The Contract Theory

By T. Mulgan. 2006

193 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/928e0acf69114ed6a1fc007ec112752b75b10d9f

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Citations in the corpus

• Appointment scheduling in health care: Challenges and opportunities (2008, methodology): “OR managers can use a principal-agent framework with asymmetric information (examples of this approach can be found in Fudenberg and Tirole (1991), Salanié (1997), and Bolton and Dewatripont (2005)) to model the problem of choosing incentives.”
• The Determinants of Employee Compensation in Family Firms: Empirical Evidence (2007, background): “They may be aware that it is difficult to ascertain individual behaviors when there is a large number of employees (Alchian & Demsetz, 1972; Bolton & Dewatripont, 2005), and especially in situations where there is cooperative action or there is an implicit or explicit agreement to hide information…”
• Behavioral Agency Theory (2015, background): “…theory: goal setting and monitoring are important factors in legal contracting, which is a key element in the relationship between principal and agent (Grossman & Hart, 1983; Hart, 1995); they have also been demonstrated to be an important component of agent motivation (Locke & Latham, 1984, 1990).”