In this essay, I will identify one theoretical source of the common antipathy towards form contracts and why it is … misguided. I contend that the hostility towards form contracts stems in important part from an implicit adoption of a promise … contracts can be seen as entirely legitimate-though some form terms may properly be subject to judicial scrutiny that would be …

Supply chain coordination is enabled by adequately designed contracts so that decision making by multiple actors avoids … deterministic supply the activities in supply chains can be coordinated by sophisticated contracts while the simple wholesale price … contract fails to achieve coordination due to the double marginalization effect. Advanced contracts are typically characterized …