Knowledge sharing has become an important practice in the era of knowledge economy. This paper concerns the management of contributor performance in social knowledge-sharing communities. Based on ability-motivation-opportunity theory, we propose a hidden Markov model to characterize the change...

A fundamental challenge in democracy is how to control civil service organizations. This challenge has been primarily addressed by creating horizontal accountability arrangements, in which independent agencies act as auditors and evaluators of civil service organizations. However, horizontal...

The purpose of the paper is to develop a risk measure in the form of a risk index and a governance index as an indicator of the quality of governance structure. Using the Delphi technique, two indices are developed (risk index and corporate governance index (CGI)); subsequently, using the...