Enhancing zakat compliance through good governance: a conceptual framework

Governance and Good Governance: A Conceptual Perspective

Good governance has been the subject of theoretical and pragmatic discourses during the last three decades. Recently the indeterminate terms "Governance" and Good governance are being gradually used, in the literature of political science, administrative sciences and development studies. It is being increasingly recognized that Good governance is legitimate, accountable and effective ways of ob...

Governance and Capacity to Manage Resilience of Health Systems: Towards a New Conceptual Framework

The term resilience has dominated the discourse among health systems researchers since 2014 and the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is wide consensus that the global community has to help build more resilient health systems. But do we really know what resilience means, and do we all have the same vision of resilience? The present paper presents a new conceptual framework on go...

A Framework for Assessing Organisational IT Governance, Risk and Compliance

Today, enterprises have reached to understanding that Information Technology (IT) is more than just a technical issue. Disciplines such as IT governance, (IT) risk management and (IT) compliance have been established to steer it. Though, there has been some improvements, these domains are usually focused separately in silos, which raises a problem of performance and efficiency, where less busin...

Supporting Compliance through Enhancing Internal Control Systems by Conceptual Business Process Security Modeling

The importance of Business Process Modeling (BPM) particularly in sensitive areas combined with the rising impact of legislative requirements on IT operations results in a need to conceptually represent security semantics in BPM. We define critical security semantics that need to be incorporated in BPM to aid documentation of security needs and support compliant behavior of security systems. We...

A Conceptual Framework for the Governance of Service-Oriented Architectures