Monitoring mechanisms, gender, and information system structure in Nigerian non-financial listed companies

Monitoring mechanisms are tools for companies to protect the interests of the shareholders, most especially, the minority shareholders from the deviant behaviour of the management and board members.This study examines the relationship between monitoring mechanisms (directorship, internal and external auditing), gender and information system structure in Nigerian non-financial listed companies.The empirical tests for the study are by quantitative analysis approach with data from annual reports and questionnaires (for information system structure and internal auditing not obtainable from annual reports).The findings reveal that both gender and information system structure significantly relates to monitoring mechanisms (directorship, internal auditing and external auditing).This empirical study adds to the literature on the antecedents of organizational attributes in respect of gender and information system structure as related to monitoring mechanisms, particularly in Sub-Saharan African. Likewise, the findings suggest policy implication for the board of directors regarding appropriate board composition and structuring of the information system of a company to mitigate agency problems

Muntslag/vuistslag: De historische verbeelding van de politiek

Impressed/ Experienced – The historical imagination of politics This inaugural lecture elaborates on the role of historians in discussions on national history and the imagined community. Many European politicians today make instrumental reference to a common national history, in order to enhance community development and integration policies. Museums and monuments play a role in this respect. In this context we also see the emergence of national canons of history and culture. In her inaugural lecture, Legêne pleas for an active role of historians in public history debates on citizenship and national history, as well as for more methodological and theoretical reflection on the meaning and use of ICT in historical research related to these public history debates. This is illustrated with two cases, from Dutch and Indonesian, and French and African history, referring to changes in the imagination of the national community in a colonial and post-colonial context, and its impact on current notions of citizenship. When politicians today require from citizens that they feel committed to a national past as an expression of commitment to the nation, they face critical questions concerning citizenship and past colonial processes of categorization and idealization of difference. At various occasions, often connected to commemorative moments, this confrontation has lead to political statements concerning historical mistakes, and discussion about state responsibilities for these mistakes of the past. It is suggested that historians should focus on a wide range of sources – from archives to landscapes; from embodied trans-generational knowledge to artistic expressions – in order to deepen our understanding of the meaning of historical experiences concerning citizenship in contemporary society. dc.subject Citizenship en dc.subject Colonialism en dc.subject Public History en dc.subject ICT en dc.subject Museum Collections en dc.subject Lieux de memoire e

Bringing History Home. Postcolonial Immigrants and the Dutch Cultural Arena

Bringing History Home: Postcolonial Immigrants and the Dutch Cultural ArenaThree Dutch-language monographs published in 2008-2009 by Ulbe Bosma, Lizzy van Leeuwen and Gert Oostindie in the context of the interdisciplinary research programme Bringing History Home, present a history of identity politics in relation to ‘postcolonial immigrants’. This term refers to some 500,000 people who since 1945 arrived in the Netherlands from Indonesia and the former Dutch New Guinea, Suriname or the Antillean islands in the Caribbean. Bosma traces the development of postcolonial immigrant organizations. In interaction with government policies, these organizations moved from mere socioeconomic emancipation struggles to mere cultural identity politics. Van Leeuwen takes such cultural identity politics as the starting point for her analysis of Indo-Dutch and Dutch Indies cultural initiatives and the competing interests at stake in the Indies heritage discourse. Oostindie discusses these developments in terms of community development and change within Dutch society at large. He introduces the notion of a ‘postcolonial bonus’. In postcolonial Netherlands, this bonus was available to immigrants on the grounds of a shared colonial past. Today, this bonus is (almost) spent. The review discusses the three monographs, as well as the coherence of Bringing History Home as a research programme. Legêne argues, that notwithstanding valuable research outcomes, the very category of postcolonial immigrants does not constitute a convincing category of analysis