This short paper explores the foundations of B2B platform partnership management. After a theoretical derivation of the terminology, the performance measurement practices of a B2B platform owner offering the two platforms A and B to industrial customers are identified based on qualitative...

Abstract This paper considers the evolution of cost-benefit analysis, CBA, and proposes a foundation for its current use and continued development, to be called benefit-cost analysis, BCA. In the trajectory from CBA to BCA elements of a new foundation include first a recognition that there is a...

Abstract This paper explores the relationship between law and applied welfare economics, BCA, and indicates how they are mutually enhancing. A definition of underlying principles for benefit cost analysis is given, from which rules for its application are derived. These rules are useful in...

The achievements of the interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics are adapted and a holistic approach to the definition, classification, evaluation, and improvement of contracts and contractual relations is justified. Specificity of the economic study of agrarian contracts is summarized and...

The research examines Saudi Arabia's foreign policy against the background of the Syrian conflict. It focuses in particular on religious and historical backgrounds, which are of great importance for understanding developments in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia's changing role in a region that has...

Although Bangladesh is a constitutionally Islamic country, some brothels are regulated by state law. But these brothels are located in the suburbs, and there were legal brothels around the capital, which no longer exist. Thus, prostitution is observed in a variety of ways, including in...

The EU Water Framework Directive clearly integrates economics into water management and policy making, and economics is to have a decisive role in the development of the programme of measures and the new river basin management plans. This paper provides a brief overview of the contribution of...

One of the essential conditions to conclude al-Rahn (pledge) contract is to ensure that the pledged asset (Mal al-Marhun) is available during contract execution. The absence of this aspect may trigger the issue of Gharar (uncertainty) which would affect the validity of al-Rahn contract. This...

Notwithstanding the fact that the world’s major religions espouse the principle of inter-religion tolerance, religion has, arguably, replaced ideology in the 21st century as the main destructive force in human affairs. This is because religion, more than a set of theological beliefs, is an...

Many countries badly mismanage their natural resource endowments. We argue that a fundamental change in paradigm is needed. Specifically, we advocate treating non-renewable natural resources as a finite shared inheritance asset, and extraction as the sale of the inherited wealth. We identify...