed for total hip arthroplasty (THR).After independent laboratory testing, in 2006, the author used the material as a bearing in two Reflection (Smith and Nephew, USA) hip surgeries. The first, a revision for polyethylene wear, survives with no evidence of wear, noise, new osteolysis or complications related to the MP-1 bearing after 16 yrs. The second donated his asymptomatic MP-1 hip at 6.5yrs for post-mortem examination. There were no osteoclasts, cellular reaction bland in contrast to that of polyethylene.In 2013 a clinical study with ethical committee approval was started using a Biolox Delta (Ceramtec, Germany) head against a polyimide liner in 97 patients. MMATech sold all liners, irradiated: steam 52:45. Sixteen were re-machined in New Zealand. Acetabular shells were Delta PF (LIMA, Italy). The liner locked by taper.The cohort consisted of 46:51 M:F, and ages 43 to 85, mean 65. Ten received cemented stems. For contralateral surgery, a ceramic or polyethylene liner was used. Initial patients were lower demand, later, more active patients, mountain-biking and running.All patients have on-going follow up, including MP-1 liner revision cases. There has been no measurable wear, or osteolysis around the acetabular components using weight-bearing radiographs. Squeaking within the first 6 weeks was noted in 39 number of cases and subtle increase in palpable friction, (passive rotation at 50 degrees flexion), but then disappeared. There were 6 revisions, four of which were related to cementless Stemsys implants (Evolutis, Italy) fixed distally with proximal linear lucencies in Gruen zones 1 and 7, and 2 and 6. No shells were revised and MP-1 liners were routinely changed to ceramic or polyethylene. The liners showed no head contact at the apex, with highly polished contact areas.There were no deep or superficial infections, but one traumatic anterior dislocation at 7 years associated with 5 mm subsidence of a non-collared stem.The initial squeaking and increased friction was due to the engineering of the liner / shell composite as implanted, not allowing adequate clearance for fluid film lubrication and contributed to by shell distortion during impaction. The revised bearings were “equatorial” rather than polar, and with lack of wear or creep this never fully resolved. Where the clearance was better, function was normal. The “slow” utilization was due to my ongoing concern with clearances not being correct. The revision of 4 Stemsys stems, tribology issues may have contributed, but non “MP-1” / Stemsys combinations outside this study have shown the same response, thought to be due to de-bonding of the hydroxyapatite coating.With correct engineering and clearances, a 3.6 mm thick MP-1 bearing, a surface Ra<0.5, steam sterilized, shows no appreciable wear, and with confidence, can be used as a high performance THR bearing.
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JPT staff, _. "E&P Notes (March 2021)". Journal of Petroleum Technology 73, nr 03 (1.03.2021): 14–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0321-0014-jpt.
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KrisEnergy Pumps Cambodia’s First Crude in 17 Years A Cambodian concession has commenced production after years of delays in a venture between Singapore’s KrisEnergy and the government. The crude comes from oil fields in Block A, comprising 3083 km2 of the Khmer basin in the oil-rich Gulf of Thailand, off the southwestern coast of Sihanoukville. The concession will progress in phases once new wells are commissioned and completed. Kelvin Tang, chief executive of KrisEnergy’s Cambodian operations, called the 29 December event “an important strategic milestone” for the company, while Prime Minister Hun Sen hailed the first extraction as “a new achievement for Cambodia’s economy” and “a huge gift for our nation.” Ironbark Australian Exploration Well Declared Dry; Co-Owner Stocks Plummet BP has come up dry at its Ironbark-1 exploration well, the anticipated multi-trillion-scf prospect off the west Australian Pilbara coast. The disappointing prospect was once seen as a potential gas supplier to the emptying North West Shelf (NWS) LNG plant, where BP is a co-owner, within 5 to 10 years. After 2 months of drilling to a total depth of 5618 m, “no significant hydrocarbon shows were encountered in any of the target sands,” according to co-owner New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG). Petrorecôncavo Buys Petrobras’ Onshore Bahian Stake for $30 Million Brazilian operator Petrobras on 23 December signed a contract with independent producer Petrorecôncavo to sell its entire stake in 12 onshore E&P fields, the Remanso Cluster, in the state of Bahia. The sale value for the fields was $30 million; $4 million was paid on signing, $21 million at the closing of the transaction, and $5 million will be paid 1 year after that. The Remanso Cluster comprises the onshore fields of Brejinho, Canabrava, Cassarongongo, Fazenda Belém, Gomo, Mata de São João, Norte Fazenda Caruaçu, Remanso, Rio dos Ovos, Rio Subaúma, São Pedro, and Sesmaria. Zion Spuds the Israeli Megiddo-Jezreel #2 Well On 6 January, Zion Oil and Gas officially spudded the MegiddoJezreel #2 on its 99,000acre MegiddoJezreel license area in Israel. “With unique operating conditions in the COVID19 environment, our crews have performed an amazing task,” Zion CEO Robert Dunn said. “Mobilizing a rig into a new country during a pandemic and rigging up is the most challenging part of the drilling operation,” Zion’s vice president of operations, Monty Kness, added. Exxon Declares a Dud at Second Guyana Well Exxon Mobil said on 15 January that its exploration well in the prolific Stabroek Block off Guyana’s coast did not find oil in its target area. Exxon, which operates the Stabroek Block in a consortium with Hess and China’s CNOOC, has made 18 discoveries in the area in 5 years, totaling more than 8 billion BOE, for a combined potential for producing up to 750,000 B/D of crude. The Hassa1 exploration well was the giant’s second setback to its drilling campaign in recent months. Heirs Holdings Buys 45% of Shell Nigeria’s OML 17 Field Shell Nigeria announced on 15 January it had completed a $533 million sale of its stakes in an onshore OML 17 oil field in Nigeria to African strategic investor Heirs Holdings, Nigeria’s largest publicly listed conglomerate. The deal is one of the largest oil and gas financings in Africa in more than a decade, with a financing component of $1.1 billion provided by a consortium of global and regional banks and investors. Heirs Holdings, in partnership with Transcorp, one of the largest power producers in Nigeria with 2000 MW of installed capacity, purchased 45% stake in the field. It acquired the stakes of Shell, Total, and Eni to further its expansion into the oil and gas industry. Apex Discovers Oil in Egypt’s Western Desert Privately held independent E&P firm Apex International Energy, backed in part by UK energy investment firm Blue Water Energy, on 18 January announced a discovery in the Southeast Meleiha Concession (SEM) in the western desert of Egypt. The discovery was made at the SEMZ-11X well located 10 km west of Zarif field, the nearest producing field. The well was drilled to a total depth of 5,700 ft and encountered 65 ft of oil pay in the Cretaceous sandstones of the Bahariya and Abu Roash G formations. Testing of the Bahariya resulted in a peak rate of 2,100 B/D with no water. Additional uphole