The New Zealand motor vehicle assembly and component industry has been insulated from overseas competition since 1907. Protection from completely built up overseas vehicles, in the form of import licensing and import tariffs ...

The marketing literature regarding job satisfaction has grown substantially since the 1970's. The main focus of this literature has been salespeople, especially industrial salespeople. This reflects the importance of a ...

Although the use of various of forms of marketing contracts is increasing within agricultural marketing channels, there has been only a limited number of research efforts which investigate the factors influencing the ...

The objective of this study was to develop a simple and flexible linear programming model to optimise pastoral deer production systems. It is the author's aim to use the model as a tool for professional farm consultancy ...

New Zealand's commercial property market has historically experienced unspectacular levels of growth. This relatively stable, sometimes dormant market was the result of the high level of protectionism imposed over the ...

Advertisements featuring ideally beautiful women have been criticised for creating a "cult of unrealisable beauty" and consequently have been linked to eating disorders and invasive plastic surgery (Freedman, 1984; Lakoff ...

Exporting continues to have a positive effect on a country's economy and the economic prosperity of the firms involved. As a result, export expansion and development programs are commonly undertaken to help firms initiate ...

Many farmers traditionally maintain most of their capital in the farming business. This seems to occur not only when all available capital is required to purchase the farm, but also later in the farming lifecycle when ...

There is today no country in which man has not acted either as an agent of destruction or creation, New Zealand is no exception. In the early 1840's man once again started to influence the environment with the introduction ...