BACKGROUND Impact assessment (IA) of all major European Union (EU) policies is now mandatory. The form of IA used has been criticised for favouring corporate interests by overemphasising economic impacts and failing to adequately assess health impacts. Our study sought to assess how, why, and in what ways corporations, and particularly the tobacco industry, influenced the EU's approach to IA. ...

Despite the popularity of sponsorship-linked marketing programs, we know little about how firms form sponsorship policies. This article describes a corporate identitysponsorship policy link and offers empirical support for it via a mixed method research design. Content analysis of 146 Fortune 500 companies’ online sponsorship policies and mission statements is followed by cluster, factor and mu...

Both international and domestic developments have combined to bring the corporate governance (CG) debate to the fore in Turkey. On one hand, the CG debate at the international level had a ‘pull’ effect. It has drawn the attention of Turkish companies and policy-makers to the linkage between CG quality and sustainable development. On the other hand, domestic realities such as limited foreign dir...

The use of different network security components, such as firewalls and network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs), is the dominant method to survey and guarantee the security policy in current corporate networks. On the one hand, firewalls are traditional security components which provide means to filter traffic within corporate networks, as well as to police the incoming and outcoming intera...

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Czech Republic has evolved notably during the last few years and an issue that started as an interestand motive-based activity for businesses is becoming more commonplace. Governments have a role to play in ensuring that corporations behave according to the rules and norms of society and can legislate, foster, collaborate with business...

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...

• Empowerment of the poor is one ingredient in effective poverty reduction. • A demand-driven participatory approach enhances effectiveness and efficiency. • Accountability is the central lever for participatory governance. • Capacity building is necessary for making participatory governance a reality. In its research activities, the Development Centre aims to identify and analyse problems whos...

This means that two different kinds of police agencies were created (the federal and local police), which were integrated by means of functional instruments (e.g., a common planning cycle, a shared educational programme, the same databases, etc.). The federal component of the system was designated as being responsible for supra-local and complex forms of public disorder and crime, under the sup...

This study analyzes farmers’ perception of grazing restriction policies, grassland environment and ecological management following the implementation of environmental protection policies in northern China. Understanding farmers’ attitudes and their causes will hopefully aid in the creation and execution of future policies. One hundred and thirty-five households were surveyed at three occasions ...

While DRM has now matured to be a recognized and established domain it is currently struggling with interoperability issues mainly on a sector basis (entertainment and media, mobile, enterprise). In the enterprise sector, DRM was fueled by corporate scandals leading to compliance issues mandated by emerging regulatory frameworks. In this context, we make the case for the necessity of raising th...