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Edwards, John Hairston. "Contract administration of Department of Defense environmental restoration contracts." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/25788.
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Edwards, John Hairston. "Contract administration of Department of Defense environmental resoration contracts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45733.
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Moore, Virgil Vance. "Contract Administration of Indefinite Delivery Type Contracts (IDTCS) by Contracting Officer's Technical Representatives (COTRS)." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA236944.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1990.Thesis Advisor(s): Hart, E. Neil. Second Reader: Carrick, Paul M "June 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 19, 2009. DTIC Indicator(s): Contract Administration, Delivery, Theses. Author(s) subject terms:Contracting Officer's Technical Representatives (COTS), Indefinite Delivery Type Contract (IDTC), Navy Field Contracting System (NFCS). Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-131). Also available online.
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Day, Keith D. "The administration of the #botched' FIDIC contract : the problems arising out of the administration of a wrongly #slanted' contract for turnkey projects." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280915.
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El, Zanati Khaled. "Le pouvoir de l'administration dans la modification et la résiliation unilatérales des contrats administratifs : études comparatives des droits français, égyptien et libyen." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01D059.
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Le droit privé érige le contrat en loi des parties. Cette règle connaît des exceptions en droit administratif: branche du droit dans laquelle la puissance publique dispose d’un pouvoir de modification et de résiliation unilatérales. Cependant, si l’administration dispose de pouvoirs étendues dans l’exercice de son pouvoirs de modification et de résiliation unilatérales des contrats administratifs pour des motifs tenant à l’intérêt général, aucune définition minutieuse de la notion d’intérêt général n’a encore été consacrée. Cette imprécision conduit, dans certains cas, à l’exercice quasi arbitraire par l’administration de ses pouvoirs et au déséquilibre du contrat. Cette situation a entraîné divers préjudices pour les bénéficiaires de projet en raison de la suspension de la mise en œuvre de plusieurs contrats importants pour une longue période et, en conséquence, a accru le nombre des litigesThe rule in private law is that the contract is considered to be the absolute law between the contracting parties, and therefore it cannot be modified or terminated without their consent. That is not the case in the field of administrative law as long as this law permits the administration to use its authority in unilateral amendment and termination of the contract. The problem can be stated here that the administration white practicing its authority in unilateral , modification or termination the contract might abuse its right of such practice under the justification of undefined concept of public interest. The ambiguous and loos of the concept of public interest led to the illegitimate and misuse of the administration of its authority in unilateral amendment and termination of administrative contract which results in disturbance of the balance between the interests of the administration on one hand and the other contracting party on the other
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Porter, Douglas P. "An analysis of the feasibility of outsourcing contract administration functions within the Defense Contract Management Command." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA350397.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998.Thesis advisor(s): Janice M. Menker, Sandra M. Desbrow. "June 1998." Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-103). Also available onlinle.
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Yigit, Muhammet Alper. "Contract Management Behavior Of Turkish Construction Companies In International Contracts." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610374/index.pdf.
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Contract management starts with the contract negotiations and lasts until the end of the contract, and is the process that covers three fundamental functions required to compensate the goals of the projectRelationship Management, Project Delivery, and Administration of the contract. This thesis focused on investigating contract management behavior of Turkish construction companies in international projects. A survey was composed and interviewed with professionals for investigating the contract management behavior of contractors. The survey aimed to investigate
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behaviors, key success factors for contract management, company contract management organizations, claim issues, and conflict and dispute resolution behavior of firms. 51 companies participated to the survey. The survey results revealed that Turkish contractors consider contract management to be significant for success at international markets. Contractors are aware of the need for a continuous contract management application although this rate cannot be achieved in practice. Considering awareness as a driving factor for improvement it can be estimated that in future Turkish contractors will be managing their contracts in more efficient, organized and systematic ways than today. Results revealed that
contract management behaviors are mostly affected by the risk and complexity of the project, regular contract process is the most impactful process on the success, and change order requests of the owners are the most frequent reasons of claims. According to respondents contract management can reduce number of conflicts and disputes.
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Martin, Eric D. "An efficiency analysis of Defense Logistics Agency Contract Administration Offices." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA366213.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1999."June 1999". Thesis advisor(s): Lyn R. Whitaker, Linda Nozick. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62). Also available online.
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Lembrick, George A. "A management case analysis of the Defense Contract Management Command's Process Oriented Contract Administration Services (PROCAS) program." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA276247.
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Sancho, Calderón Diego. "Selection of contract type in construction contracts: Lump-Sum, Target-cost and Cost-plus contracts." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14823.
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The construction contract is a document which governs the business relationship of Contractor and Employer for the duration of a construction project. However, the selection of the contract type for the project tends to be performed too shallowly. The present thesis aims to analyse how the contract type is chosen among the three paradigmatic contracts considered here: lump-sum contracts, target-cost contracts and cost-plus contracts. The basis of the study is a case study performed on Project X, a large mine construction project in Western Europe. The relevant literature to the subject was reviewed, mainly the principal-agent theory, literature on risk allocation and on contract selection. After identifying several factors which may influence the contract selection in the literature and in a preliminary interview, a survey was conducted to assess their relative influence in general and in particular for the Project X. The survey was responded by a small sample of highly qualified and experienced managers. and was complemented with in-depth interviews with the majority of them. Some research on the project and on contract documents of the NEC standard contract was also performed in order to provide a context of the characteristics of Project X. The findings of the three sources made it possible to confirm the influence on the selection of the contract type of many of the factors proposed. It was possible to shortlist a small number of factors which influenced the most the selection of the contract type for Project X. These were the preferred risk allocation by the parties, the ability to adapt the contract to scope changes, the knowledge of each contract type by the contracting parties, the improvement of the project delivery by the contract type and the aim to enhance cooperation between the parties. Factors not present in previous research were also discovered, such as the different financial costs of the contract types and the requirement of financial information by the funders of the parties. The very different opinions of the respondents to the survey and interviews regarding the selection of the contract type confirm that the parties should consider in more detail that complex process, because by now the parties are not really sure why they are choosing a certain contract type. Further research should be performed in the future to analyse the factors which influenced the contract type selection in other projects. The projects could also be analysed during their whole duration. Other contract types or variants of the three contract types studied in this thesis could also be added to the analysis.
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Reachi, Santiago. "Selected construction contract administration standard operation procedures for Texas Department of Transportation, Odessa District." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/137.
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In order to achieve the stated goal of reducing the final closing procedure time cycle for construction projects at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Odessa District, several standard operating procedures (SOPs) for project construction control and management had to be revised. Seemingly unrelated tasks created posterior chains of events that resulted in bottlenecks in the process and delayed final project closing. Four specific SOPs were identified and analyzed to determine which tasks required modification and what was expected from these modifications. A mission for each specified SOP was conceived and written to give a clear view of the intent of the procedure. Afterwards, district policies were drafted to provide the means to fulfill the intent. The procedural changes, compatible with TxDOT statewide procedures, allowed the time spent in the processes to remain the same but redistributed it to reduce the end-loading of the control process. The new SOPs require an even time distribution cyclically throughout the project. Control procedures are done only once, shortening the final closing procedure for projects by doing one-time, short, cyclical, consecutive control tasks of the same procedure throughout the life of the project, rather than doing some of them once cyclically and then again at the closing procedure and others just at the closing procedure. These changes resulted in a shorter end-cycle time, which substantially reduced the final closing procedure time for each project, without affecting the integrity and safeguards of the project. The changes resulted in more efficient and timely financial, managerial, and engineering control of projects.
