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Vested interest (Crano, 1983; [1] Crano & Prislin, 1995; [2] Sivacek & Crano, 1982 [3]) is a communication theory that seeks to explain how an attitude of self-interest can affect behavior; or, in more technical terms, to question how certain hedonically relevant (Miller & Averbeck, 2013) [4] attitudinal dimensions can influence and consistently predict behavior based on the degree of ...
Vesting. In law, vesting is the point in time when the rights and interests arising from legal ownership of a property are acquired by some person. Vesting creates an immediately secured right of present or future deployment. One has a vested right to an asset that cannot be taken away by any third party, even though one may not yet possess the ...
Vested outsourcing. Vested outsourcing is a hybrid business model in which contracting parties create a formal relational contract using shared values and goals and outcome-based economics to create an agreement that is mutually beneficial for each party. [1] The model was developed out of research by the University of Tennessee led by Kate ...
A vested interest may be one of three types: A future interest is absolutely (or indefeasibly) vested if its beneficiary must (legally) eventually take possessory ownership. A future interest is vested subject to divestment if something could occur that would divest the remainder of an interest. For example, "From O to A for life, then to B ...
An indefeasibly vested remainder is certain to become possessory in the future, and cannot be divested. [4]For example A conveys to "B for life, then to C and C 's heirs." C has an indefeasibly vested remainder, certain to become possessory upon termination of B 's life estate (when B dies).
The probability of regulatory capture is economically biased: vested interests in an industry have the greatest financial stake in regulatory activity and are more likely to be motivated to influence the regulatory body than dispersed individual consumers, each of whom has little particular incentive to try to influence regulators.
A thesis similar to the military–industrial complex was originally expressed by Daniel Guérin, in his 1936 book Fascism and Big Business, about the fascist government ties to heavy industry. It can be defined as, "an informal and changing coalition of groups with vested psychological, moral, and material interests in the continuous ...
Jacob Titus, 31, came reluctantly back to South Bend in his early 20s. The city's resurgent decade has played into his own sense of purpose.