rights and obligations of the parties. From an economic perspective, contract theory studies how economic actors can and do construct contractual arrangements...

In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority...

other party to the contract. Contract theory is a large body of legal theory that addresses normative and conceptual questions in contract law. One of the...

parties regarding the future exchange of goods or services. Implicit contracts theory was first developed to explain why there are quantity adjustments (layoffs)...

related to corporate social responsibility, market economy, and social contract theory. The stakeholder view of strategy integrates a resource-based view...

through Polity Press. This book is a seminal work which discusses how contract theory continues to affirm the patriarchy through methods of contractual submission...

society). The theory uses an updated form of Kantian philosophy and a variant form of conventional social contract theory. Rawls's theory of justice is...

In contract theory, mechanism design, and economics, an information asymmetry is a situation where one party has more or better information than the other...

A complete contract is an important concept from contract theory. If the parties to an agreement could specify their respective rights and duties for...

The nexus of contracts theory is an idea put forth by a number of economists and legal commentators (most notably Michael Jensen and William Meckling as...