1997 report on New Zealand’s security industry: Constants and change

In his NZSA CEO’s January newsletter, Gary Morrison wrote of a report unearthed during a recent clean-up of the NZSA’s Takapuna office ahead of the association’s move to Albany. The 28-page Analysis of the New Zealand Security Industry is dated August 1997.

Prepared by three Massey University extramural students undertaking Strategic Management Studies, the purpose of the report was “to analyse the security industry, describe its history and development and predict its long-term future.”

Although the report does not constitute an exhaustive or deeply analytical research output, it nevertheless makes for intriguing reading though a 2018 lens. As Gary wrote in January, reading the paper “it was interesting to reflect on how…..”

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