The decentralization of organizational decision authority has been shown to be complementary to Information Technology (IT) in prior research. We draw from the information processing view of organizations, the IT and de/centralization debate, and organizational learning theory to argue that IT...

The main argument of this paper is that in many situations, dicult puzzles of governance can be solved in dramatically new ways using modern IT systems. Nationwide centralised databases, coupled with ubiquitous high-speed Internet access, and pervasive computational power, has put a new set of...

Der hier dokumentierte Workshop, der am 14. Dezember 2001 im Japanisch-Deutschen Zentrum Berlin stattfand, setzt die im Vorjahr begonnene Auseinandersetzung um die Auswirkungen der 'New Economy' fort. Das Thema behandelt in theoretischer und landesspezifischer, auch vergleichender, Perspektive...

IT-Compliance bezeichnet einen Zustand, in dem alle, die IT des Unternehmens betreffenden und verbindlich vorgegebenen bzw. als verbindlich akzeptierten Vorgaben nachweislich eingehalten werden. Sofern die Vorgaben aus Gesetzen stammen, bedeutet dies, dass sich Unternehmen an geltendes Recht zu...

Der vorliegende Bericht verfolgt das Ziel, die aktuelle Situation der Daten- und Informationsverarbeitung in Banken vor dem Hintergrund der gravierenden Umwälzungen innerhalb der Bankwirtschaft zu skizzieren. Darauf aufbauend sollen Perspektiven entwickelt werden, wie eine zukunftsfähige...

This Selected Issues paper on Euro Area Policies underlies global rebalancing of accounts. From a growth-accounting perspective, slower growth in the capital-labor ratio seems to be the main driver behind the deceleration in labor productivity. The increase in bilateral trade was accompanied by...

This Selected Issues paper examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent acceleration of labor productivity growth in the United States. The analysis reveals that the increase of total factor productivity (TFP) growth is a broad phenomenon that encompasses...

This paper explores the factors that have led to a Canada-U.S. productivity gap using a sectoral growth accounting approach. Both fiscal and monetary policies have had significant effects on the saving rate. The Canadian dollar’s appreciation was followed by a protracted period of...

This report on the Observance of Standards and Codes for Botswana highlights the Data Module and response by the authorities. National accounts are computed on an enterprise basis and where a full set of accounts is compiled. Data on financial accounts are captured but not fully analyzed because...