The rise of the network as a form of economic organization renders problematic our standard understanding of how … capitalism is governed. As the governance of production shifts from vertical integration to horizontal contract, a puzzle arises … that firms govern their collaborations through a number of new contract mechanisms, the summation of which is a novel …

Herein I outline an alternative theory of contract and contract enforcement. This theory is based upon two claims, one … the traditional contextualist and the ascendant neoformalist approaches to contract enforcement undermine this new form of … contract, a new philosophy is needed. A hybrid approach, integrating both formalism and problem-solving judicial intervention …

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 … contract have emerged first in markets, and that the common law, and the theory of contract, then play catch-up. Between the …

As computer science and complex network theory develop, non-cooperative games and their formation and application on … complex networks have been important research topics. In the inter-firm innovation network, it is a typical game behavior for …-firm innovation network. We build an extended inter-firm n-player game based on nonidealized conditions, describe four investment …