This study investigates the practice of corporate social responsibility reporting (hereafter CSRR) in the context of Saudi Arabia. The investigation encompasses a detailed description of corporate social responsibility (hereafter CSR) perception, CSR implementation and CSRR; and…
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In 2006 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) introduced new legislation related to corporate governance (CG). Initial evaluation by the World Bank three years later showed relatively modest implementation of the regulations. This thesis investigates the extent to which this has bee…
Liberal Statebuilding in post-conflict societies is a very complex, intricate and dynamic task that is often based on liberal assumptions. Critiques argue that local contributions to define democracy and its norms, such as accountability, tend to be limited since local experienc…
In Ghana, over 70% of urban dwellers do not have private sanitation facilities in their home and rely instead on an informal network of shared toilets. The predominance of shared toilets in Ghana is the result of unplanned urbanization, specific features of housing, socio-econom…
Shaoul et al. (2012) state that the accounting, scrutiny and oversight of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) remain areas of concern. Also, there have been calls for a more socio-technical and multidisciplinary approach to accounting and governance studies (Broadbent, 2012; Broa…
Num contexto caraterizado pelos efeitos da crise económica e financeira mundial e um ambiente cada vez mais globalizado, os moldes de intervenção do Estado na economia deverá ser alvo de reajustes, no sentido de salvaguardar a materialização dos principais objetivos delineados. …
A Igreja Católica era referência no cenário intelectual e tal fato a transformou na principal “influencer” medieval, pois em meio a uma população iletrada e sendo a detentora de conhecimento, a opinião clerical influiam não só em vários aspectos dos iletrados, mas também nas dec…
The project director set out to design a strategy for membership accountability at Water’s Edge Church in Virginia Beach, VA. The project reflects the process of research and development that went into the strategy, along with the steps taken to prepare various groups within the…
This thesis focuses on the potential for comprehensive, scientific, public health evaluations to affect policy development by conducting a retrospective literature investigation of studies and evaluations published in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Using Ricci et al.’s Disa…
The purpose of the qualitative exploratory case study was to explore property management procedures affecting military accountability in an operational environment. The research design included voluntary participants from the Active Army, Army Reserves, and Army National Guard. …
Can justiciable socioeconomic rights assist in the formulation of government policies and programs that are accountable to Nigerian citizens? This dissertation has tried to answer the question by establishing that mechanisms of accountability such as the rule of law and separati…
The Cooperative Extension System (CES) offers some unique challenges when addressing evaluation concerns having developed and grown in educational capacity over the past hundred years. CES is a large educationally focused organization based within the land-grant university syste…
In February 2014, violent protests erupted in Tuzla and quickly spread to multiple other Bosnian cities, including Mostar and Sarajevo. Initially, the protests were labeled as the "Bosnian Spring," a term used to describe a state that is undergoing revolutionary change; however,…
This project examined the practices of professional development in one Lebanese private higher education institution. The purpose of this project was to identify faculty perceptions regarding their professional development in order to clarify the areas in which improvements are …
This study investigates the relationship between education aid and security (goals, understandings, and discourses) in conflict-affected and post-conflict states, using Michel Foucault's archaeological and genealogical analytical methods. I used a comparative historical (archaeo…
In accountability frameworks for public education, the focus on the performance of individual schools is increasing. The introduction of parental choice is designed to help low performing schools improve or close. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the underl…
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to explore the factors that hindered government-owned organizations in Nigeria from achieving operational efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and productivity. The purpose of the study was to explore whether priva…
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to identify the specific gaps between the California administrative leadership competencies in (a) vision and leadership, (b) positive school culture and instructional program, (c) school management, and (d) school and community, and the cu…
The purpose of this study was to focus an empirical investigation of the effects of the accelerated schools model on at-risk students in schools that have adopted the model, compared to schools not using the model. The study examined whether at-risk students in accelerated schoo…