The private governance of food: equitable exchange or bizarre bazaar?

Innovation Bazaar: Organizing the Exchange of Hospitals' Local IT Innovations

During the last decades, the software for supporting hospitals’ information systems became more flexible in terms of adaptability and configurability. Some hospitals use these capabilities to create local IT innovations. However, information on these local IT innovations is rarely available, as a preceding Grounded Theory based study revealed. To tackle this shortcoming, a two year action resea...

The Role of Corporate Governance in improving the Regulatory Ranking of Iranian Private Banks

The health of a bank helps to maintain the trust and confidence of the bank and also the interests of the beneficiaries. But balancing the interests of all stakeholders requires improving corporate governance in banks. Given the importance of the issue, this paper examines the effect of corporate governance on bankschr('39') regulatory rankings. For this purpose, the required criteria have been...

Private Internet Governance

Private Environmental Governance

Environmental law has quietly transformed from a positive law field deeply rooted in administrative law to one that is also heavily rooted in private law and private governance. After two decades (1970–1990) of remarkable activity, more than two decades have now passed without a major federal environmental statute (1991–2012). Whether the appropriate next step is expansion or contraction, refor...

Protecting the Global Environment: towards Effective Governance and Equitable Solutions

Before this decade ends and human civilization enters the new millennium, these ten years will be remembered as a period that saw the emergence of several concerns on protecting the global environment. We see today a unique combination of scientific endeavour, economic decisionmaking and the formulation of public policy that embraces various actions directed towards understanding and halting wi...