The goal of IT governance is not only to achieve internal efficiency in an IT organization, but also to support IT’s role as a business enabler. The latter is here denoted IT governance performance, and cannot be controlled by IT management directly. Their realm of control includes IT governance maturity, indicated by e.g. different IT activities, documents, metrics and roles. Current IT govern...

We develop simple models in which corporate governance affects the financing and the production level of firms. In this paper, better corporate governance implies governance under which a smaller firm value can be expropriated by the manager, ceteris paribus. We assume that the potential expropriation can occur after production. In the single firm model, we investigate how corporate governance ...

This chapter reviews the IT governance literature. It proposes that there are three different concepts that are grouped together as IT governance. These concepts are IT governance as a framework or audit process, IT governance as IT decision-making and IT governance as a branch of corporate governance. It argues that the first of these concepts is not a senior management issue, but an aid to a ...

Governance addresses a wide range of issues including social, economic and political continuity, security and integrity, individual and collective safety and the liberty and rights to self-actualization of citizens. Questions to be answered include how governance can be achieved and sustained within a social context imbued with cultural values and in which power is distributed unevenly and dyna...

All over the world, local, regional and national governments are exploring various governance approaches ranging from public-private partnerships to civic engagement and citizen participation. All of these meet the interdependency character of complex decision making process. In the governance literature, different forms of governance arrangements are seen as promising solution for managing suc...