...Andrés Eduardo Lonardi Purpose This paper aims to analyze how the agency of niche actors promoted the adoption of Direct Seeding System in Argentina as a grassroots innovation, using the Strategic Niche Management ( SNM ) framework. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative case study based...

... compiles and adds to many of the explanations provided by this special issue’s nine commentaries regarding why CEO pay and CEO performance are decoupled. These explanations were grouped into two categories: economic (e.g. marginal productivity theory, agency theory and behavioral agency model) and social...

... in designing mechanisms and setting up institutions that (1) encourage workers to define a goal that maximizes workers’ welfare and (2) induce managers to pursue and internalize such a broad goal. When compared to capital‐controlled firms, the agency problems become more complex and harder to solve...

...Bartolomé Dey´‐Tortella; Luis R. Gomez‐Mejía; Julio O. de Castro; Robert M. Wiseman Agency theoretic models have been used in the past to justify the use of stock options as an effective incentive alignment mechanism to create a common fate between principals and agents. In this paper, we use...