Stories Collection

  1. Broadly speaking, the outdoor communication channel is described as 'out of home adv...
  2. Ron Sneddon on media IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN -- my annual prizegiving for those wh...
  3. A great ad on so many levels -- glamorous setting, comedy, shock value -- Saatchi's ...
  4. A true Kiwi icon turns 70 this month. New Zealand Woman's Weekly began life amid the...
  5. Hamiliton-based Admark Visual Imaging has won the international Award of Excellence ...
  6. Sally Shapcott of Film Construction directs a tvc on location in Victoria Ave, Remue...
  7. It's been a pretty good year for AdMedia and Fastline. We picked up three finals spo...
  8. Once again we've hit the streets to see how agencies and advertisers are using outdo...
  9. Another student-review invite--this one from the Manukau School of Visual Arts conta...
  10. Last month, Peter Biggs, Michael Rebelo, Paul Irwin, Ross Goldsack, Chrissie Lahood ...
  11. Bathroom Posters -- Wella. Our medium was chosen due to its advertising positioning-...
  12. This fundraiser for Starship Foundation, in conjunction with their 5-star sponsor Me...
  13. "Incognito, by the people who brought you Insight" reads the invite. Pardo...
  14. God I love taking our reel around Australian agencies. The creatives sit there and g...
  15. WWW.SYNAPSEGROUP.CO.NZ Synapse Group partnered with Telecom's youth brand Boost...
  16. Another defining chapter in Pam's extraordinary rags-to-riches tale was signed off l...
  17. WWW.ISITEMEDIA.CO.NZ Taxi Backs -- Fresh Up: To provide support and continuity ...
  18. Ever wondered about the machinations of programming a 'pop music' radio station? Dav...
  19. Huge investment from new entries, better research and a growing enthusiasm to trial ...
  20. NZ Post's John Allan disappointed his growing legion of fans by saying nothing (he s...
  21. Returning to NZ in 1999 after a stint in Australia, art director Stephen Reid epitom...
  22. Derek Hanson "broke the golden handcuffs" that chained him to advertising ...
  23. Nobody setting their radio dial to Mai FM in Auckland is likely to think they're lis...
  24. Some great ads produced a dead heat this month -- DDB's Sky Lions tvc ("Irresis...
  25. The Edge in Gisborne offers the best of both worlds, says Surf City Radio's Scott Me...
  26. It's birthdays, birthdays and more birthdays in the coming weeks. So this month's co...
  27. THERE SEEMS TO BE a lot of media angriness about these days. This is best typified b...
  28. ANTICIPATING WHAT I know as normal October-type weather in New York City, I packed a...
  29. Thursday 17 October 2002 MAG DESIGNER OF THE YEAR CONSUMER Cuisine,...
  30. SUPREME TROPHIES MORE FM Radio Award: RadioWorks Canterbury (LTSA Seatbelt Exer...
  31. Panel chairwoman Jeneal Rohrback had the last ward at the South Island Advertising A...
  32. National adspend Top 40 print ad spenders -- September 2002 PRODUCT ...
  33. Dead Heat in Trolley Derby Dear Ed: I have a very happy team here due to ...
  34. One of advertising's most respected and much loved people, Sandy Short, died on Satu...
  35. National adspend Top 40 television ad spenders -- September 2002 PRODUCT ...
  36. The flight of businesses from Wellington to Auckland reminds me of that joke about K...
  37. Above, left, are two pix from last month's What's New showing M&C Saatchi's fetc...
  38. When AdMedia looked at Wellington in detail a year ago we described it as potentiall...
  39. The latest Goldstein offering, the one where the nice ASB lady makes Goldstein go al...
  40. "Sorry to enter the fray at such a late stage," writes alert reader John B...
  41. Based in Wellington's Taranaki St, digital pre-press production house Megalith, like...
  42. TEARAWAY: A resource-pack from the teen mag that's celebrating its 16th birthday AND...
  43. On the left we have a screen grab from one of NZ's all-time favourite tvcs -- the BA...
  44. The brief from Clemenger BBDO creatives Josh Lancaster & Jamie Hitchcock was to ...
  45. "We've enclosed a suggestion for your cover," writes Mel Hargraves of M&am...
