magnetotelluric (mt) method is an electromagnetic technique that uses the earth natural field to map the electrical resistivity changes in subsurface structures. because of the high penetration depth of the electromagnetic fields in this method (tens of meters to tens of kilometers), the mt data is used to investigate the shallow to deep subsurface geoelectrical structures and their dimensions....

A governance structure is the set of public and private rules that govern the execution of a transaction. Governance structures affect the efficiency of transactions by solving two basic problems of exchange: coordination and safeguarding. Coordination refers to the alignment of the activities of two or more parties involved in the same transaction. Safeguarding refers to protecting against exc...

Various companies have implemented IT governance frameworks to improve their management and governance of IT. The benefits and areas of focus of IT governance have been only explored in theory. In this research an international survey of 113 firms using CobiT was conducted to understand the impact on the IT governance focus areas as companies increase their adoption of CobiT. Results indicate t...

Introduction: presentation sequence / structure Preamble: meta-themes ("about" responding to the challenge) Part A: -Contemporary "myths" governing the relationships of governance and civil society? (Fig. 1) -Civilizing governance vs Governance of civilization? -Potential response conventionally presented : "Thinking" and "Doing" (Fig. 2) Part B: -Challenge of governance: metaphorical impoveris...

In India, where a major population lives in rural area it becomes essential that e-governance is available there. ICT plays a key role in e-governance, and so it becomes essential that ICT reaches rural masses. This will lead to good governance which in turn will lead to better administration, better interaction, less corruption and more transparency in the government. This paper deals with the...

This paper aims to describe the main challenges to enterprise governance and proposes a hybrid approach based on business rules, constraints modelling and simulation. This approach can help to identify the high-level governance requirements and relate strategic, operational and IT governance aspects together. One of the important values of this approach is aligning governance knowledge in order...

Equity overvaluation is thought to create the potential for manager misbehavior, while monitoring and corporate governance curb misbehavior. Thus, the effects of corporate governance should be greatest when firms become overvalued. We test this simple yet powerful idea. Using proxies of price deviations from fundamentals and standard measures of corporate governance we demonstrate that firm per...

With reported security incidents in organisations on the increase, effective Security Governance is expected to become a major issue in organisations. A research framework of Security Governance was created from a literature review into Corporate Governance, IT Governance, and Security Management. Reported in this paper is an initial case study based on this framework. The framework covers the ...

A model of corporate governance must explain (i) why governance matters; (ii) variation in governance across firms (i.e., be responsive to the Demsetz and Lehn, 1985, critique); and (iii) the positive correlations found empirically between quality of corporate governance and corporate performance. The model presented here satisfies these three criteria. It assumes exogenous variation in firm po...

Nowadays organizations require an effective governance framework for their service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to enable them to use a framework to evaluate their current state governance and determine the governance requirements, and then to offer a suitable model for their governance. Various frameworks have been developed to evaluate the SOA governance. In this paper, a brief introd...