The exchange could take place in a market place, or it could be part of the commercial relation among the seller and the buyer.
Template
The clarification for the fields in the template is given in the Interaction template (Actant Dictionary).
| Name |
Trade (Exchanging goods and services for money) |
| Domain |
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| Target Outcome |
A change in the claims by the participating actors, on the exchanged goods. |
| Social actors and roles |
At least a buyer and seller, often also transporter, insurer, customs as explained for different incoterms. |
| Trigger or preceding interaction |
The establishment of transportation, communication, and financial settlement solutions. |
| Interfaces and services |
Price information,… |
| Inputs and outputs |
The goods exchanged, regulations that govern the entitlements (e.g., customs and excise duties), contracts that govern liabilities (e.g. as assumed under each incoterm). |
| Stores and tools |
Sales terms, such as those for International Commerce (IncoTerms 2010). Classification of goods, such as Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS, Harmonized System) and its use in the determination of customs and excise duties, as illustrated by the Singapore Trade Classification, Customs & Excise Duties 2012. |
| Other characteristics |
| Part of |
National or international trade. |
| Parts |
The handing over of assets (material, content, financial) among the parties. |
| Succeeding Interactions |
In the case of conflict: arbitration. |
| Alternatives |
Besides legitimate ways of exchanging goods and services, exchanges may also happen in illegitmate ways, for instance as part of corruption, stealing and robbery. |
| Action Realm |
Operations |
| Risks |
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| Further reading |
Any handbook on trade. |
Because interactions are defined or described as patterns, their realization will require the involvement of entities or continuants: pattern ''parameters'' are bound to entities in the so-called real site work system (see the figure at Regulative Cycle), and bind:
- roles to macro or meso-level actors (stakeholders) in a country, a city, or to pico, micro or meso-level actors (stakeholders) in a sector;
- resources to resources (entities) accessible to the actors (stakeholders), for instance information available in the languages mastered by them (language options in the entity dictionary). Note that existing resource gaps for many stakeholders may make problematic the achievement of the intended interaction ''outcome'', or it may distort the cost-benefit equation.
Moreover, interactions can be bound together in variable ways, to create variants and achieve fit of the interaction to the situation, as indicated in the occurrent binding options. The Multisystemic therapy's First Principle (Finding the Fit) and the supporting distinction between the treatment model and the evidence-based treatment clarifies the utility of the variant creation.
Generalization is used with the meaning explained in Generalizations (Geometric) (Wikipedia).
Position of Trade among the interactions: