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The effects of project uncertainty on guanxi governance and contractual governance

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2023
PurposeThis study examines how project uncertainties (environmental uncertainty and participant uncertainty) affect guanxi and contractual governance and assesses the mediating role of guanxi governance between project uncertainty and contractual governance.Design/methodology/approachData were collected in two stages from Chinese contractors. First, in-
Yi-Hsin Lin, Deshuang Niu, Yanzhe Guo, Ningshuang Zeng   +3 more
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Contractualism and transnational welfare governance

2006
The global public policy agenda now resonates with terms such as ‘poverty reduction’ and ‘pro-poor growth’. Poverty, it seems, has been rediscovered by the global community, and the new social agenda differs from the previously dominant ‘Washington Consensus’ of market and trade liberalization.
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Contractual Governance: Institutional and Organizational Analysis

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2000
This paper focuses on the role of contract as a governance mechanism in contemporary economic and social relations, exploring this theme in the context of recent writing on contract and contracting within law and other disciplines. The trends towards both outsourcing by private firms and privatization of public services have increased the importance of
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Contractual Legitimacy in Organizations and Governments

European Journal of Sociology, 1972
In an essay on the Nambikuara of the Mato Grosso, Lévi-Strauss revives in an interesting fashion the problem of the Social Contract. Among the Nambikuara are found the most primitive forms of social and political structure. In the words of Lévi-Strauss: “No social structure is weaker and more fragile than the Nambikuara band” (I).
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Contractual Liability of Government of India

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
The subject of government contracts has assumed great importance in the modern times. Today the state is a source of wealth. In the modern era of a welfare state, government's economic activities are expanding and the government is increasingly assuming the role of the dispenser of a large number of benefits.
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Contractual governance for public service value networks

Journal of Service Management, 2011
PurposeThe aim of this paper is to explore the links between contractual governance and performance measurement in a value network for public service business, in the context of public transport, by positing service‐dominant logic (S‐D logic) as an alternative paradigm to the conventional goods‐dominant logic (G‐D logic).
Bo Enquist, Carolina Camén, Mikael Johnson   +2 more
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Governing of Contractual Relations in Agriculture

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences) and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of agrarian contracts.
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Contractual Liability of a Government

1938
It has been stated above that the Commission did not consider claims based upon non-fulfilment of a contract by a Government to be outside its jurisdiction.
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Contractual governance, business groups and transition

Economics of Transition, 2002
We suggest a unified framework to explain the following stylized pattern in the development of contractual governance and industrial organization. Contractual governance in many emerging economies is characterized by relational contracting. Coincident with relational contracts are large, diversified organizations — often referred to as business groups.
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The Quasi-Contractual Liability of Governments

The University of Toronto Law Journal, 1959
N this article, I propose to examine one aspect of quasi-contractual liability-a topic that is complicated and uncertain in most legal systems, not only in the area of governmental liability but also in the area of private law. For the purposes of a comparative study, I have chosen the legal systems in the United States, England, and France.
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