The procedures revised were (1) Review and Approval of Change Orders; (2) Review and Approval of Monthly Progress Estimates; (3) Review and Approval of Interim and Final Audits and Final Estimate; and (4) Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SW3P) Records Management and Auditing Procedures.
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Stallworth, Rachel. "Private Sector Defense Contractor Management Strategies for Contract Fulfillment." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5420.
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Private sector U.S. defense contractors failing to meet contract objectives experience lower profitability, pay costly penalties, and risk survivability. Using the theory of contracts, the purpose of this multiple case study was to the explore strategies that some leaders of U.S. defense contracting businesses use to meet all the contract terms with the U.S. Department of Defense. Data were collected from 5 leaders of private sector defense contracting companies in northwest Florida through face-to-face, semistructured interviews and through a review of operations manuals, quality assurance policy manuals, and archived U.S. Department of Defense contracts. During data analysis using Yin's 5-step process of compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding the data, 4 themes on strategies emerged: (a) communication strategy for successful completion of contracts, (b) technology strategy to monitor contract compliance, (c) training strategy for program managers, and (d) subcontractor selection strategy. The findings indicated that communication among all contract parties was an essential component of each of the 4 themes. Computerizing the contracting workflow to monitor compliance efforts, training program managers for effective oversight of contract compliance, and selecting subcontractors were vital elements of the strategies private sector defense contractors used to meet all the terms and conditions of U.S. Department of Defense contracts. The implications for positive social change include the potential for private sector defense contractors to improve the strength of the defense of the northwest Florida community, lower unemployment, and provide a safer environment for humanity.
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Montañez, Jaime Frumencio J. "Need for qualified contracting officers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization program." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 2001.Thesis advisors, Jeffrey R. Cuskey, David V. Lamm. "December 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81). Also available in print.
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MontanÌ, ez Jaime Frumencio J. "Need for qualified contracting officers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization program." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/1078.
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The purpose of this thesis is to determine the need for qualified Contracting Officers in the execution and administration of contracts formulated under the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Modernization Program. This 15-year Program is mandated by Republic Act (RA) 7898, otherwise known as the AFP Modernization Act. This law is implemented through Department of National Defense Circular (DC) No. 1 dated 06 March 2000 (replacing DC 29 dated 19 May 1996). The Circular provided adequate guidance for the conduct of major system contracting, but barely touched on the process of contract execution and administration by Contracting Officers, except for assigning this function to the Major Services under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, AFP (CSAFP). It assumes that the parties involved would infer the process of contract administration from the terms and conditions of the contract itself. Contract administration, as handled by qualified Contracting Officers, is a vital process in government acquisitions. It ensures the successful completion of the contract according to the satisfaction of the parties involved. Without this system in place, the AFP risks failure in its Modernization Program (AFPMP). This thesis ascertains the need for qualified Contracting Officers to handle the complex contracts that are sure to come out of the AFPMP. It evaluates the existing contract execution and administration structure in the AFP vis-aÌ -vis existing guidelines to establish the need for βContracting Officerγ positions. Once established, the thesis expounds on the envisioned role of Contracting Officers as they handle the various contracting activities in the AFPMP. It also recommends the associated career paths, education, training and certification programs needed to establish the said position.Philippine Navy author
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Quintero, Múnera Andrés, and Ibáñez María Alejandra Páez. "The Sanctioning Power of the Administration in the Public Procurement Scope: The Cases of Peru and Colombia." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118194.
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Initially the exercise of sanctioning powers is contextualized in the field of government procurement in Colombia, regulatory and jurisprudential development of this power and the procedure envisaged by the legislature for the imposition of sanctions is exposed when a violation or breach of it becomes apparent the contractor’s obligations, specifying the scope and gaps that the process involves. Then the consecration of the sanctioning power of the administration is presented in the Peruvian law, marking the differences with the model adopted by the Colombian law, to conclude with some perspectives on the subject.Inicialmente se contextualiza el ejercicio de la potestad sancionadora en el ámbito de la contratación estatal en Colombia. Se expone el desarrollo normativo y jurisprudencial de esta facultad y el procedimiento que ha previsto el legislador para la imposición de sanciones cuando se evidencie una infracción o incumplimiento de las obligaciones del contratista, precisándose el alcance y los vacíos que el procedimiento comporta. En seguida, se presenta la consagración de la potestad sancionadora de la administración en el derecho peruano, marcando las diferencias con el modelo adoptado por la legislación colombiana, para concluir con algunas perspectivas sobre el tema.
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Ricardino, Roberto. "Administração de contrato em projetos de construção pesada no Brasil: um estudo da interface com o processo de análise do risco." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3146/tde-08012008-104811/.
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Tomando por hipótese fatores e habilidades influentes na gestão de projetos e de contratos, esta dissertação tem por objetivo propor um conjunto mínimo de procedimentos que oriente o planejamento da Administração de Contrato, com base no gerenciamento de riscos. Partindo de uma revisão da literatura sobre os processos de administração de contratos e de riscos, o trabalho discute a sua interface e investiga os pontos de vista das partes compradora e vendedora que celebram contratos de obras do setor da construção pesada, aqui representadas por duas organizações com forte presença no mercado brasileiro. Também é apresentado e discutido um método de análise e estruturação de contratos. O trabalho revela os principais requisitos do planejamento da Administração de Contrato.Assuming influential factors and skills on project and contract management, the aim of this dissertation is to propose a minimum set of procedures to serve as guidance on Contract Administration planning, based on risk management. Grounded in a review of the literature on contract and risk management processes, this work discusses its interface and examines the viewpoints of the buying and selling parties that sign contracts of projects in the heavy construction industry, herein represented by two companies that play a significant role in the Brazilian market. In addition, a contract analysis and structuring method is presented and discussed. This work shows the main requirements of Contract Administration planning.
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Kackar, Selcuk. "Analysis of the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) pricing, billing, contract closure, and FMS contract administration by the Turkish Navy (TN)." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA303386.
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Thesis (M. S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1995.Thesis advisor(s): Mark W. Stone, Richard Doyle. "September 1995." Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.
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Thompson, Roxene Marie. "An Investigation of Change to Key Provisions in the AIA A201 and its Impact on Perceptions of the Value-added Benefit of the Design Professional during Construction." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26148.
