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Managing cooperation, coordination, and legitimacy : Control of contracted public services

Johansson, Tobias; Siverbo, Sven; Camén, Carolina - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 29 (2016) 6, pp. 1012-1037

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to create knowledge about what factors explain the design of control systems for contracted public services. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaire data analyzed with structural equation models. Findings – Legitimacy-seeking is the most important...

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Contracting dynamics in the competitive dialogue procedure

Hoezen, Mieke; Voordijk, Hans; Dewulf, Geert - In: Built Environment Project and Asset Management 2 (2012) 1, pp. 6-24

Purpose – The competitive dialogue (CD) aims to align complex demands of principals with possible solutions that contractors have to offer. It is, however, unclear how formal and informal structures and processes in the CD are interrelated. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights in...

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Competition and Coordination in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain With Asymmetric Retailers

Wang, Ying; Zhang, YuHang - In: International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems … 14 (2018) 2, pp. 98-115

This article studies competition and coordination in a dual-channel supply chain where one supplier supplies homogeneous products to multiple asymmetric retailers, meanwhile, selling products to the end consumers acting as retailers, through a two-level Stackelberg game. This article first...

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Supporting Health and Community Care with Multi-Agent Systems

Bergenti, Federico; Mordonini, Monica; Poggi, Agostino; … - In: International Journal of Privacy and Health Information … 5 (2017) 2, pp. 97-113

Mainly as a consequence of societal changes, the traditional approach to provide cares and social services in hospitals and institutional centres is being paralleled with a growing tendency to provide cares in the community, directly. Information and communication technologies play an important...

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Efficient Non-Contractible Investments in Finite Economies

Cole, Harold Linh; Mailath, George J.; Postlewaite, Andrew - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 1 (2001) 1

Abstract Individuals making investments typically do not have incentives to invest efficiently when they cannot contract prior to their decisions. When they bargain over the surplus generated by their investments, they will usually not obtain the full fruits of the investment. Intuitively, this...

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Bilateral Trade and Opportunism in a Matching Market

Ramey, Garey; Watson, Joel - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 1 (2001) 1

Abstract We develop a model of bilateral contracting in a dynamic market setting. Asset owners must be paired via a …

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Risk and Transactions Cost in Contracting: Results from a Choice-Based Experiment

Hudson, Darren; Lusk, Jayson - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 2 (2004) 1

Contracting is a contentious issue in agriculture. Competing theories assert that risk or transactions cost drive … contracting decisions, with some argument that autonomy also plays a role. We examine preferences for different contract … transactions cost play a role in contracting decisions. Autonomy also plays a role, especially to the extent that producers wish to …

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Losing Under Contract: Transaction-Cost Externalities and Spot Market Disintegration

Roberts, Michael J; Key, Nigel - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 3 (2005) 2

lower welfare for some, and perhaps all, contracting parties. We consider a situation where processors can obtain inputs … depends on the volume of trade in the spot market. We show that contracting parties may lose when more contracting results in …. However, contracting raises spot-market transaction costs for those who do not sign contracts, which provides a greater …

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Cartels, Contracts and Centralization: The Transition to Futures Trading for Primary Commodities

Haskel, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

cartel/fringe model that incorporates search and contracting. The model predicts that cartel prices exceed those on the … fringe; that the cartel/fringe price differential narrows as futures trading increases; and that a move to contracting lowers …

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Public Sector Restructuring and Regional Development: The Impact of Compulsory Competitive Tendering in the UK

Pinch, Philip; Patterson, Alan - In: Regional Studies 34 (2000) 3, pp. 265-275

PINCH P. L. and PATTERSON A. (2000) Public sector restructuring and regional development: the impact of compulsory competitive tendering in the UK, Reg. Studies 34 , 265-275. This paper contributes to the analysis of contemporary public sector restructuring in the UK through an evaluation of the...

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