LINCOLN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ARCHIVE
DEPOSIT LICENCE – THESIS
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following:
a) that you are the author and have authority to make this agreement, and give the LU
Research Archive the right to publish the thesis / dissertation in a digital archive or repository
b) that the thesis / dissertation is original and does not, to the best of your knowledge,
infringe upon anyone else's copyright
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acknowledged the original author or copyright holder, and/or sought permission to include
the third party material as part of this work
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format to ensure that it can be read by computer systems in the future. The lifetime of the
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used in the future that replaces the current system.
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LU Research Archive will not make any alteration, other than as allowed by this licence, to
your thesis / dissertation.
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the thesis / dissertation for any professional, administrative or legal reason. Any request for
removal of the thesis / dissertation should be made to the Administrator. A metadata record
indicating the thesis / dissertation was stored in the archive will remain visible in perpetuity.
Disclaimer
While every care will be taken to preserve the electronic copy of the thesis / dissertation, the
LU Research Archive is not liable for loss or damage to it while it is stored in the archive.
This is a one-off licence for your thesis titled:
Maturity modelling of corporate responsibility : New Zealand case studies : a thesis
submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters [i.e.
Master] of Commerce and Management at Lincoln University / by E. Nichols. 2005
deposited in the Lincoln University Research Archive from the date of this agreement.
Name:
Signed:
Elizabeth Nichols
Dated: 8.4.2010