Within a virtual organization, more than one institution might be involved in the regulation of actors’ behavior. Each institution specifies a set of norms covering a specific aspect of the problem domain with a governance scope defining its remit. Together, they govern the participants and reflect the objectives of the organization. With actors’ behavior being simultaneously regulated by more ...

This study aimed to further our understanding of a characteristic of Community Resilience known as Disaster Governance. Three attributes of Disaster Governance-redundancy, diversity, and overlap-were studied in four coastal towns in southern Chile that are at risk of tsunamis. Overall, we explored how different spatial structures of human settlements influence Disaster Governance. Using the Pro...

in current dynamic and often turbulent work environment, information technology becomes an effective competitive advantage that organizations largely rely on it. due to this affiliation, the importance of integrity and accommodation between the information technology strategies and business strategies in organizations has been increased. this alliance is the initial aim of the governance of inf...

Traditionally, economic theory has by and large been a theory of markets or, more precisely, about market prices. However, there are at least two reasons why economic science should extend beyond price theory. First, markets do not function properly unless suitable contracts can be formulated and enforced. Hence, we need to understand the institutions that support markets. Second, considerable ...

When attempting to avoid global warming, individuals often face a social dilemma in which, besides securing future benefits, it is also necessary to reduce the chances of future losses. In this manuscript, we introduce a simple approach to address this type of dilemmas, in which the risk of failure plays a central role in individual decisions. This model can be shown to capture some of the esse...

Trond Hammervoll Department of Business Administration and Social Sciences, Harstad University College, Norway [email protected] This article is an empirical attempt to examine the relationship between types of governance and value creation in supply chain relationships. It does this by examining the incentive systems associated with various forms of governance and their effects on inform...

power as an institution, governance as structure and spatial organization is considered as an organizational tool in the service of the goals and aspirations of the institutions of power and governance structure. in this framework the spatial organization and geographic environment is a result of social organization (social, economic, political), and its natural and ecological system. human aut...

This study builds on developments in transaction cost economics to examine how institutional environment and transaction (project) characteristics affect governance of inter-firm alliances. The focus is on the choice between equity and contractual alliance forms under differing regimes of intellectual property protection and other national institutional features. Empirical results identify tran...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption is known as an evolutionary process. In this process of adoption, a number of areas in an organization are affected. However, there are a limited number of researches that focus on the effects of SOA adoption in an organization. This study investigated the significant organizational factors affected by SOA adoption during the last six years. The stud...