Advancing educational outcomes through Education for Enterprise in a Maori/Pacifika school: The case of Nga Kakano Christian Reo Rua Kura Part ONE: Strategic development issues

Nga Kakano Christian Reo Rua Kura (Nga Kakano) is a small private school based in Auckland, New Zealand. In October 2011, a team of business students from Unitec Institute of Technology (Unitec) presented a workshop introducing pupils at Nga Kakano to the principles of business finance and law. The highly interactive workshop engaged the school pupils to such an extent that the Principal, Te Rangi Allen, invited Unitec teacher Peter Mellalieu and his student Aroha Vause to explore how business education could be introduced into Nga Kakano’s educational programme.

As a precursor to pursuing the initiative for introducing what later became known as ‘Education for Enterprise’ (E4E) into the school, Vause and Mellalieu conducted an assessment of the broader development issues facing the school, informed by the principles of Strategic Audit (Mellalieu, 1992). This article presents the issues as identified in October 2011, and outlines the subsequent progress towards addressing several issues through implementation of selected strategic development initiatives.

Top five issues

The following strategic issues defined the ‘top five’ most important issues identified for  confirmation and option generation purposes by the senior management, parents, and board of Nga Kakano. The initial set of issues were identified by Vause and  Mellalieu through discussion following examination of the Business Plan for Nga Kakano (Vause, 2011, October).

Each strategic issue statement was intended to provide a succinct definition of a challenge faced by Nga Kakano as a basis for subsequent option generation, strategic planning and organization development. The challenge could be an organisation-wide threat, an opportunity, a weakness, a strength, or combination thereof. In framing the issue, care is taken to AVOID suggestion solutions, alternatives, or choices. Outlining alternatives and making strategic choice wasw to come later in the stratgic development process.

The top five issues facing Nga Kakano were identified in October 2011 as:

ISSUE 1: Broadening the funding base for a school with ‘special character’
ISSUE 2: Developing a suitable physical location to cater for expansion in the student roll
ISSUE 3: Embedding education for enterprise across the curriculum
ISSUE 4: Acquiring specialist staff who can harmonise with the school’s special character
ISSUE 5: ‘Right-sizing’ the adoption of teaching and learning technologies

ISSUE 1: Broadening the funding base for a school with ‘special character’
The school runs a tight budget with a balance sheet that provides limited support for investments in quality improvements, development, and growth. The school is funded currently through a modest level of school fees charged to parents. As a private school, the school receives around 10 to 15 per cent of its costs from public education funds. However, the school has a ‘special character’ in terms of its focus on a ‘low-decile’ Maori/Pacifika demographic and Christian values. Given its superior educational achievements for its targeted demographic there are likely to be several opportunities to gain public sector, private sector, and philanthropic cash and non-cash contributions to support the school’s development. One important source is public sector funding from New Zealand’s Vote: Ministry of Education for Schools of Special Character (such as the existing practice for Catholic private schools). This source could provide substantial funding towards a new building, equipment, and staffing costs. The challenge is to prepare the documentation necessary to support applications to these additional sources of funding.

ISSUE 2: Developing a suitable physical location to cater for expansion in the student roll
The current location (2011) of the school is within a light industrial manufacturing/service building complex. The space available limits growth from the current roll of 60 students, although the construction of a mezzanine floor is feasible. However, space is available in nearby units for rental. The current space is a pragmatic, cost-effective solution for the school, but is inappropriate as a long-term ‘home’ for the school. The location is near to a park where outdoor recreational activities can be conducted. Also nearby is Henderson’s Lincoln Road business district that includes light industrial, service, retail, and medical facilities. The current financial situation of the school inhibits the jump to the next stage of growth.

ISSUE 3: Embedding education for enterprise across the curriculum
Education for Enterprise (E4E) offers students feasible, alternative pathways to a ‘good job’ (Clifton, 2011) beyond traditional secondary school educational pathways focused on training for a technical trade or for professional/tertiary education. A three-hour pilot teaching module lead by business students of Unitec Institute of Technology achieved considerable engagement by many students in the Senior Class of the school. (The Senior Class is a mixed class combining students aged 13 through 17 years.) This positive engagement encouraged the Principal and School Administrator/Project Manager (Vause) to begin exploring how to embed education for business and enterprise (E4E) into the senior school curriculum. Consequently, the school became committed to learning and adapting lessons from E4E schemes such as Onehunga High Business School, the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES), and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE). Coincidentally, a new national curriculum for business enterprise education is being rolled out through secondary schools in New Zealand. Several staff at Unitec Institute of Technology’s business school are willing and able to support the school’s adoption of E4E through its teaching and applied research programmes in E4E.

