Seminars and events - Business School - The University of Auckland

Inaugural lecture: Strategy and competition: What really matters? (All events, Management and International Business)

5 June 2012 6pm- 8pm

One of the most misused words in the business world has to be “strategy”. Every organisation creates an abundance of strategies. Yet, many continue to face the challenge of survival and pressures to perform. >>

Policy enactment in changing institutional contexts: Addressing childhood obesity in the USA (All seminars, Management and International Business)

24 April 2012 11am- 12pm

In this seminar, we discuss a research project that was conducted to investigate the processes involved in, and outcomes of, the implementation of three new policies designed to help address the dramatic increase in childhood obesity in the US. >>

A global value chain approach to emerging market catch-up (All seminars, Management and International Business)

23 April 2012 3pm- 4pm

Value chain analysis is an innovative tool that views economy in terms of activities instead of its constituent industries and firms (Mudambi, 2008). The value chain approach analyses, at the sector level, each link in the "chain of activity". >>

What's in a name? The role and performance in hybrid organisations in society (All seminars, Management and International Business)

19 April 2012 10am- 11am

In this seminar, we discuss the challenge of defining and measuring the performance of "hybrid" organisations, which feature two (or more) of the four organisational sectors: private, public, non-profit and community. >>

Women on boards: From a Norwegian success story to an international blueprint? (All seminars, Management and International Business)

6 December 2011 5.30pm- 6.30pm

This corporate governance seminar is a reflection on the consequences of the Norwegian Gender Quota Law on Corporate Boards. This is especially topical due to the recent debate on this issue in New Zealand. >>

The human side of corporate governance (All seminars, Management and International Business, Research centres and groups)

5 December 2011 5.30pm- 6.30pm

To understand organisational value creation there is a need to first understand the interactions between the various human actors. >>

A process methodology for management research (All seminars, Management and International Business)

25 November 2011 1pm- 2pm

Ken Platts will talk about an engineering processes research approach. This approach has been developed by Ken and colleagues at the University of Cambridge and used (and modified) in the last twenty years. >>

When does search openness really matter? Preliminary project- and firm-level insights (All seminars, Management and International Business)

17 November 2011 10am- 11am

Given the growing popularity of the open innovation model, it is increasingly common to source knowledge for new product ideas from a wide range of actors located outside of organisational boundaries. >>

Financial participation and institutional change (All seminars, Management and International Business)

1 November 2011 2pm- 3pm

We address the inter-relationship in changes in industrial relations and developments of financial participation (employee share ownership and profit sharing) in companies using a triangulation of methods. >>

Not in New Zealand’s waters, surely? Labour and other human rights abuses aboard foreign charter vessels (All seminars, Management and International Business)

11 August 2011 6.15pm- 7.30pm

On 18 August 2010, Oyang 70, a South Korean fishing vessel fishing in New Zealand´s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), capsized and quickly sank in calm conditions with the loss of six lives. >>

Winter Lectures 2011: New Zealand’s Rugby World - learning the real leadership lessons from rugby in New Zealand (All events, Management and International Business)

9 August 2011 1pm- 2pm

The sporting world continues to provide a compelling tableau from which prototypical notions of leadership are forged and learned at an early age and throughout adult life. >>

Gender differences in senior executive performance: An exploration of relationship-building, managerial courage, and the achievement of performance objectives (All seminars, Management and International Business)

4 August 2011 10am- 11am

The study explores gender-based performance differences amongst 189 chief and second-tier executives from New Zealand and Australia. >>

Organisational justice towards job satisfaction and employee turnover: A study of Māori employees (All seminars, Management and International Business)

28 June 2011

In response to calls for more testing of interactional effects from the organisational justice literature and the need for expanding the populations studied, the present paper focuses on 349 employees of Māori descent. >>

Advancing innovation in professional service firms through insights from the service-dominant logic (All seminars, Management and International Business)

2 June 2011 10am- 11am

This year’s Novak Druce Annual workshop theme, "Innovation in professional service firms" is addressed by authors who investigate the applicability of the service dominant logic to understand innovation in professional service firms. >>

What do employees think of diversity management? (All seminars, Management and International Business)

5 May 2011 10am- 11am

Preliminary findings from a survey of a representative sample of 500 New Zealand workers. >>

Branded litter: Corporate reputation and branding (All seminars, Management and International Business)

7 April 2011 6:00 pm- 7:30 pm

Dr Stuart Roper is working on two major themes in his current research. >>

Regulatory effects and strategic global staffing profiles (All seminars, Management and International Business)

24 March 2011 2:00 pm- 3:00 pm

By examining financial considerations in conjunction with administrative and regulatory effects, the parties can better manage ongoing expansion of offshore staffing arrangements beyond more established locations such as India, China, and Malaysia. >>

Symposium: Practice perspectives on organisation and management (All events, Management and International Business)

16 March 2011 8:30 am- 5:00 pm

Theories of practice are increasingly being adopted by organisation and management scholars (in the broadest sense eg those studying leadership, marketing, strategy etc). >>

Linchpins of the multinational: Functions, resources and types of boundary spanners in corporations (All seminars, Management and International Business)

10 March 2011 10:00 am- 11:00 am

We examine the relationships between key functions that individual boundary spanners in multinational companies perform in inter-unit relationships, and different types of social capital that they draw upon to do so. >>

Responsible leadership and talent retention: Insights from India (All seminars, Management and International Business)

3 March 2011 10:00 am- 11:00 am

The role of responsible leadership - for each leader and as part of their collective actions - is essential to global competitive success (Doh and Stumpf, 2005; Maak and Pless, 2006). >>