This paper identifies factors affecting design and management of contract arrangements in mango value chain using data from survey of 83 contractors involved in mango production and marketing in Uttar Pradesh, India. Contract partners’ responses on various aspects of contractual arrangements such as contract structure and negotiation process were recorded with the help of a structured questionn...

Context – Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) is a modern business strategy for developing high quality software at low-wage countries at reduced cost. Outsourcing is a contract based association between vendor and client organization, where a client organization contracts-out with vendor organization for software development work to be provided by vendor organization in return for...

Contract and rights management – and thus property rights protection – has gained increasing importance as a quality standard in brokerage and electronic commerce environments. Contract and rights management provides information on the legal relationships associated with digital assets, as well as intellectual property rights protection and the enforcement of rights. However, many brokerage and...

BACKGROUND Public hospitals can privatize management activities by contracting with a private organization or person to perform the work. Management contract is a method which uses private sector for major government projects like hospitals. This study evaluates contract management in health care institutes of developing countries. METHODS Information has been collected by reviewing the manag...

The study examines two dimensions of IT outsourcing contract structure: contract specificity and flexibility. We posit that the contract structures are influenced by (a) relational elements such as prior interactions, current nature of relationship between the contracting parties, and future interactions; and by (b) the attributes of transactions such as investment specificity and task and tech...