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The general conditions of contract play a very important role in the dynamics of the construction phase. The general conditions of contract outline the roles, rights, and obligations of the contracting parties during the construction phase of a project. The American Institute of Architects General Conditions of Contract for Construction (AIA A201) is considered the most widely used standard form of contracts in the U.S. construction industry. Standard contracts, like AIA A201, are being periodically revised and are becoming more cumbersome over time. The purpose and expectations of the revisions of the contract are not always clearly defined in literature or in practice. Changes to the general conditions have been made, which do not advance the performance goals for a successful project, but rather react to negative experiences. Oftentimes, there are conflicts between the partiesâ interpretation of the general conditions and between the required administrative practices obligatory by the general conditions during the construction phase, thus impacting the contractual relationships between owners, architect/design professionals, and general contractors. The increasing complexity and size of projects, the multiple-contract interfaces, and the changing times have transformed construction practices and contractual relationships. No longer simply following the lead of the AIA, owners seem to be questioning the value of the design professional, and the tone and path of the AIA A201. The three-phase methodology of this dissertation research set out to advance the understanding of change in the AIA A201 and the impact change has had on the value-added benefit of the design professional during the construction phase and contract administration on a project. The results of this research revealed the following primary conclusions: changes to various provisions pertaining to the key provisions have resulted in the Architect assuming less responsibility during the construction phase of a project; changes to the AIA A201 provision concerning the key provisions have not increased the value of the Architectâ s performance of contract administration services during the construction phase of a project; with regard to the key provisions, Owners or Ownersâ representatives perceive the value of the Architectâ s contract administration services during construction have decreased in recent years. In Phase I, this research identified the key contract provisions, which influence the function of the design professional performed in contract administration during construction. This investigation identified that change exists in key provisions over time and that change may have an influence on the function performed by the design professional during construction and contract administration. Subsequently, in Phase II, this research investigated the effect that change has had on the function performed by the design professional. The respective substantive changes to each provision that may have had a material effect on the function of the design professional were identified and these key provisions were thus studied further. Then, whether or not changes made to key provisions of AIA A201 have had a material effect on the function performed by the architect/design professional during the construction phase and contract administration was examined in Phase III. Ultimately, the research led to an enhanced knowledge of the owner-perceived value-added benefit by the design professional during the construction phase of a project. The practical use of the AIA A201 and its future editions has an influence on improved performance and better working relationships, which ultimately leads to improved constructed projects. The conclusions to this research study have demonstrated that changes made to key provisions of AIA A201 from 1951 to 1997 have diminished the role of the architect. Changes to key provisions have had a material effect on the construction phase, contract administration, and the function performed by the architect/design professional during the construction phase of a project. Before one can make effective changes to improve contractual and working relationships, the change must be identified for the purpose of supporting the industryâ s efforts to reduce adversarial relations, balance risk, and control schedule and cost, impact the contractual relationships and the value-added benefit of the contractual parties. This dissertation research successfully provided an understanding of the process used and the impact of change in the general conditions of contracts. As such, the knowledge gained from this research illuminated the necessary considerations of change and its impacts on the future development of contracts and their revisions in efforts to create better documents, not to just create bigger documents.Ph. D.
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Beg, Zeshawn Afsari. "Complexity, Contract Design and Incentive Design in the Construction Management Industry." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:16881896.
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In this paper I examine how one construction management company uses contract design and incentive design to respond to aspects of task complexity and relationship complexity present in its construction projects. In terms of contract design, I find that the company is unable to increase its use of cost-plus pricing when faced with technically complex projects. Instead, the company uses increased pre-execution design modification and price markups when technically complex projects are contracted with fixed-pricing. Further, I find that design modification is only margin-improving when used in projects that are both technically complex and fixed-price and that price markups are only margin-improving when projects are fixed-price. In terms of incentive design, I find that the company provides more qualitative feedback to employees and quantitatively rates employees with less centrality bias (i.e. more dispersed ratings) when employees work on fixed-price projects. Further, when employees work on fixed-price projects, they are granted greater average financial rewards, their financial rewards are relatively more based on input-behaviors (i.e. less based on output-results), and their bonuses, raises and promotions appear to be awarded with more managerial discretion (i.e. are less systematic.)
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Pérez, Hualde Alejandro. "The Public Services Concession Contract as a "Long Term" Contract." Derecho & Sociedad, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119148.
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In this article, the author highlights the benefits of incorporating the concepts “concession contract” and “long term contract” within the new Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation in Argentina. For the author, these contractual arrangements are fundamental in Administrative Law to understand the scope of the concession of public services, specifically in regard to the introduction of changes in the contract. This also means that foreign police concepts or theories as ius variandi, which only add authoritarian elements under the contract, are not longer required.En el presente artículo, el autor resalta los beneficios de la incorporación de los conceptos “contrato de concesión” y “contrato de larga duración” dentro del nuevo Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación argentina. Así, para el autor, estas figuras contractuales son fundamentales en el Derecho Administrativo para poder comprender los alcances del contrato de concesión de servicios públicos, específicamente, en cuanto a la introducción de variaciones en la ejecución del contrato. Ello conlleva, además, que ya no se tenga que recurrir a conceptospoliciales extraños o a teorías como la del ius variandi que únicamente añaden elementos autoritarios en el marco del contrato.
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Liao-Troth, Matthew Allen. "The psychological contract of volunteer workers and its consequences." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288936.
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The psychological contract of workers has been a subject of recent interest, in both academic and practitioner organizational literature. While this attention has developed across fields, and several typologies of contracts have been developed, there are many parts of this construct that are not well understood. Among these are the predictors of the psychological contract, the outcomes of the psychological contract, the violation or fulfillment of the psychological contract, and the generalizability of the psychological contract to volunteer organizational members. In this dissertation, I look specifically at the motives of volunteer workers, the consequences of organizational justice and organization commitment, violation of the contract by the organization and by the worker, and the generalizability of the psychological contract to volunteer workers in an organization. Two studies, one field and one lab, are used to assess these relationships. Results indicate that volunteers and paid employees, regardless of motives, do not differ in their psychological contracts when they are in the same organization performing significantly similar work. In terms of consequences, relationships were found between the psychological contract and its fulfillment or violation with organizational commitment and organizational justice. Specifically, relations were found between: transactional psychological contracts and both distributive justice and continuance commitment; benefits psychological contracts and continuance commitment; good faith and fair dealings psychological contracts and distributive, interactional, and procedural justice as well as affective commitment; and intrinsic job characteristics psychological contracts and distributive, interactional, and procedural justice. Not all findings are consistent across both studies. The results have two implications. The first, that volunteers and paid employees do not differ in their psychological contracts, points to the importance of the work environment in determining psychological contracts. The second issue, the relationships between specific aspects of the psychological contract, organizational justice, and organization commitment, establishes the separateness and relatedness of these constructs. Future research will address other predictors of psychological contracts, the fulfillment or violation of specific contracts, and their effect upon job attitudes that impact worker productivity.
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Cuskey, Jeffrey R. "An analysis of contracts awarded in the face of negative preaward survey recommendation." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1997. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA331796.
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Thesis (M. S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1997.Thesis advisor(s): Lamm, David V. ; Shockley, Danny A. AD-A331 796. "March 1997." Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-148). Also available online.
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Kim, Young Woon. "Contract Design in the United States Federal Government." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275446269.
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Goetz, Douglas N. "The adult learner's motivation to participate in continuing education within the contract management profession /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487673114115115.
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Taccad, Caesar C. "A model of contract administration for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization program." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA374091.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1999."December 1999". Thesis advisor(s): David V. Lamm. David A. Smith. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-117). Also available online.
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Waugh, Etta J. "Improving Contract Management by the Government Contracting Officers' Representatives." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3927.
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Leaders in the Federal Government of the United States have a problem ensuring the contract management resources used to administer and monitor contracts meet organizational performance goals. Contracting officer's representatives (CORs) are members of the acquisition workforce responsible for contract management. This study explored the ways in which resource-based strategies can improve the quality of CORs' performance in contract management by exploring an organizational framework based on strategic management approaches. Interview data were collected from 41 CORs from the 10 Federal Government agencies that represented 85% of the fiscal year 2014 expenditures. These CORs had all managed contracts with successful outcomes. Data analysis utilizing descriptive and magnitude coding resulted in several findings: (a) a recognition of the influence the COR's environment has on the contract outcomes, (b) an understanding of the CORs' processes within the various organizational structures, and (c) the importance of organizational support for the COR. These findings resulted in elements of a potential resource-based management model framework that link the identified attributes of the CORs' resource management to organizational performance. The social contribution from this emergent framework is the recognition of the CORs' value in ensuring optimal contract driven organizational performance. Positive social change can result from Federal Government leaders' use of this resource-based framework to improve the quality of management of CORs' functions and processes. This framework and its implication for the acquisition workforce may facilitate superior performance and enhance organizational capital.
