Browsing by Supervisor "Weaver, C. Kay"
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Policy and practice: funding and strategies for short film in New Zealand 1994-1998
(The University of Waikato, 1998)This research foregrounds funding influences on the strategies of short film practice in New Zealand. It seeks to connect the processes of policy and practice and the relationships of institutions and individuals as they ... -
A changing dialogue within health communication in New Zealand: a case study of the Waikato screening mammography programme
(The University of Waikato, 2000)As part of changes in the health sector in New Zealand over the past decade, government has provided a number of community-based health interventions. The purpose of such interventions is to provide information and resources ... -
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 ... -
Organisational identities and rationalities: A rhetorical and discourse analysis of organisational communication about genetic modification in the New Zealand kiwifruit and dairy industries
(The University of Waikato, 2005)This thesis examines how two of New Zealand's largest primary producer industries negotiated their relationship with the highly controversial practice of genetic modification. This was in an effort to maintain their dominance ... -
Communication challenges of web development SMEs: The benefits and challenges of organizational tensions
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis examines the communicative constitution of organisations (CCO) through the communication challenges faced by web development small and medium enterprises (Cooren, Kuhn, Cornelissen, & Clark, 2011; Putnam & ... -
Sites of value? Discourses of religion and spirituality in the production of a New Zealand film and television series
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This interdisciplinary study examines the nature of the discourses of religion and spirituality circulating in and around the production of a feature film, Saving Grace and a television mini-series, The Chosen, made and ... -
Realising Our Best Intentions: Vision, Values and Voice in Community Non-government Organisations of the Aotearoa \New Zealand Mental Health Sector
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis examines the effectiveness of establishing a recovery orientation in community, non-government, mental health organisations in Aotearoa\New Zealand. It addresses the discursive constructions of key concepts ... -
Narrating The Body Shop: A story about corporate identity
(University of Waikato, 2004)The narrative turn in organisation studies locates organisations as authors of their own identities. Organisations in all sectors are talking about values, engaging in ongoing conversations with the larger society and ... -
Values and Identities of Women Entrepreneurs: A Study of Muslim Women of Malay Ethnicity in Malaysia
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis investigates how Islam, culture, and gender intersect in Malay women’s construction of their entrepreneurial identities. Interest in this research study grew out of my own experiences of working as an entrepreneur ... -
The Representation of Gender in Contemporary Chinese Television Advertising: An Analysis of Content, Meaning, and Production
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis examines how gender is portrayed in Chinese television commercials and how these representations reflect the social and cultural contexts of their production and the institutional practices of advertising ...
