Governance, good governance and global governance: Conceptual and actual challenges
This article takes seriously the proposition that ideas and concepts, both good and bad, have an impact on international public policy. It situates the emergence of governance, good governance and global governance, as well as the UN’s role in the conceptual process. Although ‘governance’ is as old as human history, this essay concentrates on the intellectual debates of the 1980s and 1990s but explores such earlier UN-related ideas as decolonisation, localisation and human rights, against which more recent thinking has been played out. A central analytical perspective is the tension between many academics and international practitioners who employ ‘governance’ to connote a complex set of structures and processes, both public and private, while more popular writers tend to use it synonymously with ‘government’. [1]

Codes of Good Governance Worldwide: What is the Trigger?

This article examines the mechanisms underlying the worldwide diffusion of organizational practices. We suggest that the two main theoretical explanations in the diffusion literature, efficiency and legitimation, can be complementary. More specifically, we argue that endogenous forces seek to enhance the efficiency of existing systems, while exogenous forces seek to increase legitimation. To assess our argument, we explore the worldwide diffusion of codes of good governance. These codes are a set of ‘best practice’ recommendations regarding the behavior and structure of a firm’s board of directors issued to compensate for deficiencies in a country’s corporate governance system regarding the protection of shareholders’ rights. [2]

‘Good Governance’: The Rise and Decline of a Policy Metaphor?

This study aims to explore the conditions under which the criterion of ‘good governance’ first became adopted as a donor policy metaphor and now seems likely to get eclipsed. Why did it emerge at the time it did, and what, since then, has been its track record? Particular attention will be given in this regard to successive shifts in the relevant policy thinking within the World Bank. Moreover, the study discusses whether good governance is likely to keep drawing the same level of attention as it has done hitherto. [3]

The Pursuit of Good Governance and the Anti-Financial Corruption Blitz in Nigeria: A Study of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) (2003-2016)

The study examines the extent to which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been able to tackle financial corruption and its gangrenous effects in Nigeria between 2003 and 2016. The study relied on systematic qualitative content analysis of secondary sources of data, and the strain theory was adopted as the tool of analysis for the study. A cursory thrust into the political culture of corruption in Nigeria’s history revealed that even with the establishment of anti-graft agencies and legislations by the distinct administrations, financial corruption has, nevertheless, continued to wax stronger and escalate like wildfire. [4]

Good Governance of Sustainable Tourism in Nature Park – Carita Beach

Aims/Objective: This study aims to review whether the performance of the tourism activities management in Nature Park – Carita Beach has already contributed to the increase of domestic economic growth, and natural conservation also preservation of local culture.

Design: This study adopts the principal concept of sustainable tourism and collaborated with strategic management through analyzes of internal factors and external factors.   [5]

Reference

[1] Weiss, T.G., 2000. Governance, good governance and global governance: conceptual and actual challenges. Third world quarterly, 21(5), pp.795-814.

[2] Aguilera, R.V. and Cuervo-Cazurra, A., 2004. Codes of good governance worldwide: what is the trigger?. Organization studies, 25(3), pp.415-443.

[3] Doornbos, M., 2001. ‘Good governance’: The rise and decline of a policy metaphor?. Journal of Development studies, 37(6), pp.93-108.

[4] Sulistyadi, Y., Eddyono, F. and Entas, D. (2017) “Good Governance of Sustainable Tourism in Nature Park – Carita Beach”, Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting, 5(2), pp. 1-14. doi: 10.9734/AJEBA/2017/37019.

[5] Sulistyadi, Y., Eddyono, F. and Entas, D. (2017) “Good Governance of Sustainable Tourism in Nature Park – Carita Beach”, Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting, 5(2), pp. 1-14. doi: 10.9734/AJEBA/2017/37019.