ISSUE 4: Acquiring specialist staff who can harmonise with the school’s special character
The school employs several general purpose educators and teaching assistants highly committed to the special character and values of the school. These educators are committed teachers giving time and effort far beyond the normal call of duty. However, there is an urgent need to enhance the existing capacity for Maori language teaching and new areas such as Education for Enterprise (E4E). The challenge is to devise arrangements to employ full and part-time people who can contribute specialist teaching whilst also contributing to the development of the school’s special character.

ISSUE 5: ‘Right-sizing’ the adoption of teaching and learning technologies
The school currently utilises a paper-based self-teaching system based on a US curriculum system, Accelerated Christian Education (ACE). The system is cost effective, and simple to implement given the wide age range and capabilities of students in the Senior Class. Furthermore, the ACE curriculum enables students to gain qualifications necessary to enter university. However, resources for learning and teaching are becoming increasingly powerful, interactive, and engaging through the application of digital computing and communications technologies. Furthermore, the work-place increasingly requires its employees to be ‘digitally literate’ in terms of using information technologies to plan and coordinate activities with others. The performance:cost ratio of information technology is improving. However, leaping onto the ‘treadmill’ of technology-enhanced learning presents challenges for the school in terms of maintaining technology. What are the best technology adoption pathways for the emerging ‘cloud‘-oriented post-Personal Computer world of digital technologies?

Developments November 2011 through March 2012

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Festsprachen: Associate Professor Donald Joyce

Today (2011-1-28) is the farewell for Associate Donald Joyce. Dr Joyce arrived at Unitec Institute of Technology in the early 1990s, before Unitec began to pursue its vigorous ambition to become accredited as a university.  Later, Dr Joyce was the project champion who led the establishment of the Department of Computing and Information Technologies postgraduate programmes. Having launched the Master of Computing (MComp) he lead the establishment of New Zealand’s first doctor of Computing (DComp) - the first of two doctoral programmes now offered by Unitec.

As I recall my professorial colleagueship I am reminded of when we first met at Massey University in the early 1970s. I was a freshman student of biotechnology - with a side interest in computing. I had been granted the privilege of direct entry into a second year computing paper, Information Structures and Processing (ISP) that used IBM’s new Programming Language One, PL/I, as a vehicle for learning the art and science of computer programming.  I owe to Donald a debt for starting me on the pathway that lead to this opportunity - an opportunity that lead ultimately to my passion for creating computer systems that help people think.

Donald’s first influence on my interest in computing technologies came in 1972 whilst I was a science student at Cambridge High School in the Waikato. At school, I was a pathfinder user of a “portable”  version of FORTRAN - PORTRAN - by Donald’s Massey University colleague Neil James. The PORTRAN system, introduced to me by my physics teacher, Mr Walker, enabled me to construct computer programs by punching out from pre-perforated Hollerith cards the necessary computer codes using a paper clip.  Mr Walker, I suspect, attended a course for teachers about the PORTRAN system as part of a teacher career development programme developed by Donald.

I would pop down to the local bank armed with my deck of punched PORTRAN cards in a green canvas satchel. The bank submitted the package to the Databank facility that processed all of New Zealand’s banking transactions - and my programs for calculating rocket trajectories and the equations underlying nuclear explosions. (I also built black-powder fuelled rockets on the side powered by mixing fertilisers from a garden store).

The PORTRAN experience led me later that year to a one week’s course for secondary school students at the Auckland headquarters of International Business Machines (IBM). IBM was then the largest computer systems provider in the country. The Apple and later the WINTEL personal computers had yet to be conceived! At IBM Auckland, I gained a practical introduction to the programming language PL/I - a language I continued to use until about 1982 when I began to use SAS as a programming language. But that is not part of Donald’s story.

