Sustainability governance for resource consumption by humans, such as greenhouse gas (GHG) and electricity consumption in facilities, is a complex issue that requires extensible platforms to manage and analyze multiple types of data over the time. In this paper, we will examine how cloud-based information systems and services can support emerging and future requirements for sustainability gover...

stewardship is not a new concept for public policy, but has not been used to its optimum by the health policy-makers. although it is being practiced in most successful models of health system, but the onus to this function is still due till date. lately, few experts in world health organization (who) have realized its importance and have been raising the issue at different platforms to pursue t...

Governance networks play an increasingly important role in ecosystem management. The collaboration within these governance networks can be formalized or informal, top-down or bottom-up, and designed or self-organized. Informal self-organized governance networks may increase legitimacy if a variety of stakeholders are involved, but at the same time, accountability becomes blurred when decisions ...

This article reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentivesbased governance and cross-scale governance. It argues that in view of the complexity and multi-scalar character of many of the most pressing environmental problems, conventional debates focused on “pure” modes of governance, w...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first task is to develop a conceptual framework for thinking about local democratic governance. Once that framework is developed, specific indicators will be proposed to monitor the quality of key features or characteristics of a process of local democratic governance. The indicators will be “actionable” and can be used to guide CDD operations and track...

Economists agree that governance is one of the critical factors explaining the divergence in performance across developing countries. The differences of view between economists regarding governance are to do first, with the types of state capacities that constitute the critical governance capacities necessary for the acceleration of development and secondly, with the importance of governance re...

From a meta-model linking a firm’s corporate governance system to managerial discretion (Charreaux, 2008), this article presents a specific corporate governance model for the high growth entrepreneurial firm. A survey of the empirical literature on the governance of entrepreneurial firms confirms the plausibility of this theoretical framework, especially with respect to the cognitive dimension ...

In this article, we study the potential for digital, online information and electronic voting to improve shareholder surplus by facilitating a new governance structure, owner-governance, which shifts control of the takeover decision from the board to shareholders. We compare analytical models of owner-governance to the current practice of delegatedgovernance in the context of increasing availab...

Business world today identifies a need of IT use. It is clear that IT is transforming the business. Since IT offers both opportunities and threats, effective IT governance is required to deliver IT benefits. Enterprises have to understand this issue deeply in wider business perspective in order to successfully implement IT. Effective IT governance can be achieved through enterprise’s ability in...

This study investigates the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on Internet financial reporting (IFR) behavior. We rely upon agency theory to predict an association between the extent of a firm’s Internet disclosure behavior and its corporate governance structures. We measure corporate governance by shareholder rights, ownership structure, and board composition. We develop a disclosure in...