THE NATURE OF AGENCY RELATIONSHIP The need to appoint another person to perform one act or another on one’s behalf assumes greater proportion daily. This is so because of the rapid economic developments that has taken place in the recent years. A party may want to do many things but because of lack of time or expertise‚ he is compelled to appoint another person to act on his behalf and whatever that other person does will be binding on him. The question is: ‘Who is an agent?’ An agent is one who
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The Principal Agent-Theory as a base for the organization of company innovation process There are many settings in which one economic actor (the principal) delegates authority and/or responsibilities to an agent to act on his behalf. The primary reason for doing so is that the agent has an advantage in terms of expertise or information. This informational advantage‚ or information asymmetry‚ poses a problem for the principal—how can the principal be sure that the agent has in fact acted in her
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an ’21st’ century way of budgeting‚ it was introduced over 10 years ago so that organisations can be more adaptive to change within organisations. One of disadvantages of beyond budgeting is that managers within the organisations will experience problems such as planing and preparing for the future because of today’s uncertain environment I.e there may certain times where organisation can’t meet requirements of resources because of the continuous recession. One of the way beyond budgeting works is
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lCompany Profile: Company Name: Creative Insurgence Pte Ltd Company Establishment: founded in year 2005 Company Location: Head Quarters located at 69 Dunlop Street Creative Insurgence‚ are an events and show production company that specializes in conceptualizing‚ planning and executing both corporate as well as lifestyle events. They work with various partners such as credit cards‚ brands and venues to maximize the return-on-investment by our client(s). They are experts in handling B2C
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Agency theory relative to corporate governance assumes a two-tier form of firm control: managers and owners. Agency theory holds that there will be some friction and mistrust between these two groups. The basic structure of the corporation‚ therefore‚ is the web of contractual relations among different interest groups with a stake in the company. In general‚ there are three sets of interest groups within the firm. Managers‚ stockholders and creditors (such as banks). Stockholders often have conflicts
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OF AGENCY PREPARED BY: NAME: MOHAMAD AL-HAFIZ BIN SALLEH MATRIC NO.: 10071260 NAME: SITI RAHIMAH BINTI RAZMAN MATRIC NO.: 10071260 NAME: NURUL ASHIKIN BINTI MD. YUSOF MATRIC NO.: 10071260 NAME: KHATIJAH BINTI AHMAD MATRIC NO.: 10071260 NAME: LYANA NADIA BINTI SALAHUDIN MATRIC NO.: 10071260 SEMESTER 4 2011/2012 ABSTRACT An agent’s authority can be terminated at any time. If the trust between the agent and principal has broken down‚ it is not reasonable to allow the principal to
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Introduction Nokia Phones originated from a small town in Southwestern‚Finland and began from a small paper mill on the banks of the Nokianvirta river‚set up by Fredrik Idestam in 1865.It was 1968 that the Nokia Corporation started in the Mobile Nokia Phone business after spending more than a century operating five different business field as stated in the time line below (Barr G‚ 2009) : Paper Mill‚ 1865 Finnish Rubber‚ 1898 Cable Electronics Forestry Power Generation 1912-1967 By year
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topic not only within academia but also within the business world. Numerous major blue-chip corporations have adopted practices concerning employee engagement; amongst them (Gray‚ 2013)Sainsbury and BAE Systems. The impact of which have also extended into the public sector namely the NHS. Bearing in mind that recently there have been major cutbacks from the government concerning the organization. According to the factsheet‚ (CIPD‚ 2014) employee engagement have is becoming more and more popular in
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Table of content Preface………………………………………………………………….1 Chapter 1. Prerequisites of the agency problem and different approaches to solving it 1.1 How we detect an agency problem……………………………………..3 1.2 Remedies of agency problem…………………………………………….5 1.3 Different approach for different types of companies……………….10 Chapter 2. Practical examples of agency problem’s solution 2.1 Good intentions usually backfire……………………………………….13 2.2 Positive examples and new ideas………………………………….........17 2.3 Foregoing
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Corporation – A separate legal entity that has an existence at law that is separable from those who form it. It is a separate legal entity in the sense that it has an existence at law‚ but no material existence. * It is separate and distinct from its shareholders * A properly authorized agent may bind the corporation in contract with third parties. * Shareholders possess limited liability for the debts of the corporation‚ and creditors may look only to the assets of the corporation to
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