Despite all efforts in the last decennium, IT governance continues to be a "top 10" issue for CIO’s. The goal of our research program is to determine which disciplines and frameworks are used for IT governance and which streams in IT governance literature do best align with current practices. This study describes the results of a literature review and Delphi study of IT governance effectiveness...

In a digital society, effective governance is needed to develop a sustainable socio-technical community where members’ interactions and communications are mediated by information technology (IT). Amongst various governance mechanisms, self-governance is favourable in socio-technical communities. Despite research efforts on the use of self-governance, little is known about the role of user invol...

Landscape approaches can be subjected to mistakenly targeting a single "best" level of governance, and paying too little attention to the role that cross-scale and cross-level interactions play in governance. In rangeland settings, resources, patterns of use of those resources, and the institutions for managing the resources exist at multiple levels and scales. While the scholarship on commons ...

The word ‘governance’ is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on ‘good governance’. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of ‘global governance’. The European Union issues a White Paper on ‘Governance’. The US Forest Service calls for ‘collaborative governance’. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term ‘governance’ and to what does...

this study explores corporate governance practices within the context of the nigerian banking industry using instances of corporate governance lapses that resulted in part to the nigerian banking crises. we present multiple case analysis of publicly available documents and court papers (in the united kingdom and nigeria) to document instances of breach and areas of weakness in the existing nige...

A governance structure is the set of public and private rules that govern the execution of a transaction. Governance structures affect the efficiency of transactions by solving two basic problems of exchange: coordination and safeguarding. Coordination refers to the alignment of the activities of two or more parties involved in the same transaction. Safeguarding refers to protecting against exc...

Various companies have implemented IT governance frameworks to improve their management and governance of IT. The benefits and areas of focus of IT governance have been only explored in theory. In this research an international survey of 113 firms using CobiT was conducted to understand the impact on the IT governance focus areas as companies increase their adoption of CobiT. Results indicate t...

Introduction: presentation sequence / structure Preamble: meta-themes ("about" responding to the challenge) Part A: -Contemporary "myths" governing the relationships of governance and civil society? (Fig. 1) -Civilizing governance vs Governance of civilization? -Potential response conventionally presented : "Thinking" and "Doing" (Fig. 2) Part B: -Challenge of governance: metaphorical impoveris...

In India, where a major population lives in rural area it becomes essential that e-governance is available there. ICT plays a key role in e-governance, and so it becomes essential that ICT reaches rural masses. This will lead to good governance which in turn will lead to better administration, better interaction, less corruption and more transparency in the government. This paper deals with the...