Essays on Governance

Abstract Information technology popularly abbreviated as IT plays an integral role in the day to day running of business and organizations operations. IT is known to improve the performance of businesses at firm level. Studies show that governance is applied to IT investments, changing projects and ensuring effective service delivery (Gonzalez-Meza & Weill, 2004). Governance…

Is the federal division of powers an obstruction to good governance in the United States? The federal division of powers does not provide an obstruction to good governance in the US. For this argument to hold, federal division of power and good governance will be defined. This division provides for different levels of government representing…

This essay seeks to explain the Elitist and Pluralist approaches to governance and advance both positive and negative sides for each approach. It shall begin by defining the major terms/ concepts Governance, Elitist and Pluralist. The essay shall then explain in detail the two approaches respectively. Then it shall highlight the positives (merits) and negatives…

Since the draw of civilization man has been striving hard t manage his affairs systematically. The desire to become systematic to the point and precise has led human being to develop variety of disciplines . These disciplines with the march of civilization failed to keep pace with the human driving force. Resultantly new avenues are…

The officers and members of the Bankers Institute of the Philippines under the leadership of President Francis Puzon, SEC Chairperson Tess Herbosa, my colleagues at the Monetary Board Ignacio Bunye and Armando Suratos, former PM Cesar Virata, friends from the banking community, fellow BSPers, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. It is always a…

Social Responsibility and Good Governance are used interchangeably world-wide by persons and corporations to demo their associations with the activities carried out for the improvement of the society. Although the two nomenclatures appear to hold a batch of similarity but there are immense differences between them when their rudimentss are studied in item ; with…

Holography can be known as a relatively new system of Organizational governance where authority and the decision-making powers are equally vested and distributed to diligent and skilled members of the workforce. Unlike the age-old Hierarchy System of management where all powers were virtually centralized and vested with the company executives and higher level of management,…

Introduction/Background The 2001 article, “Factors influencing market and entry mode selection: developing the MEMS model ” by A. J. Koch gives an introduction to marketing model that denotes why, how and when market selection occurs. The method has been termed holistic and this is directly related to the fact that the model demonstrates reaction a melding…

The case explains and discusses how Brown wanted to put emphasis on process orientation because the ” functional model had run out in Corporate America” and according to Brown, ” the only reasonable approach to business transformation is process alignment and service orientation. ” (Aragua, 2010). However he was unable to push for more when…

Board Size After we did our vertical and horizontal analysis, we realized that there is a direct relationship between board size and audit fees. The range of the board size is from four to eleven members. This difference is due to the variety in business nature and structure. We test the relationship between board size…