News & Events

Case Competition success

Otago has taken out second place at the SDS International Business Case Competition held in Queenstown last week. The teams did 3 cases during the week and Otago had a 1st, 1st= and a 4th to get to the final where they were narrowly beaten by the University of New South Wales.

In so doing they beat: Canterbury, Waikato, Auckland, AUT, Massey, Waikato, QUT (Aus), Adelaide, Nanyang (Singapore), and Queens (Canada). A HUGE effort from the Otago team.

The team:
Matt Anderson (Marketing & Politics), Samual Dunford-Baker (Finance & Politics), Kris Kaurah (Management & Politics), Andrew Gray  (Economics & Accounting)

Colloquium success

Congratulations to Fa Martin-Niemi who was awarded the Best Paper award at the School of Business, Postgraduate Colloquium 2011. Her paper was titled "Positve deviance in online forums" and is the theme of her nearly completed PhD.

Case Competition Success

The Otago team competed in the final event of the SDS National Business Case Competition 2011 series at the University of Waikato on Saturday and came away as the victors for the 2011 series and were crowned 2011 New Zealand Business Case Competition Champions. Congratulations!!

The Otago team for the series was:
Will Skeggs (Management & Law), Laura Goudie (Management & Accounting), Ollie Hornbrook (Finance & Law), Emma Hoksbergen (Marketing), Nathan Blane (PHPE & Law), and Mrin Patil (USA Exchange student).

Congratulations to Diane Ruwhiu and Malcolm Cone

Their paper entitled “Advancing a pragmatist epistemology in organisational research” published in Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, has been chosen for an award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2011.

Every year Emerald invites each journal’s Editorial Team to nominate what they believe has been that title’s Outstanding Paper and up to three Highly Commended Papers from the previous 12 months. Their paper was chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner.

The award winning papers are chosen following consultation amongst the journal’s Editorial Team, many of whom are eminent academics or managers. Their paper has been selected as it was one of the most impressive pieces of work the team has seen throughout 2010.

PhD hand in

Well done Haina Zhang who handed in her PhD on Friday April 15th 2011. Haina's PhD looked the impact of traditional Chinese cultures on work values and was supervised by André Everett and Graham Elkin.

Hillary Clinton visit

Two Department of Management members were recently invited by the American Ambassador to attend U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's meeting with students and civic leaders in Christchurch. Kelly Honey and Andrew Patterson (pictured right) also had the opportunity to pose a question for Mrs Clinton. Their question centred around dispute resolution and was specifically focused on the Israeli and Palestinian peace settlement process. (Transcript of the meeting)

Prime Minister's Business Scholarships Selection Panel

The Prime Minister and the Minister for Economic Development have approved a nomination for Professor Colin Campbell-Hunt to be a member of the selection panel for the Prime Minister's Business Scholarships.
The main purpose of the panel will be to review the 18 applications for the Prime Minister's Business Scholarships and recommend recipients to the Minister for Economic Development and the Prime Minister for their final decision.
The other panel members include, Peter Chrisp, Chief Executive, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Wendy Lush, Group Human Resources Manager, Tait Radio Communications Ltd.

Welcome

Professor Sylvie Chetty, Professor of Marketing from Massey University. Prof Chetty visited us while on research study leave in Feb 2011. Prof Chetty's research interests are the internationalisation of firms, export performance, business networks and social capital. She also works closely with Prof Colin Campbell-Hunt on the CANZ project and in March they won a publishing award together.

PhD hand-in

Kirsty Dwyer recently handed in her PhD, which was in the supply chain management area and was supervised by André and Jo. Well done Kirsty!

In the news

Ian McAndrew ... in the Dominion Post ... as a judge in the 2010 Buddle Findlay Negotiation Competition.

Jo Kirkwood 20/09/2010, TV One - Breakfast
Tall poppy syndrome bad for business - Pippa Wetzell talks to Dr Jodyanne Kirkwood about tall poppy syndrome. Jo says her research into tall poppy syndrome came out of talking to business entrepreneurs about establishing their businesses. She says many business entrepreneurs are nervous about openly celebrating their successes, and thinks tall poppy syndrome can negatively affect business growth and may force entrepreneurs offshore.

Student Exchange Scholarship

Congratulations to Nicholas Lawrie (Management & Marketing) who has received a Dean's or Westpac scholarship to assist him during his overseas student exchange experience. Nicholas will use his scholarship to study at Universität St Gallen in Switzerland.

Jodyanne and Sara

have been invited to speak at Water, Wealth & Power for the Eco-Century, a World Leadership Conference run by the International Women's Forum, being held in Montréal, Québec in October. The invitation is to present some of the findings from their in-depth study of ecopreneurs, which includes the largest qualitative sample to date, at the Plenary Program –  Ecopreneurs: The Blue Gold Rush. Amongst the other 800-1000 attendees will be heads of state, corporations and enterprise, as well as members of the diplomatic community, policy-makers, decision-takers and opinion-leaders on five continents - wonderful opportunity to showcase their research and listen to and meet others prominent in the field. Congratulations to them both!

Other speakers in the Plenary session are Jeffrey Skoll (first president and first full-time employee of eBay, philanthropist and chairman of The Skoll Foundation), Werner Neuhoff, Water Rhapsody franchisee, operating in draught-stricken Mossel Bay, South Africa and Sarah Bird, British engineer and founder, Saafwater, Pakistan as well as  Eric Lesueur, Veolia Environnement, France whose work with the Institute for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship’s joint project with Grameen Veolia Water Ltd’s social business operation in Bangladesh is offering replicable models for corporations.

