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Manual to Aid Public Health Nursing Agencies in Formulating and Establishing Personnel Policies
American Journal of Nursing, 1955Ethel G. Brooks +1 more
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Research Data as Aides in Formulating Agency Policy
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 1973Excerpt from the full-text article: Much is being written these days about the role of evaluation in the formulation of social policy. While few writers question the need for basing policy on systematic evaluation a good deal of the literature appears to focus on the obstacles in Larrying out as well as applying evaluative research.
Geismar, Ludwig, Wolock, Isabel
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An Agency Theoretic Formulation of Organizational Control Theory
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010We propose an analytical model that integrates two parallel independent streams of the literature, agency theory and organizational control theory. In doing so, we provide new insights into agency theory by introducing the concept of a congruent agent, and new insights into organizational control theory by using contracting tools to model behavior and ...
Rajiv D. Banker +2 more
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Plato 2—Two Formulations of Agency
2023Abstract Both the Republic and Charmides defend a view of sôphrosunê as agency, the competence to act on one’s own behalf. But they do so from different perspectives: the former affective and the latter epistemic—the one focusing on desire, the other on self-knowledge.
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Exploring spatial vulnerability: inequality and agency formulations in social space
Journal of Marketing Management, 2015AbstractThe authors derive from critical urban geography and consumer research on vulnerability to investigate the ways in which vulnerability within social space is shaped and negotiated. Multiple power dynamics and ideological tension around the production and consumption of social space are explored through diverse examples within the contexts of ...
Saatçioğlu, Bige, Corus, C.
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Creating Spaces for Children’s Agency: ‘I wonder…’ Formulations in Teacher–Child Interactions
International Journal of Early Childhood, 2016Affording children’s agency is an important pedagogical underpinning of a high-quality early childhood program. Yet little is known about how teachers’ interactions create spaces for children’s agency. From the perspectives of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this paper investigates how teachers and children navigate agency through their ...
Houen, Sandy +3 more
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Structure and Agency in Scholarly Formulations of Racism
Human Studies, 2011That the issue of racism is a pressing social concern which requires serious and detailed attention is, for ethnomethodology, not a first principle from which its own inquiry is launched but rather a matter to be considered in light of how mundane actors (both professional and lay) treat that very topic.
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Agency theory: choice-based foundations of the parametrized distribution formulation
Economic Theory, 2007This paper develops choice-theoretic foundations of the principal's and the agent's behaviors underlying the parametrized distribution formulation of agency theory. Both the principal and the agent are expected-utility maximizers and their action-dependent subjective probabilities are defined directly on the outcomes.
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