Building Contract in UK Law
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Building psychological contract: the role of leader member exchanges
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the building blocks for psychological contract among public institutions in Uganda by investigating the mediation effect of leader-member exchanges ...
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The Living Constitution and the (Almost) Dead Contracts Clause
Under pressure to adapt to changing circumstances, the contract clause, though expressed in absolute terms, may now be violated for almost any reason at all. The living Constitution, in short, has ...... ... Under pressure to adapt to changing circumstances, the contract clause, though expressed in absolute terms, may now be violated for almost ... Living Constitution; Contract Clause; Balancing Test; Home Building Association v. Blaisdell; Sveen v. Melin ... * Professor, Political ... ...
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Building high performance employment relationships in small firms
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to present research into the employment relationship in small firms and to examine its link to high performance. A psychological contract framework is adopted, ...... ... A psychological contract framework is adopted, itbeing argued that this supports a more nuanced analysis than existing perspectives on the small firmemployment relationship ... ...
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Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: A dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins
Many studies have deduced subterranean dialogues between Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt from indirect evidence. This article uses new evidence from marginalia in Arendt’s copy of Nomos of the Earth...... ... analysis of Arendts commentson the topics of soil, conquest, and contract, I show that Arendt deemed Schmittstheory to be imperialist and in ... Because of her focus onintersubjective world-building, Arendts nomos embraces contract and promise-making,and thus provides the ... ...
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Introduction: employment relations in Africa
Purpose: This introduction aims to review the present state of research on employment relations in Africa, and provide an overview of subsequent papers. Design/methodology/approach: The article pr...... ... imparting greater fairness to theimplementation of the employment contract is contingent on both national institution building –allowing for the ... ...
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The Materiality of State Failure: Social Contract Theory, Infrastructure and Governmental Power in Congo
Congo’s state failure is usually analysed in terms of a ‘broken social contract’, reflecting the degree to which mainstream understandings of state failure are conditioned by classical social contr...... ... This article takes a different route to understanding Congo’s predicament by building on insights from actor-network theory (ANT). ANT’s insistence on society as a socio-material entanglement, it shows, translates into increasing ... ...
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‘Country Rag Merchants’ and English Local Currencies in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, communities across England used country bankers’ notes almost as much as they used coins and Bank of England notes. Accounting for the relative ...... ... Building on both the credit approach to money and the relational approach to ... : the credit approach to money and the relational approach to contract. With respect to the former, this article draws on what some scholars in ... ...
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Renovations in lieu of rent in Spanish tenancy law
Purpose: In the context of difficulties in access to housing, the Spanish Act 4/2013 introduced a new article 17.5 into the Act on Urban Leases 1994 (LAU). This paper regulates the so-called renova...... ... However, due to the new regulation of this tenancy contract,which is onlyincluded in Paragraph 5 of art. 17 LAU, some problemsmay ... ...
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Agents never become stewards: explaining the lack of innovation in public–private partnerships
Design–Build–Finance–Maintain–Operate contracts, as a specific public–private partnership, supposedly provide opportunities for innovation due to the long-term perspective, the use of output specif...... ... –Finance–Maintain–Operate contracts isrestricted to the building of the infrastructure and the early operational phasesof the contract ... ...
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Do tenants pay energy efficiency rent premiums?
Purpose: – Using a unique data set, the purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that tenants pay increased accommodation costs for space in energy efficient office property. Design/methodo...... ... Empirical data on annual gross face rent and contract terms from each lease arecombined with building characteristics and ... ...
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