Driving Integrity: Relational Contracting On The Rise Article by Kate Vitasek published by Forbes on 20 May 2015. Here’s the link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevitasek/2015/05/20/driving-integrity-relational-contracting-on-the-rise/
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Forbes – May 2015
Courts Rule For Ethics And Honesty In Contracting Article by Kate Vitasek published by Forbes on 11 May 2015. Here’s the link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevitasek/2015/05/11/courts-rule-for-ethics-and-honesty-in-contracting/
Forbes — February 2015
A Matter of Time Before West Coast Port Labor Issues Recur Article by Kate Vitasek published by Forbes on 23 February 2015. Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevitasek/2015/02/23/a-matter-of-time-before-west-coast-port-labor-issues-recur/
Outsource Magazine — December 2014
Jean Tirole: The science of taming powerful firms Article published in Outsource Magazine by Kate Vitasek on 22 December 2014. Jean Tirole, the French professor of economics who recently received the Nobel Prize, is one of the most influential modern economists for his extensive theories and rigorous mathematic analysis of strategic behaviour and information economics […]
BlogTalkRadio — September 2014
Bridging The Relational Divide with Kate Vitasek Jon Hansen’s interview with Kate Vitasek on September 4 Here’s the link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jon-hansen/2014/09/04/bridging-the-relational-divide-with-kate-vitasek
Outsource Magazine — July 2014
Some Questions and Answers about Relational Contracting Article by David Frydlinger in Outsource Magazine, published online 15 July 2014. For quite some time now, there has been much talk about the need for a more collaborative approach in outsourcing. In this context, the concept of relational or collaborative contracting often appears… Here’s the link: http://outsourcemagazine.co.uk/some-questions-and-answers-about-relational-contracting/ […]
Outsource Magazine — July 2014
Avery W. Katz: Dealing with the Incomplete Contract Kate Vitasek’s monthly column/blog for Outsource Magazine. Published 4 July 2014. Avery W. Katz, professor of law at Columbia Law School, tackles the conundrum of “incomplete contracts.” The challenge? How can organisations fashion a contract that is both economically flexible enough for a business relationship to move […]
GENCO Joins the Ranks of Vested Award-Winning Companies
If necessity is the mother of invention, transformation may well be the big daddy of re-invention. That’s perhaps what Dell and GENCO thought as they held a Global Outlet Partnership Summit in Fort Worth, TX in 2011. The purpose of the summit was to restructure and align their outsourcing agreement to move from a traditional […]
I’m Finished with Final
I’m giggling a little as I write this. I just signed off on one of the latest articles my team and I are writing. Its title now files under “When you Build Fatal Flaws into a Contract, Don’t Be Surprised If Your Contract is Fatally Flawed FINALv4.doc.” It’s the “FINALv4” part that I find funny. […]
Contracts: Going for the Long-term
Most contracts are fairly short-term and the general consensus, according to Tim Cummins, president and CEO of IACCM, is that their average duration is about four years. Tim, an expert and prolific writer on contracting issues, adds further that existing contracts are renewed or restructured at a rate of about 48 percent. There is some […]
