An e-contract is a contract modeled, specified, executed, controlled and monitored by a software system. A contract is a legal agreement involving parties, activities, clauses and payments. The goals of an e-contract include precise specification of the activities of the contract, mapping them into deployable workflows, and providing transactional support in their execution. Activities in a con...

Contract (custom) manufacturers of components and manufactured materials such as steel sell capacity under different contract terms to different buyers. In a common practice, the supplier offers a market standard price and lead time combination for products listed in its catalog. At the same time, it strikes annual contracts with some high-volume customers who require recurring delivery of a cu...

We have proposed the TxQoS (Transactional Quality of Service) approach to infuse transactional semantics into contracts so that a gap between business and technical communities with regard to transaction awareness is filled. In this paper we continue to refine the proposed TxQoS concepts in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) context. We illustrate the complete TxQoS picture by a scenario with ...

A psychological contract is an agreement between the employer and an employee that covers the parties’ informal and frequently non-verbalized obligations and expectations towards each other. The contract is a cognitive pattern-governing employee’s behaviour in the organization. A gap between employee’s expectations and the organizational reality may lead to difficult-tosolve conflicts or cause ...

Purpose Contracts and trust are two prominent governance mechanisms in buyer–supplier exchanges, yet controversy persists regarding the interplay between contracts trust. This study aims to provide a new perspective understand debate by differentiating between- from within-dyad effects of contracts–trust relationships. Design/methodology/approach Based on survey data 250 Chinese relationships c...

This study examines the psychological contracts held by expatriates with low socioeconomic status. We develop and test a moderated mediation model that direct relationship between organisational support intention to leave via mediating role of contract fulfilment. also examine moderating transactional on this indirect in sample 108 low-status United Arab Emirates. Our results validate assumptio...

Social commerce is an emerging platform that entails different social features to attract the attention of online consumers. Borrowing insights from psychological contract theory, this study examines characteristics platforms, such as interactivity and rating reviews influence consumers’ purchase intentions. An survey 430 consumers was conducted on a popular site in China. Partial least squar...

Global warming has induced an increasing number of deadly tropical cyclones with a continuing trend. Developing high-functional climate risk management tools in forecasting, catastrophe modeling, pricing and hedging is crucial to curtail destruction. We develop a hurricane futures and futures-option pricing model in a doubly-binomial framework with stochastic news arrival intensity, and a corre...

Despite the fact that several event studies have investigated the market’s reaction to information technology (IT) investment announcements, little is known about how specific transactional risks influence the market value of a firm. This study examines stock market data to assess investors’ responses to various transactional risks associated with IT outsourcing. More specifically, we develop a...

A management framework has been successfully utilized at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom to improve the process for developing and managing university-industry research collaborations. The framework has been part of a systematic approach to increase the level of research contracts from industrial sources, to strengthen the university’s academic base, and to diversify the provision...