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  2. Relational contract - Wikipedia

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    Relational contract theory was originally developed in the United States by the legal scholars Ian Roderick Macneil and Stewart Macaulay. According to Macneil, the theory offered a response to the so-called "The Death of Contract" school’s nihilistic argument that a contract was not a fit subject for study as a whole; each different type of contract (e.g., sales, employment, negotiable ...

  3. Contract theory - Wikipedia

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    Contract theory in economics began with 1991 Nobel Laureate Ronald H. Coase's 1937 article "The Nature of the Firm". Coase notes that "the longer the duration of a contract regarding the supply of goods or services due to the difficulty of forecasting, then the less likely and less appropriate it is for the buyer to specify what the other party should do."

  4. Contractualism - Wikipedia

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    Contractualism is a term in philosophy which refers either to a family of political theories in the social contract tradition (when used in this sense, the term is an umbrella term for all social contract theories that include contractarianism), [1] or to the ethical theory developed in recent years by T. M. Scanlon, especially in his book What We Owe to Each Other (published 1998).

  5. Vested outsourcing - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, a Vested agreement creates a win-win relationship in which both parties are equally invested in one another's success. [2] The Vested approach is firmly rooted in relational contract theory, which was originally developed in the United States by the legal scholars Ian Roderick Macneil and Stewart Macaulay. Relational contract ...

  6. Ian Roderick Macneil - Wikipedia

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    A symposium on relational contract theory was held at Northwestern University in 1999, with papers given by a number of American contract scholars including Stewart Macaulay, [15] Melvin Eisenberg, [16] Jay Feinman, [17] Eric Posner, [18] Robert E. Scott, [19] and Richard Speidel. [20] Macneil's work is often considered inaccessible and ...

  7. Kate Vitasek - Wikipedia

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    Kate Vitasek (born September 19, 1968) is an American author and educator. She is a faculty member for Graduate and Executive Education at the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business [1] Her research focuses on the Vested outsourcing business model, sourcing business model theory, the relational contract, and collaborative win-win business relationships.

  8. Cultural contracts - Wikipedia

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    Cultural contracts first appeared in Communication Quarterly in 1999. Dr. Ronald L. Jackson came up with the original idea while negotiating a deal for a new house. [3] He was fascinated by the general outline of a contract and was interested in identity as a communication researcher, so the process struck a chord with him and made him think about how cultural diversity functions in our society.

  9. Intention to create legal relations - Wikipedia

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    A contract is a legally binding agreement. Once an offer has been accepted, there is an agreement, but not necessarily a contract. The element that converts any agreement into a true contract is "intention to create legal relations". There must be evidence that the parties intended the agreement to be subject to the law of contract.