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Canada's Francophone minority communities: constitutional renewal and the winning of school governance
"By the late 1950s Canada's francophone and Acadian minority communities located outside Quebec were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century were being eliminated or transformed at an unprecedented rate. Convinced that education was one of the essential keys to the renewal and growth of their communities, francophone organizations and leaders lobbied for constitutional entrenchments of official bilingualism and of a mandated Charter right to education in their own language, including the right to governance over their own schools and school boards. From those efforts a new, vigorous francophone pan-Canadian national community emerged, one capable of ensuring the survival of its constituent communities well into the twenty-first century."--Jacket
Social Indicators for Aboriginal Governance: Insights from the Thamarrurr Region, Northern Territory
In: Research Monograph
Government policy; Social conditions; Aboriginal australians
Comparing governance of international organisations: the EU, the OECD and educational policy
In: TranState Working Papers, Band 7
Wie beeinflussen internationale Organisationen den innenpolitischen Entscheidungsprozess? Auf dem Gebiet der Bildungspolitik spielen internationale Organisationen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Gestaltung nationaler Debatten und Politik. So decken Vergleichsstudien wie die der OECD Stärken und Schwächen einzelner Bildungssysteme auf und lassen Fragen nach der "best practice" laut werden. Internationale Initiativen wie der Bologna-Prozess der EU verpflichten die nationale Politik auf eine Restrukturierung, die eine Verbesserung der Mobilität von Studenten und Mitarbeitern zwischen den Bildungssystemen und eine Anerkennung der jeweiligen Qualifikationen in naher Zukunft ermöglichen soll. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es das Ziel dieser Untersuchung, die Governance-Formen zu analysieren, mit deren Hilfe internationale Organisationen einen Einfluss auf nationalstaatliche Politik ausüben. Zu diesem Zweck werden EU und OECD als Beispiele herangezogen, da beide Organisationen in jüngster Vergangenheit auf dem Gebiet der Bildungspolitik besonders aktiv waren. Die Governance-Formen beider Organisationen werden aus institutionalistischer Sicht diskutiert. Es zeigt sich, dass der Einfluss internationaler Organisationen vor allem auf ihrer Fähigkeit beruht, Initiativen zu koordinieren und Ideen auf einem bestimmten Politikfeld - wie der Bildungspolitik - zu konkretisieren. (ICEÜbers)
Introducing a New E-Governance Framework in the Commonwealth: From Theory to Practice
In: The Asia Pacific journal of public administration, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 131-151
ISSN: 2327-6673
Democracy, Legitimacy and Soft Modes of Governance in the EU: The Empirical Turn
In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 29, Heft 5, S. 531-548
ISSN: 1477-2280
EU-Centric Governance in Sport? The Slovenian Experience with the White Paper Process
In: Journal of contemporary European research: JCER, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 273-289
ISSN: 1815-347X
A synthesis of existing academic, expert and everyday practical political literature demonstrates that we can trace many different approaches to the phenomena of governance. Based on the political sciences, particularly policy literature, the governance concept is most frequently connected with an analysis of the relations between actors or institutions of the state and society at different political levels. Use of the governance concept is also becoming increasingly popular when discussing sports issues, especially when the multi-level or global sport perspective is in question. This article aims to confront the national perspectives and understandings of, as well as attempts at, sports governance, in relation to multi-level ones. This refers specifically the EU, because over the last few years, not only have states expanded their traditional concerns with health and social security to encompass leisure and cultural life, including sport, but the EU has also implemented different activities concerning sport issues. This particularly emphasises the extent and importance of the relations that key national policy actors have established with themselves and especially towards supra-national (EU) actors in the processes of creating common EU sports policy directions as part of preparing the White Paper on Sport (2007). It does this by analysing the available official documents, records and statistics relating to the issue, as well as interviews conducted in spring 2007 with representatives of the state and sports-governing bodies in Slovenia. The conclusions of the analysis indicate a predominantly EU-centric type of multi-level governance approach and make some observations about the EU's future development and how this could impact the development of (sub)national sports policy.
