Books
SCHUSTER, DANNY ; JACKSON, DAVID and TIPPLES, RUPERT Grapes and Wines in Canterbury 1840-2002. Shoal Bay Press: Christchurch. 157 pp. 2002.
TIPPLES, RUPERT Colonial Landscape Gardener - Alfred Buxton of Christchurch 1872-1950. Lincoln College: Canterbury, New Zealand. 192pp. 1989.
TIPPLES, RUPERT A History of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers’ Association 1886-1986. Canterbury Fruitgrowers’ Association. 40pp. 1986
Book Chapters
*TIPPLES, RUPERT "Wines of the farthest Promised Land from Waipara, Canterbury, New Zealand", Chapter 13 in Campbell, Gwyn (ed.) Wine, Society, and Globalization. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Wine Industry, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.241-254, 2007.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Alfred William Buxton 1872-1950", pp. 82-3, and "Edgar Taylor 1886-1979", pp.503-4, in Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume III Department of Internal Affairs, Auckland University Press and Bridget Williams Books Ltd.: Auckland/Wellington. 1996.
Periodical and Journal Articles (*= refereed)
*TIPPLES, RUPERT “Wine supply chain breaks: New Zealand Wines from Cottesbrook, Canterbury.” International Journal of Wine Business Research. Special New Zealand case study issue, 22 (2), pp.148-163. 2010.
*TIPPLES, RUPERT “Cottesbrook Wines – Hiccups in the supply chain from New Zealand to the United Kingdom.”, Supply Chain Forum – An International Journal. Wine Special Issue. 11, (1), pp. 76-84. 2010.
*TIPPLES, RUPERT “Cottesbrook’s New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc wine to Tesco”, in Special Issue “Relationships, Networks and Interactions”, British Food Journal, vol. 110, nos. 4/5, 444-459. May 2008.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Ambrose Taylor 1826-1913, Curator, Botanic Gardens, Christchurch - The early years", Horticulture in New Zealand, 6, 1, pp. 20-26, 1995.
TIPPLES, RUPERT; GIBBONS, PAMELA "Garden visiting - Twentieth Century local tourism in Canterbury", Horticulture in New Zealand. 3,2, 29-34, Winter 1992.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Christchurch - The First Garden City?". Horticulture in New Zealand. 3,1, pp. 30-35. Summer 1992.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Panikau Station Garden", New Zealand Historic Places. 37, pp. 19-23, June 1992.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "The Buxtons of Ellastone: Victorian migrants to New Zealand". Staffordshire History, 14, pp. 18-28, 1991.
TIPPLES, R. "Personal impressions of John Sales workshop on the conservation of Historic Gardens", Horticulture in New Zealand, 49, 11-13, Autumn 1989.
TIPPLES, R. S. "A W Buxton 1872-1950: Nurseryman and Landscape Gardener", Horticulture in New Zealand, 31, Autumn, pp. 16-19, 1984.
CAVANAGH, ROGER; TIPPLES, RUPERT "The $64 question: Are your workers happy in their jobs?", Horticulture Industry, pp. 366-368, May 1977.
CAVANAGH, ROGER; TIPPLES, RUPERT "Is labour turnover a necessary evil?", Horticulture Industry, pp. 443-446, June 1977.
CAVANAGH, ROGER; TIPPLES, RUPERT "How to select your staff", Horticulture Industry, pp. 524 and 535, July 1977.
CAVANAGH, ROGER; TIPPLES, RUPERT "The case for training", Horticulture Industry, pp. 576-579, August 1977.
TIPPLES, R. S. "Socio-economic advice - A comment", Journal of Agricultural Labour Science, 3, 2, pp. 15-21, 1974.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Measures to improve agricultural structures in the EEC", Chartered Surveyor, 105, 1 and 4, pp. 11-13, 192-3, 1972.
Conference Proceedings (*= refereed)
*TIPPLES, RUPERT “St Helena Wine Estate (1978-2008) – a longitudinal case study of a medium sized Canterbury (NZ) export winery”. 4th Conference of the Academy of Wine Business Research, Siena, Italy. 17-19 July 2008.
