Governing shared water resources requires collaboration among multiple actors, often attained through formal or informal institutions. This paper analyzes how governments design institutions to address common challenges for collective action. More specifically, the asks whether variations in levels of transaction cost risk influence the mechanisms monitoring, ensuring compliance, sanctioning no...

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...

The main purpose of the research is to verify the effect of intellectual capital on organizational performance in listed Taiwan IC design companies with corporate governance as the intervening variable, and section chief or above in the financial sectors of listed Taiwan IC design companies were the research targets, the database of Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ) was used to obtain the earnings ...

the study describes and evaluates inter-organizational communication and relationships involving rural development management of community lands within specific perimetros florestais in portugal. the research design is an exploratory research study approach that collected information with a mail questionnaire, interviews and information gleaned from community land association meetings and an in...

This article examines a new role for contract farming in developing countries in the light of the industrialisation of agriculture and the globalisation of world markets. A theoretical rationale for contracting in developing countries is developed on the basis of adopting new institutional economic theory for the purpose of matching governance forms to market failure problems and transaction ch...

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...

Effective and timely use of the Internet, with a navigable and regularly-updated corporate Web site, can improve perceptions about a company’s transparency vis-à-vis corporate governance practices. Based on an empirical analysis of data from 30 company Web sites in the DJIA, we conclude that a majority of companies underutilize their Web sites in communicating corporate governance information. ...

Failures to consider the ethical aspects of technology development and design have resulted in significant negative impacts on individuals over the last decade. In consequence we have seen the emergence and growing interest in technology design movements such as “value sensitive design” and “privacy by design” aimed at specifically addressing issues of social and ethical impact. However, there ...

Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China *correspondence: Bin Xie. Mailing address: 600 South Wanping RD, Shanghai, China. Postcode: 200030. E-Mail: [email protected] As a large country with a population of over 1.3 billion people, China has been widely recognized for its roles in economic development and for its participation in global g...