This paper highlights the research findings of a digital governance survey conducted in the fall of 2009. The study replicates previous surveys of large municipalities worldwide in 2007, 2005, and 2003. This longitudinal assessment, focused on the assessment of current practices in municipal e-governance by evaluating their official websites. Specifically, the survey analyzed security, usabilit...

The large spreading of e-democracy and e-participatory tools and environments showed, and is still showing, that technologies offer new direction for dealing with the challenge of scaling the deliberative democracy perspective up to the urban governance scale [24] [37]. The recent growth of Urban Living Labs and Human Smart City initiatives is disclosing a promising bridge between the micro-sca...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been playing a pivotal role since the last decade in developing countries that brings citizen services to the doorsteps and connecting people. With this aspiration ICT has introduced several technologies of citizen services towards all categories of people. The purpose of this study is to examine the Governance technology perspectives for polit...

Obwohl zunehmend integrierte Ansätze für Corporate Governance, Ri-siko-und Compliance-Management (GRC) gefordert werden, ist weitestgehend unklar, welche Anforderungen ein solcher Ansatz erfüllen sollte. Dieser Beitrag arbeitet daher Anforderungen an einen strategischen GRC-Management-Ansatz heraus und diskutiert diese anhand einschlägiger Theorien.

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...

The concept of local self-governance is not new as it has its roots in ancient time even before the era of Mauryan emperors. This paper depicts the journey of local selfgovernance from antediluvian time to 21st century. Further, in the current scenario Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has emerged as a successful tool for dissemination of various e-governance services and in this r...

Large-scale safety and security incidents typically require the coordinated effort of multiple organisations. A networked organisation is generally seen as the most appropriate structure for coordination within safety and security collaborations. Such networks generally are mixed-sector networks in the sense that the strategic orientations of the contributing organisations differ. Our research ...

This paper develops a model of ‘governance’ as an aid for comparing such governance structures and applies these to a particular policy arena: policies on the protection of groundwater and on drinking water quality in the Netherlands and Florida. The research questions examined by this paper are: 1. Which elements make up a governance structure? 2. In what ways do these elements influence each ...

This is a critical survey dealing with the methodology of corporate governance literature, in general. Historically, researchers failed to address the problems of corporate governance properly due to the biased approaches to the issues around corporate governance when the national economy is in boom. As a result they have produced confusing definitions, and contradicting rules and suggestions. ...

Building on prior research on how boards should provide stakeholder transparency by disclosing on how their organizations are governing their IT assets, this paper provides an exploratory insight in the contemporary state of IT governance transparency in Belgian and South African companies. Specifically, the influence of the national corporate governance code on IT governance transparency is in...