'Objectionable Parasites': The Crown Agents and the Purchase of Crown Colony Government Stores, 1880-1914
This article discusses the Crown Agent purchase of colonial government supplies from the perspective of principal-agent theory. It is argued that, in order to maximise their own welfare, the Agents adopted a quality bias and used an uncompetitive purchasing procedure to buy quality goods, which were...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Business history 1999-10, Vol.41 (4), p.21-47 |
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