Mechanisms, roles and consequences of governance [electronic resource] : emerging issues / edited by Luca Gnan, Alessandro Hinna and Fabio Monteduro

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Front cover; mechanisms, roles and consequences of governance: emerging issues; copyright page; contents; list of contributors; part i: emerging issues in public governance; advancing public governance research: individual and collective dynamics in and around the boardroom; introduction; the reasons for studying board behaviour in public sector; the board behavioural perspective; main topics for literature review; research method; results and discussion; final remarks; note; references; governing public value: how to foster knowledge-intensive collaboration in the public sector; introduction

The role of knowledge-intensive collaboration in public value creationgoverning mechanisms for fostering knowledge-intensive collaboration; the role of cognition and the motivation of involved actors in self-governance towards public value; conclusion; references; financial performance in indian state-owned enterprises following corporate governance reforms; introduction; background of indian central public sector enterprises; review of literature; data source, sample selection, methodology and empirical findings; conclusions; notes; acknowledgements; references

The development of the governance of regulatory networks: the case of the european telecommunications regulatory networkintroduction; the governance of inter-organizational goal-directed networks; characterizing the process of change and development in networks; methods; findings; discussion; conclusion; references; part ii: emerging issues in non-profit governance; empirical research on nonprofit boards: main features and differences from the literature on corporate and public boards; introduction; aims of research; factors affecting empirical research on boards; methods; results; discussion

Conclusions: limitations and directions for further researchacknowledgments; references; what drives good philanthropy? the relationship between governance and strategy in foundations; introduction; theoretical background; hypothesis; methodology and results; discussion; relevance and implication for research and policy/practice; acknowledgement; references; appendix: foundation types; transfer to transform. leveraging firm's knowledge to mold corporate foundation's effectiveness; introduction; from corporate social responsibility to corporate foundations

Integration between corporate foundations and founder firmseffectiveness of corporate foundations; knowledge transfer and exchange; research sample and methodology; analysis and results; discussion; conclusion; references; volunteer management and measurement systems for italian voluntary organisations; introduction; background; methods; analysis of results; discussion and conclusions; acknowledgements; references

This 2nd volume of the series builds on the themes of volume 1. Established concepts and theoretical issues are presented by established scholars in the governance, management and administration fields. These are set alongside highlighted emerging themes, and they're practicality illustrated through specific case examples.