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    Inter-Organizational Trust on Financial Performance: Proposing Innovation as a Mediating Variable to Sustain in a Disruptive Era
    (MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), 2021-09-02) Oláh J; Hidayat YA; Dacko-Pikiewicz Z; Hasan M; Popp J; Kafetzopoulos D; D’Ascenzo F
    Hungarian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies have an essential role to play in a disruptive era. ICT firms should collaborate and innovate to obtain profit. The elusive correlation between trust in business partners and financial performance inspired this study, which proposed innovation as a mediating variable. The research had two objectives: to investigate the effect of inter-organizational trust on financial performance and innovation and to observe the role of innovation in improving financial performance within different categories of ICT companies. The population included active Hungarian ICT firms. The analysis used 100 samples, comprising micro-, small-, and medium-sized ICT corporations. Those samples were selected by random cluster sampling. This research used Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling. This study supported the idea that inter-organizational trust improved innovation, and that innovation enhanced financial performance. As an expected finding, innovation could mediate a positive direction between inter-organizational trust and financial performance.
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    Migrant top management team and corporate innovation: Evidence from China
    (John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2025-09-02) Liu Y; Habib A; Huang HJ
    This study explores the association between top management teams (TMT) comprised of migrant managers (migrant TMT) and corporate innovation. Using hand-collected data for a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms spanning the period 2008–2020, we find a positive and significant association between a migrant TMT and corporate innovation. Our results remain robust to a set of endogeneity tests, including entropy-balanced regression and instrumental variable regression. We then show that real earnings management and risk-taking are the channels through which the positive relationship between migrant TMTs and corporate innovation manifests itself: migrant TMTs engage less in real earnings management and are more likely to take risks. Finally, we find that the positive relationship between migrant TMTs and corporate innovation is more pronounced in state-owned firms and remains significant in both high- and low-cultural diversity regions, suggesting that the observed effect is not primarily driven by cultural adaptability but reflects a robust migration-driven mechanism. Our findings contribute to the literature by providing novel evidence on how a migrant TMT affects corporate decision-making.
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    New Zealand Winegrowers Attitudes and Behaviours towards Wine Tourism and Sustainable Winegrowing
    (MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), 2018-03-13) Baird T; Hall CM; Castka P
    There are significant economic, environmental, social, and marketing issues that exist from the supply-side perspective in response to sustainability. This study examines New Zealand winegrowers in terms of their attitudes and behaviours towards wine tourism and sustainable wine production. A national survey was conducted at the end of 2015, which was the fourth such survey to be undertaken as part of a longitudinal study of wine tourism in New Zealand. This survey drew on issues of wine and biosecurity, climate change, and eco-labelling, as well as wine tourism. These issues were examined within the context of three key drivers of sustainability: the physical aspects of sustainable wine production, the internal drivers within wine businesses for the adoption of sustainable practices, and the external regulatory aspects that govern the adoption of sustainable wine production practices. The findings indicate that there were substantial concerns with the perceived value provided by both wine tourism and sustainable winegrowing practices. These concerns exist at both the firm level and with the governing bodies that are responsible for implementing sustainable winegrowing initiatives. Unless this perception of the value of sustainability within the New Zealand wine industry is altered in the future, it appears that there will continue to be an ongoing issue as to how sustainable winegrowing initiatives are implemented.
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    Global Solutions for Sustainable Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Systems and Their Suitability to the New Zealand Market
    (MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), 2025-05) Harvey NA; Rasheed EO; Amores TRP; Molina JL
    This paper attempts to find alternative ways in which heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems can be made more energy efficient and sustainable at a global level. Eight technologies or solutions that either passively or supplementarily reduce the heating or cooling load required by a structure are detailed. These technologies or solutions were then presented to heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration industry professionals in New Zealand to determine their viability and further establish market readiness towards integrating new, innovative, and sustainable solutions in New Zealand. A literature review was conducted to establish the performance of the selected solutions and understand their operational principles and the efficiency they provided. Qualitative research and data collected via semi-structured interviews provided the data for assessing the viability of the selected technologies in the New Zealand market. Following a thematic and hybrid-thematic analysis of the data, the technologies were ranked, and suggestions were made to help improve innovation and energy efficiency in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration industry in New Zealand. Of the technologies selected, airtightness, heat recovery ventilation retrofits, materials and design principles, and photovoltaic hot water heating were identified as the most viable. The New Zealand market was deemed not to be in a good position to adopt new or alternative solutions. The main issues affecting New Zealand’s market readiness to assimilate innovative and energy-efficient solutions are a lack of new technologies, poor standards of education throughout the industry, a lack of regulation, and a lack of government incentives.
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    Lived experiences of South African rehabilitation practitioners during coronavirus disease 2019.
