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Theories: 7

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.

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Cognitive dissonance theory aims to explain the relationships between the motivation, perceptions and cognitions of an individual.

Dynamic Capabilities Theory

Dynamic capabilities (DCs) are higher-level competences enabling organisations to integrate, build, and reconfigure resources to address and shape dynamic environments.

Evolutionary Economic Theory

Evolutionary economics explains change over time with respect to economic development.

Self-Presentation Theory

Self-presentation is an influential theory in sociology, aiming to explain how individuals develop, shape, and maintain their impressions in society.

Social capital refers to the structure and quality of social relationships and constitutes a positive product of social interactions that can be a source of benefits for individuals, social groups and the society as a whole.

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.

Concepts: 2

Identification (Psychology > Social Influence Theory)

Identification (Psychology > Self-Presentation Theory)

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