Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals considerable differen...

This dissertation consists of three essays that explore contracts and corporate governance structure issues in the information technology (IT) industry. The first essay shows that when the information technology service being provided is critical to the buyer, it is optimal for the buyer and seller to sign flexible contracts that incorporate future renegotiations. The second essay studies contr...

warranty as a kind of service contract today plays a role key in business and legal transactions. in this paper, we present a manufacturer, an agent and a customer's model under different service contracts suggestions. the manufacturer's profit is maximized by determining sale price, warranty period and warranty price. in addition we obtain optimal maintenance cost or repair cost for ...

38 Computer Making Components Contract Aware C omponents have long promised to neatly encapsulate data and programs into a box that operates predictably without requiring that users know the specifics of how it does so. Many advocates have predicted that components will bring about the bright future of large-scale software reuse, spawning a market for components usable with such mainstream soft...

Over the past couple of decades, the Internet has rapidly evolved from a collaborative social experiment to an agglomerate of competing commercial providers. This shift has helped maintain growth and has turned the Internet into a vast economic force, but it has also introduced some serious problems. A particularly bad problem is the inability of end-users to obtain the desired levels of perfor...

Many distributed services would benefit from control over the flow of traffic to and from their users, to offer better performance and higher reliability at a reasonable cost. Unfortunately, although today’s cloud-computing platforms offer elastic computing and bandwidth resources, they do not give services control over wide-area routing. We propose replacing the data center’s border router wit...