pay exists in the Bahariya and Abu Roash G formations that can be added to the production stream in the future. Kosmos Announces Oil at Winterfell Well Dallas-based E&P independent Kosmos Energy announced on 19 January an oil discovery in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The Winterfell discovery well, the product of infrastructure-led exploration (ILX), was drilled to a total depth of approximately 23,000 ft and is located in approximately 5,300 ft of water. This subsalt Upper Miocene prospect in off-shore Louisiana encountered approximately 85 ft of net oil pay in two intervals. ILX exploration, which has featured prominently in upstream operators’ portfolios in recent years of relatively low oil prices, is exploration around producing hubs that can be hooked up to those facilities easily and cheaply. The development sidesteps the need for costly and time-consuming individual hub construction. Equinor Gets Permit To Drill North Sea Wildcat Well The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for wildcat well 31/11-1 S in the North Sea offshore Norway, 62 km south of the Troll field. The drilling program is the first exploration well to be drilled in production license 785 S, awarded on 6 February 2015 (APA 2014). Operator Equinor and Total E&P Norge are 50/50 partners in the license, which consists of parts of Blocks 26/2 and 31/11. Petrobras, ExxonMobil Hit Hydrocarbons at Urissanê Well, Offshore Brazil Brazilian state-owned Petrobras announced on 29 January it had discovered hydrocarbons in a well located in the Campos Basin presalt off Brazil’s coast of Campos dos Gotyacaze in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Well 1-BRSA-1377-RJS (informally called Urissanê) is located in Block C-M-411, at a depth of 2950 m approximately 200 km offshore. Petrobras, which operates the block in a 50/50 partnership with Exxon Mobil, said it would analyze the well data to better target exploratory activities and assess the potential of the discovery. BP Offloads 20% Share of Oman’s Block 61 To PTTEP Marking another significant step in its divestment program, BP will sell a 20% participating interest in Oman’s 3950 km2 Block 61 in central Oman to Thailand’s national PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) for $2.59 billion. BP will remain operator of the block, holding a 40% interest. The sale comprises $2.45 billion payable on completion and $140 million payable contingent on preagreed conditions. After the sale, BP will hold 40% interest in Block 61, while OQ holds 30%, PTTEP 20%, and Petronas 10%. Block 61 contains the largest tight gas development in the Middle East.
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Hurst, Sam, i Ed Vos. "New Zealand CEO compensation factors". Corporate Ownership and Control 6, nr 4 (2009): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv6i4p5.
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This paper analyses a combination of factors to try and determine whether they explain CEO compensation, and in turn help determine what makes the board of directors more effective. Factors include busy boards, local or international board members, dependent and not independent board members, director’s pay and tenure variables. Of the new and old factors considered in this approach and using a sample size of 31 NZ firms over the 2006/2007 years, a correlation existed between firm size/firm performance and CEO compensation. Further distinctions in regards to busy boards showed no significant relationship to CEO compensation, differing from previous studies, and casting doubt on whether it matters how busy the board is. Also the locality of the board was not a determining factor in CEO compensation.
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Wellalage, Nirosha Hewa, i Stuart Locke. "CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND ITS DETERMINANTS IN NEW ZEALAND FIRMS". Journal of Business Economics and Management 14, nr 5 (6.11.2013): 852–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16111699.2012.680605.
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The current study aims to empirically explore the relationship between firm characteristics, corporate governance and capital structure in New Zealand's large listed companies. Eight years of data for 40 firms listed on the NZX50 Stock Exchange, are collected and observations are analysed using a conditional quantile regression. This study finds firm-specific characteristics rather than corporate governance variables play a significant role in determining firm leverage levels. The results indicate that finance policies need to vary across firm type and firm characteristics, and should match with the different borrowing requirements of listed firms.
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Uddin Bhuiyan, Md Borhan, i Ahsan Habib. "Determinants of nomination committee: New Zealand evidence". Corporate Board role duties and composition 7, nr 2 (2011): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cbv7i2c1art5.
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A sizable volume of corporate governance literature documents that an independent and competent board of directors matter for organizational success. In order to function effectively, board comprises of different sub-committees and the three most common sub-committees are audit committees, compensation committees and nomination committees. Surprisingly, there is a paucity of research in understanding the determinants of nomination committee notwithstanding the importance of an independent nomination committee in board selection process. We contribute to the nomination committee literature by investigating the factors associated with the determination of nomination committees in New Zealand. We find that cross-sectional variation in the firm-specific characteristics affect the existence of nomination committees. This finding casts doubt on the „one-size-fits all‟ approach of corporate governance. Our logistic regression of the nomination committee determinants indicates that firm size, governance regulation and busy directors are positively associated with the existence of nomination committees, whereas firm leverage, controlling shareholders, and director independence are negatively related to the formation of nomination committees.
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TAMÁSY, CHRISTINE, i RICHARD LE HERON. "THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRM FORMATION IN NEW ZEALAND". Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 99, nr 1 (luty 2008): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00438.x.
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Nakatani, Ryota. "Firm performance and corporate finance in New Zealand". Applied Economics Letters 26, nr 13 (listopad 2018): 1118–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1539805.
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Bhabra, Gurmeet Singh. "Insider ownership and firm value in New Zealand". Journal of Multinational Financial Management 17, nr 2 (kwiecień 2007): 142–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2006.08.001.
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Chen, Chen, David K. Ding i William R. Wilson. "The Old Boys Club in New Zealand Listed Companies". Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14, nr 8 (22.07.2021): 342. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14080342.
