A system of economic analysis based on cash-flows rather than profit is presented as a basis for integrating the economic values obtained from tenure (ownership, control or use of assets) with the values obtained from production and exchange of goods and services. The paper indicates how the...

The contribution of this thesis is to present a framework to analyse firms controlled by more than one board. The literature survey of Chapter 2 revealed that there is little recognition of this phenomenon and no accepted way to investigate firms governed by multiple control centres described as...

This paper provides a framework for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of public assets owned by: (i) The State, (ii) A State owned corporatized body, (iii) Private investors or (iv) By a network of constituents. A basis is presented for analysing these four governance architectures based...

While the visible structures of cities may be designed, the invisible structures of how land, buildings, enterprises and money are owned and controlled are accepted as a given. This paper argues that to sustain humanity on the planet, the invisible structures of society need to follow the...

This paper considers how auditing practices became muddled in the US and the UK to create muddled corporate governance principles. The US 1933 law that required corporations to appoint an auditor was based on the prospectus provisions in the UK 1929 Companies Act to protect investors from fraud....

This paper posits that the conditions precedent for some sort of global brain like phenomena emerging depends upon the governance system found in nature spreading in society around the World. This proposition is based on nature producing new emergent properties as its builds upon its own...

This paper considers how auditing practices became muddled in the US and the UK to create muddled corporate governance principles. The US 1933 law that required corporations to appoint an auditor was based on the prospectus provisions in the UK 1929 Companies Act to protect investors from fraud....

This paper identifies why US, UK and Australian corporations do not allow directors to avoid conflicts of self-interest, and why corporations lack self-regulation. To avoid conflicts of self-interest, a separation of powers is required to create a compound board. Directors cannot fulfill their...

Information technology reveals why self-regulation has not worked in many social institutions and how this can be corrected. Conditions precedent for self-regulation and self-governance are identified as being: a division of power within organisations, stakeholder participation, and requisite...