Ex ante contract terms are not always enforced ex post. Through the analysis of enforcement conditions of outsourcing contracts in the French defense procurement sector, I identify the determinants of renegotiations. I demonstrate that analyzing formal arrangements is not enough to account for renegotiations. Informal decision-making plays a major role in that perspective. Determinants of reneg...

Large-scale transactional systems still suffer from not viable trust management strategies. Given its intrinsic characteristics, blockchain technology appears as interesting from this perspective. A semantic layer built upon a basic blockchain infrastructure would join the benefits of flexible resource/service discovery and validation by consensus. This paper proposes a novel Service-oriented A...

Contract manufacturers sell capacity under different 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 contracts with some high-volume customers who require recurring delivery of a custom product at a short notice, usually timed to meet the buyer’s production sch...

In recent years, our customers have expressed frustration in the traditional approach of using a combination of disparate products to handle their streaming, transactional and analytical needs. The common practice of stitching heterogeneous environments in custom ways has caused enormous production woes by increasing development complexity and total cost of ownership. With SnappyData, an open s...

DESAI, NIRMIT VIKRAM. Interorganizational Business Interactions: Contracts, Processes, Evolution. (Under the direction of Professor Munindar P. Singh). Business process management in open environments remains a stubborn and important challenge. In open environments, autonomous organizations having heterogeneous information systems interact in an ever-evolving manner. The nature of the contractu...

This article uses archival documents and periodical publications to analyze the impact of Civil War on labor market in regions Eastern Russia. It considers key institutions such as legislation, infrastructure (labor exchanges, unemployment funds, professional entrepreneurship organizations), contracts. has been established that there was continuity regulatory framework management tools between ...

Service-oriented computing is emerging as a distributed computing model where autonomous services interact with each other using standard Internet technology. In addition to the application-specific functions that services provide (different) services may also support (different) sets of protocols and formats addressing extra-functional concerns such as transaction processing and reliable messa...

The days of storing data manually are behind us. We opting for the online form storage and transfer. new era digitization comes with its own perks detriments. Cybersecurity is still a crucial concern today. As more transfer occurs through an medium, risks breach cyberattacks inevitable. whole foundation e-commerce based on goods transactions without need to travel. Transferring transactional in...

Objective: The objective of the paper is to understand leadership in an online community, specifically, Wikipedia. Background: Wikipedia successfully aggregates millions of volunteers’ efforts to create the largest encyclopedia in human history. Without formal employment contracts and monetary incentives, one significant question for Wikipedia is how it organizes individual members with differi...