increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (pmh) services in the netherlands. decentralized under the (community) participation act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” but innovation, even when pressure for c...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural pattern of the effect of corporate governance mechanisms (internal organization) on audit quality considering the role of the intermediary variable of behavioural components of auditors. The statistical population of this research is independent auditors and auditors working in audit firms. A sample of 395 people was selected by simple...

Non-hierarchical modes of governance, such as the ‘open method of co-ordination’ (OMC), require particular prerequisites to operate effectively. This article points to three essential components of any regime, then assesses their operation in two ‘real’ OMCs, pensions and information society. Given the finding of defective regimes, this article argues that the observed patterns are not surprisi...

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...

In this paper, using the governance, resources and processes model for an organization, we examine the organizational challenges for innovation in information systems in each of the three areas of this model. Information systems are a great tool to support innovation to improve the processes and activities in an organization to achieve a competitive edge. We review the role of leadership (gover...

This study integrates perspectives from neo-institutional economics, organization theory and information systems to examine why firms choose different governance structures across business process outsourcing (BPO) relationships. In particular, we focus on the information processing (IP) requirements that must be managed during the course of the BPO relationship and antecedent uncertainty in th...

Organization, as a key concept for understanding the current global order, does not only exist on the international level, but increasingly manifests itself on the transnational level too. Transnational organization has many sources and appears in many forms. As a relatively recent phenomenon, transnational rule-making processes could be considered the most apparent expression of the shift from...

Russian governance is a dynamic combination of horizontal and vertical factors. Heterarchy suggests that elements an organization are not necessarily hierarchical (not ranked), they hav...