The paper gives an overview of major scientific approaches to inter-enterprise relationships. A distinction is made between approaches that focus on vertical relationships between companies (Value and Supply Chain Management, Transaction Cost Theory and Agency Theory), and approaches that focus on the position of a company in its business and social-economic environment (Strategic Management, N...

This paper investigates the effect of ERP system implementations on agency cost in the introducing period in China. The research reveals that, for the listed companies, the agency cost after implementing the ERP System will reduce significantly; however, compared with the nonState-Owned Enterprise, the agency cost of the State-Owned Enterprise reduced less after implementing the ERP system.

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility and investment efficiency with particular emphasis on the mediating role of agency cost and information asymmetry in a sample of 121 firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the time period from 2012 to 2017. The research hypotheses are tested using multivariate regression analysi...