Hope and aspiration (original) (raw)

Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, 2015

Abstract

With the publication of this issue of the Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation (JSCAN), we have gone from being a new-born journal to now building the foundations of a journal that will generate impact through research, foster a community of scholars, inspire new scholars to the field and create engagement and interactions between scholars and professionals working in the private, public, government, and third sectors. Importantly, we want this journal to ensure the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) is further recognized as the world leader in terms of knowledge, theory and practice in this growing field, which is dynamic and constantly changing. As IACCM continues to grow globally in its outreach and engagement, with increasing interest from government, industry and other sectors, it is becoming evident how complex and difficult it is to strategically align interests and agents to deliver a service or product, to innovate a solution, or to form shortor long-term alliances, networks and partnerships with successful outcomes. As such, JSCAN seeks to be a portal through which peer-reviewed, evidencebased research, along with good theory and practice, will advance our knowledge of core elements related to these challenges. This makes JSCAN the natural home for both empirical and theoretical pieces that speak to these challenges: be it the design, execution, evaluation of contracts; how various agents make sense of the benefits to be realized from the processes of contracting and negotiating; the nature and practice of negotiation; the successes and limitations of structuring relationships through various forms of contracts; the competencies, skills and dynamics involved in strategic contracting and negotiations; the nature of conflict and risk allocation and their relationship to trust, and especially

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