Browsing by Supervisor "Munshi, Debashish"
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Social marketing in Aotearoa New Zealand: Analysing its evolution to inform, improve, and justify its future
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Plotting the evolution and experience of social marketing in Aotearoa New Zealand, this thesis charts a creative landscape of productive future research directions in the field. Starting with the question, “What can the ... -
The discourse of New Zealand and French television advertising: a comparative approach
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This thesis explored two television advertising discourses. In a response to a need for more qualitative inductive approaches to cultural/national advertising whereby each culture is seen as unique and is not compared to ... -
Culture and climate change: A study of future-proofing Māori tourism businesses
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis explores how prepared Māori tourism businesses are to adapt to climate change and how Māori values may influence the business's perception of responses to climate change. As climate impacts are growing in New ... -
Kitiaga mo fakamahani e hikihikiaga matagi he tau fifine Niue: tau pūhala he tau hiapo Niue women’s perspectives and experiences of climate change: a hiapo approach
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Indigenous communities in the Pacific are on the front-line of some of the most severe climate change impacts. Pacific leaders have consistently stated the urgent need for climate action (Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, ... -
Exploring local perceptions on visual media representations of climate change and last chance tourism in Tuvalu
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This thesis seeks to explore local Tuvaluan feelings and perceptions on the visual representation of Tuvalu in international climate change media stories in conjunction with the island nation’s growing status as a last ... -
Volunteering at the edge of chaos: A case study on the self-organising of younger volunteers during the Rena oil spill crisis
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This thesis investigates the self-organising of younger volunteers during the 2011 Rena oil spill crisis in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It builds on emerging research that considers the relationships between volunteering and ... -
The shifting sands of transparency: Sustainability reporting in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2018)By 2013, nearly 95% of the 250 largest companies in the world, and 71% of the top 100 companies across the Asia Pacific region used sustainability reporting as a tool to inform and manage the impacts of their activities ... -
Expanding financial communication: Investor relations, crowdfunding, and democracy in the time of fintech
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis studied financial communication in the context of a globalised, technologized, and financialised world. It arose from two seemingly opposite trends in practice and in academia. In practice, not only are technology ... -
Constructing and Reconstructing Criminality in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Dominant Media Discourses on Crime and Criminality and their Impact on Offenders’ Identities and Rehabilitation Efforts
(University of Waikato, 2014)This study investigates the dominant media discourses and ideologies surrounding crime and criminality in Aotearoa/New Zealand, how such discourses are constructed and legitimised by media reporting of crime, and the ... -
Exploring the definitions and practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from a corporate perspective: A case of the InterOil Corporation in Papua New Guinea
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis explored the extent to which the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined and articulated by corporations in the Oil and Gas Project in Papua New Guinea, using the case of InterOil Corporation. ... -
‘娩’ 与 ‘通’: Migrant Ethnic Chinese Mothers’ Intercultural Communication Experiences with Their Maternity-Care and Health Providers in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2013)In the transition to motherhood after migration, ethnic Chinese mothers in New Zealand experience different health and support systems compared to the ones they have knowledge of in China. At the same time, New Zealand ... -
Social, cultural, and political constructions of Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A study of business discourses in the Fiberhome Technologies Group
(University of Waikato, 2012)Abstract This thesis focuses on corporate social responsibility (CSR), a vital issue for both business and academic researchers, and examines how the reality of CSR is socially constructed within a Chinese social, political ... -
Sustainable citizenship as a key to sustainability: Establishing a common ground on technology use in New Zealand's dairy sector
(University of Waikato, 2011)Sustainability is a key issue in New Zealand’s dairy industry. Arguments are often made from either a purely economic or environmental perspective. The debate is dominated by polarised viewpoints characterised by hasty ... -
Re-energising Knowledge Management: Communication challenges, interdisciplinary intersections, and paradigm change
(University of Waikato, 2011)Knowledge Management (KM) in the 1990s was a key upwardly-mobile management discipline. Indeed, a proliferation of articles suggested KM had the potential to make a radical departure from conventional views of organisational ...
