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Zejda, Vladimír. "Services for Effective Rural Governance: A Design Thinking View." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-198398.
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This paper takes a look at the challenges mayors of Czech small towns face in they day-to-day job and presents a comprehensive overview of ways they can be addressed. It then focuses on the non-financial and non-legislative tools of cooperation and external support in particular, which are introduced under a collective name "services for effective rural governance". The thesis then presents on the concept of "service design" and its uses in the public sector. Consequently, this method is used to analyze and propose changes to the currently available services for effective rural governance so that they best serve the small town mayors.
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Seward, Paul. "Rethinking groundwater governance in South Africa." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4762.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDGovernance is essentially the process whereby organisations or networks of organisations exercise their authority. It describes how a body with authority makes or does not make decisions, and how it implements - or does not implement - those decisions. 'Good' groundwater governance can then be defined by how fair the decision-making process is, and how effective the implementation process is. Groundwater governance in South Africa is increasingly being categorized as ineffective. The purpose of this thesis is to explore ways to improve groundwater governance in South Africa. Initial reviews of international studies of groundwater governance did not find any processes that could be directly imported into the South African governance landscape for testing. The global consensus was that there were no blueprints for improving groundwater governance, and that each case should be treated as unique. Therefore the thesis had to change from its initial aim of finding firm rules that could be tested in the South African context, to a revised aim of formulating tentative heuristics, rules, strategies and hypotheses that might be useful for further work in the South African context.An exploratory, inductive-based, loosely structured methodology was therefore employed rather than a more formal, deductive-based testing of hypotheses. In short, the objective of this thesis was concerned with formulating hypotheses rather than testing them.The novel, general, contribution made by this thesis is to synthesize global groundwater governance literature with the specific aim of improving groundwater governance in a specific country. While reviews of global literature do exist, they have thus far only been used to make generic recommendations, and have not been specifically applied to a country. Conversely, while attempts to improve groundwater governance for specific regions and countries do exist, these attempts have largely done so without synthesizing existing global knowledge. Indeed, the emphasis on national, regional and local studies has principally been to understand the factors at work affecting groundwater governance, rather than to improve governance.
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Li, Gregg G. K. L. "Governance systems for organisations : governance information control system design and development methodology for NGO boards : executive summary." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1253/.
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This submission reviews and examines the responsibility and role of non-executive directors in reinforcing the self-governance systems for non-government organisations (NGO). Corporate governance is an issue of great concern at Government and commercial levels and a prime topic in the media due to scandals at Enron, WorldCom, the British Museum, Tyco, and at a host of smaller organisations. This research explored the contributory systems and processes towards enterprise governance and provided new insight into how the boards of directors of NGOs can develop and be in a position to amend the parameters for their own information systems for self-governance. Unless these NGOs can govern themselves properly, their boards may eventually lose their mandate. The governance of NGOs is difficult because of the voluntary and part-time nature of directorship, a lack of information support system, and a comparatively lower level of transparency. Schools, hospitals, productivity councils, universities, social welfare institutions would be representatives of such NGOs. The research has used Hong Kong as the test base at a time when NGOs are given more authority and ownership for self-governance. A series of action-based case studies undertaken are summarised and 'used to identify the control components and processes leading to higher levels of self governance. These together with an extensive literature survey on corporate governance and on the development of governance information systems (GOVIS) were used to develop a new' process methodology for designing and developing governance information system for NGOs. Known as GISDER, the methodology links Rochart's Critical Success Factors (Rochart, 1979), cybernetics (Capra, 1997), systems thinking (Beer, 1985; Jackson, 2000), and adult learning (Ackof, 1999) concepts with control components unique to the organisation under review. The relevant control components for a particular NGO are identified from fifteen base components. Elements of the process methodology have been further tested in some NGOs. A thorough evaluation discussion and thoughts on the applicability of the derived methodology for other types of organisations have been provided. It is concluded that self-governance for NGO boards cannot be assumed and that the components for a GO VIS for self-governance can best be developed and evaluated through the GISDER methodology. The methodology is now at the core of a consultancy offering for NGOs in the Greater China region.
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Elton, Christopher John. "The re-design of rural governance : new institutions for old?" Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2011. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19624/.
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For 40 years after the war, government in the UK supported, subsidised and promoted the expansion of agricultural production, to the exclusion of almost all other rural issues. Similar expansion of food production was encouraged across Western Europe. This 'productivist' era came to an end during the 1980s provoking a reassessment of the role of agriculture and of rural areas. Rural geographers have identified a post-productivist transition but have sought to explain the causes of change through the framework of regulation theory. The study rejects this approach as focusing its explanation on changes in accumulation imperatives within some agent-less process. It adopts a constructivist/discursive institutionalist framework which endogenizes agency and seeks to explain institutional change through exploring the role of ideas in responding to crises and critical junctures. The study proceeds through the construction of structured policy narratives over the period from the war to the present. The study contrasts the development of productivist regimes in the UK and the European Community and reveals significant differences in the policy institutions which have strongly influenced UK relations with the Community and the integration of UK agriculture within the Common Agricultural Policy. It is argued that responses to the crisis created by the end of the productivist regime reflected the contrast in rural policy institutions. The study identifies a paradigm shift in the Common Agricultural Policy enabling reform to be constructed within the context of the normative values which shaped its original design. The Thatcher government by contrast introduced a neo-liberal rural policy. Recently, New Labour has introduced a re-design of rural governance. It is argued that the Treasury was influential in its role as meta-governor in advocating alternative cognitive assumptions which denied the distinctiveness of rural economic and social needs. The outcome has been the disintegration of rural policy in England.
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Olivier, Tomás, and Tomás Olivier. "Institutional Design and Adaptation in Regional-Scale Common-Pool Resource Institutions: Securing Access to High-Quality Drinking Water in Boston, New York, Portland, and San Francisco." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625646.
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This dissertation develops and assesses hypotheses regarding the design and adaptation of institutions for maintaining the quality of a shared natural resource at regional scales. The analysis is centered on arrangements created by governmental actors for deciding how to jointly govern a resource producing high-quality drinking water. The cases studied are Boston (Massachusetts), New York City (New York), Portland (Oregon), and San Francisco (California). Drinking water in each of these cities is provided unfiltered, and it is sourced from lands located in other jurisdictions. To maintain water quality, both providers and landowners in the watersheds have reached agreements defining how to jointly govern the resource. This dissertation studies the design of these arrangements. Studying these dynamics, particularly in a federal regime, highlights the limits that governmental actors face in making decisions with other governments at different levels.
The dissertation contains three empirical papers addressing aspects of design in these arrangements. The empirical chapters are structured as separate papers that follow a common theme. Throughout the dissertation, insights from various research traditions are brought in to complement the analysis of institutional design. The studies in this dissertation combine arguments from the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework, Common-Pool Resource Theory, Transaction Cost Economics, social network analysis, Adaptive Governance, and theories of information processing stemming from the Punctuated Equilibrium literature in public policy.
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Pellicciaro, JP. "Community-centered Governance Design : Codesigning Food Systems Work Across Institutional Boundaries." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2014. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/69.
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Muniz, César Rocha. "O design das redes e interfaces da governança conectada sob o prisma das políticas públicas para os serviços urbanos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18142/tde-10112010-100227/.
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Esta pesquisa investiga o design e as práticas de governança urbana. O quadro teórico é composto de duas partes. Na primeira, examinamos as dimensões cognitivas, comunicativas, culturais, econômicas e sócio políticas do espaço contemporâneo em um contexto de ampla disseminação das Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação (TICs). Na segunda, discutimos as políticas públicas para os serviços urbanos com enfoque na cooperação considerando suas dimensões normativas, estratégicas e operacionais. Na pesquisa empírica, estudamos as redes e interfaces públicas utilizadas pelo poder executivo do município de Ribeirão Preto. Utilizando análise de grafos, categorias da Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) e da Actor-Network Theory (ANT), analisamos em que medida a incorporação das TICs amplia as oportunidades de participação e controle social da gestão do espaço e dos serviços urbanos. A pesquisa é concluída com contribuições para o design de redes e interfaces na constituição de uma forma de governança urbana conectada.In this study we investigate design and urban governance practices. The theoretical framework has two parts. In the first one, we examines the cognitive, communicative, cultural, economic and socio-political dimensions of space in a context of widespread dissemination of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In the second one, we discusses policy formulation in public urban services focusing on cooperation under its regulatory, strategic and operational dimensions. In the empirical research, we examine the networks and public interfaces used by government agencies of Ribeirão Preto municipality. Graph analysis, elements of social construction of technology and actor-network theory were used to evaluate how ICTs can increase the opportunities for participation and social control of space and urban services management. We conclude the study with contributions to the networks and interfaces design aiming to develop a form of connected urban governance.
