Barry M Mitnick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry M Mitnick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitnick |
| SIGNATURE | MITNICK B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6238-9689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reputation‐Sets
This paper introduces the concept of reputation‐set , identifies and discusses two major bases for reputation that characterize such sets, specifying ascription‐sets and achievement‐sets , and proposes a series of theoretical propositions about the functioning of reputation‐sets. In addition, we introduce the concept of reputation maps , which are heuristic depictions of the central variables in reputation‐set management, and provide a means to t…
Agency Theory
The theory of agency seeks to understand the problems created when one party, the agent , is acting for another, the principal . Agency has two sides: The activities and problems of identifying and providing services of “acting for” (agent side), and the activities and problems of guiding and correcting agent actions (the principal side). Because all actions and corrections have costs, it often does not pay the principal (or the agent) to insist …
Capturing ‘Capture’: Definition and Mechanisms
Reputation shifting
The study of reputation has often focused on such relatively narrow areas as creation of good reputations rather than developed systematic theoretical approaches to understanding the means by which reputations are modified, or shifted, and the factors affecting such shifts. This paper introduces the concept of reputation shifting, with an explicit theory that relates reputational endowments, content characters, audience characters, and opportunit…
Making Incentive Systems Work: Incentive Regulation in the Nuclear Power Industry
Efforts to reform traditional command-and-control regulation have led to use of a variety of incentive programs. State public utilities have regulated experiments to replace some direct controls with performance-based incentive programs. To date, neither the theoretical literature nor the descriptive literature on regulatory performance has identified systematically the features that characterize successful incentive systems. In this article, we …
Corporate Political Agency: The Construction of Competition in Public Affairs
Regulation and the Theory of Agency1
The major arguments of this paper are that there is a need for an integrating framework for the study of regulation, including the design of regulatory institutions, and that the theory of agency may provide such a framework. The paper provides a brief overview of this approach. The theory of agency is a general theory of social relationships of "acting for" that is now under development in several disciplines, particularly economics and accounti…
Government Regulation: Advice and Analysis
The political economy of regulation: Creating, Designing, and Removing Regulatory Forms
Myths of Creation and Fables of Administration: Explanation and the Strategic Use of Regulation
Ince Ntive Systems in Environmental Regulation
The central problem of environmental and other regulation is identified as a control problem similar to that faced by principals in controlling their agents. An incentive systems framework, featuring the concept of incentive relation, is offered as a means of integrating and systematizing discussion of alternative means of regulation. The distinction of incentive and directive means of environmental regulation, together with the levels of their t…
Deregulation as a Process of Organizational Reduction
Unlike old soldiers, regulatory agencies seem not only never to die, but never to fade away. Yet many regulatory agencies at all levels of government have been charged with having either undesirable or no impacts. One research approach for analyzing their persistence involves examining the strategies that participants (e.g., reformers, agency personnel, regulated industry) in cases of (potential) deregulation, might follow. Deregulation can thus …
A Typology of Conceptions of the Public Interest
A typology of conceptions of the public interest is presented, and the occurrence of public interest rhetoric is discussed. Classifying dimensions of the typology include (1) number of sets of preferences and agreement among them, (2) the existence and level of the actor holding the preferences, (3) whether determination of the public interest requires participation of units of the polity in certain acts, or is merely passive or investigatory in …
The theory of agency: The policing “paradox” and regulatory behavior
The theory of agency: The policing “paradox” and regulatory behavior
Regulation and the Theory of Agency1
The major arguments of this paper are that there is a need for an integrating framework for the study of regulation, including the design of regulatory institutions, and that the theory of agency may provide such a framework. The paper provides a brief overview of this approach. The theory of agency is a general theory of social relationships of "acting for" that is now under development in several disciplines, particularly economics and accounti…
Ince Ntive Systems in Environmental Regulation
The central problem of environmental and other regulation is identified as a control problem similar to that faced by principals in controlling their agents. An incentive systems framework, featuring the concept of incentive relation, is offered as a means of integrating and systematizing discussion of alternative means of regulation. The distinction of incentive and directive means of environmental regulation, together with the levels of their t…
Reputation shifting
