This article compares contract farming with share tenancy, another labour regime in which smallholder farmers are bound by to deliver produce another, usually more powerful party. Based on research the Javanese village of Kaliloro, we explore contracting and sharecropping as regimes, each their own specific mechanisms surplus transfer from producers non-producers. The cases compared irrigated r...

There has been a dramatic increase in all forms of international cooperation in science, technology and innovation over the last three decades. This chapter focuses on a specific subset of such cooperative agreements: those that primarily (but not exclusively) involve firms that seek some commercial benefit from the outputs of interfirm collaboration, known as strategic technology partnering (S...

Software as a Service (SaaS) becomes in this decade the focus of many enterprises and research. SaaS provides software application as Web based delivery to server many customers. This sharing of infrastructure and application provided by Saas has a great benefit to customers, since it reduces costs, minimizes risks, improves their competitive positioning, as well as seeks out innovative. SaaS a...

Basic role based access control [RBAC] provides a mechanism for segregating access privileges based upon users' hierarchical roles within an organization. This model doesn't scale well when there is tight integration of multiple hierarchies. In a case where there is joint-tenancy and a requirement for different levels of disclosure based upon a user's hierarchy, or in our case, organization or ...

We design an experiment to study how agents make use of different pieces of information in the lab, depending on how many others have access to them and the strategic nature of interaction. Agents receive signals about a payoff relevant parameter, and the information structure is represented by a non directed network, whose nodes are agents and whose links represent sharing agreements. We compa...

La Soledad case is illustrative of the contracting issue under conditions where reputation as an enforcement device is ineffective, and where there is no coercive power. Initially, tenancy practices were organized among local actors, on the basis of personal relationships; contractual enforcement was not a critical issue. The introduction of a new crop (potato) by ‘outsiders’ --entrepreneur-typ...