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Faragher, Tamsin. "Sustainable water governance: An incremental approach towards a decentralised, hybrid water system." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29658.
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Cape Town is experiencing its worst drought in recorded history. Notwithstanding that the Western Cape has always been a water scarce region, it is this current drought that has brought home the area’s inherent vulnerability and highlighted the governance issues. The world wherein South Africa’s water governance was created is very different to the world we find ourselves in today. It is a world of uncertainty and unpredictability not contemplated in water governance comprised of legislation, policy, guidelines and practice. The current water governance constructs a conventional approach based upon predictability and certainty and is no longer appropriate to meet today’s new challenges. Consistent with this conventional approach, Cape Town’s municipal water supply is almost completely dependent upon surface water which makes it even more vulnerable to drought than if its supply was comprised of a variety of water supply options. With surface water sources fully exploited and storage opportunities within the urban edge limited alternative water supply options must be more seriously considered and the water governance reformed to accommodate its use. Water governance is the focus of reform because it is the framework for infrastructure planning and therefore controls the resultant system, infrastructure and management. This thesis interrogates the current water governance as the starting point before firstly discussing the proposed incremental approach towards a decentralised, hybrid system for water infrastructure and secondly, identifying specific areas where intervention is necessary for implementation.
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DeCaro, Daniel A., Brian C. Chaffin, Edella Schlager, Ahjond S. Garmestani, and J. B. Ruhl. "Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance." RESILIENCE ALLIANCE, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623959.
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Legal and institutional structures fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive governance of environmental resources at multiple ecological and societal scales. Properties of adaptive governance are widely studied. However, these studies have not resulted in consolidated frameworks for legal and institutional design, limiting our ability to promote adaptation and social-ecological resilience. We develop an overarching framework that describes the current and potential role of law in enabling adaptation. We apply this framework to different social-ecological settings, centers of activity, and scales, illustrating the multidimensional and polycentric nature of water governance. Adaptation typically emerges organically among multiple centers of agency and authority in society as a relatively self-organized or autonomous process marked by innovation, social learning, and political deliberation. This self-directed and emergent process is difficult to create in an exogenous, top-down fashion. However, traditional centers of authority may establish enabling conditions for adaptation using a suite of legal, economic, and democratic tools to legitimize and facilitate self-organization, coordination, and collaboration across scales. The principles outlined here provide preliminary legal and institutional foundations for adaptive environmental governance, which may inform institutional design and guide future scholarship.
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Ziegler, Dustin P. "Foundations of a defense digital platform : business systems governance in the Department of Defense." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70826.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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In 2010, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) spent more than $35 billion on information systems development and sustainment, with nearly $7 billion to defense business systems investments alone. It is not surprising given the scale of expenditure and complexity of the enterprise that its track record on business systems investments has not been great. Indeed, the DoD's investment management practices have been the target of many studies identifying critical concerns with how the taxpayers' dollars are spent. The get-well plan, according to these same studies, is to apply "industry best practices" to achieve the same results. Yet this view fails to adequately account for the underlying issues that give rise to these symptoms. Mistrust and confusion in governance decision structures, strategic goal misalignment, externally driven metrics that incentivize the wrong behavior, and a culture of guarding rather than sharing information were among the dominant challenges identified through stakeholder interviews. Cross-cutting issues included language barriers between the Services and Corporate DoD that impede knowledge integration and complicate performance measurement. These systemic foundational problems are deeply rooted in the nature of this public administration network and in the cultures of its strongly independent member institutions. Resolving these dysfunctional characteristics requires more than a transformation "playbook" of best practice initiatives. This research sets the trajectory for meaningful progress in defense business systems investment planning and management by outlining the fundamental changes that must occur, anchored by a more robust and transparent governance framework.
by Dustin P. Ziegler.
S.M.in Engineering and Management
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Balasubramaniam, Arun S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Socially Responsible Investing : a comparative analysis of environmental, social, governance, reputational and labor factors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76922.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-92).
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) aims to deliver competitive investment returns while fostering social good. It aims achieves its objective by including a firm's corporate social performance (CSP) in its investment d s . I has giesgnfct momentum over the past few years and is poised to assume a mainstream role in the asset management business. However, the scholarship on the effect of corporate social performance on a firm's corporate financial performance (CFP) is ambiguous. CSP is a complex entity made of multi-dimensional sub-components. This thesis attempts to breakdown the multi-dimensional CSP into its core constituent dimensions and to examine their inter-relationships and relationship with CFP, using statistical analysis. Two different vendor data sets were used as samples to understand if proprietary transformations made by vendors affect results. Analysis reveals that differences in factor payoff horizons, difficulties in transforming environmental, social and governance data into composite CSP ratings and the proprietary nature of such transformation could be some of the contributing factors to the ambiguity in establishing the nature of CSP-CFP relationship.
by Arun Balasubramaniam.
S.M.in Engineering and Management
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Cochran, Allen J. "A Participatory Action Research Case Study: Designing for a Transformative Service Experience with a University Graduate Student Governance Organization." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374262360.
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Schwarzenbeck, Helena [Verfasser]. "Politische Verantwortung : Der Einfluss von Governance-Design auf die öffentliche Zuweisung von Verantwortung / Helena Schwarzenbeck." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1160484708/34.
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Auzer, Khazal Abdullah. "Institutional design and capacity to enhance effective governance of Iraqi-Kurdistan's oil and gas wealth." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/85986/.
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This study considers major challenges surrounding the governance of petroleum resources, and the implications for the economic growth and development of hydrocarbon-abundant countries as a result of ineffective economic, political, and social mechanisms. This study investigates the causal factors that may promote or hinder the effective management of oil and gas resources in the Kurdistan Region as a new oil and gas producing region. The large and growing body of resource curse literature has used either quantitative or qualitative cross-country approaches to investigate the determinant factors contributing to poor economic performance in natural resource-rich countries, especially petroleum-driven economies. Few research studies have used mixed methods to study the resource curse in order to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges facing petroleum-exporting countries that have been unable to convert their petroleum wealth into long-term sustainable development. This research uses different methods to explore the economic, political, and social channels behind the resource curse theory. The study consists of three sequential phases: a quantitative cross-country (econometric) analysis, a qualitative cross-country (comparative) policy analysis, and a qualitative case study (semi-structured interviews). The findings reveal that well-designed governance of the oil and gas sector is a key determinant of the oil and gas producing countries’ success in the management of petroleum resources. The results and research methods contribute to the debate in the literature on the resource curse regarding major explanations for the poor economic performance of natural resource-rich countries by adopting a methodological triangulation approach. The results also contribute to the political economy literature by showing that a well-designed institutional structure for the oil and gas sectors can contribute to greater accountability, transparency, and capacity building in the major petroleum-exporting countries. A petroleum governance model for the Kurdistan Region is proposed, which may be useful for other regions and states with similar circumstances or characteristics.
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Schwarzenbeck, Helena Katharina [Verfasser]. "Politische Verantwortung : Der Einfluss von Governance-Design auf die öffentliche Zuweisung von Verantwortung / Helena Schwarzenbeck." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2018060412095931164696.
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Al-Habil, Wasim. "OCCUPATIONS, A DIASPORA, AND THE DESIGN OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1226688053.
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Isyaku, Usman. "Beyond policy design : REDD+ implementation and institutional complexities of environmental governance in Cross River State, Nigeria." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40349.
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation plus enhancement of forest carbon stock (REDD+) was designed and negotiated at the post-Kyoto climate conventions as an efficient and cost-effective climate change mitigation policy. The primary focus is to introduce incentive-based forest conservation initiatives for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation in forest-rich countries in order to achieve ‘win-win’ conservation and development objectives. Within the REDD+ governance framework, carbon is to be captured, commodified, measured, and traded on the market by a diverse set of actors under various bilateral and multilateral arrangements. This thesis contributes to the environmental governance literature by making complexities embedded in REDD+ design and implementation legible. This is achieved by drawing on critical institutionalism theory and geographical concept of place to examine how place-based values, motivations, emotions and institutional bricolage practices are shaping REDD+ implementation and forest governance in Cross River State, Nigeria. It also contributes to the debates about mainstream institutionalists’ assumptions that human behaviour is rational, self-seeking and so collective action can be influenced by crafting institutions in order to direct policy outcomes. Multi-method approach to data collection and analysis consisting of interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, manual coding, social network analysis, and Q-methodology were used for the study. Results show that the REDD+ process in Nigeria is characterised by unequal power relationships among the stakeholders which is causing legitimacy, equity and justice concerns. It was discovered that the forest communities in the study areas are complex entities that are responding to REDD+ and other bureaucratic forest related policies such as the proposed superhighway project differently through institutional bricolage practices. It is argued that applying uniform forest governance policies for all the communities would continue to produce unexpected outcomes in the study areas. This is because the communities have different motivations for collective action. Such motivations consist of an intricate blend of economic, emotional and moral rationalities and values which are embedded in communities’ distinct histories and social interactions. It is suggested that institutions of forest governance should be place-based and could be pieced together through formal and informal bricolage practices rather than introduced externally. This approach is particularly relevant for development interventions involving communities that still hold intrinsic motivations for environmental conservation.
