opinion is that boards should have a positive impact on organisational performance. However, the processes of board monitoring … and engaging directors, and the administration of reporting, had strong impacts upon board monitoring, judging and …/or influence. In addition, board monitoring of organisational performance was adversely affected by directors’ limited awareness of …

ability to monitor the actions of the agent at an interim stage of the project. I show that monitoring can induce the agent to … is not a one-way street: Situations exist where monitoring encourages greater effort from the agent, resulting in greater … agent involvement is costly, monitoring is often the optimal strategy; this is an explanation for why venture capital type …

Die vorliegende Dissertation hat die Monitoring und Evaluation (M&E) Komponente von Entwicklungsprojekten zum …

This thesis covers years of field work in Malawi, Africa by the author as a Research Agronomist (Tree Nuts) for the … Government of Malawi. The thesis is an action research type with core and thesis projects which are closely linked. The client … group are large estate managers who control the tree nut industries in Malawi. The political, economic and historical …

household survey data from Malawi to analyse ‘one of the other faces of malnutrition’. The world food price crisis of 2007 … studies set in Malawi, which analyse welfare in terms of food security and income effects using the same 2004/05 household … by differences in conceptualising price changes. In case of Malawi, for a reasonable set of observed price changes, mean …