Current Issue : October-December Volume : 2021 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 5 Articles
The topic of governance in the government sector became an important and a widely discussed point of interest in the literature of project, program, and portfolio management in the past decade. It is eventually becoming the central focus in the policymakers’ point of view as they seek to ensure success in the selection, design, and implementation of government programs and their multi-projects. Due to the various complexities and risks underlying the project and program management context, program governance establishes a critical strategic planning element, especially in developing countries. This paper has assessed the challenges of the design and implementation of program governance in government bodies in the UAE. Interviews are carried out on senior members of sample organizations. Data collected is in binary form to specifically tailored questions. The results show critical shortcomings in stakeholders communication management and stakeholders’ engagement, program quality governance, program change governance, and program governance design. Recommendations were provided including addressing stakeholder communication issues, quality, change, and design of governance programs....
The outbreak and declaration of COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic has had major effects on many stakeholders of the world economy, one of whom is the consumer. This perspective therefore intends to inform on the incidence of COVID-19 and report on consumers reaction and response....
We consider an interbank market and a central bank in an agent-based macroeconomic model with credit and capital to evaluate the effects of monetary policies—conventional and quantitative easing. We find quantitative easing outperforms Taylor’s rule-style policies in smoothing out the business cycle....
Rural economy is the smallest range of regional economy, which belongs to the most basic link in the system of regional division of labor. It is a regional economy with a certain scale, clear leading industries, prominent industrial characteristics and certain radiation power. Taking small towns as the carrier, rural economy can promote the development of local economy by developing characteristic economy or pillar industries, giving full play to rural resource advantages or comparative advantages, and cultivating backbone enterprises and economic growth points. Maojiatan Hui and Uygur township as a scattered area of ethnic minorities, its industrial structure is unreasonable, coupled with the weak economic foundation, so that there is no breakthrough in the development of this township, how to make its characteristic industries develop is the focus of our research....
The sharing economy has been increasingly disrupting traditional business sectors and has put substantial pressure on firms in the global economy. The concept is per se nothing new. Resources that are not used are lent to individuals via an online platform in exchange for money or anything else. The idea of the sharing-exchange continuum suggests that in order to be successful, the business model has to include sharing as well as exchange attributes. This means that a company can simultaneously profit from the benefits of socialism (pure sharing) and capitalism (pure exchange). The findings from the case studies underpin the considered literature. Both Uber and Airbnb are located within the balanced sharing and exchange range of the sharing-exchange continuum. However, WeWork exhibits predominantly exchange characteristics but also tendencies towards more balanced attributes....
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