Several different real option valuation approaches appear in the literature to address valuation problems under uncertainty. This diversity, however, has created a confusion regarding their applications across different ...

The North Asian countries of Japan, Korea and China are becoming increasingly important overseas trading partners of New Zealand, whose imports and exports are predominantly shipped by sea. The industrial shipping market ...

There is considerable disagreement in the literature as to whether the unilateral and nonreciprocal preferences have succeeded in promoting developing countries’ exports. One strand of the literature suggests that multilateral ...

Institutional and individual investors have always been interested in identifying those mutual funds that appear to outperform the market more often than not. Identification of such funds is not difficult as a simple ...

Global sourcing and its impact upon organisational competitiveness is an issue which has yet to be examined in the New Zealand context. The aim of this research project is to investigate the effect of global sourcing for ...

Foreign sourcing is a tool used by many organisations to improve competitive advantage. This study builds upon foreign sourcing theory by examining the foreign sourcing behaviour of small to medium retail enterprises (SMEs). ...

The brand management structure has been in use in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector for quite some time. Researchers have tracked the historical development of organising for managing manufacturer brands covering ...

“Grounded in Heritage” is a Master’s project derived from part of the researcher’s Post-Graduate Diploma research based on the Jingdezhen porcelain cluster, which challenges Michael Porter’s “Competitive Advantage of ...