This paper compares the economic efficiency of firm-agency governance structures for pollution reduction using transaction costs economics. Two governance structures are analyzed with the transaction costs approach: command and control regulation (CCR) and negotiated agreements (NAs). We propose that the choice of governance structure depends on the strategies firms pursue given the attributes ...

Inter-organizational collaboration in terms of co-creation, co-development, and co-innovation relies heavily on integrated information systems that support reciprocal relations among member organizations. Ensuring desirable behavior in the use of these inter-organizational IT resources is subject to the emerging research on IT network governance. While past studies have concentrated on singular...

Innovations in information technologies have facilitated the development of new styles of research networks and forms of governance. This is evident in genomics where increasingly, research is carried out by large, interdisciplinary consortia focussing on a specific research endeavour. The UK10K project is an example of a human genomics consortium funded to provide insights into the genomics of...

The mode of Internet-enabled organization referred to here as “distributed problem-solving networks” (DPSNs) is also known as bazaar governance (Demil and Lecocq, 2006; Hope, 2008), commons-based peer production (Benkler, 2006), crowd sourcing, collective wisdom and wikinomics (Tapscott and Williams, 2007). There is currently debate in the academic literature as to how this mode of organizing r...

IT Governance is supposed to ensure the value contribution of an organization’s IT to its overall business strategy. Due to various contingency factors, such as organizational structure or company size, models for IT Governance cannot be off-theshelf solutions, but have to be designed for each company individually. While there have been numerous scientific contributions dealing with the way and...

This paper provides an empirical analysis about the relationship of corporate governance and cash dividend policy in China. The results show that equity structure and the cash dividends are related. Other factors such as executive pay are related to cash dividends. This paper also analyzes the requirement of cash dividends on behalf of the corporate governance or big shareholders "Tunnel behavi...

Knowledge management is a strategy to support enhanced decision making through effective control of organizational knowledge. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the governance of strategies to manage knowledge and the relationship between such strategies and organizational structures. It finds that the federated information transfer model is the ‘best fit’ with a stakeholder m...

Urban ecosystem services are crucial for human well-being and the livability of cities. A central challenge for sustaining ecosystem services lies in addressing scale mismatches between ecological processes on one hand, and social processes of governance on the other. This article synthesizes a set of case studies from urban green areas in Stockholm, Sweden—allotment gardens, urban parks, cemet...