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Agency (law) — Agency is an area of commercial law dealing with a contractual or quasi contractual tripartite set of relationships when an Agent is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the Principal) to create a legal relationship with a Third Party.… … Wikipedia
agency — /ay jeuhn see/, n., pl. agencies. 1. an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency. 2. a company having a franchise to represent another. 3. a governmental bureau, or an office that represents it. 4 … Universalium
agency theory — The relationship between two parties, a *principal and an *agent, in which the latter represents or acts on behalf of the former. *Agency costs may arise if the goals of a principal and agent are not congruent: an agent, in other words, may be… … Auditor's dictionary
agency — agen·cy n pl cies 1: the person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved death by criminal agency W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr. 2 a: a consensual fiduciary relationship in which one party acts on behalf of and under the… … Law dictionary
Agency (LDS Church) — Agency (also referred to as free agency or moral agency), in Latter day Saint theology, is the privilege of choice which was introduced by God the Eternal Father to all of his spirit children in the premortal state .cite journal | first= Elder… … Wikipedia
Agency theory — The analysis of principal agent relationships, wherein one person, an agent, acts on behalf of anther person, a principal. The New York Times Financial Glossary … Financial and business terms
agency theory — The analysis of principal agent relationships, in which one person, an agent, acts on behalf of another person, a principal. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary … Financial and business terms
Structure and agency — The debate surrounding the influence of structure and agency on human thought and behaviour is one of the central issues in sociology and other social sciences. In this context agency refers to the capacity of individual humans to act… … Wikipedia
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Nonline agency — Nonline was a term first used in a BBC Radio 4 Today programme on 26 September 2007 to describe the 1/3 of UK adults who did not have internet access.In a marketing context, a nonline agency is a business consultancy which develops creative… … Wikipedia
