Background and Objectives: The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education has introduced clinical gov‌ernance as the accepted model of hospital healthcare improvement. Subsequently, a growing movement for implementing clinical governance in health facilities has emerged. This study aimed to explore the opinions of the relevant experts and executives to provide insight into current challen...

We study the process of wealth creation by alliances and relate it to the quality of governance of firms. We argue that alliances increase firm’s operating flexibility, reduce the agency costs related to the free-cash flows as well as the agency costs related to the distortion in the allocation of capital within the firm. Given the constraints on the use of free cash flows, managers at the helm...

  This is undoubtedly recognized that economic performance for each country over time is related to a great extent to its political, institutional and legal environment. In fact, these institutions and policies are that determine the governance quality.   In a panel data study, we applied newly developed indices to examine the effects of good governance on FDI for fifteen middle-income countri...

A model of corporate governance must explain (i) why governance matters; (ii) variation in governance across firms (i.e., be responsive to the Demsetz and Lehn, 1985, critique); and (iii) the positive correlations found empirically between quality of corporate governance and corporate performance. The model presented here satisfies these three criteria. It assumes exogenous variation in firm po...

Thisstudy is investigating the effects of project quality, project risk and project governance on project performance. Moreover, this study investigatesthe moderation effect of project leadership on these relationships. Data is collected from 354 respondents of software houses and structural equation modeling (SEM) technique is utilized for data analysis. Results suggest that project quality, p...

This review of governance distinguishes between ends and means and, by highlighting the complexity and differing definitions of the concept, defines its scope and focuses discussion on its characteristics in order to establish an interrelationship between veterinary legislation and governance. Good governance must be backed by legislation, and good legislation must incorporate the principles an...

OBJECTIVE Although the guiding principle of clinical governance states that healthcare professionals are the leading contributors to quality and safety in healthcare, little is known about what healthcare professionals perceive as important for clinical governance. The aim of this study is to clarify this by exploring healthcare professionals' views on clinical governance. DESIGN Based on a l...

Publication of A First Class Service placed quality improvement at the centre of the health policy stage. The term clinical governance was used to capture the range of activities required to improve the quality of health services. Central among these were the need for all NHS organisations to develop processes for continuously monitoring and improving the quality of health care and to develop s...

1. Introduction In today's highly competitive global economy, the demand for high quality products manufactured at low costs with shorter cycle times has forced a number of manufacturing industries to consider various new product design, manufacturing, and management strategies. Recently, due to the rapid advances in Information Technology (IT), new paradigms have successively emerged such as e...

This paper investigates the variation in contagion effect of corporate scandals on peers firms with different corporate governance quality. We find that better corporate governance reduces investors’ uncertainty about a firm’s fundamental value and alleviates the contagion effect of scandals. Specifically, the empirical results show that external governance, ownership structure and external aud...