DynCorp International, LLC, a U.S. company, and Aramco, a Saudi-owned corporation, entered into a contract for a computer system which was to be manufactured in the U.S. and installed at Aramco’s facilities in Saudi Arabia. The contract contained a choice of law provision requiring the...

Adoption of cloud-based systems has been relatively modest—regardless of significant marketing push by major public cloud providers. The cloud-based model utilizes distributed information technology services accessible over networks. The networks can be internal part of...

Cloud computing adoption by organizations has been minor despite the initial optimism. The primary concerns obstructing adoption of cloud-based services are security, loss of control, and inadequate legislative. In a cloud-based model, information technology services are distributed and accessed...

Since the last quarter of 2001 the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has significantly increased its role in reforming higher education in Pakistan. This paper examines USAID’s work in the development of Higher Education. Moreover, the paper discusses recent and...

We model the different ways in which precedents and contract standardization shape the development of markets and the law. In a setup where more resourceful parties can distort contract enforcement to their advantage, we find that the introduction of a standard contract reduces enforcement...

Public-private partnership is a solution in the management of public services by government authorities. Often faced with budget restrictions and laws limits, the administration was asked to address the problem of investments to develop local communities. In this issue has been addressed...

There exists extensive evidence that people learn positively about themselves. We build on this finding to develop a model of team formation in the workplace. We show that learning positively about oneself systematically undermines the formation of teams. Agents becoming overconfident tend to...

We develop a model of team formation in which workers learn about their level of ability. We show that insufficient cooperation may arise as workers learn positively about their own skills. We then build a model for team managers and establish that their objectivity in assessing coworkers'...

Recent work in the field of mechanism design has led some researchers to propose institutional changes that would permit parties to enter into non-modifiable contracts, which is not possible under current contract law. This paper demonstrates that it may well be socially desirable not to enforce...

L'objet de cette etude et d'une part de mettre en lumiere un large mouvement de "contractualisation" que connait notre droit des societes depuis quelques annees, d'autre part et surtout d'essayer d'en mesurer la portee sur le plan theorique.