Boards in Information Governance

An Empirical Investigation of the Drivers and Outcomes of Information Technology Governance by Boards of Directors

This study examines the extent to which board of directors are providing ‘governance oversight’ of their organization’s IT activities and whether their efforts are making any difference in terms of organizational performance. Building on contingency theory we theorize that the magnitude of IT oversight exercised by boards depends on an organization‘s particular IT situation and especially its n...

Nonprofit Boards in Australia: a distinctive governance approach

This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The research surveys 118 boards, upon which serve a total of 1405 directors. The findings indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic some aspects of a shareholder approach to governance. But nonprofit boards, in the main, indicate priorities and activities of a stakeholder approach to governance. The f...

Medical research oversight from the corporate governance perspective: comparing institutional review boards and corporate boards.

The role of boards in clinical governance: activities and attitudes among members of public health service boards in Victoria.

OBJECTIVES To determine the nature and extent of governance activities by health service boards in relation to quality and safety of care and to gauge the expertise and perspectives of board members in this area. METHODS This study used an online and postal survey of the Board Chair, Quality Committee Chair and two randomly selected members from the boards of all 85 health services in Victori...

The Role of Boards in Reviewing Information Technology Governance (ITG) as part of organizational control environment assessments

IT Governance (ITG) is an important topic as US companies must now monitor ITG under the provisions of the SarbanesOxley Act (2002) (Hoffmann, 2003). Trites (2003) indicates that directors are responsible for strategic planning, internal control structures and business risk. The control environment is defined in Australian Auditing Standard AUS 402 to mean “the overall attitude, awareness and a...