All else equal, in which of the following forms of business would the possibility of an agency problem be the greatest?
a. a u. s. corporation in which individual stockholders own extremely small proportions of the company.
b. a u. s. corporation that gives company shares as incentives to its managers.
c. a partnership in which all the partners share management and decision-making responsibilities equally.
d. a proprietorship in which the owner is actively managing the business operations.
e. a foreign corporation with concentrated ownership; that is, it has relatively few owners.