Contracts as Legal Institutions in Organizations of Autonomous Agents
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre · 2004
In this paper we address the problem of how the autonomy of agents in an organization can be enhanced by means of contracts. Contracts are modelled as legal institutions: systems of legal rules which allow to change the regulative and constitutive rules of an organization. The methodology we use is to attribute to organizations mental attitudes, beliefs, desires and goals, and to take into account their behavior by using recursive modelling. 1.