Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms

Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance, and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.s. Firms

We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is a strategic activity commonly managed through a specific, differentiated organizational structure—the corporate foundation—that formalizes and constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our analysis of ...

Who Controls Whom Revisited: Managers, Boards of Directors, and Corporate Governance in Large U.S. Firms

Senior Managers’ Viewpoints Toward Challenges of Implementing Clinical Governance: A National Study in Iran

Background Quality improvement should be assigned as the main mission for healthcare providers. Clinical Governance (CG) is used not only as a strategy focusing on responding to public and government’s intolerance of poor healthcare standards, but also it is implemented for quality improvement in a number of countries. This study aims to identify the key contributing factors in the implementati...

Iran hospital accreditation governance: Challenges and solutions

Background and Aim: Hospital accreditation is “an external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes, outputs and outcomes by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards”. Accreditation is a strategy for ensuring the quality and, safety of hospital services. An accreditation program’s efficacy depends on the validity of its governance, methods, ...

An Investigation into Effects of Dividend Policy on Financial Growth of Advertising Firms in Kenya

Effects of dividend policy on corporate financial growth, is a major concern of most entities. Whether dividends have an influence on the value of the firm, is an important question in dividend policy. This study aimed at investigating the effects of dividend policy on financial growth of media firms. The study was conducted in Nairobi at The Nation media Group Headquarters. Respondents were se...