As healthcare organizations rely more heavily on IT, there is a growing need to understand innovative IT use in these organizations. First, this research introduces the concept of ehealth absorptive capacity which consists of e-health entrepreneurial alertness, assimilation and exploitation, based on Cohen and Levinthal (1990)’s absorptive capacity theory. We then address the theoretical neglec...

Abst rac t We develop a new governance perspective on port–hinterland linkages and related port impacts. Many stakeholders in a port’s hinterland now demand tangible economic benefits from port activities, as a precondition for supporting port expansion and infrastructural investments. We use a governance lens to assess this farsighted contracting challenge. We find that most contemporary econo...

This paper investigates the detail and dynamics of how contractual and relational governance mechanisms are deployed in managing complex, long-term public–private supply arrangements. Using empirical data from two UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI) cases, the paper analyses the interplay of governance mechanisms along a timeline of project phases. Conceptual and practical findings confirm that...

In the field of law, decisions in previous cases often play a significant role in the presentation and outcome of new cases. Lawyers are constantly recalling old cases to aid them in preparing their own briefs. How do lawyers remember cases? What are the features they use to organize and retrieve past decisions? How do lawyers learn which features are important? To address these Questions we ar...

Recent scholarship in the field of contract law has concentrated on contractual incompleteness—that is, on the fact that except in the simplest and most basic transactions, contracting parties do not work out all of the relevant details and contingencies of their relationship at the outset. The reasons for incomplete contracts are varied. Sometimes parties deliberately leave terms unresolved, t...

This paper examines how the presence of a non-negligible fraction of reciprocally fair actors changes the provision of incentives through contracts. We provide experimental evidence that principals have a strong preference for less complete contracts although the standard self-interest model predicts that they should prefer the more complete contract. Our theoretical analysis shows that fairnes...

Sourcing complexity factors on contractual relationship: Chinese suppliers’ perspective Nachiappan Subramanian, Muhammad D. Abdulrahman & Shams Rahman To cite this article: Nachiappan Subramanian, Muhammad D. Abdulrahman & Shams Rahman (2014) Sourcing complexity factors on contractual relationship: Chinese suppliers’ perspective, Production & Manufacturing Research, 2:1, 558-585 To link to this...

the principle of “non-retractable agreement between contractual and non-contractual responsibility” is a traditional rule in the french law and countries adapting the french law of harmony and homogeneity; this rule means that if the claim for petition is based on the mistake, i.e., if it was meant to be based on contractual liability, rather than liability enforced in accordance with establish...

The strategic goal of this project is to improve the theoretical bases and corresponding tool support for the design languages and methodologies that are widely used for building avionics and aerospace systems. Existing languages, particularly the popular Stateflow statecharts, lack in expressiveness and tool support for refinement-based designs as practised by engineers. In particular, they ha...