Arriving at Massey University, the course  Information Structures and Processing was taught by Dr Bob Doran. From what I now know, the structured programming approach he taught us was world-leading. I remember - and hope I still practice - the discipline we developed under his instruction:
 

• Document your programme as though you were to be unexpectedly run over by a bus - so that someone else can debug, improve, or modify what you have written
• Do it right first time - this was achieved through a tight rein on the compute resources we could use for running our programme exercises. The lines of printout, CPU processor seconds used, and number of attempts were strictly limited. The first exercise gave us just three attempts if I recall.
… and…
• Never, never, ever use a GOTO statement. “What never?” “No, never!”… And not even hardly ever!

The slight problem with all this was that Massey University’s new computer was a shiny new Burroughs B6700 that had an operating system built around ALGOL. The ALGOL purists eschewed us peasants who dared write PL/I. PLI, apparently, was not ‘orthogonal’ unlike ALGOL. That subtlety still escapes me! Besides, running the PL/I compiler on the Burroughs chewed up memory and slowed down everyone else’s work. So I was lead to believe!

The computer science staff at Massey were amongst the most prolifically hirsute, though I don’t recall Donald as being amongst that number, perhaps because of his Cambridge (UK) upbringing. Certainly, in the hirsute category were his colleagues Bob Doran, Neil James, “the Boz” - Collin Boswell - and my flatmate and full-time student of computer science, Phillip Jenkins. Note how “the Boz” preceded the later-more globally famous Woz of Apple Computer fame.

Another feature of the Massey Computer Science department was its physical and institutional location. Along with the departments of mathematics and statistics the computer scientists lived within the Faculty of Social Sciences, rather than physical sciences. The faculty of Food and Biotechnology could have been another home: they did have their own DEC PDP-8 (as in 8 kbyte of memory!) Later the Faculty of Business established their own Business Computing Centre.

Donald had joined Massey University as a teacher following his doctoral studies at Oxford University in the 1970s. It is evident from his publication record that he has held a strong passion for creating productive and effective learning environments for the subject of computing. That character theme, I suspect, was heralded by his early work at Massey leading mathematics teachers - such as my Mr Walker - into the new arena of computing technology.

I thank Donald for his support as a colleague at Unitec - and especially for igniting in me a passion for ‘machines that think’ (almost).

Qualification
BSc (Hons) Canterbury., PhD Cambridge., CertAdultTertEd AIT., FNACCQ.
 
Professional memberships
    •    Association of Computing Machinery
    •    British Computer Society
    •    Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society
    •    New Zealand Computer Society
    •    New Zealand Mathematical Society
    •    Fellow of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications
    •    Deputy Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Computing and Information Technology
 
Courses Taught
    •    Program Development
    •    The Impact of Information Technology on Society

Awards
    •    University Grants Committee National Scholarship
    •    Canterbury University Senior Scholarship
    •    University Grants Committee Postgraduate Scholarship

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Conference presentations 1977 - 2010 Peter J Mellalieu

My journal publications and key reports are presented here. The following lists my conference presentations, many of which did not progress to journal publication … my having become interested in something else!

Coleman, E. B., Frederick, H., & Mellalieu, P. J. (2006). Customer-Product Interaction - A Model for New Product Development in Entrepreneurial Firms. In Third AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (AIREX-2006). Auckland: Unitec Institute of Technology.

Kearney, T. D., Hall, K. R., & Mellalieu, P. J. (1984). Recent Advances in Network Optimization Methods and Applications. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the United Kingdom Operational Research Society. Presented at the Annual Conference of the United Kingdom Operational Research Society.

