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Principal-agent relationship issues in Islamic banks: a view of Islamic ethical system

International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 2018
PurposeThis paper aims to discuss and explore the unique agency issues in Islamic banks which give rise to different agency conflicts exist in Islamic banks as compared to conventional banks.
Mohd Haniff Zainuldin, T. Lui, K. Yii
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International Principal–Agent Relationships

Industrial Marketing Management, 2000
Abstract This article builds upon and extends previous control research by examining the effect of different control mechanisms on behavioral and economic performance in international principal–agent relationships. To this end, a contingency model is advanced and tested that explores the role governance structure plays in influencing the performance ...
Preet S. Aulakh, Esra F. Gencturk
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Psychiatrists’ Relationships with Industry: The Principal-Agent Problem

Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2010
Psychiatrists' relationships with the pharmaceutical and device industries have been a growing focus of attention, with questions raised about the impact of those relationships on prescribing practices, diagnostic criteria, practice guidelines, continuing education, conduct and reporting of research, and patients' and public trust.
Paul S, Appelbaum, Azgad, Gold
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Variation of principal-agent relations in Russian federal autocracy

Regional & Federal Studies, 2023
After twenty years of Putin’s rule, Russia has become a full-fledged autocracy, with regional governors subordinate to the federal center, serving as agents of the president-principal.
Stanislav Klimovich
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Protecting Privacy on Mobile Apps: A Principal-Agent Perspective

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2022
Although individuals increasingly use mobile applications (apps) in their daily lives, uncertainty exists regarding how the apps will use the information they request, and it is necessary to protect users from privacy-invasive apps. Recent literature has
Zilong Liu, Xuequn Wang, Xiaohan Li, J. Liu   +3 more
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Benefit distribution of collectively-owned operating construction land entering the market in rural China: A multiple principal–agent theory-based analysis

, 2021
The benefit distribution mechanism is the key to collectively-owned operating construction land (COCL) entering the market. Based on the multiple principal–agent relationship between stakeholders, this paper establishes a theoretical model of COCL ...
Lei Yan, Kairong Hong, Kunqiu Chen, Hui Li, Liu-Wen Liao   +4 more
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Bargaining power and efficiency in principal-agent relationships [PDF]

, 2003
Insurance contracts are frequently modelled as principal--agent relationships. Although it is commonly assumed that the principal, in this case the insurer, has complete freedom to design the contract, the problem formulation in much of the principal--agent literature presumes that the contract is constrained-Pareto-efficient.
John Quiggin, Robert G. Chambers
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Conflict and Confluence: The Multidimensionality of Opportunism in Principal-Agent Relationships

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015
Conventional agency theory typically focuses on a unidirectional problem, in which an agent behaves opportunistically against the interests of a principal. Yet, this conceptualization is too limited to fully describe all aspects of principal–agent relationships.
Asghar Zardkoohi, Joseph S. Harrison, Mathew A. Josefy   +2 more
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Cost Sharing in Principal Agent Relationships

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Why and how do contracting parties share variable or fixed costs? How are revenue and cost sharing agreements affected by an expectation of premature termination? How will fixed costs be shared if dissolution occurs without prior notice? These and other elated questions have been examined utilizing a synthetic principal agent framework.
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Decision Support in Principal-Agent-Relationships

2011
In this chapter we propose control strategies that adjust their decision behavior to the current process performance and/or to the state of the dynamic process environment. We propose an automatic re-configuration of the process control system by changing the process decision model maintained by the used DSS.
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