Monash Governance Research Unit

Good governance is a major global movement that is addressed through the Monash Governance Research Unit MGRU, established in 2002. The unique feature of the MGRU is its research into the complex inter-relationships that affect the qualities of governance in its various manifestations in every society and economy. MGRU aims to promote research on the interconnection, interdependence and interaction among three major spheres of governance: Corporate Governance, Public Governance and Civil Society.

These complex inter-relationships are created, developed and changed through shared geographic territory, culture, laws and chains of production and consumption of goods and services; and the respective role played by each of the governance spheres in shaping and interacting with each other in a constantly changing national and international environment. No society's governance can be fully understood without studying these relationships.

Objectives

Promoting and coordinating the study of governance through identifying and linking common features and themes across the three major governance spheres (Corporate Governance, Public Governance and Civil Society) at both local and global levels, and explaining how each is interconnected, interdependent and interactive with the others.

Studying Public Governance - how the State is inter-related with corporations and institutions of Civil Society. Its role in creating an enabling environment.

Studying Corporate Governance - how corporations are inter-related with the institutions of Public Governance and Civil Society. Its role and relationship with an enabling environment.

Studying Institution Building - how Civil Society contributes towards the building of Public and Corporate governance in order to create or enhance enabling environments.