Re-Theorizing Politics in Water Governance

Business Process Governance: Theorizing and Empirical Application

Studies by Gartner (2010) or McKinsey (2008) suggest univocally that improving business processes is the undisputed number one priority for organizations world-wide. Hence, organizations need adequate capabilities for Business Process Management (BPM). However, these capabilities do not necessarily need to be developed in the organization itself – an inclusion using other sourcing structures (e...

Inaugural Editorial: Politics and Governance

We are proud to welcome our readers, contributors and reviewers to this inaugural issue of Politics and Governance, published by Librello Publishing House— a peer reviewed, open-source journal dedicated to the study of politics in the national, regional and global realm, and the modes and methods of governance in all its manifestations. We are thrilled to be so ably supported by an editorial bo...

Law, Politics, and International Governance

Theorizing the IT Governance Role in IT Sourcing Research

Previous research has identified significant risks involved in IT sourcing, which can undermine business performance. IT governance research has proposed mechanisms to mitigate some of these risks. While this relationship seems evident, it remains unexplored in most IT sourcing research. Our review of IT sourcing articles published in the top three IS journals shows that, only 48% addressed gov...

Lost in Translation: State Policies and Micro-politics of Water Governance in Namibia

Water governance in rural Namibia has profoundly changed since the early 1990s. After independence and in accordance with global environmental policies, it became a central theme of Namibia's environmental legislation to transfer the responsibility for managing natural resources to local user associations. In this article, I explore the emergence of new social forms at the intersection of exist...