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Advancing upon taxonomical research on interfirm alliances, we investigate the design of entrepreneurial firms’ alliances in more fine-grained terms by focusing on the specific contractual provisions that firms negotiate into their alliance contracts. Drawing upon transaction cost arguments, we examine the determinants of the contractual complexity of collaborative agreements in the German tele...

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Object-oriented languages allow any object to point to any other object, limited only by type. The resultant possible aliasing makes programs hard to verify and maintain. Much research has been done on alias protection schemes to restrict aliasing. However, existing schemes are either informal (design-patternlike) or static type-like systems. The former are hard to verify, while the latter tend...

Despite the prevalence of IT outsourcing, a substantial amount of contracts have been terminated. Prior research has primarily assumed that clients initiate it, overlooking the possibility of vendors doing so. Unlike clients whose reasons may stem from poor performance or other alternatives, vendors would be triggered by very different reasons. They are less likely to admit their own poor perfo...

Written contracts are a fundamental framework for commercial and cooperative transactions and relationships. Limited research has been published on the application of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to contracts. In this paper we report the classification of components of contract texts using machine learning and hand-coded methods. Authors studying a range of domains hav...

Acknowledgements V List of abbreviations XIX Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 Position of the problem issue: the role of law in Information Technology 1 2 Causes and effects of inequality of bargaining powers and imbalance in contracts 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.2 Generality of the phenomenon of inequality of bargaining powers in contracts 4 2.3 Generality of the dichotomy between specialists and laymen ...