Leberman, S., & Mellalieu, P. J. (1996a). ALP-DevCo and the Action Learning Programme: A Trojan Horse for Moving from Mystery to Mastery [Training educators to use experiential education using an isomorphically-framed training-products development company]. Presented at the Action Learning, Action Research & Process Management Professional Conference, (ALARPM), University of Queensland, Brisbane. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2007/10/8_Training_educators_to_use_experiential_education_using_an_isomorphically-framed_training-products_development_company.html

Leberman, S., & Mellalieu, P. J. (1996b). ALP-DevCo and the Action Learning Programme: A Trojan Horse for Moving from Mystery to Mastery [Training educators to use experiential education using an isomorphically-framed training-products development company]. In Proceedings of the Outdoor Education Conference: From Mystery to Mastery (pp. 66-83). Presented at the Outdoor Educators Conference, The Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre, Turangi, NZ: Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre of New Zealand. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2007/10/8_Training_educators_to_use_experiential_education_using_an_isomorphically-framed_training-products_development_company.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (1989). Educating future managers: A survey of recent publications. In Proceedings of Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Educators. Presented at the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Educators Conference 1989, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ: Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Educators. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2007/11/13_Educating_future_managers%3A_Does_one_size_fit_all.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (1991). Auditing the Strategic Plan. Presented at the Institute of Internal Auditors 1991 South Pacific Regional Convention, Auckland, NZ. doi:10.1108/EUM0000000001772

Mellalieu, P. J. (1997). Research-based innovation strategy and the New Zealand pipfruit industry. Presented at the Proceedings of the 5th Annual Educators Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Strategic Management Society. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2007/10/25_Case_study%3A_Research-based_innovation_in_an_agribusiness_sector.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (1998a). Beyond the Case Method: A Master Class for Enterprise Development. In Proceedings of the Annual Educators Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, 6th Annual Conference. The University of Auckland N.Z.: New Zealand Strategic Management Society.

Mellalieu, P. J. (1998b). Weaving the threads of innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial learning through a university-located reality-TV and master class: Enterprise MasterWorks (EMW)™. In International Conference on Higher Education and Small/Medium Enterprise (SMEs). Presented at the International Conference on Higher Education and Small/Medium Enterprise (SMEs), Rennes, France: Centre Études et Recherche EURO PME, Rennes International School of Business. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2007/10/18_Weaving_the_threads_of_innovation%2C_creativity%2C_and_entrepreneurial_learning_through_a_university-located_reality-TV_and_master_class%3A_Enterprise_MasterWorks_(EMW).html

Mellalieu, P. J. (Ed.). (2000). Strategies for Sustainability and Success: The Role and Impact of Strategic Thinking in the Development of Sustainable Enterprise. In Proceedings of the Annual Educators Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, 8th Annual Conference, 2 (Vol. 1). Presented at the Strategies for Sustainability and Success: The Role and Impact of Strategic Thinking in the Development of Sustainable Enterprise, Christchurch, N.Z.: New Zealand Strategic Management Society. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/NZSMS

Mellalieu, P. J. (2001a). New Myths for a Very New World: The Mythic Journey as a Basis for Learning About Entrepreneurial Start-Ups. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Thinking. Presented at the Breakthroughs: The 9th International Conference on Thinking, Auckland, NZ.

Mellalieu, P. J. (2001b). Think revolution, not evolution: Creating entrepreneurial capability through rewarding learning from outrageous behaviour. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Thinking. Presented at the Breakthroughs: The 9th International Conference on Thinking, Auckland, NZ: International Conference on Thinking. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2007/11/13_Teach_revolution%2C_not_evolution!_Rewarding_experimentation_in_student_assignments.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2001c). Creating “Masters of Enterprise” at a New University of Technology: UNITEC’s Master of Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MBIE). In D. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Annual Educators Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, 3 (Vol. 1). Presented at the Strategy in an entrepreneurial millenium, Hamilton, NZ: New Zealand Strategic Management Society.

Mellalieu, P. J. (2003a). Creating “Masters of Enterprise” at a New University of Technology: UNITEC’s Master of Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MBIE). In 3 (Vol. 1). Presented at the 7th International Conference on African Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (ICAESB), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Mellalieu, P. J. (2003b). New Myths for a Very New World: The Mythic Journey as a Basis for Learning About Entrepreneurial Start-Ups. Presented at the 7th International Conference on African Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (ICAESB), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Mellalieu, P. J. (2004a). New Myths for a Very New World: The Mythic Journey as a Basis for Learning About Entrepreneurial Start-Ups. Presented at the Enterprise in Distant Lands: Studies of South Pacific Business Development, The University of Auckland Business School.

