Hybrid Governance Arrangements

HYBRID GOVERNANCE Hybrid governance and democratisation— village governance in Timor-Leste

In 2004, the Government of Timor-Leste introduced elections to villages (suku). Timor-Leste had only been formally independent since 20021, after some centuries of colonisation by Portugal (variable in the timing and degree of penetration), almost twenty-five years of more systematic occupation by Indonesia (1975–99), and two years of centralised transitional administration by the United Nation...

Hybrid Energy Governance

Information Security Governance Arrangements: The Devil is in the Details

Information security governance includes the governance aspect, which sets the information security direction and strategy of an organization, and, the management aspect, which addresses how the strategy is implemented and managed. In this article, we focus on the management aspect of information security governance. Different organizational arrangements (i.e., governance arrangements) are poss...

Arrangements for Information Technology Governance: A Theory of Multiple Contingencies

Business world today identifies a need of IT use. It is clear that IT is transforming the business. Since IT offers both opportunities and threats, effective IT governance is required to deliver IT benefits. Enterprises have to understand this issue deeply in wider business perspective in order to successfully implement IT. Effective IT governance can be achieved through enterprise’s ability in...

The dynamics of contractual and relational governance: Evidence from long-term publicヨprivate procurement arrangements

This paper investigates the detail and dynamics of how contractual and relational governance mechanisms are deployed in managing complex, long-term public–private supply arrangements. Using empirical data from two UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI) cases, the paper analyses the interplay of governance mechanisms along a timeline of project phases. Conceptual and practical findings confirm that...