The Governance & Education breakout group consisted of participants from environmental organizations, academia, Native American tribes, concerned citizens groups, and Canadian government organizations. The Governance & Education breakout group differed significantly from the other workshop groups. Instead of considering climate change in relation to a single subject, governance issues were deba...

Economic performance depends crucially on how parties adapt to changing circumstances. We therefore study how the organization of economic activity can facilitate such adaptation. We focus on settings where spot transactions would produce inefficient adaptation, so we ask whether alternative governance structures (allocations of control) facilitate relational contracts that improve on spot adap...

The mode of Internet-enabled organization referred to here as “distributed problem-solving networks” (DPSNs) is also known as bazaar governance (Demil and Lecocq, 2006; Hope, 2008), commons-based peer production (Benkler, 2006), crowd sourcing, collective wisdom and wikinomics (Tapscott and Williams, 2007). There is currently debate in the academic literature as to how this mode of organizing r...

The Canadian and Australian health systems have evolved in very similar ways. Recent policy changes in each country, however, suggest a growing divergence with respect to governance. This paper traces the origins and key milestones in the evolution of governance models, with a selective focus on two provinces in Canada (Saskatchewan and Alberta) and the state of New South Wales in Australia. Wh...

Knowledge management is a strategy to support enhanced decision making through effective control of organizational knowledge. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the governance of strategies to manage knowledge and the relationship between such strategies and organizational structures. It finds that the federated information transfer model is the ‘best fit’ with a stakeholder m...

Corporate governance (CG) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. This study focused on the state of Corporate Governance (CG) in two categories of the banking industries: Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks. As Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks differ a great deal in the...