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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Principal-agent theory"”.
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Strategic Options for the Virginia Peanut Industry After the 2002 Farm Bill: a Linear Programming Model
… their own. For the peanut industry, the agency theory and in particular principal-agent theory is the most applicable to the peanut industry. A linear model is used to examine the effects of increased coordination along the supply chain. The linear model also provides a snapshot of how decisions …
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New Public Management in Charlotte, North Carolins: A Case Study of Managed Competition
… propositions posed in the study center around principal-agent theory, public choice theory, and the market model and aid in reconciling the NPM perspective with normative considerations applicable to local government practice. Examining managed competition allows us to see how Charlotte has …
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"We Don't Work For Free": Tenured Faculty Engagement In Assessment Initiatives On A Unionized Community College Campus
… engage tenured faculty in these efforts. Principal-agent theory (PAT) offers an important and helpful framework for considering how senior leadership can successfully engage tenured faculty in student learning outcomes assessment on this specific unionized community college campus. The …
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Analysis of impacts for the subject of information technology due diligence in mergers and acquisitions.
This thesis explains the contribution of the Principal Agent Theory, Transaction Cost Theory and Theory of Incomplete Contract for the design of Information Technology (IT) due diligence in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to support acquisition decision effectively from buyer`s perspective. …
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The Risks of Outsourcing Security: Foreign Security Forces in United States National Security Policy
… doubt highlights an international analog to the principal-agent problem normally associated with domestic civil-military relations. I examine why this international principal-agent problem arose, how it has evolved over the past century, and how this evolution has shifted the U.S.'s approach to …
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Tactical Control or Bureaucratic Tactics? An Analysis of Checks and Controls on Local, Hybrid, and Substate Forces in US Foreign Policy
… typify the sort of control mechanisms that Principal-Agent theory assumes patrons will deploy to better control or constrain agents. However, in many situations, these control mechanisms appeared to be driven more by political bargaining between different actors in the policy-making process, …
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The impact of marketisation on higher education in post-Mao China, with case studies of universities in Yunnan Province
… governance works in detail. This thesis uses principal agent theory to examine the structure and form of hybrid governance. In particular, the analysis presented allows the construction of a three-dimensional governance model to explore the issue of how hybrid governance works in the context …
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Risk transfer in operational public private partnerships in the education sector
… procured (TP) projects. <br/><br/>Drawing on Principal Agent Theory, Lonsdale’s modified Transaction Cost Economics framework, relational contracting and the relational theory of risk this research sought to address this gap by examining whether risks have been transferred as intended. Planned …
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Study on incentive mechanisms of smes crowdsourcing contest innovation.
… platforms as a way to collaborate with external agents to fill this resource gap and thus improve innovation. This research uses agent-based modelling to prognosticate the efficacy of crowdsourcing contest innovation with a particular focus on the project manager ‘seeker’ within an SME initiating …
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Investigating the relationship between corporate tax avoidance and corporate culture in large South African companies
… CEO characteristics (informed by upper-echelon theory), are not yet fully understood. Much of previous research is conceptualised from theories such as principal-agent theory. This study investigates the influence of stakeholder orientation, using corporate culture, on corporate tax avoidance, …
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Auswirkungen der neuen Regulierungsmaßnahmen der Finalisierung von Basel III auf die Kreditvergabe österreichischer Banken an KMU – eine multiperspektivische Betrachtung aus Sicht der Banken und KMU
… important key figures in accordance with the principal-agent theory, main-tain a strong business model, and build the necessary trust with their banks. However, since the framework is (partially) in place (1st of January 2025), the ECB has abandoned its zero-interest rate policy, the economy …
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Understanding Structural, Governance and Regulatory Incentives for Improved Utility Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Electricity Utilities in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda
… literature of power sector reforms and applies a Principal–Agent theory lens to obtain a deeper understanding of the dynamics between principals (government/regulators/capital providers) and agents (utility managers) and how these impact on performance. A comparative case study analysis was …
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The efficacy of procurement management in enhancing municipal service delivery: A case of Capricorn District Municipality
… the failure of procurement management processes. Principal- agent theory, Stewardship Theory and Transaction Cost Theory/economics were used in this study. This study adopted a pragmatist research paradigm because it used multiple research methods. Mixed methods research were applied, with both …
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Justice in Action: Assessing the Institutional Design and Implementation of Transitional Justice
… this analysis, I first offer a derivation of principal-agent theory and then assemble a new dataset of measures culled from primary and secondary data sources on over 40 different courts and truth commissions. For the data on the institutional design of these transitional justice policies, I …
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Inter-firm collaboration in the implementation of structural innovations in building construction
… studies often contradict the expectations of principal-agent theory and other areas of management and economic theory related to inter-firm collaboration for innovation. For example, all of the innovations were implemented under outcome-based contracts. This result is surprising because the …
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The influence of selected managerial quality and board composition variables on the performance of German cooperative banks – an analysis of age, gender, education and experience as well as board size and composition
… in the literature and contributes to Signalling Theory, Screening Theory, Principal Agent Theory, Upper Echelon Theory and several managerial competencies theories. At the same time, the results provide a basis for formulating practical decision-making criteria for supervisory boards to consider …
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Utilizing principal agent and principal steward theories to assess the efficiacy of public private partnership in delivering black economic empowerment
… and the established companies is a typical Principal Agent (PA) relationship, and has quintessentially been beset with moral hazard and adverse selection problems militated by asymmetric information favoring the established companies. The identification of the construction industry as the …
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Toward Effective Management of Public-Private Partnership for Infrastructure in the Sultanate of Oman
… theoretical framework, which includes the principal-agent, transaction cost, new public management, institutional, and stakeholder theories, is reviewed. These theories outline the management dimensions regarding PPP for successfully delivering infrastructure projects. The relevant …
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A Study of Human Decision-Making in Economic Games
… common payment mechanisms employed in the dual-principal agent relationships (Piece Rate, Flat Rate, Salary, Bonus and Socialization) and examines the effect that different incentive structures have on agent behavior. In Chapter III I explore the potential outcomes of blended payment structures …
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