Contemporary interest in issues of corporate governance within the business sector has been mirrored worldwide by similar interest in matters of governance in the voluntary and sports sectors where it has been evidenced by major changes to organisational structures, in general, and constitutional structures and governance/management relationships, in particular. This paper signals the use of Be...

Empirical studies into the governance of Information Technology (IT) have advanced our understanding of the mechanisms used to control the management of IT. However, there has been relatively little research into the formulation of a theoretical model of IT governance that explains and organises the growing collection of mechanisms into a coherent whole. To further advance the concept of the co...

Recent years have seen a proliferation of ‘composite indicators’ or ‘indexes’ of governance. Such measures can be useful tools for analysing governance, making public policy, building scientific knowledge, and even influencing ruling elites, but some are better tools than others and some are better suited to certain purposes than others. This paper provides a framework of ten questions to help ...

Adaptive governance is a concept of growing interest in the environmental policy and management literature (e.g., see Brunner and Steelman et al. 2005; Olsson et al. 2006; Scholz and Stiftel 2005). In general, adaptive governance refers to institutional change processes that are responsive to emerging problems or knowledge surrounding complex ecological systems. While some studies have provided...

Mobile Governance is at implementation stage in various countries including India. The mGovernance can be a whole range of government services and applications, available via various mobile networks which are designed for a broad range of devices. The m-Governance environment need low cost infrastructure which must also provide high quality transmission and constant connectivity. Mobile Ad-hoc ...

In this study we evaluate ISO/IEC 38500:2008, the Corporate Governance of Information Technology standard, as a design artefact in the context of development and deployment of a large IT system in a public/private-sector context. The findings show that ISO/IEC 38500:2008 has merit as an analytical framework, providing a good basis upon which to objectively evaluate the corporate governance of I...

Third sector organizations are oftentimes seen as contributing to a robust civil society. Yet the dominant modes of third sector organizational governance often adhere to a unitary orientation. The over-reliance on unitary modes of governance introduces two challenges: first, organizational stakeholders are kept from utilizing participatory mechanisms that would enable them to act as societal i...

As platform ecosystems are growing by platform users’ data, the importance of data governance has been highlighted. In particular, how to share control and decision rights with platform users are regarded as significant design issues since the role of them is increasing. Platform context should be considered when designing data governance in platform ecosystems (i.e. centralized/decentralized g...