Other leaders featured in the two and a half day program include The Right Honourable Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator, United Nations Development Programme; Matt Damon, Co-Founder and Spokesman of H20 Africa, the clean water initiative that is part of the Running the Sahara expedition and film project; The Right Honourable Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin, PC; Guy Laliberté, Founder, Cirque du Soleil and social entrepreneur; Alexandra Cousteau, social environmental advocate and founder, Blue Legacy; and Irena Salina, French filmmaker and director of the award-winning documentary FLOW, to name a few.

Congratulations to ...

Alan, Fiona and Ian

whose article "Workplace Values and Beliefs: An Empirical Study of Ideology, High Commitment Management and Unionization” published in The International Journal of Human Resource Management volume 20 issue 5, has been selected as one of the 50 best articles out of 15,000 published in 2009 in the top 400 business and management journals and has therefore won an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence.

Emerald Group Publishing Limited recently announced the winners of its 2009 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their 14th year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 400 management journals in the world. Emerald Management Reviews is an abstracting and indexing database that covers every article in the top 400 business and management journals world-wide including titles such as: Harvard Business Review; Journal of Finance; Journal of Marketing; Strategic Management Journal; MIT Sloan Management Review; Long Range Planning; Academy of Management Journal; and MIS Quarterly.

Every article that appears in these titles is sent to independent subject experts for evaluation. "Workplace Values and Beliefs: An Empirical Study of Ideology, High Commitment Management and Unionisation” was then selected as one of the top 50 from the 15,000 articles reviewed throughout 2009.
The reviews of all the winning articles have been made freely available until 2012. Click here to view.

Department of Management students

who competed in and were successful in the 2010 Business Case Competition. The winners will represent Otago at the National Business Case Competition League, where Otago competes against Canterbury, Waikato, Massey, Auckland and AUT in a National League series (Otago is the reigning champion). See more here. Results:

First: Will Skeggs (Law and Management Hons), Mijo Wilson (Management), Sam Struthers (Finance & Economics Hons), Jonny Lee (Economics)
Second: Ollie Hornbrook (Finance Hons, Accounting, Law Hons), Mike Bridges (International Business, Chinese), Tim Vaughan (Marketing, Management), Jeremy Hanff (Finance and Accounting)

Katherine McKenzie

who has been awarded an HRINZ Postgraduate Scholarship for the 2010 year. Her research is examining the reasons behind success and failure of expatriate employees who have worked, and are currently working in NZ public hospitals, and she will be presenting the outcomes at upcoming HRINZ branch events and possibly publishing in their journal, New Zealand Journal of Human Resource Management.

The scholarship consists of a $3000 cash prize and two years complimentary membership of HRINZ.

Raja Nerina Raja Yusof

who was recently awarded her PhD titled: Cultural influences on the internationalization strategy of multinational enterprises: A study of Islamic business practices in foreign hypermarkets in Malaysia.
Nerina graduated in August. Her supervisors were Andre Everett and Malcolm Cone.

Associate Professor Martin Risak

of the Labour Law Institute at the University of Vienna was hosted by the Department of Management for one year on a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission.
While here he studied the New Zealand system of employment mediation. He is funded for a further year to carry the lessons back to European countries.

Congratulations to...

Sara Walton

for being judged winner of the Mary Parker Follett Award for 2009, by the editorial board of the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal with co-authors, Marcus Milne and Helen Tregidga. Their paper "Words not actions! The ideological role of sustainable development reporting" appeared in Volume 22, Number 8, 2009, pp 1211-1257. Every year the journal recognizes the achievements of its authors by announcing the winner of a best paper award and three commendations. The award is given following a survey of all Editorial Advisory Board members, and is named in memory of the esteemed researcher, Mary Parker Follett, a pioneering woman in the field of management and accountability literature who was international and interdisciplinary in her approach.

Colin Campbell-Hunt

whose paper with Sylvie Chetty “A Strategic Approach to Internationalization: A Traditional Versus a ‘Born-Global’ Approach” published in 2004 in the Journal of International Marketing has been selected as winner of the 2009 Hans B. Thorelli Award offered by the American Marketing Association.

The Hans B. Thorelli award is given each year to the article published in the Journal of International Marketing (5 years plus) that has made the most significant and long-term contribution to international marketing theory or practice. The article was brought forth through nominations of the editorial review board of the Journal and evaluated in-depth by the Hans B. Thorelli award committee (consisting of Ruth Bolton (Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute), R. Bruce Money (Brigham Young University) and David A. Griffith (Committee Chair, editor of the Journal of International Marketing, Michigan State University).

Colin and Sylvie were presented with their award at a function at the American Marketing Association’s Winter Educators’ Conference in New Orleans, LA (Feb 19-22, 2010).

Drs Diane Ruwhiu and Juan Pellegrino

who both had their doctorates awarded at the graduation ceremony on August 22, 2009. Pictured are Diane and her supervisor Colin Campbell-Hunt.

Conference success

A paper written by Alan Geare, Fiona Edgar and Ian McAndrew has been selected as one of the twelve best from over 140 papers at the IIRA World Congress in Sydney in August. The paper, Bringing workers back in: A comparative assessment of employee orientations towards HRM in Ireland and New Zealand,was written with Irish colleagues Brian Harney and Kenneth Cafferkey, and will be presented at the first plenary session.

Best Paper ... again

Sara Walton and Jodyanne Kirkwood have won an Academy of Management best paper award for their paper Making greening matter! Ecopreneurs commitment to environmental concerns and economic success. This high honour entitles their paper to be published in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Management Meeting which is being held in Chicago, Illinois. Last year Sara also had a paper judged best in the 'Organizations and the Natural Environment' division of the 2008 Academy of Management Meeting in Anaheim, California.