  46. Joey Reiman, earns US$20,000 an hour, was inspired in his career by adman Darren in ...
  47. THE TEAM AT FLUX ANIMATION has an affinity for cows. Hardly surprising. Over the pas...
  48. The press release of October 2nd was one its signatories say they never wanted to se...
  49. I read David Gapes' write-up on the EFFIE Awards last month with interest. I didn't ...
  50. I think the first point to clarify," Gianotti says, "is that apart from br...
  51. National adspend Top 40 television ad spenders -- August 2002 PRODUCT ...
  52. ANZ Bank was fined $7500 plus $1130 costs in the Wellington District Court in Septem...
  53. Radioland TOP RADIO SPENDERS PRODUCT AUGUST 2002 ...
  54. From the mid-1980s through to the early '90s, this writer worked in sales for FMCG g...
  55. Two new ads in September--Freedom Air's George and Kiwi Bacon's Vegetarian, Elsewher...
  56. The second annual Point of Purchase Advertising Awards took place in Melbourne last ...
  57. Fast-moving events in the Direct Marketing sector forced us to dump this month's reg...
  58. Leon Wilson's got a job many Kiwi creatives would kill for (he works for Mother UK) ...
  59. National adspend Top 40 print ad spenders -- August 2002 PRODUCT ...
  60. The New World campaign--because it is nice and simple; a campaignable idea nicely ex...
  61. My 15 secs of fame Dear Ed: Flicking through AdMedia today, I was of cour...
  62. Dumbed down and abandoned by viewers, or a powerhouse communication channel with ple...
  63. CELEBREX Change Your Life 3Osec tvc Agency: Blue Skys Client: Pharm...
  64. AUT Ad Creativity students took a 24-hour brief--on a Monday early in September--fro...
  65. Next month, 350,000 Kiwi racing fans can celebrate the first 10 years of unequalled ...
  66. Three pieces of smart work from Singleton Ogilvy & Mather and young&rubicam....
  67. Regional Newspaper Average Issue Readership - 1 Year Data All People 15+ ...
  68. Daily Newspapers National Report Jul 01-Jun 02 Jan-Dec...
  69. National adspend Top 40 print ad spenders -- July 2002 PRODUCT ...
  70. DDB creative director Jeneal Rohrback writes: Gordon Clark just sent me this. H...
  71. Magazine Average Issue Readership Jul 01-Jun 02 J...
  72. National adspend Top 40 television ad spenders -- July 2002 PRODUCT ...
  73. Two significant events are the focus of AdMedia this month. The first is the de...
  74. Looking much more like her old self, Rohrback with writer Darryl Parsons (both at ri...
  75. FOR THE FIRST TIME this month, we're identifying the film company & director for...
  76. Dear David Burke-Kennedy: I too enjoyed Barry Williamson's AdMedia article and ...
  77. Students from Auckland's third and newest creative 'adschool' -- the Elam Creative A...
  78. The Concept Kaleidoscope was approached by TVNZ creative director Chris Parry ...
  79. Radioland TOP RADIO SPENDERS PRODUCT JULY 2002 ...
  80. Another guerilla strike--this one engineered by Workshop Advertising for GB ELA. &qu...
  81. A quick trip to Sydney earlier this year by Yukfoo executive director Alan Dickson l...
  82. Digging himself out from under the pile of 'didn't we do well' press releases from h...
  83. Each year, the promo pack for the Urbis Design Annual (www.agm@agm.co.nz) comes fold...
  84. There was a time in NZED when working on Coca-Cola was like being banished to the la...
  85. Spending time with Republic Films' Luke Nola is like being on the set of big -- a 19...
  86. The Olympic Games of Marketing (as CAANZ president Martin O'Halloran memorably descr...
  87. NZ Wines & Spirits sent us a plastic flower to mark the release of Archers Schna...
  88. ALL RIGHT, AGENCY CREATIVE TEAMS, admit it. Most of you don't get a huge thrill doin...
  89. 100gm of milk chocolate that knows what it wants!" says the lively label on the...