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The board of directors plays an important role in implementing corporate governance in the firm, as directors have a fiduciary duty to the firm’s shareholders. The effectiveness of directors is a key determinant of corporate value and they need to bring a range of skills and experience to the boardroom. This skill and experience cannot be developed solely within the firm, and most boards incorporate non-executive directors who are or have been directors of other firms. Current research on the benefits of interlocking directorships is mixed between the claim that they bring outside feedback to the table and open decision makers’ minds, and those who think outside directors are a waste of money and can reduce company performance. This paper investigates the extent of interlocking directorship in New Zealand and how it affects corporate performance. Our findings of largely no significant impact on firm performance are consistent with the management control theory of director interlocks; the exceptions support the class hegemony theory that links interlocking directorship with a negative firm performance.
Rozprawy doktorskie na temat "Shell New Zealand (Firm)"
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Schmidt, Matthew D. "Radiocarbon dating New Zealand prehistory using marine shell /". Oxford : British archaeological reports, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37199252b.
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Hong, Shangqin (Maggie). "Innovation in New Zealand: A Firm-Level Analysis". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7659.
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The overall aim of this thesis is to uncover the key determinants of innovation in New Zealand firms and consider some of their likely effects. In order to provide a broad perspective on New Zealand’s local innovation processes, a mixed method approach combining both quantitative and qualitative analysis was adopted to allow analysis of both empirical data and case study data. The quantitative part of analysis utilises the unique dataset developed by Statistics New Zealand, namely the prototype Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), and the qualitative analysis includes four in-depth company case studies which complement the regression analyses by uncovering the key patterns of innovation behaviour at the firm level. In summary, a number of conclusions have been drawn from the research. Firstly, firms experience considerably smaller positive size effect because of New Zealand’s unique firm demographics, and the small size has limited individual firm’s innovation opportunities. Secondly, firms’ ability to develop new technologies directly influences their innovative ability, which is highly dependent on the availability of funds and skills. Lastly, innovation in New Zealand has a very strong market focus, while technology suppliers such as universities and Crown Research Institutes only have a limited role in selected industries.
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Li, Qi. "CEO Membership of New Zealand Boards: Determinants and Firm Performance". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Economics and Finance, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8685.
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This study primarily investigates the determinants of CEO membership of New Zealand (NZ) boards, and the effect of CEO board membership on firm performance, for publicly-listed NZ firms between 1997 to 2008. The project is conducted using a unique hand-collected panel dataset containing information about CEO participation on the board, firm characteristics, firm performance, ownership, and firm governance. The sample covers the twelve-year period.
The sample statistics of CEO board membership reveal that on average, approximately 30% of NZ CEOs do not sit on their company board. In addition, the number (percentage) of incidences of CEOs off their company board has been increasing. Specifically, the percentage of CEOs off the board was approximately 20% in 1997 but 42% in 2008.
Models examining the determinants of CEO board participation indicate that the probability of CEO board membership is significantly related to the opacity of firms' information environment and the strength of firms' governance environment. Specifically, the probability of CEO board membership is significantly affected by firm size, firm age, percentage of independent directors, board ownership, and multiple directorships in independent companies. In particular, firm size and percentage of independent directors on the board possess economic significance. The negative association between the probability of CEO board membership and the strength of firms' governance environment is consistent with CEO utility maximization.
I also find that although CEO board membership is positively related to ROA, ROE and Jensen's alpha in basic regression models, the positive effect observed in accounting performance models disappears after controlling for self-selection. In other words, firms with better accounting firm performance tend to appoint their CEOs on the board. This may attribute to the possibility that CEO board membership is optimally determined by shareholders. The evidence from a market-based model also reflects shareholder interests after controlling for the negative self-selection behavior.
As an additional analysis, I examine the determinants of different degrees of CEO board involvement where CEOs on the board are categorized into CEO-director and CEO duality (the CEO also holds the position of the chairman of the board). This analysis shows that a number of explanatory variables have a non-linear relationship with the degree of CEO board involvement. For example, CEO board involvement is negatively related to firm age and multiple directorships in independent companies but positively related to their squared terms. To the contrary, CEO board involvement is positively related to Tobin's Q ratio and percentage of independent directors but negatively related to their squared terms.
Moreover, basic regression results examining the effect of the extent of CEO board involvement on firm performance reveal that dual firms and CEO-off-the-board firms are associated with lower accounting firm performance than CEO-director firms, but dual firms are associated with better Jensen's alpha and CEO-off-the-board firms are associated with lower Jensen's alpha. The robustness analysis finds that the negative effect of CEO duality on operating performance is significantly mitigated by self-selection and the effect of CEOs off the board on operating performance is intensified by self-selection. In other words, after taking into account the self-selection bias, CEO duality status provides strong evidence for CEO utility maximization whereas CEOs off the board are optimally chosen given the underlying characteristics. However, the results from the market-based models show the exact opposite story after controlling for the self-selection bias: CEO duality is optimally chosen whereas the costs of CEOs off the board are greater than their benefits in firms with CEOs off the board, providing evidence for CEO utility maximization.
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Zhai, Yong Hong. "Asset revaluation and future firm operating performance: evidence from New Zealand". Master's thesis, Lincoln University. Commerce Division, 2007. http://theses.lincoln.ac.nz/public/adt-NZLIU20071015.143314/.
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The regulatory framework of many countries allows the upward revaluation of assets. Previous studies on the association of asset revaluation and future performance in Australia (Barth and Clinch, 1998), U.K. (Aboody, Barth and Kasznik, 1999) and Hong Kong (Jaggi and Tsui, 2001) have shown that upward asset revaluations are positively associated with the firms operating performance, suggesting that asset revaluations are value relevant. This study extends the previous research by focusing on the New Zealand environment with recent data to examine the association of upward asset revaluation and future operating performance. There is no obvious evidence indicating that upward revaluations are associated with operating performance in New Zealand. Our market assessments show that current year asset revaluations are related to share prices and returns, but are not statistically significant.
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Kistner, Erica Jean. "Adaptive responses and invasion the role of plasticity and evolution in snail shell morphology /". Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/e_kistner_042509.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in zoology)--Washington State University, May 2009.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 09, 2009). "School of Biological Sciences." Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-82).
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Berliner, Angie. "A history of psychology in New Zealand : early beginnings 1869–1929". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10579.
