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- Good Governance Is Good For the Bottom Line
- The Find: Companies with excellent corporate governance records report 18 percent higher stock returns than those with poor records. The Source: A new report from the Association of British Insurers The Takeaway: Researchers at ABI studied over 600 public companies in the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Countrywide, Bear Stearns: Failures in Governance
- We've now seen two financial firms fail in the subprime mortgage mess--Countrywide Financial and Bear Stearns. What do they share in common? Spectacularly bad corporate governance. Â There's been a long-running debate among shareholder activists and corporate leaders whether "good governance" equals "good business," or merely consists of...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Practical Governance: Co-Opetition - The New Governance Challenge
- For the governance and management bodies of health care institutions, co-opetition is one of the more powerful trends driving change in the industry. Co-opetitive business proposals that Boards and CEOs are now being asked to consider can seem straightforward. However, the impulses and motives driving those proposals can be troubling....
- White papers 2004-10-29
- Solving The Compliance Puzzle: Governance, Process Enablement And IT Asset Management
- As organizations move deeper into this new age of regulatory compliance, governance is emerging as an effective, long-term approach - addressing compliance issues by balancing process improvement with risk mitigation. Governance is achieved through process enablement: defining, automating and consolidating each vital business process so it better serves the company's...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Moments Of Governance In IS Outsourcing: Conceptualizing Effects Of Contracts On Value Capture And Creation
- Research on the governance of IS outsourcing has recognized two moments of governance: the formal outsourcing contract promissory contract and post-contractual relationship management psychological contract. While this research has been prescriptive of contract terms that lead to successful outsourcing, there is need for clarity on what specific governance options are...
- White papers 2005-06-28
- Decentralization And Local Governance: Reinforcing Democracy And Effectiveness Of Local Government
- This paper deals with the decentralization reform which has been adopted in many countries. There are two parts; the first one presents the theoretical overview of decentralization and local governance and the second analyses the Japanese decentralization reform. The keynote of this paper is that the main purpose of decentralization...
- White papers 2006-09-06
- Governance And Agricultural Productivity: A Cross-National Analysis
- Evidence shows that not only the agricultural productivity of high-income countries is much higher than that of low-income countries but also the divide has widened in the last decade. This paper attempts to explain this phenomenon by focusing on the role of governance infrastructure in determining agricultural performance and its...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Offshoring, Interfaces, And Governance: The Case Of Automotive Product Development
- Offshoring of business services has become an important issue in the United States. In this paper the author present a detailed case study of how several firms in an automotive supply chain design windows and windshields, a process in which work is handed back and forth between the US and...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Tales From The Strategy Vault
- Governance is all about ensuring that there is appropriate decision making, communication, and engagement and due diligence. All organisations should create a governance document that records the mechanisms in place to ensure projects comply with rules. In the project context this may be a Project Plan or Project Initiation Document....
- White papers 2008-04-13
- Turning Around a Struggling Airline: An Interview with the CEO of Malaysia Airlines
- Idris Jala led the state-controlled carrier from the brink of bankruptcy to record-breaking profits. Now he wants it to become what he calls a "five-star value carrier." When Idris Jala became CEO at Malaysia Airlines, his goal was to keep the carrier flying. Now he...
- Articles 2009-02-27
- The Core Purpose of Governance
- Governance is one of the buzzwords of the day, although it has been ticking away in the background for much longer. But in the post-Enron/Worldcom/etc. world, it suddenly has been thrown into sharp focus. Sleepy governors and laid-back directors have been shaken to the core by the pounding reality of...
- White papers
- The Institutionalisation of Private Governance: Conceptualising an Emerging Trend in Global Environmental Politics
- The concept of global governance denotes a fundamental change in the steering mechanisms employed by governments and international organisations as well as in the relation between public and private interests in the provision of global public goods. Next to public-private partnerships and public policy networks, private governance institutions, involving civil...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Entrepreneurship in Transition: Searching for Governance in China's New Private Sector
- Entrepreneurial activities in transition economies go beyond technical entrepreneurship. In an environment of institutional and procedural uncertainty entrepreneurs need to select business partners, choose a mode of governance that stabilizes long term business relations, and settle for such property rights regime that best matches the entrepreneurial endeavor. This paper shows...
- White papers 2003-12-22
- Good Governance Gives Good Value: Rising to the Productivity Challenge in Biopharma R&D
- The paper outlines the productivity challenge in biopharma R&D. Good governance is easy in concept but difficult in practice. It is especially difficult in biopharma R&D because of the large number of variables and uncertainties involved. To improve governance, companies should focus on improving decision authority, decision criteria, decision communication,...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Governance Changes in Strategic Alliances: Antecedents of Contractual Renegotiations
- This study provides an empirical investigation of the incidence and antecedents of contractual renegotiations in strategic alliances. It brings together initial conditions based on transaction cost theory and ex post contingencies highlighted by recent conceptual and qualitative research on the evolution of collaborative agreements. The results indicate that firms tend...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- At the Heart of the Game: Leadership & Governance for Cardiovascular Market Advantage
- Now more than ever, collaboration and joint governance between the hospital and its 'heart doctors' yield powerful benefits in advancing cardiovascular program development. This article discusses why medical leadership within a cardiovascular program is critical as physicians battle over the vascular service line and other turfs, feel the pinch of...
- White papers 2004-08-10
- Outsourcing the Finance Function: Achieving High Performance in Governance and Control
- The paper signifies that today's greater emphasis on governance and greater direct control of finance processes is acting as a barrier in the way of a decision to outsource finance functions. The actual impact of outsourcing on governance and control-as opposed to the impact of governance and control on companies'...
- White papers 2004-12-23
- Governance and Product Management for High-Growth Telecom Company
- Rapid growth at an $8.7B wireless provider had led to the proliferation of numerous, overlapping, and unclearly defined governance structures for product and operational management. PRTM was asked to help. To start, a small, cross-functional governance oversight committee was convened. It worked with this group throughout the design and implementation...
- Case studies
- Politics of Participatory Decision Making in Campus Governance
- Governance of higher education involves the authority to make decisions about fundamental policies and practices in several critical areas concerning colleges and universities. Other issues of concern include degree requirements, standards expected in student performance, the quality of research and public service activities, the freedom available to individual faculty members...
- White papers 2005-05-03
- The Role of NGOs in International Democratic Development: Perspectives on Good Governance in the Context of the International Development Experience of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada
- Indeed, there is general and well-documented agreement that good governance is a key factor in the success of economic and social development strategies, including those focused on poverty reduction. As international development priorities and practices are evolving, the Institute of Public Administration of Canada IPAC and its partners are considering...
- White papers 2005-11-01
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