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The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms

open access: yesOrganization Science, 2022
A central theoretical premise is that firms internalize transactions that are not suited for formal contracting. Yet, there is growing evidence that firms rely on formal contracts to govern some of their transactions within the firm. This paper discusses why firms use formal contracts between units within the firm and develops propositions for when ...
Catherine Magelssen   +2 more
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A Qualitative Examination of Relational and Contractual Governance Mechanisms in Aliağa Port Cluster [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Eta Maritime Science, 2018
The rising importance of port-port user relations is a result of widening roles that ports play within the global supply chains and the increasing impact of these relations on the overall performance of the supply chains.
Bayram Bilge SAĞLAM   +1 more
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Human Capital and Eco-Contractual Governance in Small Farms in Poland: Simultaneous Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Ordinal Variables

open access: yesAgriculture, 2021
Human capital (HC) plays an important role in modern agriculture. The difference in efficiency of assets explains only about a half of the economic performance of agricultural farms, while the other half relies on HC.
Bazyli Czyżewski   +2 more
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Effects of Contractual Governance on IT Project Performance under the Mediating Role of Project Management Risk: An Emerging Market Context

open access: yesInformation, 2023
In this study, we explore the impact of contractual governance (CG) on project performance (PP) under the mediation of project management risk (PMR). Contractual governance influences favorably IT projects performance in an emerging market context where ...
Ayesha Saddiqa   +2 more
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Analysis of human resource architectural components based on governance approach [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Human Capital in Urban Management, 2022
Human Resource Architecture, one of the components of organizational architecture, is the process of identifying and combining the appropriate elements of human resource management to create and present a vision of human resources in the organization ...
S. Ahmadvand, H. Rahmani, M. Mousa khani
doaj   +1 more source

The contractual governance of drug users in treatment [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Drug Policy, 2013
One of the challenges for drug treatment services is how to engage drug users effectively. This commentary examines one particular strategy for enhancing engagement that appears to have spread quite rapidly in recent years: the use of contract-like written agreements between treatment service providers and users.
Bacon, Matthew, Seddon, Toby
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Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The continuing proliferation of transnational private regulatory governance challenges conceptions of legal authority, legitimacy and public regulation of economic activity.
Zumbansen, Peer
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Ecosystems and supply chains: How do they differ and relate

open access: yesDigital Business, 2022
While digital transformations are taking place, we still have limited understanding as to how ecosystems and supply chains differ from a theoretical standpoint and how they relate practically. We study the evolution of the concept of ecosystems through a
Hervé Legenvre   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An investigation of the choice of governance modes in Chinese family firms [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2015
This paper aims to investigate the choice of governance modes in Chinese family firms. For that purpose, we build a principal-agent model to conduct our analyses.
Jiancai Pi
doaj   +1 more source

Second-chance punitivism and the contractual governance of crime and incivility: New Labour, old Hobbes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The growing application of mechanisms of contractual governance to behaviour that breaches social norms, rather than the criminal law, appears to represent an ethopolitical concern with delinquent self-reform through the activation of technologies of the
Garland D.   +6 more
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