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This thesis is concerned with the introduction and development of western psychology in New Zealand during the period 1869 – 1929. The foundations of psychology coincided with the early foundations of the country and the building of the first university colleges. The evolving colonial university system provided opportunity but also institutional limitations on the development of the subject. Sir Thomas Hunter introduced experimental psychology and established the first psychology laboratory in 1907 at Victoria College. Hunter was supported in this by his American based mentor, Edward B. Titchener. Hunter played an important role in campaigning for university reform and worked tirelessly to promote both the study and application of psychology.
This thesis argues that historic global and local events were crucial to the development and advancement of psychology in New Zealand. World War 1 ended in 1918 and was followed by a deadly flu epidemic. These events led to new theories and developments in psychology, many of which were imported to New Zealand and adapted to suit local needs. Local changes in approaches to health care and social management opened opportunities for a professional role in psychology. Throughout the 1920’s psychologists expanded their field of influence and began to develop applications for psychological knowledge.
By 1929, psychology had become firmly established as a discipline worthy of individual attention. New Zealand had not yet begun to produce significant psychological research but provided a unique host society in which, in the space of sixty years, the study of psychology was introduced and developed and largely kept pace with international advances.
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van, de Wijdeven Petronella Johanna Maria, i n/a. "From art souvenir to tourist kitsch : a cultural history of New Zealand Paua shell jewellery until 1981". University of Otago. Department of History, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20090429.162501.
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This cultural history of paua shell jewellery redresses the lack of visibility of such objects as a significant part of 20th century New Zealand material culture and provides a basis for a more balanced interpretation beyond its stereotyping as tourist kitsch. It questions why quality paua shell jewellery made before the late 1960s failed to gain recognition with most New Zealanders until fairly recently as anything other than tourist souvenirs.
Over 1,500 items of paua shell jewellery, mainly in private collections, formed the basis for this multidisciplinary research project that incorporates historical, anthropological and material culture studies approaches to write a cultural history of such jewellery. The objects were photographed and where available, their provenance recorded. A visual analysis of the items - paying attention to details of design and construction - established various, often overlapping categories that facilitated the dating and identification process. Gradually, a picture of the production of paua shell jewellery over the decades emerged. The wider socio-cultural context was then built using archival sources, various publications, conversations with one-time industry representatives, and discussions with original owners of paua shell jewellery. Interpretation of the material established multiple roles for paua shell jewellery over the decades for various groups of people.
Changes over time provided insights into aspects of identity creation by New Zealanders. Until the 1920s, the shell�s main role had been as a European applied arts material and as inlay for Maori woodcarvings. Paua shell as a commercial souvenir material developed during the Depression and was shaped by the interaction between an emerging nationalism and a democratising of travel in New Zealand. Paua shell native bird brooches functioned as affordable alternatives to greenstone souvenirs for the working-class tourists that began exploring their own country.
In addition to its role as emblems of nationhood in the interwar years, paua shell jewellery had meaning as souvenirs for American servicemen stationed in New Zealand during the War, and as patriotic tokens for its own population due to its association with disabled servicemen. Paua shell jewellery functioned as acknowledgement of settlement for European immigrants in the post war era, and as travel memento for trans-Tasman tourists from the mid 1950s. New Zealand girls received paua shell items as first jewellery, and women wore it as dress or costume jewellery.
Until the increase of tourism in the 1960s, paua shell jewellery had existed on a number of planes. The exploitation of paua shell by the tourist industry, however, upset the balance and its dominance as souvenir forced a retreat of alternative uses. Other than as tourist souvenir, paua shell jewellery became invisible to the local population. Their withdrawal from an association with paua shell as a cultural marker of national identity explains why so many New Zealanders were uncertain about liking or disliking paua shell jewellery until recently.
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Ruwhiu, Diane, i n/a. "The sleeping Taniwha : exploring the practical utility of kaupapa Maori in firm performance". University of Otago. Department of Management, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20090810.161823.
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This thesis takes the position that firm performance is derived from the value embodied by combinations of distinct socio-cultural resources and capabilities. In particular, this thesis explores practice in the context of Maori business to understand the mutual influences between economic exchange and social-cultural structures in terms of achieving improved firm performance. I begin by suggesting that much of the knowledge development and community practice in organisational analysis is subsumed within a Kuhnian conventionalism, which is not useful to gaining a deeper understanding of firm performance. I argue that what is required is an approach that emphasises the contextual development of society and organisation (embodied by social and cultural relations).
This brings to the fore the pragmatist epistemology of practical knowledge, an approach to research and analysis of organisations that is at the heart of this research. Practical knowledge connects to the pragmatic orientation of Indigenous logics in this instance kaupapa Maori, which draws us to a perspective of knowledge that is experiential, contextual, diverse and inclusive. The effectiveness of a practical knowledge perspective by means of its pragmatic epistemology allows us to understand Maori businesses operating within a distinctive frame of socio-economic rationality providing a broader utility leading to culturally constituted forms of practice. It was through this lens that I engaged with the proposition regarding firm performance prompting us to look at the field of leadership (habitus), exchange (inter-capital exchange) and relationships (field) in particular.
A major emphasis was a search for an appropriate method that would provide an avenue of authentic engagement with the cultural context embodied by kaupapa Maori. In terms of empirical investigation this thesis advances the utility of narrative as an expository technique and interpretive device that accords full recognition of Maori socio-cultural systems of relationships, historic circumstances and current practices. Conducted over three years (December 2004 and June 2006), the fieldwork component involved multiple strands of narrative in the form of dialogue, stories,metaphors, documentation and experiences of myself, other individuals and Maori economic development hui, or gathering.
A key finding of this thesis is that kaupapa Maori as expressed through business practice offers a practical utility in relation to the capability of and potential outcomes for improved firm performance. I argue that there are unique characteristics of Maori business practice, which are grounded in the epistemological stance of kaupapa Maori in combination with Western philosophies and techniques of organisation that contribute to the performance of Maori businesses. In addition, I argue that it offers a view of the organisation as something beyond a disembodied system of market exchange and recognises the embeddedness of social processes in each culture will bring specific cultural nuances to the formulation of what constitutes organisational success. Finally, I suggest that kaupapa Maori research, grounded by the epistemological and ontological assumptions of an Indigenous paradigm provides opportunities for gaining greater insight into the dynamics of organisation and management research.
