This paper develops a decision-based approach to meta-governance by drawing on insights from studies of organization outside formal organizations. We argue that can be analyzed as form partial interactive arenas. Meta-governance has become an important concept in theorizing the role government contemporary governance, particularly context shaping and providing guidance different arenas, such ne...

This paper seeks to shed light on the role that governance mechanisms at play within the firm have in organizational learning. Moreover, since different governance mechanisms co-exist within an organization, their alignments are of particular importance for achieving knowledge circulation within the organization. We here focus on knowing communities, seen as important locus for knowledge creati...

AS WE STARTED our Magnet® journey over 7 years ago, shared governance had a genuine appeal. The nurses at our organization were excited about having a voice in their workplace to impact patient care, patient safety, practice issues, and research. We wanted to set the world on fire with the latest and greatest shared governance ever seen within a Magnet organization! This article describes how w...

Many real-life problems involve the matching of talented individuals to institutions such as firms, hospitals, or schools, where these institutions are simply treated as individual agents. In this paper, I study many-to-one matching with contracts that incorporates a theory of choice of institutions, which are aggregate actors, composed of divisions that are enjoined by an institutional governa...

this survey is aimed to compare the hierarchical structure of subject directories, including yahoo, the open directory and looksmart with dewey decimal classification (ddc) in 10 selective subjects. five questions are raised to compare the broadness and the depth of the hierarchical structures in the subject directories and ddc and to study the effectiveness of the usage of ddc in the organizat...

The governance of IT outsourcing (ITO) has been identified as an essential determinant for ITO success. Prior studies have shed light on effective governance forms in different organizational contexts, but few have studied the association between governance forms and interpersonal networks. With a single case study from a vendor’s perspective in an ITO dyad, this research strives to explore and...

Also available in a PDF version for printing convenience. Sequel to Towards Polyhedral Global Governance: complexifying oversimplistic strategic metaphors (2008). Associated with: Polyhedral Empowerment of Networks through Symmetry: psycho-social implications for organization and global governance (2008) and Configuring Global Governance Groups: experimental visualization of possible integrativ...