Contract and Collaboration

Supporting Inter-Business Collaboration via Contract Negotiation and Enactment

The increasing complexity of products and services encourages more and more companies to form collaborative networks. As these companies are independent organizations there is often an issue of governance. We suggest a possible architecture for such a business network that proposes a contract as the principal means of coordination and describes how such a contract can be designed and enacted.

The Adaptive Contract: Innovation and Collaboration in an Uncertain World

E-contracting: Towards electronic collaboration processes in contract management

E-contracting implies pre-order electronic interaction between customers and suppliers engaging in business transactions. This paper examines electronic contracting from an interorganizational perspective. It derives a collaboration process architecture for contracting in retail and industrial companies and outlines key design decisions concerning a processsupporting system architecture. A case...

Agency, Cyberspace, and Social Contract

The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...

On Collaboration, Organizations, and Conciliation in the General Theory of Contract