University of Canterbury

About: University of Canterbury is a education organization based out in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Large Hadron Collider. The organization has 11100 authors who have published 29846 publications receiving 893232 citations. The organization is also known as: Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha & Canterbury College.

Agency Theory and Uncertainty in Organizations: An Evaluation:

Abstract: This paper evaluates agency theory as a theory of performance outcome. Agency theory attributes uncertainty in performance outcomes to moral hazard, adverse selection and the state of nature. This paper argues that by overlooking two critical sources of outcome uncertainty in organizations — incomplete knowledge about the effort-outcome relationship and lack of agreement about effort and outcome — the generalizability of the theory is strictly limited. Even in such settings where it is generalizable, principal-agent approaches to contract design are unrealistic to the extent that they presume that performance in organizations results exclusively from individual-contributor jobs, exagger ate the degree to which individuals are work-averse, and emphasize the quant ity of effort at the expense of the quality and type of effort. As a theory of performance, principal-agent approaches overstate the importance of opera tional effort and ignore the importance of facilitative effort such as team work.

Evaluating environmental disclosures: The relationship between quality and extent measures

Abstract: This study compares the results from conducting various forms of content analysis that measure extent of reporting (sentence count, page count, proportions) with an evaluation of the quality of information determined by applying a disclosure quality index. We examine the environmental reporting of the same group of companies in various media and find that the various content analysis methods used to assess extent and quality of disclosure are highly correlated with one another. In particular, the quality of disclosure is highly correlated to the extent of reporting measured by a sentence count. Furthermore, we report a new measure – quality score per sentence. We propose that a quality per sentence measure could help to distinguish between companies making high quality and low quality disclosures, as it takes into account both the extent and the quality of the disclosures.

OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, THE MOST MASSIVE M DWARF PLANETARY COMPANION?

Abstract: We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include photometric and astrometric measurements from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as constraints from higher order effects extracted from the ground-based light curve, such as microlens parallax, planetary orbital motion, and finite-source effects. Our primary analysis leads to the conclusion that the host of Jovian planet OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb is an M dwarf in the foreground disk with mass M = 0.46 ± 0.04 Msun, distance Dl = 3.2 ± 0.4 kpc, and thick-disk kinematics vLSR ~ 103 km s‑1. From the best-fit model, the planet has mass Mp = 3.8 ± 0.4 MJupiter, lies at a projected separation r⊥ = 3.6 ± 0.2AU from its host, and so has an equilibrium temperature of T ~ 55 K, that is, similar to Neptune. A degenerate model gives similar planetary mass Mp = 3.4 ± 0.4 MJupiter with a smaller projected separation, r⊥ = 2.1 ± 0.1AU, and higher equilibrium temperature, T ~ 71 K. These results from the primary analysis suggest that OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb is likely to be the most massive planet yet discovered that is hosted by an M dwarf. However, the formation of such high-mass planetary companions in the outer regions of M dwarf planetary systems is predicted to be unlikely within the core-accretion scenario. There are a number of caveats to this primary analysis, which assumes (based on real but limited evidence) that the unlensed light coincident with the source is actually due to the lens, that is, the planetary host. However, these caveats could mostly be resolved by a single astrometric measurement a few years after the event.

Mediating Effects of Place Attachment and Satisfaction on the Relationship between Tourists’ Emotions and Intention to Recommend:

Abstract: This study develops a model based on the developmental theory of place attachment. The model considers the influence of tourists’ emotions on place attachment and the mediating effects of satisfact...