More thoroughly understanding how interorganizational governance value can be created by information technology and other governance mechanisms is critical for supply chain management. Based primarily on transaction-cost economics and supplemented by the resource-based view, this study investigates how interorganizational governance (i.e., relational governance and virtual integration) can crea...

Knowledge sharing is one of the hot issues in the theoretical field and practical world at the current. It remains to be further studied on what level knowledge sharing among Chinese universities is at and what mechanism can affect it. This paper presents a model of conceptual and measurement of knowledge sharing among scientific research teams(KSASRT) in universities and its relevant influenti...

Incentive structures embodied in different systems of corporate governance produce firms with inclinations towards the development of particular capabilities and strategic assets and disinclinations towards the development of others. To the extent that there is an excessive dependence upon any particular type of governance, an economy as a whole will be endowed with both its benefits and costs....

This article examines the impact of two facilitating conditions for boundary-spanning behaviour in urban governance networks. While research on boundary spanning is growing, there is little attention for antecedents. Combining governance network literature on project management and organizational literature on facilitative and servant leadership, we examine two potential conditions: a facilitat...

Following its earlier consideration of hedge funds and private equity, the Steering Group on Corporate Governance considered policy issues from the perspective of the Principles of Corporate Governance and agreed to release its findings.

The purpose of the present paper is to help bring some advances in the characterization of the emerging stakeholder model of corporate governance. This shall be achieved by analyzing CSR function at board level, board diversity and stakeholder engagement and by examining its relationship with financial performance. Based on an empirical study of an international sample of large companies, we fo...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank the University of Richmond and the Undergraduate Research Committee for its generous funding and support for my research, and for my advisers Dr. Jennifer Erkulwater and Dr. Jan French who have been invaluable during the research and writing of this paper. Most importantly, I would like to thank the people of Richmond who have had a profound impact on me d...