Peer Reviewed Research

Autonomy Versus Control in Procurement and Contracting: the Use of Cost-Reimbursement Contracts in Three US Federal Departments

International Review of Administrative Sciences

2017

Dean Trevors examines the efficacy of central attempts to influence the use of specific types of contracts, namely, cost-reimbursement versus fixed-price contracts.

2017

This study, published in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, argues that contract design is a predominant strategy to set contractual expectations among supply chain partners to manage risk

Sex, Gender, and Disasters: Experimental Evidence on the Decision to Invest in Resilience

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

2016

Professors Kim Young, Rob Greenbaum and Noah Dormady use a randomized controlled experimental design to examine whether biological sex or gender diversity might lead to decision-making that improves investments in resilience to calamitous events.

Incentives in Third-Party Governance: Management Practices and Accountability Implications

2016

This study, published in Public Administration Review, assesses public managers’ use of contract incentives in practice and advances theory development.

Agriculture and Human Values

2016

Professor Jill Clark describe current distribution systems within Ohio, identifies firms interested in scaling-up distribution and inform state-level policy efforts by identifying opportunities to better target any state-level policy and program efforts.

Public Performance and Management Review

2016

Dean Trevor Brown used transaction cost economics to produce a conceptual framework that helps explain public-sector contract decisions.

The Leakage Risk Monetization Model for Geologic CO2 Storage

Environmental Science and Technology

2016

Professor Jeff Bielicki developed a Leakage Risk Monetization Model (LRiMM) which integrates simulation of CO2 leakage from geologic CO2 storage reservoirs with an estimation of monetized leakage risk (MLR).

Urban Studies

2016

This study explores the relationship between industry diversity and economic resilience over time.

The Agrifood System Policy Agenda and Research Domain

Journal of Rural Studies

2015

Professor Jill Clark evaluates the emergence of agrifood system policy in the U.S. and suggests future evaluative policy research and comparative analysis with other domains of food policy research.