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On Butler’s Theory of Agency

open access: yes, 2021
This essay addresses the notion of agency in Judith Butler’s work. Its central claim is that her political philosophy revolves around a specific understanding of agency, even a theory of agency, which has not as yet received due attention. The first part of the essay examines two main thought traditions in which agency became an operational notion ...
Zaharijević, Adriana
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The DevSecOps and Agency Theory

2018 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), 2018
An effective implementation of DevSecOps requires an increased focus on collaborations between different work groups or disciplines within IT (development, security, and operations/implementation). Nonetheless, different groups are still too often reluctant to trust each other, or inter-group conflicts tend to commonly occur.
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Agency problems and the theory of the firm

Journal of Political Economy, 1980
This paper attempts to explain how the separation of security ownership and control, typical of large corporations, can be an efficient form of economic organization. We first set aside the presumption that a corporation has owners in any meaningful sense. The entrepreneur is also laid to rest, at least for the purposes of the large modern corporation.
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AGENCY THEORY:

Managerial Finance, 1988
This paper reviews and analyzes the literature on agency theory in terms of the nature of the problem and its implications for management. Finance theory posits that the goal of economic organizations is to maximize stockholders' wealth. Attaining this goal was not an issue when owners were also managers.
Amir Jassim   +2 more
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The Agency Theory

2020
In this chapter, we discuss the agency theory. The agency theory is a principle utilized in an attempt to explain the complicated relationship that exists between the owners (principal) and managers (agents) of the business. Based on this, we propose that the agency theory is an attempt to explain the complexity of human behaviour in the principal ...
Tankiso Moloi, Tshilidzi Marwala
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Agency Theory

Annual Review of Sociology, 2005
In an agency relationship, one party acts on behalf of another. It is curious that a concept that could not be more profoundly sociological does not have a niche in the sociological literature. This essay begins with the economics paradigm of agency theory, which casts a very long shadow over the social sciences, and then traces how these ideas diffuse
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How Firms Make Information Technology Investment Decisions: Toward a Behavioral Agency Theory

Journal of Management Information Systems, 2021
Prasanna Karhade, John Dong, Arun Rai
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