California, Colorado, and Maryland were among the first states to enact legislation establishing health insurance exchanges called for in the Affordable Care Act. This brief outlines differences that stand out in the states' initial approaches: the numbers and types of people initially appointed to the boards governing the exchanges; the role of the board relative to the state legislature; how ...

Building on prior research on how boards should provide stakeholder transparency by disclosing on how their organizations are governing their IT assets, this paper provides an exploratory insight in the contemporary state of IT governance transparency in Belgian and South African companies. Specifically, the influence of the national corporate governance code on IT governance transparency is in...

It is frequently assumed that rising enrollment improves an institution’s financial condition. In fact, enrollment growth can have an adverse impact on the institution’s financial condition, even in the presence of excess capacity. The reason for this surprising conclusion is that the size of the subsidy required to attract additional students may cause the net financial impact to be negative. ...

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...

There continue to be serious deficiencies in the quality of life available to many nursing home residents in the United States. One significant response to this undesirable situation is the nursing home "Culture Change" movement, which attempts to improve the nursing home environment-and consequently residents' quality of life-by making facilities less institutional and more homelike. One of th...

Many organisations have recently adopted variants of cloud computing. Many of them have done so with considerable enthusiasm, but with very little reflection. Commentators have warned of uncertain benefits, predictable disbenefits and a wide range of risks. A study of IT media reports shows that cloud outages are frequent, and that at least some of the theoretical risks are very real. This pape...

This study investigates gender spillovers from women on supervisory boards to management in a two-tier system with employee codetermination. The board consists of nominating committee mainly responsible for the appointment directors board. By combining similarity attraction theory power theory, we predict that only female shareholder representatives who serve drive positive effect presence boar...

establishment of boards of trustees for all universities was legalized in 1988. it is crucial to assess the performance of the boards and to adjust them to the mandates raised by new visions of the country.subjects were members of boards of trustees and officers in charge of board's affairs at medical universities. furthermore, a sample of 860 resolutions adopted by the boards was selected to a...

The target of this study was to investigate the possibility of MDF productionfrom Eucalyptus camaldulensis wood. MDF fibers were produced applying threelevels of steaming time. Laboratory MDF boards were produced using thegenerated fibers and different pressing temperature and time. Physical andmechanical properties of MDF panels were measured using relevant EU testmethods and were statisticall...