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...

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 ...

among three branches of government, judiciary has the most important role in protecting of citizens’ rights; therefore upgrade and improvement of this branch is vital to promote human rights. if changes consider international standards and local concerns at the same time, be efficient, if not will be failed. good governance is an international model has localization capability which its default...

This article focuses on the potential impact of social media on organizational leadership and governance at the C-level. Although IT governance in general has become more shared across C-level leaders over time, social media initiatives have elevated the importance of an IT governance role for the chief marketing officer (CMO). Based on case studies and interviews with CIOs, CMOs and other C-le...

In India, where a major population lives in rural area it becomes essential that e-governance is available there. ICT plays a key role in e-governance, and so it becomes essential that ICT reaches rural masses. This will lead to good governance which in turn will lead to better administration, better interaction, less corruption and more transparency in the government. This paper deals with the...

This study explores corporate governance practices within the context of the Nigerian banking industry using instances of corporate governance lapses that resulted in part to the Nigerian banking crises. We present multiple case analysis of publicly available documents and court papers (in the United Kingdom and Nigeria) to document instances of breach and areas of weakness in the existing Nige...

This thesis investigates the role of institutions on deforestation within the framework of the New Institutional Economics. This theory states that institutions can be de ned such as the incentive system which shape economic interactions throughout the modulation of the incentives of agents. This way, institutions are at stake in the process of deforestation and the analysis of this role is the...

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of corporate governance in the concept of tax justice. The current research contributes to the field of applied research and is regarded as a descriptive survey research, testing four main hypotheses and eight special hypotheses. The required data for this research were obtained through a questionnaire distributed among financial managers of 133 ...

This study aimed to further our understanding of a characteristic of Community Resilience known as Disaster Governance. Three attributes of Disaster Governance-redundancy, diversity, and overlap-were studied in four coastal towns in southern Chile that are at risk of tsunamis. Overall, we explored how different spatial structures of human settlements influence Disaster Governance. Using the Pro...