Browsing by Supervisor "McKie, David"
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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 ... -
Exploring Inclusion, Support and Culture in the Workplace: A Study of Māori and European Employees
(University of Waikato, 2013)New Zealand boasts a wide range of vibrant and contrasting cultures within the workplace. This level of cultural diversity within New Zealand is set to increase substantially over the next 15 years. This increase has already ... -
Exploring Women's Leadership Journeys
(University of Waikato, 2016)Women comprise a very small proportion (28%) of senior managers and leaders in New Zealand organisations and statistics reveal a plateauing in their numbers over the last decade (Grant Thornton, 2012). The dearth of women ... -
Gaming Business Communities: Developing online learning organisations to foster communities, develop leadership, and grow interpersonal education
(University of Waikato, 2012)This paper explores, through observation and testing, what possibilities from gaming can be extended into other realms of human interaction to help bring people together, extend education, and grow business. It uses through ... -
Inspiring Innovation: An exploration of leadership and creativity in New Zealand businesses and churches
(University of Waikato, 2015)This study set out from the following three observations: that there is little research about innovation leadership in New Zealand; that existing writings rely heavily on research and theory from other places (especially ... -
Navigating Leaders' Wellbeing: What Does Self Determination Theory Contribute?
(University of Waikato, 2013)This is a study of the wellbeing of leaders in a New Zealand context. It arose in response to an increasingly complex and turbulent work environment that requires leaders to perform, including investing their full and ... -
Productive sustainability: An emergent methods approach to creating, communicating, and exploring leadership and management practices for contemporary challenges
(The University of Waikato, 2008)Chapter one opens with an account of the journey that led to the writing of the thesis. It grounds the research in my own experiences which led to the two central concerns: firstly, businesses face an uncertain and volatile ... -
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 ... -
Using the 2011 Rugby World Cup as a catalyst for the reproduction and refinement of New Zealand's national identity: Uniting a nation around a brand image.
(University of Waikato, 2013)This study focuses on how the New Zealand Government used a mega sports event, the 2011 Rugby World Cup, as a catalyst for the reproduction and refinement of national identity. The ways that the government used a major ...
