The sale of commissioned goods is an old, well-known concept although its implementation and automation in the context of the modern information systems in enterprises is not all that simple given that it implies appropriate contractual arrangement, and organizational and informational...

We model the determinants of who makes decisions, the principal or an agent, when there are multiple decisions. Decision making takes effort and time; and, once implemented, the expected loss from a particular decision (or project) increases with the length of time since the last decision was...

This article draws mostly (but not entirely) on new institutional economics to consider the likely behaviours of non-government conservation organizations and the implications of these behaviours for biodiversity conservation. It considers how institutional factors may result in behaviour of...