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Starting in June 1989, and supplemented by internal documentary sources, a series of 17 interviews was undertaken with chief executive officers (CEOs), the sample made up of 7 country councils, 5 metropolitan districts and 5 non-metropolitan districts. Revealed are many instances of organizational and managerial (especially strategic) innovation. (JLN)

Introduction -- Economic conceptualization of international water management problems -- Legal perspectives on institutional design -- Empirical evidence of international water management institutions -- The role of the problem structure for institutional design and cooperation -- The role of issue linkage for the resolution of unidirectional externality problems -- The role of organizations for cooperation -- Synthesis and conclusions

Donación de AGERS ; Ponencia presentada en el Risk Management Forum, Monte Carlo, celebrado en Monte Carlo, 13 al 16 de octubre de 1991 ; Introduction -- Key facts about Mexico -- Social, political, economic and investment aspects -- An overview of the industry -- Market -- Distribution channels -- Reinsurance -- Products -- National and international aspects that are impacting the local market -- Outlook for the future -- Conclusions

Human resources development has been a crucial issue in the emerging economies of Indonesia. The growth of Universities and other form of Higher Education in Indonesia indicates the raise of public and government awareness of educational quality. This awareness must be followed by higher education management ability for designing strategies and implementing them to produce high quality graduates. This study is expected to have contribution to enhance the management quality of Private Higher Education. This research aims to evaluate the implementation of Internal Control and Risk Management in ensuring Good University Governance. The data were collected from leaders of all Private Higher Education located at Special Province of Yogyakarta, the destination for most prospective students who will pursue further studies. Descriptive qualitative and regression analysis were performed to analyze the data. Research finding revealed that most of Private Higher Education had sufficient information and knowledge in implementing Internal Control, Risk Management, and Good University Governance. Other result showed that Internal Control and Risk Management positively influenced the implementation of Good University Governance. Limitation of this study was the respondents' comprehension of the risk management terms that were not very well understood by some of the Higher Educational Institution's Leaders.

The spread of the new public management paradigm in public administration provided footing for a new movement adhering to a particular set of ideas and concepts of management reform in a wide range of countries at the end of last century and into the 21st century. Governments of different political persuasions fostered a radical drive towards constructing new models for public management in which redesigning the role of the state and introducing models targeting performance moved to centre stage. Administrative management reforms became central amongst the nations of both the developed and developing world. Making the state and its organizations attain higher levels of performance at lower cost guided domestic strategies for producing reforms. While the spread of management values achieved a considerable level of success, and, comprised the main paradigm that guided the state's reform policies, the same cannot be said of implementing these reform experiments in public administration. Comparative analysis reveals there are considerable limits to managerial adjustment, which are caused by various mechanisms. This article discusses the implementation of management reforms, and, seeks a theoretical explanation for the problem of why failures in implementing such reforms occurred.

The article investigates approaches to improve the management of residential real estate in today's Russia. The activities of urban enterprises of Russia remain inefficient and costly. It shows the changes in the legislative and regulatory framework for the activities of management companies in the field of public utilities. The experience of several European countries on the use of mechanisms for public-private partnerships, outsourcing and information in the urban economy are depicted. The reasons why the experience gained in Europe, effective management of residential real estate is slowly being implemented in Russia are also highlighted in the article.

This paper briefly reviews CIFOR's experience using participatory action research working with communities, user groups within communities, and with governments at various levels, in Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Philippines, and Zimbabwe. The most dramatic changes that took place early on included increases in knowledge about social and ecological systems and improved skills in conflict management, negotiation, and facilitation. Longer term evaluation will be necessary to confirm actual ecological improvement, and the institutionalization of adaptive mechanisms (planning, implementing monitoring, revising plans). Emphasis is placed on the most recent findings, in second stage work, from CAPRi (Collective Action and Property Rights) research in Asia and Africa. This paper examines some of the successes and difficulties faced working with governmental stakeholders. Successes were most apparent in attitudinal changes, increased capacity for reflection and analysis, improvements in proposal writing and networking at larger scales. Difficulties included frequent personnel shifts, traditional bureaucratic concerns about 'turf', and budgetary inflexibilities. The paper concludes by proposing some important areas for future concentration of effort, including better attention to the various groups that exist within communities, more attention to the links between communities and other stakeholders, and training or awareness raising for government officials on methods for working more effectively and equitably with communities.

'Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk' by Virginia Haufler is reviewed. Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk by Virginia Haufler is reviewed.

Management faculty members have had a longstanding interest in the design of the Introduction to Management Course as it presents an opportune point to provide students with the foundational skills for success in their Management Studies. Since many Management majors take these courses during their freshman year in the university, the courses are, intentionally or not, also settings for helping students transition to the university both academically and socially. This paper reports on a study of the 4-year outcomes associated with this potential of Introduction to Management courses to help with students' transition into university-level studies. Specifically, it contrasts 4-year graduation outcomes among three different Introduction to Management courses taken by a freshman business student cohort of a large, public, university. The study results show a course that focused on life skill building was associated with better 4-year graduation outcomes than theory-driven and business overview classes. Contrary to expectations, the study indicated that there were no significant differences among students enrolled in the classes in terms of other important student characteristics known to impact graduation rates, including underrepresented minority (URM) and first-generation status, SAT or ACT scores, self-reported GPA, and exposure to university-level URM student success and achievement programs.

In this book methods from Operations Research and Game Theory are used to determine companies' profit-maximizing strategies related to pricing and (cooperative) advertising. It considers different supply chain structures as well as various distributions of power, making it possible to analyze both inter-echelon and intra-echelon dependencies between the companies' decisions. Additionally, an approach based on fuzzy set theory is presented in order to compensate for incomplete or missing data on market characteristics. Vertical cooperative advertising is an essential element of partnerships between manufacturers and retailers, allowing manufacturers to financially support their retailers' advertising efforts so as to increase sales for the entire supply chain. Given that such programs not only make up a considerable part of many companies' advertising budgets, but are also a controversial subject in many business relations, their correct design is of particular importance. Gerhard Aust is researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Industrial Management at the TU Dresden, Germany, where he leads a working group in Operations Management. He has published several articles in the field of operations research and supply chain management and serves as a reviewer for renowned journals. Furthermore he is engaged in consulting projects with partners from different industries.