women’s governance in three villages of “ask”, “aphoos”, and “toocheh ghaz” has been reported in iran. the aim of this article is to present the processes of the ceremony in ask village which is located in 90 km. from north- east of the capital city (tehran). the methods of the study are participant observation and review on secondary data and documents. in the past, this ceremony had different...

Recent corporate scandals have led to new governance rules by the United States Congress as well as by stock exchanges. This study examines the changes in corporate governance practices during 2001-2005, which covers the period before and after the new regulations. We analyze a comprehensive set of 64 governance attributes for more than 5,200 firms. Our findings indicate that corporate governan...

In this paper I argue that corporate finance theory, empirical research, practical applications, and policy recommendations are deeply rooted in an underlying theory of the firm. I also argue that while the existing theories have delivered very important and useful insights, they seem to be quite ineffective in helping us cope with the new type of firms that are emerging. I outline the characte...

BACKGROUND: Only governments sensitive to the demands of their citizens appropriately respond to needs of their nation. Based on Professor Amartya Sen's analysis of the link between famine and democracy, the following null hypothesis was tested: "Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence is not associated with governance". METHODS: Governance has been divided by a recent World Bank paper in...

The highly contested and complex issue of transboundary water governance calls for rethinking fairness and equity in the allocation of water between sovereign nation-states. This paper provokes ideas about the problem of allocation and access as it is stated in the Earth System Governance Project. It starts out arguing that the problem of allocation in the Middle East is framed by both upstream...

T study addresses the theoretically underexplored question of how fit between project governance configurations, and the knowledge of specialized information technology (IT) and client departments, influences information systems development (ISD) performance. It conceptualizes project governance configurations using two classes of project decisions rights—decision control rights and decision ma...