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HUANG, Wenxin. "Designing multi-target salesforce incentive contract." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2015. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cds_etd/14.
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Multi-target incentive contracts are widely observed in practice to stimulate salesforce effort. However, little is known about their effectiveness and the issues involved in designing them. In this thesis, we investigate the incentive contracting problem between a manufacturer and an agent when the realized sales of a product are affected by both the agent's selling effort and the type of the agent. The agent's type is uncertain to the manufacturer, whereas the agent can observe the actual type when exerting her selling effort. Again, this is unobservable by the manufacturer. For contract design problem, we develop a principal-agent model with both moral hazard and adverse selection. We examine the manufacturer's optimal contract parameter decisions employing a single multi-target contract for the agent who can be of different types. Because menu contracts are commonly studied in literature for the adverse selection problem, we also study a menu of single-target contracts; and examine the manufacturer's optimal contract parameter decisions. We then compare the performance between the two types of contract. We arrive at a number of managerial insights regarding the design and the performance of multi-target contract and menu contract.
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Qiu, Shuo. "Insurance Market Equilibrium: Contract Formation, Heterogeneity, and Operational Efficiency." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/9768.
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The three essays of this dissertation investigate the insurance equilibrium from various perspectives. The first essay uses Cournot game-theoretic model to study the insurance contract formation and provides theoretical justification for policy limit. The second essay introduces buyers' heterogeneous risk aversion into Wilson's equilibrium, derives new equilbria, and provides the conditions under which those new equilibria will hold. The third essay studies the operational efficiency of life insurers in China. Through comparing the efficiency of domestic and foreign life insurers, decomposing their efficiency scores, figuring out the directions and potential they could improve, and analyzing the change and driver of productivity, the essay gives insights of the fast-developing life insurance industry in China.
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Dollase, Steve. "A case study of Magnavox as a model for Process Oriented Contract Administration Services (PROCAS) implementation." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA306721.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1995.Thesis advisor(s): Danny A. Shockley, David V. Lamm. "December 1995." Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.
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Moore, Keith M. "Contract administration organization : a case study of the U.S. Marine Corps Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle program /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1996. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA325768.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1996.Thesis advisor(s): David V. Lamm, Danny A. Shockley. "December 1996." Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99). Also available online.
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AL-AZZAWI, DUAA. "Barriers when Selecting a Contract Manufacturer in China : A Study of SMEs in the toy industry." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-89817.
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Production outsourcing to a manufacturer has become a very common thing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as a manufacturing choice. Offshore manufacturers provide cheap and skillful labor which is what companies need to make a decent profit and make the products affordable to the end consumer. These manufacturers are called Contract Manufacturers (CM), which is what this thesis is about. However, searching and choosing the right manufacturer can be a challenging process, which can be followed by difficulties and obstacles. This paper explores the process of how these SMEs in the toy industry select and find their contract manufacturer, identify the type of barriers they encountered, the process to overcome and solve those difficulties, and what recommendations SMEs offer to prevent those obstacles for those who want to take the path of dealing with an offshore contract manufacturer. Moreover, personal interviews with SMEs in the toy industries were conducted to investigate the purpose of this thesis. These companies shared their experiences with dealing with contract manufacturers and offered valuable recommendations to overcome those troubles that arise during the selection process of a contract manufacturer. One of the major findings was the communication barrier, which arose when the companies had to outsource their production to manufacturers in China. However, some used a middleman to help with solving this issue and others had a representative that can speak the language.
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Pai, Chih-Wen. "Determinants of the New Entry of HMOs into A Medicare Risk Contract: A Resource Dependence-Diversification Model." VCU Scholars Compass, 1996. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4946.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the new entry of an HMO into a Medicare risk contract using a resource dependence—diversification model. This study is conducted through a non-experimental, panel design With one year time lag. An HMO’s market is defined as the service area. The primary sample for this study is composed of 440 HMOS that do not have a Medicare risk contract as of January 1994.
Data for the variables are extracted from the 1994 and 1995 InterStudy and Group Health Association of America (GHAA) directories, the 1996 Area Resource File, the 1994 County and City Data Book, the 1993 County Business Patterns. Additional supplementary data on adjusted average per capita cost (AAPCC) and county-level Medicare beneficiaries are obtained from the Health Care Financing Administration.
The dependent variable is discrete indicating an HMO’s market entry. Independent variables are grouped into four categories: market structure, resource munificence, market price, and organizational attributes. Twelve hypotheses are tested using multivariate logistic regression.
This analysis reveals that HMO enrollment size is a predominant, positive factor in predicting a new market entry. HMOs are also sensitive to the level of AAPCC rates in making a market entry decision. Results from hypothesis testing suggest that competition encourages a new market entry. The importance of resource munificence is not statistically supported.
This study demonstrates the appropriateness of a panel design to verify a cause-effect relationship and the applicability of the service area as an HMO’s market. This study also contributes to the theoretical understanding of an HMO’s market entry.
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Bermejo, Vera José. "The Procurement System of Public Administrations: Object, Evolution and Prospective of the Public Contract." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117419.
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This paper discusses the basics and the ways that generally develops the «Public procurement system» between the government and private sector operators. If the material activity of the Public Administrations usually develops through its own means, economic, material and personal, it is also essential collaboration of the private sector through public procurement. The positive connection to the law is unavoidable in public contracts, but it is also very relevant public expenditure savings applying procurement rules to advertising, equal competition and competitiveness. It serves as a reference the substantive core of Spanish law which, as most of the states of Europe, faithfully follows the rules to compliance with the European Union, undoubtedly one of the forms of state integration policies with greater depth and success in the world.En este trabajo se analizan los fundamentos y las formas en que se desenvuelve generalmente el «sistema de la contratación pública», una de las instituciones jurídicas en que se manifiesta más explícitamente la actuación colaborativa entre las Administraciones Públicas y los agentes económicos del sector privado. Si la actividad material de las Administraciones Públicas se desarrolla generalmente a través de sus propios medios, económicos, materiales y personales, también es fundamental la colaboración del sector privado a través de los contratos públicos.La vinculación positiva a la ley resulta ineludible en los contratos públicos, pero es muy relevante el ahorro de gasto público aplicando normas de contratación con publicidad, igualdad de concurrencia y competitividad. Sirve como referencia el núcleo sustancial del Derecho español que, como la mayor parte de los Estados de Europa, sigue fielmente las normas de obligado acatamiento de la Unión Europea, sin duda una de las fórmulas políticas de integración estatal con mayor calado y éxito en el mundo.
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Yorgure, Christian Sampson. "Assessing the Significance of Modularizing Contract Manufacturing Organizations." ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1513.
