IQS Department University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 *Tel #: (410) 837-5275 FAX #: (410) 837-5722 *[email protected] Rajesh M irani Many organizations are consolidating their data, models and information resources to create an organization-wide system, called organizational decision Support system (ODSS). This paper discusses issues related to ODSSs and the...

This paper develops an organizational approach to corporate governance and assesses the effectiveness of corporate governance and implications for policy. Most corporate governance research focuses on a universal link between corporate governance practices (e.g., board structure, shareholder activism) and performance outcomes, but neglects how interdependencies between the organization and dive...

Government policy and organizational factors influence family-focused practice (FFP) in adult mental health services. However, how these aspects shape psychiatric nurses' practice with parents who have mental illness, their dependent children, and families is less well understood. Drawing on the findings of a qualitative study, this article explores the way in which Irish policy and organizatio...

This paper discusses implications of the convergence of legal and organizational issues in the context of developing and implementing digital government projects in large urban settings. By the convergence of legal and organizational issues we refer to two important aspects of urban government: (1) the close relationship between legal/policy structures and the way government is organized and fu...

By 1958, a model of human behavior capable of serving as the microlevel foundation for organizational and policy studies was in place. The scientific soundness of that model is unquestioned, yet the fundamentals of that behavioral model of choice have not yet been incorporated into political science. Much analysis relies on models of rational maximization despite the availability of a more scie...

This essay begins with introductions to the two sides of organizational economics: the economics of internal organization (which focuses on the internal structure and functioning of organizations) and the economic theory of the firm (which focuses on organizations’ boundaries and on relationships across these boundaries). Taken literally, these issues are only loosely related to the conference ...

At the first part of this paper, we summarize the first of our series papers(Haruna, 1999), where we applied Harold Lasswell's concept of the policy process and the policy scientist who supports the process, and proposed the idea of technology policy process and staff because technology development process has to be understood as such a complex decision process as pointed out by Lasswell(1971)....