Influence Of Governance Research Articles

GOVERNMENTAL INFLUENCE ON CRYPTO ASSETS IN FINANCE: A CASE STUDY OF GERMAN REGULATORY INITIATIVES

We review the case study of Germany with its regulatory initiatives regarding the possible governmental influence on crypto assets in finance. In doing so, we conclude that regulation shows adequate tendencies to foster innovation and adaption of digital assets such as crypto securities or currencies. This can mainly be referred to as creating a legal framework in favor of consumer protection, thereby reducing operational and reputational risks for financial companies which seek to engage in the digital assets business.

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance's Influence on the Sustainability of Family Businesses with Company Size as an Intervening Variable

The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of business ethics and corporate governance on the sustainability of family businesses, with company size as a mediating variable. The size of the company is a parameter for assessing and determining the scale of the enterprise. The population in this study consisted of 38 companies that were members of the West Java Jamu Entrepreneurs Association. The determination of the number of samples used purposive sampling with criteria in the form of a family business, so that the sample used was 12 family business companies with 48 respondents. Data collection techniques are carried out by using several instruments, namely questionnaires, interviews, and field observations. According to the findings of this study, business ethics has a positive impact on the long-term viability of a family business. Good corporate governance positively affects the sustainability of the family business. Meanwhile, the size of the company also has a positive effect on the sustainability of the family business. The size of the company turns out to be able to mediate relationships in the mediation variable; the size of the company is able to influence business ethics on the sustainability of the family business, while the mediation variable shows the size of the company is able to also influence Good corporate governance is important for the sustainability of the family business. The findings of this study provide useful information for herbal medicine company owners related to the influence of the variables studied. These findings are useful for employers to better understand the dynamics of family business sustainability in promoting business ethics, good governance, and company size.

Fostering netizens to engage in rumour-refuting messages of government social media: a view of persuasion theory

ABSTRACT Government agencies have increasingly established their official accounts to disseminate information and publish rumourrefuting messages (RRMs) on social media platforms. However, little is known about what factors facilitate users to engage in RRMs posted by government accounts. To bridge this gap, our study borrows the lens of persuasion theory to frame a research model and unmask the precursors that foster social media users to engage in RRMs. By analysing RRMs published by 10 influential government official accounts spanning 9 years, a field study on Sina Weibo finds that the text length of an RRM is associated with a higher probability of liking, commenting on, and sharing the RRM, while the inclusion of links in RRMs is negatively linked to user engagement. The effect of the existence of photos and videos on user engagement in RRMs depends on different engaging behaviours. The inclusion of emojis in RRMs helps shorten users’ psychological distance from the authorities, thereby facilitating user engagement behaviours. Using rhetorical questions is associated with a higher level of user engagement (including liking and sharing) in RRMs by increasing personal relevance. This study offers new insights into online rumour governance and practical suggestions for promoting government social media publicity.

Technocracy for the People? The Impact of Government-Imposed Democratic Innovations on Governance and Citizen Well-Being

Despite participatory institutions’ increasing ubiquity, we know little about their effects on governance and well-being. What we do know comes largely from Brazil, where positive outcomes have been attributed to civil society’s role in implementation. Often, however, participatory institutions are imposed by national governments, with little civil society engagement. In these cases, scholars have argued, participatory institutions are unlikely to improve governance and well-being, as civil society is not present to unlock the institutions’ potential. We test this proposition in Peru, the first country featuring government mandated participatory institutions for all subnational governments. We find, surprisingly, that Peru’s participatory budgeting process increased pro-poor spending and improved citizen’s quality of life. We attribute these outcomes to reduced information asymmetries, made possible by the central role played by an influential and autonomous government agency. We employ a unique panel dataset, as well as an original survey and extensive interviews with government and civil society actors.

Abstract 36: Examining Policies and Guidelines to Improve the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Pathway for Patients and Health Providers in Tanzania: A Qualitative Study

