Dr. Aris is a junior research fellow working late to finish an important grant application before the midnight deadline. The laboratory director, Professor Sterling, instructs her to stop what she is doing immediately to catalog and shred archive boxes of old paper journals in the basement storage.
Using agency theory, explain why Dr. Aris might have obeyed Professor Sterling's instructions despite the risk to her own funding deadline.
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