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opportunism, remains the principle underlying all of contract law and company law." Ce texte explore l'emploi de l …
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reasonably well-developed economic literature. Reciprocal gain, the founding concept of contract and of extensions such as the … of contract law. Yet human nature being what it is, individuals may be tempted by opportunistic acts and their potential …
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I examine the case where fulfillment of a contractual commitment is only imperfectly verifiable and ask whether the court should then "tell the truth"" regarding the action in dispute. I show that truth seeking does not maximize the expected surplus from contractual relationships. From the...
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In this paper, we consider a knowledge accumulation problem within an organization. We depart from the human capital theory initiated by Becker (1962, 1964) and consider an organization that cannot prevent the worker from quitting and using the knowledge outside the organization. We study how...
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Une entreprise doit-elle faire elle-même ou faire faire : doit-elle utiliser ses ressources financières et son know-how organisationnel pour exécuter une tâche ou en confier l'exécution à une autre entreprise (possiblement spécialisée dans cette activité) ? Quand elle décide de faire...
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administrative support services. Two reorganization strategies were analyzed: shared services and outsourcing. The first approach …
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Information Systems (IS) researchers often rely on organizational economics models to describe and explain various IS management issues. While those models are found to be useful, measures are yet to be proposed to assess the dimensions of IS transactions. In this paper, we present the results...
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In this paper, we develop and estimate an explanatory model of Human Resources Outsourcing. Six HR activities are … of outsourcing are drawn from two fields: the field of organizational analysis and strategy formulation, and that from … experience of the organization with outsourcing of other functions, the uncertainty of the transaction, and the presence of a …
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outsourcing. We demonstrate that the hold-up friction under generic outsourcing increases with a firm's productivity. This implies … that: (i) high productivity firms choose ideal outsourcing to the South, (ii) medium productivity firms choose generic … outsourcing to the South, (iii) low productivity firms choose generic outsourcing to the North. Cet article étudie le rôle de la …
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We use agency theory to shed light on a complex, multi-year outsourcing contract between an important public …
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