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Peter Bruce-Iri

Peter Bruce-Iri

Principal Academic

Peter is a lecturer and researcher, teaches Management, Leadership, Organisational Behaviour, Business Heritage, Culture and Sustainability and Strategic Management.

Key Qualifications

  • Masters in Management  (Massey University), 2008

  • Diploma in Business Studies (Training and Development) 1997

  • Graduate Diploma in Education (Tertiary) 1997

  • National Diploma of Horticulture (Honours) (1986)

See Peter’s research profile at Research Gate.

Academic Output

Books
Better Business for a Better World: Connecting Principle and Profit to Build Socially Responsible Businesses, a book published by Hats of Books, Tucson, 2000. Republished as a Kindle edition. Better Business for a Better World: Connecting Principle and Profit to Build Sustainable Businesses, (2012) Amazon

Commissioned Reports
Bruce, P., Patrick, A. & Romer, S. (2014). The Social and Economic Impact of the Whangarei Growers Market.
Bruce, P. Proposal for the use of the Z Energy Water Street Site. (2014) Contracted by the Whangarei Growers Market for submission to the Whangarei Growers Market
Bruce, P., Van Es, L. & Hughes, W (2012). The Socio-economic Impact of Refining NZ’s CCR Project, (project leader).
Bruce, P., Van Es, L., Wilson, D., Chile, L., Rotherham, C. & Hughes, W. (2008) The New Zealand Refining Company: Our Contribution. (Project Leader)

Journal Articles
Bruce, P. & Shelley, R. (2010) Assessing Stakeholder Engagement. Communication Journal of New Zealand: He Kohinga Korero 11 (2) 26 – 44.

Magazine Articles
Bruce, P. (2006) Building board intelligence: Lead article for Boardroom: The Journal of the Institute of Directors, September 2006
Bruce, P. (1998) Performance Strategies, a feature article published in NZ Business, April 1998.

Conference presentations

Accelerating Food Systems Change in Northland. Presented at the Local Food Northland Conference, NorthTec, February 2017, NorthTec.


Stemming the Erosion of Relevance of Business Education – Presented at the NZABE conference at Wellington, November 2015.
Leadership Communication for Sustainability. Proceedings from the New Zealand Communication Conference 2014.
The Communication Revolution – How Are We Going. Proceedings from the New Zealand Communication Conference 2013.
Sustainability and Growth: Challenges for the New Zealand Communication Association. Proceedings from the New Zealand Communication Conference 2012. A presentation with Nuddy Pillay.
Building Stakeholder Engagement Capability. Proceedings from the New Zealand Communication Conference 2011.
Creating a Stakeholder Engagement Plan. Proceedings from the New Zealand Communication Conference 2010. A presentation with Dr Rita Shelley
Assessing stakeholder engagement. Proceedings from the New Zealand Communication Conference, Dunedin, 2009. A presentation with Dr Rita Shelley.
Building Online Student Communities With Assessed Forums: A paper presented to the New Zealand Communication Association, December 2007 and at eFest, Auckland in October 2008.
Communication Audits: A paper presented to the New Zealand Communication Association, December 2007
A Place for Identity: Māori: Being at Home at Work.  A paper presented to the New Zealand Communication Association Conference, 2006 with Huria Iri.
Old Paradigms, New Paradigms: an Exploration of the Thinking that Shapes our Businesses and our World presented at the Ninth International Conference on Thinking, Auckland, 2001
The Role of Business in the Development of a Global Society presented at the Association of Bahá’í Studies Conference, Wellington, July 1999

 

Unpublished reports
Bruce-Iri, P. (2016) Pathways to Sustainable Food Systems in New Zealand.  
Bruce, P. & Neeley, E. (2016). Our Food Story: Understanding the market dynamics of fruit and vegetable production, distribution and produce outlets in Northland. 
Bruce, P. (2015). Relocalising our Food: Reshaping Northland’s food production, distribution and consumption systems.  
Bruce, P. (2014) Sustainable Food Systems for Northland.
Bruce, P. (2014) The Social and Economic Impact of the Whangarei Growers Market: Recommendations Feedback. http://peterbruce.co.nz/research-2/research-documents/
Bruce, P. (2008) Using the Net Promoter Score: Unpublished research report
Bruce P., Martin, A. (2006) Hospitality Success, an investigation into success factors for cafes and restaurants. A Research Report
Bruce, P. (2005) Governance Development in Northland: A research report.

Blog posts
Peter’s blog are at www.localfoodnorthland.org and www.peterbruce.co.nz

Other outputs
Bruce, P., Zemke, K (Producer). (2010, July 18). Economics and spirituality [Television series episode]. In Baha'i on Air. Auckland, Stratos. View extract online.

Lead convenor of the 2017 Local Food Northland Conference. Detailed conference programmes including presentations and video presentations are on the Local Food Northland website. Videos are also published on the Channel North website.

Executive member of the New Zealand Communication Association including website administration and conference organisation from 2013 to 2015.