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Emas, Rachel. "Successes and Shortcomings in the Implementation of National Sustainable Development Strategies: From the Greening of Governance to the Governance of Greening." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2197.
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The interdependence between the economy and the environment necessitates integrated policymaking that recognizes the biological limits of our world and the scarcity of these natural resources. At the 1992 Earth Summit, countries agreed to adopt a National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) which should comprise the integration of economic, social, and environmental policies across sectors, territories, and generations; country ownership and commitment; broad participation and effective partnerships; development of the necessary capacity and enabling environment; and focus on outcomes and implementation. Working from these key factors and based on decades of international research and peer reviews of these policies, this study hypothesizes four relationships to test the influence of these principles on the successful execution of an NSDS. Offering the first formal framework which theorizes and evaluates connections between these dimensions, this qualitative approach is applied to two case studies, South Africa and Germany, by the use of documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews. The present study finds that embedding NSDS programs and institutions within existing policy agendas and organizations is extremely difficult, especially in countries with a solid history of environmental policy. Also, the significant role of subnational governments and entities in all aspects of policymaking must be taken into account for the effective implementation of a National Strategy. The present research examines the necessity of specific policymaking processes and implementation mechanisms for an effective National Sustainable Development Strategy, ascertains common implementation challenges, and offers recommendations for the improved implementation of National Sustainable Development Strategies.
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Mineur, Eva. "Towards sustainable development : Indicators as a tool of local governance." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Department of Political Science, Umeå Universitet, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1428.
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Umbach, Christian. "Management and governance of external developer platforms - at the example of Akamai, Inc. and Uber Technologies, Inc." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110142.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, System Design and Management Program, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Vita.
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How do companies manage and govern external developer platforms? Drawing on platform ecosystem, product management, and IT governance theory a comparison of the developer platform approaches of two technology firms, Akamai, Inc. and Uber Technologies, Inc. is presented. Internal organizational structures and processes are evaluated in combination with external governance mechanism to develop and manage third party partner relations. The case studies test existing IT governance and app developer platform theory with regards to its applicability to platforms for developer products such as APIs. The two teams are analyzed along the dimensions of organizational structure, internal governance process and risk management, external governance and partner relations, as well as KPIs for team steering. A set of key governance mechanisms is identified as success factors for limiting risks around open developer platforms: Internally, API standards and working groups supported by a high degree of interconnectedness support governance and avoid de-acceleration around a company's product development process. Externally, legal agreements around terms of use shift control from the developer to the platform provider. Access limitations can serve as a supporting gatekeeper for access, or punitive penalty in case of violations of agreements. In support of contractual agreements, transparent developer communication around a firm's intended fields of innovation help avoid discords between developer platform providers and its users. Results are discussed.
by Christian Umbach.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Nilsson, Andreas. "Doing IT project alignment : Adapting the Delta model using design science." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94891.
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Despite the perceived importance of IT, a majority of IT projects fail to deliver what was actually ordered (!). One main reason for failure is IT project management’s inability to adapt and react to a dynamic and changing project environment, instead, projects are run as if it is possible to predict all project variables before project start. In reality, IT project workers live in a dynamic, political and commercial environment where it is difficult to predict and control the future. IT projects needs to be continually aligned with their environment to stay relevant and deliver utility. Through a design science and action research approach, a model supporting IT project managers with IT project alignment is created and tested. The model is called DELTA and is designed to be easy to understand and use for IT project managers; it builds on a simplification of commonly available approaches in order to facilitate communication the different domains of expertise in IT projects. DELTA builds on four main constituents: Enterprise images, Stakeholders, Goals and Project. Guidelines for using the model is also presented. Experiences from using the model indicates that the model is perceived as a useful complement to regular project management methods, specifically by merging different conceptual perceptions into a common view. Furthermore, results highlight the conflict between IT project alignment and the traditional project model. Finally, the results show the difference between IT project issues and underlying causes for these issues.
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Blount, Kristin E. (Kristin Ellen) 1963, and Jay G. 1962 Hooper. "CMBS structure and governance : an empirical analysis of security design and the role of the special servicer." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9669.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-78).
The CMBS market has experienced tremendous recent growth. Issuances in 1998 are anticipated to double 1997 levels of approximately $44 billion. At this point in the development of the market, most participants have a good understanding of the basic investment characteristics of commercial mortgage-backed securities. However, as the CMBS market continues to evolve and as innovations occur in security design and structuring and in security governance, participants should be cognizant of the impact of these elements on subordination levels, as set by the rating agencies, and on security pricing, as set by investors. This thesis empirically examines the determinants of CMBS security pricing and subordination levels, focusing on the influences of security design and governance as it pertains to special servicing. For security design, we examine whether rating agencies and investors recognize complexity. With respect to special servicing, we examine the contrasting theories of the conflict of interest between the AAA-rated classes and the Special Servicer, and of the efficiency of the Special Servicer governance mechanism. Regression analysis is performed on 125 AAA-rated securities derived from 70 CMBS issuances between 1994 and 1996. The results of our analyses show that complexity is costly, as rating agencies increase subordination levels and investors increase security yield spreads in response to complexity issues in security design and structuring. In addition, regarding the role of the Special Servicer, our findings suggest that rating agencies and investors recognize the conflict of interest theory over the efficiency theory. Furthermore, rating agencies and investors appear to adjust subordination levels and prices in response to the presence of certain Special Services.
by Kristine E. Blount and Jay G. Hooper.
S.M.
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du, Fresne Andrew J. "Can Audits be an Effective Method to Improve Information Governance Compliance Objectives?" University of Findlay / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1595949409362295.
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Heggie, Gordon. "The European Committee of the Scottish Parliament : a study of multi-level governance, institutional design and institutional change." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417427.
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Lowe, Nichola J. "Trainers by design : a case study of inter-firm learning, institution building and local governance in western Mexico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30040.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-233).
Studies of international economic development often feature the competitive gains from inter-firm cooperation. By cooperating, firms within a region can draw on their collective resources and experience to test out new production processes and techniques; share the risks associated with system-wide upgrades and improvements; and identify and transition to more secure niche markets. What many development analysts and practitioners often forget, however, is that local economic actors do not always realize these benefits themselves, nor in unison. In recent times, sophisticated manufacturers have been known instead to employ less cooperative survival strategies, including disassociating themselves from their existing manufacturing base and especially from local colleagues with less training and experience. What then leads firms to work together and cooperate? This is the central question of this dissertation and case study of apparel manufacturing in Guadalajara, Mexico. Since the mid-1990s, a growing number of sophisticated, medium sized apparel makers in the region have been working with smaller sized, less experienced or barebones subcontractors and in the process, have established dynamic upgrading and learning alliances. Together these firms are having to "unlearn" an entrenched relational pattern based on strict production hierarchies and centralized forms of control; establish a new set of rules and routines that are more suitable for open learning and joint decision making; and finally, develop a shared "identity" around which to build out and legitimize their collective activities and experience.
(cont.) In contrast to existing studies of craft manufacturing, success here does not come from established cultural norms or individual initiative and self-interest. Rather, it is a case in which three actors-from the state government, industry association and university extension center-have come together in an unexpected alliance to create the institutional structure and governance framework needed to support, guide and motivate this particular form of social learning and collective exchange. In describing the coordinated efforts of these three institutional actors, this case study not only provides planning lessons for other regions not "born with the sprit to cooperate," but more importantly offers a set of policy guidelines for development practitioners wishing to keep skilled and well-connected manufacturers active and invested in their own communities.
by Nichola J. Lowe.
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Turnbull, Shann. "The governance of firms controlled by more than one board theory, development and examples /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/573.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University. Macquarie Graduate School of Management.Bibliography: p. 286-324.
The contribution of this thesis is to present a framework to analyse firms controlled by more than one board. The literature survey of Chapter 2 revealed that there is little recognition of this phenomenon and no accepted way to investigate firms governed by multiple control centres described as a "compound board". The framework is developed in Chapter 3. The historical emergence of compound boards is outlined in Chapter 4 with examples of their architecture described in Chapters 5 and 6. Chapter 7 shows how the framework provides insights not available from other theories of the firm and how selfyes governance can be furthered by utilising contrary human attributes of competition/co-operation, trust/suspicion and self-interest/altruism.
