Contracts in UK Law
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Outcome-orientation in performance contracts
Setting targets for public service delivery combined with increased flexibility in resource use has been a major topic of reforms internationally. Performance contracts are a central instrument of ...
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Contractors and their Psychological Contracts
It is commonly assumed that contractors are largely calculative, instrumental and self‐interested in their relationship with organizations and interface with them accordingly (e.g. low corporate in...
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DESIGNING CONTRACTS FOR COMPLEX SERVICES
In this article, we employ transaction cost economics and the contingency stream of organization theory to answer two related questions. First, when contracting for complex services, do governments...
- Home building contracts
- STANDARD FORM CONTRACTS
- Non-regulated Contracts
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Earnings, Education, and Fixed‐Term Contracts
We explore the relationship between earnings, education, and fixed‐term contracts using data from the 1997 British Social Attitudes Survey. We find that the log hourly wage of workers employed unde...
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Government obligations in public-private partnership contracts
Traditional models of full and open competition are generally applied for ordinary public procurement contracts, whereas special competitive procedures (such as unsolicited proposals) are permissib...
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Are labor contracts efficient to combat fraud?
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to approach the issue of fraud prevention by using the theory of incentives to design a mechanism that makes employees to reveal their true type, that is, thei...
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Temporary agency workers and their psychological contracts
Purpose: The aim of this article is to test the assumption that both management and co‐workers constitute multiple contract constituencies, as advocated for in recent research on psychological cont...
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