Asia and Global Financial Governance

China’s Financial Linkages with Asia and the Global Financial Crisis

This paper discusses recent steps China has taken to open its capital account and presents empirical evidence on asset market linkages between China and Asia. We find only weak crosscountry linkages in longer-term interest rates, but much stronger linkages in equity markets. Moreover, we find that the strength of the correlation of equity prices changes between China and other Asia countries in...

IT Governance in Global Enterprises: Managing in Asia

As businesses reconfigure their value chains and scale up their global expansions, they have to cope with a myriad of complex IT management challenges. This research examines how enterprises realign their global IT strategies for scale, speed, and innovation. Anchored in the IT governance literature, we seek to unravel the required governance structures and processes in balancing the inherent g...

Governance and Financial Fragility

History, Structure and Agency in Global Health Governance; Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?”

Ilona Kickbusch’s thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...

Global Governance

This paper critically examines and explains the increasingly influential idea of ‘global governance’. After outlining the evolving intentional order and the new actors that are prominent part of contemporary governance structures, I assess the implication of these developments for the state.