What is the importance of specific control and contractual mechanisms for IT outsourcing relationship quality and outsourcing success? Employing a survey among financial institutions and applying Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) known from marketing research, we analyse the relative importance of Service Level Agreements, control and contractual mechanisms for relationship quality and outs...

Negotiation is commonly required to reach a final contractual agreement in construction material procurement. However, even simple negotiations often result in suboptimal agreements, thus ‘leaving money on the table.’ An automated system that could evaluate bids, negotiate to finalize the bid, and value the individual characteristics of negotiating parties would be useful to both contractors an...

This study uses design-based research to explore how negotiated assessment contributes to students’ metacognitive processing. Metacognitive processing is shown to be linked to self-regulation and the development of generic skills. The research derived a conceptual framework from the literature that was integrated into a face-to-face learning strategy and evaluated. The results of this study wer...

In the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, developing countries (DCs) were adamant that, in order to protect the environment for the future, new institutions were needed which would channel resources from the wealthy developed countries to the poor DCs. With this backdrop, I analyze the problem faced by an asymmetrically informed supranational governmental authority (SNGA) who wishes to design an Internatio...

Customized electric power contracts catering to specific business and risk management needs have gained increasing popularity among large energy firms in the restructured electricity industry. A tolling agreement (or, tolling contact) is one such example in which a contract buyer reserves the right to take the output of an underlying electricity generation asset by paying a predetermined premiu...

Contractual Date of Delivery (release): M9 [changed to M15]

This paper presents a model of competition between an incumbent firm and an Other Licensed Operator (OLO) in the broadband market, where the incumbent has an investment option to build a Next Generation network (NGN) and it can do so by making an investment sharing agreement with the OLO, or alone. Two different kinds of investment sharing contractual forms are analysed, a basic investment shar...

Following the descriptive analytical approach, this research addresses rules governing anticipatory breach of contract under United Nations Convention on Contracts for International Sale Goods (Vienna, 1980) (CISG). The first section paper presents definition breach. second introduced most important options granted to parties if principle is performed. problem study lies in showing adequacy leg...

an important determinant of health system performance is contracting. providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. yet contracting is highly imperfect in both single-payer and multi-payer health systems. arguably, in a competitive, multi-payer environment, contractual innovation may occur...