Abstract Purpose: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women around the globe. It has been identified as the most common cancer in Tanzania, resulting in about 9772 new cases and 6695 deaths each year. Several research studies have identified the importance of adequate and timely policies and guidelines to optimize the cervical cancer prevention and treatment pathway in the nation. However, there is scant literature on the perspectives of all stakeholders (e.g., patients, key informants, healthcare providers, and non-healthcare providers). Our study aims to better understand the recommendations from important stakeholders to inform current and upcoming policies and guidelines, and overall, improve the cervical cancer screening and treatment cascade in rural Tanzania and other African countries. Methods: We leveraged a framework for conducting a health systems assessment to identify healthcare providers’ perspectives on effective cervical cancer screening, prevention and control in Tanzania. We adapted interview topic guides for cervical cancer screening using the health systems assessment framework conceptualized by Risso-Gill and colleagues designed initially for evaluating hypertension control. Study participants (71) were interviewed between 2014-2018. This included key stakeholders, patients, healthcare providers and non-healthcare providers. Results: Through the interviews and focus group discussions that were conducted, three major themes emerged: 1) policies and guidelines, 2) burden of disease in relation to policies, and 3) treatment and follow-up. Sub-themes relating to policies and guidelines included health policies, governmental influence, data collection, and revision of HPV vaccination guidelines. Sub-themes for burden of disease included the rise in overall cases of cervical cancer. Subthemes for treatment and follow-up included quality of care, dissatisfaction with care, and patient safety and well-being. Conclusion: It is evident that significant changes must be made to existing policies and guidelines to improve many aspects of the cervical cancer screening and treatment pathway, to benefit healthcare providers and patients alike in rural Tanzania. There is also a critical need to implement new initiatives and programs to increase uptake and allow for informed-decision making among women. Citation Format: Melinda Chelva, Sanchit Kaushal, Nicola West, Erica Erwin, Prisca Dominic Marandu, Safina Yuma, Donna Shelley, Karen Yeates. Examining Policies and Guidelines to Improve the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Pathway for Patients and Health Providers in Tanzania: A Qualitative Study [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research; Closing the Research-to-Implementation Gap; 2023 Apr 4-6. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2023;32(6_Suppl):Abstract nr 36.

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Categorising anti-asylum Seeker Sentiment through a Regime of Securitisation

ABSTRACT In this paper, we reveal three classes of asylum seeker sentiment in the Australian population. The first group are pro-asylum seekers who think Australians should help refugees, that government agencies should not be turning back boats carrying people seeking asylum, that immigration levels are low, and that current government policy is too tough. The second group are anti-asylum seekers who strongly disagree with helping refugees and people seeking asylum, and support a tough border policy. A third group are pro-government policy but largely sympathetic to refugees and people seeking asylum. We explain the demography and attitudes of these three groups using the theory on border securitisation. The securitisation actions and discourse position people seeking asylum as a threat. This has received widespread public endorsement. This is an empirical reflection of over two decades of influential Australian government discourse of antipathy towards refugees and asylum seekers. Successive Australian governments have tied those seeking asylum who arrive by boat with strict border enforcement policies that target people seeking asylum as a security threat to be repelled from the Australian mainland. This largely negative discourse has supported the merits of tough border controls. However, this discursive campaign has not entirely eradicated sympathy towards refugees and asylum seekers.

Corporate Governance and Financial Performance in Saudi Arabian Listed Companies: A Integrative Literature Review

This research investigates the effect of corporate governance factors, including board size and multiple directorships, on firms' financial performance. Utilizing agency and stakeholder theories as its basis for analysis, this investigation seeks to understand board size's effect on decision-making efficiency as well as organizational efficiency. Additionally, this study investigates how interlocked directorships affect firm performance. Studies examining existing literature reveal mixed findings regarding the correlation between board size and financial performance, with some studies finding positive effects while others showing adverse results. Furthermore, the busyness hypothesis states that multiple directorships may hinder firm performance due to reduced management supervision and higher agency costs. This paper contributes significantly towards the understanding of corporate governance's influence on firm performance by offering insight into this complex relationship while serving as a basis for further study in this area.

A Delphi assessment of climate change risks in southern Africa in the 21st century

Climate change is acknowledged as one of the greatest environmental and development challenges society faces. Many organisations are now encouraged to conduct assessments of the climate risks they will be exposed to over the next decades. The Global Change Institute (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) conducted such an assessment for the southern Africa region, to identify some of the main clusters of climate-change related risks. A list of over fifty risks was scored and ranked using a modified-Delphi process; an iterative process of expert-driven risk identification and ranking that was informed from our collective experience and the literature. We focused on the likelihood and consequence in the mid-term (2041–2060) and scored each risk according to this time frame (risk score = [likelihood of event occurring] × [the impact of the event], moderated by the multiple lines of evidence available (Evidence confidence), and the expert rankings of the assessors (Scorer confidence)), using the assumption of the IPCC RCP8.5 climate scenario. The top quartile was organized into five clusters of risk: food insecurity; water shortages; failed energy transition; human heat stress; and risks to nature and the bioeconomy. This paper describes these risk clusters, explored through the lens of available literature, and analysed within the broader framework of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and the individual and collective actions that can be taken to reduce or adapt to these risks. There are many technical solutions to these risks, but these typically are costly and only function up to a point where the risks become unmanageable. For solutions to be successful, a ‘systems view’ and the complex interlinkages between climate change and socio-economic development must be addressed. The interconnected and cross-sectoral nature of the climate risk domains certainly presents a challenge for governance; the success of some of the measures discussed in this paper depends on the existence of strong, well-resourced, well-coordinated and influential governance mechanisms and state institutions and focusing on investigating the many synergies that exist among solutions.

