If business is to address its conflicts with an expanding government, it must ensure that its external relations departments are well managed. To do so, corporate managers must manage the border ...

How Staden Financial Management eliminates conflicts of interest by redesigning financial advice to align adviser incentives ...

Over the years there have been a number of attempts at solving the principal/agent problem. Apple's the latest to try and do so and it has to be said that their attempt is likely to avoid most of the ...

Blockchain technology produced a new business model; one that enables companies to profit through creating and releasing open-source code. The decentralisation of business orgs creates new corporate ...

Why exclude state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from equity allocations? This a natural first question investors tend to ask when they hear of WisdomTree’s suite of ex-state-owned equity ETFs. The ...

As a small business owner, it's likely that you routinely employ other people to perform tasks and make decisions on your behalf. Delegating responsibility can take a lot of weight off your shoulders ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The principal-agent problem in health care asserts that providers, being the imperfect agents of patients, will act to maximize their profits ...

This paper expands the literature on the heterogeneity among nursing home facilities by determining whether quality at for-profit nursing homes managed by owner-managers is different from those ...