Governing public heritage assets with civil society: exploring the typologies of collaboration by the dominant actorJournal of Management and Governance - - Trang 1-47 - 2023
Francesca Imperiale, Alessandro Sancino, Roberta Fasiello, Paolo Ricci
This paper addresses the societal challenge of sustainably managing cultural heritage, a topic of great relevance for the sustainability of societies and their historical institutions. Specifically, it focuses on long-lasting collaborative systems set up between a public actor and civil society in response to the need for heritage asset preservation, here exploring the roles of both actors in esta...... hiện toàn bộ
Integrating strategic planning and performance management in universities: a multiple case-study analysisJournal of Management and Governance - Tập 26 - Trang 417-448 - 2022
Lucia Biondi, Salvatore Russo
Over time, public universities have been involved in a process of modernisation based on a new concept of governance and managerial methods for increasing efficiency and effectiveness, as well as transparency and accountability. This paper aims to investigate the link between strategic planning systems and performance management systems in Italian universities by answering the following research q...... hiện toàn bộ
Efficiency of internal control: evidence from Swiss non-financial companiesJournal of Management and Governance - Tập 21 - Trang 399-433 - 2016
Stefan Hunziker
Internal control enables companies to ensure a reliable reporting, to comply with relevant laws and standards and to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes. However, until now few empirical contributions conceptualizing and empirically investigating the efficiency of internal control have been published. This study addresses this research deficit and develops a theory-based ...... hiện toàn bộ
A review of hedge funds and their investor activism: do they help or hurt other equity investors?Journal of Management and Governance - Tập 15 - Trang 349-374 - 2009
Marguerite Schneider, Lori Verstegen Ryan
Hedge funds tend to be highly activist investors who exercise their “principal power” over their portfolio firms. We observe that, compared to other investor types, hedge funds appear to be even more activist than is predicted by a comprehensive Investor Activism Model, due to the unexpectedly large role of several antecedent variables. This conclusion suggests that the relatively lightly regulate...... hiện toàn bộ
National Networks of Corporate Power: An Irish PerspectiveJournal of Management and Governance - Tập 2 - Trang 357-379 - 1998
Leo Mac Canna, Niamh Brennan, Eleanor O'Higgins
This paper maps the network of interlocking directorships formed by the boards of the top 50 financial and 200 non-financial companies in Ireland. The Irish network is compared with those in ten countries, based on the same sample size and selection criteria as used in this paper, using the methods and theory of Social Network Analysis (SNA). Fundamental to the paper is the idea that the network o...... hiện toàn bộ
A Strategic Approach on Organizing Accounts Receivable Management: Some Empirical EvidenceJournal of Management and Governance - Tập 3 - Trang 1-29 - 1999
Greet Asselbergh
In this paper, the organizational behavior in managing accounts receivable is studied. It is based on the recent surge of interest in trade credit management from both academics and practitioners emphasizing 1) the rather permanent character of these short-term but continuously renewed investments and 2) their strategic potential due to the existence of financial, tax-based, operating, transaction...... hiện toàn bộ
The enduring presence of groups and public enterprises in the Italian economyJournal of Management and Governance - Tập 14 - Trang 199-220 - 2010
Roberto Cafferata
What was the presence of the State-entrepreneur in the Italian economy in the 20th century? Which forms did it assume? What is the weight of the State-entrepreneur in Italy today? Trying to answer these questions, the author carries out an analysis through the historical method. His final thesis is that, notwithstanding the progressive pressures, which started in the 1990s, towards the privatizati...... hiện toàn bộ