Du retour réussi des astronautes d’Apollo 13 aux terribles accidents des navettes Challenger et Columbia, comment la NASA a-t-elle géré ces grands événements ? Comment s’est-elle relevée des ...tragédies qu’elle a vécues ? Et comment s’y prend-elle pour continuer à attirer les meilleurs talents ? Avec la journaliste Elizabeth Howell, le médecin et astronaute Dave Williams, qui a participé à deux missions spatiales, revient sur la façon dont cette agence fédérale américaine résout les différends, constitue des équipes ultraperformantes, renforce la résilience organisationnelle et bâtit une culture axée sur la sécurité et l’innovation.
Construction industry is typically vital to the economy of any country. It appears that on-going large-scale building and infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka have attracted numerous international ...contractors. Moreover, in Sri Lanka, there are several foreign investors, and to-be-funded mega government projects at their inception and initial stages, increasing competition which has already been fierce. However, these massive projects under various stakeholders with different interests usually initiate conflicting claims, if not resolved, will likely lead to disputes, and filing law suits. Once a dispute is crystallized, there are commonly used alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms. However, the causes leading to the claims to form a dispute, and the effective ADR methods are largely dependent on the perspective of the stakeholders. This research aims to identifying those dispute causes, factors affecting the selection of dispute resolution methods, and the most effective ADR method in the perspective of different parties to construction projects in the Sri Lankan construction industry. First, an extensive literature review was carried out to identify the ADR context in Sri Lanka. Second, a comprehensive questionnaire survey was conducted involving professionals representing various stakeholders such as contractors, clients and consultants. Survey responses were then analyzed using special purpose statistical software (SPSS). To determine the statistical significance difference among stakeholders' perception, Kruskal-Wallis H test was used with a 90% confidence level. This research thus provides additional insights into causes of claims and ADR selection from different perspectives.
This open access book provides an analytical and critical outlook, by leading scholars, of the impact of various trends in the quality of collaboration and resulting safety outcomes that arise from ...the evolution of traditional integrated production within a single firm into a complex web of partnerships and supply chains. In the face of increasing fragmentation within industrial production and the associated rise in the complexity of inter-organizational communication and transaction,this book analyses causal factors such as cost pressures, globalization of demand, increasingly flexible resource allocation and work organization, changes in legal liability and the possibilities afforded by information technology. Various case studies focus on the effects of crossing boundaries between organizations, between different trades and professions and between countries, assessing the effect of variations in regulatory structures and national cultures. Furthermore, they illustrate the wide range of organizational forms to be found in high-hazard industries today and the impact, potential or real, of the variety of forms of partnership on safety and well-being at work. The contributors assess the effect of out-sourcing and of various forms of partnership and governance on safety at work and how they can be made to support the prevention of major accident hazards.
Pre-litigation is an alternative to going to court that allows parties to settle their differences in an informal setting with the help of a neutral third party. The parties' preferred outcome is ...typically reached in pre-litigation negotiations. Pre-suit mediation can be useful for a number of reasons. First, certain contracts mandate mediation before arbitration or litigation is filed; second, the reliability of arbitration tribunals, judges, and juries is questionable at best. Furthermore, litigation can be extremely taxing on plaintiffs' emotional resources, particularly in highly charged instances. The parties' relationship may also worsen during the course of the dispute. Furthermore, when litigation continues and conflicts grow, the case may get more complex. The high cost of protracted litigation is a powerful argument in favour of early mediation. Commercial dispute mediation is now mandated by law according to the Commercial Courts Act of 2015. The Act states that parties may engage in pre-litigation measures when an immediate need for interim relief is not anticipated. The method for such pre-litigation mediations is laid forth in the Commercial Courts (pre - institution mediation and settlement) Rules, 2018. The provision's required nature has been upheld by the courts;therefore, it may encourage parties to a possible adversarial action to settle their disagreement amicably.The courts' interpretations of whether Section 12-A is required or merely advisory diverged after its implementation. The purpose of this article is to prove that Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 is useful despite the many legal and constitutional flaws that have been pointed out about it.
Flüchten deutsche Unternehmen aufgrund des nationalen AGB-Rechts durch Rechtswahl in ihren Handelsverträgen in ausländische Rechtsordnungen? Sollte die deutsche AGB-Kontrolle im unternehmerischen ...Rechtsverkehr daher liberalisiert werden? In der anhaltenden Reformdebatte wird das Risiko einer Rechtsflucht besonders hervorgehoben. Wie groß ist diese Gefahr jedoch wirklich? Welchen Unternehmen würde eine liberalisierende Reform nützen und welchen schaden? Diese Fragen untersucht Antonia Sommerfeld und liefert dadurch wichtige Erkenntnisse für die gegenwärtige Reformdebatte. Sie zeigt, dass der Einfluss des AGB-Rechts als Auslöser für eine Rechtsflucht überschätzt wird und dass eine vermehrte Wahl der deutschen Rechtsordnung in Handelsverträgen nicht allein durch eine Reform des AGB-Rechts erreicht werden kann. Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Förderpreis der Esche Schümann Commichau Stiftung 2021 sowie dem Werner-von-Melle-Preis 2021 der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung ausgezeichnet.
Nach heute ganz herrschender Meinung wirkt die Rechtskraft ausschließlich zwischen den Prozessparteien. Ausnahmen von diesem Grundsatz sind insbesondere in §§ 68 Abs. 3, 74, 265 f., 325 ff., 613 ZPO ...sowie in § 407 Abs. 2 BGB normiert. Matthias Fervers zeigt, dass weder die Grundregel noch die Ausgestaltung der Ausnahmen zu angemessenen Ergebnissen führen. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit untersucht der Autor die Defizite der gesetzlichen Regelungen und ihrer Interpretation und nimmt jeweils eine dogmatisch-systematische Neubestimmung vor. Anschließend entwickelt er eine grundlegende und vom herrschenden Verständnis abweichende Konzeption zur Rechtskraftwirkung gegenüber Dritten, die sich auch für die Konstellation des kollektiven Rechtsschutzes fruchtbar machen lässt.
At the heart of contemporary dispute resolution theory stands the method of interest-based negotiation. The reliance on interests to resolve disputes has been seen by critics over the years as ...minimizing the protections of legal rights and as corrosive to concepts of group solidarity. Taking a broader view of dispute resolution reveals three distinct strands of the theory: a liberal, state-centric, rights-based approach; a neoliberal, individualistic, interest-based approach; and an anti-liberal, communitarian, relationship-based approach. The origins of these strands of dispute resolution theory can be located within the political and legal landscape of the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when contemporary dispute resolution theory began to take shape. While the structure of dispute resolution theory (and its privileging of the interest-based framework) continues to reflect the concerns of that era, it no longer speaks to the immediate concerns of the present. Instead, current questions in dispute resolution theory signal growing interest in more relationship-oriented approaches. Developing such approaches requires understanding the tensions inherent in dispute resolution theory, lest the shortcomings of relationship-based theories create new problems for the practice of dispute resolution. This Article charts a path to rethink the foundational structures of dispute resolution theory.
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