The process of globalization challenges familiar structures and questions the roles and importance of established actors. As the consequences of today's decisions tend to have global impacts, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between benefits accruing from new opportunities and risks stemming from the same developments. Hence new ways of dealing with these challenges are needed. In our understanding of governance, new approaches must advance cooperative networking among societal, governmental, and economic actors and lead to sustainable outcomes.

Although governance is a much-talked about approach, many of the ideas that have been developed most recently remain focused on single aspects. What is lacking in most cases is a comprehensive approach, or »common language« to analyze the problems and to put forward balanced proposals. In addition, there is a substantial lack of approaches that help to measure and assess soft and intangible factors, such as the ability of institutions to network with others, the consequences of a private or public organization's decisions, and the extent to which these decisions actually promote sustainability.

Together with the Governance Group, an expert team, we develop a new Governance Model to overcome this gap. The model will not replace existing approaches (such as the EFQM Model) or well established management instruments (such as the Balanced Scorecard). Rather, it aims to improve these tools in a manner that is consistent with the objectives of comprehensive cooperation and networking among governmental and non-governmental actors and sustainability.

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