The framework is described as transaction byte analysis (TBA) as it is based on the limited and inconsistent ability of humans to transact units of information described as "bytes". TBA identifies cybernetic principles and strategies that can mitigate human limitations in processing bytes. These provide organisational design criteria for firms to obtain operating advantages. As information is a common element in varies theories of the firm, TBA relates and subsumes them while allowing any type of organisation to be analysed.
Propositions are presented in Chapter 7 for illustrating how TBA provides insights into explaining: (i) why non-trivial employee owned industrial firms have more than one board; (ii) why self-regulation and self-governance of non-trivial firms cannot be assured without a compound board; (iii) how compound boards can simplify the role, knowledge, duties and liabilities of directors; (iv) the competitive advantages of appropriate compound boards in relation to unitary control systems; (v) how to compare and evaluate the relative advantages and disadvantages of firms with different ownership and control structures; (vi) how to compare the relative efficacy of hierarchical and non-hierarchical firms be they in the private or public sector.
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Southern, Adrian. "Implementing an Integrated Approach to Natural Resource Governance : A Case Study in Whole Landscape Design at the Catchment Scale." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514283.
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Salvador, Iborra Susana. "Holding the Stick at Both Ends: The Design of Network Administrative Organizations." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404968.
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L’objecte d’aquesta tesi doctoral és el disseny de les Network Administrative Organizations (NAOs), les unitats especialment establertes de forma intencionada pels membres de les xarxes publiques inter-organitzacionals per a governar i administrar les mateixes. Tot i l'interès mostrat per la recent investigació en gestió pública i pels estudiosos de les organitzacions en l'àmbit de la governança de les xarxes públiques creades amb objectius específics (goal-directed networks), pocs estudis teòrics s'han basat en la contribució seminal de Provan i Kenis (2008). Com a resultat, aquest camp continua sent una via prometedora per a la recerca. Unint la literatura sobre xarxes, col·laboracions inter-organitzatives, disseny organitzatiu i govern corporatiu, aquesta tesi revela dos factors íntimament relacionats amb el disseny de les Network Administrative Organizations: la interdependència estratègica i l’evitació de la incertesa en els resultats.El objeto de esta tesis doctoral es el diseño de las Network Administrative Organizations (NAOS), las unidades especialmente establecidas de forma intencionada por los miembros de las redes públicas inter-organizacionales para gobernar y administrar las mismas. A pesar del interés mostrado por la reciente investigación en gestión pública y por los estudiosos de las organizaciones en el ámbito de la gobernanza de las redes públicas creadas con objetivos específicos (goal-directed networks), pocos estudios teóricos han basado en la contribución seminal de Provan y Kenis (2008). Como resultado, este campo sigue siendo una vía prometedora para la investigación. Uniendo la literatura sobre redes, colaboraciones inter-organizativas, diseño organizativo y gobierno corporativo, esta tesis revela dos factores íntimamente relacionados con el diseño de las Network Administrative Organizations: la interdependencia estratégica y la evitación de la incertidumbre en los resultados.
The focus of this Ph.D. dissertation is the design of Network Administrative Organizations (NAOs), the separate units purposefully set up by public inter-organizational goal-directed network partners for to govern and manage it. Despite the interest shown by both public management and organizational scholars in the field of Goal-Directed networks governance, few theoretical studies have built on Provan and Kenis’s (2008) seminal contribution. As a result, this field remains a promising avenue for research. By bringing together the literature on networks, inter-organizational collaborations, organizational design, and corporate governance, this Ph.D. dissertation sheds light on two factors intimately associated with the design of Network Administrative Organizations: strategic interdependence and outcome uncertainty avoidance.
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Smith, Vivian Paes Barretto. "Comunicação, governança e sustentabilidade: como desenhos de interação influenciam o engajamento de empresas com stakeholders." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-08092016-152351/.
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Práticas de responsabilidade social e sustentabilidade são desenvolvidas por empresas como forma de responder às contestações da sociedade. Em especial as de engajamento com stakeholders. No entanto, são baseadas em teorias estratégicas da administração e não garantem resultado satisfatório do ponto de vista das melhorias socioambientais. Com o intuito de avaliar a qualidade dessas práticas para a promoção da sustentabilidade, um estudo multidisciplinar comparado entre teorias de administração e de comunicação apontou para diferentes modelos de engajamento chamados desenhos de interação. Baseado na pensamento comunicacional de Deetz foi possível identificar desenhos de interação - Colaboração, Diálogo e Democracia Generativa - com propensões suscetíveis a sustentabilidade, pois geram criatividade e relações de mútuo benefício aos stakeholders.Corporate social responsibility and sustainability practices are developed by companies in order to address stakeholder claims. The stakeholder engagement practices are especially interesting. They are based on managerial and strategic theories and have not performed environmentally well lately. In order to evaluate the quality of those practices to promote sustainability, a multidisciplinary study took place. Communication and management theories were compared and different types of engagement, named interaction designs, were identified. Based on Deetz communication theories it was possible to understand specific designs - Collaboration, Dialogue and Generative Democracy - and its propensities to promote sustainability, due to their ability to generate mutual benefits and creativity.
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Albassam, Waleed. "Corporate governance, voluntary disclosure and financial performance : an empirical analysis of Saudi listed firms using a mixed-methods research design." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5280/.
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This thesis empirically analyses corporate governance reforms in Saudi Arabia using a mixed-methods research design. Saudi Arabia has recently pursued corporate governance reforms; the establishment of the Capital Market Authority (CMA) in 2003 and the publication of the Saudi Corporate Governance Code (SCGC) in 2006 constitute a central part of these reforms. This study attempts to provide new insights by exploring the corporate governance reforms pursued. In particular, by using an integrated research design framework, the study seeks to: (i) examine the level of compliance with, and disclosure of, the governance provisions contained in the SCGC by Saudi listed firms; (ii) ascertain whether the introduction of the SCGC has helped improve corporate governance standards in the Saudi corporate context; (iii) investigate the factors affecting voluntary corporate governance disclosure among Saudi listed firms; (iv) examine the association between a number of individual corporate governance mechanisms (i.e., equilibrium-variable model) and financial performance in Saudi listed firms; (v) analyse the relationship between voluntary compliance with the SCGC and firm financial performance by employing a broad composite corporate governance index (i.e., compliance-index model); and (vi) explore the level of awareness and appreciation of good corporate governance practices among key internal and external stakeholders in Saudi Arabia. The first five objectives outlined above are examined using a quantitative methodology, whereas the sixth objective is investigated by employing a qualitative research design. Efforts have been made to achieve integration between the two different research designs by applying the Explanatory Sequential Design (two sequential stages) proposed by Creswell and Clark (2011) within a multi-theoretical framework that incorporates insights from agency, managerial signalling, stakeholder, stewardship and resource dependence theories. The decision to employ a mixed-methods research design is motivated by the relative lack of, and recent calls for, mixed-methods approaches in corporate governance research. The mixed-methods approach seeks to provide a more complete understanding of the effects of corporate governance reforms on corporate disclosure and performance. In addition to the quantitative analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five different groups of key stakeholders. The interview data offers further scope to: (ii) explore the corporate governance reforms; (ii) examine the impact of such reforms on actual governance practices; and (iii) provide a unique opportunity to further understand and explain the quantitative findings. Through the quantitative approach, the study examined balanced panel data of 80 Saudi listed firms from 2004 to 2010. This generated a total of 560 firm-year observations that were collected manually from the sampled firms’ annual reports. First, the constructed Saudi Corporate Governance Index (SCGI) showed that the introduction of the SCGC has helped improve voluntary corporate governance disclosure among Saudi listed firms. Second, this study found that board size, audit firm size, the presence of a corporate governance committee, government ownership, institutional ownership and director ownership have a positive influence on the level of compliance with the SCGC. In contrast, the analysis showed that the proportion of independent directors and block ownership are negatively correlated with the level of voluntary corporate governance disclosure. Third, the findings obtained from the compliance-index model suggest that good corporate governance practices, proxied by the SCGI, are positively related to return on assets (ROA), but have no significant relationship with firm value, as measured by Tobin’s Q (Q-ratio). Similarly, the results from the equilibrium-variable model are by and large mixed. Whereas CEO duality, proportion of independent directors, board sub-committees and director ownership are positively related to ROA, board size is negatively associated with ROA. On the other hand, the proportion of independent directors, board size, frequency of board meetings and director ownership are positively related to firm value, while CEO duality and the presence of board sub-committees have no significant relationship with firm value. The results from the quantitative analysis are robust to controlling for a number of potential endogeneity problems. Finally, the findings obtained from the interview data generally suggest that the regulatory authorities and the CMA in particular need to further strengthen efforts to enhance the level of awareness and appreciation of good corporate governance practices among key internal and external stakeholders of corporate governance in Saudi Arabia.
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Maxwell, Daniel M. "Water Governance in Bolivia: Policy Options for Pro-Poor Infrastructure Reform." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/767.
