Disasters affect hundreds of millions of people every year and the response of governments
is crucial in alleviating the suffering of those affected. Despite the importance of contracting …

By entering outcome-based service (OBS) relationships, industrial service providers and
their customers realign their business interests to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. The …

Environmental collaboration between organizations involved in construction projects
enables the efficiency of environmental management to gain environmental sustainability …

Notwithstanding the popularity of outsourcing as a business strategy, the performance
benefits realized through outsourcing efforts are observed to be mixed in practice. This leads …

Firms desiring to remain competitive must develop or acquire knowledge resources.
Developing knowledge with foreign partners by forming international research …

As automobile manufacturing firms often outsource third-party designers to produce key
innovative components, the suppliers of these third-party designers must be capable of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine combinations of contract clauses in order
to ascertain which combinations correlate to high operational performance (OP) …

The interplay of contractual and relational governance has shown inconclusive effects on
project performance, resulting in the complements versus substitutes debate. Adding …

This manuscript reviews and synthesizes the product service system, lifecycle affordability,
and performance-based contracting (PBC) literature across supply chain management …

Pirated video clips, a new form of piracy, have spread rapidly in recent years with the
vigorous development of short‐video social media platforms such as TikTok and Douyin …