How do managers make their decisions with regard to adjustment and deployment of information technology (IT) over time? Motivated by this complex dynamics, we draw on behavioral theory of the firm and theorize a bounded rational process of managerial decision making for IT investment. In particular, we explain the dynamic adjustment of IT investment by bounded rational managers’ pursuing of sat...

We analyze a rational-expectations model of price formation in an intermediategood market under uncertainty. There is a continuum of …rms, each consisting of a party who can reduce production cost and a party who can discover information about demand. Both parties can make speci…c investments at private cost, and there is a machine that either party can control. As in incomplete-contracting mod...

Indigenous peoples now engage with many decentralized approaches to environmental management that offer opportunities for integration of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) and western science to promote cultural diversity in the management of social-ecological system sustainability. Nevertheless, processes of combining IEK with western science are diverse and affected by numerous factors, in...

Public policy aspects of climate change have been relatively neglected in debate and in academic analysis at the more pragmatic end of policy development and implementation, yet are enormously significant. Indeed it could be argued that it is the enormity of the governance challenge of climate change that has contributed to the lack of effective policy action to reduce emissions in Australia an...

Realization of health care as primary objective is necessary to strengthen primary health care (PHC). There is a need to build financial viable and sustainable PHC based on rational principles to fulfill the goals of providing quality health services on an affordable and equitable basis and also ensuring fiscal prudence. Health-care leadership, innovations in primary care, family medicine speci...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was investigating situation and presenting a conceptual model for clinical governance information system by using UML in two sample hospitals. BACKGROUND However, use of information is one of the fundamental components of clinical governance; but unfortunately, it does not pay much attention to information management. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross sectiona...

The Common Law, parliamentary democracy, and academia all institutionalize dissent to check undue obedience to authority; and corporate governance reformers advocate the same in boardrooms. Many corporate governance disasters could often be averted if directors asked hard questions, demanded clear answers, and blew whistles. Work by Milgram suggests humans have an innate predisposition to obey ...

The crisis of public opinion is a major challenge faced by the government in Internet era, and governance has always been focus attention academic community. In opinion, subject relatively single, often departments are situation fighting alone. From perspective cooperative governance, this paper discusses following two issues: "Is it possible for individuals to participate governance?", "What a...