Browsing by Supervisor "McKie, David"
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Contested environments: A critical discourse analysis of applications for resource consents in Northland
(The University of Waikato, 2004)This thesis reports on a study of disputed applications for environmental resource consent conducted in Northland. The study was placed against the backdrop of the Resource Management Act (1991) as a major social artefact ... -
Creating public dialogue: bridging the divide between television policymakers and citizens
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This thesis identifies a lack of public participation in both the historical and contemporary communication dimensions of New Zealand’s media regulation. It illustrates how this situation is evident even in policies such ... -
Crossing thresholds: An exploration of the transitional processes of new entrant management consultants
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Despite the prominence of the management consulting industry and the appeal of roles within it, the recruitment and onboarding experiences of New Zealand management consultants are largely undocumented in existing academic ... -
Digital Taniwha: Growing Māori participation in the IT industry
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This study explores the influencing factors on the participation levels of Māori (indigenous people of New Zealand) in the national IT industry. It particularly focusses on Māori IT professionals and why their participation ... -
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 ... -
Removing the ‘Cloak of Invisibility’: New Zealand Directors Discuss Theatre Directing Praxis
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis reveals central thematic concerns relating to directing text-based professional theatre in New Zealand. How does a select cohort of professional New Zealand theatre directors bring texts dynamically to life? ... -
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 business of the other: representing the non-west in management and media
(The University of Waikato, 1999)This thesis explores current facets of the business of the other in western management and business media discourses. It identifies the shaping of these facets through continuities between imperial colonisation and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Using the Past: Learning Histories, Public Histories and Possibilities
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis explores the contemporary meaning of history and the relevance of history, historical knowledge and historical methodology for organisations. This research does so through a novel adaptation of a consulting ...
