This paper reviews and analyzes the challenges of energy transition governance towards a low-carbon society as a political achievement. The main research question is how specific “transition governance approaches” (as advocated by transition theory) can be embedded/anchored in the policy-making logics and practices. We analyze three country cases, known for their path-breaking efforts in the ar...

Recent trends in governance include a diminishing role of the nation state and an expanding role of non-government actors in the management of resources and services. The nation state, some argue, is ceding way to a plethora of institutions including global, multinational, regional, and local-level players. Within this multilevel, multi-institutional governance system the role of both the priva...

Background: The quality of clinical services is one of the main concerns around the world. Clinical governance as a new approach to improving the quality of care provided by the health care system plays a major role in the provision of higher quality health care services. The success of this approach depends on the existence of a strong and suitable organizational culture. The aim of this study...

Governance in health is cited as one of the key factors in balancing the concerns of the government and public sector with the interests of civil society/private players, but often remains poorly described and operationalized. Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran look at two aspects in the search for new provider models in a context of health markets signalling liberalisation: (i) the role of the ...

Measuring performance is critical to assess effectiveness of public health expenditure. Performance of health care delivery however relies on adequate accountability indicators as benchmark for efficiency. Individual programs sometimes track specific output but do not examine overall health care delivery system. This is difficult to measure but is critical if health care systems are to achieve ...

Sustainable mobility has become an important catchphrase in transportation policy and planning. Yet, at the same time, it is an inherently normative and political concept, which raises questions of governance. Th is chapter outlines a means to think about sustainability from a governance perspective. Th e term governance is conceptualized in the chapter as, on the one hand, a set of structures ...

This study addresses the theoretically neglected role of information system (IS) specificity for application governance, by referring to the allocation of applicationrelated decision authority and task responsibility between business and IT units. Based on the premise of organizational and technical ‘embedding’, and employing a transaction cost theoretic (TCT) lens, we develop the idea that cus...

Governance has become a concept that includes more and more phenomena related to the steering of societal developments. The steering of developments had to be left to societal actors and had to be accomplished through networks in which hierarchy hardly played a role. The term “good governance” is abused by using so many indicators that it becomes nearly impossible to achieve good governance. At...

In contrast to the focus of much of the literature on the role of capital markets in hastening convergence in corporate governance practices worldwide, we document the role played by the globalization of product and talent markets in affecting corporate governance of firms in the Indian software industry. We discuss several possible reasons why a particular firm, Infosys, has emerged as the exe...