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What Is the Principal-Agent Problem in Government? The principal-agent problem describes challenges that occur when agents and principals have conflicting interests. Democratically elected governments ...

If business is to address its conflicts with an expanding government, it must ensure that its external relations departments are well managed. To do so, corporate managers must manage the border ...

There's one argument floating around out there about the soaring inequality of the modern day and the manner in which CEO pay at public companies has risen so much. That argument being that as ...

Why exclude state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from equity allocations? This a natural first question investors tend to ask when they hear of WisdomTree’s suite of ex-state-owned equity ETFs. The ...

Blockchain technology produced a new business model; one that enables companies to profit through creating and releasing open-source code. The decentralisation of business orgs creates new corporate ...

Three weeks ago, on May 23, M Rajeshwar Rao, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, made an important but somewhat mystifying motherhood speech at the Conference of Directors of Banks. The conference ...

A QUARTER of Australians are foreign-born, and another quarter are the Australian-born children of immigrant parents. Immigration was crucial in transforming Australia from a small and sparsely ...

As a small business owner, it's likely that you routinely employ other people to perform tasks and make decisions on your behalf. Delegating responsibility can take a lot of weight off your shoulders ...

Are you an agency or a consultancy? A principal or an agent? Does it matter? Faris Yakob goes in search of the fundamental building blocks of the advertising business. In the broad set of professional ...