Corporate Governance Theories: From Micro Theories to National Systems Theories

From torsion theories to closure operators and factorization systems

Torsion theories are here extended to categories equipped with an ideal of 'null morphisms', or equivalently a full subcategory of 'null objects'. Instances of this extension include closure operators viewed as generalised torsion theories in a 'category of pairs', and factorization systems viewed as torsion theories in a category of morphisms. The first point has essentially been treated in [15].

Fundamental and Ethics Theories of Corporate Governance

History has revealed that there is a never-ending evolution of theories or models of corporate governance. One of the reasons is due to the very essence of social consciences that is minimal and profit making took center stage. All over the world, companies are trying to instill the sense of governance into their corporate structure. With the surge of capitalism, corporation became stronger whi...

From Agent Theories to Multi-Agent Theories

Many research efforts in the area of autonomous and intelligent agents have focused on intra-agent aspects, such as agent languages and architectures, which focus on the agent’s internal structure. Instead, multi-agent systems should not be simply considered as a multitude of individuals. If a society of agent exists, a collective social behaviour is likely to emerge. Therefore, to fully unders...

From Theories to Queries

This article surveys recent work in active learning aimed at making it more practical for real-world use. In general, active learning systems aim to make machine learning more economical, since they can participate in the acquisition of their own training data. An active learner might iteratively select informative query instances to be labeled by an oracle, for example. Work over the last two ...

Household Saving: Micro Theories and Micro Facts