A Legal Framework for Emerging Business Models: Dynamic Networks as Collaborative Contracts (Corporations, Globalisation and the Law series) - Hardcover

Weitzenboeck, Emily M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178100465X ISBN 13: 9781781004654

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

The last two decades have witnessed the growth of new forms of entrepreneurial cooperation such as dynamic networks like virtual enterprises and enterprise pools. These business forms are often hybrid, having elements of both contract-based organizations and corporate forms, in particular partnership. This book examines the relative utility of contract and partnership law in fostering and maintaining these emerging business models, focusing on dynamic networks.

The book analyzes how dynamic networks are organized and set up through, very often, collaborative contracts and how the behavior of their member firms is regulated. Good faith and fair dealing as a behavioral criterion in contractual and partnership relations, is an important theme of this work. The background and preconditions for the emergence and growth of such business forms is also investigated. The book contains case studies of such networks from different countries in particular Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England and Norway. It examines relevant legal rules in a number of jurisdictions such as England, Norway, Germany, Italy, France and the US.

This detailed book will appeal to postgraduate students and academics in the fields of contract law, comparative law, partnership law and business/commercial law. Academics in other disciplines such as economics, sociology and business management will also find much to interest them in this study.

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About the Author

Emily M. Weitzenboeck, Postdoctoral Scholar, Norwegian Research Center for Computers & Law, University of Oslo, Norway

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178100465X
• ISBN 13: 9781781004654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392