Mellalieu, P. J. (2004b). Think revolution, not evolution: Creating entrepreneurial capability through rewarding learning from outrageous behaviour. Presented at the Conversations in Teaching and Learning Symposium, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2007/11/13_Teach_revolution%2C_not_evolution!_Rewarding_experimentation_in_student_assignments.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2007a). ‘JazZinG uP’ the teaching in a Re-newing Poly-Versity Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. In Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2007 (pp. 216-217). Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane: Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE), Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved from http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/ir/onlineconferences/agse2007/mellalieu_jazzing_summary_p216.pdf

Mellalieu, P. J. (2007b). Putting Enterprise into Action: Building Capacity for Deep-Scale Entrepreneurship Development in Modernising ‘Third World’ Contexts. In Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2007 (pp. 212-213). Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane: Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE), Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved from http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/ir/onlineconferences/agse2007/mellalieu_putting_summary_p212.pdf

Mellalieu, P. J. (2008a). Preparing to engage in education for sustainability: A critique of the New Zealand tertiary education strategy. In Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia conference proceedings. Presented at the Engaging Communities: HERDSA 2008 conference, Rotorua: HERDSA. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/UBSpublications/Projects/Entries/2008/3/3_Travels_through_the_east.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2008b). Engaging for sustainability: An Enterprise GreenWorks™ master class. In Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) network conference. Presented at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) network conference, Christchurch, N.Z. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/UBSpublications/Projects/Entries/2008/3/3_MELLALIEU%3A_Engaging_for_sustainability%3A__An_Enterprise_GreenWorks%E2%84%A2_master_class.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2008c). Greening our university campuses - Conference report. In 8th Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) Network Conference. Presented at the 8th Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) Network Conference, Christchurch, N.Z. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/UBSpublications/Projects/Entries/2008/11/7_MELLALIEU%3A_Greening_our_university_campuses.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2009a). Shifting frontiers, new priorities, creating pathways: elevating the case for tertiary education for sustainable development in New Zealand. In New Zealand Tertiary Education Summit 2009 (TES). Presented at the New Zealand Tertiary Education Summit 2009, Wellington, New Zealand: Bright*Star Conferences & Training Ltd. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2009/5/7_Elevating_the_case_for_tertiary_education_for_sustainability.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2009b). Writing to learn argument and persuasion: A ‘Trojan Horse’ for promoting the adoption of ‘Writing Across the Curriculum’ (WAC) principles. Presented at the Unitec Teaching and Learning Symposium, Auckland, NZ: Unitec Institute of Technology. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2008/7/31_Writing_to_learn_argument_and_persuasion%3A_A_Trojan_Horse_for_promoting_the_adoption_of_Writing_Across_the_Curriculum_(WAC)_principles.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2009c). Advancing engagement in education for sustainability: A critique of the New Zealand tertiary education strategy 2007-2012. In Sustainability Conference 2009: The Sustainability Debate – The Way Forward. Presented at the Sustainability Conference 2009: The Sustainability Debate – The Way Forward, Albany, Auckland: Massey University: Massey University. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2009/11/12_Advancing_engagement_in_education_for_sustainability.html Also from: http://sustainabilityconference.massey.ac.nz

Mellalieu, P. J. (2009e). Between a rock and a hard place: the quest for financial with ecological sustainability at a tertiary educational institution. In Sustainability conference 2009: The sustainability debate - The way forward. Presented at the Sustainability Conference 2009: The Sustainability Debate – The Way Forward, Albany, Auckland: Massey University: Massey University. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2009/11/12_Between_the_rock_and_the_hard_place%3A_the_quest_for_financial_with_ecological_sustainability_at_a_tertiary_educational_institution.html Also from http://sustainabilityconference.massey.ac.nz

Mellalieu, P. J. (2010a). Smoothing seasonal resource supply in land-based industries: Economic and technical impacts of ‘smoothing the flush’ in New Zealand dairy milk production and processing. In Department of Management & Marketing “Brown Bag” research seminars. Auckland, NZ: Unitec Institute of Technology.

