A fundamental tension between accessibility and governance exists in the design of healthcare information systems. In order to be useful in practice health information must be distributed, but as the information moves between systems — and different information governance policies — the risk of privacy and security violations increases. The lack of a persistent policy enforcement mechanism thus...

Recent developments in understanding the theory and impact of the firm imply new insights into the policy significance of corporate governance. Unlike a market centred approach, a theory based on strategic decision making highlights the form of governance as a central determinant of people's wellbeing. To govern a corporation is to make its strategic decisions and therefore determine its broad ...

This paper introduces the theory and method of Transaction Cost Economics to identify the essence of e-commerce model by explicating its core objective and function. From the correspondence of transactions and governance structures, the author also discusses the design principle of an ecommerce model. The analysis shows that so-called e-commerce model in commercial practice could be identified ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships among suppliers’ trust and commitment, transaction-specific investment, switching cost, and customer involvement within the context of relational governance mechanism and the social exchange theory. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use survey data from 214 Chinese manufacturing firms and employ the structural equat...

Assessing whether a company’s business practices conform to laws and regulations and follow standards and best practices, i.e., compliance governance, is a complex and costly task. Few software tools aiding compliance governance exist; however, they typically do not really address the needs of who is actually in charge of assessing and controlling compliance, that is, compliance experts and aud...

The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has the potential to improve policy, enhance access and delivery of government services, increase government transparency, and strengthen the involvement of citizens in governmental affairs through “e-government.” Regardless of this potential, many e-government initiatives fail altogether. A need exists for more concrete empirical dat...

This research proposes a novel method for ensuring fair governance of a common resource using asymmetric anonymity. We propose a system of resource governance that uses anonymous auditors instead of a regulatory agency. Self-enforcement and mutual enforcement are subject to fraud and collusion. In the proposed governance system, anonymity, often associated with negative online interactions, is ...

Using HIV/AIDS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and avian influenza as case studies, this paper discusses the processes and dilemmas of China's participation in health governance, both at the domestic level and the global level. Globalization has eroded the boundary between public and private health and between domestic and global health governance. In addition, the SARS outbreak of 2...

Purpose E-Government, introduced in African countries under the banner of New Public Management (NPM), is envisaged to fundamentally aid in improving governance in developing countries. The imported model of E-Government is therefore transferred to African countries as a panacea to bad governance by carriers such as international donor agencies, consultants, Information Technology vendors and W...

INTRODUCTION The expanded availability of electronic health information has led to increased interest in distributed health data research networks. DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH NETWORK MODEL The distributed research network model leaves data with and under the control of the data holder. Data holders, network coordinating centers, and researchers have distinct needs and challenges within this model. ...