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Agency Theory

Agency theory explains how contracts, incentives, and monitoring align the interests of principals and agents with differing goals and unequal information to minimise agency costs.

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Equity Theory

Equity Theory explains the individual's perception of fairness in social exchange relationships, based on the perception of one’s input into relations and the output of those relations compared against the ratio of the input and output of other people

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Social Exchange Theory

Social exchange theory explains the social behaviour in dyadic and collective relations by applying a principle of a cost-benefit analysis of relations.

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Social Influence Theory

Social Influence Theory explains the impact of social influence on individuals through three processes of influence acceptance, namely compliance, identification and internalisation, and considers the conditions necessary for these processes to occur.

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Concepts: 8


  • Equity (Sociology > Social Exchange Theory)
  • Equity (compared To A Referent Person) (Psychology > Equity Theory)
  • Equity (compared To Generalised Others) (Psychology > Equity Theory)
  • Equity (compared To Oneself) (Psychology > Equity Theory)
  • Equity Sensitivity (Psychology > Equity Theory)
  • Inequity (Psychology > Equity Theory)
  • Physical Restoration of Inequity (Psychology > Equity Theory)
  • Psychological Restoration of Inequity (Psychology > Equity Theory)



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