One of the main concerns of all industries such as mine industries is to increase their profit and keep their customers through improving quality level of their products; but increasing the quality of products usually releases air pollutants. Nowadays the management of air pollutant emissions with harmful environmental and health effects is one of the most pressing problems. In this paper, auth...

Contracts are important for attaining business process interoperability and enforcing their proper enactment. An e-Contract is the computerized facilitation or automation of a contract in a crossorganizational business process. In this paper, motivated by a lease template example, we propose a meta-model for e-Contract templates and template variables. Furthermore, we discover different types o...

One of the most important things in pursuit of supply chain management is to prevent sub-optimization caused by decentralized decision making over the various entities. As a solution of the issue, supply chain coordination approach has frequently been used. However, a coordinated supply chain might fail to provide additional profit to one of the players. A supply chain contract can be to achiev...

Under the former Hungarian Labour Code, employer's manager and his deputy were liable for damages caused by violation of rules prescribed in context managerial activity according to civil law. previously applicable Act on Companies either labour law or Civil Code applied executive officer.
 According new officer is legal person during management activities liability breach contract.
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BACKGROUND Adolescents are developmentally in a period of transition-from children cared for by their parents to young adults capable of self-care, independent judgment, and self-directed problem solving. We wished to develop a behavioral contract for adolescent diabetes management that addresses some negotiable points of conflict within the parent-child relationship regarding self-monitoring a...

This section addresses the automated and legally compliant determination of key contract parameters for commercially and internationally provided electronic services in the Internet. It designs and implements a decision support system that provides recommendations on suited contract parameters at the time of contract formation. Recommendations base on automated reasoning taking into considerati...

Information systems (IS) offshoring has become a widespread practice and a strategic sourcing choice for many firms. While much has been written by researchers about the factors that lead to successful offshoring arrangements from the client’s viewpoint, the vendor’s perspective has been largely scarce. The vendor perspective is equally important as offshore IS vendors need to make important de...

Due to the competitive orientation of the German public transport market the process of managing contracts between the representatives of public administration and the typically private transport providers becomes increasingly complex. The use of an integrated information system that supports the administration of the complete life cycle of such a contract improves the quality of the transport ...