Different design choices in the controls used to manage performance often lead to a range
of unintended consequences, which have profound effects on individuals and organizations …

Purpose–The paper aims to explain how agency theory can be used to inform our
understanding of the dynamics surrounding supply chain behaviours and relationships …

Research continues to uncover gaps in shareholders' consideration of environmental, social
and governance (ESG) factors in investment decision‐making. With no one theory able to …

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize, awarded by the Section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work, of the American Sociological Association, for the best book on …

Using the complementary lenses of information-processing and agency theories, this study
tests the proposition that the complexity resulting from a firm's degree of internationalization …

In New Directions for Organization Theory, Jeffrey Pfeffer offers a comprehensive analysis
and overview of the field of organization theory and its research literature. This work traces …

In this study, two different theoretical perspectives are used to develop sets of hypotheses
regarding the mechanisms used to manage foreign subsidiaries of multinational …

This study extends agency theory to explain the design of compensation strategy in foreign
subsidiaries competing within global industries. Results from 100 subsidiaries in five …

In this study, we extended agency-based research by examining the role of risk in the
structure of managerial compensation and its relationship to organization performance. Our …

In recent years both practitioners and academics have shown an increasing interest in the
assessment of marketing performance. This paper explores the metrics that firms select and …