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As the case with most countries across Latin America, unprecedented migration to urban areas has strained city infrastructure systems. More particularly, the region faces a pressing crisis of water security, where rapid urbanization has outpaced water sector development. This thesis addresses the water infrastructure reform in El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia, focusing on strategies to better promote water access for the peri-urban poor. The research investigates the level of progressivity of water service expansion and pricing regimes: in other words, does the present model of water distribution positively improve the lives of the poorest groups? By investigating these social dimensions of water management, this study brings perspectives on the broader dialogue on Bolivia’s economic development, along with issues of participatory governance.
Resumen: Como es el caso en muchos países latinoamericanos, la migración a áreas urbanas a niveles sin precedentes ha superado la capacidad de infraestructura. Concretamente, la región se enfrenta a una urgente crisis en la seguridad de agua potable dado que la rápida urbanización ha sobrepasado el desarrollo de este sector. Esta tesis aborda la reforma de la infraestructura de agua potable en El Alto y La Paz, Bolivia, enfocando en las estrategias para mejorar el acceso a agua por parte de los residentes periurbanos pobres. La investigación averigua el nivel de progresividad de los regímenes de precios y expansión de servicios de agua potable. En otras palabras, ¿contribuye el actual modelo de distribución de agua al mejoramiento de la vida de los grupos más desfavorecidos? Al investigar estas dimensiones sociales en el manejo de agua potable, este estudio ofrece perspectivas en cuanto al diálogo amplio del desarrollo económico de Bolivia, así como asuntos de gobernanza participativa.
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Santoso, Muhammad Iman [Verfasser], and Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] Noche. "Contribution to the Design of Digital Supply Chain Governance Concepts for Sustainable Development of Biodiesel / Muhammad Iman Santoso ; Betreuer: Bernd Noche." Duisburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1127527665/34.
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Montenegro, Marcos Paulo Rodrigues. "Economicidade colaborativa: uma arquitetura democrática para a contribuição de órgãos de controle externo na governança dos desastres." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/24731.
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O objetivo geral desta pesquisa é demonstrar como o Controle Externo pode contribuir na redução dos riscos de desastres, contribuindo para a governança democrática. Em seus objetivos específicos, o estudo pretende: a) identificar os Tribunais de Contas como condutores da participação social em estágios pré-decisórios da formulação de políticas de Redução dos Riscos de Desastres (RRD); b) propor o conceito de Economicidade Colaborativa como abordagem teórica para garantir o fortalecimento do sistema de controle e da governança democrática; c) aplicar a metodologia do design-thinking como abordagem prática para o entendimento da demanda pública ante cada realidade local.
Objective - The general objective of this research is to demonstrate how External Control can contribute to reduce the risks of disasters, contributing to democratic governance. In its specific objectives, the study intends to: a) identify Audit Courts as drivers of social participation in pre-decision stages of formulating policies for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR); b) propose the concept of Collaborative Accountability as a theoretical approach to ensure strengthening of the control system and democratic governance; c) apply designthinking methodology as a practical approach to understanding public demand of each local reality. Methodology - Design-Thinking, applying the concept of Collaborative Accountability at the ex-ante moment of the public policy of DRR, with i-Cities indicator (IEGM) in the Kingdon Multiple Flow Model (2003).Discussion and Possibilities - The possibilities revolve perspectives of the Schools of Accounts and Management (ECG), Schools of the Audit Courts that seek to improve internal and external controls. Pedagogical essence of the concept of Collaborative Accountability provides a more integrated and cohesive architecture in DRR policy, strengthening system of control of public administration, engagement of society, and democracy. Practical implications – Applicability of the research was shown to be relevant, since it opens up possibilities for better qualification of public policies capable of dealing with wicked problems such as disasters, when from the moment of the pre-decision stages of its formulation. It also improves degree of institutionality of the Audit Courts, contributes to updating of IEGM as well as improves DRR policy and Public Administration. Social implications - The study allows to know performance of the Accounts Courts and to propose improvements in external control given historical and evolutionary conditions of the public administration, in the context of a democratic society in network. In this context, when referencing the citizen in the center of the democratic framework, Collaborative Accountability uses social learning to bring educated citizens and trained public servants, concerned with generating a public value that considers equity and culminates in Social Resilience. It seeks to develop a collective consciousness capable of arousing in the elected agent greater capacity to operate with different forms of knowledge acquisition, allowing greater inclusion and participation of citizens and public servants in formulation of public policies (RRD), when in their pre- according to local reality. Originality - Collaborative Accountability, of pedagogical essence and applicable by Schools of Accounts and Management (ECG), revisits classical approaches and suggests new arrangements capable of dealing with complexity of current public problems such as disasters. Thus, External Control Bodies can use these arrangements to watch over public policy cycle - from the origin - exercising a more integrative and cohesive control. It is a new approach to stimulate democratic concertation and civic engagement in policy-making, providing new areas for future research on subject
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Wenz, Laura Alexandra [Verfasser], and Paul [Akademischer Betreuer] Reuber. "Worlding Cape Town by design : creative cityness, policy mobilities and urban governance in postapartheid Cape Town / Laura Alexandra Wenz ; Betreuer: Paul Reuber." Münster : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1141793598/34.
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Tsui, Carlyle Wai-Ling. "Design and implementation of a scheme for accreditation of company directors by the Hong Kong Institute of Directors in advancing corporate governance." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2007. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/2668/.
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This report documents the design and implementation of a scheme for accreditation of members by The Hong Kong Institute of Directors (“HKIoD”), Hong Kong’s premier body of company directors. HKIoD’s mission is to promote good corporate governance and to contribute towards advancing the status of Hong Kong. Its membership of 1,000+ directors from listed, private and non-profit-distributing companies represents a cross-section of the community at large. Good corporate governance is crucial for the progresses of companies, the economies and the world. While many parties are involved in corporate governance, directors bear the ultimate responsibility and determine the integrity and prosperity of their companies. It is vital that directors continually upgrade their knowledge and practice in fulfilling such duties in a dynamic world. Demonstration of continuing professional development (“CPD”) is mandatory for the recognized professions. Unlike recognized professionals, directors are not licensed. However, they should uphold professionalism and pursue CPD. Through instigating accreditation of members by requiring them to fulfill CPD on an annual basis, HKIoD embarked on this project as a pioneering private-sector initiative in Hong Kong and a new approach to membership accreditation as compared to major institutes of directors elsewhere. The project has engaged action research over a long period of 46 months to motivate and mobilize collective action for improvement by members in introducing change in knowledge, attitude, belief and practice. It has gone through various phases of intervention: definition, design, implementation, monitoring and strengthening and finally evaluation. The project results are deemed successful in output, outcome and impact, measured respectively in terms of scale of operations, satisfaction to owners and perceptions of influence by owners, stakeholders and others. A breakthrough for HKIoD, its members and the community, the project has established an implementation model, generated values to many and achieved significant learning outcome for the researcher.
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Harmes, Riccardo Lucian Paul. "Localism and the design of political systems." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30140.
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Localism places a special value on the local, and is increasingly prominent as a political doctrine. The literature suggests localism operates in three ways: bottom-up, top down and mutualistic. To assess its impact, localism needs to be seen within the broader context of multi-level governance. Here localism is examined in relation to three major themes: place, public value (PV), and institutional design. Regarding place, a key distinction is drawn between old and new localism. Old localism is about established local government, while new localism highlights the increasing room for manoeuvre that localities have in contemporary politics. This enables them to influence wider power structures, for example through trans-local organizing. With regard to public value, localist thinking makes a key contribution to core PV domains such as sustainability, wellbeing and democracy, as well as to others like territorial cohesion and intergovernmental mutuality. As for institutional design, the study is particularly concerned with ‘sub-continental’ political systems. A set of principles for the overall design of such systems is proposed, together with a framework of desirable policy outcomes at the local level. This can be used to evaluate how effective political systems are at creating public value in local settings. The thesis presents a comparative study of localism in two significant, sub-continental clusters: India/Kerala/Kollam and the EU/UK/England/Cornwall. Both can be seen as contrasting ‘exemplars’ of localism in action. In India, localism was a major factor in the nationwide local self-government reforms of 1993 and their subsequent enactment in the state of Kerala. In the EU, localism has been pursued through an economic federalism based on regions and sub-regions. This is at odds with the top-down tradition in British politics. The tension between the two approaches is being played out currently in the peripheral sub-region of Cornwall/Isles of Scilly. Cornwall’s dilemma has been sharpened by Britain’s recent decision to leave the EU. The thesis considers the wider implications of the case studies, and presents some proposals for policymakers and legislators to consider, together with suggestions for further research.
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Menezes, Renan Grassi Franco de. "Percepção de risco e escolha dos contratos nas transações de venda do café." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-21012013-171433/.
