richard saltman and antonio duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article “governance, government and the search for new provider models,” and use two case studies of health policy changes in sweden and spain to shed light on the subject. in this commentary, i seek to link their conceptualization of governance, especially its interrelated roles at the macro, meso, and micro...

Corporate organization varies within a country and across countries with country size. The paper starts by establishing some facts about corporate organization based on unique data of 660 Austrian and German corporations. The larger country (Germany) has larger firms with flatter and more decentralized corporate hierarchies compared to the smaller country (Austria). Firms in the larger country ...

X iv :n uc lth /9 80 60 92 v2 3 0 Ju n 19 98 Band Crossing studied by GCM with 3D-CHFB Takatoshi Horibata, Makito Oi , Naoki Onishi c a Department of Information System Engineering, Aomori University, Aomori-city, Aomori 030-0943, Japan b Institute of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0041, Japan c Cyclotron Laboratory, Institute of Physical...

Developments in electronic communications have created many new uses for the letter “e”—“e-commerce,” “e-learning,” “e-governance,” and so forth. These terms point to some of the ways in which modern information and communications technologies (ICTs) are changing how millions of people work and live. Against that background, it makes sense for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (...

Good implementation of corporate governance principles is considered as an important component for stability and soundness of a financial institution. An extensive body of literature has reviewed the effects of corporate governance on the performance of corporations. The majority of these studies have found more corporate values for implementing the principles. Therefore, the assessment of comp...

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