Selecting the type of contract is an important aspect of governing interfirm transactions. The purpose of this article is to examine the use of fixed-fee and time-and-materials (Tamp;M, or cost-plus) contracts and a hybrid contract that consists of a Tamp;M contract with a cap. In addition to...

1. Social organization, control and information technology -- 2. Telecommunications and the nineteenth-century liberal-international world order -- 3. Information technology and US industro-military development -- 4. Telematics and the post-war international order -- 5. Telematics as a...

Technology = Recipes -- The advance of code. Jobs : divide and coordinate ; Code : "This is the procedure" ; Machines : "The universal character" ; Computers : predicting the weather -- Code economics. Substitution : the great Man-vs-Machine Debate ; Information : "Reliable circuits using crummy...