Focus is on the relationship between upper-level management and stockholders -- categories which overlap when the owner is the manager. Although J&M clearly believe that agency problems within the ...

In business education, there is a subject called “The Agency Problem.” Modern corporations are owned by numerous stockholders who have neither the time nor the talent nor the inclination to manage the ...

When a principal hires an agent to carry out specific tasks, the hiring is termed a "principal-agent relationship," or simply an "agency relationship." When a conflict of interest between the needs of ...

Focus is on the relationship between upper-level management and stockholders -- categories which overlap when the owner is the manager. Although J&M clearly believe that agency problems within the ...

The Agency Problem is well-known to every saver, even if the term is unfamiliar. It refers to the problem that can arise when anybody - lacking the experience, skill or time required to perform a job ...

Are you an agency or a consultancy? A principal or an agent? Does it matter? Faris Yakob goes in search of the fundamental building blocks of the advertising business. In the broad set of professional ...

“Hospital at home” suffers from what economists call a “common agency problem,” three experts on the care model wrote in Health Affairs. CMS started allowing health systems to apply for waivers to be ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was co-published with the Bay City News Foundation ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. There are certain theories that explain ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If you are having trouble sleeping, try counting agency problems in the asset management industry. It is an ...