management is called an agency relationship. Such a relationship exists whenever someone (the principal) hires another (the agent) to represent his/her interests. For example‚ you might hire someone (an agent) to sell a car that you own while you are away at school. In all such relationships‚ there is a possibility of a conflict of interest between the principal and the agent. Such a conflict is called an agency problem. Suppose you hire someone to sell your car and you agree to pay that person a
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References: 1. Fiedrich F. (2006)‚ An HLA-Based Multi-Agent for Optimized Resource Allocation after Strong Earthquakes 2 3. Glista K. (2007)‚ Expecting the Worst; Bomb Simulation Tests Emergency Response‚ World Peace Newsletter‚ http://tech.snmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/32/1/ 4 5. Jain S. and McLean C.(2006)
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package may be added to the remuneration package. The instructor might mention at this point the tie in with agency theory: According to agency theory‚ agents (managers/executives) are utility maximisers and there is no reason to believe that they will necessarily act in the best interest of principals (shareholders) unless the principals’ and agents’ interests are aligned. For example‚ managers have incentives to increase perquisite consumption at the principal’s expense. In order to solve this agency
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chickenpox infection is given aspirin for his fever. Which of the following conditions develop following the simultaneous administration of salicylates and the varicella vaccine? Reye’s syndrome When educating a group of nursing students on immunologic agents‚ the nurse explains about a particular kind of immunity that develops by injecting ready-made antibodies found in the serum of immune individuals or animals. Which of the following kinds of immunity is the nurse referring to? Passive immunity A
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Speech to the association of Danish Travel Agents Ladies and Gentlemen‚ I am pleased to be here and it is really nice to see this man people showing up‚ just to watch me today here in the capital of Denmark and to let me tell you about this very important topic. As some of you might already know‚ then I am Jane Buckingham and I work for The Intelligence Group. The Intelligence Group is a company who is doing market research focusing on the youth of America. Today the main topic will be about the
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functioning. Its purpose is to attain the main goal of the organization and managing relationships between the board of directors and shareholders‚ which is basically between the management and the stakeholders. It concentrates on reducing the principal-agent problem in the organization. Good corporate finance is essential in ensuring that companies maintain a strong position in the market especially when they are competitive and deserve an efficient investment environment. Over the years‚ corporate governance
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0025-1747.htm MD 45‚3 Expatriates and corporate-level international strategy: governing with the knowledge contract Brian Connelly and Michael A. Hitt Texas A&M University‚ College Station‚ Texas‚ USA 564 Angelo S. DeNisi Freeman School of Business‚ Tulane University‚ New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ USA‚ and R. Duane Ireland Texas A&M University‚ College Station‚ Texas‚ USA Abstract Purpose
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which is the Agent. A good example for an application of the Agency Theory would be sharecropping‚ where the Principal is the landowner and the Agent is the farmer. Another example for the Agency Theory in a more familiar organizational structure would be the relationship between a company’s shareholders‚ which is the Principal‚ and the company’s CEO‚ which is the Agent. As seen from the table below‚ Agency Theory clearly deals with the relationship between the Principal and the Agent. The table
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Agency Costs and Corporate Governance I Introduction Before analysing problems that occur when institutional ownership and control are separated‚ it should be outlined why institutions exist at all. Therefore‚ chapter two examines why organizations occur in economy. Chapter three addresses the agency problem‚ based on this organization. Chapter four addresses the common ways to solve the agency problem and chapter five gives a comparison over the three most important corporate governance systems
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Chapter 1: Problem 2. Explain several dimensions of the shareholder-principal conflict with manager agents known as the principal-agent problem. To mitigate agency problems between senior executives and shareholders‚ should the compensation committee of the board devote more to executive salary and bonus (cash compensation) or more to long-term incentives? Why? What role does each type of pay play in motivating managers? The compensation committee should devote more to long-term incentives for
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