Postgraduate Colloquium 2009
The School of Business Postgraduate Colloquium was held on Friday 4 September and attendees were welcomed by Professor George Benwell (Dean, School of Business) and Dr Charles Tustin (PhD Office). The Plenary was by Assoc Prof Rachel Spronken-Smith from the HEDC, entitled ‘How to Publish from your Research’.
There was a brilliant turn-out across School of Business Departments with the following Postgraduate Students presenting:
Femi Aderohunmu (Information Science)
"An Enhanced SEP for Clustered Heterogeneous WSN"
Fiona Douglas (Management)
"Who are you? What are you? Discomfiting Signifiers as an Inhibitor’ to Professionalisation"
Adeline Chua (Marketing)
"CEO Blogs in New Zealand: Motivations and Value Propositions"
(If interested, paper can be obtained by emailing Adeline at adeline.chua@otago.ac.nz)
Carla Jellum (Tourism)
"Antarctica: To go or not to go? Examining polar, value-based motivations"
Anna Palliser (Tourism/Geography)
"Using indicators of adaptive capacity to assess progress in community-based natural resource management: a case history of an indigenous fish management project in New Zealand"
Fa Martin-Niemi (Management)
"Knowledge sharing in virtual communities: Reframing organisation for knowledge management research in cyberspace"
Amit Paradkar (Marketing)
"Steroids for Start-up Babies: Investigating Dynamic Capabilities for Profitable Firm Exit"
Alvin Etang (Economics)
"Does Trust Extend beyond the Village? Experimental Trust and Social Distance in Cameroon"
Andriy Kovalenko (Marketing)
"Beware: Risky Products in Movies"
Ahmad Ghandour (Information Science)
"Evaluating eCommerce Website Through its Usage"
Evelyn Looi (Management)
"The Integration of Service Quality and Six Sigma"
The Best Paper award was won by Fiona Douglas and the Best Presentation Award was won by Alvin Etang. Thank you to all who attended to make this a successful event that will hopefully be repeated on an annual basis.
Watch this space for information on the upcoming 2010 Postgraduate Colloquium.
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| Fiona Douglas, Best Paper |
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| Alvin Etang, Best Presentation |