Empowering Linguistic Minorities: Neo-liberal Governance and Language Policies in Canada and Wales
In: Regional & federal studies, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 437-456
ISSN: 1743-9434
European Public Participation as Risk Governance: Enhancing Democratic Accountability for Agbiotech Policy?
In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 19-51
ISSN: 1875-2152
Which Side of the Coin? The Regional Governance of Science and Innovation
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 41, Heft 8, S. 1115-1127
ISSN: 1360-0591
Directors versus Shareholders: evaluating corporate governance in the UK using the AGM scorecard
In: Corporate governance: an international review, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 1277-1287
ISSN: 1467-8683
This paper explores the role of the annual general meeting (AGM) in the mediation of tensions between the board of directors of a company and its shareholders. An evaluative framework is developed for assessing whether directors at any particular AGM appear to be making the meeting inclusive for the shareholders. Consideration is made at first of the place of the AGM as a corporate governance device, concluding that in recent times shareholder voting on resolutions and questioning of the board exhibit important features of self‐governance as opposed to external regulation. A scoring system is then developed for assessing whether an AGM favours the company or the shareholders, using twelve criteria to rank them. The results of observations of 22 AGMs over recent years in five industrial sectors are then analysed and assessed, with reasons for high and low scores being suggested.
Beyond the Dichotomous Worlds Hypothesis: towards a plurality of corporate governance logics
In: Corporate governance: an international review, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 1288-1300
ISSN: 1467-8683
The dichotomous worlds hypothesis holds that corporate governance systems worldwide are either based on the Anglo‐American shareholder model or the Eurasian stakeholder model. We suggest a more fine‐grained classification, based on five corporate governance logics – socially constructed, historical patterns of material practices, assumptions, values, beliefs, and rules by which all parties involved in economic productive activities structure their material interdependencies and provide meaning to the social reality of corporate life. These logics are discovered through a content analysis of the corporate governance reform codes of 38 countries.
Interorganizational Governance Value Creation: Coordinating for Information Visibility and Flexibility in Supply Chains*
In: Decision sciences, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 647-674
ISSN: 1540-5915
ABSTRACTMore thoroughly understanding how interorganizational governance value can be created by information technology and other governance mechanisms is critical for supply chain management. Based primarily on transaction‐cost economics and supplemented by the resource‐based view, this study investigates how interorganizational governance (i.e., relational governance and virtual integration) can create value (i.e., information visibility and supply chain flexibility) in the supply chain context. The findings show that both relational governance and virtual integration benefit information visibility. Those results also support both direct and indirect (via information visibility) effects of relational governance on supply chain flexibility. Although failing to affect supply chain flexibility directly, virtual integration can still improve supply chain flexibility with its ability to enhance information visibility. Thus, interorganizational governance mechanisms emphasizing both control and collaboration can influence the gain from collaboration‐specific capabilities, leading to the competitive advantage of a supply chain. The results of the study suggest that firms can gain greater supply chain flexibility within existing interfirm relationships by enhancing information visibility through virtual integration and relational governance.
Actions Speak Louder than Words: A Case Study on Mexican Corporate Governance
In: Issues in accounting education, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 661-673
ISSN: 1558-7983
In this case, you will examine corporate governance in an international context and gain a thorough understanding of the ramifications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), as you observe very different reactions to the provisions of SOX by two Mexican companies, both of whom were trading on the NYSE at the time SOX was enacted. One company, TV Azteca, withdrew from the exchange on the grounds that U.S. regulations ignore Mexico's legal framework and corporate culture. You are required to contrast TV Azteca's response with the actions of another Mexican company, Cemex, which embraces the concepts of SOX. Cemex views compliance with SOX as an integral component of its corporate governance and sees it as necessary for continued access to international capital markets.