Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract This paper describes and analyses patterns of 'governance conversation' observed in interactions on email lists that aim to support local, direct ...

BACKGROUND Clinical Governance provides a framework for assessing and improving clinical quality through a single coherent program. Organizational appropriateness is aimed at achieving the best health outcomes and the most appropriate use of resources. The goal of the present study is to verify the likely relationship between Clinical Governance and appropriateness of hospital stay. METHODS A...

The governance of climate adaptation involves the collective efforts of multiple societal actors to address problems, or to reap the benefits, associated with impacts of climate change. Governing involves the creation of institutions, rules and organizations, and the selection of normative principles to guide problem solution and institution building. We argue that actors involved in governing ...

The article considers the role of public involvement in the British National Health Service in the context of the wider shift from government to governance. Based on a comparative case study, it identifies different outcomes from a single policy initiative in two localities. It argues, following Jessop, that accounts of governance which rest on inter-organisational relationships are inadequate,...

Business Intelligence (BI) is one of the fastest growing software sector and software vendors are rapidly developing multiple BI tools to support the growing data analysis needs of organisations. In order to be sustainable in a briskly changing turbulent environment, organisations need to have access to information about their operational performance. BI tools play a vital role in supporting th...

This study identifies governance patterns for information technology investment decision processes and explores the impact of organizations’ investment characteristics, external Bernard Tan was the accepting senior editor for this paper. Christina Soh was the associate editor. Ranganathan Chandrasekaran and Albert Boonstra served as reviewers. The third reviewer chose to remain anonymous. envir...

Research Article Jennifer Jewer University of Waterloo [email protected] Kenneth N. McKay University of Waterloo [email protected] In spite of the potential benefits of board IT governance and the costs of ineffective oversight, there has been little field-based research in this area and an inadequate application of theory. Drawing upon strategic choice and institutional theories, we propo...

The number of books and papers bearing the term ‘global private governance’ has grown exponentially in the last decade. This paper studies NGO-business initiated transnational regulations. The main purpose is to explore what meanings may be attached to this relatively new form of governance, particularly related to issues of sustainable development, and how the implications may be assessed. Aft...

The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as an emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management within open innovation and adjusts mutual behavior that parties taking participate in open innovation to be expected. The paper proposed that knowledge governance approach is positively related to open innovation, and then the research has explored the antecedent fact...