  90. Sitting in what were once the offices of the Reader's Digest (now the HQ of the News...
  91. Do you hate the whiney weird brother on Six Feet Under? Do you know exactly how you ...
  92. Mike Howard, Carat "Press had been negative trending for quite some time a...
  93. For those of us wishing to have a lasting remembrance of that earth-shattering day, ...
  94. "It's quite hard if you're a creative," says Farrow Jamieson's Andy Sive, ...
  95. The tvc production industry worldwide is in a terrible recession and the outlook for...
  96. Top 40 television ad spenders -- June 2002 PRODUCT ...
  97. ADMEDIA'S SALARY SURVEY 2002 Work Experience...
  98. Will you get rich working in advertising offshore? Scanning international employment...
  99. First things first. Working internationally is a given. Like most of his colleagues,...
  100. AUT Ad Creativity students judged this month's ad of the month. And here are the gon...
  101. A prime focus of this issue of AdMedia is Jeneal Rohrback's perspective on writing b...
  102. The bottom line for ad industry salaries is that they haven't gone up in the last th...
  103. This list - compiled from 18 months of AdMedia's What's New & Top 10 tvcs - star...
  104. Meares & Tame's first new work for Speight's has made an instant connection with...
  105. "I loved the reminiscences of Barry Williamson [AdMedia June] and am moved to f...
  106. Now, where have we encountered this idea before? The first three pics are the work o...
  107. There'll be no slowing down at Saatchi & Saatchi Wellington, says the globally-r...
  108. In a market he describes as overall "not buoyant", Farrow Jamieson's Andy ...
  109. "A non of Auckland A should be renamed 'An ostrich of Auckland'," retorted...
  110. To kickstart this article I decided to ask some creatives in the industry when was t...
  111. It's a damp Wednesday night in Auckland and Chris Isaak has just finished his 90-min...
  112. AWARD SHOWS AROUND THE WORLD have put special categories in place to recognise inter...
  113. A LONG WHILE BACK, a major media company organised for its advertising clients to at...
  114. The internet measurement business in New Zealand has never been easy going. Nielsen ...
  115. Scent of a newspaper Otago Daily Times newspaper readers were met with the plea...
  116. In May, Kate Benton's & Louise Studholme's Give Blood ad was judged the best of ...
  117. Davies & Partners' Billie Davies sums it up: "Advertising is a tough busine...
  118. Loath as I am to participate in online surveys, it must be said that the new Closer ...
  119. Top 40 print ad spenders--June 2002 PRODUCT MA...
  120. It's a story we hear so often it's approaching the status of urban myth. Typically t...
  121. There is some suggestion in the literature that prior experience with heterogeneous c...
  122. The final reason why heterogeneous causes may promote more learning than homogenous o...
  123. Hypothesis 2 (H2): The greater the heterogeneity of prior causes of an organization's...
  124. Not all experience with simple causes constitutes repetition of the same events. Some...
  125. Diversity = -[[P.sub.i](In[P.sub.i])], for = 1 ... 23 where P is the proportion of ...
  126. We generally found few differences in hypothesized effects across these various accum...
  127. Table 2 presents some sample heterogeneity calculations for 1986, within and across a...
  128. Prior studies suggest several control variables that are important for these analyses...
  129. The data consist of a panel of observations on organization-years. The full sample in...
  130. Table 4 presents the results of a random-effects regression in which the dependent va...
  131. We have already shown that heterogeneity, not homogeneity, is beneficial in reducing ...
  132. For illustrative purposes, we ran separate models on the generalist and specialist su...
  133. DISCUSSION The results of this study contribute to our understanding of variation i...
  134. [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] There now seems to be a fair amount of convergence across studie...
  135. The findings of this study take on added importance because they occur in the context...
  136. Our results also have interesting implications for the impact of the heterogeneity of...
  137. 1. Weather--turbulence * 2. Weather--other * 3. Problematic ground conditions (no...
  138. (3) When exact data on departures, miles flown, and airline profitability were missin...
