Abstract—The need for holistic modeling efforts that satisfy the increasing supply chain enterprise at a strategic level has been clearly recognized by industry first and by academia recently. In order to increase the profitability of the entire chain, strategic decision-makers need comprehensive models to guide them to make efficient decision. The determination of optimal network configuration...

IT outsourcing’s adoption by some of the largest international corporations has seen outsourcing become a key component of the Information Management agenda. However, the process of evaluating, selecting, and subsequently contracting out or selling the organization’s IT assets, people and/or activities to a third party supplier raises significant concern in light of the inherent ‘Winner’s Curse...

Veterinarians can serve some of their more progressive commercial cow-calf clients by introducing them to the option of becoming an embryo transfer (ET) contract recipient herd. Contract recipient herds receive embryos from owners of purebred herds, have those embryos transferred to their synchronous recipient cows, calve and raise those ET calves to weaning when they are sold back to the embry...

A key aspect of Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) is the monitoring and evaluation of service performance – a task that is complicated by the presence of interrelationships among different service processes in a multiservice contract. While success in the service arrangement requires participant organizations’ knowledge about the nature of service dependency and their subsequent ...

This paper reviews recent research results of the venture capital field. The paper indicates that main contents of the theory are that how agency problems brought about by the information asymmetry through the contract design are solved and the value-added management service is provided. A number of empirical evidences provided by documents from some aspects such as the fund raising and the sel...

We develop a model of strategic contractual incompleteness that identifies conditions under which principals might omit even costlessly verifiable terms. We then use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of the model. While it is well known that verifiability imperfections can limit complete contracting, researchers know less about how the degree of imperfection affects endogenous...

The emerging B2B technologies allow for more automated management of e-contracts including contract drafting, negotiation and monitoring. As technology infrastructure becomes available for electronic exchange of contracts and contract-related messages, the IT community is becoming more interested in modeling of contracts as governance structures for many interorganisational interactions. This p...

This paper explores a collaborative design method with specialist contractors to achieve innovative cost and programme certainty. Performance improvements of architecture require advanced technical input from relevant consultants in the process. Partnership is essential materialize new idea within available suitable programme. Five procurement systems, Direct Manage, Management Contract, Constr...

We introduce a self-control integrated service component aiming at ensuring Service Level Agreement management. Our approach based on quality of service has two important points: the contract description (supply and demand) and the contract management. The self-control in service components allows us to react dynamically (operational decision) and the autonomic loop enables us to manage the ser...

The most important aim of every project is on time completion, budget consideration and reaching the highest possible quality, based on contract. This paper suggests a methodology for risk management in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects. Risk management enables project teams to perform with minimum deviation from predetermined goals. The proposed methodology identifies a...