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Organizations are under constant threat from global competition, socioeconomic factors,
and political forces that are often unforeseen and dynamic. Consequently, decision
makers adopt strategies, some including the principles of modularity, as a
countermeasure. The problem addressed in this study was the lack of knowledge about
the significance of modularizing contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs). The
purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to assess the significance of modularizing
CMOs by statistically analyzing capacity utilization, efficiency, and profit margin
between modular and nonmodular departments in a focal CMO. This study was grounded
in the theory of modularity and the research question addressed what might be the
significant value of implementing organizational modularity. The hypotheses posited that
a significant difference exists in these metrics between the modular and nonmodular
departments of the focal company. ANCOVA was applied to the hypotheses using
secondary data of complete job orders undertaken at a company from 2008 to 2013. The
results indicated significant differences in capacity utilization, efficiency, and profit
margin between modular and nonmodular departments after controlling for differences
based on overhead cost or lead-time. Decision makers in manufacturing companies,
particularly those in CMOs, may benefit from these findings because they provide
answers to questions on the value of modularizing CMOs. The social change implications
of this study are based on companies gaining knowledge to improve productivity,
manufacture more affordable goods, and provide more skilled employment opportunities.
As a result, more people leave poverty and experience an improved quality of life.
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Slaughter, Robert P. "A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Civilian Conservation Centers and Contract Centers From 1984 to 1988." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1990. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2794.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether the continuous instability of policy decisions relating to the effectiveness of Civilian Conservation Centers and Contract Centers was a result of measurable differences in performance between the two models. Six hypotheses tested differences between types of centers on six quantitative variables which were: average length of stay, job placement, hourly starting wages, educational gains in reading, math, and General Educational Development (GED). To investigate the problem, 30 Civilian Conservation Centers and 17 comparably sized Contract Centers were selected. Reports from the Department of Labor's Automated Management System provided data for comparison between the two models. Results of the t test for independent samples indicated that CCCs demonstrated higher corpsmen placement rates, hourly starting wages, and GED completions. There were no significant differences between the models in average length of stay and educational gains for reading and math. Further research into the costs and benefits of CCCs should be pursued to establish whether CCC slots should be increased, to determine whether rural location is an impediment to program financial efficiency, and to determine if union involvement in vocational training programs is needed.
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Nishizaki, Santor. "Work environment preferences of Los Angeles Generation Y contract managers in the defense and aerospace industry." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3631046.
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There are currently 4 different generations in the workplace, and the newest generation, Generation Y, has caused leaders within organizations to rethink their management and workplace cultural approach to leading this emerging generation. This qualitative phenomenological dissertation examines the work environment preferences of Generation Y contract managers who work in the Los Angeles area in the defense and aerospace industry by interviewing 11 participants from both the public and private sectors. The research indicates that this new generation, Generation Y or Millennials, prefer to have autonomy over their workload and schedule, but prefer to have their direct manager active in a mentoring and coaching role, rather than acting as a task-master. In addition, the participants in this study preferred a healthy amount of pressure, but not too much of a workload that would cause them to fail. Lastly, this dissertation found that Millennials have a high preference for innovation and using innovative technology in the workplace to increase efficiency.
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Clerc, François. "Les contrats d'assurance des collectivités territoriales ou la difficile conciliation entre des logiques juridiques différentes." Thesis, Dijon, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013DIJOD014.
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La décentralisation en transférant des compétences et des responsabilités aux collectivités territoriales a créé des centres de décision susceptibles de s’assurer, et a entrainé une modification de la gestion des risques. Cette gestion des risques constitue une opération à logique à la fois économique et assurantielle de segmentation, fondée sur le calcul actuariel, qui ignore la notion d’égalité et de solidarité des communes entre elles et qui met en vérité celles-ci dans une situation de faiblesse contractuelle en contradiction avec les prérogatives de puissance publique qui sont leur apanage. L’application du code des marchés publics organise certes, la concurrence par une objectivation des procédures, mais n’aboutit pas nécessairement à un choix fondé sur la qualité, tant la spécificité du droit des assurances limite les vertus attribuées au processus de mise en concurrence. La qualification critiquée de contrat administratif des marchés publics d’assurance n’a pas atteint son objectif d’unification des contentieux, précontractuel et contractuel, du fait des règles spécifiques de l’assurance mais n’a pas non plus rétabli, dans le cadre du rapport contractuel une égalité entre les contractants. De plus, malgré l’élargissement des possibilités de recours et en l’absence de contrôle sur le contenu des contrats, le mécanisme de subrogation, associé aux accords de règlement entre assureurs fait échapper quasi totalement le règlement des litiges aux collectivités territoriales. La coexistence entre le droit des assurances de source législative, le droit administratif encore largement d’origine jurisprudentielle, et le droit privé se révèle donc pour le moins difficileDecentralization by transferring powers and responsibilities to local governments has created decision centers that are likely to be insured, and has led to a change in risk management. This risk management is a logical operation in the economic and insurance-time segmentation, based on the actuarial calculation that ignores the notion of equality and solidarity, common between them and puts them in a situation of contractual weakness inconsistent with the public powers that are their prerogative. The application of the public procurement code certainly organizes competition objectification procedures, but does not necessarily lead to a choice based on quality, as the specificity of insurance law limits the virtues attributed to the process of competition. Qualification criticized administrative contract procurement insurance has not reached its goal of unification of pre-contractual and contractual disputes because of the specific insurance rules and has not either restored within the contractual relationship equality between the contracting parties. Moreover, despite the expansion of recourse and in the absence of control over the content of contracts, subrogation mechanism associated with settlement agreements between insurers is almost entirely escape the settlement of disputes with local authorities. Coexistence between insurance law legislative source, administrative law still largely based on jurisprudence law, and private law thus appears to be quite difficult
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Elston, Jackie Cook. "Higher Education and the Social Contract: Achieving Alignment with the Service Mission in the Liberal Arts/Sciences at Urban Universities." VCU Scholars Compass, 1999. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4540.
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American higher education exists today in an environment of accountability. The public is demanding full participation in addressing the considerable social, health and economic problems facing society. Despite explicit statements of commitment to public service and community outreach however, according to numerous studies conducted over the past twenty years, universities are not articulating this commitment in faculty roles and rewards.
This study advances the discussion of roles and rewards at one particular model of institution — the urban university. The focus is on the behavior and attitudes of academic leaders at these unique institutions to determine the extent to which faculty public service activities are valued . The liberal arts/humanities/sciences schools at urban universities are the unit. of analysis based on the knowledge these faculty can contribute to the solution of social problems.
A descriptive research design was developed to determine the prevalence of certain attitudes at a sample of urban universities. Cross-sectional and case study methods were used to survey 70 institutions. Based on the findings of the study, the conclusion is drawn that, overall, strategies, rewards and structures at the majority of liberal arts/humanities/sciences schools that were part of this study are not in alignment with the public service mission.
Authors of organizational theory claim that congruence — alignment of goals and rewards — is necessary for success. Interviews with deans of schools that were determined to be "successful" in aligning rewards yielded common philosophies regarding articulating the service mission. For example:
• Boyer's broadest view of scholarship has been incorporated into efforts to redefine faculty roles and rewards.
• "The partnership is the new concept that replaces volunteer work with creative, mutually-rewarded research and teaching in the community setting."
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Riccardi, David. "Les sanctions contractuelles en droit administratif." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLS177.
