The Determinants of Contract Compliance in E- Procurement and Distribution Industry in Malaysia

The authors discuss the interplay between the notions of contract compliance, contract refinement, and choreography conformance in the context of service oriented computing, by considering both synchronous and asynchronous communication. Service contracts are specified in a language independent way by means of finite labeled transition systems. In this way, the theory is general and foundational as the authors abstract away from the syntax of contracts and simply assume that a contract language has an operational semantics defined in terms of a labeled transition system. The chapter makes a comparative analysis of synchronous and asynchronous communication. Concerning the latter, a realistic scenario is considered in which services are endowed with queues used to store the received messages. In the simpler context of synchronous communication, the authors are able to resort to the theory of fair testing to provide decidability results.

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Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)

Encyclopedia of African American Society ◽

10.4135/9781412952507.n474 ◽

2013 ◽

Keyword(s):

Compliance Programs ◽

Contract Compliance

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New Labour Ambiguity, or Neo-liberal Consistency? The Debate About Racial Inequality in Employment and the Use of Contract Compliance

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279404008578 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 255-272 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

MICHAEL ORTON ◽

PETER RATCLIFFE

Keyword(s):

Policy Development ◽

Racial Inequality ◽

New Labour ◽

Economic Policies ◽

Contract Compliance ◽

Minority Ethnic Groups ◽

Labour Policy ◽

The Government ◽

Key Barrier ◽

The Uk

In 2003 the UK government set an objective that in ten years' time Britain's minority ethnic groups should not face disproportionate barriers in the labour market. A key ‘barrier’ is discrimination by employers. This article examines one potential way forward: the use of contract compliance. First, the article presents findings from the authors' study of an innovative use of contract compliance by a group of local authorities in the West Midlands. If contract compliance can be made to work and New Labour is committed to addressing racial inequality in employment, this suggests that contract compliance is an approach that the government should be seeking to develop. The second part of the article therefore considers New Labour's stance on contract compliance, which can be seen to be highly ambiguous. It is argued that if contract compliance is located within the broader context of New Labour policy development, what is apparent is that the professed aspiration for social change is compromised by a dominant commitment to the maintenance of neo-liberal economic policies. The conclusion is that it is likely that only limited progress will be made in achieving racial equality in employment.

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