Towards a framework for managing IT-enabled change, sourcing and governance

In the resource-based view, organisations are represented by the sum of their physical, human and organisational assets, resources and capabilities. Operational capabilities maintain the status quo and allow an organisation to execute their existing business. Dynamic capabilities, otherwise, allow an organisation to change this status quo including a change of the operational ones. Competitive advantage, in this context, is an effect of continuously developing and reconfiguring these firm-specific assets through dynamic capabilities. Deciding where and how to source the core operational capabilities is a key success factor. Furthermore, developing its dynamic capabilities allows an organisation to effectively manage change its operational capabilities. Many organisations are asserted to have a high dependency on - as well as a high benefit from - the use of information technology (IT), making it a crucial and overarching resource. Furthermore, the IT function is assigned the role as a change enabler and so IT sourcing affects the capability of managing business change. IT sourcing means that organisations need to decide how to source their IT capabilities. Outsourcing of parts of the IT function will also outsource some of the IT capabilities and therefore some of the business capabilities. As a result, IT sourcing has an impact on the organisation's capabilities and consequently on the business success. And finally, a turbulent and fast moving business environment challenges organisations to effectively and efficiently managing business change. Our research builds on the existing theory of dynamic and operational capabilities by considering the interdependencies between the dynamic capabilities of business change and IT sourcing. Further it examines the decision-making oversight of these areas as implemented through IT governance. We introduce a new conceptual framework derived from the existing theory and extended through an illustrative case study conducted in a German bank. Under a philosophical paradigm of constructivism, we collected data from eight semi-structured interviews and used additional sources of evidence in form of annual accounts, strategy papers and IT benchmark reports. We applied an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), which emerged the superordinate themes for our tentative capabilities framework. An understanding of these interdependencies enables scholars and professionals to improve business success through effectively managing business change and evaluating the impact of IT sourcing decisions on the organisation's operational and dynamic capabilities.

Graduate School and University Center Archives Finding Aid - Record Group VI: Vice-President for Finance and Administration

This is part of the finding aid to the Graduate School and University Center (GSUC) Archives. Record Group VI is the files of the Vice-Presidents for Finance and Administration.

Anti-money laundering and governance in Latin America

This paper is designed to provide a first approach to some questions raised by the Global administrative Law Project concerning the anti money laundering system, as a global governance project, and how it works in Latin America. We address some interactions between actors at the global, regional and local level. So we have organized our presentation according to those three spaces: 1) global standards, 2) regional efforts and 3) national experiences, where we present the contrast between Brazil and Argentina.

Essays on finance and macroeconomy

I study the asset-pricing implications in an cnviromncnt with feedback traders and rational arbitrageurs. Feedback traders are defined as possible naive investors who buy after a raise in prices and sell after a drop in prices. I consider two types of feedback strategies: (1) short-term (SF), motivated by institutional rulcs as top-losscs and margin calls and (2) long-tcrm (LF), motivated by representativeness bias from non-sophisticated investors. Their presence in the market follows a stochastic regime swift process. Short lived assumption for the arbitrageurs prevents the correction of the misspricing generated by feedback strategies. The estimated modcl using US data suggests that the regime switching is able to capture the time varying autocorrclation of returns. The segregation of feedback types helps to identify the long term component that otherwise would not show up due to the large movements implied by the SF typc. The paper also has normativo implications for practioners since it providos a methodology to identify mispricings driven by feedback traders.

A participação do conselheiro independente nas companhias listadas no novo mercado da BM&FBovespa em 2012

O tema do presente trabalho é a governança corporativa, especificamente sobre a atuação dos conselheiros independentes das companhias do Novo Mercado da BM&FBovespa por meio de um estudo qualitativo para verificar a forma e a dinâmica da participação dos membros independentes no processo de tomada de decisão das companhias onde atuam. O objetivo é contribuir para o campo de finanças e governança corporativa de modo a explicar resultados de diversos estudos quantitativos que apontam não haver uma correlação significativa entre a proporção de conselheiros independentes e o desempenho financeiro das companhias. O questionário distribuído por e-mail foi respondido por 30 dos 361 conselheiros independentes e possibilitou a constatação de que a atuação dos conselheiros independentes avaliados está atualmente mais voltada para o papel consultivo do que propriamente de fiscalização, demonstrando uma dinâmica de alinhamento e não de conflito no processo decisório do conselho de administração. Além disso, o estudo constatou que os conselheiros independentes disponibilizam pouco tempo no exercício das suas funções, situação que pode constituir fator indicativo para a falta de correlação entre proporção de conselheiros independentes e o desempenho financeiro das companhias, conforme apontada por diversos estudos quantitativos. Dessa forma, o estudo sugere que, no ambiente brasileiro de elevada concentração de ações nas mãos de poucos acionistas, os órgãos reguladores estejam mais atentos à sua função fiscalizadora uma vez que os conselheiros independentes não assumem esse papel.

A note on Brazilian financial regulation and governance

The question posed by Theme 4 of this workshop is indeed a very broad one and would demand a thorough research on the topics involved. I am afraid I did not have the proper time to think it over and I would not be able to provide a wide ranging answer to this question. Thus, I will be selective and I will present the following issues that need to be addressed to support Brazilian development: i) competition among banks; ii) high rate of interest on liquidity; iii) approval by the Congress of a Complementary Law to regulate the financial sector as required by the 1988 Brazilian Constitution; iv) exploitation of workers through the governance of the Job Time Guarantee Fund (FGTS) and iv) state-owned versus government owned enterprises.

International finance and Caribbean development

Includes bibliography

Asset accumulation by the middle class and the poor in Latin America: political economy and governance dimensions

Includes bibliography

Latin America and the new finance and trade flows

Includes bibliography