Easy access of Internet has revolutionized the concept of electronic commerce. As the bulk of business transactions shifts to electronic media, we have business collaborations being negotiated between previously unknown partners. Thus a Contract is the key to a successful business relationship. We foresee a need for a unified contract management in order to achieve coherent business operations....

This paper analyses an insurance contract of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) initiated in 1613. As this contract is an early example of risk management, we try to understand its motivation from recent insights in risk management theory of Froot, Scharfstein and Stein (The Journal of Finance 48, 1993, 1629-1658), in which growth opportunities and costly exte...

According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (September 2007), we have the following description for supply chain management: “supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities. Importantly, it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel pa...

This paper presents a model for describing inter-organizational collaborations for e-commerce, e-government and e-business applications. The model, referred to as a community model, takes into account internal organizational rules and business policies as typically stated in business contracts that govern cross-collaborations. The model can support the development of a new generation of contrac...

Throughout modern business history, contract has been used as an organizational technology that holds counterparties in formal or legally binding agreements. The proliferation of contract prompted the emergence of professional contract managers who played an important but relatively peripheral role applying situational awareness to the practice of compliance and business relationship management...