This study empirically investigates the relationship between the timeliness of the financial reporting and the corporate governance proxies for companies listed on the Tunisian stock exchange during 2009.It investigates the role of the corporate governance mechanisms on the timeliness of corporate financial reporting besides; it investigates the relationship between the company size, leverage, ...

absTraCT IT governance is viewed as a managerial innovation, which responds to the needs of strong leadership, strategic direction, and control from the highest level within an organization. In today's business world, most organizations depend on information technology (IT) for their day-today activities and attainment towards their future business strategies. However, despite improved project ...

The study makes a distinction between the role of hostile takeovers as a mechanism for downsizing and exit in the process of ‘creative destruction’ and the role of hostile takeovers as a corporate governance mechanism for curbing managerial slack and opportunism. The likelihood that underperforming firms with ineffective internal governance structures are the targets of hostile takeover bids is...

Clinical governance has been introduced as a new approach to quality improvement in the UK national health service. This article maps clinical governance against a discussion of the four main approaches to measuring and improving quality of care: quality assessment, quality assurance, clinical audit, and quality improvement (including continuous quality improvement). Quality assessment underpin...

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...

Since the middle of the nineteen-eighties, the French system of corporate governance has undergone some major transformations. Originally, it was dominated by the State’s important weight in the structures constraining managerial discretion in some of France’s largest firms. But, the public administration has increasingly retired from its active role in corporate governance matters. This paper ...

INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................... 1325 I. CONTRACTING AT THE IPO STAGE ................................................................. 1331 A. IPO Charters and Takeover Defenses ...................................................... 1332 B. Innovation, Diversity, and the “Plain Vanilla” Charter ......................

This paper reports on an exploratory study based on publicly available accounts of ICT expenditures of the Secretaries of the State of São Paulo, Brazil and relates these data to their stages of ICT development and governance. E-Government has been a priority for Administrations, with expectations of gains in services to citizens and performance of government processes as strong drivers for sig...

The primary goal of this study is to examine the relationship between managerial information security awareness and managerial actions toward information security for the purpose of putting stress on the significant roles of managerial information security awareness in an organization’s total information security performance. Under the assumption that managerial actions toward information secur...