E commerce as a tool for resource expansion: postal partnerships, data protection legislation and the mitigation of implementation gaps

Marianne Ojo

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This chapter is aimed at illustrating how the potential of E commerce as a tool for resource expansion, can be maximized where information gaps, asymmetries, and more specifically, implementation gaps are addressed and mitigated. Engaging stakeholders, as well as bright line rules - distinguished from principles, at relevant phases and stages of mediation process between agents and stakeholders, would not only serve to foster greater accountability, but also ensure that better enforcement mechanisms are in place. Hence chapter illustrates how the stakeholder theory can be considered to be consistent with value maximization. Whilst incomplete contracts provide benefits of flexibility, they have also been criticized for facilitating lack of clarity in respect of objectives, focus and accountability in the decision making process. Furthermore, through the engagement of stakeholders, as well as appropriate forms of regulation, the chapter will also, simultaneously, illustrate how a “properly constructed Balanced Scorecard” can comprehensively communicate enterprises' business strategies.

Keywords: expectation gap; Balanced Scorecard; implementation gap; corporate governance; audits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E3 G2 G3 G38 K2 M4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03
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Published in IGI Global DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9921-2.ch002 (2016): pp. 25-48

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