Intergovernmental organizations, institutional schisms, and business environments

The Effect of Intergovernmental Organizations on Institutional Design

Organizations’ E-Business Adoption in China: An Institutional Perspective

Nir Kshetri The University of North Carolina-Greensboro Abstract The Chinese e-business industry has a number of unusual features. Institutional factors such as strong nationalism, the state’s entrenchment in the economy, political cognitive and political normative factors, regulative uncertainty, professional associations’ roles and importance of business and social networks are deeply reflect...

Animals and environments: resisting schisms in comparative physiology and biochemistry.

The articles in this volume are a product of the enthusiasm shown by delegates to meet in a remote corner of southern Africa and to discuss comparative physiology and biochemistry in their wider interpretation and future course. This collection reflects a small but long-standing commitment to fostering the engagement of biological research with African issues and colleagues. Comparative physiol...

Networks of Intergovernmental Organizations and Convergence in Domestic Economic Policies

We studied three potential causal mechanisms through which network dynamics of intergovernmental organizations (IGO) might cause convergence in domestic economic policies. First, IGO networks facilitate policy learning by providing relevant information. Second, they encourage policy emulation by creating a sense of affinity among countries that are closely connected by IGO networks. Finally, so...

VO breeding environments & virtual organizations integral business process management framework

This paper presents a set of guidelines in terms of business process for VO Breeding Environments (VBEs) and Virtual Organizations (VOs) management based-on ECOLEAD Project Results. A detail description of an Integral Business Process Management (I-BPM) Framework, using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is presented. The I-BPM framework describes a set of process models that depict what...