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Contracting Intuitionistic Theories
Studia Logica, 2005zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Theory contraction and base contraction unified
Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1993AbstractOne way to construct a contraction operator for a theory (belief set) is to assign to it a base (belief base) and an operator of partial meet contraction for that base. Axiomatic characterizations are given of the theory contractions that are generated in this way by (various types of) partial meet base contractions.
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Actor-Network Theory Contract Theory
European Review of Contract Law, 2020Abstract Firms increasingly use complex hybrid governance structures to manage value generation networks. Empirical evidence demonstrates that the structures contain soft, “enforcement-challenged” contractual devices. Existing contract theories, however, fail to recognize and explain how these soft contract devices work as legal devices.
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Contracting Theory and Accounting
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001This paper reviews agency theory and its application to accounting issues. I discuss the formulation of models of incentive problems caused by moral hazard and adverse selection problems. I review theoretical research on the role of performance measures in compensation contracts, and I compare how information is aggregated for compensation purposes ...
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Theories of Muscle Contraction
Journal of Structural Biology, 1995A survey of the mainstream theories in the modern study of the mechanism of muscle contraction is made, with particular emphasis placed on the experimental results which most influenced the progression of ideas. Starting with early elastic and viscoelastic theories of muscle contraction, a chronological organization is used to present, in detail, the ...
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From Social Contract Theory to Sociable Contract Theory
Contemporary Pragmatism, 20141. IntroductionRawls's A Theory of Justice has been the dominant text in contemporary political philosophy for over 40 years. As described by Rawls, his project is founded upon the social contract tradition. Given the central import of contract in his analysis, it is surprising how little investigation of the concept of contract there has been.
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1998
Abstract For the modern legal mind, one of the oddest constructions in Kant’s contract doctrine is his fourfold acts-of-choice requirement for the dosing of a contract. For Kant every contract consists of two preparatory and two constitutive acts of choice having legal effect.
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Abstract For the modern legal mind, one of the oddest constructions in Kant’s contract doctrine is his fourfold acts-of-choice requirement for the dosing of a contract. For Kant every contract consists of two preparatory and two constitutive acts of choice having legal effect.
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1989
The origins of implicit-contract theory lie in the belief that observed movements in wages and employment cannot be adequately explained by a competitive spot labour-market in which wages are always equal to the marginal product of labour and the labour market is always in equilibrium.
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The origins of implicit-contract theory lie in the belief that observed movements in wages and employment cannot be adequately explained by a competitive spot labour-market in which wages are always equal to the marginal product of labour and the labour market is always in equilibrium.
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The American Review of Public Administration, 2006
Social contract theorists of the 17th and 18th centuries provide diverse accounts of human nature and the social processes that shape conflict, cooperation, and compliance. These ideas are applied to the challenges of contemporary public administration, specifically; the effort that often underlies both the search for public administration's identity ...
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Social contract theorists of the 17th and 18th centuries provide diverse accounts of human nature and the social processes that shape conflict, cooperation, and compliance. These ideas are applied to the challenges of contemporary public administration, specifically; the effort that often underlies both the search for public administration's identity ...
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