In a number of countries throughout the world attention is being paid to the ways in which health and social care research is undertaken and regulated. In the United Kingdom, new research governance frameworks are intended to promote improvement in research quality. This paper draws on our experiences of seeking research ethics committee approval for two investigations with the same research de...

D espite the grim view of resource overexploitation and the collapse famously described in Hardin’s (1) much-cited ‘‘Tragedy of the Commons,’’ we now know that local governance institutions have the potential to overcome common pool resource dilemmas. A growing literature (2, 3), including Chhatre and Agrawal’s analysis of forest commons (4) in this issue of PNAS, demonstrates the conditions of...

good governance is a term indicating the change of paradigm of state and government roles which prepares the way for equal participation for all citizens in decision making process, revealing this reality that governance belongs to public and is organized by them. on the other hand, e-government is a powerful instrument which causes the better public service, decrease of waste time, improvement...

Purpose – This aim of this article is to review the 12 manuscripts accepted into the special issue of “Corporate Politics, Philanthropy and Governance” in Chinese Management Studies. It explains basic concepts, provides brief introduction to each manuscript and presents the related findings. Design/methodology/approach – Most manuscripts in this special issue used primary empirical data (collec...

The most important tool for promoting the bank’s stability and health is the establishment of a standard corporate governance structure for managing the bank's business. Redesigning the relationships between bank management, shareholders and the rest of the bank’s stockholder, including the objectives, the risk and audit indices, and internal control of the bank, is recognized as the foundation...

In a series of articles on "best practices" of independent regulatory commissions (IRCs), Sanford Berg and Lynne Holt have noted the ways regulatory processes and policies either promote or deter investments in water and sanitation utility systems. In this article, the authors describe the constellation of factors affecting infrastructure investments and water utility operations. IRCs exercise ...

Models of public governance are changing profoundly due to global and digital transformations and various context-specific societal pressures. One direction of development is the increased utilisation of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in facilitating governance practices. Such changes are intended to improve the performance of public organisations, the quality of democratic g...

Over the last two decades, the role of information technology in organizations has changed from primarily a supportive and transactional function to being an essential prerequisite for strategic value generation. The organizations based their operational services through its Information Systems (IS) that need to be managed, controlled and monitored constantly. IT governance (ITG), i.e. the way ...