CORI: Contracting and Organizations Research Institute

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Contracting and Organizations Research Institute

University of Missouri Columbia

Research on contracting is stymied by a lack of available contracts. CORI is in the process of creating a knowledge base of contracts, contracting resources, and information on organizational governance. The center-piece of this knowledge base is a public library of contract documents, available electronically over the Internet using a full-text search a retrieval system. Non-public documents may be made available for academic research use by special arrangement. Please contact us for more information.

This collection is made available for educational and academic use. Researchers that use contracts from the collection should acknowledge CORI in their papers. A notice of publication or copy of papers using contracts from the collection would be appreciated.

Continuing to the Search Page constitutes acceptance of these use conditions.

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Search the Digital Contracts Library

CORI's digital contracts library contains over 440,000 contracts and is growing weekly. Most of the contracts in the collection are executed agreements made available in public disclosure filings or filed with a regulatory agency. Currently, the collection is primarily drawn from filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) EDGAR Database. The required disclosure filings made by publicly traded companies frequently contain contracts that are of material interest to investors. CORI is downloading, extracting, and categorizing these contract filings to make them more directly available.

Hardcopy Contracts Now Available Online

Contracts previously available in hardcopy are now available in the v1.1 CORI Digital Library Collection. This collection includes HMO-Physician agreements, sports stadium leases, container shipping contracts, and more, and is full-text searchable.

Disclaimer

The information contained in this web site is provided as a service to the Internet community and does not constitute legal advice. We try to provide quality information, but we make no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained in or linked to this web site. The information in this collection includes both standardized forms and negotiated terms to specific transactions that may or may not have been subjected to judicial review. As legal advice and contract design must be tailored to the specific circumstances of each case, and laws are constantly changing, nothing provided herein should be used as a substitute for the advice of competent counsel.

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Research Papers

Check out CORI Fellows' latest research on the organization and governance of economic activity.

Reading List

This reading list includes significant books in the fields of economic organization, managerial economics, and law and economics. Several books are authored by CORI Fellows and members of CORI's advisory board.

Related Centers

Links to CORI's partner research centers around the globe, as well as to academic societies that promote empirical research on contracting and organization.

Contracting Resource Links

Legal Information Institute

The LII at Cornell Law School provides links to federal and state laws, codes, and regulations, as well as to federal and state court opinions and a wealth of other legal information.

The Corporate Library

The Corporate Library provides news and research on international corporate governance.

Infrastructure Contracts & Licenses Database

Hosted by the World Bank Group, this database provides links to identified government and regulatory agency websites in developing countries that contain contracts and licenses used to regulate the provision of infrastructure services, including electricity, telecommunications, transportation, and water and sanitation.