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The DevSecOps and Agency Theory
2018 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), 2018An 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, 1980This 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How Firms Make Information Technology Investment Decisions: Toward a Behavioral Agency Theory
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2021John Qi Dong +2 more
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