We explore whether Rotterdam city has the governance capacity in terms of processes at place, and the attention in terms of vision and strategy to take up an integrated approach toward urban resilience. We adopt an interpretative policy analysis approach to assess the dynamics of urban ecosystem governance considering interviews, gray literature, and facilitated dialogues with policy practition...

In the newer, more complex realities that face organizations, governing boards are called upon to provide both oversight and innovative strategy. Parallels between the innovative boards that use John Carver’s Policy Governance and Boeing’s innovative top-tier airplane designers are described. They both employ visionary prototypes (Ends policies for Policy Governance boards and design Ends for B...

This paper provides an empirical analysis about the relationship of corporate governance and cash dividend policy in China. The results show that equity structure and the cash dividends are related. Other factors such as executive pay are related to cash dividends. This paper also analyzes the requirement of cash dividends on behalf of the corporate governance or big shareholders "Tunnel behavi...

OBJECTIVES To investigate healthcare professional perceptions of local implementation of a national clinical governance policy in New Zealand. DESIGN Respondent comments written at the end of a national healthcare professional survey designed to assess implementation of core components of the clinical governance policy. SETTING The written comments were provided by respondents to a survey d...

carey and friel suggest that we turn to knowledge developed in the field of public administration, especially new public governance, to better understand the process of implementing health in all policies (hiap). in this commentary, i claim that theories from the policy studies bring a broader view of the policy process, complementary to that of new public governance. drawing on the policy stud...

We examine the effect of corporate governance on the use of dividends and repurchases, composition of payout, and inclusion of a pre-commitment feature in the payout policy. We find that dividend payout is decreasing in governance quality. Corporate governance has a mixed effect on repurchases: good external governance prompts managers to repurchase more and to use repurchases as the only form ...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+) requires harmonizing different policy sectors and interests that have impacts on forests. However, these elements have not been well-operationalized in environmental policy-making processes of most developing countries. Drawing on five cases—Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Papua New Guinea, and Vietnam, t...

The Limits to Governance is an edited volume that questions “conventional notions of governance in response to calls for more critical debate and guidance on its application in specific policy areas such as the life sciences”. The volume is the output of the interdisciplinary research programme of the ESRC Innogen Centre at the University of Edinburgh, building on an earlier volume published by...