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Reconciling tourism, cultural change and empowerment in a Tibetan host community
(Massey University. Centre for Indigenous Governance and Development, 2006)
Tourism to Tibetan regions has become increasingly popular amongst Westerners
in the last few decades, as interest in Tibetan culture and religion has grown. This
interest in things Tibetan has combined with the literature ...
The effect that rounding to prototypical values has on expected duration estimation accuracy
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
The scheduling component of the time management process was used as a ‘paradigm’ to investigate the estimation of duration of future tasks. Two experiments looked at the effect that the tendency to provide estimates in the ...
CSR and staff retention in New Zealand companies: A literature review
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
This working paper examines the notion that there is a relationship between CSR and staff
retention in organisations. Studies have shown that people are becoming more aware of business activities in many countries. As ...
State-guided entrepreneurship: A case study
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
The premise that active engagement by the state in business is crucial for small,
developing economies for global competitiveness is based on the assumption that the state has the wherewithal to support such competitive ...
Organizational downsizing and the instrumental worker: Is there a connection?
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
A national population sample of 424 employees was used to explore the proposition that the widespread use of organizational downsizing by management has led employees to adopt a more instrumental orientation to the employment ...
Determiners of accuracy when making an expected duration estimation: The role of ‘past’ event/task saliency
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
One of the important ‘skills’ which is associated with effective time management is the ability to accurately estimate the probable duration of a to-be-scheduled event or task. The present study explored the effect that ...
The metaphorical rise of entrepreneurship
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
The words that have come to be associated with innovative and creative business enterprises – entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial – have their English origins in the realm of armed conflict. However over ...
The genesis of organisational aesthetics
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
Organisational aesthetics is a burgeoning field with a growing community of scholars engaged in arts-based approaches to research. Recent developments in this field have their origins in the works of early Enlightenment ...
The music of organising: Exploring aesthetic ethnography
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
Through a discussion of Ingarden’s phenomenology, this paper proposes an aesthetic ethnographic methodology. Aesthetic ethnography enables the researcher to view
organisations as if they are works of art. This involves ...
The relationship between different email management strategies and the perceived control of time
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
Time management research, and the psychological construct of perceived control of time, are drawn on to investigate populist claims of the virtues of regularly filing and organising ones electronic mail. Using a process ...