Impact of the pandemic on lifestyle components of resource-rich citizens

The article describes impact of the pandemic spread, the regime of self-isolation and social distancing on certain lifestyle components of resource-rich Russians living in big cities. The presented results are based on a series of specially held in-depth interviews. The lifestyle was considered in terms of such components as: communication practices, consumer practices, leisure and recreation, vacation. In addition, general assessments of the period since the beginning of the pandemic spread were identified in terms of changes in attitudes towards health, plans for the future, and the government's influence on preventing development of crisis processes. The conducted interviews allow us to draw preliminary conclusions that the introduced regime of self-isolation and social distancing had a rather serious impact on such components of lifestyle as the forms of communication practices in everyday life; leisure and recreation; vacation planning; health-preserving behavior. The numerous problems that the respondents faced as the result of the introduction of anti-epidemiological measures, inevitably caused the growth of negative moods, the intensification of existential fears because of the uncertainty of the situation development in the future. At the same time, the crisis contributed to emergence of new opportunities associated with active development of information technologies, which are among the most important factors in the transformation of the old way of life. If respondents, who are employees at some companies, are more likely to take wait-and-see attitude to the pandemic-related changes, but those respondents, who are entrepreneurs or self-employed, have shown a more active reaction to the changes by improving their business models and diversification of their activities.

The legal determinants of health (in)justice

The mutual influences of social epidemiology and ideas of justice, each on the other, have been seminal in the development of public health ethics and law over the past two decades, and to the prominence that these fields give to health inequalities and the social-including commercial, political, and legal-determinants of health. General and political recognition of injustices in systematised health inequalities have further increased given the crushingly unequal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; including impacts of the legal and policy responses to it. However, despite apparent attention from successive UK governments to injustices concerning avoidable inequalities in health opportunities and outcomes, significant challenges impede the creation of health laws and policy that are both effective and ethically rigorous. This article critically explores these points. It addresses deficiencies in a UK health law landscape where health care contexts and medico-ethical assumptions predominate, to the great exclusion of broader social and governmental influences on health. The article explains how a public health framing better serves analysis, and engages with a framework of justice-oriented questions that must be asked if we are to understand the proper place and roles of law and regulation for the public's health.

Women Leadership in Iraq : A Gender study 2021

The study aims at to determine the criteria followed by decision makers to promote women in both the private and public academic sector, to become leaders in top management. It subscribes to the model presented by (Alvesson & Billing, 1997). The participants 70 were divided into 43 male and 27 female managers. The study sample included deans of colleges and their assistants at the University of Basra (public sector) and Shatt Al-Arab College (private sector). The results show that there is no specific model followed by the academic leaders in terms of nominating women for leadership positions. Instead, promotion criteria for women to top positions are decision maker specific. For this reason this study presents a theoretical framework for an Iraqi model. It is called "the personal cumulative Perspectives (Hybrid Model)", which is a combination of two dimensions. First, the personal judgments and Perspectives of decision makers that accumulated over time towards women. Second, the influence of other factors imposed by specific circumstances in some cases. These could include, for example, the government's influences or federal decisions that require fixed share (Quota) for women in leadership positions

Identification of factors for developing going concern prediction models

The study aimed to identify factors that can be used in models that predict going concern of enterprises. The study employed the best-worst method of multi-criteria decision-making technique to evaluate and rank the factors. Twenty-one potential determinants were identified from the literature reviewed. Twelve decision-makers with rich experience and different professional backgrounds scrutinised and ranked the factors that affect going concern of organisations. A linear BWM solver was used to determine the optimal weights of each category. Liquidity and profitability ratios emerged as the two best determinants that are key in predicting going concern. The current ratio emerged as the overall critical determinant, while board independence measured as the ratio of non-executive board members to total board members popped up as the influential corporate governance variable for determining going concern. It is, therefore, recommended that going concern models should incorporate liquidity and profitability ratios as well as corporate governance issues.