    (African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd t/a AOSIS, 2024-01-12) Balton S; Pillay M; Armien R; Vallabhjee AL; Muller E; Heywood MJ; van der Linde J
    BACKGROUND: In South Africa, the sharp rise in people with severe illness because of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in early 2020, meant that health systems needed to adapt services and operations, including rehabilitation services. Important insights into the lived experiences of rehabilitation personnel enacting these adaptations in an African context are limited. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore the lived experiences of rehabilitation practitioners working in the public sector in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: A phenomenological approach and a duo-ethnographic design were used. A recruitment letter was circulated requesting volunteers. Maximum variation sampling was used to select the 12 participants of this study. Data were collected through interviews via Zoom, and critical conversations were facilitated by a non-rehabilitation partner who is known for challenging health inequities. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed through elements of qualitative content and thematic analysis. Data were coded, categorised, clustered into concepts and formulated into themes. RESULTS: Three themes were identified: (1) 'Management became the enemy', (2) 'Tired of being resilient' and (3) 'Think out of the box…think on our feet'. CONCLUSION: The results of this study highlighted new ways of practice, innovative adaptations, and usage of resources and platforms. CONTRIBUTION: This study highlights the re-imagining of accessible rehabilitation services that could lead to deeper onto-epistemological shifts amongst the rehabilitation practitioners.
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    The value of textile education and industry partnerships
    (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 31/05/2016) Heffernan S; Kane, F
    Textile research/industry partnerships have recently gained momentum in New Zealand. This paper makes a preliminary account by focusing on the benefits of the collaboration to Massey University Master of Design postgraduates, companies, and the academics. The students work on a significant problem faced by a company to rejuvenate business or to produce solutions for a particular or a set of problems. The company gains access to new university research and discoveries and faculty members complement their own academic research by securing funds for graduate students. During a one-year period, the students receive a government-funded scholarship and industry mentoring. The aim is to steer success across the textile value chain from economic and environmental perspectives while balancing academic requirements. Typically, the industry-centered design is developed using iterative processes with a strong emphasis on the role of technology, often requiring the acquirement of new software skills to design with industry equipment. The model establishes best practice to share resources and experiences within the thrust of daily industrial life and the demands of a Master of Design degree. This paper aims to gage the benefits of, and challenges in a range of wool-centered collaborative projects from yarn development to sustainable dye to bedding product development to the revitalization of a weaving mill innovative waste to blue sky solutions for a tannery. The research of novel ideas and process innovation leads to enhanced job placement opportunity and new exports.
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    Responding to COVID-19 in social work field education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
    (IASSW, ICSW, IFSW, 1/01/2023) Fronek P; Briggs L; Rondon-Jackson R; Hay K; Maidment J; Medina-Martinez K
    This descriptive article reports immediate responses to COVID-19 by social work field education faculty in four universities in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Moving swiftly to online innovations, tele-supervision, teaching remote practice methods, and establishing alternative placements allowed students to meet required competencies while supporting students during the immediate crisis. Collaboration between field education faculty teams, professional bodies and agencies and clear communication with students and supervisors enabled all stakeholders to be open to flexible placement options. To conclude, COVID-19 brought opportunities to reflect on responses and explore new possibilities for field education in a post-COVID-19 world.
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    Who Wants to Be an Intrapreneur? Relations between Employees' Entrepreneurial, Professional, and Leadership Career Motivations and Intrapreneurial Motivation in Organizations.
    (2017) Chan K-Y; Ho M-HR; Kennedy JC; Uy MA; Kang BNY; Chernyshenko OS; Yu KYT
    This paper reports an empirical study conducted to examine the relationship between employees' Entrepreneurial, Professional, and Leadership (EPL) career motivations and their intrapreneurial motivation. Using data collected from 425 working adults in the research/innovation and healthcare settings, we develop a self-report measure of employee intrapreneurial motivation. We also adapt an existing self-report measure of E, P, and L career motivations (previously developed and used with university students) for use with working adult organizational employees. Confirmatory factor analysis indicate that E, P, and L motivations and intrapreneurial motivation can be measured independently and reliably, while regression analyses show that the employees' E, P, and L motivations all contribute to explaining variance in their intrapreneurial motivation. Individuals with high E, P, and L motivational profiles are also found to have the highest intrapreneurial motivation scores, while those low on E, P, and L motivations have the least intrapreneurial motivation. Our findings suggest that the potential for intrapreneurship is not unique to only entrepreneurial employees. Instead, one can find intrapreneurs among employees with strong leadership and professional motivations as well. We discuss the findings in the context of generating more research to address the challenges of talent management in the 21st century knowledge economies where there is greater career mobility and boundarylessness in the workforce.