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Governing of Contractual Relations in Agriculture
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010This 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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Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2003
This paper considers the significance, as a matter both of political and of legal analysis, of the considerable and growing use in the UK of ostensibly contractual or contract-like arrangements between public authorities and members of society whose behaviour it is judged necessary to manage and control.
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This paper considers the significance, as a matter both of political and of legal analysis, of the considerable and growing use in the UK of ostensibly contractual or contract-like arrangements between public authorities and members of society whose behaviour it is judged necessary to manage and control.
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Government and industry in France: A contractual approach
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Public Money, 1982France's post‐war economic track record is better than ours. Does their success owe anything to their industrial policy, and in particular to the tough‐sounding, legalistic way they handle relations both with the nationalised industries and with other State and private enterprises?
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Hybrid Relational-Contractual Governance for Business Process Outsourcing
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2012We examined 335 business process outsourcing BPO ventures to understand the effect of contractual and relational governance factors on BPO satisfaction from the client's perspective. While both contractual and relational factors explain significant variance in BPO satisfaction, relational factors dominate.
Arun Rai +3 more
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Governance of outsourcing and contractual relationships
2010Many public sector organizations (PSOs) rely on outsourcing as a way to increase their “value for money” in the provision of public services (Broadbent and Guthrie, 2008). As a result, the topic of outsourcing has been addressed with some regularity in the public management literature for many years. Increasingly, attention is being directed toward the
FARNETI, FEDERICA +2 more
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Contractual Governance: Institutional and Organizational Analysis
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2000This 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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Corporate governance and contractual governance: A model
1997In this paper we propose a formalised model which describes the trade-off problems faced by a firm desiring to create a structure of governance that deals both with the problems of supervising the work of its managers (corporate governance) and with the transactional problems arising from its contractual relations with other stakeholders, in particular
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Contractual governance, business groups and transition
Economics of Transition, 2002We 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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