E-contracting implies pre-order electronic interaction between customers and suppliers engaging in business transactions. This paper examines electronic contracting from an interorganizational perspective. It derives a collaboration process architecture for contracting in retail and industrial companies and outlines key design decisions concerning a processsupporting system architecture. A case...

This paper models competing mechanism games as extensive games where the extensive form is incompletely understood by a modeler, typically because the modeler doesn’t see all the messages that are being exchanged and doesn’t understand all the contracts that can be enforced. For this reason, the revelation principle can’t be used to characterize supportable outcomes. The paper provides a relati...

The article mainly studies the contracting similarity fixed point and the structure of the general Sierpinski gasket. Firstly, the paper analyzes the importance of contracting similarity fixed point in fractal geometry. Based on a series of definitions, the article studies the contracting similarity fixed point. Then, the paper researches on the structure of the general Sierpinski gasket, and d...

Policy measures for preventive and promotive services are increasingly reliant on contracting of NGOs. Contracting is a neo-liberal response relying on open market competition for service delivery tenders. In contracting of health services a common assumption is a monolithic NGO market. A case study of HIV control in Pakistan shows that in reality the NGO market comprises of parallel NGO networ...

This paper documents the emergence of a large bank loan market in absence contracting institutions: trusted assistant 19th century China. These loans were legally unenforceable, one-shot to poor scholars that funded costs assuming lucrative administrative appointments offering ample opportunities for corruption. The loan’s distinguishing feature was unenforceable stipulation borrower incorporat...

This paper examines complementarity among vertical integration decisions in automobile product development. Though most research assumes that contracting choices are independent of each other, contracting complementarity may arise when governance choices impact the equilibrium degree of coordination among agents. First, effective coordination may depend on the level of (non-contractible) effort...

BACKGROUND Contracting in private sector is promoted in developing countries facing human resources shortages as a challenge to reduce maternal mortality. This study explored provision, practice, performance, barriers to execution and views about contracting in specialists for emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in rural India. METHODS Facility survey was conducted in all secondary and tertiary p...