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Contract Norms and Contract Enforcement in Graeco-Roman Egypt
… explores the ethics and norms associated with contracting in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt as a contribution to the institutional study of ancient contract and its relationship to the economic history of the Roman world. Although ancient contracts in the Hellenistic tradition (i.e., non-Roman law …
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Beyond the Psychological Contract: Ideology and the Economic Social Contract
… of economic justice within the economic social contract of the United States. I argue that distinct views of such a contract grounded in the tradition of individualism and communitarianism manifest in people's judgments about economic justice. We empirically test these hypotheses on a sample of …
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Recontruction of standard contract clause in sharia contract law: A study on standard contract clause at BTN Sharia
… transactions is parallel with the standard contract clause that facilitates the contract drafter. In its development, the sharia agencies also use standard contract clause for transaction. Although standard contract clause has put the sharia elements in it, but there are some weaknesses, …
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Construct by Contract: Construct by Contract: An Approach for Developing Reliable Software
This research introduces “Construct by Contract” as a proposal for a general methodology to develop dependable software systems. It describes an ideal process to construct systems by propagating requirements as contracts from the client’s desires to the correctness proof in verification stage, …
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The behavioral theory of contract
This work develops a theory of contract grounded in empirical analysis of individuals' experience with and interpretations of form-adhesive contracts. Form-adhesive contracts are unilaterally drafted, typically by organizations, intended for multiple signers. They are offered on a …
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STRATEGIC INTEGRATION, CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, AND COMPREHENSIVE CONTRACT CAMPAIGN EFFECTIVENESS: A CASE STUDY OF THE CULINARY WORKERS UNION, HERE LOCAL 226'S 2002 COMPREHENSIVE CONTRACT CAMPAIGN
… This thesis is a case study of the comprehensive contract campaign that the Culinary Union, HERE Local 226 utilized in its 2002 round of negotiations with casino operators in Las Vegas. The focus of this study is on how the comprehensive contract campaign strategy used by the Culinary Union …
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Towards a unified theory of procurement contract design : production flexibility, spot market trading, and contract structure
… solution to the pricing problem of option contracts for a supplier of an industrial good in the presence of spot trading. Specifically, our approach fully and jointly endogenizes the determination of three major characteristics in contract design, namely (i) Sales contracts versus options …
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Essays on Contract Design in Marketing
This thesis examines how firms design their contracts in different marketing contexts. The first essay theoretically investigates the impact of external advances in consumption tracking technologies on the design of pricing contracts. Using the context of mobile banking applications that help …
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Contract closeout pathologies and recovery strategies
The primary purpose of this thesis is to classify contract closeout pathologies, identify the root causes of these pathologies, and provide a series of strategies to regain control of the contract closeout process all within the context of the Organizational Systems Framework Model. Critical …
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Disgorgement remedies for breach of contract
… the law of disgorgement remedies for breach of contract in English law.<br/><br/>This thesis argues that both full and partial disgorgement are restitutionary in nature and they aim at preventing unjust enrichment by stripping partial or full profits the defendant made from breach of contract. …
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Contract Theory Framework for Wireless Networking
… and non-technology related network externality. Contract theory, the 2014 Nobel Prize of economic science, has been widely used in industries, from banking to telecommunications. Particularly, contract theory is an efficient tool in dealing with asymmetric information between employer/seller(s) …
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Performance Analysis of Contract for Options
In this dissertation I analyze performance of the contract for options in various settings. In the second chapter, I consider a contract for options between a supplier and a manufacturer in the presence of a spot market with uncertain spot price, limited supplier capacity, and where the …
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Remedies for anticipatory breach of contract
… origin and development of anticipatory breach of contract in South African law leading up to the decision in Datacolor International (Pty) Ltd v Intamarket (Pty) Ltd 2001 (2) SA 284 (SCA) and the implications of this decision on the law. This decision is generally regarded as the culmination of …
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A program to play contract bridge
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 2004.
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