This paper assesses whether there is a systematic di¤erence between the accident rates of ...xed-term and permanent contract workers that is not just the result of a compositional e¤ect. A pure contractual e¤ect leading to a higher accident rate might exist because the short duration of the temporary contract reduces the incentives to invest in speci...c human capital or because e¤ort is higher...

As highlighted in the February 2010 Aberdeen study, Transportation Procurement and Payment: Gain Control over Spend, transportation contract management is growing in both importance and scale as more companies (about 60%) have expanded or have plans to expand the global transportation spend they have under contract. In response to this trend, there is an increased interest in outsourcing models...

We present a Theory of Contracts under costly enforcement in the context of a dynamic relationship between an uninformed buyer and a seller who is privately informed on his persistent cost at the outset. Public enforcement relies on remedies for breach. Private enforcement comes from severing relationships. We first characterize aggregate enforcement constraints ensuring that trading partners d...

. Business Process Models are typically used to express inter or intra – enterprise business activities/processes. Contractual obligations need to be fulfilled through execution of business processes on behalf of the contracting parties . To do so, business contract terms and conditions need to be semantically integrated to existing internal business process models. Contract obligation, perform...

contract, electronic community, governance, e-commerce architecture We present work-in-progress towards a high-level e-commerce architecture for the electronic marketplace. We separate out the main components responsible for trading based on contractual relationships and trusted service delivery. In this setting, we view an enterprise as an autonomous entity that interacts with others according...

Accounting is a practical science in its application accordance with the specific applications and needs of each type business entity. This community service activity designed to provide assistance preparing CV X's financial reports field construction management consulting services that require progress on contract. carried out by providing training administrative staff so they can use Microsof...

In this paper, seller-buyer supply chain coordination with general side-payment contracts is introduced to gain the maximum possible chain profit. In our model, the logistics costs for both buyer and seller are considered and the final demand is also supposed to be a decreasing function of the retail price. Since parties aim to maximize their individual profits, the contractual parameters are s...

We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he receives an hourly wage and a reduced piece rate. This setting gives rise to a nonconvex budget set and an...