Types of Contracts in UK Law

  • The relationship between contract administration problems and contract type
    • No. 9-2, March 2009
    • Journal of Public Procurement
    • 261-285
    Guided by a conceptual model developed by Davison and Wright, the research was conducted to determine which types of contract administration problems (e.g., delays) were perceived as most likely fo...
    ... ... by Davison and Wright, the research was conducted to determine which types of contract administration problems (e.g., delays) were perceived as most likely for seven types of contracts (e.g., small supplies and purchases). The survey was sent electronically ... ...
  • PUBLIC‐PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CONTRACTS: A TALE OF TWO CITIES WITH DIFFERENT CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS
    • No. 89-4, December 2011
    • Public Administration
    This paper analyses regulation by contract in public‐private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure services. Although the benefits of competition for the market and subsequent regulatory contracts...
    ... ... Often, risks are not allocatedcorrectly nor is effective monitoring ensured. Comparisons between the two types of contractsshow how external regulation can be useful in mitigating contractual problems. This examination ofbidding procedures and contract design ... ...
  • A detailed analysis of the relationship between contract administration problems and contract types
    • No. 11-1, March 2011
    • Journal of Public Procurement
    • 108-226
    Guided by a conceptual model developed by Davison and Wright (2004), Davison and Sebastian (2009) surveyed National Institute of Government Purchasing (NIGP) and Institute of Supply Management (ISM...
    ... ... to determine empirically which types of contract administration problems (e.g., delays) were perceived as most likely for seven types of contracts (e.g., small supplies and purchases). The mean ratings of the perceived occurrence of the ten problems for each contract problem were reported. The ... ...
  • Autonomy versus control in procurement and contracting: the use of cost-reimbursement contracts in three US federal departments
    • No. 83-1_suppl, March 2017
    • International Review of Administrative Sciences
    • 0000
    This article examines the efficacy of central attempts to influence the use of specific types of contracts, namely, cost-reimbursement versus fixed-price contracts, by individual departments within...
    ... ... xed-price over cost-reimbursement contractsor whether the discretion allowed in the system has led to variability in the use ofdierent contract types across departments. If the latter is true, the implementationof additional cross-cutting regulations governing how departments purchase prod-ucts may ... ...
  • How does working‐time flexibility affect workers' productivity in a routine job? Evidence from a field experiment
    • No. 61-1, March 2023
    • British Journal of Industrial Relations
    • 0000
    We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on‐the‐job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks d...
    ... ... conducted an experiment in which we hired work-ers under different types of contracts to evaluate howflexible working time affects on-the-job ... ...
  • Preface
    ... ... But reinsurance contracts are also very different from many other types of contracts in their terms ... ...
  • Financial analyst in a media company: Nick Dunnett explains what it takes to secure this highly commercial role.
    • No. 2010, November 2010
    • Financial Management (UK)
    • Dunnett, Nick
    • So you want to be
    ... ... analyst roles immediately attract interest and are popular with all types of accountants. But with this popularity comes strong competition for the ... More and more employers are using these types of contracts, so by taking this route you would give yourself the best chance of ... ...
  • IAS39: Patricia Teixeira Lopes examines the complexities of the standard using the example of accounting for hedging strategies in the electricity futures market of Spain and Portugal.
    • No. 2007, December - September 2007
    • Financial Management (UK)
    • Lopes, Patricia Teixeira
    • Technical matters
    ... ... creates unique issues concerning the physical delivery of the contracts compared with other commodity contracts ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ... There are two basic types of Mibel futures contracts: one has a physical delivery and the other ... ...
  • Contract Caterers and Public Sector Catering
    • No. 9-1, January 1987
    • Employee Relations
    • 10-13
    The impact of Government moves to put public sector catering out to competitive tender will severely affect some relationships between public sector catering management and staff, a range of employ...
    ... ... ] which stated that in "seeking tenders for services and awarding contracts, health authorities should not specify rates of pay or conditions of ... This company is very specific about the types of operations it would like to run — in school meals, the supply and ... ...
  • Concluding remarks
    • The Integration of European Financial Markets
    • Taylor and Francis
    • 245-247
    ... ... Similarly to ... what has occurred for international commercial contracts, which have ... developed their specific usages without necessarily ing a modification ... of national disciplines of the same types of contracts, it may be possible that ... a similar process can be carried ... ...
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