Tag: Governance

Free Download Cybersecurity: Technology and Governance
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031684826 | 424 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 61 MB
The numerous high-profile cyberattacks being reported in the press clearly show that cyberthreats cause serious business risks. For this reason, cybersecurity has become a critical concern for global politics, national security, organizations as well for individual citizens. While cybersecurity has traditionally been a technological discipline, the field has grown so large and complex that proper governance of cybersecurity is needed.

Free Download An Empirical Study of SOE Corporate Governance Attributes for Emerging Markets by Giang Hoang, Kok Boon Oh
English | April 30, 2023 | ISBN: 981991504X | 265 pages | MOBI | 2.82 Mb
This book investigates the institutional characteristics of state-linked firms in Vietnam to draw lessons for investors/MNCs targeting Vietnam and other emerging markets in the region. Vietnam and many other ASEAN countries have gone through a period of privatization and equitization of wholly controlled SOEs, with the State retaining partial ownership in many privatized businesses. This book explains the dynamic relationships between the State, BODs, shareholders, and regulators and their influence on corporate governance and SOE performance. This book differs from other publications in that it extrapolates the findings from our study to a broader context on how the defined internal mechanisms implicate the local economy and global supply chains/markets.

Free Download Ian Bache, George Andreou, "Cohesion Policy and Multi-level Governance in South East Europe"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0415594197 | EPUB | pages: 124 | 0.5 mb
This book considers the extent to which EU cohesion policy and related pre-accession instruments are contributing to the development of more compound polities in south east Europe and, specifically, promoting multi-level governance. In this respect, there are two points of departure: the first is the argument that the EU is a highly compound polity that tends to pull member (and candidate) states in this direction; the second is the considerable literature that links EU cohesion policy to the promotion of multi-level governance. Following this, we have chosen a range of south east European states whose period of engagement with the EU generally differs: Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, F.Y.R. Macedonia and Turkey. The case studies reveal that EU cohesion policy has created more compound polities but that system-wide multi-level governance remains weak and central governments are still prominent. However, there are interesting and potentially important developments in relation to particular features of multi-level governance, not least in states whose engagement with the EU in this sphere is relatively new.

Free Download Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks: Property, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and the Role of Technology By Umberto Izzo, Matteo Macilotti (auth.), Giovanni Pascuzzi, Umberto Izzo, Matteo Macilotti (eds.)
2013 | 339 Pages | ISBN: 3642331157 | PDF | 3 MB
In the last few years, the boom in biobanking has prompted a lively debate on a host of interrelated legal issues, such as the Gordian knot of the ownership of biological materials, as well as privacy concerns. The latter are due to the difficulty of accepting that biological samples must be completely anonymous without making it practically impossible to exploit their information potential. The issues also include the delicate role and the changing content of the donor’s "informed consent" as the main legal tool that may serve to link the privacy and property interests of donors with the research interests and the set of principles that should be at the core of the biobanking practice. Lastly, the IP issues and the patentability of biological samples as well as the protection of databases storing genetic information obtained from the samples are covered. Collecting eighteen essays written by eminent scholars from Italy, the US, the UK and Canada, this book provides new solutions to these problems. From a comparative viewpoint, it explores the extent to which digital technology may assist in tackling the numerous regulatory issues raised by the practice of biobanking for research purposes. These issues may be considered and analyzed under the traditional paradigms of Property, Privacy, Informed Consent and Intellectual Property.

Free Download Nick Bernards, "The Global Governance of Precarity: Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Irregular Work "
English | ISBN: 1138303720 | 2018 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1369 KB + 903 KB
‘Standard’ employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault. Precarious work and unemployment are increasingly common, and concern is also growing about the expansion of informal work and the rise of ‘modern slavery’. However, precarity and violence are in fact longstanding features of work for most of the world’s population. Lamenting the ‘loss’ of secure, stable jobs often reflects a strikingly Eurocentric and historically myopic perspective.

Free Download Andrew F. Cooper, "Tests of Global Governance: Canadian Diplomacy and United Nations World Conferences"
English | 2004 | pages: 311 | ISBN: 9280810960 | PDF | 1,5 mb
This book provides a detailed examination of what happens when traditional diplomatic methods interface with new forms of global governance. The role of Canada is given special attention as both a unique and representative sample of how the interplay between diplomacy and global governance has played out over the past decade or so during UN World Conferences. The main focus is on the span of activity from the 1992 Rio UNCED conference, through the 1993 Vienna Conference on Human Rights, the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, to the 2001 Durban World Conference on Racism. The picture that emerges, while not translating into a complete recipe for a shift toward democratic governance, suggests a deepening network of institutions, actors, and organizations forming the complex regimes that govern the major arenas of world politics. At a country-specific level, the analysis supports the view that a deep residue of multilateralism still exists in Canada but argues that this tradition faces ongoing challenges from a variety of sources.

Free Download Mathematics in Politics and Governance by Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho, Miguel A. Goberna
English | April 6, 2024 | ISBN: 3031527755 | 239 pages | MOBI | 14 Mb
This book presents the mathematical tools that politicians use to make rational decisions about health, education, culture, economy, finance, transportation, and national defense for their citizens. The selection of topics addressed is based on the experiences of four veteran politicians who have doctorates or master’s degrees in mathematics. The exposition also considers the mathematical tools used by politicians to capture votes or optimize their impact on the design of electoral districts, i.e., gerrymandering, without forgetting the mathematics applied to parliamentary activity and political science.

Free Download Future-Ready Governance: Perspectives on Singapore and the World
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9811294194 | 282 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB
In this collection of essays written for Singapore’s leading news organisations, policymaker turned academic Terence Ho examines how Singapore is grappling with technological disruption, climate change, social stresses, leadership transition and fiscal sustainability, among other key issues. Tackling these challenges requires nimbleness in policy adaptation and innovation. This entails anticipating change, developing resource buffers and policy options, and taking measured risks. The essays in this collection draw on the Singapore experience to shed light on wider issues of governance and leadership that are critical for the long-term success of any nation.

Free Download IT Governance, "The Data Governance Imperative"
English | ISBN: 1849280126 | 2009 | 168 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Every byte of data that resides inside your company, and some that resides outside its walls, has the potential to make you stronger by giving you the agility, speed and intelligence that none of your competitors yet have. This practical book covers both strategies and tactics around managing a data governance initiative.

Free Download Michele Chang, "Redefining European Economic Governance"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0367739852 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.5 mb
The global financial crisis and sovereign debt crisis exposed the inadequacy of European economic governance. Despite the multitude of new mechanisms and institutions that have arisen over the last few years, many contend that economic governance remains inadequate and the EU must integrate even further to calm still-volatile markets. A tension exists between creating effective instruments that will not overstep the authority delegated to an EU that has integrated economically but not politically. Can the EU’s economic governance system satisfy the demands of markets and politics? Relevant issues include the ability of supranational institutions to dictate policy to national governments, the harmonization of economic policies and institutions across Europe, and a substantial increase in the transfer of funds across borders. Can monetary union continue without political union? How will the new institutions alter the distribution of power between EU institutions as well as between member states?