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Les sanctions de l’inexécution des contrats administratifs constituent un thème classique mais peu traité du droit administratif. Elles méritaient une étude globale renouvelée. Les principales sanctions applicables en cas d’inexécution ou d’exécution fautive de ces contrats existent en effet au moins depuis la première moitié du XXème siècle. Les présentations théoriques qui en sont faites remontent également à cette période et ont peu changé, même si certaines évolutions importantes du droit positif sont intervenues. Cette stabilité de la discipline cache pourtant une réelle complexité qui se décèle dès l’analyse de la notion-même de « sanction contractuelle ». En effet, les mesures auxquelles cette notion renvoie connaissent une pluralité d’objets (résiliation, exécution autoritaire des obligations, dommages-intérêts, pénalités…) et de fonctions (prévenir, réparer, punir…) bien distincts, les uns des autres. En cherchant a priori à éviter l’inexécution et a posteriori, à la surmonter, les sanctions contractuelles apparaissent à la fois comme des mesures préventives qui peuvent s’apparenter à de véritables mesures de police du service public et à des punitions intervenant dans un cadre répressif et disciplinaire particulier, caractéristique d’un ordre contractuel autonome. La complexité et le particularisme du droit des sanctions contractuelles résulte aussi de l’aspérité de leurs régimes auxquels le droit positif et la doctrine peinent à trouver une cohérence globale. Construits isolément, ces régimes ne résultent en effet d’aucune logique commune et unitaire. Pour autant, un certain nombre de règles applicables à toutes les sanctions peut être repéré, en même temps qu’une tendance progressive à l’harmonisation. A ce jour, la substance qui constitue le droit des sanctions contractuelles apparait ainsi suffisamment homogène pour permettre la consécration d’une catégorie juridique de nature à aboutir à l’application d’un régime cohérent. Au-delà des aspects théoriques de la question, une telle consécration pourrait s’accompagner de certaines évolutions de droit positif dont l’ensemble serait de nature à offrir une lisibilité de la matière et à accroitre la sécurité juridique qui paraissent aujourd’hui indispensables à la pratique et aux acteurs des contrats administratifsThe sanctions of non-performance of administrative contracts are a classic but little-discussed theme of administrative law. They deserved a renewed global study. The main penalties applicable in the event of non-fulfillment or faulty execution of these contracts exist at least since the first half of the twentieth century. The theoretical presentations made there also date back to that period and have changed little, although some important developments in positive law have taken place. However, this stability of discipline hides a real complexity which can be discerned from the analysis of the notion of "contractual sanction". Indeed, the measures to which this notion refers are subject to a multiplicity of objects (termination, authoritarian execution of obligations, damages, penalties ...) and functions (prevention, repair, punishment ...) distinct from one another. By trying a priori to avoid non-performance and a posteriori, to overcome it, contractual sanctions appear both as preventive measures which may amount to genuine public service police measures and punishments in a framework repression and discipline, characteristic of an autonomous contractual order. The complexity and particularity of the contractual sanctions law also results from the asperity of their juridical regimes to which the positive law and the doctrine struggle to find a global coherence. Constructed in isolation, these regimes don’t result from any common and unitary logic. However, a number of rules applicable to all sanctions can be identified, along with a gradual trend towards harmonization. The substance which constitutes the contractual penalties law thus appears to be sufficiently homogeneous to enable the recognition of a legal category able to leading the application of a coherent regime. Beyond the theoretical aspects of the question, such a consecration could be accompanied by certain evolutions of positive law, the whole of which would be such as to offer a readability of the matter and to increase the legal certainty which now seem indispensable to the practice and the actors of the administrative contracts
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Mrad, Djamila. "Subjectivisation du contentieux et contrat administratif." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLV065.
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Le contentieux du contrat administratif a fait l’objet d’une restructuration qui se traduit par un phénomène de subjectivisation. Celui-ci repose sur une spécialisation des actions. Ce mouvement s’est construit en opposition avec la figure traditionnelle du requérant co-participant à la mise en œuvre du principe de légalité. Cette spécialisation des actions s’exprime d’abord par un renforcement des conditions d’appréciation de l’existence de l’action et se manifeste ensuite, de manière éloquente, au stade de l’examen des moyens. Enfin, le juge administratif a centré son office sur la norme contractuelle dont il détermine, à l’appui des pouvoirs dont il s’est doté et au regard des « circonstances de l’espèce », l’opportunité de son maintien dans l’ordre juridique. Il apparait ainsi que les modalités du contrôle juridictionnel de l’administration ont changé : il ne s’agit plus de contrôler un rapport de norme à norme mais de mettre en rapport une norme à la situation concrète dont le juge est saisi. Cette subjectivisation du contentieux accompagne la mutation du contrat administratif, objet du litige. En effet, l’étude des rapports entre le contrat administratif et le marché a mis en lumière la manière dont la notion de contrat administratif a été restructurée autour du marché concurrentiel. Le contrat administratif, en tant que contrat, s’appuie sur le marché concurrentiel avec la perspective de mieux satisfaire l’intérêt général. Son caractère administratif lui permet, dans le même temps, de faire prévaloir l’intérêt général sur le marché, lorsque celui-ci n’est pas en mesure de répondre aux impératifs poursuivis par l’action publique. Le contrat administratif permet à l’État de composer avec le marché, tout autant qu’il maintient les possibilités de s’y opposer. Aussi, la subjectivisation du contentieux intervient à rebours de l’objectivisme du contrat administratif, tel que pensé dans le marché concurrentiel. Le juge administratif a ainsi confirmé son rôle d’organe protecteur des intérêts étatiques. En dernière analyse, la mutation du contrôle juridictionnel de l’administration se fait l’écho de la mutation même du rôle de l’État et de son administration, dans son rapport au marchéThe litigation of the administrative contract has been the subject of a restructuring which is reflected in a phenomenon of subjectivization. This is based on a specialization of actions. This movement was constructed in opposition to the traditional figure of the applicant co-participating in the implementation of the principle of legality. This specialization of the actions is expressed first of all by a strengthening of the conditions of appreciation of the existence of the action and is then eloquently manifested in the examination of the defense. Finally, the administrative judge focused his function on the contractual norm. He determines, regarding his jurisdictional powers and in the light of the “circumstances of the case”, if the contract has to be kept in the legal order. Therefore, the terms of the jurisdictional control of the administration have changed: the judge is not anymore analyzing a norm to norm relation but a norm to concrete situation relation. This subjectivization of the litigation accompanies the mutation of the administrative contract, object of the litigation. Indeed, the study of the relationship between the administrative contract and the market has revealed how the notion of administrative contract has been restructured around the competitive market. As a contract, the administrative contract relies on the competitive market with the aim of better satisfying the general interest. Its administrative nature allows, at the same time, to impose the general interest to the market, when it is not able to respond to the imperatives pursued by public action. The administrative contract allows the state to be a part of the market, as well as to oppose it. The subjectivization of the litigation contravenes the objectivism of the administrative contract in a competitive approach. The administrative judge confirmed his role as a legal body protecting state interests. Ultimately, the mutation of the administration’s jurisdictional control reflects the evolution in the role of the state and its administration in its relationship to the market
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Wilkinson, Kevin James. "More effective federal procurement response to disasters maximizing the extraordinary flexibilities of IDIQ contracting /." View thesis, 2006. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA454285.
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Baker, James Mark. "An assessment of incorporating quantified contract administration functions in use at Navy Field Contracting Activities into the Navy's Productive Unit Resource (PUR) system." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26893.
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Mazzocchi, Vincent. "Exécution du contrat administratif et comptabilité publique." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100137.