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Yang, Ming Ming. "The portfolio analysis for multi-species fisheries management in New Zealand: an application in a fishing firm". Thesis, University of Auckland, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/7476.
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In recent years, maintaining the stock level of marine species and the sustainability of fisheries development have become critical issues in current scientific research due to over-harvest. The traditional method used to manage fisheries is the single species approach where policy is aimed at maximum sustainable yield. However, with the development of harvesting technology and increased competition to access stocks, the single species approach has been found incapable of dealing with problems of severe depletion of fish stocks. Studies show that when regulations are species specific and species are part of a multi-species fisheries, the catch levels of species are correlated which, in return, results in correlation of net returns across species. The single species approach ignores species correlation and should be modified to a multispecies approach which incorporates species correlation. This research applies portfolio analysis to multi-species fisheries, treats fish stocks as assets, and models the fishing firm faced with multiple targeting options, to determine the optimal targeting strategy. This method is applied to a New Zealand fishing firm operating within the Quota Management System (QMS). Species considered in this research are selected on the basis of two criteria: empirically these species have complete data; and, theoretically these species guarantee the covariance matrix is positive semi-definite so that the portfolio model has solution. The portfolio model is applied under two scenarios: first, the firm’s optimal harvesting levels are strictly within its quota holdings; second, beyond its quota holdings by acquiring additional quota rights and/or paying deemed values on over-harvest. Efficient risk-return frontiers are generated that provide a combination of optimal strategies. Comparisons between the results and actual data are presented that allow us to draw conclusions about the benefit of implementing the portfolio approach into multi-species fisheries and the potential improvements the fishing firm can make to enhance fishing profit. It is found that the fishing firm should diversify its fishing portfolio by using external harvest rights, adjusting the holdings of some species and not harvesting other species.
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Wheadon, C. J. D. (Christopher James Daniel), i n/a. "A systemic approach to understanding prehistoric shell-bearing deposits in New Zealand: a case study from Shag Point, North Otago". University of Otago. Department of Anthropology, 2002. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070507.115526.
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This thesis describes a systemic approach to the study of shell remains, using material from the site of Shag Point (J43/11), in North Otago. This approach analyses the relationship between sampling, identification, quantification, and site formation processes. An historical and methodological framework is used to assess the analysis of shell-bearing deposits in New Zealand, and provide innovative solutions to bias. Historical research outlines the common research methods in New Zealand, which are relevant to Shag Point. Methodological research outlines the range of potential research methods used in the study of shell-bearing deposits. Reviewing the data from Shag Point, sampling, identification, quantification, and site formation processes are used to assess the quality of data from the site. Data from coastal sites are commonly used to generate regional level syntheses. These syntheses do not deal with all of the possible sources of bias in shell-bearing deposits. Cumulative sampling is used to assess representativeness. The data from Shag Point are indicative of a representative sample. The site is compared to three other coastal southern South Island assemblages: the nearby Shag River Mouth, Pleasant River, and Pounawea. The data from Shag River Mouth may be representative; the same cannot be said for the Pleasant River and Pounawea archaeological assemblages, thus hampering regional-level syntheses.
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McConnell, Lynn. The Shell New Zealand cricket encyclopedia. Auckland: Moa Becket, in association with the Shell Group of Companies in New Zealand, 1993.
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Schmidt, Matthew. Radiocarbon dating New Zealand prehistory using marine shell. Oxford, England: British Archaeological Reports, 2000.
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Parker, Selwyn. Made in New Zealand: The story of Jim Fletcher. Auckland, N.Z: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994.
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Knuckey, Stephen. Firm foundations 2002: A study of New Zealand business practices & performance. Wellington [N.Z.]: Ministry of Economic Development, 2002.
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author, McCahon-Jones Finn, i Objectspace (Gallery), red. Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand : 40 years of Fingers Jewellery Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman, 2014.
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Foster, Michael Whitfield. She'll be right at last: The final version of a corrected, extended and wholly rewritten history of Shell in New Zealand. Wellington [N.Z: M.W. Foster], 2007.
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Museum voor Volkenkunde (Rotterdam, Netherlands), red. Burton brothers: Fotografen in Nieuw-Zeeland, 1866-1898 = Burton brothers : photographers in New Zealand, 1866-1898. Amsterdam: Fragment, 1987.
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Groeneveld, Anneke. Burton Brothers: Fotografen in Nieuw-Zeeland, 1866-1898 = Burton Brothers : photographers in New Zealand, 1866-1998. Amsterdam: Fragment, 1987.
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Ian, Brooks. Reality is crazy: The remarkable story of Sovereign, the company that revolutionised the New Zealand life insurance industry. Auckland, N.Z: Brooks on Business, 2001.
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San Francisco (Calif.). Office of the Controller. City Services Auditor Division. Airport Commission: Concession audit of Air New Zealand Limited. San Francisco: Office of the Controller, 2008.
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Lau, Gloria, i Val Hooper. "Adoption of E-HRM in Large New Zealand Organizations". W Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems, 31–41. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-883-3.ch006.
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Human resources are usually the most expensive resource in any organization. They thus need careful management. The aim of human resources management (HRM) is to Ensure that a firm has the right number of people with the required knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies, in the right place, at the right time, at an affordable cost and who are motivated and committed to achieving the current and strategic need of a firm. (Macky & Johnson, 2000, p. 3) Information communication technologies (ICT) have changed the way organizations conduct their business. The use of ICT in HRM is often referred to as e-HRM, Web-based HR, or virtual HR, which Lepak and Snell (1998) define as “a network-based structure built on partnership and typically mediated by information technology to help organizations acquire, develop and deploy intellectual capital” (p. 216). ICT has made e-HRM applications not only possible, but also economically viable (Watson Wyatt, 2002). However, the adoption of e-HRM in New Zealand does not appear to have progressed as speedily as the adoption of technology in many other functional areas of the organization. Although most organizations utilized basic ICT applications such as e-mail and the Internet in the HR department, the majority do not appear to have moved far enough into actual e-HRM development, such as e-recruitment and e-benefits (Watson Wyatt, 2002).
