Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 507-525, May 2026.ABSTRACT What constitutes a good corporate agent? The article answers this question by critically applying List and Pettit's theory of group agency, which emphasizes three crucial dimensions of organizational design: epistemic quality, incentive compatibility, and control.
Chi Kwok, Chris Man‐Kong Li
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Livelihood, Language or Self‐Identification? The Shifting Base of Sámi Representation in Finland
Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of (i) the Finnish Eduskunta's enactment in June 2025 of a contentious change in the voting rules for elections to the Sámi Parliament and (ii) the publication in December 2025 of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission examining the historic discrimination practised against the Sámi population, this ...
David Arter
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African Studies Quarterly, 2010 Like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana, is undergoing a rapid pace of urbanization associated with socio-economic, environmental, and institutional challenges for urban residents and local government authorities.
George Owusu +1 more
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"Relational therapy" for retail franchisers and franchisees : staging into the experience economy [PDF]
Retail franchisers struggle to differentiate their businesses in an increasingly commoditizing environment. In order to differentiate, these retailers have to adjust their processes and offerings, but this may harm the franchiser’s unified concept and ...
Broekhuizen, T.L.J., Croonen, E.P.M.
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Local Government Action and Antitrust Policy: An Economic Analysis [PDF]
, 1984 At least partly as a result of the Supreme Court decision in Community Communications Co. v. City of Boulder, cities are facing antitrust challenges to their rights to franchise cable television systems.
Brennan, Timothy J. +3 more
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Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility in Franchising
, 2021 Paper IV was excluded from the dissertation with respect to copyright.
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Beyond Universities: Structural Stratification in Canadian Tertiary Education
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Empirical analyses and theorizing of structural stratification in tertiary education have focused almost exclusively on universities. In doing so, such work ignores large swaths of the organizational field, including counterparts in the understudied community college, private career college, and theological sectors.
Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa
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Increasing Contraceptive Access for Hard-to-Reach Populations With Vouchers and Social Franchising in Uganda. [PDF]
Glob Health Sci Pract, 2017 Bellows B +5 more
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Plural Form in Franchising: An Incomplete Contracting Approach [PDF]
Plural form franchising is modeled from an incomplete contracting perspective. Complete franchising is the unique, efficient governance structure only when the plural form externality is limited and the costs of investment are low for both franchisees ...
Hendrikse, G.W.J., Jiang, T.
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The Benefits of Franchising and Vertical Disintergration in Monopolistic Competition for Locationally Differentiated Products [PDF]
, 1993 A model of franchising competition in locationally differentiated products is constructed. A franchisor (upstream firm) collects a marginal transfer fee per unit of output sold by a franchisee (downstream firm). For example, the marginal transfer fee can
Economides, Nicholas
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