required‚ they are required precisely because people are motivated by things other than money. Self-interest does not mean that people have no altruistic motives. And altruism‚ the concern for the well-being of others‚ does not make a person a perfect agent who does the bidding of others. This means that agency problems cannot be solved by instilling greater altruism in people (even if we could do so). I also discuss the universal tendency of people to behave in non-rational ways. Though they are Resourceful
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Through regulating the procedure of accounting‚ they can help to resolve the outcomes and improve the market conditions. (Gaffikin 2005) According to agency theory‚ the connection between owners and managers are known as principal-agent relationship. The manager as the agent will acts on behalf of the owner (principal) to achieve the principal’s goals. Atkinson and Feltham
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In 1979‚ the first class action lawsuit was filed because of the Agent Orange side effects. Unfortunately‚ there was little progress for the Agent Orange side effects sufferers until a judge (Jack Weinstein) assigned to the case in 1983 put it on a fast track to settlement. In 1985‚ an out of court settlement‚ between the Vietnam Veterans and the chemical manufactures‚ created a fund for Agent Orange side effect sufferers (Agent Orange Lawsuits). However‚ the $180 million settlement fund was completely
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ECGI European Corporate Governance Institute Finance Working Paper No. 39/2004 Negotiation‚ Organization and Markets Harvard University Working Paper No. 04-26 Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity Michael C. Jensen Harvard Business School; The Monitor Company; Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP)‚ In. This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=480421 MICHAEL C. JENSEN April 2004
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DUTIES OF AGENT TO PPRINCIPAL Agent’s duty in conducting principal’s business 164. An agent is bound to conduct the business of his principal according to the directions given by the principal‚ or‚ in the absence of any such directions‚ according to the custom which prevails in doing business of the same kind at the place where the agent conducts the business. When the agent acts otherwise‚ if any loss be sustained‚ he must make it good to his principal‚ and‚ if any profit accrues‚ he must account
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(Sec. 211): The first duty of every agent is to act within the scope of the authority conferred upon him and perform the agency work according to the directions given by the principal. When the agent acts otherwise‚ if any loss be sustained‚ he must make it good to the principal‚ and if any profit accrues‚ he must account for it. Illustrations: (a) Where the principal instructed the agent to warehouse the goods at a particular place and the agent warehoused them at a different warehouse
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The Impact of Ownership Structure on the Dividend Policy of Japanese Firms with Free Cash Flow Problem Aristotelis Stouraitis Lingling Wu Department of Economics and Finance City University of Hong Kong September 16‚ 2004 * Contact information: Aristotelis Stouraitis (the author who will attend the conference and present the paper)‚ Tel: (852) 2788 8450‚ Fax: (852)2788 8806‚ Email: efstoura@cityu.edu.hk. Lingling Wu‚ Tel: (852)2788 7393‚ Email: 50004340@student.cityu.edu.hk. Address : Department
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before purchasing the devices. Push e-mail is used to describe e-mail systems that provide an "always-on “capability‚ in which new e-mail is instantly and actively transferred (pushed) as it arrives by the mail delivery agent (MDA)(commonly called mail server) to the mail user agent (MUA)‚ also called the e-mail client. E-mail clients include Smartphone’s and‚ less strictly‚ IMAP personal computer mail applications. This means that users have the capacity to be notified of incoming emails and appointments
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insurance companies. Although there are many side benefits of pursuing such growth strategy like dispersion of the entrepreneurs’ financial risk and gains from the specialised human capital of managers‚ there remains a significant problem: the principle-agent problem. While this problem is largely believed to be a phenomena belonging to transition economies‚ it concerns all economies as it directly affects access to capital hence the performance of businesses. The UK‚ US‚ Germany and Japan demonstrate some
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