TIPPLES, RUPERT “It is not all about brands - the real world of wine with globalization”. Third International Conference on Economics, Management Sciences and History of Wine, Bordeaux June 5-7th, 2008.
*TIPPLES, RUPERT "Alfred Buxton and the commodification of the New Zealand gardenscape". New Zealand Business History Conference 2004 “Enterprise in Distant Lands”, The University of Auckland Business School, 1-3 September, 2004.
*TIPPLES, RUPERT "Wines of the Farthest Promised Land from Waipara, Canterbury, New Zealand", Wine in the World: History, Management and Trade First International Conference, University of Avignon, Provence, France. 2-4 March 2004. 21pp.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Christchurch - The First Garden City?", Conference of the New Zealand Historical Association, University of Canterbury, Christchurch. 14 May 1991.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Biography: A life-history of a dead person?", Proceedings of Sociological Association of Aotearoa (NZ), Conference "Transitions", Lincoln University. 9 December 1990.
Unpublished Conference Papers
TIPPLES, RUPERT “Business History as Recreation – Agriculture industries, enterprises and individuals, from settlement to recent grapes and wines. Paper presented to “The Practice of Business History”, 2010 Symposium of the Business and Labour History Group, 17 September 2010, NZ Work & Labour Market Institute, AUT University, Auckland.
TIPPLES, RUPERT “A Framework for Wine Industry Studies (FWIS)”, Wine in the World, Conference II - Markets, Tourism and Globalisation, Florence, Italy. 8-10 June 2006.
TIPPLES, RUPERT and McNAB, SUZANNE "Restructuring since 1997 - Lincoln and a new VC", Managerialism and Restructuring, AUS Conference, Airport Hotel, Wellington, 22 July 1999.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Employment contracts and employee motivation", Fifth Annual Conference, N. Z. Floriculture Federation Inc. 28 June 1991.
TIPPLES RUPERT "The Buxton Days", Landscape Guild Conference, Lincoln University. 25 August 1990.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "The Buxtons from Staffordshire" and "The Buxtons early years in Canterbury", Buxton Family Reunion, Lower Hutt. Labour Weekend 1989.
TIPPLES, RUPERT "Horticultural education and training: Current provision and future need", N. Z. Society for Horticultural Science, V.U.W. 23 August 1983.
Theses Supervised
GREENHALGH, JILL The role of the rural contractor in flexible labour use on South Island sheep and beef farms. M.Appl.Sc. (I.R.D.) thesis. Lincoln University. 2010.
LIU, MATHIAS Livelihood Dynamics in the Lihir Islands, Papua New Guinea. PhD. thesis. Lincoln University. 2010.
BERENDS, JARED Escaping the rhetoric: A Mongolian perspective on participation and benefits in rural development projects. M.Appl.Sc. (I.R.D.) thesis. Lincoln University. 2009.
SUN, XIAOMENG Values and Meanings of Botanic Gardens to Chinese Residents and Visitors: The Case of Christchurch, New Zealand. M.Appl.Sci. thesis. Lincoln University. 2006.
EDKINS, REUBEN Dairying and Employment in the Amuri District, North Canterbury: 1983 to 2002. M.Com (Ag) thesis. Lincoln University. 2003.
KRIVOKAPIC-SKOKO, BRANKA Understanding ethnic entrepreneurship in agricultural settings: Qualitative Comparative Analysis of ethnic groups in New Zealand agriculture. PhD thesis. Lincoln University. 2001.
SHAHARUDIN, M. B. Assessment of problem solving skills in horticultural education: Written simulations. M. Appl. Sc. thesis. Lincoln College. 1987.
ATKISON, W. D. The Engineering abilities needed by the successful New Zealand orchardist in the 1990s: Abasis for curriculum development. M.Appl.Sc. thesis. 1986.
GREER, J. P. Motivation and other factors influencing the adoption of practices by sheep farmers in Oxford County, New Zealand. M.Agr.Sc. thesis. Lincoln College. 1982.