  139. Cyert, R. M., and J. G. March 1963 A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. Englewood Cliff...
  140. Mason, C. H., and W. D. Perreault 1991 "Collinearity, power and interpretation of m...
  141. 1992 "Learning through failure: The strategy of small losses." In B. M. Staw and L. L...
  142. A substantial body of research shows that firms tend to be influenced by their networ...
  143. One of the most-studied forms of interorganizational influence is the director interl...
  144. Many early theories emphasizing the importance of organizational context portrayed or...
  145. Bradley, Michael, Anand Desai, and E Han Kim 1983 "The rationale behind interfirm ten...
  146. The interorganizational transfer of routines, practices, and structures plays a centr...
  147. The next step in the emotional contagion process involves the actual mechanisms by wh...
  148. Hypothesis 1: There will be contagion of mood among group members. Emotional valenc...
  149. Emotional energy. Emotional energy refers to the intensity with which emotions are ex...
  150. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Emotional contagion can also serve as a method for infusing indi...
  151. Lastly, performance and cognitive activities have also been shown to be influenced by...
  152. Experimental Design The experiment was a two-by-two between-subjects design, with p...
  153. Immediately after the exercise, participants completed a questionnaire that included ...
  154. While the confederate was rigorously coached in keeping the task-related nature of hi...
  155. This set of coders viewed only the participants, not the confederate, so as to lessen...
  156. Individual Task Behavior Performance. Performance ratings were obtained at the conc...
  157. Video-coders' ratings were used to rate group-level dynamics. After watching the enti...
  158. [[beta].sub.0j] = [[gamma].sub.01](C1) + [[gamma].sub.02](C2) + [[gamma].sub.03](C3) ...
  159. Hypothesis 1 was first tested by comparing video-coders' ratings of participants' Tim...
  160. I then examined the effect of the experimental condition on overall group ratings of ...
  161. I next tested hypothesis 4 at the group level. The multilevel HLM framework tests cro...
  162. This study showed that emotional contagion does occur in groups and inasmuch as emoti...
  163. As this study took place in a laboratory setting using short-term experimental groups...
  164. With regard to organizational culture and socialization, some organizational cultures...
  165. (4) All the analyses were also conducted using Time 2 pleasant mood as the outcome va...
  166. 1987 "Stalking rudimentary processes of social influence: A psychophysiological appro...
  167. 1989 "Emotion-specific effects of facial expressions and postures on emotional experi...
  168. 1990 "Habitual routines in task-performing groups." Organizational Behavior and Human...
  169. 1972 "The effect of feeling good on helping: Cookies and kindness." Journal of Person...
  170. 1995 "Facial EMG reactions to facial expressions: A case of facial emotional contagio...
  171. 1991 "Emotional contrast strategies as means of social influence: Lessons from crimin...
  172. 1993 "Affect and managerial performance: A test of the sadder-but-wiser vs. happier-a...
  173. 1994 "In search of the happy/productive worker: A longitudinal study of affect and pe...
  174. In this study we develop a model of how diversity in positive affect (PA) among group...
  175. Research generated from a variety of fields predicts that important benefits will acc...
  176. Most researchers in organizational behavior and psychology now accept that behavior i...
  177. 1988 "Depressive realism: Four theoretical perspectives." In Lauren B. Alloy (ed.), C...
  178. The final denial of dignity, contradictions of employee involvement, is the province ...
  179. A subtext of this innovative book is that dignity at work is not a luxury, a humanist...
  180. Blake E. Ashforth, ed. Mahwah, NJ: LEA, 2001. 353 pp. $89.95, cloth; $39.95, paper. ...
  181. Abstract Petty tyranny is defined as the tendency to lord one's power over others. A...
  182. Procrastination and Task Avoidance: Theory, Research, and Treatment J.R. Ferrari, J....
  183. Dean Tjosvold's latest effort, Teamwork for Customers, couldn't have come at a better...
  184. Allan R. Ryan Department of Economics and Business Administration Rhodes College ...
  185. Given such inherent complexity, one might imagine that success at sensemaking require...
  186. REFERENCES Asch, S. E. 1956 "Studies of independence and conformity: A minority of ...
  187. What the economic, financial, and political elite are reading. U.S. Borders Book ...
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