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Ahdar, Rex. "The Undulating Path of Merger Policy". W The Evolution of Competition Law in New Zealand, 196–230. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855606.003.0007.
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Merger control has been marked by two major changes to both procedural and substantive law; the mandatory pre-merger notification regime was becoming increasingly burdensome for both businesses and the Commission. In 1990, the pre-merger notification system was abruptly abolished in favour of a voluntary notification system. The so-called “strike down” system already existed in Australia, but the change was probably due less to harmonization and more to some effective lobbying by big business. Regarding the substantive test, the “dominance” standard proved to be highly permissive. Few mergers were halted and the presence of very large market shares post-merger could still be overcome by an unduly generous view of the likelihood of new entry disciplining the merged firm. An idealized version of potential competition (contestability theory) held sway. In 2001, the test in s 47 was changed to the SLC threshold in an effort to toughen up the law. Horizontal mergers, increasing the likelihood of collusion (due to increased market concentration), could now be caught. Yet it is doubtful that the sterner test actually resulted in more mergers being prohibited. This chapter briefly explores the experience of vertical and conglomerate mergers as well as a new section (s 47A) that addresses overseas mergers that have effects upon New Zealand markets.
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Reddy, Krishna, i Andrea Bather. "Institutional investors, firm performance, and the prospects for socially responsible investing: Evidence from New Zealand". W Institutional Investors’ Power to Change Corporate Behavior: International Perspectives, 149–75. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/s2043-9059(2013)0000005015.
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Fuentes-Fernández, Rosana, Armand Gilinsky, Joshua Aboah, Sharon Forbes, Coralie Haller i Marc Dressler. "The Impact of Firmographics on Philanthropic Engagement in the Global Wine Industry". W Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage, 315–33. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-2149-2.ch017.
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The pursuit of community engagement and support is commonly considered to be essential to the achievement of corporate social responsibility goals, irrespective of a firm's age, size, legal formation, or industry sector. Less well understood are the firmographic characteristics that may influence these philanthropic pursuits, namely, firm formation, firm closure, firm growth or decline, and firm relocation. This investigation into philanthropic engagement seeks to understand the impact of firmographics across the global wine industry. Data were collected via survey from 302 firms in the Old and New World wine sectors: Spain, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the United States. Ordinal logistic and multiple linear regressions were applied. Findings reveal that the cultural heritage of a wine business, and, to a lesser extent, its form of ownership, appear to be the two major determinants of philanthropic engagement.
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Reveley, James. "Waterfront Labour Reform". W Registering Interest, 139–64. Liverpool University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780973007350.003.0007.
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This chapter considers the process of labour reform as a result of the preceeding events, plus the 1984 election that ensured a Labour government in New Zealand. It details the following processes: firm-based employment; intensified competition; the shift to non-standard employment; working conditions; and the Employment Relations Act 2000. It concludes by speculating over the formation of new unions in the wake of labour reforms, claiming that it cannot be discerned whether these unions represent employee or employer interests. Reveley maintains that waterfront unionism in New Zealand remains a complex and ever-shifting environment.
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Bromley, Daniel W. "Reimagining the Individual". W Possessive Individualism, 234–58. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190062842.003.0008.
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Beginning in the 1980s, inequality of incomes in the metropolitan core began to increase. This great divergence was most pronounced in the Anglophone world—Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This divergence suggests that there is nothing inherent—structurally determinative—in capitalism as it operates in the rich metropole that brings about this unwelcome trend. Rather, inequality is willful—intended. Ironically, inequality is enabled by the prevalence of possessive individualism that reveals the acquisitive individualist to be the source of his or her own unwanted economic marginalization. The individualist’s embrace of a livelihood strategy based on the celebration of rights and the illusion of freedom—being free to choose—has placed him or her at the mercy of the capitalist firm equally committed to possessive individualism. The capitalist firm must be transformed into a public trust. However, this will not be sufficient. Improved livelihoods will also require that the possessive individual be reimagined.
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Matthews, John O. "Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and Salomon Brothers Adapt". W Struggle and Survival on Wall Street, 203–13. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195050639.003.0015.
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Abstract In order to illustrate how successful firms have adapted their structures to changing economic conditions, we will look at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and Salomon Brothers. Each of these firms has been a leading firm in the industry for fifty years or more and has a unique identity in the industry. Merrill Lynch has been a leading innovator and a dynamic force in the industry since the 1940s in both retail and investment banking. Its size alone dominated the industry from the 1940s through the early 1980s. Yet it has been one of Wall Street’s great mysteries. No other firm can boast such strength and diversity in revenues while having so much trouble in consistently bringing them to the bottom line (Business Week, July 17, 1989, p. 122). In many respects, Morgan Stanley has been the premier investment banker in the industry since the 1930s. Among its longtime clients are many of this country’s largest firms, including General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, IBM, Mobil Oil, Texaco, U.S. Steel, DuPont, Shell Oil, and Standard Oil of Indiana (Hayes, Spence, and Marks 1983, pp. 102-3). The firm is an offshoot of the banking house of J.P. Morgan and is sometimes described as patrician.
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Piven, Inna P., i Michael Breazeale. "Desperately Seeking Customer Engagement". W Analyzing the Strategic Role of Social Networking in Firm Growth and Productivity, 283–313. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0559-4.ch016.
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Since 2004 when Myspace was converted from a file storage service to a social networking site, social media has become an integral part of people's everyday experiences. Social media has also come to play an influential role in business. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the Five-Sources Model of Brand Value that illustrates the importance of functional, emotional, self-oriented, social, and relational brand consumption experiences helping different organisations get a clear sense of where they can add value to their marketing communication strategies on social media. The model is consumer-centered and is grounded in consumers' experiences collected through interviews and Facebook focus group. This chapter is based on an on-going project that first started as a Masters research in 2011. It has continued with conferences and academic papers, in conjunction with consulting and lecturing on social media applications in New Zealand business and education context.
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O'Brien, Patricia. "Breaking Mr. Nelson in the Great Depression (1931–1932)". W Tautai. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824866532.003.0012.
