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Testing performance
McGill, Ronald - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 19 (2006) 1, pp. 95-110
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to outline a practical perspective for testing performance in the process of institutional reform in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – The test is presented from a donor's perspective. The paper does so by introducing a framework for...
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Bow down all 7 billion: the compressed spheres of global governance
Ahen, Frederick - In: Foresight 17 (2015) 2, pp. 143-160
Purpose – This paper aims to answer two questions: How do technologies of governance explain how global governance is … paper confronts orthodox conception of global governance by offering transformative alternatives to inequality, a … “historically situated urgency”, which is the product of a faulty global governance system. Findings – Concrete, purposively sampled …
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Introducing officer systems in Japanese companies
Masui, Kazuhito; Kakabadse, Andrew - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 2 (2002) 1, pp. 10-12
Notes that after a serious recession which is still haunting Japan, board members of Japanese corporations are being forced to restructure their decision‐making processes. The most popular method is the introduction of an officer system. But it is difficult to make this work without a complete...
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SEC issues final rule on investment company liquidity risk management
Schwartz, Rachael Leah; Pugliese, Domenick; Bateman, … - In: Journal of Investment Compliance 18 (2017) 1, pp. 43-52
Purpose To provide an overview of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recently adopted rule 22e-4 (Rule 22e-4) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (1940 Act) regarding investment company liquidity risk management programs. Design/methodology/approach Reviews and...
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If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got: commissioning and regulating care homes to prevent abuse
Moore, Steve - In: The Journal of Adult Protection 19 (2017) 6, pp. 418-430
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a review of some of the fundamental theoretical and contextual components of commissioning and regulatory processes as applied to care home services, revisiting and examining how they impact on the potential prevention of abuse....
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Benchmarking as a management and regulatory instrument for Caribbean electric utilities
Martina, Steven; Hakvoort, Rudi; Ajodhia, Virendra - In: International Journal of Energy Sector Management 2 (2008) 1, pp. 75-89
Purpose – One of the most pressing questions facing small‐island development states (SIDS) is the appropriate way in which to operate and manage their infrastructure industries. After all SIDS are faced with high cost of infrastructure due to the narrow markets and diseconomies of scale and...
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Shariah supervisory systems in Islamic finance institutions across the OIC member countries
Grassa, Rihab - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 23 (2015) 2, pp. 135-160
governance has received a considerable amount of attention in Islamic finance. Shariah is a unique characteristic of Islamic … finance. That is why the need for a good and efficient Shariah governance system for IFIs is considered to be a crucial … and to the Islamic Financial Services Board to enhance the Shariah governance system and to standardize the different …
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Incentive‐based regulation for Islamic banks
Zubair Farook, Sayd; Omar Farooq, Mohammad - In: Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research 2 (2011) 1, pp. 8-21
of the current Islamic banking model which has deviated from its intended form. More importantly, if such regulation is …
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A best practice approach to learning compliance management in regulated industries
Ambrose, Jordan - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 40 (2008) 3, pp. 142-145
Purpose – The paper seeks to outline the increasing requirements for demonstrating that training has taken place within regulated industries and to examine how a learning management system can meet the most stringent requirements of best practice in this field. Design/methodology/approach –...
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Variances in social partnership
Mellahi, Kamel; Wood, Geoff T. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) 7, pp. 667-683
This paper provides a critical appraisal of existing models of social partnership. We argue that single forms of partnership operating at the micro‐level are unlikely to be sustainable in the medium and long term. Yet, there is evidence that multi‐layered forms of partnership – in other...
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