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Existem evidências de que os produtores de café preferem transacionar via mercado spot ao invés de atuar em mercados de entrega futura ou realizar contratos de longo prazo com a indústria. Se o estabelecimento de contratos permite a redução do risco, quais fatores, associados a estas formas de transação, estariam influenciando a decisão dos cafeicultores? Este trabalho busca relacionar a determinação da forma de governança da transação de venda do café com a maneira como o cafeicultor percebe o risco. Sob a perspectiva da geração da renda, a preferência por relações spot, portanto, de curta duração é justificável? Como o tomador da decisão incorpora sua visão do risco para fazer sua escolha? Para esclarecer tais questões, primeiramente, são conduzidas entrevistas com produtores, visando identificar o perfil dos cafeicultores e entender como, mesmo que implicitamente, eles incorporam a gestão de rico em suas escolhas contratuais. Em seguida, este estudo elabora um modelo de simulação da renda dos produtores utilizando dois cenários, o ocorrido (cenário real) e um cenário com a adoção de contratos que limitem a margem de variação dos preços.There are evidences pointing that coffee producers rather prefer transact their product through spot market than by future contracts or by long-term contracts with the industry. If the establishment of those contracts allows risk reduction and mitigation, what factors associated with these transaction forms are influencing the producers\' decisions? This study seeks to unite the governance form choice of the coffee selling transaction with the risk observance by the producers. Under the perspective of income generation, the preference for spot transactions is justified? How the decision maker aggregates his risk vision in order to make such choice? To answer those questions, first, an income simulation model is derived, using two scenarios, one using real spot price and another one with hypothetical contracts that diminishes the price fluctuation. Following that, interviews with a few producers take place, in order to understand how they, even if in implicit way, incorporate a risk managing notion to their activity.
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Moreira, Virginia Westphalen Correa. "Proposição de um framework para negócios de plataforma baseados em capitalismo consciente : uma validação internaiconal." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2018. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/7293.
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Iniciativas que vão além de buscar somente geração de lucro estão ganhando cada vez mais espaço no meio empresarial, não apenas como projetos paralelos de responsabilidade social das organizações, mas como sua principal estratégia. Essas iniciativas estão relacionadas com o entendimento do importante papel da iniciativa privada na transformação e solução de problemas sociais existentes hoje. Neste contexto, a abordagem do Capitalismo Consciente (CC) define que o propósito de uma empresa deve ir além de gerar lucros e valor aos shareholders. Deve haver uma razão superior central para a empresa existir. Outra abordagem de negócios que provoca mudanças no mercado e quebras de paradigmas no ecossistema tradicional das empresas é a evolução dos negócios de plataforma. Nessas organizações são comercializadas as interações entre dois usuários finais e o valor adicionado para ambas as partes precisa ser claro, de forma a desenvolver a rede necessária. Esta dissertação une essas duas abordagens, com o objetivo de propor a configuração de um framework que sirva de apoio a empreendedores. Para tanto, adotou-se o método design research, constituído por cinco passos (consciência do problema, sugestão, desenvolvimento, avaliação e conclusão), que possibilita a construção e validação de um artefato. Após a consciência do problema e análise da literatura, foi elaborada a primeira versão do framework. A validação foi dividida em três fases, totalizando 12 especialistas entrevistados e cada etapa terminando com uma nova versão do artefato. O framework final é composto por um núcleo que compreende origem do propósito, início do desenvolvimento de rede e suporte financeiro; quatro quadrantes estáticos: Tecnologia, Gestão Consciente, Liderança e Rede; além de elementos divididos em 2 níveis de evolução, dentro dos quadrantes que correspondem às suas áreas de conhecimento. Entende-se que este estudo agrega conhecimento pois estabelece uma conexão entre as abordagens dos negócios de plataforma e do Capitalismo Consciente, exemplificando como isso pode ocorrer e seu potencial transformador.
Initiatives that go beyond seeking only profit generation are gaining more space in the business environment, not only as parallel CSR projects, but also as their main strategy. These initiatives are related to the understanding of the important role of private initiative in transforming and solving current social problems. In this context, the Conscious Capitalism (CC) approach defines that the purpose of a business must go beyond generating profits and value to shareholders. There must be a central purpose for the company to exist. Another business approach that causes market shifts and breaks paradigms in the traditional corporate ecosystem is the evolution of platform business. In these organizations the interactions between two end users are commercialized and the added value for both parties needs to be clear in order to develop the necessary network. This dissertation unites these two approaches, with the purpose of proposing the configuration of a framework that will support entrepreneurs. In order to do so, the design research method was adopted, consisting of five steps (problem awareness, suggestion, development, evaluation and conclusion), which allows the construction and validation of an artifact. After the awareness of the problem and analysis of the literature, the first version of the framework was elaborated. The validation was divided into three phases, totaling 12 experts interviewed and each stage ending with a new version of the artifact. The final framework is comprised of a core that understands purpose, initiation of network development and financial support; four static quadrants: Technology, Conscious Management, Leadership and Network; in addition to elements divided into two levels of evolution within the quadrants that correspond to their areas of knowledge. It is understood that this study adds knowledge since it establishes a connection between the approaches of the platform business and Conscious Capitalism, exemplifying how this can occur and its transforming potential.
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Blacky, Nosipho. "Organization management challenges of national heritage institutions in South Africa : a case study of the Robben Island Museum (RIM)." University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5083.
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Masters in Public Administration - MPAIn January 1997, Robben Island Museum (RIM) opened its doors to the public as a tourist destination. This was done without any formal management structure or strategic planning, to cope not only with its mandate as the first National Museum of the new democratic South Africa, but also to meet the demand of the great interest of visitors to see this prison where the icon of the liberation struggle, Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years. This operational take-off without formal administrative management structure and strategic planning was understandable given the social and political transitional climate in the country. The effect thereof as the old adage states ‘failure to plan is planning for failure’ seems to hold true for RIM who is struggling to become a well-managed national heritage site. RIM over the years have been beset with governance and management challenges and enjoyed continual bad publicity. The study’s aim was to bring an understanding of what the major governance and managerial challenges were and to make recommendations to address those. The study was guided by a central research question namely What were the administrative and management challenges of RIM and in what ways did it impact on the operational effectiveness of RIM as a national museum and World heritage site. A number of findings emanated from the study. A key one was that clarity of roles and responsibilities of the council and the management is required. Furthermore, the vision and mission of RIM must inform the formulation of strategies to give effect thereto. This in turn must be the base for the development of an appropriate organisational structure to implement the strategies. A number of recommendation stems from the research. An important one was that appointment must be on the basis of ‘fit for purpose’. This means that staff with the right skills and capacity should be appointed as a matter of priority. In conclusion, the findings of the study could be used by other heritage organisations faced with similar organisational challenges.
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Kim, Min Kyung. "Governance Matters in Policy Design Process for Urban Cultural Redevelopment: A Comparative Case Study of Gordon Square Arts District and Uptown District in Cleveland, Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu154654842562896.
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Rode, Philipp. "The integrated ideal in urban governance : compact city strategies and the case of integrating urban planning, city design and transport policy in London and Berlin." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3399/.
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This thesis investigates how objectives of integrating urban planning, city design and transport policies have been pursued in key case study cities as part of a compact city agenda since the early 1990s. Focusing on the underlying institutional arrangements, it examines how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have worked across disciplinary silos, geographic scales and different time horizons to facilitate more compact and connected urban development. The thesis draws on empirical evidence from two critical cases, London and Berlin, established through a mixed method approach of expert interviews, examination of policy and planning documents, and review of key literature. Four main groups of integration mechanisms were identified and analysed: those related to (1) governance structures, (2) processes of planning and policymaking, (3) more specific instruments, and (4) enabling conditions. Based on having identified converging trends as part of the institutional changes that facilitated planning and policy integration in the case study cities, this thesis presents three main findings. First, rather than building on either more hierarchical or networked forms of integration, integrative outcomes are linked to a hybrid model of integration that combines hierarchy and networks. Second, while institutional change itself can lead to greater integration, continuous adjustment of related mechanisms is more effective in achieving this than disruptive, one-off ‘integration fixes’. Third, integrated governance facilitating compact urban growth represents a form of privileged integration, which centrally involves and even relies on the prioritisation of certain links between sectoral policy and geographic scales over others. Integrating urban planning, city design and transport policy at the city and metropolitan level, this thesis concludes, is essentially a prioritisation, which the compact city model implies and helps to justify.
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Fransson, Barbro. "Business and governance models for DTN-based internet access : Gender and cultural considerations and application cases using open source software and design principles for ICT commons." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Arbetsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-18378.
