This paper investigates the effects of board of director collusion on managerial incentives and firm values. Recent academic research hints at the social network of board of directors as an important conduit for coordinating corporate governance policies, such as managerial pay, and curbing competition. We study a model where managers can exert unobservable cost-cutting effort and investigate t...

We consider the problem of enforcing compliance with information security policies in organizations in order to mitigate insider threat. We show that compliance with security policies may be enforced even for myopic, self-interested, agents by providing them proper economic incentives for compliance. Our approach includes several variations of a compliance game between the organization and its ...

Compliance management, risk analysis, and auditing are disciplines that are critical for large scale distributed enterprise systems. The way these complex systems are developed and deployed makes the management and enforcement of enterprise goals or policies a hard task. This is also true for compliance management of business processes (BPs). Such an observation is emphasized if we give complia...

Article history: Received 1 August 2012 Received in revised form 26 September 2013 Accepted 3 November 2013 Available online xxxx While stock options are commonly used in managerial compensation to provide desirable incentives, they can create adverse incentives to distort the choice of investment risk. Relative to the risk level that maximizes firm value, call options in a compensation contrac...

The present study was conducted to compare precision and traditional agriculture by budgeting technique. Its statistical population consists of 210 experts in agricultural jihad organization of Qom province. The validity of Questionnaire as research tool ware confirmed by professors while its reliability was corroborated by Cranach’s alpha to 0.78-0.94 intervals. According to the findings, ther...

Managers who oversee cybersecurity policies commonly rely on managerial encouragement (e.g., rewards) and employee characteristics attitude) to drive compliant behaviour. However, whereas some initiatives are perceived as reasonable by employees, others viewed a ‘waste of time’. This research introduces judgements legitimacy new angle for understanding compliance with over time. Drawing theory ...

This article analyzes whether the Presidential Decrees complied with better regulation standards and results are explained in light of legal, managerial cultural dimensions Public Administration. 128 Decrees, issued between 2009 2018, which institutionalize public policies or government programs evaluated. These quantitative data were combined information obtained from 66 interviews top-ranked ...

BACKGROUND Knowing the temporal trend central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates among U.S. pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), the current extent of central line bundle compliance, and the impact of compliance on rates is necessary to understand what has been accomplished and can be improved in CLABSI prevention. METHODS This is a longitudinal study of PICUs in National...

The complexity and costs of conforming to regulatory objectives in large enterprises has drastically heightened the need for consistent and automated approaches to managing compliance. To uniformly describe and manage compliance policies in distributed and heterogeneous IT environments, we have proposed a compliance metamodel for formally capturing regulatory requirements and managing them in a...