Theory of the firm — The theory of the firm consists of a number of economic theories that describe the nature of the firm, company, or corporation, including its existence, behavior, structure, and relationship to the market.[1] Contents 1 Overview 2 Background … Wikipedia
Cost of equity — In finance, the cost of equity is the return (often expressed as a rate of return) a firm theoretically pays to its equity investors, i.e., shareholders, to compensate for the risk they undertake by investing their capital. Firms need to acquire… … Wikipedia
Social Penetration Theory — was formulated by the psychology professors Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor as their attempt to describe the dynamics of relational closeness. They proposed that closeness occurs through a gradual process of self disclosure, and closeness develops … Wikipedia
Теория обмена (exchange theory) — Т. о. представляет собой главное направление теорет. работы в социол. и соц. психологии, подчеркивающее важность взаимосвязи между вознаграждениями и затратами членов группы в формировании паттернов их соц. взаимодействия и их психол.… … Психологическая энциклопедия
Info-gap decision theory — is a non probabilistic decision theory that seeks to optimize robustness to failure – or opportuneness for windfall – under severe uncertainty,[1][2] in particular applying sensitivity analysis of the stability radius type[3] to perturbations in… … Wikipedia
Renewal theory — is the branch of probability theory that generalizes Poisson processes for arbitrary holding times . Applications include calculating the expected time for a monkey who is randomly tapping at a keyboard to type the word Macbeth and comparing the… … Wikipedia
Signalling theory — Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory refers to a body of theoretical work examining communication between individuals. The central question is when animals with conflicting interests should be expected to communicate honestly .… … Wikipedia
Rational choice theory — This article is about a theory of economics. For Rational Choice Theory as applied to criminology, see Rational choice theory (criminology). Economics … Wikipedia
Modern portfolio theory — Portfolio analysis redirects here. For theorems about the mean variance efficient frontier, see Mutual fund separation theorem. For non mean variance portfolio analysis, see Marginal conditional stochastic dominance. Modern portfolio theory (MPT) … Wikipedia
Equity theory — attempts to explain relational satisfaction in terms of perceptions of fair/unfair distributions of resources within interpersonal relationships. It was first developed in 1962 by John Stacy Adams, a workplace and behavioral psychologist, who… … Wikipedia
Social exchange theory — is a social psychological and sociological perspective and that explains social change and stability as a process of negotiated exchanges between parties. Social exchange theory posits that all human relationships are formed by the use of a… … Wikipedia