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After the Black Saturday massacre and the limited repercussions for the New Zealand government as a result, the government stepped up its assault on Ta’isi who was outside the reach of new draconian laws in Sāmoa that criminalized almost every aspect of life and cultural practice. Rather than pursue Ta’isi, they pursued his firm that was put on trial for aiding and abetting a seditious organization. The chapter investigates the course of events around this trial and the impact it had on Ta’isi and his company that was already suffering enormously due to the Great Depression. It also explores attempts to prevent Ta’isi’s return to Sāmoa, the threat of a repetition of the Black Saturday massacre if he did return and the drastic impact this situation had on his family.
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Shugart, Matthew S., Matthew E. Bergman, Cory L. Struthers, Ellis S. Krauss i Robert J. Pekkanen. "Party Personnel Strategies". W Party Personnel Strategies, 1–25. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192897053.003.0001.
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The chapter introduces the notion of “party personnel strategies.” The concept refers to the process by which political parties allocate their elected members to legislative committees. The theory is grounded in the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm. The legislators are the pool of “personnel” from which the party draws when staffing specialized standing committees of the legislature. Party strategy is conditioned by both policy goals and the imperatives of the electoral system under which seats are won. Parties engage in a “personnel practice,” which is their observed pattern of assigning members with certain individual background characteristics to given committees. The chapter establishes the cases on which the book’s arguments are tested: Britain, Germany, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, and Portugal. The chapter lists the elections and the thirteen major political parties covered for each country.
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"Firm-level innovation in New Zealand". W 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ), Inc., 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36334/modsim.2011.d3.oxley.
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Puri, Swati Kumaria. "The Nexus Between ESG Disclosures, Firm Performance and Covid-19: An Aotearoa New Zealand Perspective". W ITP Research Symposium 2022. Unitec ePress, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/proc.2302016.
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This paper investigates the impact of environmental, social and governance disclosures (ESGD) on the corporate performance of Aotearoa New Zealand companies during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study sample consists of quarterly data for publicly listed New Zealand companies from 2017 to 2021, with 2017–2019 as the pre-Covid-19 period and 2020–2021 as the Covid-19 period. Correlation analysis and panel regression models are used to test hypotheses and assess objectives. The findings show that during Covid-19, there was no significant relationship between ESG scores (ESGS) and financial performance. However, after adding financial slack as a moderating variable, the relationship between ESGS and financial performance became significant, which suggests that when companies have surplus funds, they invest in ESG-related activities, which enhances both their performance and reputation. This study is helpful to academics, firms and policymakers interested in understanding the impact of sustainable practices on businesses. Furthermore, the findings provide insight into initiatives that regulatory authorities might take to improve ESGD and reporting among New Zealand companies for long-term value creation.
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Takei, Shoichi, Shuichi Akizuki i Manabu Hashimoto. "SHORT: A fast 3D feature description based on estimating occupancy in spherical shell regions". W 2015 International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ivcnz.2015.7761539.
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Bailey, Donald, i Jim S. Jimmy Li. "FPGA based multi-shell filter for hot pixel removal within colour filter array demosaicing". W 2016 International Conference on Image and Vision Computing - New Zealand (IVCNZ). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ivcnz.2016.7804450.
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Puri, Swati Kumaria, i Zazli Lily Wisker. "Carbon Emissions and Organisational Performance: Friend or Foe?" W ITP Research Symposium 2022. Unitec ePress, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/proc.2302014.
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This research aims to investigate the short-term effect of carbon emissions on financial performance and market value of Aotearoa New Zealand companies. It hypothesises that the direct and indirect carbon emissions negatively affect short-term firm performance. It further posits that the relationship between carbon emission and firm performance is moderated by a firm’s leverage. The study sample includes quarterly data of New Zealand listed companies from 2017 to 2021. The study uses univariate and multivariate methods such as correlation and panel regression models to test the hypotheses. The empirical results demonstrate that the impact of direct emissions on performance and market value is significantly negative. There is evidence that high direct carbon emissions reduce firms’ return on equity, return on assets and Tobin’s Q. Furthermore, the relationship between indirect carbon emissions on performance and market value is insignificant. Since firms are not able to control indirect emissions, these do not directly affect financial performance. The findings indicate that high-debt firms contribute to carbon emissions and decrease both firm performance and market value in the short term. This study is useful to practitioners interested in understanding the impact of carbon emissions on businesses. Additionally, the findings will assist policy makers in formulating carbon-emission policies and disclosures among New Zealand businesses.
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Marfella, Giorgio. "The Trouble with Harry: Seidler’s Tall Urban Design Legacy in Melbourne". W The 39th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. PLACE NAME: SAHANZ, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a5032p0jt7.
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Despite the wealth of publications on Harry Seidler’s life and works, some aspects of the architect’s career remain relatively unknown or under-appreciated. This paper points the architect’s contribution to urban design through lesser-known high-rise projects designed for the inner city of Melbourne. The chronicle of Seidler’s jobs in Melbourne speaks more of an unsuccessful office unable to convert major prospects into realised outcomes than of the commercial projects and landmarks for which his work is widely acclaimed. Over 40 years, Seidler conceived several high- rise projects for Melbourne’s Central Business District, but apart from the notable exception of the heritage-listed Shell House, those projects remained unbuilt. At the core of Seidler’s scarce professional success in the second-largest Australian city, there was a problematic relationship that developed with local culture and city planning authorities. Seidler’s conflict with Melbourne erupted on the occasion of the planning approval of Shell House, surging in contrast to the rise of an overreaching and somewhat still pervasive post-modern urban design culture in the Victorian city.
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Corkhill, Anna, i Amit Srivastava. "Alan Gilbert and Sarah Lo in Reform Era China and Hong Kong: A NSW Architect in Asia". W The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4015pq8jc.
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This paper is based on archival research done for a larger project looking at the impact of emergent transnational networks in Asia on the work of New South Wales architects. During the period of the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976), the neighbouring territories of Macau and Hong Kong served as centres of resistance, where an expatriate population interested in traditional Asian arts and culture would find growing support and patronage amongst the elite intellectual class. This brought influential international actors in the fields of journalism, filmmaking, art and architecture to the region, including a number of Australian architects. This paper traces the history of one such Australian émigré, Alan Gilbert, who arrived in Macau in 1963 just before the Cultural Revolution and continued to work as a professional filmmaker and photojournalist documenting the revolution. In 1967 he joined the influential design practice of Dale and Patricia Keller (DKA) in Hong Kong, where he met his future wife Sarah Lo. By the mid 1970s both Alan Gilbert and Sarah Lo had left to start their own design practice under Alan Gilbert and Associates (AGA) and Innerspace Design. The paper particularly explores their engagement with ‘reform-era’ China in the late 1970s and early 1980s when they secured one of the first and largest commissions awarded to a foreign design firm by the Chinese government to redesign a series of nine state- run hotels, two of which, the Minzu and Xiyuan Hotels in Beijing, are discussed here.
