The impact of corporate governance on strategicdecisions is emerging as a key concern in contemporary businesses. In particular,governance mechanisms such as stock ownership structure and takeover defenses have major influences on strategicresource allocation in firms. In this paper, we empiricallyexamined a set of relationshipsbetween corporate governance and information technology (IT) i…
Internal control is a major part of managing an organization. It comprises the plans, methods, and procedures used to meet missions, goals, and objectives and, in doing so, supports performance-based management. Internal control also serves as the first line of defense in safeguarding assets and preventing and detecting errors and fraud. In short, internal control, which is synonymous with mana…
This series represents a response to several independent evaluations in recent years that have argued that development practitioners and policy makers dealing with public sector reforms in developing countries and, indeed, anyone with a concern for effective public governance could benefit from a synthesis of newer perspectives on public sector reforms. This series distills current wisdom a…
This book provides an overview of the principles underlying participatory budgeting. It analyzes the merits and demerits of participatory budgeting practices around the world with a view to guiding policy makers and practitioners on improving such practices in the interest of inclusive governance. This publication includes five regional surveys, and seven country case studies can be found on th…
On May 2, 1995, a group of 30 experts met in Ottawa to discuss the interrelationships between development and the governance of the international economy. They came from all parts of the world Mexico, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Uganda, Pakistan, Chile, Indonesia, and, of course, Canada. The group comprised researchers, academics, and members of non-governm…
Writing this book has been on my mind for almost 15 years. In the early nineties—as dean of the School of Business Administration at George Mason University—I had the pleasure of co-teaching an executive course on corporate governance with Nell Minow, a pioneer in the field. This experience convinced me of the importance of this subject to our welfare and cemented my interest in this top…
Public management is undoubtedly acknowledged area of management science but too narrowly empirically researched. First, it results from the fact, that until recently large part of economists has proclaimed views, that the macroeconomic level, equal to macroorganisational level of national economy, belongs to the area of pure economics. Second, it results from practice, where the majority of re…