Core Research Themes
The Institute for Business Research has identified ten key areas of focus, organised into four core themes:
Business Performance and Leadership:
Accounting:
- Improving SME performance: What can we learn from financial benchmarking?
- Improving New Zealand’s credit markets
- Use and abuse of KPI in business reporting by New Zealand institutions
Leadership:
- Case studies of successful New Zealand leaders
- Public sector NGO leadership and governance
- Leading cross-Tasman companies
Human Resource Management:
- Opportunities to improve employment contracting
- Effective management of human resources across national borders
- Enhancing clinical leadership in health care organisations
Agribusiness and Innovation
Agribusiness:
- Analysing capital structures of New Zealand rural cooperatives
- Opportunities to improve quota management systems (QMS)
- Economic independence and synergies in the equine industries
Innovation:
- Opportunities for leveraging public sector investment in innovation
- Enhanced innovative capacity of New Zealand food companies
- Effective capture of global benefits from New Zealand ICT investment
Supply Chain Management:
- Opportunities to enhance New Zealand dairy supply chains in Asia
- Sustaining the integrity of China-NZ supply chains
- New generation IT and the future of supply chain support
Business in the Service Sector
Health Services:
- Enhancing the productivity of New Zealand health providers
- Improved information systems for health care management and governance
- Optimal location of health services
Tourism:
- The future of tourism in the South Pacific
- Optimising New Zealand airport infrastructure to facilitate inbound tourism
- Property development and growing tourism businesses: managing the risks
Business in Society
Accounting:
- Financial information for sustainable performance audit and stakeholder confidence
- Sustainability reporting and the bottom line
Regional Development:
- Evaluating the economic significance of major New Zealand businesses/sectors
- Pricing access to natural resources
- Enhancing human resource capabilities in the regions
Sustainability:
- Business response to climate change
- Enhancing indigenous business success
- Reducing the costs of business failure: economic, environmental, social and cultural
