This paper explores a firm’s reliance on internal and external governance mechanisms as part of the firm’s overall governance policy. We argue that firms’ disclosure policies, by promoting greater transparency, foster external scrutiny and thus activity in the market for corporate control. Takeovers and internal board monitoring are therefore substitute instruments for corporate governance. How...

Crowdsourcing has gained much attention in practice over the last years. Numerous companies have drawn on this concept for performing different tasks and value creation activities. Nevertheless, despite its popularity, there is still comparatively little well-founded knowledge on crowdsourcing, particularly with regard to the governance of crowdsourcing initiatives. Although proper governance i...

Establishing IT governance arrangements is a deeply political process, where relationships of power play crucial role. While the importance widely acknowledged in IS literature, specific mechanisms whereby consequences affect are still under-researched. This study investigates way inscribed digital identity systems Denmark and United Kingdom, public private actors involved. Drawing on theoretic...

Information technology outsourcing (ITO) has been a topic of great interest, one that organization researchers have studied extensively. Previous studies have suggested that ITO research has expanded from one organization and bilateral partnerships to a network form of organization that links multiple organizations and spans inter-organizational boundaries. Yet, little research has been conduct...

Over the past two decades, the formation of international and interfirm collaborations has increased substantially, especially for the high-tech firms. It is argued that collaborations provide a platform for organizational learning, giving partner firms access to each other’s knowledge. However, empirical validations on the relationships among governance mechanisms, interfirm learning and relat...

Crowdsourcing has increasingly become a recognized sourcing mechanism for problem-solving in organizations by outsourcing the problem to an undefined entity or the ‘crowd’. While the phenomenon of crowdsourcing is not new, it has gained considerable attention in practice due to new crowdsourcing opportunities that have been enabled by new social networking and web 2.0 technologies. While crowds...

The number of books and papers bearing the term ‘global private governance’ has grown exponentially in the last decade. This paper studies NGO-business initiated transnational regulations. The main purpose is to explore what meanings may be attached to this relatively new form of governance, particularly related to issues of sustainable development, and how the implications may be assessed. Aft...