Mellalieu, P. J. (2010b). Engaging a student-directed ‘living curricula’: Progress results and reflections from introducing strengths-based professional development in an international business school. Presented at the Unitec Learning, Teaching, and Research Symposium, Auckland, NZ: Unitec Institute of Technology. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2010/10/1_Strengths-based_professional_development_in_an_international_business_school_.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2010c). Responding to the threat of price volatility in land-based industries: Economic impacts of ‘smoothing the flush’ in New Zealand dairy milk production and processing. Presented at the Unitec Learning, Teaching, and Research Symposium, Auckland, NZ: Unitec Institute of Technology. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2010/9/28_smoothing_the_flush_in_New_Zealand_dairy_milk_production_and_processing.html

Mellalieu, P. J., & Emerson, A. (2009). Developing reflective learning in a strategic thinking class. In Unitec Teaching and Learning Symposium. Presented at the Unitec Teaching and Learning Symposium, 28 September 2009, Auckland, NZ: Unitec Institute of Technology. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2009/9/29_Symposium%3A_Developing_reflective_learning_in_a_strategic_thinking_course.html

Mellalieu, P. J., & Hooper, J. (1995). A Vision for the Information Technology Experience in a University-Based Business School. In Department of Management Systems Discussion Paper. Presented at the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAME), Wellington, New Zealand.

Mellalieu, P. J., Leberman, S., Bradbury, T., & Chu, M. (1995a). Opening the black box: Beyond adventure-based management education programmes. Presented at the International Organisational Behaviour Teachers’ Conference (IOBTC), University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2007/10/7_Should_outdoor_adventure_learning_be_incorporated_into_business_education.html

Mellalieu, P. J., Leberman, S., Bradbury, T., & Chu, M. (1995b). Opening the black box: Beyond adventure-based management education programmes. Presented at the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAME), Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ. Retrieved from http://web.mac.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2007/10/7_Should_outdoor_adventure_learning_be_incorporated_into_business_education.html

Mellalieu, P. J., & Sun, J. G. (2000). Pacific Lithium (C): Flight of the Phoenix. In Proceedings of the Annual Educators Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, 2 (Vol. 1). Presented at the Strategies for sustainability and success: the role and impact of strategic thinking in the development of sustainable enterprise, Canterbury University, Christchurch: New Zealand Strategic Management Society. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/NZSMS/Publications/Entries/2000/2/3_Rick_BOVEN:_The_role_of_ideas_in_managing_trade-offs_between_economic_and_environmental_objectives.html

Mellalieu, P. J., Sun, J. G., & Willis, A. (1999). Pacific Lithium (A): The Energy behind the Mobile Society. In Proceedings of the Annual Educators Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, 7th Annual Conference, 1 (Vol. 1). Presented at the Think global! Act global! The role and impact of strategic management in the development of small enterprise and new ventures, Palmerston North, N.Z.: New Zealand Strategic Management Society.

Mellalieu, P. J., & Turner, K. D. (1985). Expert Systems for Agricultural Production [crop damage in agricultural crops]. In Proceedings of the Operational Research Society of New Zealand.

Mellalieu, P. J., & Willis, A. (1999). Beyond the Case Method: A Master Class for Enterprise Development. In Proceedings of the Annual Educators Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, 7th Annual Conference, 1 (Vol. 1). Presented at the Think global! Act global! The role and impact of strategic management in the development of small enterprise and new ventures, Palmerston North, N.Z.: New Zealand Strategic Management Society.

Shephard, K., & Mellalieu, P. J. (2009). Virtual, collaborative and multinational universities for sustainability? Roundtable discussion. In 5th World Environmental Education Congress | Earth, our common home, May 10-14 2009. Presented at the 5th World Environmental Education Congress | Earth, our common home, May 10-14 2009, Montreal. Retrieved from http://www.5weec.uqam.ca/EN/

Willis, A., Mellalieu, P. J., & Emerson, L. (2000). Walking the Streets: Shareholder Profiles and
Perspectives on a High Technology Startup Company. In Proceedings of the Annual Educators Conference of the New Zealand Strategic Management Society, 2 (Vol. 1). Presented at the Strategies for sustainability and success: the role and impact of strategic thinking in the development of sustainable enterprise, Canterbury University, Christchurch: New Zealand Strategic Management Society. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/NZSMS/Publications/Entries/2000/2/3_Rick_BOVEN:_The_role_of_ideas_in_managing_trade-offs_between_economic_and_environmental_objectives.html