The Modern Law of Contract is a clear and logical textbook, written by an experienced
author team with well over 50 years' teaching and examining experience. Fully updated to …

In the public sector, procurement managers are now required to comply with new
sustainable regulations and to look for suppliers able to provide a sustainable offering …

In this paper, we investigate whether and to what extent formal governance forms such as
contracts are a necessary condition to manage coopetitive interactions among networks. We …

For too long, business has focused on short-term cost advantages through low-cost country
sourcing with little regard for the longer-term implications of global sustainability. Purchasing …

Corporate social responsibility codes are guidelines that companies voluntarily develop and
publish with the objective of showing the public their commitment to respect human rights, to …

This study investigates the use of private rules in exercising power in asymmetric business
relationships. In asymmetric business relationships, the stronger party is likely to be able to …

Every firm faces the challenge of leveraging valuable resources in the form of the intellectual
assets, know-how and expertise of itself and others around it. They can only achieve this …

In 1981, when Tillotson's first edition of Contract Law in Perspective was published, I was in
my first year at university studying for my LLB. I spent a considerable amount of time in the …

New insights of empirical studies in contract research do not always conform to those that
might be expected as a result of these theoretical studies. Much of the research into the …

This article examines the claim that there are two different and often incompatible 'worlds'
within which contractual relationships can be placed—a real world created by the parties …