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Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their …
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Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by...
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client captures in an alliance contract. The bargaining power that the R&D firm attains from its prominent position in …, contributing to the literature on strategic alliances, bargaining, and contract design …
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Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by...
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After a contract is signed, contracting partners may engage in opportunistic behavior that circumvents the original … contract). We use an incomplete contracts approach to show that the anticipation and observability of such behavior are … conditions for the optimality of incomplete contracts, a simple characterization of the second-best contract, and some …
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We hypothesize that trust is a moderator of the direct relationship between control and coordination concerns and the extent of contracting. Our results suggest that high trust weakens the positive relationship between control concerns and the extent of contracting, but reinforces the positive...
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This paper examines management contracts as a paradigm for the application of relational contracts theory and especially of the theory of contractual and relational norms. This theory, deriving from Macauley's implications, but structured and analysed by I.R. MacNeil gives us a framework for the...
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