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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Agency relationships"”.
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Long -Term Agency Relationships and Human Capital Investment
The second part looks into situations where agents working in a team environment. The contract offers agents with a possibility of promotional prize, a fraction of an agent's own output and a share scheme of the firm's total output. Agents may allocate efforts into working on his own task …
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The Psychological Contract of Multiple Agency Relationships: Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviors of Contractors
<p>Previous research offers inconsistent findings with respect to attitude and behavior differences for contingent and permanent workers. The current study proposes the psychological contract as an explanatory framework for understanding differences between contractors and regular employees. The …
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Choice of law in respect of agency relationships in the European Union and the United Arab Emirates
Agency contracts differ from other contracts since they involve a triangular relationship among three parties: a principal, an agent and a contractor. This relationship is further divided into an internal relationship between the principal and the agent and two external relationships, one between …
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Dimensions of the interorganizational relationship between Area Agencies on Aging and Social Services Block Grant Agencies
… on social action theory to examine the interagency relationships between Title III/Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) and Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) agencies across the country. The specific purpose of this study was to investigate five AAA/SSBG agency relationships using case study …
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A study to establish the possible impact value management can have on the briefing stage of projects in the advertising industry
… with problems that are found both within the agency environment and within the client-agency relationship. The problems identified have been categorised, by this report, into the areas: the agency environment that has changed due to technology; the inner-workings of the agency network; and the …
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Two Essays On Cross-Country Differences In Corporate Dividend Policies
… through traditional `bird in hand', signaling, agency and pecking order theories. The hypotheses are supported by empirically robust evidence. The first essay is forthcoming in Journal of International Business Studies, a top-tier journal in international business. In the second essay, we …
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Scottish based money laundering operations: inter-agency cooperation across jusrisdictions
… primary research. <br/> In unpacking the inter-agency relationships engaged in the policing of money laundering this work addresses 5 thematic discussions: globalisation, the increasing emphasis on ‘the follow the money approach’ to crime control, the use of risk, the trend of promoting …
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Business process re-engineering: application for littoral combat ship mission module acquisition
… business process of PMS-420 and its varied inter-agency relationships. This paper will discuss the efficient business processes of two other acquisition programs within PEO LMW; 1) Naval Special Warfare (PMS-340) and 2) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (PMS-408). While discussing these other …
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Risk Management in United States Forest Service: National Environmental Policy Act Planning Processes
… some minor) land management decisions by the agency. The outcomes of these processes are the result of multiple factors, many related to the manifold smaller incremental decisions made by agency personnel directing the processes. Through qualitative review of 21 NEPA documents and 5 case study …
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Queen Victoria's Library: The Place of Reading and Writing in Victoria's Political Education, Self-Improvement and Self-Curation
… she read, this thesis elucidates its role in her agency, relationships, self-improvement, interaction with the world through literature, the dynamics of her literary tastes, and her own relationship to Britain’s ever-developing literary culture. Through an analysis of previously unused material, …
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Three essays on b2b solution selling - challenges in sales, contracting, and pricing
… success. The focus of essay 2 lies on B2B export relationships for complex product-service combinations in an international context. A regression analysis based on a survey study with 198 responses shows several direct and indirect effects of contractual and cultural constructs. The results give …
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Analysis of noun + noun sequences in discipline-specific published research articles
Nouns as nominal pre-modifiers (e.g., agency relationships) are considered one component of grammatical complexity in writing (Biber et al., 2011). Previous research has primarily focused on how the frequency of noun+noun sequences vary across disciplines (Gray, 2015). However, there is a lack of …
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Working relationships in family business: a psychological contract theory perspective
… with their unique dynamics and working relationships often shaping their success or failure. Drawing upon psychological contract theory, this study investigates the formation and content dimensions of psychological contracts among family and non-family employees in family businesses. By …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… and grammaticalisation of pictotypical agency relationships. Chapter 11 describes valency, surveying transitivity types and describing the valency changing and rearranging derivations available in the language, including antipassive, causative and applicative. Incorporation and …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… and grammaticalisation of pictotypical agency relationships. Chapter 11 describes valency, surveying transitivity types and describing the valency changing and rearranging derivations available in the language, including antipassive, causative and applicative. Incorporation and …
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Equity carve-outs, efficiency gains, and market timing
… based on 174 US ECOs of the 1995 to 2002 period. Agency theory has been chosen as unifying theoretical framework. To illustrate how ECOs affect the losses engendered by the separation of ownership and control, the determinants of agency costs are reviewed for the various agency relationships in a …
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Towards establishing a fit-for-purpose regulatory framework for radiation protection in Western Australia's mining industry: Evaluating mine worker exposures to naturally occurring radionuclides
… framework is fit-for-purpose. However, inter-agency relationships require strengthening, and the capacity of the regulator to effectively regulate the current and future number of mining operations is questioned. The mining industry is similarly vulnerable to capability and capacity …
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Successful Collaboration Between Marketers and Agencies: Towards a Client perspective on Advertising Development
… origins, functioning and dissolution of client agency relationships in advertising. In addition much of this early research had considered these relationships from the point of view of the agency. In comparison this research considers the importance of collaboration in the development of quality …
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IS A PENSION FUND'S MIX OF FAIR VALUE INVESTMENTS, AUDIT TYPE, AND AUDIT QUALITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE FIRM'S CREDIT RATING?
… uncertain. This problem is exacerbated through agency relationships within pension plans that enable executives and investment managers to engage in opportunistic financial reporting of fair values. In response, credit reporting agencies may adjust the sponsoring firm’s credit rating to …