The purpose of this research is to determine an appropriate system of agricultural extension to improve the services to Samoan farmers within the framework of government economic rationalisation policies. Policy makers and ...

The effects of transformational and transactional leadership on team climate and innovation performance were examined using data from 456 Quality Control Circles belonging to a large government organisation in Southeast ...

Several competing models have been developed to explain the function of corporate boards. Two of these models are diametrically opposed regarding the board's role in the strategic management process. Management Control ...

Boards of directors are believed to influence corporate performance. Such influence may be direct, e.g., through boards monitoring management, or indirect; through the actions of a Chief Executive Officer selected by the ...

The New Zealand dairy industry has been well placed to take advantage of the relaxing international market barriers that have long plagued the dairy trade. At the same time it is very important to keep the size of New ...

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether New Zealand capital markets are efficient. To do this we investigate two competing models of investor decision making in the context of the New Zealand Stock Exchange. The ...

Attempts by the government of New Zealand to redress past inequities to Maori will inevitably play an important part in future economic development for Maori. While some attention has been given to economic development for ...

New Zealand achieved 50% of self sufficiency in liquid fuels by 1990, which then declined to 36% by the year 1996 due to falling local production and the growing domestic demand for oil and gas. In spite of this falling ...

The T-Bond futures contract has traded on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) for approximately 20 years, and is now the most actively traded derivative product in the world. A voluminous amount of research has accordingly ...

The world recessionary period of the 1980's forced many governments to re-evaluate their economic management strategies. Today, existing strategies are being supplanted by a belief that economic growth is best achieved by ...