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La thèse permet de démontrer que la comptabilité publique constitue un outil de contrôle de l’exécution du contrat administratif. Le droit de la comptabilité budgétaire constitue un outil de contrôle renouvelé de l’exécution du contrat administratif en ce qu’elle conditionne l’exécution financière et matérielle du contrat administratif. La comptabilité générale de l’Etat constitue quant à elle un nouvel outil de contrôle de l’exécution du contrat administratif en ce qu’il s’agit d’un instrument d’analyse financière du contrat administratifThe thesis makes it possible to demonstrate that public accounting is a tool for monitoring the execution of the administrative contract. The law of budgetary accounting constitutes a tool of renewed control of the execution of the administrative contract in that it conditions the financial and material execution of the administrative contract. The general accounts of the State constitute a new tool for monitoring the execution of the administrative contract in that it is an instrument of financial analysis of the administrative contract
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Diana, Mark L. "Information Technology Outsourcing in U.S. Hospital Systems." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1093.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with outsourcing of information systems (IS), and if there is a difference in IS sourcing based on the strategic value of the outsourced functions. The theoretical framework is based upon a synthesis of strategic management theory (SMT) and transaction cost economics (TCE) as they apply to vertical integration in the health care sector; therefore, IS sourcing behavior was conceptualized as a case of vertical integration. The conceptual model proposed that sourcing behavior would be determined by asset specificity, uncertainty, the interaction of asset specificity and uncertainty, bargaining power, corporate strategy needs, and the strategic value of the IS functions outsourced.A cross sectional design was used, consisting of data from the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Area Resource File (ARF), the HIMSS Analytics database, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital cost reports for 2003. The final sample consisted of 1,365 health care delivery systems and 3,452 hospitals. Analysis was conducted using a two-stage negative binomial regression model (using instrumental variables) to correct for suspected endogeneity. Tests of joint restrictions using the group of variables derived from TCE and SMT, respectively, were done with the dependent variable divided between strategic and non-strategic IS functions (the division was done based on a model of Core IS Capabilities developed as a model for a high-performance IS function).The results supported the relationship between bargaining power and IS outsourcing. Results for asset specificity and corporate strategy needs were significant in the opposite direction than hypothesized. No other findings were significant. These results suggest that hospital system managers are likely not considering significant factors when making sourcing decisions, including the relative strategic value of the functions they are outsourcing. This study contributes to the limited body of knowledge surrounding IS sourcing behavior in the health care sector. Future research should examine the effect of cost on IS sourcing decisions, and consider the use of alternative theoretical frameworks, particularly Institutional Theory.
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Garrard, David L. "An analysis of the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals bid protest decisions and the effect of automated data processing equipment/federal information." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27960.
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Glennon, Colin. "Book Review of Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, The Contract Clause, and The Great Depression, by John A. Fliter and Derek S. Hoff." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/831.
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Book Review of Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, The Contract Clause, and the Great Depression by John A. Fliter and Derek S. Hoff. University Press of Kansas. 2012. 224 pages. Cloth $34.95 ISBN: 978-0-7006-1871-2. Paper $19.95 ISBN 978-0-7006-1872-9.
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Grach, Gaëtan. "L'unité des contrats privés et des contrats publics." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM1069.
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La recherche d'une unité entre les contrats privés et les publics revient à vouloir démontrer l'existence d'un socle, d'un droit commun aux contrats privés et aux contrats publics au stade de leur formation. Cependant, si l'unité des éléments essentiels du contrat peut se révéler imparfaite entre le droit privé et le public, deux notions peuvent apporter une cohérence au phénomène juridique d'unité des contrats : la notion générale de contrat en sa qualité de principe fondateur du phénomène d'unité permet la recherche d'une définition unitaire du contrat dont l'expression est la notion de consentement ; alors que les notions d'objet et de cause se révèlent être des instruments d'identification principal et accessoire du phénomène d'unité des contrats. Ainsi, s'il existe une multitude de contrats, il n'existe qu'une notion de contrat. S'il existe une infinité d'objet, de cause et de moyen de consentir, il n'existe qu'une notion d'objet, de cause et de consentement. L'unité des contrats privés et des contrats publics est cela : la réduction d'une pluralité de notions à une notion-cadre fondamentale, la notion de contratSeeking unity between private and public contracts is ultimately intended to demonstrate the existence of a base, a law common to private and public contracts, at the stage of their conclusion. However, if the unity, in terms of private and public law, of the basic elements of the contract may prove to be imperfect, two concepts may bring cohesiveness to the legal phenomenon of the unity of contracts: the general concept of contract in its role as a founding principle of the phenomenon of unity enables a uniform definition for the contract to be sought, the expression of which is the concept of consent whereas the notions of object and cause reveal themselves to be main instruments of identification, ancillary to the phenomenon of the unity of contracts. Thus, if multiple contracts exist, there only exists one concept of the contract. If there are an infinite number of objects, causes and means of consent, there is only one concept of object, cause and consent. The unity of private contracts and public contracts is this: the reduction of a multiplicity of notions into one basic framework, the concept of the contract
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Žvirblys, Edvardas. "Sportininko įvaizdžio reikšmė sudarant kontraktą ledo ritulyje." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130906_131620-35616.
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Darbo tikslas:teoriškai ir empiriškai išanalizuoti sportininko įvaizdžio reikšmę, sportininkui sudarant kontraktą su ledo ritulio klubu.
Uždaviniai:
1. Aptarti ledo ritulininkams keliamus reikalavimus dėl įvaizdžio;
2. Išanalizuoti įvaizdį įtakojančius veiksnius;
3. Atskleisti su įvaizdžiu susijusių veiksnių reikšmę ledo ritulininko kontraktui.
Tiriamieji klausimai
1. Kokia įvaizdžio vieta šiuolaikiniame sporte?
2. Kokie įvaizdžio aspektai svarbūs šiuolaikiniame ledo ritulyje?
3. Kokie įvaizdžio aspektai yra svarbūs sudarant kontraktus profesionaliame ledo ritulyje?
Išvados
1. Galima išskirti šiuos ledo ritulininkams keliamus reikalavimus dėl viešojo įvaizdžio: draudžiami vieši pasisakymai ir interviu be klubo vadovybės žinios, yra reikalaujama dėvėti klubo aprangą (ypatingai esant išvykoje), kontraktuose yra punktas draudžiantis viešai skelbti vidines klubo problemas,yra reikalaujama laikytis etiketo normų. Taip pat dalis respondentų atsisakė nurodyti kontraktuose esančius viešojo įvaizdžio reikalavimus (greičiausiai tai siejama su kontrakto konfidencialumu).
2. Sportininko įvaizdį labiausiai įtakoja šie veiksniai: elgesys laisvalaikio metu, žiniasklaida, santykiai su treneriu, dalyvavimas socialinėse akcijose, asmeninis meistriškumas, klubas, kuriam atstovaujama, rūkalų bei svaigalų vartojimas, dažni konfliktai rungtynių metu, tautybė, pilietybė, šeimyninė padėtis, dažna klubų kaita.
3. Svarbiausi sportininko įvaizdžio aspektai, darantys didžiausią įtaką jo kontrakto... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]The aim of the research: to analise theoretically and empirically the meaning of the image of a sportsman signing the contract with anice hockey club. Organization of the research. The aim of this diploma paper is to find out the influence of the image of a sportsman (a hockey player) on his contract. This study is required in order to make the sportsman aware of the possible behavior to maximize the usefulness of the contract. Moreover, this research will be helpful for the professional ice hockey clubs when it comes to adjusting a contract. Human resources will be used for the proper investigation. The target group consists of the most titled Lithuanian clubs players. Survey forms for collecting the necessary information are prepared. The analysis will make it possible to conclude about the determinant factors meaningful to the sportsman image formation and their influence on the successful contract. Ice hockey players were given the questionnaire including 26 questions about various aspects of forming the image of a sportsman. 29 respondents were questioned in total including the sportsmen from different clubs in Lithuania and abroad. After questioning, the findings were analised by making graphs illustrating the frequency of response distributions. Conclusions. The personal image of a sportsman is becoming more and more important in all fields of Lithuanian sporting life, including ice-hockey, in recent years. The image of a sportsman is quite a new and little studied... [to full text]
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Waked, Rita. "La notion de contrat administratif international à travers l'exemple du contrat BOT (Build, Operate, Transfer) : étude comparée Droit français-Droit libanais." Thesis, Paris 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA020005.
