This chapter focuses on a change effort for introduction of an e-governance innovation in the operating room management of a medium-sized Italian hospital, which led to higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness at once. The innovative project has made all the stages of the surgical process transparent, highlighting where there is an opportunity to improve overall performance via the introdu...

Operational risk incidences are likely to increase the degree of information asymmetry between firms and investors. We analyze operational risk disclosures by US financial firms during 1995–2009 and their impact on different measures of information asymmetry in the firms’ equity markets. Effective spreads and the price impact of trades are shown to increase around the first announcements of suc...

Objective To 1) describe the benefits, conditions, coverage, funding, goals, governance, and structure of well-established conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in Latin America and 2) identify their health and nutritional impacts among children under 5 years old. Methods A realist review was conducted. CCTs were included if they met the following inclusion criteria: 1) current national-l...

This paper presents a multi-agents architecture which facilitates the integration of three major IT governance frameworks: COBIT5, ITIL V3 and ISO/IEC27002, to optimize the construction of a distributed system. This architecture proposes a new and easier method to develop a distributed multi agents system, where agents involved in this system can communicate in a distributed way thanks to funct...

This paper describes work being undertaken as part of an interdisciplinary project on transition pathways to a low carbon economy, bringing together insights from engineers, social scientists and policy analysts. The project is examining the plausibility of different transition pathways for a low carbon energy system in the UK, under different governance patterns, in relation to both centralise...

The rapid development of new digital technologies for natural resource management has created a need to design and update governance regimes effective transparent generation, sharing use data. In this paper, we contribute novel area investigation from the perspective institutional change. We develop conceptual framework analyze how emerging data is shaped by related governance; complex, multile...

Gampong Aceh Qanun No. 1 of 2019 concerns the government regulating gampong governance administration. The Keuchik as government, must submit a responsibility report to Tuha Peut and Mayor through camat. consists three parts: year-end on administration governance, final at end period, information fiscal year. reporting activities are funded by Revenue Expenditure Budget (APBG), procedures for s...

E-Governance is a powerful tool for bringing change to the government process in the developing world. Mainly, e-governance operates at the cross roads between information and communication Technology (ICT) and Government Processes (GP). In order for successful implementation and maximize the impact, e-governance must be embedded and supported in the existing government processes by both politi...

This chapter deals with some technical aspects of the strategies for IT Governance described in most of the other chapters of this book. The practical application of IT Governance techniques and tactics requires the collection and analysis of measurable data that guide estimation, decision-making and assessment, since it is common sense that one can control and manage better what one is able to...

Political processes are undergoing profound changes due to the challenges imposed by globalization processes to the legitimacy of policy actors and to the effectiveness of policymaking. Political stability emerges from the perceptions of the likelihood that the government will not be destabilized or overthrown by unconstitut ional or violent means, including domestic violence and terrorism. Civ...