Global health refers to 'those health issues which transcend national boundaries and governments and call for actions on the global forces and global flows that determine the health of people'. (Kickbusch 2006) Governance in this trans-national and cross-cutting arena can be analyzed along three political spaces: global health governance, global governance for health, and governance for global ...

As organizations have become more complex over the past twenty years, so have the structures and the governance mechanisms that control them. Similarly, with the growth of various computer technologies, IT has become increasingly complex, in terms of hardware, software, and architecture. Thus, the governance and structure of IT reflects both organizational and technological changes. During the ...

Out of the various motivations and intentions for outsourcing information technology, customers’ expectations of innovative IT products and services for business advantage have only recently become an emerging issue among IT service providers and their customers. But little is known about ITenabled innovation in IS outsourcing settings and how to manage such outsourcing relationships. Do custom...

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...

Forscher und Praktiker im Gebiet intraorganisationaler IT-Governance beschäftigen sich seit Längerem intensiv mit den organisatorischen Strukturen IT-bezogener Entscheidungen. Ergebnisse aus kontingenztheoretischen Analysen ha-ben gezeigt, dass eine effektive Steuerung der IT durch situative Faktoren bedingt ist. Im noch jungen Forschungszweig der IT-Netzwerk-Governance fand dies noch keine Bet...

With the recent service enhancements over the Internet, organisations are confronted with a growing magnitude of security intrusions and attacks. Current intrusion detection strategies have not been effective in the long term, as new and obfuscated security attacks keep emerging evading the surveillance mechanisms. With information technology (IT) playing a pivotal role in today’s organizationa...

Information Security is very important in e-Business. Previous IT governance frameworks have not given the connection between IT governance and e-business security sufficient attention. This paper identifies various levels of governance followed by a focus in the roles of information technology (IT) governance with reference to information security for today’ s electronic business (e-business) ...

Die Sicherheit der IT-Systeme ist nicht zuletzt durch das breite Interesse der Medien und Öffentlichkeit zu einem ausgesprochen wichtigen Thema jedes Wirtschaftunternehmens geworden. Vertraulichkeit, Verfügbarkeit und Integrität der Unternehmensund Kundendaten ist überlebenswichtig gerade in Bezug auf die Reputation. Besonders Banken leben von der Vertrauenswürdigkeit gegenüber ihren Kunden. Wä...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) initially developed by Kaplan and Norton, is a performance management system that should allow enterprises to drive their strategies on measurement and follow-up. In recent years the BSC has been applied to information technology (IT) and currently the first real-life IT applications are starting to emerge. In this article, it is shown how the IT balanced scorecard ...