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Describability and agency problems

European Economic Review, 1998
This paper suggests a reason, other than asymmetric information, why agency contracts are not explicitly contingent on the agent's performance or actions. Two ingredients are essential to this reason. The first is the written form that contracts are required to take to be enforceable.
Anderlini L., Felli L.
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Agency Triangles: Problems in Agency‐Family Relationships

Family Process, 1983
This article focuses on ways in which helping agents, including family therapists, become part of the problem they are treating. Particular emphasis is placed on triangular patterns that frequently develop when one agency involves another in carrying out its functions and in diffusing conflict with a client and his or her family.
D, Carl, G J, Jurkovic
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A dual approach to agency problems

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2023
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Chang Koo Chi, Kyoung Jin Choi
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Agency Problems and Residual Claims

The Journal of Law and Economics, 1983
Social and economic activities, like religion, entertainment, education, research, and the production of other goods and services, are carried on by different types of organizations, for example, corporations, proprietorships, partnerships, mutuals and nonprofits. There is competition among organizational forms for survival.
Fama, Eugene F., Jensen, Michael C.
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Two Problems about Human Agency

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), 2001
Abstract This chapter distinguishes agential authority from subjective normative authority, argues that a theory of strong forms of human agency needs to provide a coordinated treatment of both, and explains how an appeal to higher-order self-governing policies aims to do this.
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