to the poor. It addresses the issue of accountability as it relates to civil society, defining "moral' accountability as … an organization's accountability towards the people it was established to help, and procedural accountability as internal … between "moral' and "procedural' accountability applies primarily to non-governmental organizations, a subset of civil society …

governance (CG) practices of the Malaysian Chinese business community (MCBC) and the impact of culture on such practices. Other … Malaysian Code of Governance and the strengthening of the regulatory framework for the more effective functioning of the … philosophy (which is largely family control) generally does not lend itself to transparency and disclosure. The situation is …

organizational culture, leadership, and alignment to ethical values. Organizational transparency makes sense rationally and ethically … strategy, structures and systems within the corporate governance, and moreover a critical eye must be focused on the … the SME sector, where many and sudden changes at governance level took place in a relative short span of time, changes …

This paper uses regression analysis to explore possible relationships between culture and governance. The World Bank … Worldwide Governance Indicators, in six expressions, are used as dependent variables. Explanatory variables are real per capita … GDP (PPP) and culture measured in two dimensions. The data set includes 68 nations. The authors find that the level of …

Culture is a key word in the story of Italy. The richness of its cultural past together with the present and future … potential of its creativity has given culture a central role in the agenda of public policies. As a new element in this pattern … on the attempt to govern the economy through a careful use of culture as a key dimension. This connection looks at the …

Local governance arrangements often reflect culturally charged struggles for power as well as culturally motivated … attention to this nexus, at best reducing power to questions of material difference but overlooking the ways in which governance … between different cultural forms at a village level affect local governance arrangements. The conclusions explore implications …

representation governance, and a budget-allocation function. The common service is provided by a firm, which consists of a value …-production function, an implementation governance, and a remuneration function. They extend the concepts of the consumer and the producer … in neoclassical theory. The functions mentioned are determined by cooperative games. A governance is represented by a …

of institutional features. An institutional approach is introduced that requires a cooperative governance to realize the … potential value-production by firms, or to realize the potential user-value by clubs. For each, a distinctive governance system … is introduced. The firm requires an implementation governance to activate the value-production capacities of its service …