Sentence examples for high agency from inspiring English sources

Dr Cliff Mann, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the NHS had to pay high agency rates because of a lack of A&E doctors in the NHS.

In such "high agency cost" environments, it may be more efficient for a single owner or a dominant shareholder to keep an eye on how managers are dealing with rapid change and disruptive innovation.

The report was "published in good faith, based on information we believed to be credible that was provided to us by a former F.D.A. director that has ongoing communications with high agency officials," the report said, adding, "We regret any misleading effect this chain of events has had".

Unfortunately, tech startups can't access the creative talent within advertising agencies because of prohibitively high agency costs.

However, previous studies have shown that patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain with high agency orientation benefited more from a group learning program with regard to pain reduction and improved pain coping than did those patients with low agency orientation [ 21].

We are its constructors; there is no higher agency — divine, supernatural or otherwise — to be held accountable.

Higher dividend taxes impose higher agency costs when asymmetric information is present.

Under asymmetric information an increase in the dividend tax rate leads to higher agency costs.

Hence, bondholders anticipating the opportunistic behavior of management claim higher returns or protective bond covenants, due to increasing risk and higher agency costs (Jensen and Meckling 1976).

Second, we find evidence that firms in higher agency cost settings respond by having their financial statements audited by a higher-quality auditor (i.e., a Big 4 firm).

Furthermore, for firms in non-competitive industries, exogenous changes in the governance environment create a higher agency problem (Giroud and Mueller 2010), and ATPs are associated with lower firm value only for those firms (Giroud and Mueller 2011).