{"id":65627,"date":"2026-04-23T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/?post_type=video-acf&#038;p=65627"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:47:25","slug":"what-is-agency-theory","status":"publish","type":"video-acf","link":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/fnege-video\/what-is-agency-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"What is <b>agency theory<\/b>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"141\">Agency theory is a fundamental concept in corporate governance that examines the relationships between the different actors within a company.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"143\" data-end=\"623\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Shareholders are the legitimate owners of a company, but many of them are individual investors who hold only a small portion of a company\u2019s shares. Shareholders may face issues of information asymmetry, as they do not always have access to the same information as the company\u2019s managers. Managers may therefore not always act in the shareholders\u2019 best interests. This is why shareholders delegate governance power to directors, who are expected to protect shareholders\u2019 interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency theory is a fundamental concept in corporate governance that examines the relationships between the different actors within a company.<br \/>\nShareholders are the legitimate owners of a company, but many of them are individual investors who hold only a small portion of a company\u2019s shares. Shareholders may face issues of information asymmetry, as they do not always have access to the same information as the company\u2019s managers. Managers may therefore not always act in the shareholders\u2019 best interests. This is why shareholders delegate governance power to directors, who are expected to protect shareholders\u2019 interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":65628,"template":"","format":[11959],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[3150,3164,3153],"tags":[2542],"class_list":["post-65627","video-acf","type-video-acf","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance","category-organizational-theory","category-strategic-management","tag-administration-en","format-management-dictionary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf\/65627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/video-acf"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf\/65627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65630,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video-acf\/65627\/revisions\/65630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65627"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnege-medias.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=65627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}