Often referred as Government to Citizen (G2C) egovernment services, many governments around the world are developing and utilizing ICT technologies to provide information and services to their citizens. In Saudi Arabia (KSA) egovernment projects have been identified as one of the top government priority areas. However, the adoption of egovernment is facing many challenges and barriers including...

Using a sample of 204 UK initial public offerings (IPOs), we empirically analyze the motive for and the timing of IPO decision by examining the determinants of IPO structure. Linked to IPO structure, the determinants of underpricing and the pattern of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) are also investigated. The data reveal that younger and smaller firms tend to go public primarily for financing ...

Often referred as Government to Citizen (G2C) egovernment services, many governments around the world are developing and utilizing ICT technologies to provide information and services to their citizens. In Saudi Arabia (KSA) egovernment projects have been identified as one of the top government priority areas. However, the adoption of egovernment is facing many challenges and barriers including...

Often referred as Government to Citizen (G2C) egovernment services, many governments around the world are developing and utilizing ICT technologies to provide information and services to their citizens. In Saudi Arabia (KSA) egovernment projects have been identified as one of the top government priority areas. However, the adoption of egovernment is facing many challenges and barriers including...

Often referred as Government to Citizen (G2C) egovernment services, many governments around the world are developing and utilizing ICT technologies to provide information and services to their citizens. In Saudi Arabia (KSA) egovernment projects have been identified as one of the top government priority areas. However, the adoption of egovernment is facing many challenges and barriers including...

Governments and public sector organizations around the world are facing to reform their public administration organizations and deliver more efficient and cost effective services, as well as better information and knowledge to their stakeholders. E-governance is the effective use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the system of governance that is in place, and thus provi...

This paper reviews and analyzes the challenges of energy transition governance towards a low-carbon society as a political achievement. The main research question is how specific “transition governance approaches” (as advocated by transition theory) can be embedded/anchored in the policy-making logics and practices. We analyze three country cases, known for their path-breaking efforts in the ar...

The growing number of international environmental regimes with demanding commitments and binding rules has hardened many states’ reluctance to accept further commitments. This vacuum has been filled by the participation of “private actors” (understood as business-related actors) in both treaty negotiation and implementation. Transnational Public/Private partnerships are part of this emerging “h...

This paper analyzes corporate governance decisions at firms making initial public offerings (IPOs) of common stock between 1996 and 1999. Our objective is to examine relationships between firms’ corporate governance practices and the quality and availability of accountingand market-based measures of firm performance. We collect a sample of 464 companies from the manufacturing, internet, and tec...