Drawing from the resource complementarity perspective of the resource-based view of a firm; this study examines the complementary role of governance dimensions namely, voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption on the relationship between telecommunication infrastructure in a country and its e-government de...

Relational governance works well in relatively small communities, which may be too small to allow perfect competition. This paper explores this idea using two models. In a spatial model with monopolistic competition, relational governance constrains the size of firms and can lead to inefficiently excessive entry. In a model where high quality is self-enforcing because its providers get a suffic...

An effective risk management process enables a bank‘s management to measure and monitor risk, generate credible data, use sophisticated tools and provide fair value estimates, potentially of higher quality. Although the actual risk management process is unobservable to outsiders, disclosure relating to the risk management activities and corporate governance that monitors it reveals its effectiv...

150 words) Gender quotas have been adopted in over a hundred countries in an effort to address gender disparities in national legislatures. Yet, the determinants of citizen support for gender quota policies remain largely understudied. We develop a theory that emphasizes the impact of institutional performance and political values to explain citizen support for gender quotas and how these two f...

Gender quotas have been adopted in over a hundred countries in an effort to address gender disparities in national legislatures. Yet the determinants of citizen support for gender quota policies remain largely understudied. We develop a theory that emphasizes the impact of institutional performance and political values to explain citizen support for gender quotas and how these two factors diffe...

Utilizing the growth theory and the theory of complementarities as the guiding theoretical lenses, this study examines the impact of governance dimensions, namely, voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption on e-government maturity in a country. Based on publicly available archival data from 183 countries, ...

Taxpayers are more compliant than the traditional economic models predict. Why? The literature calls it the “puzzle of tax compliance”. In this paper we use field, experimental and survey data to investigate the empirical evidence on whether presence of tax morale helps to resolve this puzzle. The results reveal a strong correlation between tax morale and tax evasion/compliance which confirms t...

In this paper, the interacting effect of formal contracts and relational governance on vendor profitability and quality in the software outsourcing industry are examined. We focus on a critical manifestation of relational governance—the presence of relational flexibility in the exchange relationship—and argue that the enacted observation of relational flexibility is driven by perceptions of exc...

Systematic differences in the organizational forms of nonprofit and for-profit entities have elicited a variety of concerns that remain largely unaddressed. Specifically, the nonprofit sector is characterized by weaker monitoring mechanisms and potentially more severe agency problems relative to their for-profit counterparts, due in large part to an absence of shareholders in nonprofit organiza...