The concept of local self-governance is not new as it has its roots in ancient time even before the era of Mauryan emperors. This paper depicts the journey of local selfgovernance from antediluvian time to 21st century. Further, in the current scenario Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has emerged as a successful tool for dissemination of various e-governance services and in this r...

Large-scale safety and security incidents typically require the coordinated effort of multiple organisations. A networked organisation is generally seen as the most appropriate structure for coordination within safety and security collaborations. Such networks generally are mixed-sector networks in the sense that the strategic orientations of the contributing organisations differ. Our research ...

This paper develops a model of ‘governance’ as an aid for comparing such governance structures and applies these to a particular policy arena: policies on the protection of groundwater and on drinking water quality in the Netherlands and Florida. The research questions examined by this paper are: 1. Which elements make up a governance structure? 2. In what ways do these elements influence each ...

This is a critical survey dealing with the methodology of corporate governance literature, in general. Historically, researchers failed to address the problems of corporate governance properly due to the biased approaches to the issues around corporate governance when the national economy is in boom. As a result they have produced confusing definitions, and contradicting rules and suggestions. ...

Building on prior research on how boards should provide stakeholder transparency by disclosing on how their organizations are governing their IT assets, this paper provides an exploratory insight in the contemporary state of IT governance transparency in Belgian and South African companies. Specifically, the influence of the national corporate governance code on IT governance transparency is in...

The separation of ownership and control in corporations opens up the potential for moral hazard. Thus it is conventional wisdom that managers who are not closely monitored pursue personal goals rather then maximize shareholder wealth. Yet little is known about what these goals are, despite the importance of understanding manager behavior when designing corporate governance rules. This paper pro...

This paper focuses on the inter-relationship between corporate governance, financing of corporate growth and stock market development in emerging countries. It explores both theoretically and empirically the nature of the interrelationships between these phenomena, as well as their implications for economic policy. It concentrates on how corporate growth is financed, an area where the literatur...

Background: This study investigates whether state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Indonesia implement stronger corporate governance than do non-SOEs. It can be argued that as a large dedicated institutional investor, the Indonesian government has an incentive to strengthen corporate governance in SOEs and possesses the ability to bear the cost of implementing stronger governance. Research Methods: ...

Using Panel Data methods, this paper examines the impact of institutional investors on corporate governance and corporate performance, based on samples of familial listed companies in China from 2006 to 2008. The research shows that after investing in familial listed companies, institutional investors would play an important role to improve corporate governance. Simultaneously, the proportion o...

This paper explores the role of corporate governance in the Asian crisis countries: Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. It argues that the focus in an analysis of corporate governance should be on the provision of external equity finance -the position of outside minority shareholders. The proportion of equity finance in the capital structure of firms is highly correlated with the status of...