The contracting process is the mechanism by which organizations enter into and manage business relationships. Establishing business relationships in a context of electronic services requires an electronic and, in particular, partially automated implementation of this process. Network-enablement and automation require many issues being addressed such as representation,signature, legal validity, decision-making and more. This report introduces a conceptual framework of the contracting process to enable the systematic analysis of its automation issues.
By: Heiko Ludwig
Published in: RC22608 in 2002
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