The company said it is "reorganising its governance structure to create a wholly independent board and Karin believes that, as this process nears completion, it is the appropriate time for her to step down".
But "if the game is over," the media executive wondered, "why did they start it in the first place, unless they were ready to launch a proxy fight?" With Disney still under enormous pressure from investors and corporate governance experts to create a succession plan, Comcast could yet benefit from sitting tight and waiting for the trouble to undermine Disney's share price.
The partners pooled their resources and co-located their clinical trials and research governance teams to create a Joint Research Office.
Moreover, FTs have a new form of governance designed to create a greater engagement of the local community, patients and staff in running their activities.
Effective governance models to create, support and maintain the delivery of quality care involving multiple providers across social and health sectors are critical.
This understanding is a necessary prerequisite to gain deeper insight into the specificities for strengthening health workforce competencies in order for governance to rightly create the institutional environment called for to foster alignment.
Instead of more traditional IT governance, which seeks to create greater accountability for IT systems management, data governance recognizes that data is the mission-critical asset to manage.
A recent report released by Goldman Sachs (pdf), showed that companies that are considered leaders in implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies to create sustained competitive advantage have outperformed the general stock market by 25% since August 2005.
For the purposes of this paper we use a definition offered by Amit and Zott: 'A business model depicts the design of transaction content, structure and governance so as to create value through the exploitation of business opportunities' (Amit and Zott 2001 p. 495).
Four governance elements are postulated here to create the governance environment for health and climate change adaptation (Fig. 1): (1) social capital; (2) non-state-based actors; (3) informal networks, and (4) bridging organizations.
