Originally published as International Journal of Law and Management, Volume 49, Issue 5/6
ISBN: 1 84663 743 8
Guest Edited by: Clive Smallman, Suzanne Benn and Stephen T.T Teo
This special issue explores governance as a process - a trend emerging in response to the need to control and coordinate inter-organizational forms around a shared purpose. The increasing prevalence of organizational forms such as inter-organizational networks, alliances and public-private partnerships is increasingly challenging the practice of governance to move away from a traditional focus on structure. Given the often temporary and highly flexible nature of these relationships, it is not likely that governance by compliance to government regulation is suitable, particularly as many of these arrangements involve multinational enterprises (MNEs). As a result, governments, NGOs and community groups are developing process-based governance arrangements to control corporate activities that relate to specific social or environmental contexts or projects. A major behefit of such relationships can be the production of new knowledge. The question is how to design governance to ensure such an outcome.
Contents:
New processes of governance: cases for deliberative decision-making?
The purpose of this paper is to explore the new forms of governance that are emerging to facilitate corporate sustainability.
Dynamic evolution in public-private partnerships: The role of key actors in managing multiple stakeholders
This paper seeks to examine the insights that the individual agency perspective offers to the study of public-private partnerships (P3s). It extends prior research, which has primarily adopted an economic and structural perspective, by considering the ways by which individual actors involved in these complex arrangements can shape their evolutionary path.
Multinational oil companies' CSR initiatives in Nigeria: The scepticism of stakeholders in host communities
The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the multinational oil companies' (MOCs) corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the scepticism of stakeholders in the producing communities about the long-term effect and the beneficiaries of the oil companies' CSR/community development initiatives.
The process of governance: through a practice lens
The paper's purpose is to identify the inappropriateness of the current model of regulation of corporate governance, which applies worldwide; and inherent paradoxes in the five areas of best practice in corporate governance.
Modeling the Chinese family firm and minority shareholder protection: The Hong Kong experience 1980-1995
The paper aims to explore the extent to which the legal experience of minority shareholder actions in Hong Kong supports the sociological model of the Chinese family firm as developed by Wong Siu-lun and reports some preliminary findings for the period 1980-1995.
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