Managing a capital group is a complex and specific process. It creates special conditions for the introduction of team work organization of managers. The selection of a manager employment form is a problem which gets complicated in case of management teams. The considered possibilities are an employmentbased and non-employment managerial contract, which can be based on a thorough action or on f...

The available evidence indicates that patent quality, particularly in the area of software, needs improvement. This Article argues that even an agency as institutionally constrained as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") could implement a portfolio of pragmatic, cost-effective quality improvement strategies. The argument in favor of these strategies draws upon not only legal theory and...

the main purpose of this study is the exploration of childhood nature from the perspective of islamic action theory. for this purpose, conceptual analysis, conception development method was used. so anthropological foundations of islamic view of action were redefined with regard to the childhood. regarding the nature of childhood from the perspective of islamic action theory, on the overall loo...

The third wave of IT outsourcing has reached small, medium-sized, but also large organisations, with a storm of interest via the Internet, in form of application service provision. Application service providers (ASPs) offer multiple users a subscription-based access model via the Internet or a virtual private network to centrally managed applications. The appeal of ASPs are the per-user-pricing...

Researchers who build autonomous agents are primarily interested in integrating the aspects of agency which were once thought decomposable and independent. A theory of agency for everyday worlds must address the problems that an agent has a limited time to plan, and that an agent must be able to cope with an incomplete domain physics. The Case-based Agency projects at the AI Lab at the Universi...

An exploratory home health care (HHC) cost-function model is estimated using State rate-setting data for the 74 traditional (nonprofit) Connecticut agencies. The analysis demonstrates U-shaped average costs curves for agencies' provision of skilled nursing visits, with substantial diseconomies of scale in the observable range. It is determined from the estimated cost function that the sample re...

Previous research has suggested that systems that are designed according to existing methodology fail in routine contexts whereas others that have evolved in such contexts without a traditional methodology work better. In previous work we have suggested that this is because the theory about purposeful activity that underlies the design of a system has an impact on the success of the system in p...

The field of cloud computing is strongly affected by conflicts of interest between providers and users of resources. A comprehensive and integrative model for representing and analyzing these conflicts on a theoretically well-founded basis is, however, still lacking. Therefore, this paper establishes such a model based on economic agency theory. Employing two realistic example scenarios, we ide...

the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between tax avoidance and firm value with an emphasis on agency cost and disclosure quality of firms listed in tehran stock exchange. the sample of this study consists of 68 firms for the period 2004 to 2015.this study is applied in purpose and correlation- descriptive in method. in this study to test the hypotheses, multivariate linear r...

Purpose The authors measure the cost of equity to earnings yield differential for a sample 2,035 non-financial firms. In series Logit and Tobit regressions, examine if is related dividend policy in manner predicted by agency theory. Design/methodology/approach Agency theory says firm's optimal partially determined relationship between capital. When higher (lower) than yield, firms are motivated...