The literature has drifted towards a polarized view of managers as either individuals concerned with mitigating self-interest (e.g. agency and organizational politics theories) or individuals who actively motivate and engage team members in the pursuit of common organizational goals (e.g. shared...

Opportunistic behavior in contractual relations that require specific investments, commonly referred to as 'hold-up', has been employed in the literature as an argument to explain the existence of vertically integrated firms. However, many authors posit that this behavior can be avoided through...