There is, these days, a great deal of discussion about corporate governance. This is largely because governance arrangements thought (with hindsight) to be defi cient shared the blame for some spectacular corporate failures in the latter stages of the US tech boom of the late 1990s. Of course such problems are not that new. Indeed, one could safely assert that governance problems, broadly defi ...

This work deals with IT governance integration in an information system (IS), since it’s one of the main worries to maintain alignment between information technologies and business strategy. It uses COBIT as IT Governance framework saw its generic, and flexible appearance to produce a measurable picture of the current state of IS, through structured IT control activities. It appealed to Loose I...

Information technology (IT) enables businesses to integrate information systems across entities without altering the firms’ legal boundaries. New forms of inter-firm dependence and governance mechanisms may arise, due to the explicit investments made in technology and systems for collaboration purposes. There is an important distinction between general and customized investments in inter-organi...

Corporate governance has been in the recent years one of the most debated issues in conventional economic approaches. Agency theory combined with financial indicators has particularly contributed to the development of shareholder value as a key concept in companies’ governance both at a theoretical and empirical level. In this paper, we argue that an evolutionary perspective can be developed on...

This article assesses the extent, nature and outcomes of the recently devolved health service governance in the four countries which comprise the United Kingdom. This fourpart configuration can be seen as a natural experiment in comparative governance which could therefore carry important lessons not only for the UK but in other countries too. While remaining under the aegis of the National Hea...

This article assesses the extent, nature and outcomes of the recently devolved health service governance in the four countries which comprise the United Kingdom. This fourpart configuration can be seen as a natural experiment in comparative governance which could therefore carry important lessons not only for the UK but in other countries too. While remaining under the aegis of the National Hea...

E-Government or digital government is a tool for governments to use the most innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) through digital networks with convenient access to government information and services. “E-Governance” is the application of ICT for delivering government services, exchange of information and communication between government and people. Government services a...

Louise G. Trubek INTRODUCTION Health care reform is underway. To resolve longstanding health care problems, reformers are using new technologies, revising the role of public agencies, expanding the use of information, and creating flexible and participatory tools. These processes are different from previous understandings of health care governance. They are based on an emerging set of practices...

Bushman and Smith (2001, this issue) provide a useful review of research on the role of accounting in management compensation contracts and an appealing future research agenda that builds on recent research using a cross-country approach. This paper rounds out their discussion by highlighting some limitations of their research agenda, providing a critical review of the contributions of accounti...

Prior research considers the IT governance decision to be a trade-off between the cost-efficiency of centralized information processing, and the responsiveness provided by local information processing. Environmental uncertainty plays a major role in this trade-off. In uncertain environments, the need for local information processing dominates the cost-efficiency available from centralization, l...