The paper takes Hirst, P., and Thompson, G., 1996, Globalization in Question as the basis for developing some arguments on the globalization debate. Following a summary of the book, the paper focuses on three points. Firstly the need to divorce the issue of globalism from the one on liberalism. Secondly, the authors’ thesis that very little has changed in the international scene in the last few...

Nowadays organizations require an effective governance framework for their service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to enable them to use a framework to evaluate their current state governance and determine the governance requirements, and then to offer a suitable model for their governance. Various frameworks have been developed to evaluate the SOA governance. In this paper, a brief introd...

This paper analyses the corporate governance mechanisms of a sample of companies that have been acquired by friendly take-over and those of a matching control sample that have not. It also uses a holdout sample to assess the model’s ability to correctly classify take-over candidates. The results show that the targets were poor performers and that there are significant governance differences bet...

We examine the impact of excess cash on non-U.S. firms’ mergers and acquisitions behavior to test the effectiveness of U.S. investor protections in improving the corporate governance of cross-listed firms. We find that firms with higher excess cash make more acquisitions and experience lower announcement abnormal returns. While acquisition likelihood is similar, crosslisted firms make better M&...

Data Governance is an essential part of an overall Corporate Governance strategy as an equal sub-discipline alongside IT Governance. The goal of Data Governance is to govern and manage data and information by organizing the proper usage of data and defining the responsibilities for data and respective data quality. This paper discusses a practical realization approach of a Data Governance strat...

The book “Corporate Governance in Croatia” (Korporativno upravljanje u Hrvatskoj) is the first genuine edition on corporate governance practice in Croatian joint stock companies listed at the Zagreb Stock Exchange. It originates from the idea of developing the South East Europe (SEE) specific customized measure of corporate governance quality and is one of the accomplishments of the large-scale...

Also available in a PDF version for printing convenience. Previously distributed under the title: Global Complexification of Classic Hellenic Metaphors: transcending the Euro-centric "pillars" of institutional architecture and strategy. The theme has been further developed in associated papers: Polyhedral Pattern Language: software facilitation of emergence, representation and transformation of...

We compare market returns associated with firms’ creation of new units focused on e-business. Two aspects of organization design governance and leadership are considered with regard to exploitationand exploration-oriented organization learning. We find that exploitation in governance (high centralization) is associated with a lower mean and variance in returns; that exploitation in leadership (...