Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) as an integrated concept has gained great interest recently among researchers in the Information Systems (IS) field. The need for more effective and efficient business processes in the area of financial controls drives enterprises to successfully implement GRC systems as an overall goal when they are striving for enterprise value of their integrated systems...

Managing an information systems (IS) outsourcing relationship is regarded as a critical success factor in commercial practice. However, there has been limited academic research on how an IS outsourcing relationship is governed to ensure its success and a continuous relationship. In particular, it is challenging for companies to achieve such a feat in China due to the institutional instability o...

This paper utilises the resource-based view as a framework to examine the interactions between information technology (IT) governance, IT management and organisational information systems. Analysis of data collected from medium and large Australian organisations indicates that IT governance capabilities act to improve IT management capabilities which in turn improve the performance of organisat...

BACKGROUND National community health worker (CHW) programmes are returning to favour as an integral part of primary health care systems, often on the back of pre-existing community based initiatives. There are significant challenges to the integration and support of such programmes, and they require coordination and stewardship at all levels of the health system. This paper explores the leaders...

the present research was conducted to build a conceptual model of internal effective factors of small and medium enterprises in mazandaran province. to accomplish the goal of the research first, a complete review of the related literature was conducted. second, questionnaires were given to the corresponding population. finally, the gathered data were calculated and analyzed using spss, excel an...

health systems research aims to understand the governance of health systems (i.e. how health systems function and perform and how their actors interact with each other). this can be achieved by applying innovative methodologies and concepts that are going to capture the complexity and dynamics of health systems when they are affected by shocks. the capacity of health systems to adapt to shocks ...