Relational risk emerges if relationship partners have differing interests and cannot trust in their partner’s benevolence. As IT outsourcing (ITO) relationships incur a high level of relational risk, researchers have tried to find appropriate mitigation mechanisms. However, there has been little research on the preference of either incentivizing or controlling the provider to mitigate relationa...

This paper uses a principal/agent framework to analyze consumer bankruptcy. The bankruptcy discharge partly insures risk-averse borrowers against bad income realizations but also reduces the borrower’s incentive to avoid insolvency. Among our results are the following: (a) high bankruptcy exemptions increase bankruptcy insurance but at the cost of reducing the borrower’s incentives to stay solv...

Background: One of the main duties of a faculty member is to research in the field of medical education. The aim of this study was to investigate the effective factors on strengthening of research incentive in professors’ training. Methods: This study is cross-sectional (analytical descriptive study). The Target population was all teachers in Birjand University of Medical Sciences. Krejcie & Mo...

This contribution is to be assigned to the operative production management of collaborative networks. By the application of incentive mechanisms, a competitive and effective management of production processes allows sustainable success. Incentives are relevant for all stages of a network lifecycle. In this paper, the problem is discussed that enterprises from a pool of cooperation-willing enter...

The market for the corporate acquisition of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems was estimated at $45.5 billion in 2011. Failure of these transactions is a continuing issue for both business and researchers. As the system acquisitions and transactions that govern them grow increasingly complex, a better understanding of the transactions and how to govern them is imperative. This study beg...

Businesses are trying to explore new business opportunities in the newly emerging P2P technology applications. Motivating peer members through incentive mechanisms to supply contributions to the system and controlling free riding are suggested in this paper as important success factors for developing P2Pbased business models. We review the psychology and community behavior literature in order t...