Search results for "Administration"

A dynamic performance management approach to support local strategic planning

2015

In spite of efforts devoted in the last decades to local strategic planning, such field of research and practice has been frequently characterized by a lack of implementation. We argue here that this phenomenon is due to the limitations of the static and linear approach to local strategic planning in fostering the development of common shared view among policy makers on the relevant system's structure and behavior. By means of a case-study, we illustrate how an approach based on system dynamics modeling applied to Performance Management can be useful to overcome such weaknesses. The proposed approach enhances a better understanding of the causes and effects related to adopted policies, unde…

Lack of Good Governance or hazard of consumers e-Health? Evidence through a dynamic outcome based-performance in the Italian healthcare sector about …

This research aims to analyse the management of the health policies to contain the measles outbreaks in Italy. In particular, this study wants to find out what are the key factors that led to the measles outbreak of 2017 and its previous cyclical trend, analysing the impact of ehealth strategy in the management of the epidemics. Understanding the complexity of this issue will help to evaluate the actual policies of the Italian Ministry of Healthcare and to steer the policy-makers to frame sustainable policies to manage the risk of a measles outbreak. The thesis is structured in four chapters. The first chapter, through a literature review, discusses the evolution of the management of epidem…

Gouvernement d'entreprise et comptabilité

1999

L'objectif de cet article est d'une part, de mettre en évidence les limites de l'approche actionnariale du gouvernement des entreprises pour appréhender le rôle de la comptabilité, d'autre part, de montrer l'intérêt d'une approche partenariale comme réponse aux limites de l'approche actionnariale.

A quoi sert l'audit environnemental ?

2013

International audience; L'objectif de cet article est de comprendre le rôle de l'audit dans le domaine environnemental afin d'en proposer une taxonomie. A partir d'une grille d'analyse découlant des théories néo-institutionnelle et des parties prenantes, cette taxonomie est obtenue en étudiant les pratiques d'audit d'une entreprise française proactive en matière environnementale. Les résultats montrent qu'en l'absence de réglementation en matière de vérifications environnementales, l'audit peut remplir plusieurs rôles dans ce domaine : vérification de la conformité réglementaire, identification des aspects environnementaux d'un site industriel, analyse de cycle de vie d'un produit, vérifica…

Les théories de la gouvernance : de la gouvernance des entreprises à la gouvernance des systèmes nationaux

2006

(VF)L'objectif de cet article est de faire une synthèse des théories de la gouvernance. Dans la première partie sont présentées les théories micro de la gouvernance en opposant les théories cognitives aux théories diciplinaires. La seconde partie est dévolue aux théories macro de la gouvernance sur la base de la distinction entre les théories fondées sur l'appropriation de la rente organisationnelle et celles accordant un rôle dominant à la production. Cette synthèse met en évidence que la vision financière de la gouvernance n'est qu'un cas très particulier qui présente de nombreuses limites;(VA)The objective of this article is to make a survey of the different corporate governance theories…

Comment améliorer la prévision des ventes pour le marketing ? Les apports de la théorie du chaos

2013

La littérature en marketing constate un décalage entre les avancées réalisées par les chercheurs qui développent de nouvelles méthodes de prévision des ventes, et l'usage massif de méthodes traditionnelles reposant sur l'hypothèse de linéarité des processus analysés. Cette recherche expose la contribution potentielle de la théorie du chaos à l'amélioration de la prévision des ventes. Une illustration de ces apports est proposée avec une application à la prévision des ventes de consoles de jeux vidéo au Japon. Les résultats mettent en évidence la capacité de la méthode proposée à détecter la présence de chaos dans la série et montrent la possibilité de préciser l'horizon de prévisibilité des…

Is My Office 365 GDPR Compliant? : Security Issues in Authentication and Administration

2018

The General Data Protection Regulation, commonly referred as GDPR, will be enforced in all European Union countries in May 2018. GDPR sets requirements for processing EU citizens’ personal data regardless of the physical location of the organisation processing the data. Over 40 percent of European organisations are using Office 365. Microsoft claims that Office 365 service is GDPR compliant, and has provided tools to help Office 365 customers to ensure their GDPR compliancy. In this paper, we present some security issues related to the very foundation of Office 365 service, namely Azure Active Directory and administrative tools, and assess their GDPR compliancy. Our findings reveal that per…

Collaborative EA Information Elicitation Method : The IEM for Business Architecture

2015

This study contributes to the enterprise architecture (EA) methodologies by suggesting a method for eliciting architecture requirements: gathering both the current architecture information, and the development needs and requirements for the business architecture (BA) dimension in EA planning. Most of all EA dimensions, the developing of the BA requires collaboration with various non-IT stakeholders. It presents thus challenges to the IT department, or the consultancy involved in EA related efforts. The contribution of the various stakeholder groups as informants is, however, crucial to well founded EA design decisions. The suggested method takes related IS development fields as starting poi…

Internet Adoption at the User Level: Empirical Evidence from The Gambia

2014

The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) are used to investigate technology adoption. However, its application in Sub-Saharan Africa is rare and barely extended to the validation phase. In this paper, we introduce six new moderating factors for UTAUT core determinants and two other direct determinants of Internet adoption. The objective of this approach is to identify relevant elements of Internet adoption at the user level in The Gambia. Moderating factors are interacting terms used when the relationship between independent and dependent variable is weak, inconsistent or non-existent. A case study research design was employed and the data were gathered in Autumn of 20…

Semantic Portal as a Tool for Structural Reform of the Ukrainian Educational System

2014

Education is recognized as a fundamental enabler of human development. The adoption of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by education (especially in developing countries) contributes to educational system reforms, in addition to the traditional advantages, such as social openness and accessibility. Yet the academic community has not studied sufficiently the challenging context in which ICTs are used as instruments for the reform of inefficient, and sometimes even corrupted, educational systems rather than just as means for smarter classrooms, remote access, or content management. The object of this study is Ukrainian higher education (HE) and its quality assurance (QA) syst…