The canonical principal-agent problem involves a risk-neutral principal who must use incentives to motivate a risk-averse agent to take a costly, unobservable action that improves the principal’s payoff. The standard solution requires an inefficient shifting of risk to the agent. This paper summarizes some experimental research that throws doubt on the validity of this conclusion. Experimental ...

We analyze five commentaries to our “Socio-theoretic Accounts of IS: The Problem of Agency” paper. We find more commonalty in the way we think about theory and theory development in the IS field than expected, and clear up some misconceptions about our intentions. Actor network IS theorists are reluctant to accept the way we frame the problem of agency and we consider some of their arguments an...

This article utilizes the agency-structure debate as a framework for constructing a health lifestyle theory. No such theory currently exists, yet the need for one is underscored by the fact that many daily lifestyle practices involve considerations of health outcomes. An individualist paradigm has influenced concepts of health lifestyles in several disciplines, but this approach neglects the st...

regionalism as a manifestation of international cooperation began in europe after the second world war, but this spread gradually to other geographical regions including the latin america and southeast asia.new regionalism differs from old regionalism in some respects including agency, the motivation of the agency, as well as direction and scope of cooperation and integration. since there is a ...