A Multi‐Task Principal‐Agent Approach To Organizational Form
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6451.2005.00265.x
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- Régibeau, Pierre & Rockett, Kate & Besanko, David, 2000. "A Multi-Task Principal-Agent Approach to Organizational Form," CEPR Discussion Papers 2443, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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JEL classification:
- D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
- L0 - Industrial Organization - - General
- L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General
- L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
- M20 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - General
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