The most important tool for promoting the bank’s stability and health is the establishment of a standard corporate governance structure for managing the bank's business. Redesigning the relationships between bank management, shareholders and the rest of the bank’s stockholder, including the objectives, the risk and audit indices, and internal control of the bank, is recognized as the foundation...

This report (1) presents use cases and requirements for a vehicle information architecture platform (VIAP), (2) reviews and evaluates the Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR) and the Distributed Real-time Managed System (DREMS) architecture specifications, and (3) presents a preliminary architecture specification VIAP that addresses the needs of the DARPA Adaptive Vehicle Make program....

From the Departments of Surgery and Pathology. University Health Center of Pmsburgh. University of Pittsburgh, PA; the Department of PathOlogy. St Mary's Hospital and Medical School. London, Englard: and the Veterans Administration Medical Cen· ter, Pittsburgh. PA. Supported ::y research grants from the Veterans Administration and PrOject Grant No. OK 29961 from the ~ational Institutes of Healt...

The goal of IT governance is not only to achieve internal efficiency in an IT organization, but also to support IT’s role as a business enabler. The latter is here denoted IT governance performance, and cannot be controlled by IT management directly. Their realm of control includes IT governance maturity, indicated by e.g. different IT activities, documents, metrics and roles. Current IT govern...

Throughout history until today, the Islamic world has been witness to various movements which have been formed in response to special demands. The current article aims to address the similarities and differences between the political thought[1] of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and two movements in Indonesia namely the Nahdatul Ulama (NU) and the Muhammadiyah movements using a descriptive-compa...

We develop simple models in which corporate governance affects the financing and the production level of firms. In this paper, better corporate governance implies governance under which a smaller firm value can be expropriated by the manager, ceteris paribus. We assume that the potential expropriation can occur after production. In the single firm model, we investigate how corporate governance ...

Governance addresses a wide range of issues including social, economic and political continuity, security and integrity, individual and collective safety and the liberty and rights to self-actualization of citizens. Questions to be answered include how governance can be achieved and sustained within a social context imbued with cultural values and in which power is distributed unevenly and dyna...

 The voting universe is dominated by corporate governance specialists, many of whom actively sponsor seemingly never-ending corporate governance reforms. These in-house corporate governance activists share their enthusiasm for continuous corporate governance reform with a number of academics who focus on corporate governance and with the major proxy advisory firms, which provide outsourcing of...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 21 Number 2 2006 © Asia Pacific Press The Fiji Sugar Corporation, the sole miller in Fiji, has experienced declining financial performance for over a decade, despite Fiji enjoying sugar prices two to three times the average world price. The corporation’s poor financial performance has primarily been blamed on the increase in burnt cane. This paper tests the impo...