Firms in China and in Asian-pacific countries normally encounter a governance paradox of being too lenient via relational-based governance or being too strict via contractual-based governance under uncertainty. While both governance mechanisms have been extensively studied separately under inter-firm governance contexts, though some studies showing complementary and substituted as the interacti...

Information technology governance has become a key issue for organizations as IT decision-making authority and responsibility is devolved away from a central IT function to local IT units and increasingly out of the remit of IT specialists altogether. Research to date has either been conceptual treatises on the issue, or recounts the structures and mechanisms that are currently in place in the ...

this study empirically investigates the relationship between the timeliness of the financial reporting and the corporate governance proxies for companies listed on the tunisian stock exchange during 2009.it investigates the role of the corporate governance mechanisms on the timeliness of corporate financial reporting besides; it investigates the relationship between the company size, leverage, ...

Services are more and more shared among public agencies to gain efficiency benefits. The governance of shared services is a complicated endeavor as it often involves multiple agencies having different objectives and resources, the number of shared services used varies among agencies, technology sophistication differs and non-shared resources of public agencies are interwoven with shared service...

IT governance aims to align business and information technology strategies. Organizations adopt IT governance to ensure efficiency, decreased costs and increased control of IT infrastructures. Some believe that IT governance will improve organizational accountability, thereby resulting in return on investments. IT governance frameworks, such as COBIT and ITIL, are internationally accepted and p...

The strategic importance of information technology (IT) in today’s organizations and dependence on IT to support e-government strategies has increased the interest in IT Governance (ITG) in public sector organizations. From this perspective, this paper examines ITG practices in a public organization in Ghana (that has a responsibility to mobilize revenue for national development) in order to ga...

This research examines the factors that are important to the corporate governance of information technology. It focuses on those aspects of IT management that will be relevant to senior management and governing boards. The paper uses data from a survey of 817 Australian commercial and industrial organisations, and analyses the responses to questions about a number of key processes identified by...

©2008 EDUCAUSE. Reproduction by permission only. Our respondent institutions embodied all of the diversity of mission, public/private control, organizational structures, and cultures that typify North American higher education. As we’ve noted from time to time in this study, there is plenty of room, and plenty of direction from common sense, to adapt IT governance structures to institutional ne...

In this study we evaluate ISO/IEC 38500:2008, the Corporate Governance of Information Technology standard, as a design artefact in the context of development and deployment of a large IT system in a public/private-sector context. The findings show that ISO/IEC 38500:2008 has merit as an analytical framework, providing a good basis upon which to objectively evaluate the corporate governance of I...

This article sets out a framework for the analysis of corporate governance and international business. We take a broad perspective on corporate governance mechanisms and consider possible synergies between corporate governance and international business (IB) research. We summarize the papers included in this Focused Issue, and draw out their main contributions to the literature. We compare and ...