A compelling incentive for firms to protect the environment is created by executive remuneration and tenure being based on Key Performance Indicators determined by environmentalist. This requires amending corporate constitutions to separate the power to manage the business from the power to...

The research questions of this paper are: Has the efficacy of corporate governance improved by the transfer of national bundles of governance practices between jurisdictions? Have more and bigger corporations improved macro economic efficacy? Corporate regulation has substantially increased over...

The research question of this paper is how might investors enhance their returns by amending corporate constitutions and/or by-laws of investee corporations? Porter (1992) identified how European and Japanese firms obtained systemic competitive advantages over US firms because US firms lacked...

The paper identifies how a usage fee parallel digital currency is more attractive than Bitcoins, either to provide liquidity in a crisis or for stimulating businesses on a sustainable basis. User fee "Stamp Scrip" successfully stimulated businesses and distressed communities during the Great...

Facilitating legislation is required for citizens to initiate local referendums to adopt urban property rights that provide sustainable affordable housing and infrastructure. New laws and regulations are required so official currencies do not: (a) create inefficiencies and climate change from...

The Australian financial system is exposed to the same toxic governance practices that caused the financial crisis in 2008. The US Government's 2011 commission of inquiry into the crisis concluded that a “key cause” was “dramatic failures of corporate governance and risk management”....

This paper is based on a public submission to the Australian Senate Committee “Inquiry into Digital Currency” announced on October 2, 2014. The committee is to report to Parliament in March 2015. A framework is established that identifies ten reasons why digital Australian dollars are not...

Ten of the eleven OECD metrics established for measuring individual wellbeing can be directly affected by how organizations are governed. Two types of governance architecture are considered: (i) simple centralised command and control hierarchies and,(ii) an ecological form universally found in...

Three conditions are suggested for establishing a stable financial system: 1. Only digital money is used. 2. The Internet of Things (IoT) uses a sustainable service of nature essential to maintain the well being of the environment and humans in each region of the planet to automatically...

Recent turmoil in the financial markets can be explained by the science of governance used by engineers to design the regulatory systems of devices operating in unknown, dynamic environments. Turmoil is the result of insufficient supplementary co-regulators. The laws of governance...