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Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - 2000

According to the widely used Managerial Power Model, a higher hierarchical position with associated higher power leads …-positive relationship between positional power and total compensation. Both power and income yield utility and in equilibrium managers are …. The results suggest that power positions do not yield higher compensation. Rather, there is a non-positive relationship …

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Conceptualizing power in the context of climate change : a multi-theoretical perspective on structure, agency & power relations

Stör, Lorenz - 2017

, Laclau & Mouffe, Giddens, Foucault and Clegg are discussed. The aim is to highlight the relevance for a multiplicity of power …. Jahrhunderts von Dahl, Bachrach & Baratz, Lukes, Gramsci, Laclau & Mouffe, Giddens, Foucault und Clegg beleuchtet. Die vielfältigen …The predominantly positivist approach in economics towards the object of study is not able to grasp power and …

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From sovereign to subject : applying Foucault's conceptualization of power to leading and studying power within leadership

Ladkin, Donna; Probert, Joana - In: The leadership quarterly : LQ ; an international … 32 (2021) 4, pp. 1-12

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Performance contracting and moral blindness : a study of autonomy and moral responsibility in Kenyan public enterprises

Nyamori, Robert Ochoki; Boyce, Gordon - In: Critical perspectives on accounting : an international … 95 (2023), pp. 1-24

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Towards a Narrative Theory of Political Agency

Froese, Marc D. - 2009

This paper begins to develop a narrative theory of political agency. The financial crisis of 2008 has stirred new interest in the way that narratives define, channel and motivate human action. Stories about property windfalls raised the expectations of investors and seemed to confirm the...

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Understanding Trust from the Perspective of Sociological Neoinstitutionalism : The Interplay of Institutions and Agency

Möllering, Guido - 2009

This paper builds on the idea that trust is a matter of embedded agency where trustors and trustees, as actors, interpret the social context in which they are embedded. Insofar as this context is institutionalized, trust may be quite ‘normal' and achieved fairly easily by reference to...

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Strategic Governance in Public Agencies

Johanson, Jan-Erik - 2014

Building on the threefold classification to strategic design, internal scanning and strategic governance (Johanson 2009) in public agencies, this paper elaborates further the strategic governance perspective. The pivotal concept is the social network. First, the classification of types of...

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Coordination on Networks with Farsighted and Myopic Agents

Mauleon, Ana - 2020

We study a coordination game on a fixed connected network where players have to choose between two projects. Some players are moderate (i.e. they are ex-ante indifferent between both project) while others are stubborn (i.e. they always choose the same project). Benefits for moderate players are...

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Profit, Trust, and Contract : Alternative or Complimentary Logics in Market Exchange?

Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2016

Economic sociologists have concluded that social embeddedness, characterized by trust and reciprocity, is widespread in organization-to-organization exchange. There remains, however, a tension between theorists who pose trust as an alternative logic to asocial price negotiations or contractual...

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Is There a 'Hidden Cost' of Control in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Landry, Craig - 2011

Several recent laboratory experiments have shown that the use of explicit incentives - such as conditional rewards and punishment - entail considerable “hidden” costs. The costs are hidden in the sense that they escape our attention if our reasoning is based on the assumption that people are...

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