Contract Theory
Batley, R. and G. Larbi (2004). 'The Experience of Contracting', in ‘The Changing Role of Government: The Reform of Public Services in Developing Countries' Palgrave, Macmillan . http://www.gsdrc.org/go/display/document/legacyid/1274 Empha…
Brook, P. and S. Smith (2001). 'Contracting for Public Services: Output based Aid and its Applications'. Washington, D. C.: World Bank. http://rru.worldbank.org/Features/OBABook.aspx World Bank's Policy Based on neo-liberalism (influenced …
Abramson, W. B. (2004). 'Contracting for health care service delivery: a manual for policy makers'. http://www.jsi.com/Managed/Docs/Publications/ContractingPrimerManual.pdf What are the benefits and limitations of using contracts for healt…
van der Meer-Kooistra, J. and Ed G. J. Vosselman (2000). 'Management control of interfirm transactional relationships: the case of industrial renovation and maintenance'. Accounting, Organizations and Society 25(1): 51-77. http://www.scien…
Nesheim, T. (2001). 'Externalization of the core: antecedents of collaborative relationships with suppliers'. European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management 7(4): 217-225. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VGR-43SV56H-1/2/…
Allen, P. (2002). 'A socio-legal and economic analysis of contracting in the NHS internal market using a case study of contracting for district nursing'. Social Science & Medicine 54(2): 255-266. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Gundlach, G. T. and R. S. Achrol (1993). 'Governance in exchange: Contract law and its alternatives'. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 12(2): 141. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1176214&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VName=PQD Concep…
Boyce, G. (1995). 'Communication and contracting: A link between business and social history'. Business and Economic History 24(1): 287. http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/v024n1/p0287-p0295.pdf The relationship between business s…
Bennett, Chris and E. Ferlie (1996). 'Contracting in theory and in practice: Some evidence from the NHS'. Public Administration 74(1): 49. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=9666149&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VName=PQD A study examines t…
Arrighetti, A, R. Bachmann and S. Deakin (1997). 'Contract law, social norms and inter-firm cooperation'. Cambridge Journal of Economics 21(2): 171. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=11614859&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VName=PQD The reg…
Achrol, R. S. and G. T. Gundlach (1999). 'Legal and social safeguards against opportunism in exchange'. Journal of Retailing 75(1): 107. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=43808658&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VName=PQD The age-old mechani…
Johnston, J. M. and B. S. Romzek (1999). 'Contracting and accountability in state medicaid reform: Rhetoric, theories, and reality'. Public Administration Review 59(5): 383. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=45215121&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&…
Romzek, B. S. and J. M. Johnston (2005). 'State Social Services Contracting: Exploring the Determinants of Effective Contract Accountability'. Public Administration Review 65(4): 436. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=878790761&Fmt=7&clie…
Williamson, O. E. (2003). 'Examining economic organization through the lens of contract'. Industrial and Corporate Change 12(4): 917-942. The lens of contract approach to the study of economic organization is partly complementary but also …
[Williamson, O.] Williamson, O. E. (2002). 'The Lens of Contract: Private Ordering'. The American Economic Review 92(2): 438-443. http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/bpp/oew/lensofcontract.pdf
[Williamson, O.] Williamson, O. E. (2002). 'The Lens of Contract: Applications to economic development and reform'. Forum 2 The Institutional Economics Approach to Aid Effectiveness, Session on the Science of Contracts. Presented: 25 Febru…
Mody, A., ed. (1996). Infrastructure Delivery: Private Initiative and the Public Good. Washington DC: World Bank. isbn:0821335200 The contracts are primarily regulatory instruments - spelling out the rights and obligations of private parti…
Bellanger, M. M. and P. R. Mosse (2005). 'The search for the Holy Grail: combining decentralised planning and contracting mechanisms in the French health care system'. Health Economics 14(S1): S119-S132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1031 …
Goodstein, J., W. Boeker and J. Stephan (1996). 'Professional interests and strategic flexibility: a political perspective on organisational contracting'. Strategic Management Journal 17(7): 577-586. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-02…
Michael, S. C. (2000). 'The extent, motivation, and effect of tying in franchise contracts'. Managerial and Decision Economics 21(5): 191-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mde.982 Tying in franchise contracts has been the subject of considera…
Shmueli, A. and J. Glazer (1999). 'Addressing the inequity of capitation by variable soft contracts'. Health Economics 8(4): 335-343. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199906)8:43.0.CO;2-O In the search for greater efficiency and c…
Poppo, L. and T. Zenger (2002). 'Do formal contracts and relational governance function as substitutes or complements?'. Strategic Management Journal 23(8): 707-725. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.249 Relational exchange arrangements suppor…
Luo, Y. (2002). 'Contract, cooperation, and performance in international joint ventures'. Strategic Management Journal 23(10): 903-919. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.261 This study examines how contract, cooperation, and performance are as…
Palmer, N. and A. Mills (2003). 'Classical versus relational approaches to understanding controls on a contract with independent GPs in South Africa'. Health Economics 12(12): 1005-1020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.792 Contracts have pla…
Wright, D. (1998). 'Contracting for Engineering and Construction Projects'. International Journal of Project Management 16(4): 267. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=29254547&Fmt=7&clientId=44986&RQT=309&VName=PQD A book review is present…
Irlenbusch, B. (2006). 'Are non-binding contracts really not worth the paper?'. Managerial and Decision Economics 27(1): 21-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mde.1243 We experimentally investigate behavior in sequential one-shot transactions w…
Cavagnac, M. (2005). 'Strategic managerial incentives under adverse selection'. Managerial and Decision Economics 26(8): 499-512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mde.1237 We extend the strategic contract model where the owner designs incentive s…
Cheng, N. S. and R. Pike (2003). 'The trade credit decision: evidence of UK firms'. Managerial and Decision Economics 24(6/7): 419-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mde.1049 Trade credit finance and credit management are gradually gaining the…
Gensemer, S. and K. Kanagaretnam (2004). 'Alliances and cost declaration'. Managerial and Decision Economics 25(3): 121-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mde.1141 Our model explores the co-existence of both cooperative and competitive behavio…
[Goel, R.] Goel, R. K. (1999). 'On contracting for uncertain R&D'. Managerial and Decision Economics 20(2): 99-106. 3.0.CO;2-W">http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1468(199903)20:23.0.CO;2-W Using a two-stage model, this paper studies auc…
