This article examines employee agency in psychological contracts by exploring how young scientists proactively shape their careers in response to unmet expectations induced by academic entrepreneurialism. It uses the lens of social exchange to examine their relationships with the professors engaged in two types of activities: collaborative research characterized by diffuse/reciprocal exchange, ...

Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airlinetickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high performance broker inwhich contracts are both specified and queried through their temporal behavior. The temporaldimension, in conjunction with traditional relational attributes, enables our system to better ...

This research focuses on relational and contractual mechanisms and examines their impact on foreign subsidiaries’ acquisition of tacit and explicit knowledge from local suppliers. Using survey data from 168 foreign subsidiaries operating in China, this study finds broad support for the proposed analytical framework. When the foreign subsidiary and supplier share common goals, the foreign subsid...

Abstract Important types of contractual relationships—among them those between integrated product manufacturers and their suppliers—are neither fully transactional nor relational. The agreements that govern these relationships incorporate highly detailed written terms focus not only on what is promised but also the details how it to be achieved suppliers’ actions will monitored responded over l...

We present a case-study in which vote-tallying software is analyzed using a bounded verification technique, whereby all executions of a procedure are exhaustively examined within a finite space given by a bound on the size of the heap and the number of loop unrollings. The technique involves an encoding of the procedure in an intermediate relational programming language, a translation of that l...

The employee–employer relationship is said to be affected by extensive workplace transitions, and yet little is known about how employees make sense of these changes while deciding on their responses to them. Our study investigated two factors, social comparison and the nature of the exchanges, as moderators of the effects of psychological contract (i.e., employee beliefs regarding the terms of...

Reward systems based on balanced scorecards typically connect pay to an index, i.e. a weighted sum of multiple performance measures. However, there is no formal incentive model that actually describe this kind index contracts as optimal solution. In paper, we show contract may indeed be if measures are non-verifiable so the contracting parties must rely self-enforcement. Under standard assumpti...

T paper considers two firms that engage in joint production. The prospect of repeated interaction introduces dynamics, in that actions that firms take today influence the costliness and effectiveness of actions in the future. Repeated interaction also facilitates the use of informal agreements (relational contracts) that are sustained not by the court system, but by the ongoing value of the rel...