Environmental sustainability targets: the role of green investment, ICT development, and economic growth

Current research investigates the role of green investment, information, and communication technology development growth in the Chinese economy’s carbon emissions from 1985-2015. This study has applied the quantile autoregressive distributed lagged (QARDL) approach and the Granger-causality in the quantiles to examine the causal linkage between the variables of interest. The findings through QARDL estimation confirm that there is an existence of significant reversion to the long-run equilibrium association between the explanatory variables and CO2. More specifically, the outcomes under long-run estimation confirm that GIN and ICT development plays a significant role in combating the issues like higher CO2 in China. At the same time, more economic growth leads to the destruction of the natural environment with higher carbon emissions. However, the square of economic growth shows some fruitful results towards fighting environmental pollution but not in all the quantiles of the study. Besides, the Granger-causality outcomes confirm the presence of a bi-directional association between green investment, ICT development, economic growth, and its square value. Based on the study findings, some policy implications are also provided. Besides, various limitations are also linked with this study. Firstly, the current study only examines the trends in CO2 emission from the context of China, whereas other regional economies are entirely neglected. Secondly, the factors like governmental influence in controlling carbon emission, environmental regulations, and governance mechanisms are entirely neglected in this research. Thirdly, the robust checking of the empirical findings is also missing in this study. Fourthly, economic uncertainty would also contribute to environmental pollution like CO2. Therefore, it is suggested that future studies should focus on these limitations to provide some meaningful suggestions and literature contributions.

Supporter attitudes towards league governance in emerging football markets: evidence from fans of the Chinese Super League

ABSTRACT Purpose/rationale Chinese football governance has dramatically changed during the last decade. Consequently, the organisation of the top-tiered Chinese Super League (CSL) developed from a rigid communist, state-governed model to a commercialised market, though still under governmental influence. Football fans became a key stakeholder group following this organisational change. Therefore, this study examines supporters’ attitudes towards the governance of their domestic league. Design/methodology/approach Active fans of the CSL (N = 453) were surveyed via clustered intercept sampling outside the stadium gates at five matches with ten different teams involved to ensure the reliability, validity and variance of responses. The data were analysed by (ordered) logit regressions with respect to attitudes towards the commercialisation of the CSL with nearly fifty explanatory variables. Findings A key finding is that supporters tend to appreciate commercialisation as evidence of progress of the Chinese professional football. This attitude can be attributed largely to past governance failures of the CSL and the positive connotation of increased market orientation as a counterbalance to governmental control. Regression analyses, however, reveal the emerging characteristics of the Chinese fan culture and provide evidence of contradictions in the attitude patterns as well as a likely increase in fans’ resentment of more commercialisation. Research contribution The empirical insights into Chinese fan culture extend the understanding of the governance and commercialisation of professional football beyond the more researched European markets.

Archives Management and Service Delivery: The Case of Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services

Service delivery within the context of public service is key in sustaining the general wellbeing of the nation while contributing towards general development. Therefore, sound management of records contributes towards effectiveness and efficiency in delivery of public services. This also improves the quantity of information available for enhancing the level of accountability. Hence, this study was an assessment of archives management and service delivery with reference to Kenya National Archives and documentation services. The study specifically focused on; examining the effect of Professional archival management establishing the barriers, and assessing the effect of process control, on service delivery at the Kenya national archives and documentation services. The significance of the study would benefit the government for planning purposes to meet her vision 2030 goals in Service quality delivery. The design to be adopted by this inquiry was the case study which took quantitative approach. The sample of the inquiry covered five record management staff, 12 staff in top management levels, 28 action officers, 36 staff at clerical level and 19 staff from registry department. The key tool for gathering the views of the participants were the questionnaire alongside the interview guides. Prior to gathering of the information, the questionnaire was tested to ensure it was valid and reliable enough. The process of the information gathered was done with aid of content analysis for the open ended responses. For the responses in their quantitative form, frequencies, correlation and regression analysis was embraced. The study found that archival service professionals, archival service process control, user perception and barriers had a positive significant influence on service delivery with reference Kenya national archives and documentation services. The study concluded that the archival service professionals provide important benefits and services, such as organizing and maintaining the documentary record of institutions, groups, and individuals. Archival service process control provides user a greater control over their electronic records, easy to locate documents via keywords or a barcode, the documents are held on secure premises and only authorized personnel have access to them. Users had a negative attitude towards the adoption of digital records management and the extent to which they were willing to adopt digital records management was low and the barriers included poor pay for Kenyan civil servants has resulted in poor performance in terms of service delivery. The study recommended that the organization should provide support from the management staff by enabling them to understand both tangible and non-tangible benefits of records. There should be a creation and execution of records management programs, the revision of archival legislation, the integration of archival institutions under significant and influential government ministries, the development of archives and records management capacity, and the improvement of information access. In order to increase user perception, the organization should provide improvements on its current records management so as to enable management to obtain records that can help them make proper short term and long term plans to facilitate effective and efficient service delivery. The government should introduce E-Government library services, which can have a significant impact on how services are delivered to library patrons.