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Taheri, Mehdi. "Heritage Conservation versus Urban Development and Politics: Persepolis Tent City in the Aftermath of the Imperial Celebration, 1971-1979". W The 39th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. PLACE NAME: SAHANZ, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a5046ptsmg.
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In 1971, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran, invited the most then-influential individuals of the world to Iran to commemorate the 2,500-year Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great (The Imperial Celebration). To accommodate the guests, Iran set up a city of prefabricated apartments by Persepolis that looked like tents, hence Persepolis Tent City. In the aftermath of the Imperial Celebration, the government proposed or received six different plans to reuse the Tent City. Such attempts were mostly to make the site profitable, hence responding to criticisms of its extravagance. The primary stakeholders in the conception and realisation of these plans were NASCO, an architectural and urban planning consultancy firm; Homa, the National Airline of Iran that owned the Tent City; and the Planning and Budget Organisation, a governmental body that planned and supervised the public budget. There was also a Shah whose orders had to be accommodated. The plans, however, could not bring reconciliation between active stakeholders, leading to their rejection or abandonment. As a result, the Tent City slowly deteriorated to the degree that no more than its steel structures exist today. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the relations between nationalism, heritage conservation, institutional architecture and political disputes manifested in Persepolis Tent City. The paper also offers an account of a remarkable architectural intervention, the largest-ever intervention in the first-level buffer zone of the 2500-year-old site, now a UNESCO World Heritage site, that either because of the content or the (mis)reading of the messages it carried, has remained undervalued. To pursue these objectives, the research draws on previously unexamined archival documents retrieved from the National Archive of Iran and print media published in the 1970s.
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Mađanović, Milica, Cameron Moore i Renata Jadresin Milic. "The Role of Architectural History Research: Auckland’s NZI Building as William Gummer’s Attempt at Humanity". W The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4007piywz.
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In response to the third thematic sub-stream of the 38th Annual SAHANZ Conference, this paper will discuss the role of architectural research in the architecture of Gummer and Ford, the Auckland-based practice, often described as one of the most prolific bureaus in interwar New Zealand. The paper is a fraction of a three-staged project, “Gummer and Ford,” developed by a team of researchers from the Unitec Institute of Technology in response to an event recognised as a milestone in the New Zealand architectural calendar – the 2023 centenary of the firm’s establishment. This paper explores the design principles of William Gummer, the principal designer of the firm. From 1914 to 1935, Gummer consistently published his view that the goal of the architect was to cater to humanity’s highest instincts. He was unwavering but vague on how this is achieved; through composition, unity, contrast, proportion and scale, appropriate use of materials is all needed to produce buildings of good character. But what did he really mean by this? A close reading of three books Gummer considered invaluable to architectural students – The Essentials of Composition as Applied to Art by John Vredenburgh Van Pelt, Architectural Composition by Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, and The Mistress Art by Reginald Bloomfield – offers a direct insight into the influences behind his thinking about architecture and his architectural production. Directly traceable to Gummer, the three titles include clear, precise instructions on both the functional and artistic nature of architectural design. Interestingly, this paper employs a method not dissimilar to Gummer’s design method. These books taken together, along with Gummer’s own writing, a study of renderings and construction drawings, and close observation of the buildings, an architectural analysis of Gummer’s work becomes possible – it is what Gummer himself referred to as Architectural Research. This historically focused study will bring a new perspective to understanding the value and contribution of traditional architects, not only in New Zealand but other English-speaking countries.
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Shroff, Meherzad B., i Amit Srivastava. "Hotel Australia to Oberoi Adelaide: The Transnational History of an Adelaide Hotel". W The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a3996p40wb.
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In the decades following the war, the spread of international luxury chain hotels was instrumental in shaping the global image of modernity. It was not simply the export of modernist architecture as a style, but rather a process which brought about an overall transformation of the industry and culture surrounding modern domesticity. For Adelaide, well before the arrival of large brand hotel chains like Hilton and Hyatt, this process was initiated by the construction of its first international style hotel in 1960 – Australia Hotel. The proposed paper traces the history of this structure and its impact not only on local design and construction industries but also on domestic culture and lifestyle after the shadow period of recovery after the war. This paper looks at three specific enduring legacies of this structure that went well beyond the modernist aesthetics employed by its original designers, the local firm of Lucas, Parker and Partners. The hotel was one of the first to employ the new technology of lift-slab construction and was recognised by the Head of Architecture at the University of Adelaide, Professor Jensen, as the outstanding building of 1960. It is argued that it was the engagement with such technological and process innovations that has allowed the building to endure through several renovation attempts. In her study of Hilton International hotels, Annabelle Wharton argues how architecture was used for America’s expansion to global economic and political power. Following on from her arguments, this paper explores the implications of the acquisition of the Australia Hotel by the Indian hotel chain Oberoi Hotels in the late 1970s when it became Oberoi Adelaide. The patronage of Indian hotelier Mohan Singh Oberoi came alongside the parallel acquisition of Hotel Windsor in Melbourne, heralding a new era of engagement with Asia. Finally, the paper also highlights the broader impact of this hotel, as a leisure venue for the burgeoning middle class, on the evolving domestic culture of Adelaide.
Raporty organizacyjne na temat "Shell New Zealand (Firm)"
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Kim, Minbum, Satish Nune, Jierui Yu, Jian Liu i Praveen Thallapally. Extending Magnetic Core Shell Nanoparticle Extraction Technology to Cesium and Antimony Removal from Geothermal Brines in New Zealand. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), czerwiec 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/2326085.
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McGrail, Bernard. Extending Magnetic Core Shell Nanoparticle Extraction Technology to Cesium and Antimony Removal from Geothermal Brines in New Zealand - CRADA 440. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), luty 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1827737.
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