Conservation easements have increased dramatically but their social and ecological outcomes are largely unknown. To examine the influence of social relations and institutional structure on easement design and conservation outcomes, we compared two regions where land trusts hold conservation easements protecting large areas of private rangeland: Lassen Foothills, California, and Malpai Borderlan...

The aim of this research is to gain understanding of the meaning of shared services and possible motives for introducing shared services in government organizations. We review and clarify definitions of shared services and derive a definition applicable for the government context. Based on analysis of the research literature using content-analyses procedures, we present an empirically grounded ...

All forms of e-government are integrated in an organizational structure defined by the institutional arrangements of the specific state. Thus when using e-government applications to make the government smarter it has to be contextualized in the specific structure of government. A common institutional arrangement is to divide governments into different levels – a multi-level government system. T...

The present study has been conducted to investigate the impact of Cooperative Microfinance Program (CMFP i-e Islamic Relief-Pakistan] on the standard of life of poor marginalized masses. Secondary, time series, ranging from 2002-2008 about the Disbursement of funds, number of beneficiaries [gender wise], financing methods have been taken from the reports of Islamic Relief. Numbers of beneficiar...

KEY CONCEPT Th t hibit ll b f EPOCH f t bl NASA’s Mission to “pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research” requires technological innovation; yet current performance is inadequate (fig 1). Although multiple innovation system have been tried (fig 2), there remains a fundamental lack of understanding of how innovation actually happens in institutions lik...

Knowledge management (KM) is an active and growing field. One of the key factors of KM is its dependence on a culture that will support KM activities. Some of the activities that are extremely culture dependent are the sharing and acceptance of knowledge between individuals and organizations. The question to be answered is whether U.S. federal government (hereafter referred to as “government”) ...

This paper presents the results of open-ended survey exploring the critical success factors for cybersecurity implementation in government organisations in Bhutan. Successful implementation of cybersecurity depends on a thorough understanding of cyber threats and challenges to the organisational information assets. It also depends on identification of a responsible, dedicated personnel to lead ...