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Ratko, Radošević. "Правна природа управног уговора." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Pravni fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2018. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=108189&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Под управним уговором уобичајено се подразумева једна специфична врста уговора, различита од осталих по томе што је подведена под посебан правни режим. Посебност правила о управном уговору огледа се у томе што она припадају управном праву. Спорна суштина управног уговора долази отуда што се правни режим који првенствено важи за вршење управне делатности и доношење управног акта одједном проширује и на акте уговорног карактера.Противречност управног уговора, испољена већ у његовом називу, неизбежно нас наводи на питање о његовој правној природи. Какав је то акт и где он припада? Да ли је и управни уговор по својој природи уговор, или је то посебна врста управног акта? Можда није ни једно ни друго, можда је нешто треће – правни акт различит и од уговора и од управног акта? Шта се уопште подразумева под одређивањем правне природе управног уговора и где је његово место у правном систему?Правни режим управног уговора указује на то да појам управног уговора одговара појму уговора уопште. Управни уговор је двострани правни посао, који настаје као резултат сагласности воља управе и њеног сауговарача. Покушаји да се управни уговор представи као управни акт, или нешто треће – између уговора и управног акта – не могу да се прихвате. Они занемарују или мењају битна обележја управног уговора и зато су, једноставно речено, погрешни!Основни проблем при одређивању правне природе управног уговора састоји се у томе што се он погрешно изједначава са правним односом који настаје његовим закључењем. Када се каже управни уговор, онда се мисли и на све оно што се дешава после његовог закључења; онда се мисли на правни однос у целини. Између управног уговора и правног односа у целини, међутим, не сме да се стави знак једнакости. Управни уговор је једна од правних чињеница које утичу на правни однос. Као што на исти правни однос могу да утичу и друге правне чињенице, укључујући и управни акт. Захваљујући томе, правни однос добија сложени, мешовити карактер.Као правни акт и правна чињеница, управни уговор је „обичан“ уговор, као и сваки други. Специфичан није уговор, специфичан је правни однос који се њиме заснива, зато што на садржину тог правног односа могу да утичу правне чињенице различитог карактера. Специфична је и правна установа која уређује такве односе, јер је мешовита, јер је истовремено уређена и управним и грађанским правом.Pod upravnim ugovorom uobičajeno se podrazumeva jedna specifična vrsta ugovora, različita od ostalih po tome što je podvedena pod poseban pravni režim. Posebnost pravila o upravnom ugovoru ogleda se u tome što ona pripadaju upravnom pravu. Sporna suština upravnog ugovora dolazi otuda što se pravni režim koji prvenstveno važi za vršenje upravne delatnosti i donošenje upravnog akta odjednom proširuje i na akte ugovornog karaktera.Protivrečnost upravnog ugovora, ispoljena već u njegovom nazivu, neizbežno nas navodi na pitanje o njegovoj pravnoj prirodi. Kakav je to akt i gde on pripada? Da li je i upravni ugovor po svojoj prirodi ugovor, ili je to posebna vrsta upravnog akta? Možda nije ni jedno ni drugo, možda je nešto treće – pravni akt različit i od ugovora i od upravnog akta? Šta se uopšte podrazumeva pod određivanjem pravne prirode upravnog ugovora i gde je njegovo mesto u pravnom sistemu?Pravni režim upravnog ugovora ukazuje na to da pojam upravnog ugovora odgovara pojmu ugovora uopšte. Upravni ugovor je dvostrani pravni posao, koji nastaje kao rezultat saglasnosti volja uprave i njenog saugovarača. Pokušaji da se upravni ugovor predstavi kao upravni akt, ili nešto treće – između ugovora i upravnog akta – ne mogu da se prihvate. Oni zanemaruju ili menjaju bitna obeležja upravnog ugovora i zato su, jednostavno rečeno, pogrešni!Osnovni problem pri određivanju pravne prirode upravnog ugovora sastoji se u tome što se on pogrešno izjednačava sa pravnim odnosom koji nastaje njegovim zaključenjem. Kada se kaže upravni ugovor, onda se misli i na sve ono što se dešava posle njegovog zaključenja; onda se misli na pravni odnos u celini. Između upravnog ugovora i pravnog odnosa u celini, međutim, ne sme da se stavi znak jednakosti. Upravni ugovor je jedna od pravnih činjenica koje utiču na pravni odnos. Kao što na isti pravni odnos mogu da utiču i druge pravne činjenice, uključujući i upravni akt. Zahvaljujući tome, pravni odnos dobija složeni, mešoviti karakter.Kao pravni akt i pravna činjenica, upravni ugovor je „običan“ ugovor, kao i svaki drugi. Specifičan nije ugovor, specifičan je pravni odnos koji se njime zasniva, zato što na sadržinu tog pravnog odnosa mogu da utiču pravne činjenice različitog karaktera. Specifična je i pravna ustanova koja uređuje takve odnose, jer je mešovita, jer je istovremeno uređena i upravnim i građanskim pravom.
An administrative contract is usually understood as a specific type of contract, different from others because it is placed under a special legal regime. The rules on the administrative contract are special because they are considered as a part of administrative law. The controversial nature of the administrative contract is the consequence of the fact that the legal regime primarily applied to the exercise of administrative power is extended to the conclusion of a contract.The contradiction of the administrative contract, expressed even in its title, inevitably leads us to the question of its legal nature. What kind of contract is the administrative contract and where does it belong? Is the administrative contract really a contract, by its nature, or is it just a special type of administrative act? Perhaps it is neither one nor the other; perhaps it is something else - a legal act different from both the contract and the administrative act? What does it mean to determine the legal nature of the administrative contract and where can it be placed in the legal system?The legal regime of the administrative contract indicates that the notion of the administrative contract corresponds to the notion of the contract in general. The administrative contract is a bilateral legal act, which arises as a result of the consent of the will of the administration and of the other contracting party. All attempts to present the administrative contract as an administrative act, or something else – an act between a contract and an administrative act - cannot be accepted. They neglect or change the essential features of the administrative contract and, therefore, they are simply wrong!The basic problem in determining the legal nature of the administrative contract consists in the fact that it is incorrectly equated with the legal relationship that arises from its conclusion. When we speak about administrative contract, we usually think of everything that happens after its conclusion; we usually think of the legal relationship as a whole. However, an equality sign should not be placed between the administrative contract and the legal relationship as a whole. The administrative contract is only one of the legal facts that affect the legal relationship. The same legal relationship can be affected by other legal facts, including an administrative act. Thanks to this, the legal relationship gets a complex and mixed character.As a legal act and legal fact, the administrative contract is just a "regular" contract, like any other. Specific is not the contract, specific is the legal relationship based on it, because the content of this legal relationship can be influenced by legal facts of a different nature. Specific is also the legal institution that regulates such relations, since it is mixed, since it is regulated both by administrative and civil law, at the same time.