Small firms are thought to encounter various difficulties implementing strategic alliances. Due to these problems, they may be less able to reap the benefits of alliance adaptation, and the changes that occur in alliances over time often will not coincide with the small firm’s interests. The evidence we present on contractual renegotiations in alliances suggests that small firms are no more or ...

In this position paper we discuss the issue of enforcing access policies in distributed environments where there is no central system designer/administrator, and consequently no guarantee that policies will be properly implemented by all components of the system. We argue that existing access control models, which are based on the concepts of permission and prohibition, need to be extended with...

For a long time research on the management of IS outsourcing projects viewed relational and contractual governance as substitutes. However, subsequent studies provided empirical evidence for the complementary view. Recently, some authors supported the notion that relational and contractual governance mechanisms can simultaneously be complements and substitutes. Given these inconsistencies the q...

This study reports on computational experiments for an agent-based labor market model with adaptive c hoice and refusal of worksite partners and with endogenously evolving worksite behaviors. Two treatment factors are experimentally varied: market structure; and ex ante capacity constraints on potential work oers and job openings. Particular attention is focused on experimentally determined cor...

concern for the protection of the weak party is a characteristic of contemporary french contract law. in the area of the obligation to provide information, the question arises as to what criterion should be applied to distinguish the weak party from the one placed in a position of power: on what basis is the party in the inferior position protected by jurisprudence and by the legislator in the ...