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Great effort is being made to get Europe out of its economic crisis and prepare the European economy for the next decade. The aims of the Digital Agenda are to give all Europeans basic broadband by 2013 and to ensure that by 2020 all Europeans have access to much higher internet speeds. Can DTN technology contribute to achieving these targets in rural and remote areas? In the N4C project DTN technology has taken a step toward these goals and been proven viable. This licentiate thesis is meant to suggest business and governance models suitable for the N4C DTN-based internet access, the test beds and the applications. The focus is on reviewing and assessing business models for Open Source Software (OSS) and offering solutions for testing whether DTN-based internet access can be governed in an economic association as an ICT commons.Gender and cultural considerations in N4C business and deployment development are analysed. It is shown that to improve the gender balance special measures need to be considered. It is concluded that in countries such as Sweden, where women have almost the same ICT take-up and usage as men, i.e., women are good ICT-consumers, their role as entrepreneurs, developers and participants in governance of ICT infrastructure needs to be improved.Ostrom’s eight design principles for governing, with division of roles into appropriators, producers and providers, have been tested on N4C in the entity of an economic association, with illuminating results. However, when such governance models are used in projects like N4C, they cannot be transferred outright, as the appropriation from the internet is different from withdrawal of resources from other types of commons. It was found that the provision formulas, especially for labour, are important, because in the N4C DTN-based internet access the producer in the model is often acting as a “data mule,” transporting the code. To assure gender-inclusive governance when economic associations are being used, Ostrom’s eight design principles for governing is proposed to be surrounded with special measures.Godkänd; 2011; 20111006 (barfra); LICENTIATSEMINARIUM Ämnesområde: Människa-maskin med inriktning mot genusforskning/Man Machine Relation Focusing Gender Examinator: Docent Maria Udén, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, Luleå tekniska universitet Diskutant: Universitetslektor Annica Sandström, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, Luleå tekniska universitet Tid: Fredag den 11 november 2011 kl 13.00 Plats: Taylor F719, Luleå tekniska universitet
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Norlin, David. "Risk- och sårbarhetsanalysprocessen i svenska kommuner från ett deltagarpespektiv." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67726.
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Bakgrund: Människor drabbade av naturrelaterade katastrofer fortsätter att stiga i antal tillsammans med de kostnader som följer i katastrofernas spår. Skadorna fördelas ojämnt mellan länder och samhällsgrupper och utgör både ett humanitärt problem och en fråga om ojämlikhet. Att reducera risker är därmed en förutsättning för att uppnå hållbar utveckling. Sendai-ramverket för katastrofriskreducering 2015-2030 talar om vikten av att riskhantering baseras på en förståelse av risker. Risk- och sårbarhetsanalys (RSA) är ett verktyg för att skapa förståelse av risker och åtgärder att vidta för att reducera dessa. Stöd till att utveckla processer för analys av risker och sårbarheter har identifierats som komparativa fördelar för svenskt bistånd inom de internationella kapacitetsutvecklingsinsatser som Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB) bedriver. Trots förekomsten av erfarenheter, lagstöd och vägledningar saknas i större omfattning studier av hur arbetet genomförs och utnyttjas. Forskning om olycksinsatsplanering pekar ut själva processen som viktigare än de planer som produceras. Detta sammantaget visar på ett behov att identifiera viktiga erfarenheter från den svenska RSA-processen, erfarenheter som kan informera MSBs kapacitetsutvecklingsinsatser inom RSA. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att identifiera vad deltagare uppfattar som goda erfarenheter av det RSA-arbete som bedrivs av svenska kommuner med fokus på själva processen Metod: Studien som är av kvalitativ karaktär genomförs med en abduktiv ansats där deltagare intervjuas, inspelningar transkriberas och innehållet analyseras med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Som teoretiska utgångspunkter att jämföra studiens empiri används Risk Governance, Social Learning och en tillämpning av Design Science. Resultatet: Studiens resultat presenteras i form av tema, kategorier och underkategorier. På latent nivå härleds temat; lära tillsammans till nytta för ett säkrare samhälle, vilket fångar fundamentala tankegångar om att analysarbetet handlar om att lära sig mer, att det behöver göras tillsammans och att resultatet behöver komma till nytta, allt i en strävan mot ett säkrare samhälle. Det manifesta innehållet presenteras i kategorierna; funktionellt lagarbete, lärande och förändring samt främjande strategier och arrangemang. Kategorierna består i sin tur upp av tio underkategorier. Slutsatser: Bland viktiga slutsatser från arbetet med RSA är betydelsen av att forma team av deltagare med varierade roller, kompetens och perspektiv. Vidare att skapa forum och miljöer som främjar tillit och ömsesidigt utbyte. Här är samordnarens roll av avgörande betydelse. Ytterligare en slutsats är att ta vara på drivkrafter om nytta och användbarhet för ett flexibelt genomförande. Behovet av förankring, ägarskap och att bygga på vad som redan finns är andra betydelsefulla slutsatser. Vid stöd till nationell utveckling av RSA behöver lagstiftnings stimulerande men också hämmande effekter beaktas. Hur myndigheters stöd utformas behöver baseras på hur behoven ser ut hos de som ska genomföra RSA.
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Panagos, Mélina. "Le serious gaming, un outil de gouvernance contributive et participative du bien-être et de la santé : Le cas du game design des jeux vidéo chez les 14-17 ans, une réalité contrastée." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020COAZ2001.
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La thèse de doctorat intitulée Le serious gaming, un outil de gouvernance contributive et participative du bien-être et de la santé. Le game design des jeux vidéo chez les 14-17 ans, une réalité contrastée est un travail qui s’inscrit dans le champ des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication. Cette recherche interdisciplinaire s’attache à employer de nombreux concepts et théories rattachées au champ des games studies, des cultural studies, mais aussi à celui de la promotion de la santé en santé publique. Les médias en général et les jeux vidéo en particulier font d’ores et déjà l’objet de nombreux travaux à charge. Aussi, ces objets seront cette fois analysés à décharge. Il s’agit ici de comprendre de quelles manières ces technologies d’information et de communication peuvent finalement devenir des outils permettant de faire pencher la balance risque-bénéfice en faveur de celui du bien-être et de la santé de ses usager.es. L’étude de cas au cœur de cette recherche-action se concentre sur un objet dont l’utilisation chez une tranche d’âge est toujours assujettie aux polémiques institutionnelles et épistémologiques : les jeux vidéo chez les 14-17 ans.Le sujet sera ici traité en trois parties : une première partie qui démontre comment, au croisement de théories, concepts et modèles issus d’une grande variété de disciplines, la pratique et les usages des jeux-vidéo s’inscrit dans des contextes favorables du bien-être et de la santé ; une deuxième dans laquelle s’articule l’étude de cas dans une démarche en communication expérimentale ; La troisième partie qui, à la lecture des résultats obtenus et de leur applicabilité dans un contexte administratif et politique actuel, permet de dégager les éléments de réponse sur le sujet. A l’issu de la démonstration il apparaît effectivement que ce sujet, une fois écrémé des corrélations simplistes et des considérations culturelles, fait bien l’objet d’un traitement ne tenant pas compte des conclusions académiques portant sur l’empowerment que produit le game design en particulier et la pratique vidéoludique en général. Dès lors, si le serious gaming du game design des jeux vidéo se constitue comme un outil efficace lorsqu’il est employé dans une approche populationnelle, se pose finalement la question de son applicabilité et de ses effets sur dans d’autres contextes et/ou les autres médias digitaux ou traditionnelsThe Doctorate thesis entitled 'Serious gaming, a tool of contributive governance and participant of well-being and health. Game design in video games for the 14 to 17 years old, a contrasted reality' is a work which comes within the scope of science of the information and communication study field. This interdisciplinary research makes sure to use many concepts and theories attached to the field of game studies and cultural studies but also to the field of health promotion and public health.The media in general and video games more particularly are already the object of several works incriminating it. Therefore, in this study, these objects will be analyzed from an exonerating point of view. The point here is to understand how these information and communication technologies can in the end become a tool allowing to tip the scale of risks and benefits in favor of the well-being and health of its users. The case study at the very heart of this study-action focuses on an object which for a certain group age is still under institutional and epistemological polemics: video games for the 14 to 17 years old.The topic will be treated here in three different parts : A first part which will demonstrate how, at the crossroad of theories, concepts and models from a great variety of disciplines, the use of video games inscribes in contexts in favor of well-being and health ; a second one in which the study is built around an experimental communication approach ; the third part which, after reading the final results and their capacity to be applied in the current administrative and political context, allows to uncover the elements of the answer about this topic.At the end of this walk through, it actually appears that this topic, once skimmed from the simplistic correlations and cultural considerations, is indeed the object of an a traitement which does not consider the academic conclusions about the empowerment that the game design in particular and the use of video games in general are creating. Subsequently, if the serious gaming of the game design in video games builds itself like and efficient tool when it is used in a populational approach, the question of its capacity to be applied and of its effects in other contexts and/or in other digital or traditional media can be asked
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Silva, Vieira de Oliveira Pedro José [Verfasser], Gesche [Akademischer Betreuer] Joost, Holger [Akademischer Betreuer] Schulze, Gesche [Gutachter] Joost, and Holger [Gutachter] Schulze. "Decolonizing the Earview of Design: Listening Anxieties and the Apparatus of Auditory Governance / Pedro José Silva Vieira de Oliveira ; Gutachter: Gesche Joost, Holger Schulze ; Gesche Joost, Holger Schulze." Berlin : Universität der Künste Berlin, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1203305923/34.
