Contracts and organizational controls to monitor contract compliance are important tools to enhance trust in a fair business transaction in network organisations and electronic commerce in general. In this paper, we propose a design methodology for such contracts and supporting controls, utilizing inter-organisational value models. We argue that a framework for designing control mechanisms shou...

The use of uncertainty and criticality measures in network planning of engineering projects by PERT networks is limited in practice because of their unreliability or complexity. The measures appear as inappropriate to support the definition of contractual obligations when based on uncertain information. The author proposes new uncertainty and criticality measures based on the identification and...

Most discussion on the current hot topic of e-commerce focuses either on the relationship between the customer and the supplier or on the security of these interactions. In this paper we present an architecture for building business-to-business e-commerce applications. The primary objective is to develop a lightweight infrastructure for building and maintaining collaborations from partners dist...

Financing with fiduciary security is a popular form of financing in Indonesia. However, the context justice, there are several aspects that need to be considered regarding this contractual arrangement. This research aims discuss study obligations Indonesia within focus on relevant both theories and practices. intends analyze justice The revealed presents justice-related issues. Firstly, an imba...

Do doctors and other medical staff have an obligation to treat those who need their help? This paper assumes no legal or contractual obligations but attempts to discover whether there is any general moral obligation to treat those in need. In particular the questions of whether or not the obligation that falls on medical staff is different from that of others and of whether doctors are more bla...

This paper studies how privatising service provision (shifting control rights and contractual obligations to providers) a ects accountability. There are two main e ects. (1) Privatisation demotivates governments from investigating and responding to public demands, since providers then hold up service adaptations. (2) Privatisation demotivates the public from mobilising to pressure for service a...

When buyers worry that sellers may not remain in the market long enough to fulfill all contractual obligations, they may be unwilling to purchase and a market failure can result. Bank deposits and pension benefits are examples of contracts for which buyers might lose confidence in sellers, making these markets “fragile.” This paper studies market fragility created by both fundamental (i.e., cos...