Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review
Agency theory is an important, yet controversial, theory. This paper reviews agency theory, its contributions to organization theory, and the extant empirical work and develops ...
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The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration
Our theory of costly contracts emphasizes the contractual rights can by of two types: specific rights and residual rights. When it is costly to list all specific rights over ass...
World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour
Objectives To describe new WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Methods The guidelines were developed in accordance with WHO protocols. An expert Gu...
Design Science in Information Systems Research1
Two paradigms characterize much of the research in the Information Systems discipline: behavioral science and design science. The behavioral-science paradigm seeks to develop an...
Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design
This paper answers the question, “Why do organizations process information?” Uncertainty and equivocality are defined as two forces that influence information processing in orga...
Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome
Chromosomal Mapping The conformation of the genome in the nucleus and contacts between both proximal and distal loci influence gene expression. In order to map genomic contacts,...
A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region
(1970). A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region. Economic Geography: Vol. 46, PROCEEDINGS International Geographical Union Commission on Quantitative Meth...
The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications
?The stakeholder theory has been advanced and justified in the management literature on the basis of its descriptive accuracy, instrumental power, and normative validity. These ...
Work and motivation
Why do people choose the careers they do? What factors cause people to be satisfied with their work? No single work did more to make concepts like motive, goal incentive, and at...
The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity
Information processing in the cerebral cortex involves interactions among distributed areas. Anatomical connectivity suggests that certain areas form local hierarchical relation...