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Restructuring the Ontario Government

Canadian Public Administration, 1973
Abstract. A new style of averment reappraisal is described in this two‐part paper. The first part deals with the way in which the Ontario Government structured this reapraisal using a combination of government and non‐government people to establish an effective change agent.The second part details the key elements of the new structure at both the ...
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Local government restructuring

Politikon, 1994
ABSTRACT The apartheid value system in South Africa manifested the strongest at the local governmental level where racial communities were separated by law in every sphere of society. This situation became increasingly unacceptable to the black communities in the country. The National Party government was forced into negotiations at local level in 1993
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Corporate Governance: The Role of Restructuring Transactions

The Economic Journal, 1995
The purpose of this essay is to examine and evaluate the corporate restructuring transaction as an innovation in corporate governance, in particular to determine how far it remedies the perceived agency problems associated with management control. In the current debate on governance issues there is a widely articulated view (e.g.
Thompson, Steve, Wright, Mike
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Restructuring the Governance of Imprisonment

2020
Abstract This chapter discusses methods of altering how state governments structure decision-making about imprisonment policy to rationalize outcomes. Changes that enhance the power of state government (which pays for prisons) to control prison terms and populations are important features of these strategic shifts.
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Corporate Governance and Restructuring

2012
The views of the governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since 2004 would suggest that weak corporate governance was the single most important factor in precipitating the banking crisis in Nigeria. Generally, this refers to the processes that lead to decision making in the financial institutions, that is, the responsibilities and ...
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Governing Urban Restructuring with City-Building Nonprofits

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2014
Urban restructuring efforts aimed at redeveloping inner-city neighborhoods are common across the US. They typically involve coalitions of public and private actors that play complementary roles in promoting investments in locales that have been sites of disinvestment, rendering these geographies ripe for economic development and profitmaking (ie ...
James C Fraser, Edward L Kick
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The Restructuring of Internet Standards Governance: 1987-1992

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2016
In June 1992, the Internet Activities Board sought to push the Internet Engineering Task Force into a solution for the Internet's address depletion problem. Its actions provoked a management crisis that forced a restructuring of the Internet standards governance process.
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Restructuring Land Use Governance

Journal of Planning Literature, 1993
Current restructuring of multi-tier (state, regional, local) land use governance in the United States invites discussion and reexamination of the origins, diversity, and effects of intergovernmental planning. This article surveysfour major aspects of the literature on land use governance reform: the rationales and political motivations underlying ...
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Megaprojects and the Restructuring of Urban Governance

Latin American Perspectives, 2015
Urban megaprojects are contentious sites in the politics and restructuring of local governance. In Ecuador, the state supported entrepreneurial urban governance under neoliberal administrations, and the “post-neoliberal” governments continue to employ an entrepreneurial approach to urban infrastructures.
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Restructuring Government: The Abandonment of Metropolitan Government

2012
Metropolitan or tiered government that was championed by many academics and practitioners as the answer to governance problems besetting metropolitan areas has been discredited and abandoned by most of the countries that instituted this form of regional government. The general movement to abandon tiered government commenced in the 1980s.
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