One of the characteristics of the modern international systems is the undeniable role the new communication technologies play in different sections of human societies. Modern communication technologies such as satellites and computers have challenged the national authority and sovereignty of Vestfallian states.  Although national states, specially, in the third world countries, extremely resist...

a central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. in tax-funded european health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

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: ...

All over the world, local, regional and national governments are exploring various governance approaches ranging from public-private partnerships to civic engagement and citizen participation. All of these meet the interdependency character of complex decision making process. In the governance literature, different forms of governance arrangements are seen as promising solution for managing suc...

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...

background: the quality of clinical services is one of the main concerns around the world. clinical governance as a new approach to improving the quality of care provided by the health care system plays a major role in the provision of higher quality health care services. the success of this approach depends on the existence of a strong and suitable organizational culture. the aim of this study...

abstract government capacity and governance capacity are the new concepts in the literature of public administration and political science. beside these concepts, there are other concepts that points at the capacity of institutions, and non-government organizations. non-governance capacity has measured in such dimensions as the capacity of media, political parties, research institutions, pressu...

following the collapse of ussr, the usa, as a key player of the middle east region, claimed the leadership of the world unipolar system and, during the last two decades has attempted to restructure the region. to this end, the us has tried to put into practice a plan under the name the new middle east, inorder to maintain its presence and dominance over this strategic region with the aim of sec...

The actuality of middle and small private enterprises is that “slow birth, little growth, quick death and short life”. As viewed from the character of the financial management, they usually have the financial objective with short views and low effectiveness, which is represented from ten aspects. To improve the problems existing in the finical management of middle and small private enterprises,...

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) ...