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In pursuit of such flexibility, Mr Barba believes that car companies need to re-define their relationship with their parts suppliers.
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We define an agency relationship as a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent.
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Customers want to define what the values of their relationship looks like with a bank.
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It will build a direct relationship with employees, define new segments, and develop skills in areas such as market research and product development.
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After 50 years in which Britain has struggled to define or resolve its confused, ambivalent, troubled relationship with Europe, the events currently being played out in this eurozone crisis look ever more likely to achieve that, while Britain remains largely passive about it.
BBC: Britain pushes hard choices for Europe's hard core
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But it is the relationship between the two brothers that looks set to define the future of the British monarchy most of all.
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Insofar as I in the past had thought about the Valentine's Day formula, I had assumed most men treated it like a year-end performance bonus, which would mean that the better the relationship, the better the gift (however you define "better").
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For those who are banking on competitive war with Comcast and other cable companies to kill off Netflix look no further than how they define themselves (cable operators, ) and their horrific customer relationship scores to realize that they are more interested in trying to preserve their old business than rapidly enter a new one.
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In terms preferred by economists, a situation defined by a principal-agent problem (such as you hiring a doctor or car mechanic who gets to both define your problem and figure out what to charge you for fixing it) was replaced by a much simpler employment relationship: would-be hustlers found themselves being turned into professional, generalist managers.
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