Good practice in health, environment and safety management in enterprise (GP HESME) is a process that aims at continuous improvement in health, environment and safety performance, involving all stakeholders within and outside the enterprise. This WHO program is supported by other international organizations, and the declaration of Ministers of Health and Ministers of Environment adopted in 1999...

The knowledge-based view (KBV) of firms has received increasingly attention. A relatively unexplored area is knowledge transfer in project-based organizations (PBOs). The PBO relies upon combining expertise from several internal and external parties in order to deliver their own capabilities in a one-off process. Knowledge over projects is difficult to transfer due to the unique character of pr...

Introduction On his first day in office, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum urging that the ―[g]overnment should be transparent,‖ and that his administration would ―take appropriate action...to disclose information rapidly.‖ 1 This is just one of the many recent efforts to promote governmental transparency. Since around the 1990s, transparency— accessibility and availability of governme...

The present paper focuses on the perceived quality of information exchange between government and business (G2B) in the field of environmental reporting in the Dutch agri-food industry. It seems most important for environmental performance enhancement (a concept that includes the quality of information given to stakeholders in our view) that companies are entangled in a network of intermediary ...

Objective To investigate whether information on mammographic screening presented on websites by interest groups is balanced, is independent of source of funding, and reflects recent findings. Design Cross sectional study using a checklist with 17 information items. Setting 27 websites in Scandinavian and English speaking countries. Results The 13 sites from advocacy groups and the 11 from gover...

This keynote paper provides a control systems perspective of failed internationalised institutional arrangements. In the past years we have experienced dramatic international systems failure across important institutions. Banks, religious institutions and governmental systems have all experienced catastrophic crises which have proven difficult to assess and address. This paper examines these fa...

Contemporary local economic development often requires that development professionals act as catalysts for orchestrating other governmental and nongovernmental actors in the pursuit of effective development policy strategies. Collaboration and cooperation across multiple actors, organizations, and governments is now the standard modus operandi for many municipalities. The empirical analysis pre...

The inversion of reduction of confidence in combination with the need to face lack of resources for public administration has led governments and various governmental institutions to develop and propagate the services of electronic government. Investing millions in these services governments seek for measures and models that will quantify and highlight the profits that come up from these invest...

Reducing the availability of alcohol through alcohol control policies such as excise taxes and the minimum legal drinking age has been effective in reducing a wide range of alcohol-related problems, including traffic crashes, liver cirrhosis, and violence. Alcohol control policies may be classified into two overlapping categories--public and institutional policies. Some policies such as alcohol...