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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"Agency Theory"”.
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THE POLITICAL INTERFERENCE IN UNIVERSITIES IN PAKISTAN: AN AGENCY THEORY FRAMEWORK APPROACH
… Drawing upon the theoretical framework of agency theory, this study aims to understand the provincial government’s exercise of influence through the appointment of university leadership and the composition of university governing boards. Furthermore, this research explores the effectiveness …
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Industry characteristics, agency theory, and the interaction of capital structure and dividend policy
The literature on agency theory has generally modelled and tested the firm’s dividend and capital structure decisions separately. In this dissertation, a model is developed based on agency cost considerations and dividends as a means of controlling equity agency costs, which simultaneously …
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An explication of agency theory with theoretical and practical considerations for school-based management
Agency theory is a relatively new theoretical approach to the study of control loss and delegation in organizations. Several educational researchers have applied agency theory to an analysis of school-based management, however they have reached inconsistent conclusions.
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Agency theory: a model of investor equilibrium and a test of an agency cost rationale for convertible bond financing
… assets is being studied under the heading of "agency theory." The primary purposes of the research done in this study were to: (1) economically model the individual investor's consumption-investment decision as it is modified by the agency problem, and (2) to econometrically model the firm's …
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The agency cost of financial decision making: an empirical analysis
Jensen and Meckllng in "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior and Capital Structure" [1976] introduced the concept that managers choose their ownership in the firm and leverage ratio to minimize agency costs. Easterbrook [1984] and Rozeff [1982] extended this notion with the hypothesis that …
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Pension Fund Managers, Certified Public Accountants and Actuaries: A Principal -Agent Analysis of Information Provision
This study, in an agency theory context, sheds the light on the relationship between a pension fund administrator and his/her agent(s) and provides the pension administrator rules for using different contracting models in contracting with his/her agents.
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Corporate governance and strategic action within the context of antitakeover corporate charter amendments
… interests between stockholders and management, agency theory indicates several monitoring mechanisms, including internal board of director control and the external ""market for corporate control."" Management theorists and economists have independently conducted previous research on these …
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The Effect of Corporate Governance on Firm Performance in Jordan
… 2000 to 2010. This study primarily employs the agency theory to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance. The agency theory is concerned with the agency problem between principals and agents (i.e. shareholders and managers, respectively), which undermines …
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The Financialization of the Business Enterprise
… as the dominant paradigm of the economic theory of the firm. The second part of the first chapter documents how this ontological shift permeated the fields of law, theories of management, and strategy. The second chapter of this dissertation examines the transmission mechanism through …
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Voluntary formation of audit committees and their practices : an Australian study
… from the Connect 4 database of companies. Using Agency theory, the study hypothesized that voluntary formation of audit committees was linked to Big 4 external auditors, proportion of independent directors, leverage, firm size, management's share of ownership, board size, assets in place and the …
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Intelligence Outcomes: Assessing the 1975-1976 Intelligence Oversight Reforms
… control in the United States federal government. Agency theory and oversight theory have served as principal lenses for the design and evaluation of congressional oversight functions. For the purpose of this study, oversight is politically-guided and technically-supported systematic foresight and …
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The Role of Institutional Investors in the Governance of Firms: A Test of Competing Power and Agency Models
… firm governance. By contrast, positivist agency theory identifies institutional governance as a substitute for tighter internal firm governance. Irrespective of the underlying rationale, however, the likelihood that any given institutional investor would take a greater role in firm …
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Towards the implementation of a fully-fledged electronic service for citizens: the case for local government in South Africa
… approaches, namely structuration, activity, and agency theories to address the different contexts of the research. Structuration theory has aided the research to ask critical questions about the social structures in local government that affect implementation. The activity theory was used to …
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Information content and determinants of timeliness of financial reporting of manufacturing firms in Indonesia
… period after the end of the financial year. Agency theory suggests that shareholders require protection because management may not always act in the best interests of shareholders. Therefore, timely reporting is important in reducing information asymmetry between management and shareholders, …
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Performance Implications of Multi -Partner Channel Relationships
… arguments from transaction cost analysis, agency theory, and social exchange theory, the dissertation examined a model of relationship strength as a function of dependence and relationship fairness perception, developed a classification schema for multi-partner relationships, and tested …
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Cost management preferences of small restaurant firms
… depending on the level of conflict as noted by agency theory and expense preference theory; Data from 87 private small restaurant firms were used. Cost of doing business, size of staff and five accounting ratios (ROE, ROA, Profit Margin, Financial Leverage and Asset Utilization) were used as …
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The Governance of Long-Term Investing in Knowledge Creation - Novel Control Mechanisms for Reducing Managerial Myopia and Increasing Growth in Organizations
… controls, to lower organizational levels. Agency theory, organizational control theory, and resource dependence theory are the key theories applied in this dissertation, following the tradition of previous research on corporate governance and corporate internal controls. This dissertation …
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ESCALATION OF COMMITMENT AND THE EFFECTS OF THE PRESENCE OF AN ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT, MAGNITUDE OF LOSS AND MONITORING: STOPPING A PROJECT WHICH IS 90% COMPLETE
… or doubtful projects. Among those theories are Agency Theory, Self-Justification Theory, Prospect Theory, Approach Avoidance Theory, Self-Efficacy Theory and National Culture Theory. This study incorporates Agency Theory, Approach Avoidance Theory and Self-Justification Theory to explain the …
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