2009 Undergraduate & Graduate Prospectus - PDF - Waikato ...

Staff Supervision
We are always pleased to consider applications for theses.
Our doctoral supervisors and their areas of interest follow:
Associate Professor Michèle Akoorie’s research interests
are in the areas of foreign direct investment and government
policy, internationalisation of the firm, MNEs and nation
states, and internationalisation of clusters.
Dr Brennan Allen’s research interests include social
responsibility, the environment, professional ethics;
international standardisation, voluntarism, and sustainability
in corporate and organisational contexts.
Dr Sayeeda Bano’s research interests are intra-industry
trade including trade in services, balance of payments issues,
and economic integration.
Professor James R. Barker’s research interests include
the development of organisational control systems and
the consequences of innovation and restructuring on
organisational systems and practices.
Associate Professor Chuda Basnet’s research is in
manufacturing systems modelling and supply chain
management. He also researches engineering optimisation,
quality engineering, vehicle routing, and empirical production
management.
Dr Stephen Bowden’s research interests include corporate
governance, industry structure and competitive dynamics.
Dr Roger Brooksbank has a background as a small business
marketing practitioner. His main areas of research include
marketing competitiveness and marketing strategy within
small and medium sized enterprises.
Dr Nittaya Campbell’s areas of research interest are
business communication, intercultural communication,
professional and technical writing, and plain English.
Adjunct Professor George Cheney specialises in the area
of organisational communication, having strong secondary
interests in rhetorical and social criticism and critical
discourse analysis.
Associate Professor Paul Childerhouse’s main research
interests are supply chain management and logistics
management. He works with industry to investigate how
supply chains can become fully integrated and marketorientated.
Dr Daniel Choi’s major research interests are in the areas of
options and futures and market volatility.
Professor Delwyn Clark's research interests include
strategic innovation and entrepreneurial processes, strategic
management processes and models, resource-based theory,
and e-learning innovations.
Dr Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten’s research interests are in
consumption and symbolic communication in relation to
organisations with a specific focus on consumers.
Dr Eva Collins’ broad research interests include strategic
environmental management, business and government
strategy, and changes in organisational structure.
Professor Jim Corner has specialised in decision-making
with a specific emphasis on multi-attribute/ multi-objective
decision-making, decision analysis, decision support systems
and descriptive decision-making in a managerial context.
Dr Carolyn Costley’s research interests centre on consumer
behaviour, particularly consumers’ responses to advertising.
She also studies advertising execution and strategy.
Professor Howard Davey’s research interests are in external
reporting and financial accounting, including non-traditional
measures of performance; as well as taxation and professional
issues, and accounting theory.
Dr Eric Deakins researches information systems and ebusiness
strategy. This includes practices, systems alignment,
and the use of intelligent decision support systems and
software agents to support smart e-business.
Dr Fabrice Desmarais’ research focuses on advertising, sport
and culture. Fabrice is currently conducting research on the
use of sport endorsers in advertising in several advertising
agencies around the world.
Dr Stuart Dillon’s research interests include managerial
and executive decision making and problem structuring.
He is also involved in ongoing research concerned with the
sophistication of e-local government.
Dr Richard Dutu’s research interests include monetary
economics, macroeconomics and economic history.
Dr Suzette Dyer’s research interests include the impact of
globalisation upon society and workplace; career management
and development; feminist organisational research; and
organisational structural reform.
Professor Ian Eggleton’s research interests relate to
behavioural and organisational aspects of management
control systems, public sector performance measurement
systems, and quality of life measurement.
Dr Mary FitzPatrick’s research explores interactions
between the consumers and providers of services, in
particular the experience and construction of relationships
within service contexts.
Dr Dani Foo's current research interests include metrications
of intangible assets, measurement of chaos in markets and
prediction markets, and carbon credit markets.
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