The study of reputation has often focused on such relatively narrow areas as creation of good reputations rather than developed systematic theoretical approaches to understanding the means by which reputations are modified, or shifted, and the factors affecting such shifts. This paper introduces the concept of reputation shifting, with an explicit theory that relates reputational endowments, content characters, audience characters, and opportunit…
A Typology of Conceptions of the Public Interest
A typology of conceptions of the public interest is presented, and the occurrence of public interest rhetoric is discussed. Classifying dimensions of the typology include (1) number of sets of preferences and agreement among them, (2) the existence and level of the actor holding the preferences, (3) whether determination of the public interest requires participation of units of the polity in certain acts, or is merely passive or investigatory in …
Myths of Creation and Fables of Administration: Explanation and the Strategic Use of Regulation
Making Incentive Systems Work: Incentive Regulation in the Nuclear Power Industry
Efforts to reform traditional command-and-control regulation have led to use of a variety of incentive programs. State public utilities have regulated experiments to replace some direct controls with performance-based incentive programs. To date, neither the theoretical literature nor the descriptive literature on regulatory performance has identified systematically the features that characterize successful incentive systems. In this article, we …
Government Regulation: Advice and Analysis
The theory of agency: The policing “paradox” and regulatory behavior
A Typology of Conceptions of the Public Interest
A typology of conceptions of the public interest is presented, and the occurrence of public interest rhetoric is discussed. Classifying dimensions of the typology include (1) number of sets of preferences and agreement among them, (2) the existence and level of the actor holding the preferences, (3) whether determination of the public interest requires participation of units of the polity in certain acts, or is merely passive or investigatory in …
Deregulation as a Process of Organizational Reduction
Unlike old soldiers, regulatory agencies seem not only never to die, but never to fade away. Yet many regulatory agencies at all levels of government have been charged with having either undesirable or no impacts. One research approach for analyzing their persistence involves examining the strategies that participants (e.g., reformers, agency personnel, regulated industry) in cases of (potential) deregulation, might follow. Deregulation can thus …
The political economy of regulation: Creating, Designing, and Removing Regulatory Forms
Myths of Creation and Fables of Administration: Explanation and the Strategic Use of Regulation
Ince Ntive Systems in Environmental Regulation
The central problem of environmental and other regulation is identified as a control problem similar to that faced by principals in controlling their agents. An incentive systems framework, featuring the concept of incentive relation, is offered as a means of integrating and systematizing discussion of alternative means of regulation. The distinction of incentive and directive means of environmental regulation, together with the levels of their t…
Government Regulation: Advice and Analysis
Regulation and the Theory of Agency1
The major arguments of this paper are that there is a need for an integrating framework for the study of regulation, including the design of regulatory institutions, and that the theory of agency may provide such a framework. The paper provides a brief overview of this approach. The theory of agency is a general theory of social relationships of "acting for" that is now under development in several disciplines, particularly economics and accounti…
Corporate Political Agency: The Construction of Competition in Public Affairs
Making Incentive Systems Work: Incentive Regulation in the Nuclear Power Industry
Efforts to reform traditional command-and-control regulation have led to use of a variety of incentive programs. State public utilities have regulated experiments to replace some direct controls with performance-based incentive programs. To date, neither the theoretical literature nor the descriptive literature on regulatory performance has identified systematically the features that characterize successful incentive systems. In this article, we …
Reputation shifting
The study of reputation has often focused on such relatively narrow areas as creation of good reputations rather than developed systematic theoretical approaches to understanding the means by which reputations are modified, or shifted, and the factors affecting such shifts. This paper introduces the concept of reputation shifting, with an explicit theory that relates reputational endowments, content characters, audience characters, and opportunit…
Capturing ‘Capture’: Definition and Mechanisms
Agency Theory
The theory of agency seeks to understand the problems created when one party, the agent , is acting for another, the principal . Agency has two sides: The activities and problems of identifying and providing services of “acting for” (agent side), and the activities and problems of guiding and correcting agent actions (the principal side). Because all actions and corrections have costs, it often does not pay the principal (or the agent) to insist …
Reputation‐Sets
This paper introduces the concept of reputation‐set , identifies and discusses two major bases for reputation that characterize such sets, specifying ascription‐sets and achievement‐sets , and proposes a series of theoretical propositions about the functioning of reputation‐sets. In addition, we introduce the concept of reputation maps , which are heuristic depictions of the central variables in reputation‐set management, and provide a means to t…
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