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Lenz, Tobias. "The EU's inescapable influence on global regionalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:aed07c5f-37a3-4b05-a57b-2ac85cbc12d0.
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This thesis examines the EU's influence on regional cooperation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Mercosur in South America and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by drawing on concepts from diffusion studies. It argues that conventional perspectives have tended to view different cases of regionalism as independent phenomena reflecting particular structural, institutional or ideational conditions, mainly internal to the respective region itself. I propose instead to conceive of regional organisations as asymmetrically interdependent, in that the EU as the most successful regional grouping in the international system influences other regional organisations in important respects; yet in ways that are ill-captured by the conventional depiction of external influence as a form of coercion. The central question addressed in this thesis is thus: Under what conditions and in what ways does the EU affect the trajectory of formal rules in regional cooperation elsewhere? I advance three main arguments. First, I suggest that given the EU's ideational and material power in global regionalism, it is likely to act as a focal point in debates about regional rule change around which actors' expectations converge when being confronted with an exogenous cooperation problem. This renders EU influence difficult to escape. Second, I argue that there are two dynamics by which EU influence affects outcomes in global regionalism - the EU as switchman and as driver. While the former leads policy-makers to choose EU-type rules instead of similarly viable alternatives given a particular cooperation problem, the latter affects the very incentives for regional rule change and thereby acts as an independent driver of regional cooperation. Third, I argue that, in terms of outcomes, EU influence has been highest in SADC, lower in Mercosur and lowest in ASEAN, mainly reflecting different degrees of material and ideational interdependence between the EU and other regions. Yet, policy-makers' widespread reluctance to share national sovereignty has sharply delineated the boundaries of EU influence in all three regions. I test these arguments across three central areas of regional cooperation: market building, institution building and community building.
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Weisman, Robert. "A Leadership Approach to Successful Digital Transformation Using Enterprise Architecture." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39993.
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Digital transformation has been a focus of public and private sectors to both improve and sustain business value by leveraging rapidly evolving technology. Digital technology is ubiquitous and inter-connected, changing the face of business, government and society through the creation of new industries, with automation replacing two thirds of existing jobs. The challenge is that most digital transformation efforts fail, mainly due to inadequate leadership and management as well as failure to accept that it is a multi-disciplinary problem. Another challenge is to distinguish between digital transformation (DT) and digitization where the former is based on a customer-centric value proposition and the latter focuses on cost-cutting and operational excellence. This difference also highlights the business/technology divide where the former is mainly DT and the latter is mainly digitization. The challenge addressed in this thesis is how to obtain management acceptance that digital transformation is multi-disciplinary and to make recommendations with respect to how best to achieve DT goals. The research methods followed is a blend of participatory action research (PAR), case study analysis and literature analysis. The principal research findings are that there is no single, management methodology that can increase the chances of DT success but that a modified form of enterprise architecture (EA) that collaboratively interacts with the other management frameworks can likely provide a solid foundation to effectively achieve DT. The thesis consists of an assessment of the current methodologies, four articles that each discuss an area to support effective DT, followed by a request for change (RFC) to up-date the TOGAF 9 EA framework standard. TOGAF was selected due to its pervasive usage globally (80% of Fortune 50 and 60% of Fortune 500). The RFC accommodated both the concepts raised in the articles and other innovations highlighted in the literature review and assessment. The thesis concludes that enterprise architecture is a key business technique that al-lows the sharing of core decision support information across the enterprise, enabling all management frameworks, especially those on the technology-management divide, to collaboratively realize digital transformation.
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Eid, Cherrelle. "Towards the design of flexibility management in smart grids : A techno-institutional perspective." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektro- och systemteknik (EES), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-214857.
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The European policy focus on smart grids implies their development as an indispensable part of the future power system. However, the definition of a smart grid is broad and vague, and the actual implementation of a smart grid can differ significantly, depending on the stakeholders involved.This work aims to inform policy makers, the electricity industry and researchers about stakeholder interests and the technical complexities involved by presenting smart grids via a techno-institutional framework. This framework takes account of the technical nature of the electricity transport and supply service as well as the institutional nature of electricity markets, stakeholder perspectives and sector regulation. In addition, this work presents potential revenues resulting from flexibility management in smart grids and proposes a way forward for smart grids and flexibility management in Europe.QC 20170925
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Laousse, Dominique. "L'institutionnalisation de l'innovation intensive dans les transports publics. Industrialiser, métaboliser et gouverner l'innovation." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEM084/document.
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Alors que s’affirme la nécessité vitale de ruptures techniques, économiques et sociales, leurs conditions d’émergence et d’institutionnalisation dans les grandes entreprises demeuraient encore un objet de recherche fondamentale et de nombreuses questions étaient encore ouvertes : quelle ingénierie de conception face à l’innovation intensive ? Quelle organisation mettre en place pour professionnaliser les processus de rupture et les intégrer à l’agenda stratégique ? Quel modèle d’institutionnalisation est compatible avec ce nouveau régime de l’entreprise ? En s’appuyant sur de nombreux travaux étalés sur plus d’une décennie, dans de grandes entreprises de transports publics, cette thèse montre que l’institutionnalisation de l’innovation de rupture se construit et s’analyse selon un modèle à trois dimensions complémentaires : l’industrialisation des méthodes de conception innovante, la métabolisation d’acteurs professionnalisés et la gouvernance de l’innovation intensive. En outre, ce modèle met en lumière le processus d’endogénéisation du pilotage de l’innovation intensive qui est au cœur de cette institutionnalisation. Celui-ci, débute avec la routinisation de dispositifs collaboratifs d’innovation (KCP) sous la forme de « laboratoires/réseaux ». Démontrée de façon répétitive, la puissance générative de ces dispositifs crédibilise de nouveaux domaines innovants, ainsi que les multiples acteurs impliqués. Emerge ensuite une organisation transversale (fonction Innovation Intensive) qui permet de capitaliser sur de nouveaux métabolismes collectifs : l’innovation de rupture s’intègre alors, avec ses repères et ses ressources, dans l’activité quotidienne de l’entreprise. Sur ces bases, une véritable gouvernance « conceptive », adaptée à l’innovation de rupture, est alors rendue possible. Ainsi, l’institutionnalisation de l’innovation de rupture mobilise des formes classiques d’institutionnalisation mais elle s’en éloigne aussi par son couplage nécessaire à la générativité cognitive forte qu’exige la rupture. In fine, ce modèle renvoie d’une certaine manière à l’émergence de l’entreprise moderne elle-même, quand elle a dû institutionnaliser la recherche scientifiqueWhile affirming the vital need for technical, economic and social breaks, their conditions of emergence and institutionalization in large companies still remained an object of fundamental research and many questions were still open : what design engineering to face intensive innovation ? What organization should be put in place to professionalize the disruptive processes and integrate them into the strategic agenda ? What model of institutionalization is compatible with this new regime of the firm ? Based on many works spread over more than a decade, in large public transport companies, this thesis shows that the institutionalization of breakthrough innovation is built and analyzed according to a model with three complementary dimensions : the industrialization of innovative design methods, the metabolization of professionalized actors and the governance of intensive innovation. In addition, this model highlights the endogenous process of piloting intensive innovation that is at the heart of this institutionalization. It begins with the routinisation of collaborative innovation devices (KCP) in the form of "laboratories / networks". Demonstrated in a repetitive way, the generative power of these devices gives credibility to new innovative domains, as well as the multiple actors involved. Then emerges a transversal organization (Innovation Intensive function) that capitalizes on new collective metabolism: breakthrough innovation then integrates, with its benchmarks and resources, into the daily activity of the company. On these bases, a real "design" governance, adapted to breakthrough innovation, is then made possible. Thus, the institutionalization of disruptive innovation mobilizes classic forms of institutionalization, but it also distances itself from it by its necessary coupling to the strong cognitive generativity that the rupture requires. Ultimately, this model refers in a certain way to the emergence of the modern enterprise itself, when it has institutionalized scientific research
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Voß, Jan-Peter. "Designs on governance development of policy instruments and dynamics in governance /." Enschede : University of Twente [Host], 2007. http://doc.utwente.nl/58085.
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