Participation in agrichemical training courses and awareness of the benefits of information on safe and efficient agrichemical use and management is generally dependent upon recognition of a need or a desire for such training on the part of the primary producers. The majority of New Zealand's...

District heating pricing is a core element in reforming the heating market. Existing district heating pricing methods, such as the cost-plus pricing method and the conventional marginal-cost pricing method, cannot simultaneously provide both high efficiency and sufficient investment cost return....

<title>ABSTRACT</title> This paper focuses on university students' perceptions of educational service quality. Results suggest that both technical and functional quality are important dimensions that shape students' perceptions of their university's service quality. Although both dimensions are important, the...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> The purpose of this research is to gain an empirical understanding of students' overall satisfaction with their academic university experiences. A hierarchal model is used as a framework for this analysis. Fifteen hypotheses are formulated and tested, in order to identify the dimensions...

Strategically managing spectator perceptions of service quality and understanding how these perceptions affect value, satisfaction and behavioural intentions is very important if sports organisations are going to succeed in today's competitive entertainment environment. As a response to...

Purpose – This paper tests the hypothesis that more information via higher levels of diffusion of ICT: a non-income influence, leads to an improvement in societal well being using data from a large sample of low-income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical procedure utilises...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical study of the contribution of the services sector to per capita economic growth for Pacific Island countries. Design/methodology/approach – Within the new growth theory framework, the empirical procedure consisted of the...

This paper models the effect of the indicators of the domestic business environment on services trade in a sample of low, middle and high-income OECD countries. The findings reveal that the time required to enforce a contract is strongly negatively correlated with the growth in services exports...

The objective of this paper is to develop a cost-benefit model that presents an analysis of the costs of implementing safe agrichemical practices, being the use of recommended protective equipment, and the benefits derived from these practices, being the reduced risk of consequent health...