JSCAN is an international peer-reviewed journal for research and theory about practices that challenge the status quo in strategic contracting and negotiations, and the commercial implementation of business strategy or policy. JSCAN also addresses the impact of contracting and negotiation on trust and ethics in business. Contracting and negotiation have become core to organizational and inter-organizational relationships, irrespective of sector or industry, and of national or international boundaries. 
 
Mainstream research and theory in contracting (which draws primarily on concepts developed in law and economics) and negotiations (again drawing primarily on law and economics, along with psychology), has advanced our understanding of both areas; but modern complex global operations require more holistic understandings. The social sciences offer significant theoretical and empirical insights to supplement legal and economic insights for complex, multidimensional views of current practice in this vibrant organizational area. Effective management of projects, organizations and human relations at both local and global levels requires stepping beyond simple disciplinary models and approaches. As a cross-disciplinary endeavour drawing on the social sciences, JSCAN aims to lead the wave of change concerning theory, research and the practice of strategic contracting and negotiation. 
 
The focus of the journal will primarily be in the following areas:

• Works that advance our understanding of contracting and negotiation as relational process, including but not limited to work that considers power and politics, trust, human relations, rules, and ethics in contracting and/or negotiation.
• Works that advance the strategic role of contracting and negotiation in terms of commercial outcomes, and performance.
• Works that especially engage social theory to explain the role of negotiations and contracting in and on society, ecology and economies.
• Works that are empirically and theoretically sound, exciting and diverse and advance our understanding of the strategic importance and impact of contracting and negotiation on interpersonal, national and international society, ecology and economy.

The journal does not have a preferred ontological or epistemological grounding, and welcomes papers with diverse perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings. 
 
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). 
 
SAGE Publications Ltd 
1 Oliver's Yard 
55 City Road 
London, EC1Y 1SP 
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7 324 8500 
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7 324 8600 
E-mail: market@sagepub.co.uk

JSCAN is an international peer-reviewed journal for research and theory about practices that challenge the status quo in strategic contracting and negotiations, and the commercial implementation of business strategy or policy. JSCAN also addresses the impact of contracting and negotiation on trust and ethics in business. Contracting and negotiation have become core to organizational and inter-organizational relationships, irrespective of sector or industry, and of national or international boundaries. 
 
Mainstream research and theory in contracting (which draws primarily on concepts developed in law and economics) and negotiations (again drawing primarily on law and economics, along with psychology), has advanced our understanding of both areas; but modern complex global operations require more holistic understandings. The social sciences offer significant theoretical and empirical insights to supplement legal and economic insights for complex, multidimensional views of current practice in this vibrant organizational area. Effective management of projects, organizations and human relations at both local and global levels requires stepping beyond simple disciplinary models and approaches. As a cross-disciplinary endeavour drawing on the social sciences, JSCAN aims to lead the wave of change concerning theory, research and the practice of strategic contracting and negotiation. 
 
The focus of the journal will primarily be in the following areas:

• Works that advance our understanding of contracting and negotiation as relational process, including but not limited to work that considers power and politics, trust, human relations, rules, and ethics in contracting and/or negotiation.
• Works that advance the strategic role of contracting and negotiation in terms of commercial outcomes, and performance.
• Works that especially engage social theory to explain the role of negotiations and contracting in and on society, ecology and economies.
• Works that are empirically and theoretically sound, exciting and diverse and advance our understanding of the strategic importance and impact of contracting and negotiation on interpersonal, national and international society, ecology and economy.

The journal does not have a preferred ontological or epistemological grounding, and welcomes papers with diverse perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings. 
 
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). 
 
SAGE Publications Ltd 
1 Oliver's Yard 
55 City Road 
London, EC1Y 1SP 
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7 324 8500 
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7 324 8600 
E-mail: market@sagepub.co.uk

JSCAN is an international peer-reviewed journal for research and theory about practices that challenge the status quo in strategic contracting and negotiations, and the commercial implementation of business strategy or policy. JSCAN also addresses the impact of contracting and negotiation on trust and ethics in business. Contracting and negotiation have become core to organizational and inter-organizational relationships, irrespective of sector or industry, and of national or international boundaries. 
 
Mainstream research and theory in contracting (which draws primarily on concepts developed in law and economics) and negotiations (again drawing primarily on law and economics, along with psychology), has advanced our understanding of both areas; but modern complex global operations require more holistic understandings. The social sciences offer significant theoretical and empirical insights to supplement legal and economic insights for complex, multidimensional views of current practice in this vibrant organizational area. Effective management of projects, organizations and human relations at both local and global levels requires stepping beyond simple disciplinary models and approaches. As a cross-disciplinary endeavour drawing on the social sciences, JSCAN aims to lead the wave of change concerning theory, research and the practice of strategic contracting and negotiation. 
 
The focus of the journal will primarily be in the following areas:

• Works that advance our understanding of contracting and negotiation as relational process, including but not limited to work that considers power and politics, trust, human relations, rules, and ethics in contracting and/or negotiation.
• Works that advance the strategic role of contracting and negotiation in terms of commercial outcomes, and performance.
• Works that especially engage social theory to explain the role of negotiations and contracting in and on society, ecology and economies.
• Works that are empirically and theoretically sound, exciting and diverse and advance our understanding of the strategic importance and impact of contracting and negotiation on interpersonal, national and international society, ecology and economy.

The journal does not have a preferred ontological or epistemological grounding, and welcomes papers with diverse perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings. 
 
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). 
 
SAGE Publications Ltd 
1 Oliver's Yard 
55 City Road 
London, EC1Y 1SP 
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7 324 8500 
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7 324 8600 
E-mail: market@sagepub.co.uk

JSCAN is an international peer-reviewed journal for research and theory about practices that challenge the status quo in strategic contracting and negotiations, and the commercial implementation of business strategy or policy. JSCAN also addresses the impact of contracting and negotiation on trust and ethics in business. Contracting and negotiation have become core to organizational and inter-organizational relationships, irrespective of sector or industry, and of national or international boundaries. 
 
Mainstream research and theory in contracting (which draws primarily on concepts developed in law and economics) and negotiations (again drawing primarily on law and economics, along with psychology), has advanced our understanding of both areas; but modern complex global operations require more holistic understandings. The social sciences offer significant theoretical and empirical insights to supplement legal and economic insights for complex, multidimensional views of current practice in this vibrant organizational area. Effective management of projects, organizations and human relations at both local and global levels requires stepping beyond simple disciplinary models and approaches. As a cross-disciplinary endeavour drawing on the social sciences, JSCAN aims to lead the wave of change concerning theory, research and the practice of strategic contracting and negotiation. 
 
The focus of the journal will primarily be in the following areas:

• Works that advance our understanding of contracting and negotiation as relational process, including but not limited to work that considers power and politics, trust, human relations, rules, and ethics in contracting and/or negotiation.
• Works that advance the strategic role of contracting and negotiation in terms of commercial outcomes, and performance.
• Works that especially engage social theory to explain the role of negotiations and contracting in and on society, ecology and economies.
• Works that are empirically and theoretically sound, exciting and diverse and advance our understanding of the strategic importance and impact of contracting and negotiation on interpersonal, national and international society, ecology and economy.

The journal does not have a preferred ontological or epistemological grounding, and welcomes papers with diverse perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings. 
 
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). 
 
SAGE Publications Ltd 
1 Oliver's Yard 
55 City Road 
London, EC1Y 1SP 
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7 324 8500 
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7 324 8600 
E-mail: market@sagepub.co.uk