Evaluation and Implementation of IT Governance Using the 2019 COBIT Framework at the Department of Food Security, Agriculture and Fisheries of Balangan Regency

The food security, fisheries and agriculture services work with local government to help the community. In carrying out its work, the government applies information technology to achieve the goals. Therefore, it is necessary to have an IT governance design to ensure the alignment of the government’s objectives and the use of IT. Governance is an important asset to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of work process improvement using IT. This research is conducted because there has never been an IT governance design assessment. The analysis and design of IT governance at government agencies are carried out using the COBIT 2019 framework to measure the level of IT capability. The research method used is descriptive qualitative by conducting interviews with influential government parties. This study obtained an IT governance design and detected important processes for the domains used, namely EDM04, APO04, APO07, APO08, APO11, BAI03, BAI08, BAI10.

Embeddedness Beyond Borders: Examining the Autonomy of Chinese NGOs in Their Global Endeavours

The internationalisation of Chinese non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) is an emerging phenomenon. As new international development actors, how independent are Chinese NGOs from the Chinese state? Based on interviews with eighteen Chinese NGOs and an analysis of secondary sources, the study finds that the internationalisation of Chinese NGOs is variegated rather than solely state-led. The state is not closely involved in much of the internationalisation processes of a majority of Chinese NGOs. However, all Chinese NGOs with overseas operations avoid overstepping a political boundary that is tacitly understood by both NGOs and the state. To explain the duality of both uniformity and diversity among Chinese NGOs, this study develops an embeddedness framework that disaggregates state influences into a primary layer of systemic regulatory guidance that affects all Chinese NGOs, and a secondary layer of influence over NGOs’ operations (initiation, financing, and implementation), within which the varying levels of governmental influence upon different NGOs lie.

In government microblogs we trust: Doing trust work in Chinese government microblogs during COVID-19

This paper presents a novel model for examining trust work in the Chinese government microblogs, integrating Fuoli and Paradis’s model of trust-repair discourse with scholarly views on Chinese trust. We argue that the ultimate communicative goal of government microblogs is to construct the Chinese authorities’ CBT (cognition-based trust) and ABT (affect-based trust). The antecedents of CBT include the trustee’s ability and integrity, and those of ABT include values congruence and guanxi (personal connections). We also suggest three types of communicative actions critical for trust-building, that is, NN (neutralising the negative), EP (emphasising the positive) and ME (mobilising the emotivity). These actions are realised through engagement and evaluation resources, emotional stories and intimate address forms. We then apply the model to the analysis of trust work in an influential government microblog with the username of @chinapeace. The analysis has the twofold purpose of demonstrating the viability of the model of trust-building discourse and examining the trust work of Chinese government microbloggers facing the pandemic crisis.

Incidence of the new coronavirus disease in Brazil in periods before and after the elections and the governmental influence on the progression of cases

The research aimed to carry out an epidemiological survey comparing the cases of COVID-19 in moments before and after the electoral period in Brazil, pointing out the influences of the federal public administration in the increase in incidence and consequent mortality. This is a quantitative epidemiological study with a critical approach, based on secondary data from the Information and Notifiable Diseases System (SINAN) found in the Information Technology Department of the Unified Health System (DATASUS), whose data are from March to December 2020, and January to March 2021 were selected. We analyzed 12,748,747 confirmed cases of COVID-19 grouped in incidence by month in the period evaluated and compared them by the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis method, where a P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. The data from this study demonstrate the significant increase in cases of COVID-19 in Brazil, where in November (the month after the elections), there is an increase in notifications compared to the month of October, the increase becomes statistically significant from the month of December onwards, which is the drastic scenario in the following year. In summary, based on the data expressed, it can be concluded that the Brazilian electoral period was largely influential in the worsening of the pandemic in the country.