INTRODUCTION Responsible governance is crucial to national development and a catalyst for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. To date, governance seems to have been a neglected issue in the field of human resources for health (HRH), which could be an important reason why HRH policy formulation and implementation is often poor. This article aims to describe how governance issues have inf...

Public policy aspects of climate change have been relatively neglected in debate and in academic analysis at the more pragmatic end of policy development and implementation, yet are enormously significant. Indeed it could be argued that it is the enormity of the governance challenge of climate change that has contributed to the lack of effective policy action to reduce emissions in Australia an...

We find that U.S. corporations’ demand for liquidity is sensitive to two important factors: uncertainty facing the firm and the quality of corporate governance. Following prior research, we find that both factors have important influences on firms’ cash holdings. Our results also indicate that the interactions between uncertainty and governance measures are significant. From a policy perspectiv...

We test the agency theory of corporate political activity by examining the association between the legality of independent expenditures and antitakeover lawmaking in theUSstates. Exploiting changes in state law regarding the use of corporate independent expenditures in the pre-Citizens United era, we estimate that a state is more likely to pass antitakeover statutes that entrench management whe...

Founded in 2003, the Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV) aims to study the legal, social and cultural implicatons resultng from the advancement of informaton and communicaton technologies. CTS/FGV produces academic research and policy papers that may impact the development of public policies, so they will uphold democracy, fundamental rights and the preservaton of the public interest. T...

Digital education governance: data visualization, predictive analytics, and ‘real-time’ policy instruments Ben Williamson To cite this article: Ben Williamson (2016) Digital education governance: data visualization, predictive analytics, and ‘real-time’ policy instruments, Journal of Education Policy, 31:2, 123-141, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1035758 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/1...

This paper develops an organizational approach to corporate governance and assesses the effectiveness of corporate governance and implications for policy. Most corporate governance research focuses on a universal link between corporate governance practices (e.g., board structure, shareholder activism) and performance outcomes, but neglects how interdependencies between the organization and dive...

Health reform is the outcome of dispersed policy initiatives in different sectors, at different levels and across time. Policy work which can drive coherent health reform needs to operate across the governance structures as well as the institutions that comprise healthcare systems. Building policy capacity to support health reform calls for clarity regarding the nature of such policy work and t...

This study empirically observes the impact of corporate governance index on dividend payout policy by using the data on thirty textile firms listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. The data cover the five-year period from 2009 to 2013. The data were gathered from financial statements of all the sample firms. Multiple regression models were used to check the impact of corporate governance on dividend ...