With the demise of the sharp urban-rural divide as a framework for urban analyses, debates have arisen regarding the utility of the city as a theoretically significant construct. Recently however, the growing emphasis on globalization has brought the analysis of global cities into sharp focus....

The intention of this paper is to extend critiques of rationality that have been developed across a range of disciplines and within a number of strands of feminism. Initially providing a brief review of rationality critiques, the paper then focuses on bounded rationality, the key behavioural...

The economic sociology concept of embeddedness represents a valuable conceptualisation for the incorporation of social network interaction into economic theory. This paper utilises embeddedness as the theoretical underpinning to provide a complementary and supplementary explanation to standard...

Economists have progressively recognised the importance of human capital in explaining differences in the economic performance of nations. In the context of the knowledge intensity of today’s global economy, the acquisition of human capital takes on added significance. At the micro level...

The paper builds on the understanding of context as suggested by Welter (2011) who introduced different dimensions of context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the...

This paper attempts to explain the motivations of residential rental property investors in New Zealand in terms of the behavioural assumption of bounded rationality. Despite the fact that returns gained from other investment sources are more attractive, investment in residential rental property...

This paper examines factors motivating private residential rental property investment in New Zealand, especially in the context of low inflation. The related question of the need for retirement income provision is also examined. The findings are based on a postal survey of residential rental...

The regulatory effectiveness, the impact on industry and consumers of product withdrawal and the associated wider issues relating to crisis management represent an under-researched area. The authors describe the mid-2003 government-ordered withdrawal of almost 2,000 complementary and alternative...

Although knowledge of links between sun exposure and skin cancer risks is increasing, young adults continue to intentionally expose themselves to high levels of UV exposure without adopting recommended sun protection behaviours (Mahler et al., 2008). A pilot study of UK university students'...