. In our view, traditional contracting techniques and traditional contract law address problems of risk. Braiding, or …Contract today increasingly links entrepreneurial innovations to the efforts and finance necessary to transform ideas … into value. In this Chapter, we describe the match between a form of contract that "braids" formal and informal contractual …

operating costs selects an outsourcing contract between two contract types (the fixed-price contract and the cost-plus contract … results help managers gain a better understanding of the closely intertwined relationship between the client's contract … selection policy and the vendors' contract participation policies …