The deregulation of the footwear Industry during the 1980's has led to increasing pressures by manufacturers for protection against "unfair imports". In June 1992 an anti-dumping duty was imposed on "certain women's non ...

The theory of predicting merger targets is a subject of frequent debate in the financial economic literature. The basic question considered is whether a certain characteristic of merger target companies exists and can be ...

Ethics is currently an issue of considerable importance to accountants, and there have been calls from the accounting profession for greater attention to be paid to this topic. The paper reports on a study which examined ...

Financial market volatility persists as a dominating characteristic of modem financial markets. This presents a difficulty for finance theory in that research has demonstrated that standard models of price adjustment, such ...

In effort to reduce the road toll, the Land Transport Safety Authority (LTSA) initiated a safe driving advertising campaign in October 1995. The safe driving campaign is a part of Supplementary Road Safety Package (SRSP) ...

The coconut industry has occupied an important place in the Western Samoa economy, but recent performance of the industry both with respect to replanting and the deteriorating position of coconut in world trade has caused ...

The term biodiversity conservation can be applied to efforts to conserve genetic diversity, species diversity and ecosystem diversity. This paper focuses on efforts to conserve species and ecosystem diversity. Efforts to ...

Firms within commercial distribution channels have responded to the technology driven information revolution by adopting Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). This research addresses the lack of understanding the marketing ...

Concerns about the rising costs of external audit services in the 1970's prompted a series of research studies in an attempt to provide more understanding of the fee setting process and of the behaviour of the audit market. ...

The research sought to identify the expense items that small office tenants in New Zealand face when they relocate their office premises and the relative cost of these expenses. The research highlighted the lack of ...