Archive for the ‘Information Technology Policy’ Category

Dividend Policy: Malaysian Public Listed Companies 2006 to 2009

1. Introduction   The study of corporate dividend behaviour has been a key research area in finance. Yet we do not have an acceptable explanation for the observed dividend behaviour of companies and the ”dividend puzzle” still remains unsolved (Black, 1976). It is a long-standing position of well-known finance researchers that dividends are irrelevant, and [...]

Roles and leadership of the Chief Information Officer in higher education

Roles and leadership of the Chief Information Officer in higher education The CIO position              Higher education is notoriously resistant to change, and if there is a trend toward implementing chief information officer (CIO) positions and aligning all technology units under these hierarchies, the entire organizational structure will be affected (O’Donnell, 1998).   Due to the [...]

Information Security requires only one Policy

Large “P” policy vs small “p” polices … in many cases the word “policy” is overused in information security to refer to not only what should truly be a high-level statement but also to what are actually standards and guidelines. The document structure should consists of a policy supported by a strategy with metrics, standards, [...]