Towards a Social Theory of Agency

By Robert M. Wiseman, Gloria Cuevas-Rodríguez, Luis R. Gómez-Mejía. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Managerial Risk Taking (2016, unknown): “In addition, as noted earlier, the institutional context can alter how the agent-principal relationship is understood (e.g., Wiseman et al., 2012).”
Blockchain technology: implications for operations and supply chain management (2019, background): “Although they have been criticised for their fit with many supply chain relationships (Fehr and Falk, 2002; Wiseman et al., 2012; Cuevas et al., 2015), blockchain – and the view of it being a ‘trustless’ system – arguably takes us back to this transactional form of relationship.”
Are Family Firms Good Employers (2017, unknown): “Cennamo, C., Berrone, P., Cruz, C., & Gómez-Mejía, L. R. 2012.”
Innovation for Inclusive Growth: Towards a Theoretical Framework and a Research Agenda (2012, background): “One potential contribution is to test whether the underlying assumptions of agency theory hold in these contexts (for a discussion, see Heracleous and Lan, 2012; Journal of Management Studies Editors, 2012; Wiseman et al., 2012).”
Has Agency Theory Run its Course?: Making the Theory More Flexible to Inform the Management of Reward Systems (2012, methodology): “…the perspective of agency theory to recognize that agents sit at the center of a nexus of stakeholder relations and that these relations reside within a social context (e.g., Wiseman et al., 2012) highlights the social nature of contracts, a perspective obscured in agency theory’s calculus.”
Understanding Agency Problems in Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Corporations: A Contextualized Model (2018, background): “Agency theory has moved beyond financial economics (Jensen & Meckling; Ross, 1973) and is now recognized as one of the richest theoretical traditions in organizational research (Eisenhardt, 1989; Filatotchev & Wright, 2011; Journal of Management Studies, 2012; Wiseman et al., 2012).”