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The Economy of High Wages: an Agency Problem

Economica, 1983
latitude with respect to the effort they supply, and monitoring of effort and output is costly. In this paper we examine the agency problem that arises in these circumstances. The agent (employee) is assumed to maximize expected utility, which depends on wages and effort (a "bad").
Eaton, Curtis, White, William D
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The Problem of Agency Re-visited.

Scand. J. Inf. Syst., 2005
We analyze five commentaries to our ‘Socio-theoretic Accounts of IS: the Problem of Agency’ paper. We find more commonalty in the way we think about theory and theory development in the IS field than expected, and clear up some misconceptions about our intentions. Actor network IS theorists are reluctant to accept the way we frame the problem of agency
Rose, Jeremy, Jones, Matthew, Truex, Duane   +2 more
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Economic Solubility of the Agency Problem [PDF]

Economics Bulletin, 2001
Conditions are derived under which the solution to the Grossman-Hart formulation of the agency problem involves zero or non-zero effort.
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Agency Problems and Familiness

2015
Since the publication of the pioneering papers of Alchian and Demsetz (1972) and Jensen and Meckling (1976), it has been customary to view firms as organisations that are characterised by contractual relationships among self-interested “factors of production” (Fama, 1980, p. 289).
Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova
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The Problem of Group Agency

The Philosophical Forum, 2000
L'A. s'interroge sur la nature possible des groupes sociaux et conclut a l'impossibilite d'une action morale de ceux-ci en tant qu'agents. Examinant le statut des corporations comme personnes morales en reference aux travaux de P. A. French, l'A. montre que la reconnaisance de structures decisionnelles ne suffit pas a attribuer une decision morale au ...
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The Problem of Representative Agency

2020
This chapter sheds light on private actors that have the standing or capacity to exercise certain forms of power or make certain decisions in terms of representative agency. It discusses a novel account of the conditions that an agent must meet in order to act or speak in the name of another known as the internalist account of representative agency. It
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Effect of the Internal Agency Problem on Risk-Sharing Incentive Contracts in Public–Private Partnership Projects

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management - ASCE, 2023
Masamitsu Onishi, Yujia He, Lei Shi
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agency problems

2008
Luca Anderlini, Felli Leonardo
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What affordances do open-ended real-life tasks offer for sharing student agency in collaborative problem-solving?

Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
Man Ching Esther Chan, Juuso Nieminen
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Associations between problem framing and teacher agency in school-based workgroup discussions of problems of practice

Teaching and Teacher Education, 2021
Aliza Segal
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