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Building Inclusive Cities—Women’s Safety and the Right to the City [Book review]
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-12)This article reviews the book "Building Inclusive Cities—Women’s Safety and the Right to the City", edited by Carolyn Whitzman, Crystal Legacy, Caroline Andrew, Fran Klodawsky, Margaret Shaw & Kalpana Viswanath. -
Building literacy communities of practice across subject disciplines in secondary schools
(Multilingual Matters, 2007)This paper examines the relationship between communities of practice and literacy as a pedagogical focus in secondary schools in New Zealand in the light of Corson's arguments about critical conditions for effective language ... -
Building organisational commitment to counteract brain drain from southern hemisphere accountancy firms
(Singapore Human Resources Institute, 2007)With countries increasingly thinking like organisations as they recruit and retain global talent, it is posited that High Commitment Management (HCM) Human Resource Management (HRM) systems could be applied to help stem ... -
Building script-based tacit knowledge in call centre trainees
(Palgrave Publishers, 2010)An exploratory case study on a technical support call centre in China is presented, which investigates a new paradigm that script-based tacit knowledge for action is built in the brains of learners, rather than transferred. ... -
Buildings as dangerous spaces: mobilities of emotion and affect in disaster relocation
(2016)Disasters are something Mimi Sheller has been recently working with, e.g. her keynote at the last Mobilities Symposium was entitled mobility in a disconnected world, moving people, information and aid after disasters. Disasters ... -
The built environment, Hamilton City Council policies and child driveway safety: a balancing act
(Department of Societies and Cultures, University of Waikato, 2014)Driveway run-overs continue to bring tragedy to New Zealand families at a higher rate than any other Western nation. Meanwhile, little progress appears to have been made in regard to the recommendations of previous research. ... -
Bundle-driven move analysis: Sentence initial lexical bundles in PhD abstracts
(Elsevier, 2020)Rhetorical moves are discoursal units that perform communicative functions in a given genre. They have been manually identified in many previous studies taking a corpus-based approach, and these studies have provided ... -
Burial and degradation of Rena oil within coastal sediments of the Bay of Plenty
(Royal Society of New Zealand, 2016)During the Rena oil spill, no data existed for New Zealand conditions on the likely depth of burial and the expected degradation of oil deposited on sandy beaches. Sediment cores were taken from 12 locations along the Bay ... -
Burial duration and frequency influences resilience of differing propagule types in a subtidal seagrass, Posidonia australis
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Sedimentation that leads to periodic, and often prolonged, burial events is becoming more common on the world’s coastlines as human populations expand and create urbanised marine environments. Different seagrass species ... -
Buried Alive or Washed Away The Challenging Life of Mangroves in the Mekong Delta
(The Oceanography Society, 2017)Mangroves colonize tropical shorelines, protecting coastal communities and providing valuable ecosystem services. Mangroves associated with deltas cope with a very dynamic environment characterized by strong gradients in ... -
The Buried Village, New Zealand - an example of dark tourism?
(Routledge, 2006)In 1886, the explosion of Mount Tarawera resulted in the loss of 150 lives and the burial of the village of Te Wairoa, the base from which tourists had visited the Pink and White Terraces, a silicone-stained natural formation ... -
A Burkean inquiry into leader-follower identification motives
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)The primary goal of this paper is to develop a rhetorically based understanding of the dynamics of the identification process between transformational or charismatic leaders and their followers. We bring to bear Burke's ... -
Burrows and Carter Statute Law in New Zealand by Ross Carter [Book Review]
(LexisNexis, 2016)This article reviews the book “Burrows and Carter Statute Law in New Zealand”, by Ross Carter. -
Business and human rights in South Africa: An analysis of antecedents of human rights due diligence
(Springer, 2009)The purpose of the present article is to analyse South African listed companies’ public reporting in order to contribute to our understanding of how and why companies consider human rights. The empirical analysis is placed ... -
Business communication as cultural text: Exchange and feedback of promotional video clips
(Elsevier, 2009)Our research is a response to the need to improve the understanding of the complexity of global professional communication. To investigate the complex cultural interpretations that producers and audiences apply to professional ... -
Business confidence and cyclical turning points: A Markov-Switching approach
(2007-09)Markov regime-switching analysis is used to consider the relationship between business confidence and the probability of turning points in cyclical GDP. We find, in an application to New Zealand, that confidence is related ... -
Business confidence and cyclical turning points: a Markov-switching approach
(Routledge, 2010)Markov regime-switching analysis is used to consider the relationship between business confidence and the probability of turning points in cyclical GDP. We find, in an application to New Zealand, that confidence is related ... -
Business managers in children’s playground : Exploring a problematic (or not!) identity construction of early childhood teachers in New Zealand.
(Sage, 2021)The impacts of neo-liberal education reforms on the early childhood education sector have been a focal point of scholarly critiques in New Zealand. Interestingly, only a few studies have addressed how teacher professional ... -
‘Business managers’ in children’s playground: A call for re-envisioning teachers’ professional identities in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood policies and practices
(2019)‘Business managers’ in children’s playground: A call for re-envisioning teachers’ professional identities in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood policies and practices The impacts of neoliberal education reforms on the ... -
Business model design for sustainable society: Therapy for the consumerist mindset
(ANZMAC, 2011)We address the problem of unsustainable business in the consumerist society with a reframing of the purpose of business, in recognition of the power of higher purpose for the company and contribution to society as the ...
