Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

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The Faculty of Business, Economics and Law is committed to conducting research that matters. Research that matters is both research of high academic quality and impact, and research of relevance and value for business, the professions, government and society. The Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, comprises The AUT Business School, The AUT Law School and The School of Economics as well as a research institute and five research centres.

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    Law Reform Clinical Programmes Should Be Promoted in Law Schools: An Explanation
    (Northumbria University Library, 2024-06-05) Gledhill, Kris; Palmer, Robin
    This paper suggests that experiential education involving law reform is particularly suited to the academic stage of legal training. We review the current extent of clinics engaged in law reform, provide examples from our own practice, and then explain why law reform clinics are particularly beneficial. This is for several reasons. These include (i) the range of desirable graduate attributes and skills developed through involvement in law reform; (ii) the understanding that law reform is a career option; and (iii) the benefits to law schools and society generally from better laws, from legal academics using their skills to push for law reform, and from students being introduced to the civic obligation of the legal profession to be involved in seeking to improve the law. We also provide guidance from our own experience as to what can be done to establish a law reform clinic, whether as a dedicated course or as a way of running an existing course, and set out the steps that should produce good suggestions for reform.
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    “Robotics and Zoom:” Using Online Focus Groups to Explore Future-Food Technologies
    (SAGE Publishing, ) Errmann, Amy; Conroy, Denise
    Increases in the global population mean there are pressures on the food supply. To address this, future-food technologies (FFTs) are being considered to increase food production. However, consumers may differ in their adoption of FFTs according to individual beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions. One case that explored this issue has been completed by The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, within the “Horticulture Production Goes Urban (HgU)” research program. We explored the topic through market research that utilized online focus groups (OFGs). OFGs are an important qualitative method to consider as a researcher and they will become more predominant given the disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic on research. We provide a pragmatic approach to the OFG method, using FFTs as a topic exemplar. Key learning outcomes include how to conduct, apply, and navigate research decisions using OFGs to gather primary data of high quality.
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    Top Management Team Heterogeneity and the Performance of Cross-Border M&A
    (SAGE Publishing, 2023-06-21) Wu, Y; Ding, L; Song, X; Chen, J
    In this paper, we aim to investigate the impact of the top management team (TMT) on the performance of cross-border M&A, using a sample of 270 cross-border M&A events of Chinese listed companies. We find that the heterogeneity of TMT characteristics could affect the performance of cross-border M&A in different ways. More specifically, a higher heterogeneity in gender can improve the M&A performance significantly, while more heterogeneities in tenure and overseas background lead to a significant reduction in long-term and short-term M&A performances, respectively. We believe that our study can contribute to a different perspective for the selection of the executive teams of M&A companies. This, in turn, is conducive to optimizing the structure of the senior management team, and may help companies make better decisions and improve their performance.
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